e012-Thriving Over Surviving-with Sunit Suchdev

So many of us get stuck in the Groundhog Day that is early motherhood. Isolation, depression, stress. Constant arguing over meals, sleep, and spilled non-dairy milk. Our guest today has done an amazing job of arming expecting mamas and, well ALL mamas really, with the ACTUAL tools it takes to be a mom. Sunit Suchdev is a living goddess guru mama! Sunit is a business and mindset coach with a passion for all things health and wellness. After receiving an undergraduate degree in health sciences, she spent the next 20 years of life dabbling in all sorts of industries but has always maintained a training and coaching component to everything she does. She is a certified life coach and meditation teacher and is finishing up her Functional Nutrition Practitioner certification. Sunit is fellow podcaster and host of "The High Vibe Life". She is the founder of the 40&Such movement which inspires women to enter their 40s the healthiest they've ever been. She wears many hats but her favorite is her mom hat. She is a mom to twin boys and loves being able to shape the future through her own parenting. Sunit takes us through how her business has morphed from its inception. As an “older” Mom of to twin boys at the age of thirty-seven, she watched women around her deal with motherhood. What she soon came to realize was that preparing for motherhood wasn’t simply painting the nursery and having all the baby clothes ready. She really figured out the mindset and the true planning it takes to thrive in motherhood. She wasn’t perfect but she felt that she had success considering she had twins so she wanted to pay it forward and help other moms. This is where Modern Mommy Prep School and her podcast was born from. In the beginning, it was all about new moms, as her audience grew up in motherhood so did the topics she would coach on. This summer her podcast rebranded to “The High Vibe Life”, as she now is passionate about all women living in their highest vibration regardless of whether they are a mom or not. At the end of the day, her heart lies with inspiring women to live their best life and create change in the future by raising good little humans and adjusting mindset. Sunit strongly feels that this cannot happen unless moms are coming from the best place possible. This is why she firmly believes that women should care for themselves first so they can show up for their kids. Sunit shares some of her tips in how to promote mindfulness and meditation in kids. She says that the secret is that kids more than anyone else are naturally mindful. The only thing that is going on in their brain is just being focussed on the moment and what they are doing. She claims that it is quite easy to get kids to meditate because they are already there in their brains most of the day and mindfulness is just one step away from meditation. She recommends starting as early as possible, with a picture or inanimate object. Here is an example: Show your kids a picture of a snowman, and say to them: “See this snowman. I want you to look at the snowman then I’m going to take it away and you’re going to close your eyes and for one minute you’re going to think everything you can about that snowman. Try to remember everything. What colour was his nose? Was he wearing a hat? Was he hot? Was he cold? Did he have a sweater on?” Then as their age progresses you can ask them to imagine a snowman or a snowflake. You can ask them to pick something that they want to think about. All you are doing is guiding their mindfulness and meditation. When that minute is up then you get them to talk about it. Ask them questions. What did your snowman look like? How many buttons were on his coat? The idea is to just guide what they are focussing on. This is the first step to meditation. Sunit also recommends a few other tools to guide mindfulness like the raisin exercise or the stuffy exercise.