Nourishing The Mother

In your relationship, how do you deal with your edges; do you run? hide? peacemake? Fire up? What would it look like if you were to remain ‘open’ instead? To stay receptive? How would that change your reality? In this episode we discuss, through story and practical tools, how to stay open even when you’re Listen InThe post NTM 176: How to stay open in the face of discomfort appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

Feeling burnt out by love can look like anger, tears, exhaustion, resentment, feeling touched out, and like you’re holding yourself together by a thread. So what do you do when you find yourself here? What does it call you towards? How can you love this phase and find your way out? Here’s where we take Listen InThe post NTM 175: Burnt out by love – when being in service runs you into the ground appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

In this episode we explore the ways in which we can get in the habit of projecting onto our partner all of the things we want, or want to become, by thinking they need to be everything for us. The truth is to retain our sovereignty, there needs to be enough ‘sameness’ and enough ‘different-ness’ Listen InThe post NTM 174: The desire for our relationship to fulfil everything for us appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

Our greatest gift as mothers is raising little humans designed to bring out our most authentic self…it’s just really painful!  What if there was no ‘wrong’ or ‘right’ behaviour, but your children asking you to get more and more congruent and authentic with what you feel and what you say?  What if our greatest offering Listen InThe post NTM 173: Being Fearlessly authentic and connected in your mothering appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

In response to a listener’s question, this week we expand upon the concept that whatever you condemn or judge, you will breed into your life and relationship in order to balance your perceptions and love more parts of yourself and those around you. When you become aware of this principle, you can see your feelings, Listen InThe post NTM 172: Whatever you condemn, you breed, attract or become appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

It’s so easy to judge our partner for ‘not measuring up’, not meeting our needs or just, being too feminine.  But what if its not them at all?  What if you’re taking up ALL the space of the masculine and there’s none left for them to step up and into?  What happens when we find Listen InThe post NTM 171: He can’t be in his masculine if I am appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

The parent-child dynamic is one of the most profound cornerstones of our vision of Aligned Parenting; to be able to parent from a place of recognition – what is them and what is us?  What is happening below the surface behaviour?  Why is it here?  What is it healing?  What is it seeking to empower?  Listen InThe post NTM 170: When we’re coaching our children, we’re coaching ourselves appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

In this episode we dive into the wisdom of Traditional Chinese Medicine and fertility with Kirsten Wolfe, Acupuncturist and Director of Mornington Chinese Medicine. We weave in personal story, touching on our own experiences working with Kirsten through miscarriage, while asking the big questions about fertility, IVF, natural conception, and the places they take a Listen InThe post NTM 169: The Fertility Journey – an interview with Kirsten Wolfe appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

Do you hear yourself saying things to your children and recognise it might be a bit unreasonable?  Or ponder where you yourself ‘lose your shit’ or don’t speak respectfully, or fire up instead of play nice?  In this weeks episode we get honest about all the ways in which we tend to hold our children Listen InThe post NTM 168: When we hold our kids to higher standards than we hold ourselves appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

This week is a little different!  In this episode Julie interviews her two eldest children on their experience of being consciously parented.  The conversation moves from their individual values, to what influence our family has had on their unique way of showing up in their world, to emotions and how they experience big feelings and Listen InThe post NTM 167: A conversation with my Tweens appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

In response to so many discussions within our tribe around the ‘pain’ of swimming lesson, we discuss what’s at play behind our children bursting into tears, rage, defiance, or meltdown when faced with needing to do an activity or lesson we’ve planned for them.  What soft spots does it hit within us?  What do you Listen InThe post NTM 166: Tears and tantrums at a lesson or activity appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

When your kids fight, how do you feel?  Do you jump in?  Do you let them sort it out?  Who are you trying to protect? In this episode we talk openly about dynamics, triggers and how our children call us to feel our own inner child in a moment.  How do we respond?  Is there Listen InThe post NTM 165: When siblings attack each other appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

What?! Sex and parenting?!  How taboo…..but here’s where we take the conversation today.  We’re both endlessly fascinated by the role our partners, our sexuality and our parenting plays in calling us to ever greater authenticity; showing up as we truly are, not feeling one thing and ‘pretending’ we’re feeling something else.  When you’re able to Listen InThe post NTM 164: What sex teaches us about parenting appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

In this episode we explore the profound nature of the patterns that get laid down in early childhood and how often we continue to run into those in our relationships. We look at perception, triggers and growth THROUGH your relationship. Relationships are not about happiness and peace, but are a vehicle for growth…we just don’t Listen InThe post NTM 163: When you choose a partner like your parents appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

No matter where you find your sexual relationship, there are times when it’s on fire and times when its…well…absent. In this episode we get raw and honest about our own intimate experiences of ebbs and flows in our sexual journey and hope to awaken some lightbulbs for you also. It’s so easy to look outside Listen InThe post NTM 162: When sex just isn’t happening appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

Today, with great pleasure, we interview Dr Anita Johnston, Ph.D., Author of Eating in the Light of the Moon – a book that has been hugely impactful for both Bridget and Julie on their journey of awakening the feminine, understanding our soul hunger and bringing compassion to our womanly body.  Dr Anita Johnston is an Listen InThe post NTM 161: Awakening the feminine and understanding our hunger with Dr Anita Johnston, Ph.D appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

In response to a listeners question, we open up the discussion between us on anxiety in ourselves and our children, its manifestations in our lives and relationships, and what we’ve learned and discovered along the way to balance our perceptions and honour the path it calls us towards. Relevant links: Nourishing the Mother http://www.nourishingthemother.com.au Suburban Listen InThe post NTM 160: Dealing with Anxiety appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

As women and mothers, we crave connection, and yet on this conscious, intentional path, we often meet challenge as we can struggle to find ‘our peeps’. What is the wisdom here? How do we both appreciate the ‘values clash’ with others, while staying true to what’s important to us? In this episode we weave story Listen InThe post NTM 159: If you’re triggered, are they your tribe? appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

In this unusual episode, the tables have turned and WE are interviewed by Lana from The Parents Village, as she asked us the questions that are on the lips and minds of many of our listeners. We are touched, humbled and inspired by the conversation that follows, we hope you are too. If you’d love Listen InThe post NTM 158: Getting up close and personal with Julie Tenner and Bridget Wood, with guest interviewer Lana Sussman from The Parents Village appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

Megan is a stay at home mum to 5 children – 10, 8, and 2 years old, who is also studying her Masters in Educational and Developmental Psychology. Megan and her husband, Adam, have had an enormous journey in birthing their triplets. She wishes you to know it’s a strong message for listening to your Listen InThe post NTM 157: Interview with Megan Temby – a mum to triplets; her story of defying a 100% mortality rate to birth three healthy babies appeared first on The Wellness Couch.