Nourishing The Mother

What does it look like to prepare and empower yourself and your family for winter? From nourishing food and supplementation to emotional and psychological wellbeing, we explore what health looks like through the lens of naturopathic medicine and the family dynamic. Relevant links: Nourishing the Mother http://www.nourishingthemother.com.au Suburban Sandcastles – Bridget http://www.suburbansandcastles.com The Pleasure Nutritionist Listen InThe post NTM 204: Family wellness in the winter months appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

As humans, having a human experience, we can’t help but judge! So what do you do when you notice you’re beginning to judge your children?! How do you sit with what its bringing up, why its there and how in the heck do you move past it so you can love your whole child more Listen InThe post NTM 203: I’m judging my child, how do I stop? appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

As Bridget begins the descent towards her third baby, we discuss what conscious birth preparation looks like, what it DID look like for Bridget in the birth of her first and second children, and of course the wisdom she’s gained along the way! Conscious birth is an evolution of our ’selves’, so what does it Listen InThe post NTM 202: Consciously preparing for birth – Bridget’s check in at 35 weeks appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

Ultimately all we want as humans is to be loved in all our wholeness; to be loved JUST as we are, without needing to change. How would it feel for you to know on a really deep level that who you are, is totally safe and completely loved? So HOW do we do this in Listen InThe post NTM 201: There’s nothing you can say that I can’t love appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

We ALL feel this at some, or many, points in our journey. The mental load of motherhood can become all too much sometimes and we often want someone to blame, which ultimately has us experiencing more disconnection and disharmony in our lives. The unevenness of parenting is REAL…and it isn’t….here’s where we take the conversation Listen InThe post NTM 200: The unevenness of parenthood appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

Following some pretty juicy conversations in our member’s group, we break apart, get down and dirty with ‘exhaustion’ in motherhood. As per our usual fashion, we bust some stories, discuss a pathway forwards and what’s holding us back…and of course, we drop some bombs on the definition of self-care and our construction of identity…it’s PACKED! Listen InThe post NTM 199: How to show up even when you’re exhausted appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

There are thousand-and-one articles on how to listen to your Childs feelings, but very little on how that actually looks when you yourself are feeling ‘offline’ or triggered or in anxiety.  Following a listener’s questions, we distill our tools down to a 3-step process for HOW to create emotional safety and HOW to hold the Listen InThe post NTM 198: “Emotional Safety”- great in theory…but how do you do it?! appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

This week’s inspiration is from a listener’s email and we’re excited to dive into it!  We LOVE attachment parenting philosophies and styles of raising whole humans, but what happens when there’s aspects of this paradigm that stop working for you, that you begin to feel resentful about, that are creating rifts within yourself or your Listen InThe post NTM 197: Inspiration for balancing attachment parenting and YOU appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

Well this week is rich in story as we reflect on Julie’s coming-of-age-ceremony with her daughter, our own experiences of Menarche and what it means to integrate our wholeness as women through relationship with our daughters. If you have a son or a daughter, or you yourself are on a re-patterning journey, then there’s tons Listen InThe post NTM 196: Celebrating the whole woman in our daughter’s journey appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

Let’s face it, baby and toddler sleep is a hot-button topic for nearly every parent, and we all know there’s two ends of the spectrum – cry-it-out and full attachment parenting, so what do you do if neither of these are working for you; what does the middle ground look like? How do we develop Listen InThe post NTM 195: Baby and toddler sleep with sleep consultant Sophie Acott appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

One of the greatest paths to our growth are the challenges we must navigate through family relationships, and yet how often to we resist it? In seeking to find the wisdom we’ll face our own resistance, judgement, and avoidance patterns in order to keep ourselves and our beliefs ‘safe’. In this episode we explore how Listen InThe post NTM 194: The unravelling of wisdom in our relationships appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

We live in a system of patriarchy, but what does that really mean? And how does is manifest itself? And beyond that, how does that impact you? In this episode we discuss the layers in which we are complicit in our own disempowerment and disconnection from our truth….because if you were REALLY connected to your Listen InThe post NTM 193: How our culture pathologises women’s truth appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

We’re all pretty comfy with the physical aspects of birth, but what about the unconscious ‘deep dark forest’ that we enter as a rite of passage? What about the emotional and spiritual growth our pregnancy is calling us into? How can we approach ‘our stuff’ more consciously in pregnancy as a way to prepare for Listen InThe post NTM 192: Emotional Labour – how your ‘stuff’ shows up in birth appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

Needs, hey?  They never seem to end!  The kids, their emotions, the house that screaming at you….the second shift.  Sometimes it can feel all too much and like you’re drowning, never quite measuring up anywhere.  So what do you do when you find yourself there?  Because, you know, we all do… Relevant links: Nourishing the Listen InThe post NTM 191: The 24/7 on-call duties of motherhood appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

The choice of where to send your child to school can be a big one for many of us. In response to a listener’s email, we share how we’ve personally decided upon the schools and styles of education we have, and the ego-shedding, belief busting process it has sometimes entailed. How do you ‘reach for Listen InThe post NTM 190: The system, your beliefs, your unique children – how to choose the right educational pathway appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

From a flurry of questions in our group, today’s podcast is our A to your Q’s on all things clashing parenting styles and partner dynamics. From how to balance “too-lenient” and “tough love” to feeling like you’re parenting your partner, nothing is off limits in this conversation! Relevant links: Nourishing the Mother http://www.nourishingthemother.com.au Suburban Sandcastles Listen InThe post NTM 189: Two parents, two perspectives – what to do when your parenting styles clash appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

We all experience conflict; and the myriad of emotions it brings up; rage, anger, hurt, shame, blame….but what if you could lean in just enough to be grateful for its presence? And dare we say it, what if you could welcome it? How do you make safe, what is unsafe for you? How do stay Listen InThe post NTM 188: The power of conflict – why you shouldn’t seek peace appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

We all run a story, the question is not if you are, but WHAT IS IT? Bridget’s is ‘I can’t work more and be the mum I want to be’, Julie’s is ‘toddlers are hard, I don’t have time for anything else…including what I really want to be doing’….but when we choose to believe our Listen InThe post NTM 187: What is the story you’re letting become you? appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

This episode is a little different! Today we’ve put together some gold nuggets from our most popular episodes of 2018. There’s wisdom we’d forgotten about, moments we’d love to jump back to, and a whole lot of love for what it is to nourish the mother (yourself) at the centre of all the crazy happenings Listen InThe post NTM 186: The Best of 2018 appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

In this episode we get real about how we started Nourishing the Mother, where we wanted it to take us and you, and what’s evolved into a thriving business four years later. You CAN monetise your motherhood, or whatever YOUR top value is…you just have to SEE it first, appreciate it second and be willing Listen InThe post NTM 185: Monetising Motherhood appeared first on The Wellness Couch.