The Happy Mama Movement with Amy Taylor-Kabbaz

Welcome Mamas. While the demands of motherhood and other responsibilities can be overwhelming at times, taking time for simple pleasures can help you stay grounded and maintain a positive mindset. and to remember that the enjoyment of these simple pleasures is not a luxury, but a necessity for your mental, emotional, and physical health. Incorporating these small moments of joy into your daily rou...

Welcome Back, Mamas! Why would a podcast about Matrescence and the experience of becoming a mother interview the author of a book about women WITHOUT kids? Because, as you'll hear in this fascinating conversation with author Ruby Warrington, as women, we are all facing the same questions and assumptions of who we should be and how we should live. A woman is SUPPOSED to want to be a mother, and lov...

Welcome back, Mama's. We have something special and incredibly inspiring to celebrate and acknowledge this year's International Women's Day'. A power-house of grace and steadfastness. The ever wonderful, Yemi Penn, is my guest this week and brings her passion and insight to us with such eloquence and gusto. Yemi Penn is a Global Thought Leader and Ph. D. Candidate on the transformation of trauma,...

I have something very exciting for you today... a brand new style of podcast that I have been ITCHING to share with you for months! It's called: Mama Q, and it's a conversation between myself and one of our Mama Rising Coaching trainers in which we answer YOUR questions! I love this for 2 reasons: 1. I want this space to feel like somewhere you can come for support and insights. Yes, I will keep b...

Welcome back, Mamas. This world is very often telling us that our value comes from our achievements, the grades we get, the awards we receive, the attention we get, and the level of income we provide. We have been raised this way, believing this is right and this is how it should be. Status, merit, and praise through this measure of success and validation. Validation through, annual KPIs or a pay...

Welcome back, Mamas. For many mothers who really feel the creative impulse, the act of making art is not only a means of preservation but also a form of self-expression and a way to explore their own identity, not to mention a way to make a living. Having children is a transformative experience that can inspire new perspectives and ways of seeing the world. This can lead to a deeper appreciation f...

Welcome Mamas!!! Today I have a special BONUS Podcast Episode for you. This episode is a sincere introduction to the Philosophy and practices behind Matrescence. It is a breakdown of the need to educate and assist mothers who are not being supported or valued in a way that recognizes their essential and irreplaceable role. The Mama Rising Facilitator Training is a strong step forward on the path t...

Welcome Mamas to this week's Happy Mama Movement Podcast episode. After years of building a successful business around assisting and educating women to better understand themselves and the world we live in, one questions that I am often asked is around the theme of better preparing for what's to come. Most of us have read 'the books', been to 'the workshops' and 'the seminars', taken 'the classes'...

Welcome back Mamas! Thank you so much for finding your back way here for our first episode of 2023. On this occasion, I have the privilege of interviewing Kate Northrup, the author of the fantastic book, 'Do Less'. A book about breaking down the established masculine structures, that are pushing us to do more, climb higher, 'succeed', be busy, rush, achieve more... and rather, choosing to 'do less...

Welcome to the final episode for 2022. How are you? I mean, really how are you? I know it's cliché, but my goodness we have all been through a lot over the last three years. And this has created a sense of one thing after another, after another. As we pause at the end of another year, I invite you to reflect and think about our needs vs what feeds us. This concept has been presented to me again re...

Our children are a vital source of creativity and future vision. And a big part of our parenting involves reconnecting to yourself so you can connect to them differently, and be the parent you've always dreamed of being. Today's guest is by far one of the most inspiring women I have the privilege of knowing. She is a mother, humanitarian, artist, teacher, bestselling author and host of the Pr...

Day in, day out I hear stories from mothers all over the world about just how difficult they find it to balance their own needs, desires, creative expressions, dreams with the reality of motherhood. If you've been listening to this podcast and my work for a while, this is of no surprise to you. It raises questions such as - how do we hold a sense of self without support? When today's day and age r...

Today I want to explore an idea with you. Something that has been permeating within me ever since I had a divine conversation with Nicole Matheson on her new book, The Beauty Load (episode number 211). During that conversation we talked about how we often gaslight ourselves and each other when it comes to the beauty load. This heavy load we carry around the way we should look, the way we should pr...

I am continued to be surprised at how much I can learn within every single conversation each week for the Podcast. I already believe with every essence that the conversations around matresence are powerful and transformational, yet I am blown away at how much more expansion there is within ourselves, and this week was no different. Fleur Chambers is an authour, meditation teacher and mama of three...

I've been reflecting a lot over the last few years and began having the conversations with women and mamas around me about the process of acceptance, grief and surrender that we go through when we realise our children will need us more than we expected when we started out on this journey. It's a tough, yet necessary, conversation, because it's an emotional one. Listen to this solo episode with Amy...

It is so very powerful within the work that I do when women wake up and say, enough is enough. And Grace Gulley is certainly healing and using her voice to stand strong in her advocacy for mothers, mental health and fighting against the systems that oppress mothers and caregivers. Grace experienced a somewhat unexpected pregnancy, being let go from her job, and a pandemic thrown in. After sufferin...

Motherhood can start with a whisper, an inkling and desire. And it goes all the way through to the other side. Melissa Ambrosini had a long and deeply personal journey to get pregnant and after thinking it would happen quickly, had to devote and commit to the spiritual assignment alongside a deep yearning to be a mother. She knew if she shared extensively people would give their opinion, yet this...

I am blown away by the women who walk the journey alongside me and turn challenges into something they can share with others. Jodie McGrath does exactly that through sharing her current journey alongside light bulb moments and an adult diagnosis of ADHD. Listen as Amy and Jodie discuss: Finding other ways to get things done rather than feeling like you need to do it all and making it mean somethin...

Matresence brings up time and time again many questions of who am I? What do I want to do with my life? What is our own definition of being a good mother? And ultimately, is this still what I want? The period of questioning everything, who we are and what we want is part of the cracking open of matresence. It's part of how we help to define ourselves, wipe away significant programming. Amy reflect...

It can take some real reprogramming in order to stop, slow down and listen. Motherhood sparks a drive which often sees up pursue new adventures, businesses, lifestyles - the true beauty and complexities of matresence. It's that internal struggle when matresence is activated - part of us that is ambitious, focused, ready and rearing to go while alongside we are a growing into motherhood while heali...

Our appearance is one aspect of who we are, it is not all of who we are and throughout the journey of matresence there is still a fuzzy line which is delivered as our body undergoes significant changes and levels of acceptance. My guest today is Nicole Mathieson who has impacted the lives of thousands of women through her writing, speaking, podcasts and work as a counsellor. In her book, The...

What does matresence look and feel like when you are aware of what is approaching? When you have the knowledge and understanding that many of us do not have before being engulfed into the fourth trimester? How is it different for each pregnancy? How can we prepare for the changes that are coming? Curious questions such as these and more are discussed with Anna Cusack. Anna is a postpartum doula an...

Can we talk for a moment about grief? I don't think it's something we do very well because so often we see our future in a certain way and letting go can be really hard work. Listen as I reflect on a recent conversation I had and talk about: What happens when you experience the start of life? Do your priorities change? Are you a different person? That's what matresence is. The grief of who we thou...

Helen Bryce is a poet, writer, mother of four and outward feminist. Her collection of poetry, Motherhood Minus the Medals , writes from a point of view of how invisible, unseen, uncelebrated, unvalued and unsupported motherhood can be within the systemic patriarchs of society. This conversation demonstrates how many different layers and factors we experience daily within motherhood and oozes motiv...

When we can be kinder to ourselves as mothers, we have a much nicer experience of motherhood. Sounds simple, right? There’s a lot of talk around being a conscious mother and conscious motherhood, but what does it really mean? After the conversation with my guest, Cathy Spooner, today I think you’ll be surprised to find its not what we are fed or led to believe. Listen to this delicious conversatio...