{"id":19811,"date":"2025-10-28T13:48:13","date_gmt":"2025-10-28T13:48:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/19811\/"},"modified":"2025-10-28T13:48:13","modified_gmt":"2025-10-28T13:48:13","slug":"real-housewives-of-new-york-erin-lichy-has-advice-for-new-moms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/19811\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Real Housewives of New York\u2019 Erin Lichy Has Advice for New Moms"},"content":{"rendered":"

Erin Lichy from the Real Housewives of New York City (RHONY) is no stranger to the\u00a0ups-and-downs\u00a0of motherhood and is encouraging all moms to take time to reconnect with friends, even if it can seem overwhelming.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cIt really is easy to get wrapped up and it\u2019s easy to become a hermit,\u201d Lichy\u00a0told Newsweek. \u201cI\u2019ve\u00a0done that before, but then you wake up one day and\u00a0you\u2019re\u00a0like, what happened? Where did I go? And you\u00a0kind of lose\u00a0yourself.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

Lichy, who joined the RHONY cast two seasons ago for the reboot, became known on the show for hosting the women at her house in the Hamptons.\u00a0It gave viewers a chance to see her hosting side and now Lichy is sharing her tips for having people over in her new book,\u00a0She’s a Host.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The book is intended to take the pressure off hosting and make it easier for people to get together at home. And, as a mother to four kids, including\u00a0a 7-month-old, Lichy is encouraging more moms to have their friends over.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

She\u2019s\u00a0a Host” comes out on October 28, and is filled with recipes,\u00a0tips for organizing spaces and\u00a0create\u00a0memories with friends and family.\u00a0The book\u2019s inspired by her own\u00a0experiences\u00a0hosting, whether\u00a0that\u2019s\u00a0making food for her kids\u2019 friends when they come over and are suddenly\u00a0hungry or\u00a0planning a dinner party.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cHosting is supposed to be fun,\u201d Lichy said. \u201cSo, there are easy tricks and tips in that are in there that make it less of a burden on you as the host.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Lichy hopes some of those tips resonate with new moms and encourage them to keep socializing.\u00a0She stressed the importance of moms getting together with their friends, even if\u00a0it\u2019s\u00a0just at home in comfortable clothes enjoying a wine night or making a fun cocktail.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cIt really just kind of\u00a0grounds\u00a0you in a way that no one else can and no other event can,\u201d Lichy said.\u00a0\u201cWhen you become a mom, it adds a whole other layer. And if\u00a0you\u2019re\u00a0working,\u00a0it\u2019s\u00a0so much, so unwinding with human connection is so grounding.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

Lichy, a \u201cbig proponent\u201d of female friendship, even included a whole chapter in her book dedicated to a girls\u2019 night in.\u00a0And Lichy is encouraging moms who are stressed about having to make a whole food spread for their friends while trying to take care of their kids\u00a0to break with a hosting taboo.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cSometimes if\u00a0it’s\u00a0too hard for me or\u00a0I\u2019m\u00a0too busy,\u00a0I\u2019m\u00a0like, \u2018Hey, everybody\u00a0bring\u00a0a dish,\u2019\u201d Lichy said. \u201cAnd there\u2019s\u00a0nothing\u00a0wrong with that.\u00a0It’s\u00a0kind of fun.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Asking people to bring a dish can be seen as a hosting taboo, but Lichy noted people genuinely want to bring food and even show off what\u00a0they\u2019ve\u00a0brought.\u00a0It\u2019s\u00a0about getting together with friends and if that means asking people to bring something,\u00a0it\u2019s\u00a0completely fine, because people are going to ask what they can bring anyway. You just\u00a0have to\u00a0take them up on the offer.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cIf you really need dessert, be like, \u2018OK, can you please bring cookies?\u2019\u201d Lichy said.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

Lichy\u2019s book, which is timed to publish before the holidays,\u00a0contains\u00a0some surprising tips and ways to mitigate the stress of hosting, according to the Real Housewife.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Erin Lichy from the Real Housewives of New York City (RHONY) is no stranger to the\u00a0ups-and-downs\u00a0of motherhood and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":19812,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[2879,9,11,10,13571,9582,3296],"class_list":["post-19811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-book","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-real-housewives-of-new-york","tag-reality-television","tag-reality-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19811","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19811"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19811\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}