Nourishing The Mother

Some years you’re ‘all over it’ and others, less so. Let’s make more space for being less perfect and honour the slowness our heart craves. Our beliefs about Christmas become our children’s stories, so let’s get intentional and aligned with the type of experience we want for them and us. If you would love our Listen InThe post NTM 336: What does a nourishing Christmas look like for you? appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

Following on from a listener’s request, we explore navigating yourself and your child through social dynamics that include teasing, meanness and isolation. We centre our conversation around maintaining connection with your child as you lead them toward greater social literacy. In this podcast we discuss: – Moving beyond anxiety in meanness – Being clear is Listen InThe post NTM 335: Parenting in connection when your child is the bully appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

As you and your child face a transition, either returning to school, beginning school, kinder or facing any other phase of change, how do you create certainty and safety for yourself and your child to have the best transitional experience possible? In this episode we discuss gentle resilience-building strategies that help you to work with Listen InThe post NTM 334: School transitions in an era of uncertainty appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

From Albert Einstein to understanding self, in this episode we talk with storyweaver Gill Howarth on how you can use story to amplify your conscious parenting journey. If imagination comes before reality, then story is an essential ingredient – in order to manifest something, someone has to imagine it, so how are we developing our Listen InThe post NTM 333: Developing your inner storyteller to let your wisdom guide your child with Gill Howarth appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

When is resting and femme energy maladaptive and actually costing you? Overwhelm can be part of a normal human experience AND it can also be an unconscious strategy to get our needs met. So lets chat with X Sharon Joy on how to understand, deprogram and move beyond your cycles of overwhelm. In this episode we Listen InThe post NTM 332: How to know your overwhelm is a problem and what to do about it with Sharon Joy appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

In this episode Bridget interviews Julie and Nick on their 20-year journey of relationship, parenting and sexuality. We discuss how it changed, the key differences, hurtful ruptures, healing beyond trauma and what it looks like to tend the garden of your own sexual fulfillment.

Get your journal out, because this is an opportunity you don’t want to miss. Your mother wound reveals a narrative that allows you to live authentically or in reaction to old wounds. What we carry forward is, ultimately, up to us. It’s entirely possible to have now what you didn’t have back then, but only Listen InThe post NTM 330: 5 Questions to reveal your mother wound and what to do about it appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

When in relationship, if you stay lost in ‘the me’, you can’t connect to ‘the we’ and relationship is bound to spiral from there. If you focus on what you’re not getting or what they’re not providing, you’re in your head and protecting your heart instead of surrendering to deeper love and a new reality. Listen InThe post NTM 329: We can lead with our hurt or we can lead with our heart appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

When family and other care-givers to our children have come from times and conditioning involving ‘doing to’ babies, rather than collaborating with your baby in a co-created experience, how do we meet the needs of all involved? What does it look like to lay the foundation for respectful communication with our children?   In this episode we discuss: Listen InThe post NTM 328: When respectfully parenting babies raises eyebrows appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

How do we maintain relationship THROUGH hard conversations? How do we hold ourselves through the discomfort of being the black sheep, without shying away from our integrity? How do we hold the difference in those we love, whilst not withdrawing our love – knowing the more we hold onto our difference, the greater the disconnect can become. Listen InThe post NTM 327: When you feel like the black sheep in your family appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

What does it look like to provide the perfect governance for our children to grow? Can you be ‘too conscious’ in raising children and can that impact family wellbeing? Knowing your patterns and your imprint for parenting is key. You can’t ‘do’ conscious parenting like a set of steps to follow; unless we’re willing to Listen InThe post NTM 326: How conscious is ‘too conscious’ in parenting? appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

Rites of passage represent a time in your life when everything is up for renegotiation and nothing will ever be the same again. From brain, body and life changes, to relationship and identity changes, we’re asked to find ourselves within what seems like chaos, to open up more of who we are. But how do we Listen InThe post NTM 325 : Motherhood as a rite of passage appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

What does the mother wound mean to you? Does it exist for you if there is no great conflict in your mother line? What does it look like if your mother is no longer in your life? In this episode we discuss building a floor underneath yourself beyond the too-good or not good enough mother narrative Listen InThe post NTM 324: When you imprison your mother you imprison yourself appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

You’re parenting in a new paradigm way. You feel supported by your intuition, and your research…and yet you find yourself so consumed by judging others, or feeling like they’re judging you…it’s exhausting! In this episode, we explore why the triggers show up, with perspectives and insights that can be applied to parenting and beyond! As Listen InThe post NTM 323: When you’re triggered AF by someone else’s choices appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

What can the regenerative wisdom of nature reveal to us on how to live, love and lead well during these times? What does it look like to bring gentleness to your own unbecoming, as you renegotiate roles, identities, and your vision for yourself and your family? In this episode, Bridget explores these questions and more Listen InThe post NTM 322: Radical self compassion in a changing world with Meg Berryman appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

As we record this podcast, 60% of Australia is in lockdown, with suggestions we need to accept them as our ‘new normal’. As mothers, how do we navigate the myriad challenges that go with it, such as remote learning, relationship friction, event and holiday cancellations and financial stress? How can we find opportunity in what Listen InThe post NTM 321: How do we roll with lockdowns? Part 2 appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

As we record this podcast 60% of Australia is in lockdown, with suggestions we need to accept them as our ‘new normal’. As mothers, how do we navigate the myriad challenges that go with it, such as remote learning, relationship friction, event and holiday cancellations and financial stress? How can we find opportunity in what Listen InThe post NTM 320: How do we roll with lockdowns? Part 1 appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

In a culture that continues to perpetuate the Madonna-Whore split, how do we self-actualise our sexuality and motherhood at the same time? How do we intermingle the lactating, bed-sharing, touched-out mother with the sovereign, sexual woman? In this episode we talk about actively prioritising your sexual self, rather than waiting for it to ‘happen when Listen InThe post NTM 319: Relationship taboos series – Integrating sex and motherhood appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

In this conversational insight into one woman’s story on opening her relationship and navigating the highs and lows of that journey, we explore what open relating can be and bring you and your partner. Discussions include: what it can look like changing the relationship structure with kids sharing desires and authenticity navigating heartbreak and disconnection Listen InThe post NTM 318: Open and alternative relationships with Dasha Clarke appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

When we become parents, we learn to raise not only our children, but parts of ourselves…which can get tricky! We can end up playing the ‘who’s doing it tougher’ game, projecting anger and resentment towards our partner and generally missing each other on this parenting journey. So what does it look like to open a Listen InThe post NTM 317: Parenting together through imprints and wounds with Lael Stone appeared first on The Wellness Couch.