Nourishing the Mother

To set your 2023 year up right, and use your manifesting magic, let’s co-create with potency and clear direction. Grab your pen and paper, follow along and let’s get you set up. In this episode we discuss: Reconciling your 2022 to glean the wisdom Rating each area of life on a ‘health’ scale Reviewing each area for fulfilment or dissatisfaction Being ruthless in your review of what you are spendin...

How do you know when motherhood has become a little toxic, enmeshed and smothering, and is now preventing yours and your child’s future growth? It begins with breaking the fantasy of the fully supportive mother and pulling out of the pit the imperfect, challenging mother. The challenging mother inoculates your child from life-long subordination - so how about we love her? The lean-back skillset is...

One of the biggest fizzers of passion and attraction in long term relationship is the dying of flirtation and play, and the beige, insidious sense of apathy that ‘this is how it is now’. So let’s breathe back life into our love, romance and connection. In this episode we discuss: Quit hustling for who has it worse Stop making it all about you The feminine archetype as the ferocious destroyer and t...

Ever feel like you’re the peace-keeper at Christmas? Or just ‘going through the motions’ but it doesn’t feel right? In this episode we give you your power back so you can move beyond the ‘good descendent’ and into the ancestor your children need.  In this episode we discuss:  ⁃ ‘Keeping the peace’ assumes a win:lose  ⁃ Minimising your own needs and desires in service to someone outside of you  ⁃ P...

We centre Julie’s honest and open experience post-surgery but please insert ‘hysterectomy’ or ‘big life change’ that transforms your identity. In this podcast we discuss the two areas of any big life change - what you can prepare for, and what you’ll be asked to surrender to.  In this episode we discuss:  ⁃ rites of passage in women’s lives  ⁃ active health care  ⁃ advocating for yourself and your...

Your Christmas experience can be defined by what you filter, plug into and consume - so let’s be conscious about what you’re reaffirming. In this podcast we dissect what has you feeling constricted vs heart-aligned in the festive season, and how to compassionately distill down who is in the driver’s seat of your life. In this episode we discuss:   ⁃ Bringing your unconscious, conscious  ⁃ The stor...

Following on from last week’s episode, we give you three super-tangible steps to break free of the resentment cage. In this episode we discuss: ⁃ Seeing what it’s costing you to hold firm on the belief systems you already have ⁃ Understanding that your children ‘set you up’ to feel as they do - and can you apply this as a universal principle to those you’re in resentment of ⁃ Our resentment dynami...

Following on from a listener’s email, we have an impromptu but revelatory conversation on the lived experience of resentment within our family systems. We explore deeply how mothers are ‘not allowed’ to have the complexities of humanity, according to the ‘perfect mother’ myth reinforced in patriarchal motherhood. In this episode we discuss: ⁃ Understanding that we only know something, by knowing i...

With modern-day motherhood’s ‘hangover’ (tiredness!), Julie and Bridget debrief Jules’ completely non-PC Hysterectomy Party with a whole lot of laughter, soul and consciousness. Our key reflections were on: ⁃ Finding more availability within yourself through lightness ,laughter and self-celebration ⁃ Meeting women in the place of no pretence, where shame evaporates, and healing happens through lau...

When disconnection and discontent are your primary emotional experiences, it might be time to look at where you’re being asked to crumble your current identity…and let go of self-righteousness? In this episode we discuss: - Recognising where self-righteousness is masquerading as ‘choosing myself’ and ‘being in integrity’  - How to get back into connection with self, partner and parenting  - Recogn...

In this episode we look at the shame stumble of identity crisis and finding the spaciousness to love both a past and future self.  In this episode we explore: - Balancing out shame about a past version of self  - Opening up possibility for a future version of self - Listening to the stories of others that both support and challenge you, with an open heart  - Learning how to be in opposition with a...

Following a listener’s email we talk to you about how to dance the line between anger and activism in a powerful and sustainable way. We give you points to discern when your anger has flipped from being constructive to destructive, and what to do to pull yourself back into heart connection, where true change is possible. In this episode we discuss: - When anger is pulling you forward, versus keepi...

Do you sometimes find yourself in a spiral of comparison when you see families living the ‘perfect instagramable holiday’? This conversation will bust your polarised FOMO and have you appreciating yourself and your own life, bringing you back into heartfelt connection with yourself and your own life. Through Julie’s travel stories, in this episode we discuss: - The ‘shine’ we see is also balanced...

What do you do when you find yourself in full-bodied longing for the thing you don’t have (like pregnancy, money, a great relationship…). We want you to let your desires fuel you, but beware when they engulf you, or send you into victimhood.    This episode has four clear and easy steps to get yourself back to being a powerful manifestor.    In this episode we discuss:  - Resenting the world, and...

When disconnection and discontent are your primary emotional experiences, it might be time to look at where you’re being asked to crumble your current identity…and let go of self-righteousness? In this episode we discuss: - Recognising where self-righteousness is masquerading as ‘choosing myself’ and ‘being in integrity’  - How to get back into connection with self, partner and parenting  - Recogn...

Mothers often find themselves in the sandwich between beauty and pain, grief and gratitude; it’s hard sometimes to be moving forwards, but not quite ready to let go. Often what’s needed is attending to the grief that we’re experiencing in this transition phase.  In this episode we discuss:  ⁃ How to integrate grief into your own life  ⁃ Grief around fertility and miscarriage   ⁃ Grief around endin...

In an update following our podcasts on Julie’s prolapse journey, she shares her surgical choices and how she’s navigating and advocating for herself through that. We explore the humility and the heart in embracing what we once judged. To explore feminine embodiment, intimacy and relationship in Honey Club with Julie, visit https://julietenner.love/ To explore conscious parenting and inspiring moth...

It’s all well and good to aspire to more pleasure and joy in your life, but how do you actually do that with an unending list of needs and demands from small children and life. In this episode, we discuss: You can’t be conscious all the time When your feminine might be out of balance The context of modern motherhood Busting the belief that it all has to be you Looking outside of your own stories W...

When daily life starts to get too hard and heavy, and joy and pleasure begin to leave your life, body and parenting, what can you do? The quality of your life can be determined by the quality of the questions you ask yourself - so in this podcast, the quest that we take you on, is to find the beauty in the questions that open you up. In this episode we discuss: Your attachment to a ‘hard work’ min...

Through the stories of our lived experience, we share the wisdom gleaned on what we need as space-holders through every age and stage of our children.  In this episode we discuss: - The relentless and all-consuming nature of holding space - The release from over-stimulation - Aggression is part of the way children express - What you need as a mother at each stage - What we are asked to meet and he...

Your top values will always fill your time, so are you leading your life, or are others? If you’re regularly finding yourself feeling resentful toward your children or motherhood, it could be time to re-evaluate. In this episode we explore: - Beliefs like ’no one else can do this but me’ as forging an identity for your that’s become a straitjacket - Exiting the straitjacket of the identity you’ve...

This week while Bridget celebrates her daughters birthday, Julie brings you some clips from her Seen, Felt, Known ~ Feminine Energy 101, free program. It’s a sensual, informative and heart-opening dive into how to access more of your feminine energy - enjoy! In this episode we explore: - Relaxation, aka receiving - Beauty - Leading with your heart - Adornment - Sensuality To explore feminine embod...

This episode is all about the practice of relationship with your body, not an arrival point or destination laden with expectation.  In this episode we recognise that relationship with our bodies is a lifelong process and includes repulsion, indifferent and revelation.  In this episode we discuss:  ⁃ The drive to always want to make your body different or better  ⁃ Living in a society that has a di...

We all have a pattern of collapse, what’s yours? It can feel like you’re in a fight or flight response, have dropped your bundle, lost your capacity entirely or are flooded by overwhelm. You can find yourself spiralling in thoughts of self-hatred…and we ALL get here from time to time. It’s not about avoiding getting here, it’s about having the strategies and structure for when you do. In this epis...

If you can’t deal with your emotions, you can’t deal with your money. So in this episode with Coco the astro economist, we talk building your intuition to build your wealth, working on your self-worth to build you net worth, busting your ‘hard work’ beliefs, and not waiting for the perfect time. We also explore how empowering ourselves as mothers, empowers our daughters so they may free themselves...