Episodes

  • Why Am I So Tired—Even When I’m Resting (This Conversation Must Be Had Again)

    Why Am I So Tired—Even When I’m Resting (This Conversation Must Be Had Again)
    Feb 3 2026
    Why Am I So Tired—Even When I’m Resting? You’re sleeping.
    You’re slowing down when you can.
    And yet… you still feel exhausted. Why does rest not feel restorative anymore?
    Why do you wake up tired before the day even begins?
    Why does your body feel heavy, foggy, or depleted—without a clear reason? In this episode of Momma Never Told Me, Erica explores the kind of exhaustion women are rarely warned about—the deep, lingering fatigue that doesn’t come from one long day, but from years of carrying too much. We’ll gently sit with questions like:
    • What if this tiredness isn’t laziness or burnout—but communication?
    • What has your body been holding quietly for a long time?
    • Why doesn’t “just resting” always work?
    • How do stress, emotional labor, and survival mode show up as fatigue later in life?
    • What changes when we stop trying to fix exhaustion and start listening to it?
    This is not a conversation about productivity, routines, or pushing through.
    It’s an invitation to soften, to release shame, and to understand what your body might be asking for now. If you’ve been feeling tired in a way that’s hard to explain—this episode is for you. 🎵 Music Attributions Daytime TV Theme by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license.
    https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Comfortable Mystery Part 2 by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license.
    https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ A Singular Perversion by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license.
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    Mama Never Told Me is a gentle, honest podcast for women navigating the physical, emotional, and life changes no one prepared us for. Hosted by Errica, this show explores the things we were never told — but always felt — through lived experience, reflection, and real conversation. This podcast is not medical advice or a place for quick fixes. It’s a space for awareness, self-trust, and feeling less alone. 🎧 Listen to all episodes here:
    https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/mama-never-told-me--6837086 💛 Join the Mama Never Told Me Supporters Group for $4.99/month and receive access to practical, everyday tools, exclusive interviews with trusted professionals, and a private community for women navigating hard seasons with care and honesty. Some things mama never told us.
    But we’re allowed to talk about them now.

    This episode includes AI-generated content.
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    20 mins
  • Why You’re Still Exhausted Even When You Rest (The Tired No One Warned Us About)

    Why You’re Still Exhausted Even When You Rest (The Tired No One Warned Us About)
    Jan 21 2026
    ⚠️ AFFILIATE DISCLOSURE:
    This episode contains an affiliate mention. If you choose to explore products through the link below, Mama Never Told Me may earn a commission at no additional cost to you. #ad #commissionsEarned 🌿 ZIVOLIFE — Everyday Nourishment for Changing Bodies
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    💚 Use code REGGAEHOUR for 30% off There’s a kind of exhaustion many women carry that sleep doesn’t fix. Not the end-of-the-day tired — but the deep fatigue that builds after years of responsibility, caregiving, emotional labor, and being “the strong one.” This episode explores exhaustion as information, not failure — and offers language, validation, and relief from the belief that something is “wrong” with you. If you’ve rested and still feel tired…
    You’re not broken.
    You’re human

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    Mama Never Told Me is a gentle, honest podcast for women navigating the physical, emotional, and life changes no one prepared us for. Hosted by Errica, this show explores the things we were never told — but always felt — through lived experience, reflection, and real conversation. This podcast is not medical advice or a place for quick fixes. It’s a space for awareness, self-trust, and feeling less alone. 🎧 Listen to all episodes here:
    https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/mama-never-told-me--6837086 💛 Join the Mama Never Told Me Supporters Group for $4.99/month and receive access to practical, everyday tools, exclusive interviews with trusted professionals, and a private community for women navigating hard seasons with care and honesty. Some things mama never told us.
    But we’re allowed to talk about them now.

    This episode includes AI-generated content.
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    19 mins
  • When Your Body Changes and You Don’t Recognize Yourself Anymore

    When Your Body Changes and You Don’t Recognize Yourself Anymore
    Jan 20 2026
    ⚠️ AFFILIATE DISCLOSURE:
    This episode contains an affiliate mention. If you choose to explore products through the link below, Mama Never Told Me may earn a commission at no additional cost to you. #ad #commissionsEarned 🌿 ZIVOLIFE — Gentle Support During Body Transitions
    🔗 https://zivo.life
    💚 Use code REGGAEHOUR for 30% off

    This episode holds space for the grief, neutrality, and compassion that come when your body changes and your identity shifts with it. No fixing.
    No positivity pressure.
    Just honesty — and permission to be in transition.

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    Mama Never Told Me is a gentle, honest podcast for women navigating the physical, emotional, and life changes no one prepared us for. Hosted by Errica, this show explores the things we were never told — but always felt — through lived experience, reflection, and real conversation. This podcast is not medical advice or a place for quick fixes. It’s a space for awareness, self-trust, and feeling less alone. 🎧 Listen to all episodes here:
    https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/mama-never-told-me--6837086 💛 Join the Mama Never Told Me Supporters Group for $4.99/month and receive access to practical, everyday tools, exclusive interviews with trusted professionals, and a private community for women navigating hard seasons with care and honesty. Some things mama never told us.
    But we’re allowed to talk about them now.

    This episode includes AI-generated content.
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    17 mins
  • The Body Changes... and So Does The Marriage

    The Body Changes... and So Does The Marriage
    Jan 13 2026
    ⚠️ AFFILIATE DISCLOSURE:
    This episode contains an affiliate mention. If you choose to explore products through the link below, Mama Never Told Me may earn a commission at no additional cost to you. These partnerships help support the show. #ad #commissionsEarned 🌿 ZIVOLIFE — Gentle, Plant-Based Wellness Support
    Zivolife supports everyday nourishment and balance during seasons of physical and emotional change.
    🔗 https://zivo.life
    💚 Use code REGGAEHOUR for 30% off What happens when a woman’s body starts changing — and her partner doesn’t understand? In Episode 2 of Mama Never Told Me, Errica reads an anonymous message from a woman in her community who survived a frightening health season because her husband believed her from the beginning. He didn’t have answers.
    He didn’t try to fix her.
    He stayed. Then Errica tells the truth. That wasn’t her story. In a vulnerable and emotionally charged conversation, Errica is joined by her husband Eric — known as Mr. E from the podcast Reggae Hour — as they speak openly about how fear, misunderstanding, and silence nearly cost them their marriage. Eric shares the mistake he made — minimizing what he didn’t understand — and offers a message directly to men about presence, listening, and why holding your partner matters more than having answers. This episode is about:
    • Women navigating body changes no one prepared them for
    • The emotional cost of being dismissed — at home and in medicine
    • Repair, accountability, and what real spousal support looks like
    It’s not polished.
    It’s not perfect.
    It’s honest. If you love a woman whose body is changing…
    or if you are that woman… This conversation may change how you show up.

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    Mama Never Told Me is a gentle, honest podcast for women navigating the physical, emotional, and life changes no one prepared us for. Hosted by Errica, this show explores the things we were never told — but always felt — through lived experience, reflection, and real conversation. This podcast is not medical advice or a place for quick fixes. It’s a space for awareness, self-trust, and feeling less alone. 🎧 Listen to all episodes here:
    https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/mama-never-told-me--6837086 💛 Join the Mama Never Told Me Supporters Group for $4.99/month and receive access to practical, everyday tools, exclusive interviews with trusted professionals, and a private community for women navigating hard seasons with care and honesty. Some things mama never told us.
    But we’re allowed to talk about them now.

    This episode includes AI-generated content.
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    17 mins
  • I Thought I Was Dying-- and No One Believed Me

    I Thought I Was Dying-- and No One Believed Me
    Jan 13 2026
    ⚠️ AFFILIATE DISCLOSURE:
    This episode contains an affiliate mention. If you choose to explore products through the link below, Mama Never Told Me may earn a commission at no additional cost to you. These partnerships help support the show. #ad #commissionsEarned 🌿 ZIVOLIFE — Plant-Based Wellness Support
    Zivolife offers clean, plant-based products designed to support balance, vitality, and everyday nourishment during seasons when bodies are changing and asking for more gentleness.
    🔗 https://zivo.life
    💚 Use code REGGAEHOUR for 30% off A year ago, Errica’s body began whispering.
    Then it started screaming. From dangerously low blood pressure to terrifying spikes.
    From unexplained right-side pain to losing twenty pounds in four days.
    From January to October, she found herself in the emergency room 52 times — begging to be heard. Doctors said the tests were “normal.”
    They said it was stress.
    Anxiety.
    Menopause.
    Anything but the truth. In this raw and deeply personal first episode of Mama Never Told Me, Errica shares what it’s like to be trapped inside a body that feels like it’s failing — while the medical system tells you nothing is wrong. She takes listeners through the fear, the dismissal, the exhaustion of being passed from specialist to specialist… and the moment when one doctor finally listened. This episode isn’t about diagnosis.
    It’s about intuition.
    It’s about self-trust.
    And it’s about what happens when women are taught to doubt their bodies before they’re taught to listen. If you’ve ever felt dismissed, unheard, or alone in your health journey — this episode is for you. 🎧 Next Episode Tease:
    In Episode 2, Errica shares another woman’s anonymous story — one where support made all the difference — and then reveals how her own marriage nearly broke before it began to heal.

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    Mama Never Told Me is a gentle, honest podcast for women navigating the physical, emotional, and life changes no one prepared us for. Hosted by Errica, this show explores the things we were never told — but always felt — through lived experience, reflection, and real conversation. This podcast is not medical advice or a place for quick fixes. It’s a space for awareness, self-trust, and feeling less alone. 🎧 Listen to all episodes here:
    https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/mama-never-told-me--6837086 💛 Join the Mama Never Told Me Supporters Group for $4.99/month and receive access to practical, everyday tools, exclusive interviews with trusted professionals, and a private community for women navigating hard seasons with care and honesty. Some things mama never told us.
    But we’re allowed to talk about them now.

    This episode includes AI-generated content.
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    18 mins
  • Mama Never Told Me: The Stories We Were Never Prepared For

    Mama Never Told Me: The Stories We Were Never Prepared For
    Jan 5 2026
    Some things mama never told us.
    But our bodies remember anyway. Mama Never Told Me is a podcast for women navigating the physical, emotional, and relational changes no one prepared us for — but so many of us are living through. In this introductory episode, Errica invites you into the heart of the show through three powerful stories. Her own — a year-long health crisis marked by fear, medical dismissal, and the moment she finally realized her body wasn’t betraying her… it was trying to speak. An anonymous woman’s story — one shared quietly, without a name, about moving through frightening body changes with the support of a partner who believed her when answers were hard to find. And a marriage story — about misunderstanding, silence, accountability, and how not knowing how to support someone can nearly cost you everything. This episode is not medical advice.
    It’s not about diagnoses or quick fixes. It’s about intuition.
    It’s about being believed.
    It’s about the conversations we were never taught to have — with our doctors, our partners, or even ourselves. If you’ve ever felt unheard in your body…
    If you’ve ever questioned your own knowing…
    If you’ve ever carried fear quietly… This podcast is for you. 🎧 Start your journey here, then continue with Episodes 1–4, where each story is explored more deeply. 💛 Want to go further?
    Join the Mama Never Told Me Supporters Club for $4.99/month to access practical, everyday tools, exclusive interviews with professionals, and a private space for women navigating hard seasons with honesty and care. 👉 Support the show here:
    https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/mama-never-told-me--6837086/support Some things mama never told us.
    But we’re allowed to talk about them now.

    Mama Never Told Me is a gentle, honest podcast for women navigating the physical, emotional, and life changes no one prepared us for. Hosted by Errica, this show explores the things we were never told — but always felt — through lived experience, reflection, and real conversation. This podcast is not medical advice or a place for quick fixes. It’s a space for awareness, self-trust, and feeling less alone. 🎧 Listen to all episodes here:
    https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/mama-never-told-me--6837086 💛 Join the Mama Never Told Me Supporters Group for $4.99/month and receive access to practical, everyday tools, exclusive interviews with trusted professionals, and a private community for women navigating hard seasons with care and honesty. Some things mama never told us.
    But we’re allowed to talk about them now.

    This episode includes AI-generated content.
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    8 mins