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Do you ever feel overwhelmed by the crumbs stuck to your feet? Or the intensity of needs from all directions in your family? Parenting is messy. For every challenge there are countless joys and blessings but sometimes it can be hard to see the sunshine through the smudges. Hosted by a recovering perfectionist mom of six, this biweekly podcast explores the roadblocks that prevent parents from enjoying life with their families and how to overcome them. Join us as we search for the sweet in the sticky parts of family life.
Too many washcloths, too many shoulds: Brittany makes your household's unwritten rules feel negotiable.
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Brittany argues that household bottlenecks get easier when the system changes around them.
Beyond the Crumbs frames household mess less as a personal failing than as a systems problem. Brittany, a recovering perfectionist mom of six, works backward from the friction points: a paper-clogged kitchen counter becomes something to track on her phone, and too many towels…
A candid, grounded look at why family life cannot be fairly measured against someone else's.
Beyond the Crumbs' "The Comparison Cure" gives comparison a close, personal look through Brittany, a recovering perfectionist mom of six who traces the habit across parenting, home systems, writing, editing, volunteer work, and social media.
A personal case for letting families find what works without turning difference into blame.
Brittany centers the episode on the pressure parents place on one another when personal choices begin to sound like verdicts. Breastfeeding, sleep, car-seat photos, and the daily reality of different babies all become ways into a larger point: what works in one home may not…
A clear, candid conversation about when parental self-pressure stops helping and starts keeping a mother stuck.
After a long day of feeding children, brushing teeth, reading, singing, rocking, bouncing, nursing, and sometimes starting the whole cycle again, silence does not always bring relief.
Parenthood and bodies, told one honest story at a time.
Brittany, a recovering perfectionist and mother of six, explains how written systems can support families dealing with ADHD, executive-function challenges, or difficult life circumstances.
Brittany, a recovering perfectionist mom of six, examines why parenting creates constant opportunities for comparison and why copying other families can misread important differences.
Brittany, a mother of six on Beyond the Crumbs, argues that parenting has no one-size-fits-all formula and should respond to each family's needs.
Brittany, a recovering perfectionist mother of six, describes ending the day with guilt about snapping at her son and missing another child’s attempt to talk.
The host discusses creating a support network for families and follows up on a perfectionism challenge from a previous episode.