Wild and Well | Motherhood, Postpartum Wellness and Children’s Health

Mama, are you last on your priority list?  Do you make sure everyone and everything else is taken care of before you are? If you are nodding your head, you are not alone. Prioritizing ourselves as mothers is challenging!  Modern motherhood is not easy and there are so many expectations, pressures, societal norms and practical barriers that get in the way. However, prioritizing yourself i...

  In today’s podcast, I had the honour of talking with the incredible Dr Carrie Rigoni. We chatted about how we can support our nervous system and our children’s to be healthy and regulated.  Dr Carrie Rigoni is a chiropractor who works with mums and babies, to optimise their baby’s brain development, and set them up for lifelong health. She loves talking about all things vagus nerve, an...

We make so many choices in our days. Sometimes this can leave us exhausted and overwhelmed and with serious decision fatigue. And often, we make decisions that don’t support us in the long term or move us toward the life we want for ourselves and our families.  Our decisions create our habits and our habits create our lives. They also shape our kids’ lives and how we show up for them.  T...

In this episode, I am talking to Jessica Lee. We are talking about resilience, what this and how we can foster it in ourselves and in our children. Jessica Lee is a wellbeing writer and educator. She is passionate about neuroscience-based strategies for building resilience, lowering stress and increasing health, happiness and creativity. She is a regular contributing writer to Wellbeing magazine a...

Unfortunately, it is all too common for mothers to struggle with extreme fatigue, anxiety, chronic health issues and postnatal depletion. There are plenty of practical, physical and societal reasons why modern day moms are having such a challenging time. In this solo episode, I discuss several of these. If this topic is especially relevant to you, you may want to check out my book, The Motherhood...

In this episode, we talk about a transformative way of reducing the ever-growing invisible load of mothers. The invisible load is also often referred to as the mental load. It is the burden that mothers tend to carry most of. It includes everything from scheduling doctor’s appointments to meal planning to cleaning up the house to considering what school to send the kids to all the admin tasks…pret...

Do this one thing to reduce sibling rivalry This is a sweet and short episode, but it is essential listening for any parent of more than one child. Do your kids compete for your attention? Do they fight with each other often? Do you find it difficult to stop your kids from teasing one another? If so, have a listen! In this episode, I cover: A surprising reason why our kids tease, fight and argue w...

In this episode, I am talking to the lovely Jessica Louise Kay. We are chatting all things circadian rhythms, grounding and how we can connect more with nature.  Jessica is a mentor, naturopath and mother with a passion in devoting her service to mothers with young children; to connect back to their spiritual truth + divine self to feel grounded, calm and connected to the simple joys of life,...

Welcome to the Wild + Well Podcast! Welcome to the Wild and Well Podcast! I’m your host, Dr. Hilary Claire, a clinical psychologist, holistic parenting mentor with a focus on nutrition and environmental medicine, yoga teacher, author, and mom of two wild boys. In this episode, I will give you a little peak into what the podcast is all about. Let’s get into it. Here we delve into the big and little...