The Well-Nourished Mother: Helping You Thrive in Pregnancy, Birth & Motherhood

How do we begin aligning with our biology as women instead of fighting against it?  In this episode I’m joined by the ever insightful Beth Wood.  Beth offers integrative life coaching and business strategy for women looking to craft a life honoring their cyclical nature and feminine design. Her programs are designed to help you learn how to dance with your incredible menstrual cycle that nature ha...

Your body holds the wisdom your mind is searching for. In this episode I'm finally sitting down to explain what the heck Somatic Coaching is and how it can benefit you, especially as a mother. I share a quick intro about how I found this work and how I now blend it with birthwork. I introduce the concept of somatic work and its approach of connecting with the body's wisdom to create last...

Does our commercialized view of baby registries prevent mothers from receiving the gifts and support they truly need?  How do we shift our focus and spending towards supporting parents and caregivers during the postpartum period, instead of just the baby's materialistic needs?  How can we change the perception of what is truly necessary for a new mother-baby dyad? We’ll answer all of these qu...

How do we shift from this mentality of trying to “fix” or change our bodies, to partnering with our bodies to work together to heal and grow?  In this episode, your host Lauren Fortuna-Floch chats with passionate Body Partnership Coach Erika Wirth.  Erika opens up about her personal healing journey, starting from preconception to postpartum, and reveals the empowering body partnership approach she...

The forbidden "D" word! No one likes talking about death, but this inevitable piece of our natural cycle of life shows us what's truly important. Join me, your host Lauren Fortuna-Floch, as I share some of the beautiful lessons learned from navigating the recent death of a loved one. We'll dive into: - Unsubscribing from masculine hustle culture and instead stepping into a more...

"We live in a culture that values the appearance, spontaneity, and hustle of the maiden but craves the depth, creativity and radiating love of the mother while ignoring the wisdom and sensitivity of the crone." In this short and sweet BONUS episode, your host Lauren is diving deep into the heart of the societal values (or lack thereof) placed on the maiden, mother, and crone archetypes,...

Have you ever felt drained or hyper critical of your own life and mothering after scrolling social media?  We're living in the digital age of Mothering where social media can have a huge impact on how you mother, what you believe, and how you view your own life.  In this episode of The Well-Nourished Mother, host Lauren Fortuna-Floch dives into the impact of social media on the emotional well...

Do you consider yourself a creative woman? How do you balance those creative urges, projects, and ideas while also navigating new motherhood? This week Lauren chats with multi passionate artist Nikki Hollett. Nikki reflects on her initiation into motherhood and the impact it's had on her creativity and work as an artist. Through the lens of her own personal experiences and healing journey, Ni...

Postpartum is an inherently vulnerable time for your nervous system. In this episode Lauren chats with Prairie Wolfe, a sexological bodyworker, and Somatic Experiencing practitioner to explore how to navigate postpartum anger and increase your nervous system health. Prairie starts by giving us a quick and dirty explanation of the nervous system and what regulation really means. She helps shed ligh...

How would slowing down in your day to day change the way you experience motherhood? In this episode, Rachel Vangstad and I explore the art of slowing down and reconnecting with your true self as a mother.  Rachel shares more on: the importance of prioritizing yourself, your own pleasure, and your needs with really simple, small steps to take to begin the self pleasure practice she used as an entry...

Are you a new mother struggling to navigate the profound transition into motherhood, feeling lost and disconnected from your previous self? Have you felt pressure to meet societal expectations, leaving you feeling like you're just not measuring up? Then tune into this episode of The Well-Nourished Mother, where we explore the depths of "matrescence" with licensed clinical social wor...

What do you do when your primal instincts clash with the narratives you've woven around motherhood? In my very first solo episode,  join me as I delve into the depths of my own weaning journey. I’m sharing personal insights and experiences through 5 lessons I’ve learned from 2 years of breastfeeding.  In this episode, I dive deeper into: the importance of listening to intuition, challenging f...

Postpartum intimacy, sex, desire, connection- these areas can feel under nourished amidst the whirlwind of change, evolution, and growth a new baby brings. In this episode, we dive deep into this often neglected aspect of postpartum life with the incredible Ashley Mariani, a Clinical Social Worker specializing in couples perinatal mental, emotional, and sexual health. Ashley brings her expertise a...

Motherhood has a way of illuminating all of the areas of life that need reconciliation and attention. This is Motherhood as Medicine.  In this episode, Nicole Pasveer and I dive into all things Good Girl Conditioning.  Nicole shares openly and honestly about her personal experience healing her inner “good girl” while diving into some of the many other related layers: life pausing perfectionism, la...

Following your heart, carving your own path, and redefining success can be HARD. But for those that listen to the call, the rewards are endless. Michelle Williams shares her story of discovering her purpose early on in life and the winding road she followed through nursing school, to eventually trust the call of her heart, leave the medical system behind, and create her own heart centred business...

How do you develop self-trust as a mother, and why does it even matter?  In this episode, Briana Faust shares her stories of becoming a mother and the beautiful insights and realizations that have led her to the creation of Hohmcoming- a community and digital studio for women who desire to go back to basics and experience pregnancy with more ease, intuition, and trust. The way it was designed to b...

The Well-Nourished Mother is a space of deep reverence for the rite of passage that is the maiden to mother journey. Join Lauren Fortuna-Floch for unfiltered and inspiring conversations with experts, mothers, and all around badass wise women, where we’ll explore all the ways we can nourish ourselves- body, mind, and heart. We're blending the head and the heart, the mind and the body to help y...