Keeping Moms Real

Motherhood isn’t meant to be perfect — it’s meant to be real.

Welcome to Keeping Moms Real — a soft landing for overwhelmed moms.
Hosted by Karen Chirivi, a Positive Discipline educator and mindset coach, this channel is your space to breathe, reconnect, and remember that being a “good mom” isn’t about doing it all — it’s about doing what matters.

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What is Keeping Moms Real?

Motherhood isn’t all Pinterest boards and playdates — it’s beautiful, messy, exhausting, and full of moments that make you question everything.
Hosted by Karen Chirivi, mom, positive discipline educator, mindset coach, and founder of Keeping Moms Real, this podcast is your safe corner of the internet — where we talk about what motherhood really feels like.
Each week, we unpack the emotions that moms carry: guilt, burnout, identity loss, and the pressure to be perfect. You’ll hear real stories, honest reflections, and practical mindset tools to help you release the guilt, reconnect with yourself, and raise your kids with more love and less overwhelm.
Because you don’t need to do it all — you just need to be real.
✨ Topics include:
Mom guilt & emotional burnout
Balancing motherhood and identity
Gentle parenting & real discipline moments
Self-care that actually fits your life
Mindset shifts for calm, confident motherhood
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Motherhood isn't all Pinchers, Boards and Playdates. It's beautiful and chaotic. It's loving your kids more than anything in the world while still craving a minute to just be you again. It's sacred and exhausting, it's messy and meaningful, full of moments that test your patience, stretch your limits and then somehow fill your heart right back up again. And in between it all, there's you!

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Still learning, still growing, still showing up. This isn't another space telling you to do more, to be better, to fix yourself. No, this is a self landing, a place for moms who are tired of pretending that everything is fine, but still believe that there has to be a better way, a calmer, kinder, more connected way to live and to parent. I am Karen. I am a mom, first of all, who has learned that motherhood isn't about perfection.

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It's about learning to pause, to repair, and to begin again. Every week, we'll talk about the real stuff, the messy, emotional human parts of motherhood. Because you don't need another checklist, you need a space to breathe. You need reminders that you're not alone. You need tools that actually help and conversations that reminds you who you are underneath all that noise.

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In this podcast, it's your space to take a breath, to remember that you're not here to be perfect, you are here to grow. Because being a good mom isn't about doing it all, it's about doing what matters. This is Keeping Moms Real, where we drop the pressure, pick up the grace and remember that motherhood isn't meant to be perfect, it's meant to be real. Welcome home!