Nourishing the Mother

When we value parenting, we can set high expectations of ourselves to hear all our children’s feelings, respond patiently and scaffold their learning and development with laser awareness. But when the reality challenges the fantasy, what do you do? How can you widen your lens to see the bigger picture and find greater spaciousness? In Listen In The post NTM 219: Parenting the way I want VS reality...

This week we get a peek into Bridget’s newborn journey, how it’s evolved, how it’s changed and what thriving looks like third time round and with three kids in tow! How do you parent consciously and still expand your family? How do you show up and continue to expand as a woman whilst in the Listen In The post NTM 218: Thriving with a newborn and beyond appeared first on The Wellness Couch .

It began with an email about “have my kids learnt what they need to, to survive the big bad world?”…which with all our intentions to answer, plugged us into our own stories; Jules having rising feelings of anger towards her younger self for the internal conflict derived from the crossroads of ‘conscious parenting’ and ‘forcing Listen In The post NTM 217: Social Situations and Conscious Parenting a...

And what is ‘conscious parenting’ for us, anyway? Having both experienced that sense of ‘losing ourselves’ in early motherhood, in this episode we explore what boundaries look like while still being whole-heartedly committed to parenting from a place of awareness and connection. Relevant links: Nourishing the Mother http://www.nourishingthemother.com.au Suburban Sandcastles – Bridget http://www.su...

How do I get him to…[insert your need or desire or want]….So often we can desire to change our partners to fit what we think they ’should’ be or ’should’ do or give to us, that we can miss the magnificent opportunity to see where they already are and do provide and how this is Listen In The post NTM 215: How do I get him to…. appeared first on The Wellness Couch .

Our roadmap anyway!  What does it look like to grow intimacy over years, through ‘lacking desire’, defensive responses, values clashes and emotional disconnection?  How do we choose deepending love, connection and appreciation, even when we’re in the midst of tension and challenge?…Follow us as we create a roadmap for you on all things conscious relationship…even Listen In The post NTM 214: The ro...

Can it ever just be luck?!  Or is it always about growth, mirror, projection and conscious thought?  What is the line between conscious thought and overthinking??  And if I’m overthinking, what do I think next?!  Found yourself here?….We know we have!  In this weeks episode we dive into ‘what IS consciousness’, when we’re using it Listen In The post NTM 213: The line between consciousness and over...

With Bridget in the thick of newborn-dom and shifting family dynamics, we take this opportunity to dissect what’s at the heart of shifts like this, meet the beliefs that are asking to be transformed, and show you a path towards seeing the mastery in all of it…even (and especially when) it feels hard and ‘mucky’.  In Listen In The post NTM 212: Newborns, Siblings, Family Dynamics appeared first on...

When we feel lost and challenged in our motherhood, we often look outside ourselves for the answers, and in this day of information on demand and social media we can find ourselves ’subscribing’ to a person or paradigm and then comparing ourselves to this constructed ‘ideal’. We can ‘love on these gurus’ so much, that Listen In The post NTM 211: Who is your motherhood ‘authority’? appeared first o...

We all want to condemn the patriarchy, but is it all THEM? Like we stand on the shoulders of the trail-blazers before us, what we as women create the access to is what becomes their ‘normal’ – and from this place they can move far beyond where we can conceive. In this podcast we reframe Listen In The post NTM 210: How we let our collective daughters down appeared first on The Wellness Couch .

Birth calls us to meet our edges physically, emotionally, mentally and spiritually, birthing not only our babies, but ourselves as mothers. In this intimate episode, Bridget recounts the story of birthing her third child Pearl Aveline into the world, in a profoundly fulfilling home birth. It’s an insight into how our relationships facilitate our growth, Listen In The post NTM 209: Bridget’s birth...

Siblings huh? There­’s almost nothing mo­re grating, or fanta­sy-busting, than your loves fighting aga­inst each other. So how do you help them navigate their inn­er thoughts, feelings and beliefs, witho­ut having to complet­ely wail on their si­bling, or bring you to breaking point? Relevant links: Nourishing the Mother http://www.nourishin­gthemother.com.au Suburban Sandcastles – Bridget http://...

Toddlers! Argh! They can feel like a rude awakening after the beautiful baby-bubble – and for many of us, the hardest part the parenting. We explore why this is, and very often it’s a clashing of worlds, our timeline and theirs, our expectations and their reality, our desire for control and their need for independence Listen In The post NTM 207: Working through the intensity of toddlerhood appeare...

Birth represents an opening for a woman, physically of course, but also who she currently is, and who she is evolving into. How can we work with women’s bodies and pelvises, to create more space for babies and widen what ‘creating space’ looks like? If even 1mm of space can dramatically alter a babies position Listen In The post NTM 206: Birth and women’s bodies appeared first on The Wellness Couc...

Anger can feel like such a toxic emotion, we don’t want any part of it…and we shame ourselves when it (inevitably) comes flying out. What if you could develop a different type of relationship with your anger? One where you develop skills to move this galvanising feeling, so you can feel the hurt it’s masking Listen In The post NTM 205: Meeting your anger in motherhood appeared first on The Wellnes...

What does it look like to prepare and empower yourself and your family for winter? From nourishing food and supplementation to emotional and psychological wellbeing, we explore what health looks like through the lens of naturopathic medicine and the family dynamic. Relevant links: Nourishing the Mother http://www.nourishingthemother.com.au Suburban Sandcastles – Bridget http://www.suburbansandcast...

As humans, having a human experience, we can’t help but judge! So what do you do when you notice you’re beginning to judge your children?! How do you sit with what its bringing up, why its there and how in the heck do you move past it so you can love your whole child more Listen In The post NTM 203: I’m judging my child, how do I stop? appeared first on The Wellness Couch .

As Bridget begins the descent towards her third baby, we discuss what conscious birth preparation looks like, what it DID look like for Bridget in the birth of her first and second children, and of course the wisdom she’s gained along the way! Conscious birth is an evolution of our ’selves’, so what does it Listen In The post NTM 202: Consciously preparing for birth – Bridget’s check in at 35 week...

Ultimately all we want as humans is to be loved in all our wholeness; to be loved JUST as we are, without needing to change. How would it feel for you to know on a really deep level that who you are, is totally safe and completely loved? So HOW do we do this in Listen In The post NTM 201: There’s nothing you can say that I can’t love appeared first on The Wellness Couch .

We ALL feel this at some, or many, points in our journey. The mental load of motherhood can become all too much sometimes and we often want someone to blame, which ultimately has us experiencing more disconnection and disharmony in our lives. The unevenness of parenting is REAL…and it isn’t….here’s where we take the conversation Listen In The post NTM 200: The unevenness of parenthood appeared fir...

Following some pretty juicy conversations in our member’s group, we break apart, get down and dirty with ‘exhaustion’ in motherhood. As per our usual fashion, we bust some stories, discuss a pathway forwards and what’s holding us back…and of course, we drop some bombs on the definition of self-care and our construction of identity…it’s PACKED! Listen In The post NTM 199: How to show up even when y...

There are thousand-and-one articles on how to listen to your Childs feelings, but very little on how that actually looks when you yourself are feeling ‘offline’ or triggered or in anxiety.  Following a listener’s questions, we distill our tools down to a 3-step process for HOW to create emotional safety and HOW to hold the Listen In The post NTM 198: “Emotional Safety”- great in theory…but how do...

This week’s inspiration is from a listener’s email and we’re excited to dive into it!  We LOVE attachment parenting philosophies and styles of raising whole humans, but what happens when there’s aspects of this paradigm that stop working for you, that you begin to feel resentful about, that are creating rifts within yourself or your Listen In The post NTM 197: Inspiration for balancing attachment...

Well this week is rich in story as we reflect on Julie’s coming-of-age-ceremony with her daughter, our own experiences of Menarche and what it means to integrate our wholeness as women through relationship with our daughters. If you have a son or a daughter, or you yourself are on a re-patterning journey, then there’s tons Listen In The post NTM 196: Celebrating the whole woman in our daughter’s j...

Let’s face it, baby and toddler sleep is a hot-button topic for nearly every parent, and we all know there’s two ends of the spectrum – cry-it-out and full attachment parenting, so what do you do if neither of these are working for you; what does the middle ground look like? How do we develop Listen In The post NTM 195: Baby and toddler sleep with sleep consultant Sophie Acott appeared first on Th...