Nourishing the Mother

So if you were hooked on part 1 of this conversation and story-telling, then you’re going to LOVE part 2! Julie shares her soapbox style monologue on money, success and ‘her crazy’ before bringing it waaayy down into some pretty real truths of intimacy and practices to quit being bitchy and start being honoured and Listen In The post NTM 244: Even Julie’s relationship gets hard – part 2 appeared f...

Long term relationship is h.a.r.d. Maintaining intimacy is as much about finding ourselves, as it is the other person. But what does that mean when it’s boiled down into an ‘everyday relationship’? It does NOT mean being perfect, but instead being willing. In this most intimate of sharings, Julie shows you the art of revealing, Listen In The post NTM 243: Even Julie’s relationship gets hard – part...

Following on from last week’s episode, we continue exploring the challenges of parenting a child with additional needs through Julie’s story, which unveils the reality of a mother committed to really ‘seeing’ her child and searching for answers, and what we can learn about ourselves when we view our children through our lens of the parent-child Listen In The post NTM 242: Parenting kids with addit...

In this week’s episode, Julie vulnerably opens up on the experience of being seen and heard as she navigates the path of parenting a child with additional needs. We explore the edges she’s found herself at and what looking down the tunnel of a diagnosis might mean.   Relevant links: Nourishing the Mother http://www.nourishingthemother.com.au Suburban Listen In The post NTM 241: Parenting kids with...

Following on from last week’s episode, we complete Bridget’s Home Office and reflect on all the family patterns, the emotional highs and lows, the family dynamics that come up when physically clearing space…which of course is also metaphysically shedding layers and clearing space! We hope it inspires you to literally ‘create the space’ for the Listen In The post NTM 240: How your home tells the st...

Following on from Manifesting with intention and potency, comes who you need to step into being in order to have that reality….part of this is living in the space ‘that’ woman lives in, vibing with the energy ‘that’ woman vibes with and our homes reflect both who we are and offer us an energetic exchange that Listen In The post NTM 239: How your home tells the story of you PART 1 appeared first on...

We allll have stuck places – the places we stop, close down, shut down, avoid, move around, pretend don’t exist…and then get frustrated as all heck when we run into them time and time again….what happens when we see the stuck places and CHOOSE to enter them?….we find a wellspring of energy and untapped potential Listen In The post NTM 238: Liberate your life beyond your stuck places appeared first...

Setting an intention for your year…or next decade…is pretty serious business – at least we think so! WHAT you call in, and HOW you call it in, matters, and can be potency-packed when its in alignment and integrity with who you are, and your vision. If you call it in, you better be ready to Listen In The post NTM 237: How to manifest with potency appeared first on The Wellness Couch .

What does it look like to raise self-confident kids? What does it look like to raise our own internal self-confident kid? What does it even mean to HAVE confidence?! In this episode we go off in many-a-passionate tangent as we discuss what tools and insights YOU need to raise the kind of kids who greet Listen In The post NTM 236: Your Self-Confident Kid appeared first on The Wellness Couch .

In order to move into conscious manifesting for 2020, you need to sit in the gratitude, appreciation and reflection of the year that was. In this episode we look at what our 2019 was; good and ‘bad’ personally and for Nourishing The Mother, and what we want to call in for 2020.  What we discuss Listen In The post NTM 235: Reflections of 2019 and Intentions for 2020 appeared first on The Wellness C...

When we champion one-way of living, we often come crashing into it’s opposite. We’re chasing kind, loving, connected Christmas’ and we end up overwhelmed, frustrated and reactionary and then we chase the kind and loving more fervently, only to meet it’s opposite with equal ferocity!  You’re a two-sided being; if you only celebrate one side Listen In The post NTM 234: We want kind, but we get ‘shit...

Ok. So you know we LOVE conscious parenting, we deeply value respect, communication and awareness…bet you do too…but what happens when you parent with someone who, well, doesn’t so much….? How do you ‘teach them’? How do balance your child’s needs with your partners?…. Relevant links: Nourishing the Mother http://www.nourishingthemother.com.au Suburban Sandcastles – Bridget http://www.suburbansand...

What does your inner scrooge look like? Does she come out to ‘play’ at Christmas? What’s the narrative on your kids ‘wanting so much’ or ‘getting everything’ and entitlement, that you run? Wouldn’t you like to move beyond that??….In this week’s episode we talk perception flips, consciously bringing awareness to our ‘programmed’ beliefs and responses Listen In The post NTM 232: Healing your inner s...

With 22 incredible women speaking in 20 online interviews and workshops on all things matchmaking motherhood and business, You Totally Can was an EPIC week of insight, inspiration and self-compassion. In this week’s podcast we spill our favourite quotes and themes from each of the lives. It is our absolute heart’s desire and soul’s hope Listen In The post NTM 231: Julie and Bridget’s highlights an...

What does it look like to do business alongside intentional, conscious motherhood? We’re exploring this with 22 incredible women and sharing it with you – in this episode we delve into why creating these conversations is important to us, and the power of ‘showing up’ as your whole self…even when you’re not quite sure who Listen In The post NTM 230: You totally can mix motherhood and business appea...

Ugh, mornings hey? Between the baby spew, the kids missing school uniform and getting everyone out the door, we can arrive where we need to be by 8.30am feeling like we’ve navigated a war-zone! But what if HOW you start your mornings changes EVERYTHING? What if you don’t have to compete for needs? What if Listen In The post NTM 229: Starting your day right; your morning mindset appeared first on T...

We get asked for our recommended reading list all the time!!  So here we go, each of us discuss our top 5 books you HAVE to read and why….although as Bridget says “it’s almost impossible to pick 5, it’s like asking us to choose between children!!” Relevant links: Nourishing the Mother http://www.nourishingthemother.com.au Suburban Sandcastles – Listen In The post NTM 228: Our Top 5 Most Influentia...

There’s not a mother alive who can’t connect with this feeling!  But what do you do when you get here?  HOW you perceive these moments, changes what’s possible for you and your kids.  How you respond in these moments can be greatly influenced by what meaning you attach to the feelings present.  So let’s get Listen In The post NTM 227: When their needs are endless and all you want to do is run appe...

Have you ever felt the unfamiliar transformation of your sense of self post-partum? Caught in that place of who you were and who you are becoming? Our culture doesn’t recognise the profound transformation of woman as mother and the obligatory ‘feminine descent’ that often accompanies such a pivotal life event, instead tending to pathologise it. In this Listen In The post NTM 226: Standing on shaky...

There’s Universal laws that govern human behaviour; when we understand these we can understand the ways in which our psyche begins to ‘play tricks on us’. When it comes to self worth it can be easy to descend into the shame “not good enough” spiral and fail to see the bigger picture at play, or Listen In The post NTM 225: If you’re beating yourself up, where are you building yourself up? appeared...

We’ve all been there – but how do you deal with it? There are no mistakes in the things that tug at our heartstrings, with Julie recently confronted by an interaction at a shopping centre that reaffirmed her values; and her account of it on social media certainly got people talking. In this episode we Listen In The post NTM 224: The screaming toddler in the shopping centre appeared first on The We...

We decided to shake it up a little! This week Jules answers YOUR questions…well, as many as she could get through! From knowing when you’re done with babies, to alternatives to The Blessing Way, to whinging and screaming, to how and why we run a business with kid – it’s a diverse conversation this week Listen In The post NTM 223: Open Mic – Julie answers your questions! appeared first on The Welln...

We all have a kryptonite; that thing that makes you go 0-100 in a split second, that thing that you can be calm as a cucumber…until… In this weeks episode we discuss our own kryptonite when it comes to sibling dynamics, how we process, how we view and enter that dynamic and how we create Listen In The post NTM 222: When it comes to sibling dynamics, what’s your kryptonite? appeared first on The We...

As tensions rise between your kids, what do you do?  Desire to silence it, or shut it down?  Runaway and close the door?  Yell back?  What if your ‘why’ for staying there, was bigger than your impulse to run?….In this episode we look at 5 reasons why you WANT to choose to stay through the Listen In The post NTM 221: 5 reasons to stick with sibling fights appeared first on The Wellness Couch .

How do you spot and support YOUR child’s genius? What does it look like to scaffold their learning and development? In this week’s episode we respond to a listener’s question regarding how to choose extra-curricular activities and understanding our own agendas behind them. Relevant links: Nourishing the Mother http://www.nourishingthemother.com.au Suburban Sandcastles – Bridget http://www.suburban...