Nourishing The Mother

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 moment- Your skills of constantly pivoting and how they open you up to a world of opportunity- The emotional intelligence involved in adjusting your expectations- Leading yourself when you go your own way- Being willing to be misunderstood- Coming back to your own voice- How motherhood helps you to crunch time- Unlocking the passion that will sustain you- Holding a vision bigger than you and not collapsing because you don't have it right now- Your strength in goal-setting and creating small, daily actionable steps from a big visionTo explore feminine embodiment, intimacy and relationship in Honey Club with Julie, vi

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 expectations, causes our sufferingHow to spot an expectation spiralHow to map somatically that expectation spiral in your bodyHow to menatally bbalance your perceptions that are causing your sufferingHow our expectataions are so often shaped by impossible comparisonsBreaking down the comparisonsRedefining polarising thinking on what is right or wrongRemoving our attachments to one-sided thinkingHow we can even make the joyful unsafe, and repatterning that withinSelf-celebrationSelf-appreciationMaking celebration safe for youHonouring everythign you've already doneCelebration as the foundation of law of attraction

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 Julie, visit https://julietenner.love/To explore conscious parenting and inspiring motherhood in Reimagining Motherhood with Bridget, visit https://www.bridgetwood.life/

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 InThe post NTM 361: If we want more freedom, we have to let go of control appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

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 InThe post NTM 360: Managing your nervous system through resistance – 3 step process for when you feel cornered in your parenting appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

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 InThe post NTM 359: 5 tips to enhance kid’s contribution in the home appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

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 InThe post NTM 358: Resentment-busting tips to love the season you’re in appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

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 InThe post NTM 357: Post-birth pelvic pain, shame and dysfunction – you are not alone appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

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 InThe post NTM 356: Post-birth pelvic pain, shame and dysfunction – you are not alone PART 1 appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

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 InThe 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 InThe post NTM 354: Holding versus ‘holding on’ in motherhood appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

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 InThe post NTM 353: I want change in our relationship, but I’m worried I’ll upset him appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

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 InThe post NTM 352: Liberating ourselves from overwhelm and resentment in our homes with Tara Arcobelli appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

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 InThe post NTM 351: Let’s lift the veil on the shame of post-partum healing appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

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 InThe post NTM 350: Moving past body shame and intimacy struggles after kids appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

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 InThe post NTM 349: You don’t have to have the answers, you just have to be willing to feel into it appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

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 InThe post NTM 348: Sacred dance as medicine for the heart, body and soul with Susana Frioni appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

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 InThe post NTM 347: when you’re feeling stuck, stagnant and stressed – what transition are you being asked to move through? appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

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 InThe post NTM 346: Where have you created your own cage in mothering? appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

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 InThe post NTM 345: Tapped out and touched out; when you’ve got nothing left for relationship appeared first on The Wellness Couch.