Woman Awake - The Soul-led Journey of Awakening

"Our children don't need us to save them. They need us to save ourselves". THAT is how they learn how to be in this world and how to be their full, authentic selves. You want your children to be resilience? Be resilient within yourself. You want your children to embody self worth? Embody worthiness within yourself. You want your children to experience love? Love yourself. You want your children to...

One of my most popular interviews on One Woke Mama was Episode 014 - Raising Sensitive, Spirited and Empath Children with Shunanda Scott. Shunanda, who has been an integral part of my spiritual practice and journey over the last two year, hast just released her new self-paced online course; The Angel Immersion. Intuitively, and as it seems guided by Angels - I felt to jump on an impromptu chat wit...

One Woke Mama – Episode 043 - When you have no reference point for all you are experiencing Ok, here's the thing. In my 38 years on Planet Earth, I have never experienced a Global Pandemic. Ever. So I'm going to guess that you haven't either. With the current global climate, I've been experiencing all the myriad of emotions. From hope, joy, insane levels of gratitude. Feeling blessed and deeply re...

When we experience a crisis, or a traumatic event, like the Global one we are in now thank to COVID-19, everyone responds differently. Our nervous system kicks into sympathetic (survival) mode, thankfully, which is such a blessing. However, the FIGHT-FLIGHT-FREEZE response can show up differently for each person, which means they will behave, talk, think in different ways to say, how you might be....

One Woke Mama – Episode 041 - How to resource yourself and hold space for emotions. When we are triggered, by our children, our work, partner, or just by LIFE, working through somatic practice - working with your body - can be a powerful way to show up in the moment as you need to. Body-based resourcing will allow you to stay present with what is, to understand and even heal your triggers. There a...

Healing the heart from the shadows within (meditation!)February has been a month of deep, somatic healing for me. I had a sense that it would be 'big' for me in some way - but I hadn't anticipated the body-based healing I would experience (the first was the KaHuna Massage - see episode 038 and the second was a breathwork workshop - more to come on that soon). My heart has been doing a lot of relea...

Episode 039 - Acknowledging Fear, Stress and Worry with Maria Golding. Sometimes we are so deep into our fear and stress that we can’t see it and therefore can’t do anything about it. It is the awareness of it, the simple acknowledgment of it that can create real shifts. As mamas we get lost in thee day-to-day, everything that ‘needs’ doing. If we can learn to acknowledge how we are feeling and sh...

One Woke Mama – Episode 038 - You are exactly where your are meant to beAfter two weeks off podcasting I'm back today with a special episode - recorded on holiday in the beautiful Nelson Bay. This episode is a story about the powerful, life-changing, healing Ka Huna Massage I had whilst on holiday. I share in detail how this experience, unbeknownst to me would be exactly the deep, somatic, trauma...

Episode 037 - I take you back ten years ago to a time when, (after a lot of confusion, uncertainty whilst in a deep transition) I started to find my way, my purpose and back into the light. As I turn 38 today (January 27th), reflecting on that time ten years ago has been a powerful reminder that sometimes, when we are in the thick of change, transformation and redefining ourselves we can't always...

One of the hardest things - for many of us - to do is ask for help. Yet as mamas it’s something we must learn how to do quickly, otherwise we soon find we are struggling with all that motherhood requires of us. In this episode - lovingly repurposed from Om Mama Love (previously only heard by members of OML!) Amy and I explore how and why we must call out for guidance, support and love.  Amy Landry...

Episode 035 - Re-parenting your inner child through disallowed joy, excitement and fulfilment We have many “inner children’ within - different versions of ourself at different ages and stages, split off and caught/frozen in that energy, attitude, behaviour, feeling, wounding. This is true for all of u. Whether we have experienced trauma that is classified as a major life event, something that comp...

Why we cannot avoid struggles and challenges, but we can show up spiritually in the face of hardship. Bushfires are raging through our country and many of us, especially those in the spiritual/self development world are faced with how to SHOW up, take action, pay attention and yet still be a "spiritual being having a human experience..." Firstly, spiritual bypassing is not the way. We cannot ignor...

Clearing out space as a metaphor for clearing out self to uplevel... to reach into a clearer vision and reach for the intentions and goals waiting to come through you. Clearing our homes. Decluttering our lives. Tying up loose ends. Detoxing and Cleansing our body and our thoughts and mind. Changing the energy in our environment, in our psyche, in our physical safe and sacred containers. This is w...

It's time to stop trying so hard. When you are in that state of control - pushing, doing, taking action - despite what your body/mind/soul is calling for then it's time to take rest. It's time to be free from that controlling energy, let go, pause and rest. It's from the rest that you will rise. Motivation, inspiration, action - it'll all flow again from that space of rest. This is exactly where I...

A journaling guide to review and reflect on your 2019 followed by a process to clarify and co-create your 2020. A simple yet profound experience that will provide you with deep insight, mining for the gold and wisdom in your year, and of course the springboard into your new year ahead. I guide you through a set of questions (provided for you in the show notes) and share many examples from my own l...

Episode 030 Rage, Resentment and Releasing it Rage and resentment comes up at different times during our motherhood journey. Sometimes we are triggered by our children, or we are depleting and run down, lacking self care, or deep in the trenches with sick children. We can feel tapped out and then what follows is a leaking out of emotions and feelings we've tried to suppress. And it can sometimes g...

Episode 029 explores what I call the Final Frontier in my post partum healing journey - healing the pelvic floor, pelvic organ prolapse and on a more spiritual and energetic level coming to face The Forgotten Feminine. I share, quite vulnerably and candidly my journey with Pelvic Organ Prolapse - I explain what it is, what I did and didn't know what POP, my journey of healing and how it's led me t...

One Woke Mama – Episode 028 - Mama Guilt and Shame It’s hard to avoid guilt and judgment as mamas – we experience it and we dish it out too. Truthfully, we all know it does no good. It bears down on us, heavy and suffocating and grips our heart when we find ourselves passing judgment. In this podcast with Emma Seibold we explore the importance of choosing love instead. We explore ways to invite mo...

One Woke Mama – Episode 027 - Resourcing Yourself And Stretching Your Window Of Tolerance A comment from a friend got me thinking about why some women, some mothers, need more space, time and tools to refuel and re-centre and why others don't? I explore how we are each hardwired a little differently - how the base line state of our nervous system affects how we process and handle experiences in li...

In today's episode I read you a meme that has been circling on Instagram and one that I deeply resonate with. Exploring the powerful, uncomfortable yet truth-filled notion that Motherhood both pulls you apart, and pulls you away from who you were only to slowly, sometimes painfully rebuilding you into the woman, mother and human being you are meant to be. An initiation by fire. A rite of passage....

The way we connect with our children - through our eye contact, voice, body language - can have a huge impact on how they learn to regulate their own nervous system. They are plugged into OUR energy field, our nervous system. And a chemical reaction ensures that their own PHYSICAL body responds to future experiences and challenges based on how we connect with our children, how we personally show u...

Episode 024 dives into how we often parent differently to our partners, and how that might just be ok. In fact, perfect. Perhaps your partner, in his/her opposite parenting isn't wrong, but actually offers something that you cannot offer to your child/children. I’ve been aware of working on my judgements of my husband doing parenting differently to me. And all the ways that shows up. Including how...

Episode 023 - The Journey of Becoming A Working Mama with Lorraine Murphy  Welcome to the latest episode of One Woke Mama with Lorraine Murphy. I’m lucky enough to chat to Lorraine Murphy, who some of you might remember from the first iteration of my podcast - The Wellness Project - where we explored all things business and baby. If you aren’t sure of who Lorraine is let me share a bit about her -...

I’m so thrilled to share this conversation with you. Rachel MacDonald, Blog Coach, Creative, Entrepreneur, Mama and beautiful soul sister of mine opens up and shares her personal experience with the inner-worrier mind. She offers some super powerful yet simple ways to move through. I hope you love this chat as much as I do and soak up the wisdom, the story-telling and guidance with an open heart a...

Episode 021 - Why it’s ok when you can’t meet your child’s needs: As mother's saying NO to our children is not something we are always comfortable with. When we are programmed to believe we are responsible for their ever need, want, desire - their emotional, mental and physical well being - then practising the art of saying NO to your child may not initially be an easy process. In Episode 021 I sh...