Nourishing The Mother

So if you were hooked on part 1 of this conversation and story-telling, then you’re going to LOVE part 2! Julie shares her soapbox style monologue on money, success and ‘her crazy’ before bringing it waaayy down into some pretty real truths of intimacy and practices to quit being bitchy and start being honoured and Listen InThe post NTM 244: Even Julie’s relationship gets hard – part 2 appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

Long term relationship is h.a.r.d. Maintaining intimacy is as much about finding ourselves, as it is the other person. But what does that mean when it’s boiled down into an ‘everyday relationship’? It does NOT mean being perfect, but instead being willing. In this most intimate of sharings, Julie shows you the art of revealing, Listen InThe post NTM 243: Even Julie’s relationship gets hard – part 1 appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

Following on from last week’s episode, we continue exploring the challenges of parenting a child with additional needs through Julie’s story, which unveils the reality of a mother committed to really ‘seeing’ her child and searching for answers, and what we can learn about ourselves when we view our children through our lens of the parent-child Listen InThe post NTM 242: Parenting kids with additional needs – Part 2 appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

In this week’s episode, Julie vulnerably opens up on the experience of being seen and heard as she navigates the path of parenting a child with additional needs. We explore the edges she’s found herself at and what looking down the tunnel of a diagnosis might mean.   Relevant links: Nourishing the Mother http://www.nourishingthemother.com.au Suburban Listen InThe post NTM 241: Parenting kids with additional needs – part 1 appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

Following on from last week’s episode, we complete Bridget’s Home Office and reflect on all the family patterns, the emotional highs and lows, the family dynamics that come up when physically clearing space…which of course is also metaphysically shedding layers and clearing space! We hope it inspires you to literally ‘create the space’ for the Listen InThe post NTM 240: How your home tells the story of you PART 2 appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

Following on from Manifesting with intention and potency, comes who you need to step into being in order to have that reality….part of this is living in the space ‘that’ woman lives in, vibing with the energy ‘that’ woman vibes with and our homes reflect both who we are and offer us an energetic exchange that Listen InThe post NTM 239: How your home tells the story of you PART 1 appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

We allll have stuck places – the places we stop, close down, shut down, avoid, move around, pretend don’t exist…and then get frustrated as all heck when we run into them time and time again….what happens when we see the stuck places and CHOOSE to enter them?….we find a wellspring of energy and untapped potential Listen InThe post NTM 238: Liberate your life beyond your stuck places appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

Setting an intention for your year…or next decade…is pretty serious business – at least we think so! WHAT you call in, and HOW you call it in, matters, and can be potency-packed when its in alignment and integrity with who you are, and your vision. If you call it in, you better be ready to Listen InThe post NTM 237: How to manifest with potency appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

What does it look like to raise self-confident kids? What does it look like to raise our own internal self-confident kid? What does it even mean to HAVE confidence?! In this episode we go off in many-a-passionate tangent as we discuss what tools and insights YOU need to raise the kind of kids who greet Listen InThe post NTM 236: Your Self-Confident Kid appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

In order to move into conscious manifesting for 2020, you need to sit in the gratitude, appreciation and reflection of the year that was. In this episode we look at what our 2019 was; good and ‘bad’ personally and for Nourishing The Mother, and what we want to call in for 2020.  What we discuss Listen InThe post NTM 235: Reflections of 2019 and Intentions for 2020 appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

When we champion one-way of living, we often come crashing into it’s opposite. We’re chasing kind, loving, connected Christmas’ and we end up overwhelmed, frustrated and reactionary and then we chase the kind and loving more fervently, only to meet it’s opposite with equal ferocity!  You’re a two-sided being; if you only celebrate one side Listen InThe post NTM 234: We want kind, but we get ‘shit show’… appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

Ok. So you know we LOVE conscious parenting, we deeply value respect, communication and awareness…bet you do too…but what happens when you parent with someone who, well, doesn’t so much….? How do you ‘teach them’? How do balance your child’s needs with your partners?…. Relevant links: Nourishing the Mother http://www.nourishingthemother.com.au Suburban Sandcastles – Bridget http://www.suburbansandcastles.com Listen InThe post NTM 233: When your partner parents differently to you appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

What does your inner scrooge look like? Does she come out to ‘play’ at Christmas? What’s the narrative on your kids ‘wanting so much’ or ‘getting everything’ and entitlement, that you run? Wouldn’t you like to move beyond that??….In this week’s episode we talk perception flips, consciously bringing awareness to our ‘programmed’ beliefs and responses Listen InThe post NTM 232: Healing your inner scrooge appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

With 22 incredible women speaking in 20 online interviews and workshops on all things matchmaking motherhood and business, You Totally Can was an EPIC week of insight, inspiration and self-compassion. In this week’s podcast we spill our favourite quotes and themes from each of the lives. It is our absolute heart’s desire and soul’s hope Listen InThe post NTM 231: Julie and Bridget’s highlights and takeaways from You Totally Can appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

What does it look like to do business alongside intentional, conscious motherhood? We’re exploring this with 22 incredible women and sharing it with you – in this episode we delve into why creating these conversations is important to us, and the power of ‘showing up’ as your whole self…even when you’re not quite sure who Listen InThe post NTM 230: You totally can mix motherhood and business appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

Ugh, mornings hey? Between the baby spew, the kids missing school uniform and getting everyone out the door, we can arrive where we need to be by 8.30am feeling like we’ve navigated a war-zone! But what if HOW you start your mornings changes EVERYTHING? What if you don’t have to compete for needs? What if Listen InThe post NTM 229: Starting your day right; your morning mindset appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

We get asked for our recommended reading list all the time!!  So here we go, each of us discuss our top 5 books you HAVE to read and why….although as Bridget says “it’s almost impossible to pick 5, it’s like asking us to choose between children!!” Relevant links: Nourishing the Mother http://www.nourishingthemother.com.au Suburban Sandcastles – Listen InThe post NTM 228: Our Top 5 Most Influential Books for Bridget and Julie appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

There’s not a mother alive who can’t connect with this feeling!  But what do you do when you get here?  HOW you perceive these moments, changes what’s possible for you and your kids.  How you respond in these moments can be greatly influenced by what meaning you attach to the feelings present.  So let’s get Listen InThe post NTM 227: When their needs are endless and all you want to do is run appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

Have you ever felt the unfamiliar transformation of your sense of self post-partum? Caught in that place of who you were and who you are becoming? Our culture doesn’t recognise the profound transformation of woman as mother and the obligatory ‘feminine descent’ that often accompanies such a pivotal life event, instead tending to pathologise it. In this Listen InThe post NTM 226: Standing on shaky ground in post-partum appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

There’s Universal laws that govern human behaviour; when we understand these we can understand the ways in which our psyche begins to ‘play tricks on us’. When it comes to self worth it can be easy to descend into the shame “not good enough” spiral and fail to see the bigger picture at play, or Listen InThe post NTM 225: If you’re beating yourself up, where are you building yourself up? appeared first on The Wellness Couch.