Nourishing the Mother

If you can’t deal with your emotions, you can’t deal with your money. So in this episode with Coco the astro economist, we talk building your intuition to build your wealth, working on your self-worth to build you net worth, busting your ‘hard work’ beliefs, and not waiting for the perfect time. We also explore how empowering ourselves as mothers, empowers our daughters so they may free themselves...

It's the season for feeling hostage to sick kids and chained to frustration. So we want you to feel less alone, and more loved up as you navigate it all. We talk around three areas in this podcast, beginning with: you're not alone, normalising frustration and how to find the silver lining. In this episode we discuss: - Order and chaos as part of a healthy life - The attachments you have...

This week marks our 7 year anniversary of the launch of our podcast - Nourishing the Mother. So with sick-babe in arms, we record a podcast reflecting on what it's been like to run business alongside motherhood with freedom, flexibility and compassion front of mind.   In this episode we discuss:  - Our potent memories, defining moments and deep gratitude for what this experience has given us ...

In this episode we give you the three-step panacea to running your own life instead of feeling like a back-seat driver to everyone else's needs. We'll have you seeing yourself through a whole different lens and placing yourself back where you belong, in the driver's seat of your own life. In this episode we discuss: - the law of conservation and how if you don't fill your day,...

Julie and Bridget share the 'real life stories' of the non-highlight reel reality of parenting and the inevitable shit show it brings. Bridget illustrates the dynamic at play within the polarity between siblings via a birthday party and Julie shares the reality of meeting multiple, diverse needs in a large family. This podcast gives you our unfiltered events of weekend reality and the th...

Motherhood as entrepreneurship...say what?! Motherhood cultivates mindset shifts that create a bigger life and fulfils a bigger vision. Let's sink into how extraordinary your everyday ordinary experience is. In this episode we discuss: - Pioneering in your lineage as a lonely path - When no one else shares your vision, how do you back yourself? - Your profound ability to adapt and triage any...

Expectation is possibly the most corrosive pattern of mothers in motherhood. We crave to live a full and vibrant life and ask for more, but we want to make sure we're doing this from a place that is sustainable and life giving, not wrapped in conditions. In this episode we give you a 3-step process to bust the crushing addictions to expectations. In this episode we discuss: How the weight of...

Motherhood and exhaustion go hand-in-hand, right? To the point where many of us crave a broken 'something' or Covid, to get some bed rest. In this episode we discuss what it can look like to befriend your exhaustion with curiosity, through the tips we share. Let's create some spaciousness in your world! To explore feminine embodiment, intimacy and relationship in Honey Club with Jul...

The more overwhelmed you feel, the more control you’ll seek, and the more control quells your feelings, the more control you’ll seek…until one day, your world is so small, you don’t want to live in it anymore. If you’re a spiritual junkie, this one will take you there, and if you’re deep in heart-centred parenting, Listen In The post NTM 361: If we want more freedom, we have to let go of control a...

We all end up feeling cornered at some point/s in our parenting journey. Sometimes it can feel like a phase, rut or cycle – and that’s a pretty tough place to be; when you feel out of options, resources and patience…and full of fear of ‘what will you do now? And in the future?’… In Listen In The post NTM 360: Managing your nervous system through resistance – 3 step process for when you feel corner...

Following on from our resentment podcast, we answer this question in this podcast “How do we raise kids who contribute in the home without resorting to punitive punishment and fear-based tactics? This episode is short, sharp, succinct and an easy step-by-step guide for helping you help your kids develop the skills of contribution in the Listen In The post NTM 359: 5 tips to enhance kid’s contribut...

You may not be aware, but resentment is an extremely common experience in parent-life and relationship, yet it’s the most toxic and destructive of emotions as you’ll soon find out in this episode, where we share with you the beliefs, the patterns and the tips on busting your own resentment cycles. In this episode we discuss: Listen In The post NTM 358: Resentment-busting tips to love the season yo...

Following on from last week’s episode (Part 1), we share and feel into the experience of other women’s mistreatment in the medical system post-birth, and where they currently find themselves now. When we hear another woman’s story, we feel our own experience, and more than that, we feel support and compassion to rally for ourselves Listen In The post NTM 357: Post-birth pelvic pain, shame and dysf...

Following on from our podcast titled ‘Let’s lift the veil on the shame of post-partum healing’, we received a flurry of feedback that let us know that there is a silent shame epidemic for women around birth, injury, trauma and their sexual selves. Over two episodes (this is Part 1) we give voice to the Listen In The post NTM 356: Post-birth pelvic pain, shame and dysfunction – you are not alone PA...

Open up a note on your phone, or grab a pen and journal; this is a guided journalling process to discover for yourself why help is so hard for you. In this episode we will ask you a series of questions to uncover your subconscious motivators on why asking for help is so hard, or Listen In The post NTM 355: Why can’t I ask for help? appeared first on The Wellness Couch .

Often as conscious parents we get ‘holding space’ confused with the internal experience of ‘holding on’; sometimes for dear life, swamped in overwhelm. In this episode, following a listener’s question, we clearly discern the difference between the two inner states and outward experiences so you can walk yourself into greater spaciousness in your motherhood. In Listen In The post NTM 354: Holding v...

Following a listener’s email, we discuss the often delicate in-between state between where you are and where you want to be, and how you bring *that* to your partner. We often face rejection, anger, or deep hurt when we bring the truth of what’s not working, so in this episode, let us help you guide Listen In The post NTM 353: I want change in our relationship, but I’m worried I’ll upset him appea...

How much does the home we grew up in, influence the homes we create for our own families? Quite a lot, as we find out with our guest, The Household Advisor Tara Arcobelli. With this awareness, comes the opportunity for our own liberation. In this episode we discuss: • The difference between ‘decluttering’ and holistic Listen In The post NTM 352: Liberating ourselves from overwhelm and resentment i...

Grab a tissue box, because Julie pretty much sobs her way through this one. In this episode we get to see just how much the birthing system, and women’s health is marginalised. We’ve previously danced around the topic of Julie’s vaginal prolapse, but in this episode we get raw, honest, nitty gritty and vulnerable in Listen In The post NTM 351: Let’s lift the veil on the shame of post-partum healin...

How does a mother of “this many” children relate to her changing body and intimate relationship when she finds herself hung-up on the parts she finds hard to love? In this episode we discuss: • the double-whammy of having kids and grappling with our body aging • comparing ourselves to narrow, learned and curated definitions Listen In The post NTM 350: Moving past body shame and intimacy struggles...

When a social media post about the war in Ukraine goes viral, what does that tell us about the collective heart and struggle, present in the world at the moment? In this episode we discuss Bridget’s post and the overwhelming nature of the juxtaposition of privilege against tragedies of war, and how we hold both Listen In The post NTM 349: You don’t have to have the answers, you just have to be wil...

What’s your relationship with the dance floor? Do you relish the experience, or recoil at all the ways your inner judgements prevent you taking up space? Susana welcomes it all and through her prolific sacred dance journeys, women are called to invoke a more expansive and loving relationship with themselves. Fresh from Bridget’s recent experience, Listen In The post NTM 348: Sacred dance as medici...

When we’re feeling out of sync with life, we can begin to spiral into focusing on all of the challenges and all of the ways life is not working, rather than being able to see the bigger picture. When in a challenging cycle, remember you’re likely growing beyond your current identity and reality and into what you’ve been dreaming Listen In The post NTM 347: when you’re feeling stuck, stagnant and s...

Our values (the things we think are most important) will always create how we see the world and how we think our children should be raised. And while we’re in an infatuation phase, our parenting decisions feel the most aligned and ‘right’. But what happens when that void has been filled, that karma has been Listen In The post NTM 346: Where have you created your own cage in mothering? appeared fir...

In this episode, we gently and lovingly nudge you to look at this story in other ways…what might be going on underneath for you? From abandonment wounds to filling our day so completely there’s no time left for feeling, we go to a lot of deep places in this conversation! In this episode we discuss: Listen In The post NTM 345: Tapped out and touched out; when you’ve got nothing left for relationshi...