Nourishing The Mother

It’s the end of one year and the beginning of another which can make us hit transition… the meeting of big feelings, big dreams, big disappointments and deep intentional reflection… it can be painful! (Especially if you add social media into the mix!). So how can we ride the waves of transition to birth the Listen InThe post NTM 132: New Year, new transition, new ways of being appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

What to do with ‘screen time’? It’s the parenting question of the decade! After Bridget’s ‘Screenagers’ event, we discuss the key challenges that we face raising kids in the digital age, what boundaries look like, why they’re important and the strategies we’re implementing in our own families. Relevant links: Nourishing the Mother http://www.nourishingthemother.com.au/ Suburban Sandcastles Listen InThe post NTM 131: What to do with ‘screen time’? appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

As we roll into Christmas, our fantasy of the perfect family togetherness can be smashed with the realities of high emotions, stress and overwhelm! In this episode, we explore toolkits based on our own years of wisdom in parenting and relationship, with the intention to equip you with the capacity, insight and preparation to make Listen InThe post NTM 130: Festive Season parenting tensions appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

Be you, be you, be you….even when it hurts and in this episode Bridget and Jules discuss their current hurts and to find the courage to push past the pain into ever greater alignment. Relevant links: Nourishing the Mother http://www.nourishingthemother.com.au/ Suburban Sandcastles – Bridget http://www.suburbansandcastles.com The Pleasure Nutritionist – Julie http://www.thepleasurenutritionist.com/The post The courage to be disliked appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

In this episode we answer a listener’s email about business, motherhood and the resistance that gets in the way of combining the two.  How much do our perceptions and beliefs manifest our reality, what happens when we’re looking to fail in an area when we’re ‘looking to fail’?  How to transform our beliefs and get Listen InThe post Getting real on Motherhood AND business appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

In this episode, we get real about the tiredness that can so often plague our motherhood. We discuss how to find the softness, the wisdom and ultimately the freedom to give ourselves permission to be authentic and vulnerable with those we love. It’s not an easy road, but our motherhood journey, even in its challenge, Listen InThe post I’m just so f***ing tired appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

In this weeks episode we address a listener’s question around “postpartum body image”. We discuss our personal stories with body image and motherhood, conscious questions to explore within ourselves and ideas for coming back into reverence with our body.The post Post-partum Body Consciousness appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

This episode is in response to an email from a listener who asked ‘When did you accept it all? The changes, the challenges, the transformation and the pain?’ We delve into personal story, learnings and philosophy on motherhood as a portal to consciousness and the evolution of self. We hope this episode gives you the Listen InThe post Accepting it all appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

What does it mean to be at ‘capacity’? What are the biggest challenges, integrations and inspirations in Julie’s world as baby Gwen turns 3 months old? In this episode we have an honest and vulnerable conversation about intimate relationship and early motherhood, dismantling stories and beliefs, and softening into the flow and joy of motherhood Listen InThe post Reflections on being a mother of four – Julie’s insights appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

What’s it like to take a 2,000km roadtrip with another businesswoman, your two babies, and a film crew? In this week’s episode Bridget shares her perspective after the premiere of the RISE Documentary; the inspiration, the challenges, and honouring everyone’s needs and desires in order to ‘show up’ in the world.The post NTM 123: Bridget’s doco & showing up in the world appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

We’ve all been here at one or many points in our motherhood journey, whether from the idealised fantasy around what life would look like as a new mother, or self-righteous in our beliefs – when we subscribe to a fantasy, we’re unconsciously building a nightmare, and that nightmare can be treacherous in our lives, wreaking Listen InThe post When the fantasy of motherhood comes crashing down around you appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

Let your inner critic, perfectionist and ‘perfect parent’ take a backseat as we flip the cards on our ‘not so perfect’ parenting moments; what they reveal, what they heal and how they benefit everyone involved…including our children.  Even our most painful events have wisdom and if you’ll take the leap with us, we’ll help you Listen InThe post Why our parenting f*** up’s still serve appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

Argh!  When children start to develop their own autonomy, it can send us into an emotional spin that has us feeling angry, powerless and confused.  What begins as story of Bridget and her 4 year old son, ends with incredible insight, understanding and tangible toolkits with real-life examples for you to take and use at Listen InThe post NTM 120: What to do when our kids don’t do what we want appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

In parenting consciously, we can often find ourselves solely child-focussed, and relationships wither in this phase, but what if it doesn’t have to be this way? In this episode we explore how to interpret our family dynamics, our relationship problems, and our children’s behaviour through quality questions that lead us to greater connection.The post NTM 119: Navigating relationship and parenting MASTERCLASS appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

Intentionally shifting energy through laugher can be a powerful tool to develop with our children, and let’s face it we could all use a little more playfulness! When our children have stored and stuck feelings we want to offer you another way to help them process, lean in, learn and grow with a toolkit that Listen InThe post NTM 118: Laughter as a Release MASTERCLASS appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

What do your child’s tears bring up in you? Do you see them as something to move through quickly, too overwhelming to ‘hold’, and so triggering that you fear them? This masterclass is designed to begin to get you more comfortable with crying, with witnessing your child in ‘pain’ and equip you with a toolkit Listen InThe post NTM 117: How to get okay with tears MASTERCLASS appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

This is the first of 4 Masterclasses in parenting!  This week we discuss the role of secure attachment in our developing children, why they need it, how we can support it and what happens if we give too much.  The profound nature of the mother-child dynamic is explored, as we bring awareness to the mutual Listen InThe post NTM 116: Secure Attachment Masterclass appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

So this week is a little different! In response to a listeners request, in this week’s episode Julie interviews her husband, Nick, on his experience of birth. We delve into what birth was like for him to witness, how to be a great support partner, what was empowering or overwhelming for him, advice he has Listen InThe post NTM 115: Interview with Julie’s husband: A male’s perspective of birth and intimacy appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

In this week’s episode, Julie and Bridget explore the concept of instilling feminist values in our sons, what it means to be a feminist man, and how do we support our sons through the surges of the masculine, without dishonouring the feminine? In a ‘fight for equality’ culture, we discuss what it looks like to Listen InThe post NTM 114: Do we want to raise a feminist son? appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

In this week’s episode, we chat with best-selling author and award-winning Chiropractor Dr Jennifer Barham-Floreani on the philosophy and science of chiropractic, intentional parenting, instilling values of health and wellness in our families, and motherhood and relationships as a portal to consciousness. Connect with Dr Jen: http://welladjusted.co/ Books and resources mentioned: Well Adjusted Babies by Listen InThe post NTM 113: Chiropractic, Wellness and Motherhood with Dr Jennifer Barham-Floreani appeared first on The Wellness Couch.