Details on our upcoming move, why the show is taking a temporary pause and reflections on a decade after moving from the East Coast to the Midwest. This episode is a vulnerable solo on what it was like to struggle mentally while moving away from my home city to Louisville, KY and what this next chapter for our family holds.

I share:

-Why this podcast started 4 years after the initial idea due to postpartum depression and anxiety and multiple miscarriages

-Bro wellness and biohacking culture vs. women’s health/mom experts who often quietly hold the most valuable wisdom

-Shifting from using your brain to using your heart and intuition to make big decisions, especially as an over thinker or people pleaser

-Why I moved to Kentucky and how I struggled moving away from my home city, family and friends

-What its like to grieve the loss of a place and relationships and how going to therapy for the first time in my life helped

-How my frustration for midwest culture transformed into appreciation over time

-Details on our current home’s renovations that happened while having a baby, the early covid days and pregnancy losses

-Updates on our new home build and why we are choosing to move from a recently renovated home

-Figuring out where to build and how we made an aligned decision on location and timing

-Why the show is taking a pause and details on when it’s coming back

The Mind Body Mother podcast is coming back in August so make sure you’re subscribed to the show so you get access to new episodes as soon as they drop later this year.

Let’s keep in touch! Send me an email to say hi, set up a free 15 minute coaching call or learn more about 1:1 in person or virtual fitness coaching Helene@helenekusman.com

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When it comes to fertility, what truly matters — and what’s just marketing? In this episode, Helene chats with mom of 2, Registered Dietitian and FullWell Founder Ayla Barmmer to break down evidence-based fertility nutrition for both women and men, PCOS support and what you need to know about prenatal and fertility supplements. Whether you’re actively TTC, planning ahead, navigating PCOS or simply wanting to support long-term reproductive health, this conversation will help you focus on what actually moves the needle — without the overwhelm.

We discuss:

-What nutrition really matters for fertility (for both women and men)

-How early to start focusing on fertility support before trying to conceive

-Strategic nutrition tweaks that have the biggest impact

-The impact of tobacco, alcohol and environmental toxins on TTC

-Specific nutrition, lifestyle and supplement recs for PCOS (Polycystic Ovary Syndrome)

-How to choose supplements- which ones are essential versus catchy marketing

-The truth about trendy products like greens powders and colostrum

-What you need to know about the supplement industry and choosing effective and high quality products

-Ayla’s motherhood journey including postpartum depression and running businesses while mothering

You’ll learn why you don’t need an overhaul to optimize women’s and men’s fertility, but instead small, consistent, evidence based changes that have the biggest impact over time.

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2026 hit and “clean living” is no longer on trend. In a fast-growing culture shift where drinking green juice and tracking sleep is out, while smoking cigarettes is apparently cool again, Helene Kusman weighs in on the rebellion against diet culture, biohacking and healthy living that has the pendulum swinging hard in the opposite direction.

Helene breaks down what’s really behind this trend, why so many women feel burned out by wellness, what orthorexia and an unhealthy obsession with clean living looks like and how to find balance between both extremes.

Topics Discussed:

• What the anti-wellness trend really is—and why it’s exploding right now

• Why “just stop caring” isn’t the freedom it seems

• How wellness burnout pushes women toward extremes

• What orthorexia looks like in real life (and why it’s often praised)

• Questions to ask yourself to bring yourself back into balance

• The hidden emotional cost of perfectionism and rebellion

• What sustainable, realistic wellness actually looks like

• Simple steps for when you feel stuck in an extreme

If you’ve ever felt overwhelmed by wellness, confused by health trends, or tempted to “opt out” completely… this episode is for you.

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This podcast is for informational purposes only and is not intended to replace professional medical advice.