The Mother Daze with Sarah Wright Olsen & Teresa Palmer

This week we’re joined by Dr. Sarah Oreck, a Columbia University-trained reproductive psychiatrist and co-founder of Mavida Health, to unpack one of the most misunderstood stages of a woman’s life: perimenopause

When does it actually start? Can you be postpartum and in perimenopause at the same time? (Yep.) Why does it feel like nobody prepared us for this?!

We’re talking brain fog, anxiety, rage, sleep, heart palpitations, yes… even itchy ears, why estrogen impacts almost every system in the body, and how perimenopause can last 7 to 10 years.

Dr. Oreck also walks us through the full spectrum of treatment options, from lifestyle changes and therapy to hormone treatment, busts a few myths, and answers the questions so many women are too afraid, too busy, or too confused to ask.

If you’ve ever found yourself thinking, “What on earth is happening to me?” this episode is for you… and every woman you know.

Resource Links:

Dare I Say It by Naomi Watts

mavidahealth.com

Follow Sarah Oreck on IG: @sarahoreckmd

@mavidahealth

Follo​w Sarah Wright Olsen: IG: @swrightolsen

Follow Teresa Palmer: IG: @teresapalmer

FB: https://www.facebook.com/teresamarypalmer/

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More about the show! • Watch this episode on YouTube here • Co-founders of @yourzenmama yourzenmama.com • Read and buy our book! "The Zen Mama Guide To Finding Your Rhythm In Pregnancy, Birth, and Beyond" Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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This week on The Mother Daze, it’s smart phone fears, dumb phone cheers… ? but when do we finally bite the bullet?

We dive into screen time, devices, kids growing older, the fear surrounding social media, and raising tweens in an increasingly online world. Is an Apple Watch the perfect first step? Or do you hold off altogether? We pick each other’s brains on our plans, fears, all the research we’ve done, and where we’ve landed so far.

We also get into fits of giggles over inappropriate humour (Summer Heights High… IYKYK), frolic through Little House on the Prairie, and chat about Kate Box’s brilliantly funny Aussie comedy, Deadloch.

Sarah’s TikTok emergence also brings out that one A-HOLIO who reckons she should “Botox up.”

Well, looky here, you sad anti-ager… these mamas to NINE have earned every one of these laugh lines, crow’s feet, forehead creases, smile wrinkles, and motherhood badges of honour. They’re proof of a life well lived, deeply loved, and very well laughed AND we won’t be injecting them away.

So, as Mr G would say…

“SHOVE IT UP YOUR ASS, MARGARET.”

(For the purposes of this episode, “Margaret” is our affectionate name for anyone policing women’s faces. )

Resource Links:

Deadloch (2023)

Summer Heights High (2007)

Little House On The Prairie (2026)

Follow Sarah on TikTok: @swrightolsen

Follo​w Sarah Wright Olsen: IG: @swrightolsen

Follow Teresa Palmer: IG: @teresapalmer

FB: https://www.facebook.com/teresamarypalmer/

DISCOUNT CODES: • Go to www.baeo.com and get 20% when using the code MOTHERDAZE20 • Go to www.lovewell.earth and get 20% when using the code MOTHERDAZE20

More about the show! • Watch this episode on YouTube here • Co-founders of @yourzenmama yourzenmama.com • Read and buy our book! "The Zen Mama Guide To Finding Your Rhythm In Pregnancy, Birth, and Beyond" Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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This week on The Mother Daze, Sarah and Teresa are talking all about change… because wow, life has been LIFE-ing lately.

The Palmer household has had a few unexpected plot twists, and Teresa shares the silver linings that have come with them. She celebrates the beautiful togetherness Vancouver brought their family, chats about their time there wrapping up sooner than expected, and all the excitement of their giddy return to Byron for the time being.

They also chat solo parenting, finding the world’s greatest au pair (seriously… where has she been all their lives?!) and all the little moments that made this chapter so memorable.

Then we unpack the wild world of perimenopause. Is it postpartum? Is it perimenopause? Is it both?! We chat symptoms, hormones, brain fog, mood swings, and why this season of life can feel like one giant guessing game. It’s time we started talking about it more.

Finally, Teresa shares all the spooky details about her brand new true crime and mystery podcast, They Run The Night.

Resource Links:

They Run The Night Podcast

The Village By F.J. West, Jr Book

Follo​w Sarah Wright Olsen: IG: @swrightolsen

Follow Teresa Palmer: IG: @teresapalmer

FB: https://www.facebook.com/teresamarypalmer/

DISCOUNT CODES: • Go to www.baeo.com and get 20% when using the code MOTHERDAZE20 • Go to www.lovewell.earth and get 20% when using the code MOTHERDAZE20

More about the show! • Watch this episode on YouTube here • Co-founders of @yourzenmama yourzenmama.com • Read and buy our book! "The Zen Mama Guide To Finding Your Rhythm In Pregnancy, Birth, and Beyond" Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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Christina Prokos is back on the podcast! Our go-to intuitive, spiritual teacher and medium returns for one of our favourite kinds of conversations.

This week we’re diving headfirst into all the woo woo, wow wow, universe-y, matrix-y, magic-weeeee shiz that we can’t get enough of here at The Mother Daze.

This episode is all about the four Clairs. If you’ve ever wondered why some people just know things, others feel them deeply, see vivid images or receive messages through sounds, this one’s for you.

We unpack the different intuitive gifts:

Clairaudience; hearing guidance, words or audio signs.

Clairsentience; feeling or sensing energy.

Clairvoyance; seeing images, symbols or visions.

Claircognizance; simply knowing, without knowing how you know.

We talk about tuning back into our intuition, our inner guidance system and the Source energy that’s constantly communicating with us through signs, synchronicities and nudges. Christina shares why she believes the first language we ever learn is energy, and that intuition isn’t something we have to earn or develop from scratch. It’s already programmed within us. The magic is simply remembering how to tune back into it and discovering which Clair is your strongest, most natural way of receiving guidance.

Resource Links:

@christina_life_spiritual_

www.christinaprokos.com

Follo​w Sarah Wright Olsen: IG: @swrightolsen

Follow Teresa Palmer: IG: @teresapalmer

FB: https://www.facebook.com/teresamarypalmer/

DISCOUNT CODES: • Go to www.baeo.com and get 20% when using the code MOTHERDAZE20 • Go to www.lovewell.earth and get 20% when using the code MOTHERDAZE20

More about the show! • Watch this episode on YouTube here • Co-founders of @yourzenmama yourzenmama.com • Read and buy our book! "The Zen Mama Guide To Finding Your Rhythm In Pregnancy, Birth, and Beyond" Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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Teresa’s back with RV trip round two, proving once again that life is always better when it’s packed to the brim with adventure. From laughing through the chaos to Mark somehow ending up captaining a boat in Idaho with absolutely zero boating experience, it’s a classic Palmer family YOLO adventure. Throw in theme park thrills, Teresa living her best waterslide life, plus plenty of belly laughs, and you’ve got yourself some weeeeeeee living!

The girls’ Clairs are working overtime this week. Sarah’s giving Wyatt a crash course in the weird and wonderfully dirty candy of the ’90s before somehow calling his strep throat before anyone else. Meanwhile, Teresa clairsentiences her way through a dead phone, five exhausted kids and an Uber predicament after a marathon day at a theme park.

Plus, baby Ocean has officially turned one! The girls reflect on all the emotions that come with that first birthday, the gratitude of watching these little humans grow, and the universal struggle of babies who seem determined to put absolutely everything in their mouths. They also chat about the magic that happens when we put our phones down, connect with the people around us, and discover how meaningful a conversation with a complete stranger can be.

Resource Links:

CDA Pontoons cdapontoons.com

silverwoodthemepark.com

tokikids.com

Follo​w Sarah Wright Olsen: IG: @swrightolsen

Follow Teresa Palmer: IG: @teresapalmer

FB: https://www.facebook.com/teresamarypalmer/

DISCOUNT CODES: • Go to www.baeo.com and get 20% when using the code MOTHERDAZE20 • Go to www.lovewell.earth and get 20% when using the code MOTHERDAZE20

More about the show! • Watch this episode on YouTube here • Co-founders of @yourzenmama yourzenmama.com • Read and buy our book! "The Zen Mama Guide To Finding Your Rhythm In Pregnancy, Birth, and Beyond" Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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