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Send us Fan Mail Aah, parenting - it's a ride, isn't it? Wouldn't it be great if each of our kids came with their own manual? I'm going through a bit of an "uncomfortable patch" of parenting right now, so in this episode we'll be talking about the lessons I've learned over the past few weeks and the five things I try to remember when navigating choppy phases...

Send us Fan Mail Today I'm chatting with my lovely sister, Rebecca Winston, and her dashing husband Joe about how they plan and set goals for the year ahead. Bec and Joe are the perfect team to help us navigate our goal-making strategies with the help of the question "What's the progress you care about?" Bec and Joe Winston have been in business together for over a decade. They...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to Season 2 of The Mummalove Podcast! I'm so excited to have you back here again. To kick off Season 2, here's a little life update on the Love fam, including a recap on our family holiday, how reality is (often) different to the highlight reel and what I learned from the Christmas season. I'm also going to share with you my Word of the Year for 2021, which...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, I'll do a quick recap of the events that happened in this remarkable year of 2020. This year has really turned everyone's lives upside down in a way we could never have anticipated. I also share with you a little activity that I like to do every year-end where I reflect on my highs and lows from the past 12 months. If you need a visual representation, yo...

Send us Fan Mail Rachel Noble is an Australian writer, who has previously written, edited and produced for the ABC and BBC. Her first children's picture book, the magnificent Finn's Feather , was released in 2018, and I loved being able to meet Rachel in person at the Brisbane Writers Festival that year. Rachel is also a Mum to five children - four in her home and one in her heart - so w...

Send us Fan Mail Christmas can be a wonderful time of the year but it can also be a pretty tough time especially when you have to spend it missing someone you love. In today's episode, I'll talk about how our family spent our first Christmas without Nicholas, just under 8 months after he died, and what traditions have evolved over the past four years to weave Nicholas' spirit into C...

Send us Fan Mail Today's episode is very close to my heart, with my sister-in-law Naomi and nephew Tyler discussing gender, identity and the courage to stand in the truth of who we are. Last year, Tyler socially transitioned as a transgender male. This was a pretty big surprise for our extended family and I was really proud of how everyone embraced Tyler's announcement - we may not have...

Send us Fan Mail The end of year before the boys finish school always feels very full, but especially this year as Sam is finishing primary school and next year Charlie will start at a new school. And it's 2020! So it's been a BIG year anyway. In this episode, I give my top five tips when you're feeling overwhelmed by your to-do list: Prioritise self-care Question everything on the...

Send us Fan Mail Jess is an intuitive life coach and author who's passionate about inspiring, uplifting and empowering women to tune inwards to unpack who they really are and what they want from life. As you’ll hear in this episode, Jess has had a big life so far - finding love with a Masai warrior in Africa, experiencing the tragic death of her mother, and the birth of her children have all...

Send us Fan Mail Olivia Hargroder has achieved some impressive feats in her 21 years. From speaking at the UN in New York, and being nominated as Australian of the Year, to starting a movement to have Down syndrome recognised as its own category in the Paralympics, Olivia uses her voice to advocate for change and equality. In this episode, we chat about Olivia's big dreams, how she feels abou...

Send us Fan Mail I was recently asked to think of a time in my life where I've had to make a decision where there was a lot of fear and uncertainty around the outcome. Luckily, I had plenty of options to choose from 😜 It made me reflect on one of the biggest decisions I've ever had to make, which is when we embarked on prenatal testing for our third baby and needed to decide what to do...

Send us Fan Mail October is Down syndrome Awareness Month, so I wanted to invite one of my treasured friends from the Down syndrome community, Joelle Wedd, to the podcast. In this episode, we talk about: what it was like to receive a prenatal Down syndrome diagnosis for Joelle's third baby; how Joelle's life was changed by the arrival of Josee Hope; becoming an advocate to create a bette...

Send us Fan Mail I was never very interested in going to see psychics. Or, to be more honest, I always thought it seemed a little bit scary to be told of my future. But after Nicholas died, I read a book called 'After This' by Claire Bidwell Smith and it really changed my perspective on psychics and how those spiritual experiences can actually help us in our grief. Over the past few year...

Send us Fan Mail Jessica Bean is a medicine access advocate, international speaker, consultant and empowerment coach for young women living with chronic illness. Informed at age 21 that she would need a double lung transplant to survive the damage caused to her lungs by the genetic condition cystic fibrosis, Jessica fought hard to change her trajectory. Over a decade later, Jessica continues to br...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, I interview a very special guest - our eldest son, Sam Love. Sam was diagnosed with Acute Lymphoblastic Leukaemia seven years ago this week, on 9 September 2013, when he was just five years old. He's now a healthy 12 years old, so I thought I'd ask him a few questions about what it was like to go through treatment for leukaemia, what life looks like now...

Send us Fan Mail My beloved 10 year old son spends far more time whinging, complaining and generally resisting cleaning his teeth than he does actually cleaning his teeth. I’m sure this is not an unusual story when it comes to kids. But I was thinking about how often as adults we do a similar thing. Maybe not about cleaning our teeth, but can you think of something that you put off doing because i...

Send us Fan Mail This week, my beautiful Mum, Marie, would have been turning 80 - on 14 August. Following an original diagnosis and treatment for oesophageal cancer, Mum died in January 2019, six short weeks after discovering she had secondary liver cancer. Whilst those final weeks together were incredibly hard, it was also a really beautiful time for our family being with Mum at the end of her hu...

Send us Fan Mail What do we do with the belongings of our loved ones after they have passed, when it feels like the only way we have left to be physically connected to them? In this episode, I share how our family chose to go through Nicholas' clothes and other belongings after he died and the timeline that felt right for us. I also touch on how the experience differed to going through my Mum...

Send us Fan Mail Eileen could have never imagined how her life would change in the course of one wintery night. Authorities confirmed that the plane her husband was piloting on his way home to celebrate Christmas with the family had crashed, and he had not survived. With three young children and an entire lifetime ahead of her, Eileen’s journey through the valleys of grief and the peaks of hope br...

Send us Fan Mail Fellow life coach and BYCA graduate, Annie Gichuru was born in Kenya and has called Australia home for the past 20 years. She lives with her husband and two young children. In this episode, we talk about what it was like for Annie to grow up in Kenya, the bullying she experienced at school, beginning a new life in Australia and how motherhood has changed her. We also talk about th...

Send us Fan Mail Over the past week, our 10 year old son has officially started riding a bike for the first time. Along the way of the somewhat bumpy journey to feeling 'ready' to ride a bike, Charlie has taught me a few valuable lessons about the trusting in myself and the divine timing of the Universe. What does it mean to feel ready? What happens if I'm afraid of taking the leap...

Send us Fan Mail After the death of her brother in 2013, Pauline Roche worked out that the best way to navigate grief for her (because grief is different for each individual) was finding her way back to music and doing more of what made her happy. In this episode, we talk about how she rediscovered music through joining a very special choir, using family connection to help work her way through gri...

Send us Fan Mail Today I just want to have a little chat about self-care - a term bandied about but often, I think, misunderstood. What does it mean to you? What would it look like to give yourself permission to honour YOU and show yourself more love and more care? You can find my Self-Care Quiz over on the Mummalove website . Enter your email address to receive self-care tips and resources in you...

Send us Fan Mail Michelle Worthington is an international award-winning author, business woman and Mum to three gorgeous boys. In this episode, we discuss the premature arrival of Michelle's babies, how she navigated through these difficult times and what has helped her process the experience since. We talk about the leap of faith required going from working in a job she didn't love into...

Send us Fan Mail A short (rambly) reflection from a privileged white woman on how the death of George Floyd relates to us in Australia and why it's important for me to have this awkward and uncomfortable conversation rather than be silent. Warning: In this episode, I refer to the names of two deceased Aboriginal people. I have updated the audio to include a verbal warning as well. My profound...