How would it feel to have conversations that go beyond tasks to tap into what you’re really craving; to be seen, heard and connected with? Let’s get you on path with tweaking one tiny thing to change everything in your relationship and world. In this episode we discuss: - How easily communication can turn into a list of who is doing what - Feeling disconnected and resentful - Understanding masculine and feminine energy needs - Transactional communication pulling you further from what you really want and need - Not landing ‘in’ each other, but running in the same direction - Tiny shifts in your daily check-in, with big impacts - Learning to be independent and having your own back…but avoiding vulnerability - Validating invisible labour within yourself so your external world can reflect that - Feeling dehydrated and full of tension to spacious and refreshed - The importance of structure to facilitate deeper connection - Transforming day-to-day conversations into moments of heart-opening connectionFIND OUT MORE ABOUT:COUPLES RETREAThttps://www.julietenner.love/couples-retreatNTM Community Dayhttps://julietenner.thrivecart.com/ntm-community-day/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 modern mother lives life feeling pulled in all directions, playing ‘whack a mole’ with problems, and ending up in a heightened buzz of productivity, but never feeling like she really gets where she wants to be. Get your journal out, this one’s a self-reflective podcast.In this episode we discuss:- Looking at the areas of your life that consistently drain your energy or create tension- Noticing where you’re feeling stuck or unfulfilled - Shifting how you think about your problems- Reality versus your interaction with it- Steps that help you move forwards, not keep spinning in circles - Up-regulated overwhelm and down-regulated exhaustion - Butting up against relationship attachment styles - Making space for the thing you really want - Revealing the layers between you and what you want - Showing up with baby steps - When it’s too hard you stop turning towards it- Feeling grounded and easeful in growth and changeFIND OUT MORE ABOUT:COUPLES RETREAThttps://www.julietenner.love/couples-retreatNTM Community Dayhttps://julietenner.thrivecart.com/ntm-community-day/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/

“But hang on Bridget and Julie, don’t we want to get better, more conscious, and more attuned with our kids?” We know! This episode might seem counterintuitive, but what we’re leading you into, is instead of a rulebook in your head, we want you to drop into your experience, and parent from there. In this episode we discuss:- The dynamic of always trying to find ‘more’ spaciousness when you haven’t got anything left- Holding pride in being the ‘perfect, conscious parent’- Dynamics that balance your psyche to create connection and love- Allowing experiences that humble you - Setting our kids up for unrealistic relational expectations- Your unwillingness is important for their development - Holding fantasies about being calm and spacious - Learning to track what’s happening in your body - Holding being disliked and judged - Boundaries and people-pleasing - Recognising when you’re seeking to be oaky in your child’s eyes, rather than tuning into their direct experienceFIND OUT MORE ABOUT:COUPLES RETREAThttps://www.julietenner.love/couples-retreatNTM Community Dayhttps://julietenner.thrivecart.com/ntm-community-day/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/

In an ideal world, we’d love our kids to be active and enthusiastic participants in social, community and sporting scenarios. However, that’s not always how it rolls, is it? And it can get under your skin! So let’s talk about the edges around our child’s teamwork. In this episode we discuss:- When you have a set of values and your child chooses the opposite, it’s designed to make you feel frustrated and annoyed - that’s feedback- When your child’s behaviour feels like nails down a chalkboard - When you have a high value on family and community and it feels like they’re clashing- The fullness of feminine feeling colours everything for our children - Loving unpredictability instead of control - Wishing they would join in so you can have 5 minutes to talk to another adult - The whiplash of when your kids love something and then drop it for the new thing - The unseen tax on mothers for conscious, gentle parentingFIND OUT MORE ABOUT:COUPLES RETREAThttps://www.julietenner.love/couples-retreatNTM Community Dayhttps://julietenner.thrivecart.com/ntm-community-day/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/

Women tend to colour their life based on how they feel. How you feel is what the law of attraction is bouncing back to you. So what are you creating in your life, and do you want to change that? In this episode we discuss:- Overloaded ‘mental stuff’ can be an avoidance of emotions and feelings- The law of attraction (also called the law of resonance and vibration) just hits the ball back to you- Running your life through a filter that’s colouring everything a particular way- Creating wider thinking to expand your capacity to feel different feelings- Your attachment to wanting something ‘better’ than what you have - Believing you’d struggle less ‘if…..’ - When the fantasy spirals into blame, shame and judgement - This is not enough; me, you life - creating a lack of appreciation - Feeling shame when you’re not ‘perfect’ according to the ideal you hold for yourself - Taking wisdom from how you regulated yourself as a childFIND OUT MORE ABOUT:COUPLES RETREAThttps://www.julietenner.love/couples-retreatNTM Community Dayhttps://julietenner.thrivecart.com/ntm-community-day/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/

What are you not saying, that if you spoke the truth of, would elevate your relationship? When you consciously allow your protective strategies of anger, or avoidance to dissolve, what you’re left with is a really authentic connection and communication, where you stop relying on performance, and old, learnt habits. So let us help you get more fulfilled in your relationship, quickly!In this episode we discuss:- Resistance to getting support, and relying on hyper self-sufficiency as a trauma response- When you stop exposing your vulnerability because of old experiences of abandonment and criticism - Becoming a hoarder of tasks and mental load - Learning to love the eruptions and disconnections as opportunities for a more fulfilling relationship - Showing up in the face of fear of rejection and abandonment - Recognising your strategies when someone you love is angry with you - Defending what you think is ‘right’ is you being defensive of your highest values - We need to give to the bank of relationship to be able to withdraw from it - Knowing what you want is more important than knowing what you don’t wantFIND OUT MORE ABOUT:COUPLES RETREAThttps://www.julietenner.love/couples-retreatNTM Community Dayhttps://julietenner.thrivecart.com/ntm-community-day/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/

Do you put your relationship, your partner or each other, below the dishes or the laundry? Have you ended up being ships in the night, co-habitating, but never really connecting? We all want to be chosen as partners, not someone’s vehicle of convenience. So let’s explore how to shift where you’re at!In this episode we discuss:- What do you need to be more interesting, or interested, than the dishes or the laundry?- The waves of attraction and repulsion are normal in long-term relationship - Your partner used to be the thing that you valued most- Why is relationship sex and your partner last on the list now? - Habits and patterns are learnt and can become armoury - Reducing your partner down to ‘oh, you just want sex’ - Bringing your sexual connection back as sacred - Growth that feels confronting to contemplateFIND OUT MORE ABOUT:COUPLES RETREAThttps://www.julietenner.love/couples-retreatNTM Community Dayhttps://julietenner.thrivecart.com/ntm-community-day/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/

Lost at sea, asking yourself “who am I…and who are my people?” But you don’t quite know where you fit in? Let’s let go of old cultural narratives of cattiness and competitiveness in female friendships and let’s move towards forging friendships that expand, soften and inspire you as a woman, mother and lover. In this episode we discuss:- Knowing your values and where your people hang out - Being brave and authentic - Self-sabotage on friendship-seeking journeys- The insidious ways performance leads to exhaustion - When you’re infatuated, you’re hiding parts of yourself - Infatuation will lead to resentment, and undermine the friendship - Feeling lonely and isolated because YOU have shifted, but your friendships haven’t - Manifesting and being an energetic match for the friendships you seekTo 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/

We all grew up on a diet of fairytales, romcoms, and Hollywood romance - and if this is you, too, you might feel that your relationship is wrong for you. We want you to know that ALL relationships have seasons of repulsion. So let’s work with your forces of attraction and repulsion in your relationship.In this episode we discuss:- Why repulsion is normal and how it benefits you- Attraction comes from having your values met, or outsourcing parts you haven’t owned yet- Change your psychology to change how feel around your partner - Disconnection from them means connection to you - Move faster through seasons of repulsion by owning what’s yours - There’s nothing wrong with you or them; repulsion is a function of relationship- The more open you are to the wisdom of repulsion, the faster you move through it - You’re not seeing him for him, you’re seeing a comparison - Chemistry happens before the physical body responds- Chemistry is created in the mindTo 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/

Don’t we all love a good avoidance strategy? Are you sick of your own BS yet?! Are you ready for change? Let’s stop sabotaging growth by tripping over the same challenges over and over again. Bring on the fast, effective change, now!In this episode we discuss:- When you’re on the cusp of great change, and how to set yourself up for it - Going beyond ‘I can’t show up’ - Trying to have everything sorted before you begin - Your window of change means you’re often in survival mode - Your environment influences whether you rise to your skillset or fall to your conditioning- Leading yourself towards growth, rather than waiting for change - Surviving on micro-satisfactions - Crowding out your own expansion - Knowing how and why you are where you areTo 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/

Your desire to have what you don’t yet have, requires you to behave in ways you’ve not yet behaved. Either, you’re going to choose fear, and end up in fate, over and over again - or you’re going to choose fate, and open up to destiny. Which one will you choose?…In this episode we discuss:- Fear protecting us from wanting to make the change we seek- The physiological and psychological feedback is the same in choosing faith and fear- When you choose fear, you and your world shrink- When you choose faith, you and your world expand - Welcoming the eustress that’s required to make the change you say you want - When you’re having difficulty initiating the change you want - When you’re stuck in negative loops and justifying it - The fulility of wanting a different life, but staying in the life you’ve created- The illusion of control and certainty - Asking how else this might lookTo 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/

Are you noticing challenging feelings coming up in your motherhood? Are you noticing little whispers in your conscious and gentle parenting mind that seem to shame your anger, aggression and frustration? So let’s move beyond the patriarchal programming of sugar and spice and all things nice, to embrace your wholeness as a woman and a mother. In this episode we discuss:- How we feel about expressions of anger and aggression in our children - When you hit your edges of self-worth in your anger and frustration - That habit of flicking off ownership and making it someone else’s fault - Our strong desire to get back into being ‘kind’ - Pedestalling and infatuating with being calm and spacious- The invitation to see and love more of ourselves and others- Feedback that your values are changing - Anger is the war-cry against the mental and emotional-labour jailTo 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/

Do you find yourself in a persistent dynamic where you’re completely fed up with the pattern…but yet you’re still here? Do you find yourself asking “I want your help and advice! But I’ve already tried all the things” OR “It’s because they’re not/they can’t/they won’t…” Babes, what if you’re just not ready for change? Let us help you hold yourself here.In this episode we discuss:- When you find yourself in futility and at the edges of your own window of tolerance - You’re an energetic match for the reality you’re existing in- Energy organises itself around a belief system- Feeling vindicated in the problem being outside of you - Recognising the pieces of you that are averse to change - Allowing for change when you don’t also have a handbrake on - Your suffering is relative to the degree you’re in resistance or surrender - You’re not ready to have a conversation with ‘them’ if you’re not ready to have a conversation with yourself - Surrendering to being the student and letting the teacher teach you - How to love yourself when you’re choosing to stay where you areTo 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 daily grind of family life can have a us feeling like we don’t recognise who we are, and feeling anything but calm. Yet at the same time, berating ourselves for not being the calm, perfect mother. Even the best family calendar in the world will not save you from family chaos. So let us help you get comfy in chaos, so you’re more available to find the calm. In this episode we discuss:- Making chaos safe in your nervous system - Over-infatuation with calm- Building your tolerance for chaos - Pairing the chaos with something meaningful- If you don’t have awareness of who you really are, you’re more attached to who you’re supposed to be - Authenticity includes chaos- Rising above your daily kryptonite triggers - Finding the right buffers for you, so you can feel more connected to you- Doing something that creates resistance or creativity - Remembering it’s not all on you - Action planning your day to keep you on track - Knowing your priorities when chaos arrives - Bringing gentleness and compassion to yourself - A problem shared is a problem halvedTo 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/

Join us for an insightful conversation filled with tips and encouragement to help you thrive in your friend and romantic relationships. Balancing friendships and family as a busy mum can be tricky, but it’s crucial you maintain both relationships as part of your overall well-being and happiness. We dive into how different stages of motherhood require unique approaches to making friendships work, and learn how integrating family needs into your social life can create a supportive and fulfilling community. We’ll tackle the common feelings of guilt and societal pressure that come with spending time away from family, providing practical strategies to navigate and overcome these challenges. In this episode, we discuss:⁃guarding against romantic relationships needing to be everything⁃Friendships making you a better mother and lover⁃Creating an integrated community with your family⁃When you WANT to ‘go out’ but you can’t - bringing your flexibility and adaptability to make it work⁃Hosting so you don’t have to get babysitters⁃Allowing your kids to see parents as people and setting a framework up for them for adult relationships⁃Without conscious scheduling family or work needs WILL crowd out your social needs⁃Avoiding resentment and burnout with relational boundaries⁃Gently separating out needing to be needed to create space for what you want to call in⁃The needs of others will always be there, so how do you find more of you by putting in place limits without guiltTo 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/

In this episode, we dive into the heart of authentic connections. We explore the journey of finding those magical women who become our trusted confidantes and lifelong friends. How do you cultivate deep, honest relationships in a world full of surface-level interactions? Join us as we share insights, stories, and practical tips on building genuine bonds with like-minded women. Whether you're seeking new friendships or looking to deepen existing ones, this conversation will inspire you to embrace the beauty of true companionship. In this episode we discuss:- Be available, put yourself out there and trust your attraction force - Do you know what you’re looking for?- Conscious questions on why you don’t have it yet - Going first and showing up for the relationship - The law of the one and the many - Where are you available and where are you unavailable for the connection you seek - We’re all working through childhood stuff on our ‘safety to be seen’ - Craving connection and sabotaging depth - The ego death required to really be seen - Stop looking for “same”, look for diverse, with shared values - Soothe the socially anxious part of you rather than let it lead you - Beyond the full bodied ‘yes’ - Being honest rather than glossy - Individuation from who you are and who your child is- Creating lifelong friendships that hold youTo 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/

When you know you’re stuck in a negative loop about your child, how do you prevent it becoming part of their identity? Let’s give ourselves permission to feel the feelings and stretch our thinking beyond the polarisation. In this episode we discuss:- Finding the drawbacks of how you think they ‘should’ be- Moving beyond seeing this trait as the most dominant part of their personality- Supporting your kids to work on those tricky traits in a healthy way - Getting out of negative thought loops by thinking wider- The reflection of what we’re disowning within ourselves- The impact we have as parents to shape our child’s self-perception - Recognising the story you’re telling yourself - Looking for where our children are the opposite of how we’re seeing them - Creating an ecosystem that supports diversityTo 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/

When you feel like you’re passing ships, or living parallel lives, it can be incredibly difficult to surrender and relax into life and relationship when you come back together. So let’s prepare for re-integration! In this episode we give you the ‘Getting to shore kit’ where we cover:- Taking steps towards your goals, not just digging backwards- Self-sabotage moves in intimacy- Bringing your expert mothering pivot-skills into your relationship- Playing the who-has-it-harder game- Making yourself replaceable - Creating a structure to support you letting go - Making relationship more of a priority - Connecting to yourself to be available for connecting with them - Allowing your walls to drop- Supporting yourself to have a thriving relationshipTo 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/

How do you lean into trusting your child and trusting yourself when the weight of advice, information, research and authorities are bearing down on you? What if you could create a lean-back effect that makes parenting and holding yourself easier, by overlaying a really beautiful and basic blueprint of what your children are trying to work out, integrate and establish? This is what we offer you in this week’s podcast. In this episode we discuss:- Leaning into trusting your child rather than the intellectual- Affirming safety for healthy development - Parenting the fears of ourselves - Creating physical safety vs nervous system safety - Our children borrow a sense of safety from our own narratives- Am I okay? Is the world okay? Am I lovable?- When children test the limits of behaviour and safety in a relationship - What each stage of parenting requires of you as a mother - The developmental overlay framework by Duey FreemanTo 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/

Family freeloading on your unpaid labour is REAL. So what is service, and what is enabling/over-functioning? It requires you to hold high expectations and a level of self-worth on your minimum standards for how others treat you, and how you treat yourself. In this episode we discuss:- It’s overfunctioning when you’re running from a threat- It’s service when you’re connected to your heart- It’s enabling when you limit their potential for growth - The paradox of holding ‘not being liked’ and maintaining love and respect in a relationship - Watching your co-dependent merge tendencies, rather than checking in on your greater alignment - Subconscious tendencies to stack more load on ‘easier’ kids - Sibling conflict as a way to balance family systems - Self-worth as a barometer for what you tolerate in your home - A willingness to be disliked by your child as you call them to accountabilityTo 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/

Firstly, ouch. That’s a hard place to be. How do you get out of the burnout and resentment cycles and into a parenting relationship that feels more equitable? First, you’ve got to look at why you’re overfunctioning, what your emotional set point is, and how you can step out of the way. So let’s get on the co-parenting train!In this episode we discuss:- Our motherhood can be shaped by how supported or unsupported we feel- Feeling trapped and alone- Trauma responses of self-sufficiency and people-pleasing- Our own ‘puff-up’ and ‘beat-down’ cycles - How to hold your own personal standards- Releasing your trauma responses on your partner- Your partner’s parenting relationship is not yours to steer or control - Being okay in your lean-back - Trusting your kids to build their own relationshipsTo 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/

When you put a ring on it, the work is not done. But we can tend to find ourselves working our current relationship off an old program and set of agreements. There’s only freedom if you’re choosing it, so let’s talk about how to get out of feeling trapped.In this episode we discuss:- Your own confirmation bias - Whatever you look for, you find- Limiting beliefs that cap what you want and ask for - The discontent of relationship pushing you into choosing yourself - Dedicating years to undervalued care work - Getting back the pieces you think are missing- How your body reflects your value system - Partnering with someone who has the opposite values to you- Renegotiating relationship terms - Less pressure and more ease when you stop expecting your partner to be everything- Resourcing yourself and your life for more- Finding freedom rather than convincing yourself to stayTo 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/

What is it with the “mid-life crisis”? And why do relationship break-downs often bear the brunt of it? When your shut-down becomes apathetic, and you’ve given up on bringing your needs into the relationship…and then the relationship ends, often, he’s blindsided. Typically, when you blow up a relationship, you’re seeking a release from an overburdened, over-stressed life. What would it be like, if you considered these things first, before you make a big decision…?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/

We all hope on a wing and a prayer that it will all turn out okay. That all our agonising over conscious parenting, pays off. In the euphoric aftermath of Julie’s son’s 18th, she shares the lead-up, the hot tips, and the unexpected jelly shots that brought family together. Check out Julie’s kids business, Inflatable Nights here: http://www.inflatablenights.au (http://www.inflatablenights.au)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/

When we’re trying so hard to mother in ways that we were not mothered, we can find we exhaust ourselves at the altar of ‘perfection’. What would it look like to stop parenting from a place of lack or fear, and start parenting from a place of love and wellbeing. Let’s find out…  In this episode we discuss:  - The need to overperform to feel okay - Parenting from a place of lack, fear and anxiety - Being socialised into intensive mothering, with an endless capacity - Venomous blame cycles, vs overflow of service where we feel balanced and fulfilled - Pushing and performing, vs feeling good in your motherhood - We adapt to the environment, privilege included - They will not appreciate what their ‘set point’ is - We can’t save our children from having voids - Make sure you take your wellbeing with you  - Have areas of your life that are nurtured outside of your children  - Taking separation personally, and clawing your relationship back  - Looking at your child’s movement towards you and away from you as normal, rather than ending up in guilt and shameTo 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/

In deciding the type of mother that we want to be, often that’s informed by our experience with our own mother. The view we have of our mother will shape the view we have of ourselves, and therefore, the fuel we draw on in our own mothering, can be created by what was missing or not met by our own mother.   In this episode we discuss:  - Constantly ‘conscious’ and centering your child is outside the realms of what’s possible for any single human  - The deep shame we feel when we perceive we perpetuate what was done to us  - In moments of stress we regress; it’s why triggers are visceral  - Meeting a collection of moments of deep attunement rather than ‘perfect mothering’ - Holding the polarity paradox and complexities of motherhood and humanity  - Feeling controlled by a tiny dictator  - Letting go of unrealistic expectations we beat ourselves against  - Liberating yourself from judgement  - Your freedom is NOT being the complete opposite of her  - Sometimes your dreams are at odds with your mothering  - Real love is the appreciation of the support and the challengeTo 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/

It’s held up as the pinnacle of perfect mothering in our culture, but is it really? Often, what you’re over functioning on, is related to what is intolerable for you to be.   The more practiced we can be at examining our subconscious motives ahead of time, the less shock we feel when we get angry.   So let’s go on a self-examining journey into the shadow side of the selfless mother.   In this episode, we discuss:  - Nothing is ever completely selfless or altruistic  - Where there’s selfless, there’s selfish  - Where you’re giving you are gaining  - Often shame is attached to focusing on the self, and receiving  - Whatever is unacceptable behaviour for ourselves, we make sure our child doesn’t behave like  - Overfunctioning and hyper-dedication is often a control strategy  - To change the ‘mother-as-selfless’ narrative would undermine our social and patriarchal structures and systems  - Deriving our self-worth from being in service to others  - Examining where over-functioning is a strategy to mask or avoid something  - True empowerment requires self-service and other-serviceTo 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/

We all want our children to be pleasant, kind, repair well…and so it’s shocking when we see them as inconsiderate, rude, harsh, or on the receiving end of any of these things. As a parent, when do you step in, and when don’t you?In this episode we discuss:- When you feel like you need to get involved with your child’s social dynamics- When your kid’s social situations are normal, vs a problem- Remembering as parents we’re blinded by our lens on our children- Building resilience and fostering a courageous sense of self - Observing what our kids are learning from their “teacher”; the child they’re currently orbiting with - Trusting their ebbs and flows of knowing who they are, and recognising that this will shape who they attract- Allowing learning through social observation - How we see our child becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy - Meeting your kids where they’re at, and having conversations around marginalisation, neurodiversity, trauma and struggle - The home environment is still the best teacher for relational skillsTo 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 longer you “go without”, the harder it is to get it back. To bring back your intimate vibrancy, and chuck out the ‘roommate vibes’, you need to know what’s blocking you, and why, and what you’re going to do about it.So let’s move beyond obligation, complacency, resentment and neglect, and let’s centre the wellbeing of the self, the relationship and the family unit, to bring back sexual connection.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/

How do you as a mother embrace the change as your child grows up, but navigate the grief you feel, with grace?This podcast gives you three clear tools and processes to avoid getting stuck when you cling on to particular ages and stages of your child’s development.In this episode we discuss:Shifting your focus on keeping them closeA loss of control can feel like a loss of safetyThe acute awareness of separateLooking back and our tendency to either catastrophise or wear rose-coloured glassesOur children are not committed to us, they’re committed to their own highest valuesWhere there’s loss, there’s gainIf you’re stuck in a story, you need to balance it by the oppositeWe can find ourselves focussing so much on how to ‘become’ the mother and embracing matrescence, that we forget there can be equal pain, suffering and growth in unbecoming that centralised figureThe invitation this can be to find more of youTo 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 struggles are different, but are they harder? In the generations gone by, where women were relegated to ‘home duties’, there was a confinement, but also a simplicity. Today, there’s privilege, and also struggle as a result of that privilege.In this conversation we open up some key points for you to consider as you wrestle with this question.In this episode we discuss:Was the intense overwhelm always the case? Or are we becoming ‘too soft’?There’s a burden of responsibility when we know more about child and human developmentNowadays kids tend to have bigger behaviours because of unprecedented sensory overload on the nervous systemThe cultural blaming of mothersPatriarchial mothering systems creating mental & physical load-hoardingWorldview comparison creating struggle to be in the life you’ve createdNuclear functioning of the family unitRecognising the privilege in thriving vs survivingTo 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/

As we grow in our adulthood and authenticity, inevitably, what also grows is not being liked.Our level of comfort or discomfort involved in not being liked, will determine the level of fulfilment and freedom, or disconnection and futility we feel.So let’s talk about:Your magnetism and what’s working for youChoosing yourself over others versus focusing on being the peacekeeperBalancing your self-infatuation with your light sideLearning how to like the pieces of you that you’ve cast in shadowTo 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/

Do you ever think “If I can just get this done…I’ll feel worthy” only you never quite feel enough? What would it be like to separate your list, from your worth? Let’s go there in this conversation.In this episode we discuss:When we look outside for our value, we devalue our workYou can make not getting to your list mean something negative, or you can make it mean an investment in your valuesMotherhood invariably holds the paradox of one foot in ‘fun’ and one foot in ‘responsibility’Where are you feeling weighed down and resentful and what are you choosing to believe about that?There’s some truth in ‘clear space, clear mind’And the inverse is equally true, where we’re using cleaning as a control strategyRigidity creates the punishmentBeing in conversation with your kids’ valuesThe lower your self-worth, the more the list will feel like your worthTo 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/

Let’s talk about the swing of resentment and infatuation with our children - which is completely normal! Let this conversation and tools unlock you so you can gain capacity, gratitude and heart-bursting love back again. In this episode we discuss:- What spacious, attuned and respectful communication with our children really looks like - Denying the value of your authentic expression - Acknowledging your anger where it’s authentic- The power of self-acknowledgment for the impact that your child’s behaviours have on you - Regulated means connected to yourself - Authentic communication means connected to you truth; not shutting it down or vomiting it over - It’s hard living with the expressions of your repressions- The natural in-breath and out-breath of love and parenting - The goal is to embrace the synthesis of infatuation and resentment, because that is loveTo 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/

Let us walk you through a practical process of connecting and holding your power physically, mentally and spiritually so that you can feel deeply connected, authentic and powerful in your own life, irrespective of outside circumstances or people. In this episode we discuss:- How to stay connected with yourself within the pressure of motherhood- The governance you have over your body, rather than shutting down - Your perceived responsibility to ‘hold it all’ creates a stress response- Learning the language of your body - Changing attachments and perceptions to change how you feel - The ‘reset’ so you can come back to yourself - What’s your bigger picture and vision?- Being the woman who lives up to that visionTo 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/

Most of our listeners are fairly in touch with their own experience of being mothered, and based on that, will lead themselves with one of two choices: 1. Replicate the experience. 2. Do the opposite. Through heartfelt story and potent wisdom, in this episode we give you the insights to lead yourself in heart-connected mothering and grand parenting by opening yourself up to different experiences so you can create a mothering experience that is aligned and inspired, not obligated or in reaction. In this episode we discuss:- Grandparent goals- Letting your children lead themselves, and your parenting meeting them where they’re at- Allowing for a child’s normal developmental struggle, not seeking to remove it- Infatuation with your provision - Easing burden versus taking away valuable struggle - The mother archetype that gives permission to rest and return to herself - Appreciation deactivates expectation - Our responsibility is to the relationship we’re creating - Holding yourself in what’s uncomfortable so you can create more choice in your lifeTo 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/

Most of our listeners are fairly in touch with their own experience of being mothered, and based on that, will lead themselves with one of two choices: 1. Replicate the experience. 2. Do the opposite. Through heartfelt story and potent wisdom, in this episode we give you the insights to lead yourself in heart-connected mothering and grand parenting by opening yourself up to different experiences so you can create a mothering experience that is aligned and inspired, not obligated or in reaction. In this episode we discuss:- Grandparent goals- Letting your children lead themselves, and your parenting meeting them where they’re at- Allowing for a child’s normal developmental struggle, not seeking to remove it- Infatuation with your provision - Easing burden versus taking away valuable struggle - The mother archetype that gives permission to rest and return to herself - Appreciation deactivates expectation - Our responsibility is to the relationship we’re creating - Holding yourself in what’s uncomfortable so you can create more choice in your lifeTo 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 point of this podcast is to leap before you’re ready, and do the thing that makes no sense, even though it’s hard. We want you to have the courage to back your dreams instead of staying in the excruiciating agony instead of staying in the excruciating agony that is ‘the waiting place’.Don’t focus on perfect, and move forwards with us, through our lessons and learnings that you can implement straight away.In this episode we discuss:- Just fucking starting!- Embracing the peaks of the experience, and the valleys when it all feels too hard.- There’s medicine and service in your pain and wobble- Holding yourself in the valleys, be reconnecting to why you’re here, that’s not dependent on outcomes- Waiting to ‘have space’ after you tidy ‘this mess’ is folly- Life doesn’t get easier, you just get more accountable- All parts of you need a creative pursuit- If you wait for perfect you’ll wait forever- The scared part within us is there to listen to, and check in with, so you can move into greater alignment- Stop waiting for people to agree with you- Moving beyond ‘I can only do this if I have your blessing’- Your service is always serving someone- It’s no one else’s responsibility to hold your vision- Moving beyond ghosting or resenting social media- Recognising the opportunities your ancestors never had, to use your voice in the world- Reinvention is the only certaintyTo 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/

How do you allow for more choice and more freedom, whilst also balancing family rules and boundaries? From sleepovers to language use, to the individual freedoms kids want as they grow, how do you hand over responsibility to your children, whilst navigating with a compass that feels safe and nurturing for you.In this episode we discuss:Holding on or handing over responsilbity to your children as they growParenting the same or the opposite of your own personal experienceBringing clarity to where your rules come from and discerning if they’re still true for youAttuning to the bigger vision you have for your familyRealising we look to a rule to make us feel safe when we’re stressedChoosing your rules mindfully so they’re more likely to be adhered toTransparency when it’s challenging, so you have more space to ‘stay with it’The self-checkin checklistBorrowing other people’s perspectivesGetting clarity on what you’re willing to negotiate and what you’re notInviting in co-parents and kids to the negotiations and discussionsTo 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/

You’ve learnt into acceptance through part 1, which creates more spaciousness, so let’s go deeper into how *not* to burn your energy through fighting or collapsing into your current shitshow.In this episode we explore:Acceptance is a mindset shiftAcceptance is a perception shiftHow to shift your perception and mindsetThe fruits of abundance are often heralded by intensityHow to shift your perception to find nervous system safetyFinding small gifts within the struggleAsking yourself what you need to be able to rise to this next level situationKnowing what you need to be able to sustain yourself and your energy through a trialling periodMoving beyond gritting your teeth to ‘get it done’Accessing more capacity through acceptanceMove your body to move your mindLinking your physical strength to your mental strengthKnowing when a strategy is supportive, or when it’s destructiveTo 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/

Whether you’re 3 months postpartum and your world is upside down, or you don’t know how you’ll do more intensity with more children, ‘life’ just feels hard and chaotic alongside self-growth, relationship, work and kids…this episode is for you!Fighting or collapsing in a period of intensity just burns your energy - so how do you move towards acceptance so you can find moments of peace and pockets of spaciousness?In this episode we explore:This is not bigger than you…tapping into your strengthDrawing on where you’ve done this before so you can trust you can do it againOur feelings need a stage, but if we stay there, we just get stuckComparing your shitshow to someone else’s masteryStopping the ‘comparisonitis’ that takes you down for daysMoving one step at a time is enoughOffering yourself ‘reset’ momentsTapping into the wisdom of birth to inform how you move forwards in lifeTo 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/

What do our kids need to feel connected to themselves, and easeful in different environment…and what do we need? We have to reconcile that we are inaccurate interpreters of our child, and the situation we find tricky, due to our own wounds. So how do we cultivate flexibility in our parenting, build connection with caregivers and foster secure attachment? Let’s explore together.In this episode we discuss:Don’t label your kids…look for where they’re the oppositeGet curious about your children’s behaviours and what they’re revealing about their inner experienceSeparation anxiety as normal and healthy from an attachment point of viewFacilitating and replication moments that ‘do’ work, to create more easeKnowing what you need to feel less anxious and more supportedHow you can help your child bond with caregivers and feel comfortable in new environmentsThe ‘good child’ is entangled with the ‘good mother’If we don’t care for ourselves, we rely on our world to be okay, in order for us to be okayDon’t collapse when your own anxious attachment rises when your child strugglesNot hinging our worth based on society’s standards of ’successful children’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/

We want you to enjoy your January, versus having a consistent, low-level activation & focus on what’s looming. It’s possible to set yourself up for back to school not to feel ‘too much’ and like you’ve confidently got this. You’re just a few steps away, so let’s get started.In this episode we discuss:Identifying where your anxiety is coming fromAuditing where you got flustered this year, and it didn’t work for anyoneGetting specific so you can get solution-focussedKnowing what you need to be more supportedNot having to recover from drop-offDiscerning what’s yours and what’s your child’sAcknowledging where you’re not ready and avoidingWorking out how to set yourself up for successAllowing grace as you go through a practice phaseTo 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 sting, stings, when there’s something in it for you, but gosh it hurts, doesn’t it?! How do we hold our space bubble as our children’s vocabulary grows and their complaints feel deeply personal? Let’s kit you up through practical steps and personal story. In this episode we discuss:- The sting doesn’t leave unless we enter it- Recognising when your ego is in a bruised state- Our triggers are personal and entangled with our inner child/teen- Our children as potent mirrors - Practicing staying connected to yourself rather than leaving yourself - Perspective shifts to make it sting less - Holding the goal of living in authentic relationship with our children - Knowing how to get yourself into your own space bubble versus holding it 24/7- Don’t throw away the whole batter when you get one burnt pancake!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/

As a woman who lived her life from her womb and honoured the changes in her female body and vagina, who could never imagine never having a period…how is Julie after major pelvic surgery?In this honest and open conversation, we ask all the questions and go all the places so you can make your own informed journey.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 wobble is really normal…and it happens over and over again. You’re not wrong, you’re not doing anything wrong when you feel wobbly and uncertain in your parenting. Now let’s give you three steps for creating a sense of peace within you!In this episode we discuss:Finding your own plan for holding yourself steady within a wobbleIf you don’t make your wobble okay, you spin in anxietyOverfunctioning when you “don’t know”, to the point of crashingThere’s an expiration point on your stress-strategiesSeparating ‘who you are’ versus ‘an experience you’re having’The wobble is harder for you if you were punished for ‘not knowing’ and rewarded for ‘knowing’The wobble delivering an ‘upgrade’ in your life and relationshipsSelf-compassion when you’re doing the best you canFeeling more solid and certain makes the wobble safeYour child will always stretch beyond you…how do you learn to trust their direction?Being the hammock underneath your child rather than leading them from the frontTo 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/

Five years on from our first episode on this topic (episode 180) we revisit where our families are at and how we view the concept of lying and Santa. We hope this conversation closes some loops, opens some others, and gives you great conversation starters to decide how you want to do this with your family.In this this episode we discuss:Being the keeper of the magicThe responsibility that comes with knowingOur children moving to being *part* of the creation of magicConversations on sharing this knowledge with siblingsEventually the lie comes undoneAllowing kids to make their own narrativeAsking ‘what do you think?’Weaponising Santa and the ElfSanta threats coming from a place of desperation when you’re feeling threatenedThe defining factor on whether your child learning the truth is shattering or hurtful, rests on the degree to which you’ve used Santa as a tool for control and coercion.Considering the transition to knowing the truth, as a growth point in their relationship skills, by considering the needs and wants of others.Creating your own rituals, magic and family traditionsTo 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/

It’s a season when increasing intensity in your outer world can have you feeling increasing intensity in your inner world, and you can quickly become overstimulated and overwhelmed. How do you create a calm and spacious Christmas without saying ’No’ to everything? It starts with being really kind to yourself and your nervous system, so let us walk you through it.In this episode we discuss:Recognising your limits and your needsKnowing your capacity and how to support yourself during your dayBeing quieter, gentler and softer with yourselfRecognising what social boundaries you need so you don’t feel wiped out and resentfulHolding a level of attunement to your kids social batteriesKnowing how to navigate your day so that everyone’s social batteries are includedRecognising the ‘not in your body, sped up’ feelingHaving foresight that creates your calmFlexible and nourishing schedulesLiteracy of the needs of the family unitLet go the Hallmark ‘perfect family’ together at Christmas eventsSay ‘Yes’ to lightnessThe temptation to say yes to a lot of things, but being aware of your stimulation set pointTo 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/

Parenting neurodivergent children is a constant process of acknowledging ourselves and learning to see ourselves within a culture that fusses solely on that child. We can find ourselves cycling in grief, despair, despondency and complete exhaustion, so this podcast is more a conversation highlighting that your struggle is real AND you need supporting too.In this episode we discuss:The collective undervaluing of care workThe patriarchal motherhood construct that you should meet your child and have a never-ending wellspring of capacityInternalising the idea that you’re supposed to show up regardless of the cost to your own wellbeingFeeling undermined, judged, minimised and isolated as a motherThe unseen and invisible work of how parenting neurodivergent children can impact your careerMoving beyond ‘I’ve just got to parent better’Services that cancel out the experience of the mother and the coupleFeeling like you don’t get to be who you are because of the huge needs of your childFearing the railroading of your day, and capacity, that creates highly anxious states within you.How do we integrate neurodivergent needs within the family system without simmering tension and resentment?Moving beyond ‘why can’t I keep up with my peers who have neurotypical kids’?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/

Sibling conflict can feel really hard to hold, which it is - until you learn to move beyond the victim/perpetrator mindset. Understanding how to create harmony with something that feels intense in your body, begins with understanding why it’s hard.In this episode we discuss:Our first experiences of growing up with someone like usLearning through siblings; sameness, difference, pain and connectionHow you relate to your sibling as an adult, and your parent’s input into thatKnow your story and your expectationsGet curious about how *you* are with conflictKnow what immediately activates you and consider why it’s hard for youKnow what it’s like to feel connected to the truest youRecalibrating from the intensity of your nervous system responseCreating an environment where everyone gets heard and tension dissolvesTo 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/

Mother guilt is often synonymous with motherhood. But have you ever stopped to wonder why it’s here, and why it has such a grip on you?  In this episode we’re going to walk you through getting self-curious on why you’re doing it, and what you’re using it for. In this episode we discuss:- The eternal game of ‘whack-a-mole’ with guilt- Getting curious with why you carry guilt- Getting curious with what you do with guilt as a strategy - Recognising your guilt patterns - Measuring yourself to a fantasy- Using guilt as a strategy to avoid anger- Using guilt as a punishment strategy to keep you ‘toeing a line’ - Using guilt as a way to stay in control- Looking for a more solid self that maybe doesn’t want to be doing ‘the thing’ anymore - Giving yourself permission to claim more space - Restructuring family life when you change your identity - Healthy escapism for regulation vs escapism for avoidance - Recognising if you have a skill gap versus not wanting to do that anymoreTo 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/

Believing that your motherhood and work are in conflict keeps you cut off from your own power and prevents you from creating a deeply fulfilling life. It’s time to change that; let’s talk about how!In this episode we discuss:- Feeling controlled by your work and kids - Increasing your response-ability - Sometimes it’s not a parenting issue or upskill need- Getting self-boundaried with your time and capacity across your life - Having a vision that’s bigger than you - We don’t want the daily needs/demands to become us - Creating meaningful and inspiring links in your day to day life - Getting quick hits of inspiration - Creating the most fulfilling life you can in any season of motherhood - Recognising how your motherhood feeds your work and your work feeds your motherhoodTo 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/

How you WRITE a pitch will make or break your business success with collaborations and sponsorships. We receive hundreds of pitches every year and we say ‘no’ to the majority of them, because they’re just no good!   Conversely, whenever we as a brand have pitched, we’ve had a 99% success rate. Why? Because we’ve learn how to pitch perfectly. Come learn how with us!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/

Motherhood can be synonymous with exhaustion, depletion, and ignoring your own needs. But have you ever stopped to ponder why? What if this isn’t ‘just how it is’ but something a little deeper?In this episode we explore four key points you’ll want to explore if you’re finding yourself here!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/

No woman is born a sex goddess! It is a process of gentle learning, unlearning and holding a willingness and curiosity to explore beyond what you currently know to be true about you, your body and your relationship.In this episode Julie leads an exploration of healing your relationship with your body and your seductive, sexual self, by taking your safety, your boundaries and your guiding intuition with you. We share some story medicine and look at the places we close with more love and light.If you’d like to join HEALING THE SEDUCTRESS course, running live this week, you can with a special NTM Podcast listener special: Apply NTMLOVE at checkout to receive 40% OFF!Find out more at julietenner.loveTo 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/

Do you feel weepy and sad with no understanding of why on birthdays? Do you wrestle with ‘Is this day for me?’ versus meeting the needs of others? Then this podcast is for you. Birthdays can hold echoes of how we ourselves were birthed, and birthed our own children.When we pause and take a moment to honour what we traversed and ask ourselves a couple of insightful questions, we can find ourselves entirely shifting our way of being with birthdays.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/

Like a phoenix rising from the ashes, we share in Julie’s latest trauma-to-healing evolution in parenting her teens. Through rich storytelling, we explore three key themes all mothers are wise to consider when parenting teens:Leadership in a family system is fluidSafety for your child means the right to say no and be able to rally against youHealing looks like excavation and deconstruction, tooTo 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/

Feeling wild feelings like rage and explosive anger often happen when we’re caught in the tension between fully supporting ourselves, and supporting our child. Triggers, like school refusal, can have us not even recognising ourselves.Through storytelling and rich conversation, we toss around the experience of feeling like love has turned upside down, and what’s left is visceral rage, hate and the desire to devour.In this episode we discuss:The terror we feel with our angerThe terror we perceive others have about our angerThe systemic impact on mother rageWhen feelings feel to big for us and our kidsAvoiding your own shame collapseOverperformance powered by your guiltConsidering why this is so hard for you right now, and why you’re holding on so tightlyWhen your rage is in opposition to the identity of the ‘good mother’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/

In motherhood it’s easy to be pulled into what the world, and your kids, need from you. It’s a fast road to withering, and resentment if you don’t take the time to put back into you. In this podcast, we’re moving past any financial blocks and barriers, to make it so doable, you can action it right away! We give you ideas across four budgets from 0 to $1000+ so you can go get your self-nourishment.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/

Do you ever go ‘0-100’ but you don’t know what happened?! Well, we kind of think you always burn your first pancake (first child/first moment you meet anything new), so let’s talk about how you grow beyond burning your batch of pancakes.In this episode we discuss:Holding compassion for yourself the first time you meet anythingHolding grace for growth; yours and your child’s‘The more I hold on, the more they push back’…healthy individuation is rebellionBeing cast as the villain is vitalReturning to your own wellbeing as the first stepWhat can you humble yourself to; the call to shift your identityGetting wobbly when we feel alone in parentingHolding your own space bubbleShowing up as the highest version of you, irrespective of other peopleTo 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/

Taking things personally looks like a disproportionate emotional reaction to a fairly innocuous situation, where you feel very emotionally activated, and your thoughts around it are all-consuming, and exhausting!Mantras are a pathway to choice, power and re-programming your habitual reaction, so let’s give you three to get you going.In this episode we discuss:- Our response and responsibility is about us, though in this situation we tend to make it about them- Handing over authority to our emotional self and how destructive this can be- Our responsibility to balance our emotional freedom- Recognising our patterns or pitfalls that are on repeat from childhood- You have to believe differently before you can act differently- We can’t meet another until we can feel *them* beyond our own emotional storm- Knowing your dominant activation response; fight, flight, freeze, fawn- The self-responsibility of holding boundaries- Can you hold relationship and differenceTo 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/

Sick of negotiating your life like some sort of tetris game? Going through the motions but not really “feeling it”? In this episode we give you three super tangible steps to lead yourself out of a funk and back into enjoying your life again.In this episode we discuss:Breaking down the chains of patriarchy and colonialismRecognising where we’re gaslighting ourselvesNoticing where we’re stagnating and not living up to our potentialPracticing holding intensity to grow our lives beyond our comfort zoneFinding meaning and inspiration to fulfill your needsRemembering that constant service crowds out your creativityCollecting ‘badges’ as a measure of being a ‘good mother’Recognising what’s aligned with your interests versus what’s you dragging your feet?Noticing your conditioning so you can decide the beliefs driving your behaviour are fully yours, or notRecognising the difference between leading yourself, and being lead, through your dayTo 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/

It’s difficult to be with the parts of our partner we want to change. We can get caught up in turn-off, disinterest, and resentment…so how do we find our way out, and back towards love and desire?In this episode we discuss:How to decrease the emotional charge, and need to change themRecognising when you’re running in masculine energy and perceptionsWhy we will project our values onto each other in intimate relationshipsRespecting versus railroading your partnerPartners act as a balance to our fantasy selfBeing out of appreciation, or lost in fearPerception as a reflection of us, but our own form is unique to usGetting clear on what you’re making the change meanHealthy discernment versus controlling another because our form is in chaosWhen our focus and values shift, it amplifies our awareness and ‘the problem’ feels biggerHow we bring in comparisons and minimise our partnerThere’s an opportunity cost for everything you wantIf they’re not doing it yet, it’s not important enough to themBuilding and stacking appreciation as a skillsetTo 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 parental struggle in school refusal is real. But you can only help them as much as you can come at it from a regulated place (see Part 1 podcast). In this conversation we focus on how you can help your child, and why you don’t have to do it alone.In this episode we discuss:- Getting super clear on what they’re struggling with underneath their behaviour - Helping your kids build connections between school and what’s important to them - Noticing all your own noisy narratives that get in the way - Creating more capacity for them to do school, and what they don’t love, by doing more of what they do love- The importance of advocating for you child in any system or institution - Playing the long game in facilitating your child loving their own learning - Holding the knowing that some mornings you’ll choose relationship over ‘should’s’ - The buoyancy you can find when sharing with other women who are going through it - Finding the support structures and professionals who can support you and your childTo 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 purpose of this podcast is to return you to your own wellbeing and find the meaning in your current struggle and challenge. Some days you can flow and ‘play it out’ and other days you have a reduced capacity “to hold” and you end up hitting big edges of anger. That’s really normal! Let’s dig into how you can meet yourself here. In this episode we discuss:- When their defiance is felt as a threat to your nervous system- Your school conditioning that informs your response- Your ‘good girl’ conditioning that informs your response - Your rigidity masking your fear- Powerful self-inquiry like: what part of me is afraid of that happening to my child? Which is a fear of it already having happened to you- The inner conflict: when your child and your ‘perfect mother’ needs clash - Tuning into the symptoms of your dysregulated child- Considering your own values and needs to be a thriving parentTo 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/

Setting up your family rules and boundaries around screen use can feel like a minefield. You can bounce from feeling overpowered by the lure of screens, to resenting them entirely. So in this episode we help you create solid and grounded foundations to build a healthy family culture around screens.In this episode we discuss:Rules can be nuanceddifferent kids can have different rulesForgetting hard and fast rules and moving into connection with where they’re at and what they’re consuming.Tuning into regulation and dysregulationWelcoming disappointment as a valuable life skillHaving family discussions around how you spend time onlineCreating guidelines around the when, where and how of screen useUnderstanding screens’ addictive nature and the dopamine fallout that can happen afterwardsKnowing when to interveneHandling pushbackManaging your own reactionsChecking in with how you feel afterwardsTaking responsibility for when our kids’ screen time is a reprieve or a resentment for usReflecting on whether they have the skills to handle each new screen app or gameKeeping it flexible; ‘no’ now, doesn’t mean ‘no’ lateTo 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/

So you’re in hurt, shame and self-protection? In this episode we take you from here, to finding permission, freedom and awakened desire.In this episode we discuss:The benefits you’re getting from your current dynamicDirecting you life towards your greatest alignmentTaking responsibility for where your sexuality energy isYour internalised and subconscious beliefs that are driving your behaviourOwning your choice and tapping into your powerWhat is in discontent in life, is the habit in your sexNeediness creates repulsionUsing sex as a way to affirm your self-worthGetting ‘clean’ on your intentions for sexAgreements vs assumptionsCreating your relationship standardsCultivating agreements that leave room for graceConnection as a pre-requisite for sexTo 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/

Following a listener’s question, part 1 of our answer centres around self-reflection, compassion and the power you have to radically change how you think and feel about it.In this episode we discuss:It’s not all them, it’s not all you, it’s a dynamic you’re participating inYour unconscious beliefs that are keeping you stuck in this dynamicStop fitting your sexuality into binaries outside of youGet out of your head to create more room for love and connectionHow you feel about yourself affects your sex driveTo fix a sex life, don’t focus on the sexCultivating compassion for where your partner may be strugglingThe impact on stress on your libidoHow happy are you in your life?Attaching your worth to patriarchal male gazeThe inner battle against your bodyThe conditioning of girls and womenAreas of your body that carry storyFind yourself desirable to be desiredTo 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/

It sounds like a good idea, right - you love her, she loves you, you love the same things, why would business be any different?! Well…the more touchpoints you have on each other, the more trigger points you also have.In this episode we get real about our own story of intertwining relationship and business and we bring you along with six hot tips for your own journey.In this episode we discuss:What an aligned vision looks likeNot sabotaging your success with hidden agendasBeing able to pivot with business when each of you go through identity shiftsIncreasing your relational skills that hold the business skillsBuilding integrity that underpins the businessKnowing the heart of your businessRunning every decision through a filter to stay connected to your whyGetting clear on responsibilities and reciprocitySupporting each other through different seasons of lifeKnowing the biases that trip you upKnowing how to nurture the friendship to strengthen the business relationshipTo 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/

We want you to set yourself up so that everyone has a great time, not just your kids! But to make that work, you’re going to have to tweak your week, to create a win:win.In this conversation we share our personal tips and experiences in creating school holidays that work for everyone (by also sharing the ones that haven’t!). In this episode we discuss: - You HAVE needs; getting clear on what your needs are - Remembering to keep it flexible; allowing space for your needs to change seasonally - Pivoting, adapting and changing plans that holds spaciousness - Not allowing yourself to tilt so far into parenting that you get resentful of your kids- What gives you ‘more’?- Kids’ energy needs- Your social needs - Scheduling that feels easeful - Balancing your needs with your neurodivergent children’s needsTo 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/

How do you move from high-conflict and separation grief, to wonderful relationships between four parents, and shared care of all the kids? In this episode we talk to Jess on how she’s created her modern-day village, with powerful insight on traversing separation, re-coupling, boundaries, needs and co-parenting in a blended family. If there’s any threads in Jess’ story that pull on your own life experience, then you’ll want to play this episode again and again to really get the wisdom - so make sure you save it!In this episode we discuss:- Different re-partnering timelines- Children with past partners and new partners- Being one big family with four children and four adults - Grief over a ‘new woman’ - Conflict between old and new partners - Harvesting empathy when you feel insecure - Respect for different grieving timelines and moving past the hurt- Your own childhood experiences colouring how you process the grief of old and new relationships, and what’s possible for your blended family - Holding intense grief while also showing up as a parent - Turning to your toolbox to reset out of fight/flight, to come into empathy and a rational lens - Being open and honest with kids in age appropriate ways- Including kids in the process - Ensuring you have your own adult supports that can hold harsh, honest, open and reflective conversations - Reconciling ‘the ex’ as your family (as your child’s parent) whether you like it or not - How respecting and backing ‘the other mum’ builds your relationship - Turning to your care for another single mother - Moving toward the radical concept that you are the other mums ‘partner’ - so how can you work together and support each other? - Compromising on parenting approaches - knowing where to let go, and where to remind yourself how loved, safe and supported your child is - Providing stability and consistency across all homes - Establishing boundaries as a parent group, and who is responsible for which area of life - Honouring the needs kids might have for their other parent - Minimising your child becoming ‘collateral damage’ of the relationship breakdown- Listening to your children but not letting them dictate the choices for the family system - Working with a high-conflict partner - Creating a pact with other parents to not talk down ‘the other parent’ - Holding the vision of a cohesive and stronger blended or larger family - Knowing you can be strong, powerful women who raise their kids togetherConnect with Jess at:https://www.instagram.com/the_blended_family_co/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/

We are socialised and conditioned to leave ourselves in order to be loved and accepted by others. If regulation is connection to self, and dysregulation is feedback that we’re out of alignment, then how do we find our way back?In this episode we encourage you to be deeply self-curious and awaken some answers that lead you back home to yourself.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/

Sick of striving for the ‘regulated self’ above all else? If you’re done with self-resentment and the projection and judgement that creates a lot of pain in your world, then this podcast is for you.In this 30-minute conversation we’ll get you to love the other side of yourself, and feel safer in your dysregulation, so you can go beyond ‘calm at all costs’.In this episode we discuss:Dysregulation as the guardian of connection to selfYou don’t always need to be calm to be connectedStay hating your dysregulation and you’ll miss your growthYour next identity is in your dysregulationCreating successful relationships by embracing dysregulationMoving beyond your childhood imprintDysregulation keeps you humble and opens your heart to othersThe beauty in accessing more of yourselfTo 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/

Friendships in motherhood can feel so intense, intimate and important that when they begin to fade away, we can feel and immense amount of grief and loss.This episode is designed to fill that hole in your heart with love and a calm, quiet appreciation for what was, and a blooming possibility for what might be.In this episode we discuss:Considering friendship as more of a carousel, where different people step on and off, at different points in your life, to unlock your next consciousnessFiguring out the purpose of the friendship that you had, to take the sting out of nowConsidering the law of the one and the manyFlipping from focusing on what’s missing to a growth mindsetBuilding an identity on friendshipFeeling lonely makes you ache moreThinking about finding friends differently, so it becomes an active processFilling your ‘available space’ with friends that are going to awaken that area of life for youKnowing what you want in a friendship and becoming an energetic match for thatLove is always changing form…let’s fill ourselves with more loveTo 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/

Following on from last week’s podcast, we continue the conversation around social media, screens, education, sex and alcohol and all the glorious boundary setting and conversations in between.In this episode we discuss:The importance of staying in relationship while negotiating boundariesThe value of evolving conversations rather than hard and fast rulesHaving your family values as an active conversationRemembering teens use screens to facilitate expansion of self, and creating meaningful negotiation from that understandingEquity versus equality in family boundary-settingChoosing educational institutions for the tethering to community that they provideListening to many diverse lived experiences to inform your choicesCreating a sex-positive within culture within your homeRecognising the value of sibling relationships in teaching consent, negotiation, and sensitising to another human, which is necessary for healthy sexual relationships in the futureTo 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/

Following on from a flurry of responses on our socials, this podcast is a round-table honest mum-wisdom discussion about the realities and lessons learnt on the tween/teen journey. In this Part 1 we discuss:⁃How to recognise when you’re ‘in this phase’ of parenting⁃Holding relationship as the key fundamental to successful parenting in the teenage years⁃Knowing when to step back or lean in⁃Teaching our kids how to be with commitment and responsibility to more than themselves and in doing so, teaching them how to trust more than their anxiety and fear⁃Loving and connecting with your tween/teen - how it changes and bringing awareness to your connection points⁃Enjoying your tween/teen and who they are as a whole and complex human⁃Finding grace within the sharp barbs of these years and what creates the difference between a brutal or beautiful experience⁃As our kids grow, letting them grow us and embracing the growth that is your life RIGHT NOW⁃Not being ‘so perfect’ and allowing space for your kids to witness your own imperfection and messinessWe will continue this conversation next week where we’ll move into social media, boundary setting, choosing education systems, sexually active and alcohol conversations.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/

If you stay overfunctioning, you’re training everyone around you to underfunction. If you stay in overwhelm, you’ll stay in a fight/flight/freeze/fawn activated state, never really moving forwards. If you stay in resentment, you’ll forever blame others and never really be available for connection.So what’s the way out? We give you one step to disrupt the cycle, at each stage. In this episode we discuss:Training people to underfunctionOverfunctioning to mask your own vulnerability When your self-worth is attached to ‘doing’ Letting go of control Triaging your overwhelm Chunking down tasks so they’re manageable Hoarding your mental load It’s not all on you Being willing to let go and delegate Resentment happens when we lose ourselves When we get angry at others for not giving us the thing we’re not giving ourselves 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 ‘perfect mother myth’ permeates our culture; it implies ‘children before mother’ and asks you to pour copious amounts of energy, money and time into your child. But what happens when this ideology is so loud it undermines or overrides your boundaries?In this episode we discuss:Key ways to check in with yourselfGetting clear on whether your yes is authentic or a narrativeRecognising when you’re saying yes but you really mean noThe impact of resentment on your child or yourself, when you do something you really don’t want to doChallenging the narrative that disrupts your self-worth or identity as a motherGetting clear on your reflexive ‘no’Differentiating dysregulated and anxiety responses from solid, self-governed responsesProviding opportunities to develop future relationship negotiation skillsCaring, Careful and Careless relationshipsIt’s not safer saying ‘yes’Your ‘no’ opens their creativity and problem solvingBeing willing to be with the other person not liking your boundaryTo 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/

Nothing kills relationships faster than neglect and assumptions. So if you’re choosing this person today - why? You need to have a shared ‘eye on the prize’ (your end goal) to create the deeply fulfilling daily experience you crave.In this episode we discuss:Should’s vs agreementsUndermining your relationship intimacyThe pain is from the assumption, not the moment itselfExpressed or implied, your partner feels the weight and burden of a ‘should’ from youCreating consensual relationship agreementsWhatever you demonise you createMedicinal moments in relationship that call forwards integrityAllow sexual energy to build, but learn to direct itMonogamy needs a strong connection to self and highest valuesActively choosing your source of attractionBeing an active participant in your relationshipThe impact of social and religious conditioning and dominant family structuresThe devastating reality of financial abuse for womenCreating heart-open gratitude by overlapping both your top valuesWorking towards something bigger than todayTo 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/

Through Julie’s share of a traumatic weekend, which started with a broken arm and ended in ICU, we discuss the beauty of our old and new coping strategies. We explore getting off the treadmill of always ‘being better’ to bring instant relief and lightness. We hope you give yourself the deepest compassion and permission from this podcast. In this podcast we discuss:- Holding deep self-compassion alongside our self-growth- The self-created punishment cycles when old habits arise- Moving beyond the ‘fixing’ of ‘I’m not functioning’ - Not giving your strategies so much power that you fuel them - Balancing your perceptions when you’re in a wound- Recognising how the mother wound plays out - Phoning a friend: the value of perspective - Seeing that you don’t have to everything for your child’s best outcomes- The subtleties of intuition and how it speaksTo 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/

When you’re feeling like you’re in a limbo phase with no joy, and you’re itching to get out, it’s probably time to recognise that you’ve shifted, and your boundaries need to catch up. In this episode we explore:- Boundaries with self- Boundaries with kids- Boundaries with workTo 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/

This episode is inspired by a listener’s question on whether to have another child. We delve into her blocks, and open up the conversation on our old stories, balancing our perceptions and the potential relationship toll. In this episode we discuss:- Knowing the stories you bring to this decision- Digging deeper into ‘what’s wrong’ with your childhood- Understanding how the brain works during stress, and that you’ll regress to the stories you come with- Setting yourself and your partner up for success through these tricky times - Being with the terror, feeling it all, and letting your desire be spoken - Choosing your inspired suffering and where you rise - Balancing being seen as ‘better’ - Recognising when we have a fantasy driving our actions - Expanding our mind and our world by seeing where the opposite is equally true - If he’s not on board, where is that a reflection of where you’re also wobbly?- Resourcing yourself to upskill what you need to expand your life in more fulfilling ways, as you expand your family - Holding the paradox of your needs and your partner’s, especially when they’re different - How our fears are often driven by lack of empowerment- Empowering yourself so your fears are no longer a barrierFor more episodes that explore this topic, check out:NTM 84: Accepting the unexpected (Julie’s surprise baby #4) https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/nourishing-the-mother/id1013746031?i=1000380581657NTM 183: Getting to a place of ‘yes’ for more children https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/nourishing-the-mother/id1013746031?i=1000426436345NTM 218: Thriving with a newborn, and beyond (reflections on the newborn stage with Bridget's baby #3)https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/nourishing-the-mother/id1013746031?i=1000447858141To 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/

Whether home or on holiday, practice holding yourself and your needs without coercion or contortion. We’re here to give you three easy keys to alleviate the mental load and open up spaciousness wherever you find yourself. In this episode we discuss: ⁃ The amplification of relationship stress and family dynamics on holiday ⁃ Recognising conflict as different agendas based on different values ⁃ Scaffolding yourself and your kids for successful experiences  ⁃ Planning for neurodiversity and dysregulation  ⁃ How to bring familiarity for the brain that creates safety ⁃ Knowing that when things don’t go to plan, we activate and emotionally regress, and don’t have capacity  ⁃ Scaffolding for when the plan doesn’t go to plan  ⁃ Hoarding the mental load, and letting it go  ⁃ Moving beyond ‘f you, f them, I’m out!’ ⁃ The personal responsibility involved in the tap out  ⁃ Kids contribution to the family having a wider lens  ⁃ When parenting feels like it gets in the way of what you really want to be doing  ⁃ Creating baseline spaciousness  ⁃ When the layers of holding are compounding and increasing internal pressure  ⁃ No guilt, no shaming ways to return to yourselfTo 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 people that intimate us stretch us in all the ways our soul wants us to expand into, but our nervous system needs us to parent ourselves through.The people that intimidate us open our world, our beliefs and our possibilities, so we want you to be around them more! And we’re going to tell you how.In this episode we discuss: ⁃ Why you really DO want to be around the people that intimidate you ⁃ How to help your nervous system stay in intensity, so you can stay in the transformation ⁃ How to love the defences that arise in their presence ⁃ Avoiding shame spirals ⁃ Bodywork to build safety  ⁃ Mindset shifts to make it safe to ‘be here’ ⁃ You can’t stick your hand in a pot of honey without some of it sticking ⁃ Consciously putting yourself in the path of that which you want to stick  ⁃ The bigger your challenge, the bigger your potential for transformation  ⁃ Balancing your perceptions of kindergarten and mastery within them and youTo 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/

Your nervous system feels frayed, and you feel like you just can’t take it anymore…every day is like a firing of that trigger, and there’s no break and no light at the end of the tunnel…listen to this!We’ll take you through three easy, tangible steps so you can change your story, so you can change your life. In this episode we discuss: ⁃ What does it mean to be the ‘too good’ child?  ⁃ Dispersing the ‘good’ and ‘bad’ traits across a family dynamic ⁃ As parents, we can further polarise, and amplify traits and behaviours in our children ⁃ The way children end up playing the role that we cast them in  ⁃ Owning the trait so you stop rallying against them  ⁃ Making room in your life for new things that are important to you ⁃ The choice point we have around how we can respond  ⁃ Whether we see our child as a problem, or we see this as a deeper initiation into greater skills and identity  ⁃ Trusting your child’s strength more than their fragility ⁃ Witnessing an emotion without making it mean anything ⁃ Getting skilled at seeing your child wider, to reduce your emotional responseTo 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/

You know you’re on the struggle bus when you feel like a passenger to your life, you can’t see a way out, and you’re exhausted. Now it’s time to gently give yourself permission to take a step off. In this episode we discuss:  ⁃ Three main areas of overwhelm; family finances, parenting and mental load inequality in relationships  ⁃ Flipping your debt into service ⁃ Having a bigger plan versus immediate spinning your wheels  ⁃ Getting immediate inspiration and meaning by seeing a long term plan that you’re inspired by  ⁃ Creating more agency with your time ⁃ Recognising what comes up for you  ⁃ Asking ‘how’ instead of stopping at ‘I can’t’  ⁃ Meeting your resource needs so you can manage your parenting needs  ⁃ Changing what you see so you feel differently ⁃ A review process for your mental load  ⁃ Sharing and delegating mental load so your lifestyle is more sustainableTo 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/

We give up pieces of ourselves for other’s comfort and for our sense of belonging. What happens when you realise your way of belonging to the world is now keeping you small? How do we drop the addiction to being liked so we’re fully free to live our authentic selves.In this episode we discuss:Holding yourself without persona, perfection, protection or projectionConsciously stepping forwards into your ever-evolving most-authentic selfMoving beyond the peacemaker and the doormatembracing your whole self including your shadowReleasing your children so they have full permission to follow their inner compassStop diluting yourself and dimming your light so you’re palatable for othersUntangling from past fears so they no longer run your futureRecognising there’s a part of you that benefits from trying to contort yourself for the appetite of othersKnowing that in order to be seen and celebrated in the way that you want to, you have to be willing to be challengingThe value holding yourself in the discomfort of being disliked and raising your emotional intelligence to move beyond conformityTo 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/

Rather than empty platitudes we ground you in three easy steps on how to stop ‘I’m not enough’ in its tracks.In this episode we discuss:Remembering what it feels like when you’re connected to *you* so you can always return thereMoving beyond a lack mindset that keeps you stuckSinking into the belief that challenge isn’t without fruitSeeing that comparison creates infatuationTaking the thing that you’re comparing yourself to off a pedestalDialling down the noise so that the things that *are* for you can find youCleaning up and curating what you’re consumingThe truth of who you are creates ripples in the world far greater than any fantasy about who you think you should beTo 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/

Your body takes the shape of what reality you’re believing, so the question is, what is the story you’re telling yourself in any given moment? In this episode we centre what you can do when you have what you perceive is a ‘toxic mother’, and how to avoid to avoid making your imprint your parenting.In this episode we discuss:The destabilising effect of trauma in the nervous systemWhat it takes to lead yourself wellThe deeply hidden aspect of mothering yourselfSinking into the dynamic and knowing what you’re getting from itWhy removing ‘toxic people’ can limit your child’s growthGiving your kids agency and tools in tough momentsCreating your own ‘peace plan’Loving yourself and them deeply through the processTo 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/

We’re all about creating permission on how we can be more ‘us’ alongside seeing, honouring and allowing our whole child in front of us. In this episode we take you through the four steps to really giving yourself permission to be fully lit and inspired as you mother.In this episode we discuss:What is your lineage and your lens?Response-ability is shaped by where you come fromFeeling swallowed by the weight of perfectionPerfection is future-focussedKnowing the stories you return to, and bringing awareness, so you don’t embody the shadow you’re running formNoticing what’s in competition and bringing connectionNoticing beliefs that keep you smallAuthentic and inspired you follows the true expression of you, so connection is the only possibilityAllowing shift and changeTrusting your child’s strength and capability more than your anxiety-driven, controlling parenting measuresSelf-righteousness will happen, so bring humility when you come full circleWhat we can’t love holds us back, so love who you are in every evolutionTo 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/

In this episode we give you the three-step how-to that gives you spaciousness in motherhood that doesn’t feel like you’re gripping, controlling and hanging on. Let’s create some ease, flow, fulfilment and feel-good vibes!In this episode we discuss:Offering yourself the same love and compassion that you offer your childrenStop creating resentment cyclesMoving your motherhood beyond servitudeLeaning into your own boundariesStretching more of who you are and what you can doKnowing how to value your own needs and stop apologisingRemoving guilt and shame so you can be filled by what you receiveDon’t ignore what lights you upStop doing ‘later’ on your your dreams and desires‘Capacity’ is not a thingWhen you’re wobbly, being pulled into your bigger whyYour life is in continuous conversation with youInspiration creates capacityKnow where you’re headed, vision board your perfectionTo 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 tips you need to know to create a family holiday that feels like connection and joy, and leaves you feeling replenished. Instead of assuming you’ll have a great time, because it looks the Instagram picture, but it feels like resentment and overwhelm. In this episode we discuss:- Becoming attached to the experience your child has- The expectation on everyone to have a good time because you’ve spent money- Measuring yourself against others’ experiences and ending up in shame and guilt - Using comparison to fuel us, but recognising when it’s collapsing us- Creating a ‘heads up’ to guide your family and balance their nervous systems - Giving details that help our kids feel safe - Setting our kids up to adjust and flow with change - Getting your kids on board, rather than fighting you - Creating more ease as a parent - When you hide the challenge, you intensify the problem - Co-regulation tools to use with your child - Clearly defining parent roles and expectations - Recognising the needs and meeting them - Resisting labelling and judging our kids, which leads to more irritation - Asking ourselves ‘How could this look different?’- Allowing your child’s experience (even and especially when) it’s the opposite of yours.- Remembering the more powerful teacher is letting your kids have their own experience - Holding the vision and trusting the processTo 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/

This time of year brings with it a looming mental load of pressure and responsibility, particularly on mums. So we’d like to help you make going back to school as easy and effortless as possible. In this episode we discuss: - Getting the gear sorted so there’s no last minute angst- Reducing nervous system stress-load- Relieving mental load - Always asking “How could this be more easeful?”- Setting yourself up to have night time spaciousness - Keeping lunchboxes easy - Leaving room for how you do things to be different - Changing how you do things so you don’t crowd out your creativity - Easy meal-prep - Giving yourself permission before you uplevel- Figuring out what it looks and feels like to walk as this woman in 2023 before you make plans - Your stuckness can leave you feeling threatened- How can I optimise my life with self-reflection and greater ease?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/

This time of year, the headlines are fever-pitch on all the ways you can improve yourself. What if you just chose to exit that system and hustle culture and said ‘F*ck that! I’m going to go my own way’In this episode we discuss:- There’s no wagon to fall off if you don’t create a wagon- Cultivating deep appreciation for yourself, versus running shame and guilt- Remembering you are enough, always- Remembering ‘they’ are enough; watch where you’re projecting onto your partner- You are everything you need, for everything you want- Be here, now. It’s on the way, not in the way- It’s okay to crumble- The part of us that fights ourselves on rest, and naps- The spiritual practice of leaning back vs hustle culture- Visions, not goals- Don’t attach your self-worth to goals- It’s okay to change- Shifting expectations to allow for the wobble of identity shiftTo 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/

To set your 2023 year up right, and use your manifesting magic, let’s co-create with potency and clear direction. Grab your pen and paper, follow along and let’s get you set up.In this episode we discuss:Reconciling your 2022 to glean the wisdomRating each area of life on a ‘health’ scaleReviewing each area for fulfilment or dissatisfactionBeing ruthless in your review of what you are spending your time doing, vs can you drop it or delegate itTargeting where you want to consciously improve your lifeBeing clear on what you’re manifestingClearly mapping where you’re heading and how you’re getting thereAppreciating yourself and your lifeTo 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/

How do you know when motherhood has become a little toxic, enmeshed and smothering, and is now preventing yours and your child’s future growth? It begins with breaking the fantasy of the fully supportive mother and pulling out of the pit the imperfect, challenging mother. The challenging mother inoculates your child from life-long subordination - so how about we love her?The lean-back skillset is a tangible you can follow along to, and break the shackles of your own subordination to the perfect mother.In this episode we discuss:How you can do the lean-back skillsetSeeing your patterns that create smotheringLosing your own identity in your children and how that robs them of individuationRepulsion as a vehicle to coming back into connection with our true selvesLetting go of the perfect mother who always walks in connection and celebration of her childHow shaky your worth is when it’s wrapped up in how you perform as a motherCreating narratives for yourself outside of the ‘Hallmark’ motherReconciling your own father-force blueprintThe value of quiet holdingBreak your fantasy on supportHow we can be participants in our own pain cyclesDifferentiating when it’s about me, or when it’s about my childDisentangling your worth from care-takingTo 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/

One of the biggest fizzers of passion and attraction in long term relationship is the dying of flirtation and play, and the beige, insidious sense of apathy that ‘this is how it is now’. So let’s breathe back life into our love, romance and connection.In this episode we discuss:Quit hustling for who has it worseStop making it all about youThe feminine archetype as the ferocious destroyer and the seductive creatorHow to see the sexy kitten, instead of the volcanoHow to play and flirt your way through resentment into connectionHow to be an invitation for your partner to step towardsShowing your delight and attraction for your partnerKeeping yourself and your relationship in a non-sex simmerTo 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/

Ever feel like you’re the peace-keeper at Christmas? Or just ‘going through the motions’ but it doesn’t feel right? In this episode we give you your power back so you can move beyond the ‘good descendent’ and into the ancestor your children need. In this episode we discuss: ⁃ ‘Keeping the peace’ assumes a win:lose ⁃ Minimising your own needs and desires in service to someone outside of you ⁃ Peacekeeping is an act of performance rather than authenticity ⁃ ‘Hot’ authenticity vs grounded authenticity ⁃ Asking for what you really want ⁃ Having hard conversations  ⁃ Artfully creating a win:win where everyone’s needs are met  ⁃ Letting your inner child know they’re still loveable when you choose something different to your family to originTo 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/

We centre Julie’s honest and open experience post-surgery but please insert ‘hysterectomy’ or ‘big life change’ that transforms your identity. In this podcast we discuss the two areas of any big life change - what you can prepare for, and what you’ll be asked to surrender to. In this episode we discuss: ⁃ rites of passage in women’s lives ⁃ active health care ⁃ advocating for yourself and your health and healing journey  ⁃ Slowing down enough to feel ⁃ Setting yourself up for a great recovery  ⁃ Meeting yourself emotionally where you’re at, at every stage ⁃ Calling in and creating a support network that holds you ⁃ Recognising control can often be a wounded childhood pattern for survival ⁃ Knowing that any identity shift will ask you to surrender, and you can either move with that, or struggle against it.  ⁃ Allowing space for the messy human  ⁃ Meeting yourself in fear and shock ⁃ Fortifying your mental strength ⁃ Creating spaciousness by being able to meet each moment  ⁃ Trusting the universe to provide whatever you need ⁃ The deeper aspect of letting go  ⁃ Liberating yourself so you’re no longer an inhibitor to your life  ⁃ Exploring what needs to be healed here for me to live the experience I want ⁃ How is the excuse a way not to dealTo 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/

Your Christmas experience can be defined by what you filter, plug into and consume - so let’s be conscious about what you’re reaffirming. In this podcast we dissect what has you feeling constricted vs heart-aligned in the festive season, and how to compassionately distill down who is in the driver’s seat of your life.In this episode we discuss:  ⁃ Bringing your unconscious, conscious ⁃ The stories that run you this time of year ⁃ Bringing conscious awareness to when an old belief is driving your behaviour ⁃ Being a vibrational match for what you desire your festive season to be ⁃ Crashing into old resentment stories ⁃ Boundaries and needs as self care ⁃ Holding curiosity instead of using this new awareness to beat yourself up  ⁃ The stacking of tension this time of year  ⁃ Your money stories at Christmas  ⁃ Altruism vs consumerism  ⁃ The psychology of giving and receiving  ⁃ Shame and guilt of the past and it impacts your present ⁃ Being prideful in your thriftinessTo 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/

Following on from last week’s episode, we give you three super-tangible steps to break free of the resentment cage.In this episode we discuss:⁃ Seeing what it’s costing you to hold firm on the belief systems you already have⁃ Understanding that your children ‘set you up’ to feel as they do - and can you apply this as a universal principle to those you’re in resentment of⁃ Our resentment dynamic holds clues for what it’s like to be in relationship with us…and can we use this for our own growth in how we love?⁃ Our rigidity constricts our children and our flexibility relieves them⁃ Allowing more flexibility within ourselves as we change, so our children can occupy more subject positions for themselves⁃ Our true level of emotional intelligence is revealed when we’re in challenging situations⁃ When we are stressed, we emotionally regress⁃ Letting go of the grip of previous identities⁃ Our world is a conservation of opposites, it’s only our brain that cannot perceive both sides in a moment⁃ The tightrope walk of the good mother/bad mother binary. We only know ‘the good mother’ because we know the bad motherTo 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/

Following on from a listener’s email, we have an impromptu but revelatory conversation on the lived experience of resentment within our family systems. We explore deeply how mothers are ‘not allowed’ to have the complexities of humanity, according to the ‘perfect mother’ myth reinforced in patriarchal motherhood.In this episode we discuss:⁃ Understanding that we only know something, by knowing it’s opposite⁃ The Madonna myth⁃ Continuously measuring your mother against a self-created fantasy ideal⁃ The process that happens inside our brain of remylineating existing beliefs, which reinforces our emotional charges⁃ Understanding that we will resent them to the degree that we’re holding the fantasy ideal up on a pedestal⁃ Our neurochemical addictions to repeated family dynamics⁃ Our addiction to our current neurochemistry reinforced by our polarisations⁃ Rewiring our brain for change is hard⁃ Recognising that if you got what you wanted, there will be an equilibrating loss somewhere else⁃ Finding appreciation for your own complex family dynamics and loving the people who play the roles for youTo 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/

With modern-day motherhood’s ‘hangover’ (tiredness!), Julie and Bridget debrief Jules’ completely non-PC Hysterectomy Party with a whole lot of laughter, soul and consciousness. Our key reflections were on:⁃ Finding more availability within yourself through lightness ,laughter and self-celebration⁃ Meeting women in the place of no pretence, where shame evaporates, and healing happens through laughter⁃ When we name, and dance with, the fears wrapped up in our next evolution, we take away their power over usWe would love your reflections on this conversation, so please reach out!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/

When disconnection and discontent are your primary emotional experiences, it might be time to look at where you’re being asked to crumble your current identity…and let go of self-righteousness?In this episode we discuss:- Recognising where self-righteousness is masquerading as ‘choosing myself’ and ‘being in integrity’ - How to get back into connection with self, partner and parenting - Recognising when you’re running ‘moral high ground’ stories- Seeing the protection strategy in looking for evidence for all the ways you’re ‘right’- The inherent vulnerability in realising there’s so many ways to be right - Realising that surrounding yourself with total support creates further disconnection - Dropping into your heart and out of your head - Noticing a manic energy that ‘needs to prove something’ - Stopping the spiral of ‘You’re so…’ & ‘They’re so…’ - Recognising when your coping strategy is bringing you benefits - Noticing your physiology when you’re ‘on the hunt’ for supportTo 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/

In this episode we look at the shame stumble of identity crisis and finding the spaciousness to love both a past and future self. In this episode we explore:- Balancing out shame about a past version of self - Opening up possibility for a future version of self- Listening to the stories of others that both support and challenge you, with an open heart - Learning how to be in opposition with an open heart- Recognising the role of the challenger - Using the heart-stings and pain points as fuel for your self-inquiry - Seeking comfort and getting pushback - Recognising the echoes of your inner child - Appreciating the push into individuation - Learning to love yourself and other widerTo 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/

Following a listener’s email we talk to you about how to dance the line between anger and activism in a powerful and sustainable way. We give you points to discern when your anger has flipped from being constructive to destructive, and what to do to pull yourself back into heart connection, where true change is possible. In this episode we discuss:- When anger is pulling you forward, versus keeping you stuck- When anger is motivating, and when it keeps you distracted- Recognising when you’re heart connected, or disconnected - Being consumed by fixing things outside of you - Being able to hold self-integrity and reflection on the path of activism - When everybody’s not listening to you, recognising that they’re not designed to care like you - Humanising versus de-humanising people - Collateral damage when we’re connected to our righteousness - When your polarised lens is perpetuating anger cycles - How striving for a one-sided world creates more anger- Sustainable activism is built upon relationship - Being an invitation to change versus repulsing those who can create change with us - With great power comes great responsibility; how will you wield the sword of power that is anger?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/

Do you sometimes find yourself in a spiral of comparison when you see families living the ‘perfect instagramable holiday’? This conversation will bust your polarised FOMO and have you appreciating yourself and your own life, bringing you back into heartfelt connection with yourself and your own life. Through Julie’s travel stories, in this episode we discuss:- The ‘shine’ we see is also balanced by the ‘shit’ - You don’t escape your family dynamic on a holiday- Family holidays will magnify anything that already exists - Experiences outside your comfort zone will stretch your nervous system capacity, and your children’s - Balancing adult expectations with children’s developmental realities- There is no holiday for the mother - The value of tag-teaming as co-parents- Recognising the safety you have in a controlled environment at home which brings you freedom, balancing the perception of travel being the ultimate freedom- Normalising children’s fearful experiences on holidays- Maintaining humour through struggle sets you freeTo 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/

When disconnection and discontent are your primary emotional experiences, it might be time to look at where you’re being asked to crumble your current identity…and let go of self-righteousness?In this episode we discuss:- Recognising where self-righteousness is masquerading as ‘choosing myself’ and ‘being in integrity’ - How to get back into connection with self, partner and parenting - Recognising when you’re running ‘moral high ground’ stories- Seeing the protection strategy in looking for evidence for all the ways you’re ‘right’- The inherent vulnerability in realising there’s so many ways to be right - Realising that surrounding yourself with total support creates further disconnection - Dropping into your heart and out of your head - Noticing a manic energy that ‘needs to prove something’ - Stopping the spiral of ‘You’re so…’ & ‘They’re so…’ - Recognising when your coping strategy is bringing you benefits - Noticing your physiology when you’re ‘on the hunt’ for supportTo 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/

What do you do when you find yourself in full-bodied longing for the thing you don’t have (like pregnancy, money, a great relationship…). We want you to let your desires fuel you, but beware when they engulf you, or send you into victimhood.   This episode has four clear and easy steps to get yourself back to being a powerful manifestor.   In this episode we discuss: - Resenting the world, and how to come back into appreciation  - Victimhood as a normal, human, transient state, versus when it becomes your chronic story - Moving from lack and scarcity vibes and into abundant manifesto vibes - Lifting ourselves out of the pit of heaviness  - When support is beautiful, and when it keeps you stuck in a lack story  - Breaking the grasping ‘need’ to bring abundant states back  - Seeing wider than the narrow lens of resentment  - Comparison to everyone else  - Subconscious motives that keep you stuck  - Healthful soul-searching, but noticing when it turns to navel-gazing - Super-charging your worth, power and vitalityTo 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/

Mothers often find themselves in the sandwich between beauty and pain, grief and gratitude; it’s hard sometimes to be moving forwards, but not quite ready to let go. Often what’s needed is attending to the grief that we’re experiencing in this transition phase. In this episode we discuss: ⁃ How to integrate grief into your own life ⁃ Grief around fertility and miscarriage  ⁃ Grief around endings like leaving babyhood, toddlerhood and fertility years ⁃ Grief when life changes, like aging parents.  ⁃ Allowing your experience ⁃ Ritualising your experience  ⁃ Supporting your body to be with the intensity  ⁃ Finding community where your grief can be held  ⁃ Complex feelings of love and resentment  ⁃ Not getting so nostalgic that you forget the shitshow  ⁃ We’re not just grieving who/what we perceive we’ve lost, but grieving who we are in relationship to the 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/

In an update following our podcasts on Julie’s prolapse journey, she shares her surgical choices and how she’s navigating and advocating for herself through that. We explore the humility and the heart in embracing what we once judged.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/

It’s all well and good to aspire to more pleasure and joy in your life, but how do you actually do that with an unending list of needs and demands from small children and life.In this episode, we discuss:You can’t be conscious all the timeWhen your feminine might be out of balanceThe context of modern motherhoodBusting the belief that it all has to be youLooking outside of your own storiesWhen you step back, who steps upWhat can you let go of to allow it in?Receiving and allowing yourself to receiveMaking more conscious choices towards ever-greater alignmentDoing the things that bring you joy and pleasure amidst motherhoodGiving less f*cks, but really choosing the f*cks you giveTo 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/

When daily life starts to get too hard and heavy, and joy and pleasure begin to leave your life, body and parenting, what can you do?The quality of your life can be determined by the quality of the questions you ask yourself - so in this podcast, the quest that we take you on, is to find the beauty in the questions that open you up.In this episode we discuss:Your attachment to a ‘hard work’ mindsetRecognising the fallacy in the ‘hard work’ mindsetLack vs abundant mindsetNoticing the ways you’re policing yourselves and othersHolding judgements on those who take the ‘easy way’When you’re condensing and contracting down, how do you open up and expand?When you change your lens you change your lifeWhat is it like to walk a path of ease and joy?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/

Through the stories of our lived experience, we share the wisdom gleaned on what we need as space-holders through every age and stage of our children. In this episode we discuss:- The relentless and all-consuming nature of holding space- The release from over-stimulation- Aggression is part of the way children express- What you need as a mother at each stage- What we are asked to meet and heal within the self at each stage - Meeting public meltdowns and observing the self as you navigate that - Building the capacity to hold great intensity - Understanding cognitively children’s releases and functional and healthy- Not needing to control our kids and their emotions- Being with internalised judgements- Checking in on your own expectations- Sharing care at transition phases- Teen years and listening versus problem-solvingTo 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/

Your top values will always fill your time, so are you leading your life, or are others? If you’re regularly finding yourself feeling resentful toward your children or motherhood, it could be time to re-evaluate.In this episode we explore:- Beliefs like ’no one else can do this but me’ as forging an identity for your that’s become a straitjacket- Exiting the straitjacket of the identity you’ve grown to big for- Contemplating if my child doesn’t need me, where’s my worth- Considering intensively meeting needs as a season, rather than a lifestyle- Getting beneath our parenting challenges to see that perhaps we’re being asked to confront the fantasy we have with ourselves, how we mother, and our children- When we step back, who steps up?- When you’re not in connection, who is?- Challenging the perfect mother myth that ‘Only the biological mother can provide the best care for my child’- Healthy relationship requires an element of conflict- Allowing everybody to be whole- Lived experience and wisdom versus intellectually knowing all the toolsTo 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/

This week while Bridget celebrates her daughters birthday, Julie brings you some clips from her Seen, Felt, Known ~ Feminine Energy 101, free program. It’s a sensual, informative and heart-opening dive into how to access more of your feminine energy - enjoy!In this episode we explore: - Relaxation, aka receiving- Beauty- Leading with your heart- Adornment- SensualityTo 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/

This episode is all about the practice of relationship with your body, not an arrival point or destination laden with expectation. In this episode we recognise that relationship with our bodies is a lifelong process and includes repulsion, indifferent and revelation. In this episode we discuss: ⁃ The drive to always want to make your body different or better ⁃ Living in a society that has a disdain for ageing ⁃ Finding ways to appreciate your body for what it can do and feel  ⁃ Holding neural pathways that reinforce pain or rigidity  ⁃ Gentle, rhythmic movement that brings connection  ⁃ Training yourself to reorient back towards your body ⁃ Taking stock of what you’re not doing for yourself that’s contributing to how you feel; ie. not having water, lunch, broth on hand in winter.  ⁃ Being intentional with how you want to meet the world ⁃ Changing the Patriarchail narrative on yourself ⁃ Universal laws that impact your mindset ⁃ Balancing appreciation and loosening the grip of wrongnessTo 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/

We all have a pattern of collapse, what’s yours? It can feel like you’re in a fight or flight response, have dropped your bundle, lost your capacity entirely or are flooded by overwhelm. You can find yourself spiralling in thoughts of self-hatred…and we ALL get here from time to time.It’s not about avoiding getting here, it’s about having the strategies and structure for when you do.In this episode we discuss:What to do when you feel like you can’t climb outFocusing on what you can anchor toRecognising you’re spiralling when all the little things trigger youBringing yourself into the present by orienting to space and timeRecognising old patterns of using blame and shame as strategiesQuestioning when your boundaries have been washed over so many times, that you’re now resentfulWhen we move our body, we move our mindRecognising fear that you’re plunging into the unknown and supporting yourself to create safety.Sharing your messiness rather than being ‘already solved’Letting yourself rejuvenate in Mother NatureIncreasing sensory play stations for your kidsBeing self-disciplined on when you’re ‘checking out’Creating a vibe in your homeTo 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/

If you can’t deal with your emotions, you can’t deal with your money. So in this episode with Coco the astro economist, we talk building your intuition to build your wealth, working on your self-worth to build you net worth, busting your ‘hard work’ beliefs, and not waiting for the perfect time. We also explore how empowering ourselves as mothers, empowers our daughters so they may free themselves from a life of financial abuse. In this two-part series we cover:* The crippling effect of the fear of 'losing it all' that holds you and your family back* What a good money manager is and how to become one* Your self-worth underpins your ability to make money and build your wealth* Make love to the numbers you hate* Earning more than your partner is not a bad thing, you just usher in a new version of your partner* Choosing intuition over intellect towards financial growth* Following the small signs each day to build a strong trust in your own intuition* We can subconsciously sabotage ourselves and 'lose it all' in order to stay connected to our friends and family circles* The importance of building a network that helps you go through the ceiling - your network is your net-worth!* You first have to trust your own intuition, then you 'train' your family/partner to trust it* Everything has a gift, what is your gift right now? Especially when life has dealt you a huge challenge.* The difference between intuition and emotion and how to nuance the difference for yourself* economic cycles have synergy with astrological cycles* How to 'read the media' for where we're at in the bull or bare cycles* How to beat FOMO - everything has an 'opportunity cost' - it's only important that you're grounded and in-alignment with YOUR values, comparison is death* focusing on where you CAN monetise To connect with Coco, find her on Instagram at @iamcocodee and at https://coralinedufroux.comTo 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/

If you can’t deal with your emotions, you can’t deal with your money. So in this episode with Coco the astro economist, we talk building your intuition to build your wealth, working on your self-worth to build you net worth, busting your ‘hard work’ beliefs, and not waiting for the perfect time. We also explore how empowering ourselves as mothers, empowers our daughters so they may free themselves from a life of financial abuse. In this two-part series we cover:* The crippling effect of the fear of 'losing it all' that holds you and your family back* What a good money manager is and how to become one* Your self-worth underpins your ability to make money and build your wealth* Make love to the numbers you hate* Earning more than your partner is not a bad thing, you just usher in a new version of your partner* Choosing intuition over intellect towards financial growth* Following the small signs each day to build a strong trust in your own intuition* We can subconsciously sabotage ourselves and 'lose it all' in order to stay connected to our friends and family circles* The importance of building a network that helps you go through the ceiling - your network is your net-worth!* You first have to trust your own intuition, then you 'train' your family/partner to trust it* Everything has a gift, what is your gift right now? Especially when life has dealt you a huge challenge.* The difference between intuition and emotion and how to nuance the difference for yourself* economic cycles have synergy with astrological cycles* How to 'read the media' for where we're at in the bull or bare cycles* How to beat FOMO - everything has an 'opportunity cost' - it's only important that you're grounded and in-alignment with YOUR values, comparison is death* focusing on where you CAN monetise To connect with Coco, find her on Instagram at @iamcocodee and at https://coralinedufroux.comTo 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/

It's the season for feeling hostage to sick kids and chained to frustration. So we want you to feel less alone, and more loved up as you navigate it all. We talk around three areas in this podcast, beginning with: you're not alone, normalising frustration and how to find the silver lining. In this episode we discuss:- Order and chaos as part of a healthy life- The attachments you have to what the merry go round means- The polarisations that keep you self-minimising- There is no merry-go-round to get off of- Returning to what your basic needs are- Creating spaciousness by allowing to vent and release in safe spaces- Expanding emotional capacity and flexibility- Supporting yourself to be 'sick fit' - Loving the season you're inTo 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/

This week marks our 7 year anniversary of the launch of our podcast - Nourishing the Mother. So with sick-babe in arms, we record a podcast reflecting on what it's been like to run business alongside motherhood with freedom, flexibility and compassion front of mind.  In this episode we discuss: - Our potent memories, defining moments and deep gratitude for what this experience has given us - Running business and family as top values together - Trusting you won't know how, but you'll work it out and having the courage to leap - Being willing to pivot, fall flat and get up again, because your why is so important - Building windows of tolerance and holding yourself in the tension for longer - Weaving wisdom from a shit show day - Finding bandwidth when you thought you had none - Seeing your work in the world as part of your wellbeing - Creating and allowing imperfection - Harnessing the time you have - Choosing your hard - Giving others permission by showing upTo 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/

In this episode we give you the three-step panacea to running your own life instead of feeling like a back-seat driver to everyone else's needs. We'll have you seeing yourself through a whole different lens and placing yourself back where you belong, in the driver's seat of your own life.In this episode we discuss:- the law of conservation and how if you don't fill your day, something or someone else will- how do you find your power when all you see is your disempowerment?- seeing where you already are powerful- seeing where you are choosing your top values in everyday life- understanding the resentment and self-minimisation cycle- understanding where the shadow-you is consuming power- empowering yourself to take back your life, even as a mother of young childrenTo 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/

Julie and Bridget share the 'real life stories' of the non-highlight reel reality of parenting and the inevitable shit show it brings. Bridget illustrates the dynamic at play within the polarity between siblings via a birthday party and Julie shares the reality of meeting multiple, diverse needs in a large family. This podcast gives you our unfiltered events of weekend reality and the three-step process we employ to find our own softening within the shitshow (please note this one comes with a strong language warning!).Our three-step process is:- What's my fantasy?- Let it go- Choose youTo 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/

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

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 and how to work with itTo 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/

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.

Big change results in big behaviors – your child’s and yours! In this episode we take you through our three main pillars (with an additional fourth!) for thriving through your child’s transitions. You don’t throw a pancake across the room unless you need to – as we’ll hear from Bridget’s story with her daughter. In Listen InThe post NTM 344: Tears, tantrums and school transitions appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

We back up last week’s podcast with 8 more potent points on starting your business right…based on how we’d do it differently if we had our time over! Don’t learn the hard way, learn from our mistakes and growth and fast-track your growth to building the life and work you crave. In this episode we Listen InThe post NTM 343: The things we’d do differently if we were starting our businesses again – PART TWO appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

In this episode we share 8 key learnings we wish we’d known about or done earlier in our business journey. We talk about personal experiences, mindset changes, valuing ourselves, our work and holding our vision, especially when no-one else could. In this episode we discuss: 1. Getting a coach / joining a mastermind – do’s, Listen InThe post NTM 342: The things we’d do differently if we were starting our businesses again – PART ONE appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

In case you didn’t know it, ‘the New Year slump’, IS a ‘thing’. After the emotional highs and lows of Christmas, we arrive to a New Year where we’re supposed to have all our inspired dreams and desires locked in and ready to go…but what if you don’t?! What if you’re in a slump and Listen InThe post NTM 341: What to do about your New year slump appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

We’ve stitched together our 3 top podcasts for the year, to invigorate your holiday listening and bring you all manifest vibes! In this one episode, you will hear: The 3 keys to manifesting The 3 keys to manifesting your family vision Make manifest the space that liberates you! Enjoy your ride into 2021! Love us Listen InThe post NTM 340: Holiday Listening – Our top 3 podcasts on Manifesting! appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

Are you heading into Christmas feeling the burn of exhaustion, demand, ungrateful and bratty children? Then this is the episode for you! We want to best support you with our top tips and personal stories to create willingness, nourishment and quality experiences for you and your children at Christmas time. In this episode we discuss; Listen InThe post NTM 339: Big feelings in little people at Christmas appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

Grab your pen and paper for this one, we’re guiding you through an ative review of 2021 and anchoring your manifestations for 2022! This is your must-have process to propel yourself forward in all the ways you desire in 2022. Let’s look at stagnation, glass ceilings and self sabotage, acknowledging our fears and emotional blocks Listen InThe post NTM 338: Manifest what you seek, with us appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

Instead of “F*^k this year, I don’t’ want to”, how do we offer both ourselves and our loved ones acceptance, without needing them, us, or the situation to change? In this episode we discuss making the most out of a really difficult year with difficult choices that can divide families and fracture relationships both for Listen InThe post NTM 337: Navigating a Covid Christmas appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

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. 💋💋LOVERS SCHOOL Redefining pleasure, passion and polarity in relationship. What’s included: Listen InThe post NTM 331: Behind the picket fence with Julie and Nick appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

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.

What do you do once you find out infidelity is now part of your relationship? In this rich, raw and vulnerable conversation, we speak with Rachel Mckenzie on her experience of infidelity in a long term relationship, navigating the deep hurt, confusion, depression and heart ache that is understanding, healing and moving beyond infidelity. We Listen InThe post NTM 316: Relationship Taboos series – INFIDELITY – with Rachel McKenzie appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

In this episode we explore the reality of what isolation and loneliness can look like in motherhood, the importance of being seen where we’re at and in choosing how we nourish ourselves. In a society that doesn’t validate motherhood or see mothers in the daily grind and mental load that is modern motherhood, it’s important Listen InThe post NTM 315: The isolation and loneliness of motherhood is real – Part 2 appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

In this episode we explore the reality of what isolation and loneliness can look like in motherhood, the importance of being seen where we’re at and in choosing how we nourish ourselves. In a society that doesn’t validate motherhood or see mothers in the daily grind and mental load that is modern motherhood, it’s important Listen InThe post NTM 314: The isolation and loneliness of motherhood is real – Part 1 appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

How is your relationship with your body, after our 6 week Body Love series? In this episode we recap with our own personal takeaways from each of the 6 episodes, including: Bodyimage in the bedroom with Bonnie Bliss Rewriting our relationship with food with Charmaine Newmark Training the postpartum bodywith Chloe Anne BodyPositive parenting with Cliona Burn Lovingthe skin you’re in with Listen InThe post NTM 313: The body love review appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

The fertility journey can be a deeply emotional rollercoaster of heartache and longing. In this episode, Fertility Psychologist Cath Corcoran opens up the discussion on what it is to build hope and trust amidst an experience of resentment, betrayal, disconnection and struggle. Topics we discuss include: Anger at your body not working Building gratitude for where Listen InThe post NTM 312: Loving your body through your fertility journey with The Conception Psychologist, Cath Corcoran appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

What we repress, our skin tends to express, so what are the stories your skin is revealing? How can we better understand and care for this, the largest organ of our body? In this episode, through honest conversation and expert insight, we learn about problem skin, hormone levels, environmental pollutants and our skin, and how Listen InThe post NTM 311: Loving the skin you’re in with Naturopathic Skin Specialist Sallie Roberts appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

Body confident kids are raised by parents who have a strong sense of body image and body-positive language…but how do you do this in a social, media and family culture with such strong body-shame messaging? In this episode, we talk with Body Positive parenting coach Cliona Byrne on how you can create a body-positive environment Listen InThe post NTM 310: Body positive parenting with Cliona Byrne appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

When our cultural message is so deeply ingrained, how do we step out of that and be what our body really needs? In this episode, we interview postpartum specialist and personal trainer, Chloe Anne, on rehabilitation and restoration post-birth and how we can shift the paradigm from disconnected external measures of body-image to connected, nourishing and Listen InThe post NTM 309: Defying the bounce-back postpartum body with Chloe Anne – Embodied Leader, Personal Trainer and mother of two appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

How much is the relationship you have with food, reflective of the relationship you have with life? And if you extrapolate out the conditional love you offer yourself when it comes to your body and/or food, where else might this conditional love be appearing? In this juicy conversation with The Nourished Naturopath, Charmaine Newmark, we Listen InThe post NTM 308: Rewriting our relationship with food with Charmaine Newmark, The Nourished Naturopath appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

How do we love and feel sexually alive in our body, when it’s very different to how it used to be? What do we do with the stories and shame we may find ourselves circling through? What if your body could be an instrument of worthiness? What if instead of looking at our bodies and Listen InThe post NTM 307: Body image in the bedroom with Somatic sexologist Bonnie Bliss appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

We desire to love more of our body as a result of the voids we have on loving it. What does that look like, and what have been the paths charted on loving more of our bodies for Bridget and Julie? Let’s dive in to all the rich conversations and vulnerable places on body image, Listen InThe post NTM 306: The stories our bodies could tell appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

It’s the modern mothers’ affliction; yelling. How do we find ourselves here and what can we put in place to create more ease and flow? How do we find our gentle and early with our boundaries self vs feeling resentful and protective of what’s been overtrodden? It’s a great conversation that could just change your Listen InThe post NTM 305: Finding my boundaries early and gently vs late and angry appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

The topic we’re emailed about the most! ‘How do I find my community?’…what if you’re projections are what’s in the way and moving towards your hearts yearning is the answer? In this episode we discuss what it means to create your community and find the people who light you up and bring you alive in Listen InThe post NTM 304: Creating community and finding your peeps appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

We can find ourselves addicted to support when in the face or challenge and addicted to drama when it brings us connection. So what do you do to ‘conscious yourself’ out of these conundrums? In this episode we explore through story what it means to expand your thinking beyond what’s habituated and how you can Listen InThe post NTM 303: Do I shrink + stay safe or do I expand and speak my truth? appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

“These parents are parenting in intense situations where dysregulation reigns and the child is largely over-stimulated and overwhelmed, for a far more extended period of time”. In part two of this powerful and practical interview with neuro-diversity parent-coach experts Tara and Meg, we seek to shed light on the invisibilised experience of parents to additional needs children and the Listen InThe post NTM 302: Neurodiverse children with experts Tara Broughan & Meg McIntosh – for parents, carers and professionals working with children with additional needs – Part 2 appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

“Every family has ingredients of challenge and wonder” says Tara “and we need to reframe self-care into family-care – because it is”. In this powerful and practical interview with neuro-diversity parent-coach experts Tara and Meg, we ask the deeply meaningful questions from parents within our community who experience challenges in parenting their own neuro-diverse children. Listen InThe post NTM 301: Neurodiverse children with experts Tara Broughan & Meg McIntosh – for parents, carers and professionals working with children with additional needs – Part 1 appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

Feed a fantasy and you breed a nightmare. What ideals or fantasies have consumed you and your identity in motherhood? What has the fallout from previously held ‘truths’ or beliefs been? What if you could mitigate the level of suffering you experience as you fall from grace, by simply bringing awareness and asking a few Listen InThe post NTM 300: Exploring the fantasies in motherhood appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

How do you handle conflict? Can you move toward it or do you shrink? How do you handle greatness? Can you move toward it or do you shrink? These could be two of the most powerful and impactful questions you will ever ask yourself and it is where we navigate this week’s conversation, through the Listen InThe post NTM 299: Finding strength in Conflict appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

If everything that is currently conscious for you, is a manifestation of what has previously been unconscious…where does that leave you? The master of your fate or too scared to think?! Through conversation and story, we break down the synchronicity of our past week and how you really are the most powerful being in this Listen InThe post NTM 298: How your life is revealing yourself to you appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

In this episode we explore the law of transparency and reflection and see through story how we can create more freedom by moving beyond our perceptions of how the world is and who we are within it. We talk science, spirituality, relationship and family dynamics in this fascinating episode. You can join us in Soul Listen InThe post NTM 297: You see the world as you are, not as it is appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

Do I belong here anymore? When the moments and transitions of your children’s growth and development call you into mourning and letting go of what has always been up and until now, how do you meet and reform your identity from this tender place? If you stay too attached to the identity you’ve developed up Listen InThe post NTM 296: The holding on and letting go of identity in motherhood appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

What does it look like to show up for intimate love during the ‘sameness’ that lockdowns can cultivate? How do you practice ‘loving well’ during these often stress-filled times? In this episode we explore our experiences in 2020, and muse on our current reality in another lockdown, this time for Valentine’s Day. Nourishing the Mother Listen InThe post NTM 295: Love in the time of Corona appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

We feel you. There’s seasons in motherhood and exhaustion is certainly one of them. Whether it’s awake through the night with babies or teething toddlers, extracurriculars or playground dynamics that leave you spent, we cover it all in this podcast, sharing our own current experiences and dynamics of exhaustion and how to be with it Listen InThe post NTM 294: Parenting through exhaustion appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

In this week’s podcast we riff in answer to a listener’s question ‘What is truth?’. It’s a mind-bending, soul opening conversation that drops so many bombs you’ll want to delve into what truth is for you, how you share your truth, how you hold your truth back and what you’re teaching your children. We’d love Listen InThe post NTM 293: What is truth actually? appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

It’s time to create your sanctuary. Our homes are reflective of who we are, how we ‘be’ and where we’re stuck. What if you had a formula for decoding how to declutter and a manual for manifesting your next level you?…Enter Tara Arcobelli from The Household Advisor! Tara is a wholistic organisational specialist who loves Listen InThe post NTM 292: Make manifest the space that liberates you! appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

This episode is a little glimpse into what goes on in our Soul Driven Motherhood community, as we share a fascinating and honest conversation between us, in the middle of facilitating a workshop, as we explore the shame & guilt that can often show up when we are reflecting on the areas we’re desiring to Listen InThe post NTM 291: Shame, guilt and the stories we tell ourselves appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

A thriving family needs a vision and a thriving child needs support and stretching in alignment with who they are and who they are becoming. So let’s talk getting clear on where you’re at, and where you want yourself, your family and each of your children to be by the end of 2021. Nourishing the Mother http://www.nourishingthemother.com.au Bridget Wood http://www.suburbansandcastles.com Julie Listen InThe post NTM 290: The 3 keys to manifesting your family vision appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

What are the ingredients that bring to life what you desire? Let’s talk the three things you really need to know to manifest your desires with purpose, power and intention. Nourishing the Mother http://www.nourishingthemother.com.au Suburban Sandcastles – Bridget http://www.suburbansandcastles.com The Pleasure Nutritionist – Jules http://www.julietenner.loveThe post NTM 289: The 3 keys to manifesting appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

Well, it’s been a year! But don’t manifest off bad-vibes, get clear on what you’ve experienced, how you’ve grown and what gems you’re taking with you next year. In this conversation, we explore the challenges, triumphs and transformations of our year, to inspire your own reflection.   Nourishing the Mother http://www.nourishingthemother.com.au Suburban Sandcastles – Bridget Listen InThe post NTM 288: Shining the shit of 2020 appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

How do you find the bestie you crave? How do you create, foster and nourish deeply meaningful friendships as an adult? Let’s talk finding your conscious bestie, what’s in the way and how you can begin manifesting yours! Nourishing the Mother http://www.nourishingthemother.com.au Suburban Sandcastles – Bridget http://www.suburbansandcastles.com The Pleasure Nutritionist – Jules http://www.julietenner.loveThe post NTM 287: I want to meet the Bridget to my Julie appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

This episode is everything you need to create a nourishing bubble around yourself that carries you through what can be an intense festive period! We talk becoming aware of the stories you carry and the values you project on others as well as how you might be using your current conflict as armour….and of course the quality Listen InThe post NTM 286: Are you ready for inlaws and family at Christmas? appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

It’s done! It’s birthed! Flowers & Honey the book is here! Let’s tie a bow around this most epic of launches by hearing the completion of this story, the behind-the-scenes, and who this book is for, and what it’s here to be in the world. This podcast is sponsored by The Awaken Label + Nourishing Listen InThe post NTM 285: The wrap-up on Julie’s book launch appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

What intentions are you setting for your festive season? What do you want your kids to feel? What do you want to create within your family? In this week’s episode we discuss what it is to create an intentional festive season with our children and what you might need to let go in the process. This episode Listen InThe post NTM 284: Nourished AF at Christmas appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

In this week’s episode Bridget gives us the 4-1-1 on nervous system regulation, dysregulation and co-regulation. It’s deep and super juicy​ for those learning lovers out there and explores the impact you can have on your child’s developing nervous system and why nourishing​ your own nervous system​ is paramount​ to a healthy family system. Nourishing Listen InThe post NTM 283: Why nourishing the mother matters more than ever appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

Playful parenting is an incredible way to shift stuck feelings, massage out new areas of fear and invite cooperation. In this weeks episode we discuss how we each apply using play to move through our days and challenges with our children. Nourishing the Mother http://www.nourishingthemother.com.au Suburban Sandcastles – Bridget http://www.suburbansandcastles.com The Pleasure Nutritionist – Jules Listen InThe post NTM 282: Bringing Play into your parenting appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

In this week’s episode we are joined by two of the most soulful women you will ever meet, who courageously share with us some of the most intimate moments of their lives; their miscarriages. We asked Shelley and Katie onto this podcast to share their stories because in our culture and experience of miscarriage they are quite unique, if Listen InThe post NTM 281: Healing from miscarriage with Shelley Clarke and Katie Parker appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

In so many areas of our life, raising children is an opportunity to raise ourselves – and so this week we focus on money and motherhood, sharing with you the wisdom and insights of Economist, Senior Financial Adviser and Author Jodie Nolan. With courage and heart, Jodie openly shares her challenges, life lessons, and financial Listen InThe post NTM 280: Scarcity patterning and financial literacy with Jodie Nolan appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

In this episode, we explore the birth culture, past and present and the experiences of women in the highly interventionist ‘labour bypass era’ through the stories and insights of one of Australia’s most trailblazing advocates for natural birth, Author and Childbirth Educator Rhea Dempsey.   About Rhea Dempsey Rhea is a highly sought after independent Listen InThe post NTM 279: Birthing wisdom with Rhea Dempsey – Part 2 appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

In this episode, we explore the birth culture, past and present and the experiences of women in the highly interventionist ‘labour bypass era’ through the stories and insights of one of Australia’s most trailblazing advocates for natural birth, Author and Childbirth Educator Rhea Dempsey.   About Rhea Dempsey Rhea is a highly sought after independent Listen InThe post NTM 278: Birthing wisdom with Rhea Dempsey – Part 1 appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

The emotional see-saw of comparison with others is feedback to let us know we’re not really seeing the full picture. In this episode we unpack how infatuation and resentment works in relationships, and how to get back into your heart, and in appreciation for the magnificent whole. Nourishing the Mother http://www.nourishingthemother.com.au Suburban Sandcastles – Bridget Listen InThe post NTM 277: The dangers of putting someone on a pedestal or in a pit appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

In this episode, Julie shares the pain and identity shattering that has been birthing her book into the world. It’s a Mt Everest of a climb and we hope it inspires you to do the impossible! Nourishing the Mother http://www.nourishingthemother.com.au Suburban Sandcastles – Bridget http://www.suburbansandcastles.com The Pleasure Nutritionist – Jules http://www.thepleasurenutritionist.comThe post NTM 276: Birthing Julie’s book appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

There is a dominant cultural & feminist narrative that says ‘motherhood is where women’s dreams go to die’, which leads many women to devalue themselves in who they are as mothers. In this episode we challenge the status quo by exploring all the ways that your motherhood is a place of expansion, and opportunity. We Listen InThe post NTM 275: Reimagining Motherhood appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

In this episode we explore the beauty, the challenge and the strategies of raising toddlers. We face how easy it can be to forget this stage, which feels so enormous when you’re in it. We hope you find some camaraderie and some inspiration as you yourself navigate toddlerhood with us. Nourishing the Mother http://www.nourishingthemother.com.au Suburban Listen InThe post NTM 274: Ahhhhh sweet (devilish) toddlerhood appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

This week’s episode is a workshop from The Wellness Summit where we explore the beliefs and conditioning that govern how you feel about yourself as a mother, the value and worth you place upon yourself and your work. Have a pen and paper handy. Nourishing the Mother http://www.nourishingthemother.com.au Suburban Sandcastles – Bridget http://www.suburbansandcastles.com The Pleasure Listen InThe post NTM 273: Unpacking your cultural beliefs about motherhood appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

In this fascinating conversation with Dr Sophie Brock, a Sociologist specialising in Motherhood Studies, we talk about the ways in which we’re programmed to minimise or invisibilise ourselves as mothers within the broader social construct of motherhood. We explore that motherhood is rarely an individualised experience but one that is culturally mediated to benefit powers Listen InThe post NTM 272: Motherhood as a marginalised group within society appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

In this week’s episode we interview a practicing midwife in the public hospital system within Victoria, to answer the plethora of questions around how COVID-19 has changed birth. We explore what you can do to prepare and create the best possible outcome for you, your baby and your partner. Nourishing the Mother http://www.nourishingthemother.com.au Suburban Sandcastles – Listen InThe post NTM 271: Birthing in the middle of a pandemic appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

In this week’s episode we interview Social Worker Caroline Ellen of Safer, Stronger Kids. We talk about the importance and impact of body safety, what we can do to teach our kids body autonomy and what can happen when we don’t. It’s a rich, deep and essential conversation that explores the many aspects of teaching Listen InThe post NTM 270: Raising kids who know body safety with Caroline Ellen appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

In this episode, we explore ways to lift yourself out of the ‘sameness’ funk we can all get stuck in sometimes. We share stories from our current reality, in lockdown in Melbourne due to COVID, with tips to bring novelty and perspective shifts into your world. Nourishing the Mother http://www.nourishingthemother.com.au Suburban Sandcastles – Bridget http://www.suburbansandcastles.com Listen InThe post NTM 269: When it feels like groundhog day appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

In this episode we interview postpartum educator, doula and facilitator Katie Parker, who is a social worker, self-proclaimed matrescence nerd, parent educator and mum of two. We talk to Katie on all things postpartum and beyond, specifically during this pandemic lockdown. We discuss: – When you’re feeling out of control, how to realise where you Listen InThe post NTM 268: Preparing for a positive postpartum during COVID with Katie Parker appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

Face masks are now mandated where we live, in response to COVID-19. In this episode we discuss our personal feelings about it, and explore the symbolism behind what people on both sides of the media-perpetuated ‘divide’ are making it mean. Nourishing the Mother http://www.nourishingthemother.com.au Suburban Sandcastles – Bridget http://www.suburbansandcastles.com The Pleasure Nutritionist – Jules http://www.thepleasurenutritionist.comThe post NTM 267: To mask or not to mask appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

In this week’s episode, we interview our fabulous business coach who revolutionises the business industry, and leads the way for powerful women to do their work in the world, whilst raising amazing families, relationships and whatever their heart desires.  As Carlie Maree says “if you desire it, you can have it”. In this episode we discuss: Listen InThe post NTM 266: It gets to feel good! Busting the sacrifice myth with Carlie Maree appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

For us, the very foundation of respectful parenting begins with boundaries. If you haven’t got ‘you’, how can you possibly have another? When we negate our own body’s signals, in preference for a higher-minded response, what conflict within our children does this create, that is the opposite of the conscious experience we seek? In the Listen InThe post NTM 265: Boundaries as part of respectful parenting appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

In response to a listener’s question ‘A third baby – yes or no?’ we explore through our own stories, what it looks like to meet this topic with consciousness or unconscious shadow. We explore what a full-bodied ‘yes’ is, bust the scarcity and abundance mindset and knowing when a baby is an expansion of your top Listen InThe post NTM 264: Another baby? Yes or no? appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

How are the current global events functional for the evolution of humanity? What do they say about us and how does our parenting become even more important in times like these? In this episode, Bridget explores the ‘function’ in this apparent dysfunction and how the world is our mirror, revealing where our own inner work Listen InThe post NTM 263: Global events, you & your parenting appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

As women, and mothers, we can often find ourselves so consumed and exhausted from our many hats, that we forgo, or forget, our sexual selves entirely. In this episode Julie spends some time talking around why your lack of sexuality can be a rejection of your inner feminine essence, why it’s also your most powerful Listen InThe post NTM 262: Why your sexuality matters appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

In this conversation with Dr Oscar Serralach, GP and author of trail-blazing book The Postnatal Depletion Cure, we discuss how he has witnessed, first-hand and in clinic, the significant stress of modern motherhood, and why he has made honouring and caring for mothers his mission. May you be inspired to value all that you do, and Listen InThe post NTM 261: Mother care with Dr Oscar Serralach appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

This week the podcast is a little different! It’s a juicy LIVE talk we did for ‘The MAD Women’ online event; a beautiful showcase of amazing ‘Make A Difference’ women. We lay the foundation for all that is ‘Nourishing The Mother’ and how we came together, what inspires us, and the unique, and empowering lens through which Listen InThe post NTM 260: Family; finding the function in the dysfunction appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

To be seen as the unique genius of who you inherently are is every human’s greatest gift. What would it look like if we gave this gift to our children? What would it mean to get in the way? How do we know if we are? In this episode Julie shares the realisations of her Listen InThe post NTM 259: The best gift you can give your child appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

Well this one’s a random collection of stories! Ultimately we want you to see the universe in action through the process of raising your children – our conscious growth is never separate from our children’s.   Nourishing the Mother http://www.nourishingthemother.com.au Suburban Sandcastles – Bridget http://www.suburbansandcastles.com The Pleasure Nutritionist – Jules http://www.thepleasurenutritionist.comThe post NTM 258: You are who you become through the process of raising yourself to raise your children appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

How are you responding to anxiety around leaving the cocoon of covid?  Are you avoiding or meeting your children’s uncertainty and/or emotional fallout?  Do you have strategy and planning in place to ensure you both get through this with the best possible outcome?  In this episode, Bridget breaks down the strategy behind her re-entry to Listen InThe post NTM 257: How are you handling back to ‘school’? appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

It’s the modern-day motherhood conundrum…whether the conscious ‘granola mum’ or Supermum CEO, balancing life always seems to come at a cost…or does it? In this episode, we explore the difference between seeking ‘outer world validation’ and ‘inner world alignment’ and how that plays a role in having it all. Nourishing the Mother http://www.nourishingthemother.com.au Suburban Sandcastles – Bridget Listen InThe post NTM 256: Can you really ‘have it all’? appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

As we exit this time of ‘pause’, what is it that you desire to hold close, take with you, or leave behind?   If you really knew you could design your life leaving this phase, what would you want?  In this episode, we discuss boundaries, change and the inner calling to discern what is most meaningful to Listen InThe post NTM 255: Knowing what to take with you and what to leave behind appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

In this week’s episode, we chat with the delightfully insightful Meg Berryman, who was herself a homeschooled child, on her experience as a child and young adult, her insights from a lived experience of herself and her two siblings, and her choices with her own children.  It’s honestly an inspired conversation that breaks down barriers, Listen InThe post NTM 254: How do homeschooled kids really turn out? appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

In this two-part series, we interview Gillian Howarth, a homeschooling mother of three, former primary school teacher and creator of Born Wise School. As we’re plunged into ‘school at home’ during COVID-19, we quickly come face-to-face with our own deeply ‘schooled’ approaches to learning, inviting us to re-examine educational philosophy and our choices. Gillian makes Listen InThe post NTM 253: Exploring homeschooling and natural learning PART 2 appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

In this two-part series, we interview Gillian Howarth, a homeschooling mother of three, former primary school teacher and creator of Born Wise School. As so many of us plunge into ‘school at home’ during COVID-19, we quickly come face-to-face with our own deeply ‘schooled’ approaches to learning, inviting us to re-examine educational philosophy and our Listen InThe post NTM 252: Exploring homeschooling and natural learning PART 1 appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

Do you notice how in ‘conscious parenting’ we can have one set of ‘rules’ for how we strive to show up for our children..but miss the truth that much of this also applies to our intimate partnership too? Seeking to understand them, offer the respect we’d like to receive, looking at the ‘mirror’ they offer Listen InThe post NTM 251: Stop separating relationship and parenting appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

In this episode, we discuss what’s getting us and our kids through this time of COVID-19 social distancing and ‘iso’. There’s tips, hacks and chit chat about our private practices making all the difference right now. We hope this episode offers something that resonates for you, too x This podcast is sponsored by SPACEMAKER WARDROBES! Listen InThe post NTM 250: Home practices for difficult and uncertain times appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

How do you want to create magic for your children during this time of global uncertainty, challenge and change? What do you think homeschooling needs to look like? In this episode we explore what this unique time can offer us and our children, seeking to live by the adage that ‘when life gives you lemons, make lemonade’! Listen InThe post NTM 249: Removing the rules to make your own recipe for homeschooling appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

We are all experiencing immense change and uncertainty as the COVID-19 pandemic grows and many families are thrust together in the home, amplifying opportunity for both connection, and conflict. How we get through this time with our children will leave a lasting impression on them – when life gives you lemons can you make lemonade? In this Listen InThe post NTM 248: Parenting through Coronavirus appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

We ALL have aspects of our children we find difficult to be with, or simply don’t want to see…but what if all behaviour is functional, and it’s here to show you the way?….it’s controversial, but what if your child’s behaviour which you detest, is a signal asking you to grow? Relevant links: Nourishing the Mother Listen InThe post NTM 247: What if the parts you find hard in your child, are the parts you reject in you appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

Do you define yourself by your parenting? Is your worth tied up in how well you showed up and who your kids turn out to be? Do you believe there’s your way, or the wrong way? In this episode we explore the dance that parenting presents to us in holding on and letting go. Relevant Listen InThe post NTM 246: Holding on and Letting go of attachment appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

It grips your throat, it tugs at your chest, its the monkey you can’t get off your back – anxiety. In motherhood it can have us feeling overwhelmed, underprepared, frayed and frazzled. Yet it’s part of the human condition. So how do we roll when we’re feeling pinned? In this episode we explore through story Listen InThe post NTM 245: Moving with and beyond anxiety in motherhood appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

So if you were hooked on part 1 of this conversation and story-telling, then you’re going to LOVE part 2! Julie shares her soapbox style monologue on money, success and ‘her crazy’ before bringing it waaayy down into some pretty real truths of intimacy and practices to quit being bitchy and start being honoured and Listen InThe post NTM 244: Even Julie’s relationship gets hard – part 2 appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

Long term relationship is h.a.r.d. Maintaining intimacy is as much about finding ourselves, as it is the other person. But what does that mean when it’s boiled down into an ‘everyday relationship’? It does NOT mean being perfect, but instead being willing. In this most intimate of sharings, Julie shows you the art of revealing, Listen InThe post NTM 243: Even Julie’s relationship gets hard – part 1 appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

Following on from last week’s episode, we continue exploring the challenges of parenting a child with additional needs through Julie’s story, which unveils the reality of a mother committed to really ‘seeing’ her child and searching for answers, and what we can learn about ourselves when we view our children through our lens of the parent-child Listen InThe post NTM 242: Parenting kids with additional needs – Part 2 appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

In this week’s episode, Julie vulnerably opens up on the experience of being seen and heard as she navigates the path of parenting a child with additional needs. We explore the edges she’s found herself at and what looking down the tunnel of a diagnosis might mean.   Relevant links: Nourishing the Mother http://www.nourishingthemother.com.au Suburban Listen InThe post NTM 241: Parenting kids with additional needs – part 1 appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

Following on from last week’s episode, we complete Bridget’s Home Office and reflect on all the family patterns, the emotional highs and lows, the family dynamics that come up when physically clearing space…which of course is also metaphysically shedding layers and clearing space! We hope it inspires you to literally ‘create the space’ for the Listen InThe post NTM 240: How your home tells the story of you PART 2 appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

Following on from Manifesting with intention and potency, comes who you need to step into being in order to have that reality….part of this is living in the space ‘that’ woman lives in, vibing with the energy ‘that’ woman vibes with and our homes reflect both who we are and offer us an energetic exchange that Listen InThe post NTM 239: How your home tells the story of you PART 1 appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

We allll have stuck places – the places we stop, close down, shut down, avoid, move around, pretend don’t exist…and then get frustrated as all heck when we run into them time and time again….what happens when we see the stuck places and CHOOSE to enter them?….we find a wellspring of energy and untapped potential Listen InThe post NTM 238: Liberate your life beyond your stuck places appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

Setting an intention for your year…or next decade…is pretty serious business – at least we think so! WHAT you call in, and HOW you call it in, matters, and can be potency-packed when its in alignment and integrity with who you are, and your vision. If you call it in, you better be ready to Listen InThe post NTM 237: How to manifest with potency appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

What does it look like to raise self-confident kids? What does it look like to raise our own internal self-confident kid? What does it even mean to HAVE confidence?! In this episode we go off in many-a-passionate tangent as we discuss what tools and insights YOU need to raise the kind of kids who greet Listen InThe post NTM 236: Your Self-Confident Kid appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

In order to move into conscious manifesting for 2020, you need to sit in the gratitude, appreciation and reflection of the year that was. In this episode we look at what our 2019 was; good and ‘bad’ personally and for Nourishing The Mother, and what we want to call in for 2020.  What we discuss Listen InThe post NTM 235: Reflections of 2019 and Intentions for 2020 appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

When we champion one-way of living, we often come crashing into it’s opposite. We’re chasing kind, loving, connected Christmas’ and we end up overwhelmed, frustrated and reactionary and then we chase the kind and loving more fervently, only to meet it’s opposite with equal ferocity!  You’re a two-sided being; if you only celebrate one side Listen InThe post NTM 234: We want kind, but we get ‘shit show’… appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

Ok. So you know we LOVE conscious parenting, we deeply value respect, communication and awareness…bet you do too…but what happens when you parent with someone who, well, doesn’t so much….? How do you ‘teach them’? How do balance your child’s needs with your partners?…. Relevant links: Nourishing the Mother http://www.nourishingthemother.com.au Suburban Sandcastles – Bridget http://www.suburbansandcastles.com Listen InThe post NTM 233: When your partner parents differently to you appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

What does your inner scrooge look like? Does she come out to ‘play’ at Christmas? What’s the narrative on your kids ‘wanting so much’ or ‘getting everything’ and entitlement, that you run? Wouldn’t you like to move beyond that??….In this week’s episode we talk perception flips, consciously bringing awareness to our ‘programmed’ beliefs and responses Listen InThe post NTM 232: Healing your inner scrooge appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

With 22 incredible women speaking in 20 online interviews and workshops on all things matchmaking motherhood and business, You Totally Can was an EPIC week of insight, inspiration and self-compassion. In this week’s podcast we spill our favourite quotes and themes from each of the lives. It is our absolute heart’s desire and soul’s hope Listen InThe post NTM 231: Julie and Bridget’s highlights and takeaways from You Totally Can appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

What does it look like to do business alongside intentional, conscious motherhood? We’re exploring this with 22 incredible women and sharing it with you – in this episode we delve into why creating these conversations is important to us, and the power of ‘showing up’ as your whole self…even when you’re not quite sure who Listen InThe post NTM 230: You totally can mix motherhood and business appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

Ugh, mornings hey? Between the baby spew, the kids missing school uniform and getting everyone out the door, we can arrive where we need to be by 8.30am feeling like we’ve navigated a war-zone! But what if HOW you start your mornings changes EVERYTHING? What if you don’t have to compete for needs? What if Listen InThe post NTM 229: Starting your day right; your morning mindset appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

We get asked for our recommended reading list all the time!!  So here we go, each of us discuss our top 5 books you HAVE to read and why….although as Bridget says “it’s almost impossible to pick 5, it’s like asking us to choose between children!!” Relevant links: Nourishing the Mother http://www.nourishingthemother.com.au Suburban Sandcastles – Listen InThe post NTM 228: Our Top 5 Most Influential Books for Bridget and Julie appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

There’s not a mother alive who can’t connect with this feeling!  But what do you do when you get here?  HOW you perceive these moments, changes what’s possible for you and your kids.  How you respond in these moments can be greatly influenced by what meaning you attach to the feelings present.  So let’s get Listen InThe post NTM 227: When their needs are endless and all you want to do is run appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

Have you ever felt the unfamiliar transformation of your sense of self post-partum? Caught in that place of who you were and who you are becoming? Our culture doesn’t recognise the profound transformation of woman as mother and the obligatory ‘feminine descent’ that often accompanies such a pivotal life event, instead tending to pathologise it. In this Listen InThe post NTM 226: Standing on shaky ground in post-partum appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

There’s Universal laws that govern human behaviour; when we understand these we can understand the ways in which our psyche begins to ‘play tricks on us’. When it comes to self worth it can be easy to descend into the shame “not good enough” spiral and fail to see the bigger picture at play, or Listen InThe post NTM 225: If you’re beating yourself up, where are you building yourself up? appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

We’ve all been there – but how do you deal with it? There are no mistakes in the things that tug at our heartstrings, with Julie recently confronted by an interaction at a shopping centre that reaffirmed her values; and her account of it on social media certainly got people talking. In this episode we Listen InThe post NTM 224: The screaming toddler in the shopping centre appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

We decided to shake it up a little! This week Jules answers YOUR questions…well, as many as she could get through! From knowing when you’re done with babies, to alternatives to The Blessing Way, to whinging and screaming, to how and why we run a business with kid – it’s a diverse conversation this week Listen InThe post NTM 223: Open Mic – Julie answers your questions! appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

We all have a kryptonite; that thing that makes you go 0-100 in a split second, that thing that you can be calm as a cucumber…until… In this weeks episode we discuss our own kryptonite when it comes to sibling dynamics, how we process, how we view and enter that dynamic and how we create Listen InThe post NTM 222: When it comes to sibling dynamics, what’s your kryptonite? appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

As tensions rise between your kids, what do you do?  Desire to silence it, or shut it down?  Runaway and close the door?  Yell back?  What if your ‘why’ for staying there, was bigger than your impulse to run?….In this episode we look at 5 reasons why you WANT to choose to stay through the Listen InThe post NTM 221: 5 reasons to stick with sibling fights appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

How do you spot and support YOUR child’s genius? What does it look like to scaffold their learning and development? In this week’s episode we respond to a listener’s question regarding how to choose extra-curricular activities and understanding our own agendas behind them. Relevant links: Nourishing the Mother http://www.nourishingthemother.com.au Suburban Sandcastles – Bridget http://www.suburbansandcastles.com The Listen InThe post NTM 220: Expanding your child’s genius appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

When we value parenting, we can set high expectations of ourselves to hear all our children’s feelings, respond patiently and scaffold their learning and development with laser awareness. But when the reality challenges the fantasy, what do you do? How can you widen your lens to see the bigger picture and find greater spaciousness? In Listen InThe post NTM 219: Parenting the way I want VS reality appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

This week we get a peek into Bridget’s newborn journey, how it’s evolved, how it’s changed and what thriving looks like third time round and with three kids in tow! How do you parent consciously and still expand your family? How do you show up and continue to expand as a woman whilst in the Listen InThe post NTM 218: Thriving with a newborn and beyond appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

It began with an email about “have my kids learnt what they need to, to survive the big bad world?”…which with all our intentions to answer, plugged us into our own stories; Jules having rising feelings of anger towards her younger self for the internal conflict derived from the crossroads of ‘conscious parenting’ and ‘forcing Listen InThe post NTM 217: Social Situations and Conscious Parenting appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

And what is ‘conscious parenting’ for us, anyway? Having both experienced that sense of ‘losing ourselves’ in early motherhood, in this episode we explore what boundaries look like while still being whole-heartedly committed to parenting from a place of awareness and connection. Relevant links: Nourishing the Mother http://www.nourishingthemother.com.au Suburban Sandcastles – Bridget http://www.suburbansandcastles.com The Pleasure Listen InThe post NTM 216: How do I use boundaries and still parent consciously? appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

How do I get him to…[insert your need or desire or want]….So often we can desire to change our partners to fit what we think they ’should’ be or ’should’ do or give to us, that we can miss the magnificent opportunity to see where they already are and do provide and how this is Listen InThe post NTM 215: How do I get him to…. appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

Our roadmap anyway!  What does it look like to grow intimacy over years, through ‘lacking desire’, defensive responses, values clashes and emotional disconnection?  How do we choose deepending love, connection and appreciation, even when we’re in the midst of tension and challenge?…Follow us as we create a roadmap for you on all things conscious relationship…even Listen InThe post NTM 214: The roadmap to deepening your relationship appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

Can it ever just be luck?!  Or is it always about growth, mirror, projection and conscious thought?  What is the line between conscious thought and overthinking??  And if I’m overthinking, what do I think next?!  Found yourself here?….We know we have!  In this weeks episode we dive into ‘what IS consciousness’, when we’re using it Listen InThe post NTM 213: The line between consciousness and overthinking appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

With Bridget in the thick of newborn-dom and shifting family dynamics, we take this opportunity to dissect what’s at the heart of shifts like this, meet the beliefs that are asking to be transformed, and show you a path towards seeing the mastery in all of it…even (and especially when) it feels hard and ‘mucky’.  In Listen InThe post NTM 212: Newborns, Siblings, Family Dynamics appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

When we feel lost and challenged in our motherhood, we often look outside ourselves for the answers, and in this day of information on demand and social media we can find ourselves ’subscribing’ to a person or paradigm and then comparing ourselves to this constructed ‘ideal’. We can ‘love on these gurus’ so much, that Listen InThe post NTM 211: Who is your motherhood ‘authority’? appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

We all want to condemn the patriarchy, but is it all THEM? Like we stand on the shoulders of the trail-blazers before us, what we as women create the access to is what becomes their ‘normal’ – and from this place they can move far beyond where we can conceive. In this podcast we reframe Listen InThe post NTM 210: How we let our collective daughters down appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

Birth calls us to meet our edges physically, emotionally, mentally and spiritually, birthing not only our babies, but ourselves as mothers. In this intimate episode, Bridget recounts the story of birthing her third child Pearl Aveline into the world, in a profoundly fulfilling home birth. It’s an insight into how our relationships facilitate our growth, Listen InThe post NTM 209: Bridget’s birth story – moving from ‘I can’t do it’ to an ecstatic birth appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

Siblings huh? There­’s almost nothing mo­re grating, or fanta­sy-busting, than your loves fighting aga­inst each other. So how do you help them navigate their inn­er thoughts, feelings and beliefs, witho­ut having to complet­ely wail on their si­bling, or bring you to breaking point? Relevant links: Nourishing the Mother http://www.nourishin­gthemother.com.au Suburban Sandcastles – Bridget http://www.suburbans­andcastles.com The Listen InThe post NTM 208: Help! I get so frustrated with my children fightin­g! appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

Toddlers! Argh! They can feel like a rude awakening after the beautiful baby-bubble – and for many of us, the hardest part the parenting. We explore why this is, and very often it’s a clashing of worlds, our timeline and theirs, our expectations and their reality, our desire for control and their need for independence Listen InThe post NTM 207: Working through the intensity of toddlerhood appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

Birth represents an opening for a woman, physically of course, but also who she currently is, and who she is evolving into. How can we work with women’s bodies and pelvises, to create more space for babies and widen what ‘creating space’ looks like? If even 1mm of space can dramatically alter a babies position Listen InThe post NTM 206: Birth and women’s bodies appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

Anger can feel like such a toxic emotion, we don’t want any part of it…and we shame ourselves when it (inevitably) comes flying out. What if you could develop a different type of relationship with your anger? One where you develop skills to move this galvanising feeling, so you can feel the hurt it’s masking Listen InThe post NTM 205: Meeting your anger in motherhood appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

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.

It’s on everyone’s mind this time of year – ‘What do I want for this year?’ – yet how many of us actually carve out the time to consciously work on manifesting what we desire? How many of us are too scared to really ‘go there’? In this episode we share Julie’s recent experiences of Listen InThe post NTM 184: Manifesting your 2019 appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

How do you decide to grow your family? What do these conversations look like in a relationship where one partner is a ‘no’? In this episode we explore the challenging conversations that take place as we seek to listen to our heart’s yearning, while respecting and honouring our partner’s desires…and Merry Christmas! Relevant links: Nourishing Listen InThe post NTM 183: Getting to a place of ‘yes’ for more children appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

Do you feel creeping anxiety at the amount of money shelled out this time of year? Do you condemn and ridicule the culture of consumerism? In this episode we revisit our financial stories from two years ago, the growth and changes that have occurred for us personally in that time, and how we can move Listen InThe post NTM 182: Flip Your Finances – stories from anxiety to empowerment appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

This week we share stories of our own from moments in our week where we’ve been ‘tool-less’ and required to ‘up-skill’, stepping bravely where we never have before! Sometimes this journey of parenting takes us places we never thought we’d go and in reflection we have the opportunity to gain the wisdom, see the growth Listen InThe post NTM 181: When your parenting toolkit is asking you for more appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

In today’s episode we seek to explore this age-old question through story, anecdote and thought-provoking questions about the meaning of magic.  No matter where you sit on this topic, we hope you’ll be inspired to enter into this festive season with your children in a congruent and meaningful way. Relevant links: Nourishing the Mother http://www.nourishingthemother.com.au Listen InThe post NTM 180: Is Santa Real? appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

When motherhood is something you deeply value, or thought you did, what does it mean when it gets so hard you begin to resent it?  Who are you if you are not the compassionate, empathetic, gentle communicator you hold on a pedestal?….The pain we face here as conscious parents can be immense, but what is Listen InThe post NTM 179: If I hate motherhood right now, how good of a mother am I? appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

How do you cope when your child is going through behavioural challenges associated with a big transition? Can you ‘dig deep’ when the moment calls, or do you find yourself wanting to ‘run’? Often, there’s a bit of both at play. In this episode we explore through our recent stories, and practical tips, various ways Listen InThe post NTM 178: Oh for f*ck’s sake…when transitions get hard appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

Do you consider how much public policy shapes your personal choices? How much do you think your vote counts towards the world you want to see? In this episode Bridget interviews Andrew Hicks of the Health Australia Party, and Candidate Pippa Campbell, to explore why the ‘personal is political’. Through honest conversation on some of Listen InThe post NTM 177: When the personal is political – An interview with the Health Australia Party appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

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.

When your relationship starts to get hard, what do you do? What patterns are you in? When do you withdraw and when do you show up? In this episode we discuss the key concepts on relationship as a mirror, and propose that there is nothing inherently ‘wrong’ in your relationship: what if you stopped working Listen InThe post NTM 156: Emotional Gridlock – what emotional patterns are you in? appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

In response to a listeners question, we explore the complex label of “Toxic Mothers”. What is a toxic mother? What do you do if you grew up with one? What if she was narcissistic too?? What if you have a dysfunctional family blueprint? Will you ever be able to parent consciously? And what about your Listen InThe post NTM 155: Toxic Mothers appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

In this week’s episode, we dive into the raw and vulnerable feelings associated with the end of Julie’s breastfeeding journey. We talk through the feelings, the judgements, the guilt, the shame and the lack of control. Full of triggers and emerging insight we talk through what it is to breastfeed, when it’s no longer working, Listen InThe post NTM 154: The Boob Angst appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

In response to a listener’s question, we share our top 10 tips and concepts for growing and developing our own self worth and in doing so, paving the way for our children to have a strong sense of self and to know their worth. What we make safe for ourselves, we unconsciously give permission for Listen InThe post NTM 153: The top 10 ways to demonstrate self-worth to your kids appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

We all get here; the mother of all bad moods, the funk you just can’t get yourself out of… The question is not, “How do I get out of it?” Or, “How do I prevent getting here?” The question is; “What is this trying to reveal to me?” Our feelings are feedback and our darker Listen InThe post NTM 152: When you’re in the mother of all funks appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

In answer to a listener’s question, this week we expand on the ‘sex talks’ with our kids. What it looks like, sounds like, and how to approach it. It’s tricky, we have to raise our own inner selves in order to forge a different path for our children. Relevant links: Nourishing the Mother http://www.nourishingthemother.com.au/ Suburban Listen InThe post NTM 151: How much do you talk about sex with your kids? appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

Why do we want you to honour your cycles? Why is it important? And how on earth are you supposed to do it with kids??! In this episode we answer a listener’s question on parenting with your period. We explore our inner ‘seasons’ and the spiritual dimensions they open us up to, how to honour Listen InThe post NTM 150: Parenting with your period appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

There’s a lot in this discussion! We move from being IN our body, to the edges of our comfort zone, to improv and the purpose of it in maintaining presence. Sarah has a flare for the dramatic arts and a huge ‘why’ behind helping kids develop and expand who they are and how they show Listen InThe post NTM 149: Interview with Sarah Chapman from Drama Rama Factory on improv and body movement appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

What does that mean? Do you believe it or do you joke about it? What does it mean to be conscious about health and how do we tap into the wisdom that is innate within our body? In this episode, we expand the conversation around what health is, what drives our health, how we influence Listen InThe post NTM 148: Your body is a temple appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

Loss. Grief. Shame. Pain. All experiences many women, and couples, bury in their journey to children. In this intimate and vulnerable interview with Megan and Regan from Aila and Lior, we discuss their own journey of immense pain in losing two babies during pregnancy and how they have shaped this into a movement of opening Listen InThe post NTM 147: Miscarriage and baby loss with Megan and Regan from Aila and Lior appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

Well, are you? And what does that even MEAN? This motherhood gig brings us to our edges of pride, self-depreciation, shame and guilt and often these drive our experience of motherhood itself. What if there was another way to be? Another way to explore who YOU are when you’re alive and lit up by your Listen InThe post NTM 146: Are you getting it ‘right’? appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

In this week’s episode we interview Catherine Middlebrooks who loves to help women get the confidence back in their bodies to live a life of “yes!”. We bust open the myth of the 6-week postpartum “okay to go” tick of approval, to really begin to listen to the whispers of our post-baby body and bring Listen InThe post NTM 145: Post-baby core & pelvic floor with Catherine Middlebrooks, postpartum yoga specialist appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

What is ‘good’? What does it mean to you? In this episode we listen deeply to the wisdom that is Bree Downes as she talks us through her journey of her three births, what insights and understandings she gained about herself, birth and the climate in which we are birthing. We discuss what you need Listen InThe post NTM 144: The secret to a ‘good’ birth with Bree Downes, doula and birth photographer appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

Using play as a tool in parenting to build connection and create cooperation is a profound way to bring joy and ease to mothering, and heal our own inner child discomforts and wounding stories. How can we ‘bring in the play’ even when it feels hard? Is there anything that is ‘off limits’? In this Listen InThe post NTM 143: Leading the way through play MASTERCLASS appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

Connection with our children is relatively easy when we’re feeling relaxed, calm and supported, but what about when we’re under pressure, in a rush, or overwhelmed? What does it look like to manage ourselves so we can create smooth transitions with our kids? In this episode Bridget and Julie explore through story, some laughter, reflection Listen InThe post NTM 142: Effortless transitions with our kids MASTERCLASS appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

Is yelling really that bad? Is this ‘no yelling, non-punitive discipline’ thing all a bit idealistic, or actually possible? Why would we value it at all? In this frank episode we share why we parent ourselves in order to cultivate a respectful dynamic with our children and deal with our own triggers. Connect with us: Listen InThe post NTM 141: Why we choose not to yell at our children appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

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When we’re parenting so consciously and looking for an opportunity to hold our children’s space, we can forget honouring our own needs. What’s going on when this happens? What does it mean for you? How do you handle it in the now and in the future? In this episode we share a mix of personal Listen InThe post NTM 139: When the mothership falters, what do you do? appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

Have you ever wondered how ‘behind the scenes’ we mange a friendship and a working relationship? Well in this weeks episode we discuss what happens when our relationship gets a little rocky, when we’re emotionally triggered by each other and how we resolve this conflict within ourselves, our lives and within our relationship so we Listen InThe post NTM 138: I’m triggered by you but we still have to work together appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

It’s a contentious topic, but one thing is for certain, baby sleep can define how confident we feel and how able to cope we are within our Motherhood. In this week’s episode we share stories of our own journeys with 6 kids; what happened with their sleep, what choices we made and the blurred line Listen InThe post NTM 137: The Baby Sleep Talk appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

The constant fatigue, the night waking, the being in service to everyone but ourselves, can easily have us running a story on why we can’t…… In this episode we want you to have a toolkit to start breaking apart the story you’re running on why you’re life isn’t working and mining the wisdom within that Listen InThe post NTM 136: Don’t get pulled into the “its hard” story appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

In 2.5 years we’ve covered a lot, explored so much and grown so much. In this episode we reflect on the teachings and learnings over this time and what we’d say to a listener beginning now on this journey with us. Relevant links: Nourishing the Mother http://www.nourishingthemother.com.au/ Suburban Sandcastles – Bridget http://www.suburbansandcastles.com The Pleasure Nutritionist Listen InThe post NTM 135: Beginning Again – how we’ve changed in 2 years appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

One of the biggest farces of this generation is that both sex and relationship ‘should’ come naturally! Both require time and up-skilling. Reflection AND connection. Affirmation AND humility. It is these seemingly paradoxical elements that force us to grow and inspire connection within our loving relationships and spark within our intimate relationships. In this episode Listen InThe post NTM 134: Are you Investing in Your Relationship? appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

Bridget and I have both said this sentence and for very different reasons, so we’re wondering if you have too? When we try-on different ways of being, when we expect ourselves to live like “so and so”, or in accordance with other peoples version of success we can find ourselves numbed to who we are, Listen InThe post NTM 133: I’ve spent all my life trying to “be” something appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

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.

It’s been an epic lead up full of emotion and in this episode we get to listen to the unfolding of Julie’s birth story with number four.  From anger and tears to overwhelming love and gratitude, there’s something in this story for all of us.  A completely natural, intervention free hospital water birth at 41 Listen InThe post NTM 112: Julie’s Birth Story appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

It’s rare we hear the stories of women in challenge and transformation as its happening, often we only hear the wisdom and edited story afterwards. In this conversational episode Julie opens up on where she’s at as she approaches 41 weeks of pregnancy and the internal conflicts that being ‘overdue’ create.The post NTM 111: Going ‘Overdue” and the challenges we face appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

In this episode we look at the age-old conundrum of sibling rivalry. We explore the dynamics between siblings, triggered feelings within ourselves, and emotional toolkits to help our children learn to connect head and heart when dealing with conflict. Nourishing the Mother: http://www.nourishingthemother.com.au/ Suburban Sandcastles – Bridget: http://www.suburbansandcastles.com/ The Pleasure Nutritionist – Jules: http://www.thepleasurenutritionist.com/The post NTM 110: Finding your way in sibling rivalry appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

On the precipice of birth we’re called more deeply, and with more heightened emotion, into facing what birth and new motherhood brings up for us. In this episode, we giggle and we sigh about our own experiences, and challenge the idea of ‘irrational pregnancy hormones’ to instead look for the message our emotions are revealing Listen InThe post NTM 109: In between worlds: Waiting for baby appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

In this week’s episode we answer a listener’s question around introducing food; the practical steps, philosophies, approaches and challenges that arise within these dynamics. We touch on food as a pleasurable experience, expectations and connection during this phase. We interweave our own experiences along the way.The post NTM 108: Babies, toddlers and introducing food appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

In answer to a listener’s question, we dive into what we personally consider when approaching health, wellness and nourishment in pregnancy. We discuss practitioners, nourishment and nutrition in pregnancy, in preparation for birth and new motherhood. Relevant links: Nourishing the Mother http://www.nourishingthemother.com.au/ Suburban Sandcastles – Bridget http://www.suburbansandcastles.com/ The Pleasure Nutritionist – Jules http://www.thepleasurenutritionist.com/ Mornington Chinese Listen InThe post NTM 107: Nourishment and Health through pregnancy appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

What is a Blessingway and how do you hold one? What is the purpose and intention?  How do you facilitate one and what do you consider?  In this conversational episode we discuss both our Blessingway experiences and what to consider in creating your own. Relevant links: Nourishing the Mother http://www.nourishingthemother.com.au/ Suburban Sandcastles – Bridget http://www.suburbansandcastles.com/ Listen InThe post NTM 106: Blessing the Way in birth and motherhood appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

How do we get our relationships to improve or our partners to change without expecting them to change? In this episode we discuss why our intimate relationships are our most potent for our own growth and how to approach what a situation is revealing to us so we can take ownership, mine the gold its Listen InThe post NTM 105: Relationship as a mirror, what’s yours revealing to you? appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

We all get depressed. Depression is feedback, so what is it trying to communicate to us? In this episode Bridget and Julie discuss philosophy and toolkits behind awakening what’s underneath our emotional oscillations and how to move through them. What if feelings were safe for you? What if you could make more feeling safe, so Listen InThe post NTM 104: What’s up when you’re feeling depressed? appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

How would life be for you if you saw your birth experience as perfect and exactly what you needed? How would your motherhood and relationship be if you loved your birth experience? In this episode we explore the profound nature of birth to open us up to new levels of growth, whatever the birth story Listen InThe post NTM 103: Birth as a portal to consciousness appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

We all get sick of motherhood! But it’s what do with these emotions, ruts, and difficulties that define how we move forward, and transform what’s going on from us. Blame, shame, guilt and ‘should-ing’ all serve a purpose, and in this episode we seek to dive into what these feelings are seeking to reveal to Listen InThe post NTM 102: When you’re sick of motherhood appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

Argh! We’ve both been here and its a regular discussion in our members only group! In this episode we discuss what’s underlying this dynamic, what it’s revealing to us, the power it has to create change within our relationship and how to manage this dynamic both personally and within a parenting relationship. Nourishing The Mother Listen InThe post NTM 101: Why won’t my partner parent the way I do? appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

In this episode Bridget shares “being in the trenches” with a baby that won’t sleep for long stretches. We discuss whats going on underneath it all, what this dynamic is trying to reveal and our own personal thoughts on infant sleep from our own journeys with our children. Nourishing The Mother – www.nourishingthemother.com.au Suburban Sandcastles Listen InThe post NTM 100: When your baby won’t sleep appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

Can you love your mother for everything she did, and didn’t give you? Is your heart open, or judgemental of how she parented you? If you’re seeking a more conscious path of parenting, it’s likely you perceive that something was missing in your own childhood. In this episode we discuss how you can both find Listen InThe post NTM 99: Mining for gold in your mother wound appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

We’re busy, we’re exhausted, we’re co-sleeping, breastfeeding and baby-wearing but what about our sex lives?  Where has the intimacy gone in your relationship? In this episode we discuss with boldness the story we carry to protect ourselves from deep vulnerability, awakening and allowing of pleasure both into our lives and into our relationships.  What does Listen InThe post NTM 98: Sex in 15 minutes appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

We bow at the feet of the parent-child dynamic and what awareness of this most intricate and insightful healing dyad can offer us, if we are willing to become aware, and meet both ourselves and our children in this place. In this week’s episode Bridget shares an experience of being told “I don’t like you Listen InThe post NTM 97: “I don’t like you as much as daddy” appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

Whether as a conscious choice or perhaps you find yourself preparing to welcome another into your tribe, it can bring up a lot of questions and big feelings about your beliefs, values and sense of self as a woman.  In this deeply personal episode, Julie opens up about where she’s at with baby number 4. Listen InThe post NTM 96: Preparing to expand your family appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

What purpose does mother guilt serve?  The chains of mother guilt can threaten to overwhelm us, so the question is, how can we unlock the confines of this paradigm?  Can we motivate ourselves outside of self-flagellation towards what our subconscious is trying to reveal to us?  In this episode we provide a different perspective and Listen InThe post NTM 95: Do we want to eliminate mother guilt? appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

…”And I just thought, argh!  I get it now, I can see how my kid’s an asshole…” reveals Bridget in this week’s podcast and we take it from there!   What to do with ourselves and our kids when they’re displaying angry, aggressive or disrespectful behaviour. Nourishing The Mother – www.nourishingthemother.com.au Suburban Sandcastles www.suburbansandcastles.com The Pleasure Listen InThe post NTM 94: Dealing with a bad attitude in our kids appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

Overwhelm is a state of mind, but can become a fairly common story in motherhood. How do we transcend our story to find the magic of childhood that’s right in front of us? In this episode Julie and Bridget speak from personal story around how they themselves move from overwhelm to spaciousness.The post NTM 93: Embracing the Chaos appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

In this weeks episode Julie interviews Dr Karen Jaffe of Wellbeing Chiropractic and Mums the Word Podcast on her experience as a gay mother of two.  I’m thrilled to bring this episode to you as we dive vulnerably and deeply into a motherhood experience that ‘breaks all the rules’.  We touch on her experience of Listen InThe post NTM 92: Interview with Dr Karen Jaffe on being an entrepreneurial, gay, single mother of two appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

Inspired by Bridget’s screening of “Dream, Girl” we open up the discussion on feminine oppression and feminine power and our ownership of both.  Why as a culture have we lost connection to the inherent power of the feminine?  Why do we feel that the way for us to gain momentum and take on leadership roles Listen InThe post NTM 91: The Challenge of Our Gender appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

Every mother is exhausted and wrung-out, right? It seems to be a common story, particularly in the early years. In this episode Bridget and Julie take a different look at it, exploring how it serves us, what we can do to change it, and the wisdom of universal laws to remind us we are all Listen InThe post NTM 90: 3 Reasons To Challenge Your Sleep Deprivation Story appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

If you’ve been listening for a while, you’ll know we’re all about consciousness and conscious parenting – but in this episode we discuss the self-built cage we can create for ourselves in setting that conscious bar SO high.  How do you balance your desire for a different upbringing for your child with your own needs? Listen InThe post NTM 89: How to find your Freedom in Motherhood appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

In this episode Bridget and Julie get a little cheeky as we “air the dirty laundry” and bring the shadow of motherhood out to play! We discuss the last taboos of motherhood, bringing humour, insight and a different perspective to this conscious parenting gig. We really hope you enjoy it and cut yourself some slack Listen InThe post NTM 88: The Last Taboos of Motherhood appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

In the buildup to our next course, ‘Aligned Parenting’, we discuss the philosophy of what it means to raise children who are autonomous, empathetic and have a clear sense of self and their wholeness. In raising ourselves to raise our children, we discuss how to hold space for the full spectrum of emotion, create spaciousness Listen InThe post NTM 87: Aligned Parenting appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

As women our intimate friendships can be so intimate they’re more like family. So when there are clashes, or your friend challenge or triggers you, it can be hard to maintain the friendship. How do we listen to the feedback of the trigger and gain the wisdom for ourselves and what it’s teaching us, so Listen InThe post NTM 86: How To Still Love Your Friends Even When They Challenge You appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

Labels are limiting – for us and our children. In this episode Bridget and Julie discuss the impact of labels, how to recognise when we’re internally dialoguing or externally expressing a label and how to crash the self-imposed glass ceiling. It could be confronting for some, but we hope you’ll dive into the challenge with Listen InThe post NTM 85: Breaking the Label appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

When life throws you a curve ball, what do you do? What are your options? How can you gleam the wisdom sooner, rather than later? In this episode Bridget opens up the conversation on some very real and intimate recent experiences of Julie’s, in the hopes we create discussion on ever deeper aspects of motherhood.The post NTM 84: Accepting the Unexpected appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

This episode is a bit more conversational as Bridget and Julie continue a dialogue around teaching our kids appropriate and inappropriate touch, connecting with their body and control over their body.  We discuss our own experiences, our parenting philosophies and tickling. Links: The Pleasure Nutritionist – http://www.thepleasurenutritionist.com/#home-section Suburban Sandcastles next movie “Dream, Girl” – http://www.suburbansandcastles.com/events-1/The post NTM 83: Body Ownership and Our Children appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

In this revealing episode Bridget and Julie challenge the accepted story that mothering small children equals no satisfying sex life.  What if there’s another way?  When we’re willing to look at what’s really going on for us, it is the pathway for deeper connection and fulfilment in our sexual relationships – it all start with Listen InThe post NTM 82: Bringing Sexy Back appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

If you missed out on our Free 5-day Flip Your Finances Audio Series – never fear! We’ve created a podcast just for you so you can gain some insight into your self-worth and self-wealth. In this episode Bridget and Julie delve into family history and philosophy to understand our money-stories with some practical tools to Listen InThe post NTM 81: Flip Your Finances – The Overview appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

In this deeply vulnerable episode, Jules prompts Bridget to share her birth story of baby Sylvie, and in honouring the ancient art of storytelling and the passing down of wisdom through story, we hope you journey the waves of tears and laughter with us and feel into what this story brings up for you.The post NTM 80: Bridget’s Birth Story appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

We can’t create any lasting change before first recognising how everything we’ve done today has served us. Before we set and achieve our goals for 2017 we need to get into gratitude for what 2016 brought us. In this episode we explain the tools to flip the idea of the “bad stuff” and self-flagellation into Listen InThe post NTM 79: New year, new you? appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

As lofty as this topic sounds, in this weeks episode Bridget and Julie explore the principles and dynamics within healthy relationships and how to awaken more in yours.The post NTM 78: Tools for an indestructible marriage appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

An anecdotal look at some of our stories during the silly season. It’s a little serious, a lot light hearted and a fraction unhinged. We hope you enjoy and carry some wisdom into your week.The post NTM 77: Dealing with your inlaws at Christmas appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

Most of us grew up not being *really* listened to by our parents and caregivers. As a result we often struggle to deeply sit with our own pain and truths, and are challenged to do the same for our children. How do we move forward to create the space to find our voice and give Listen InThe post NTM76: The Scarcity of Being Listened To appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

How does ritual help us to ground ourselves and experience the wonder and magic all around us, and the beauty of entering our children’s world? Julie takes the floor to share many of her families favorite rituals this festive season and beyond.The post NTM 75: Creating Seasonal Rituals appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

How do you know when it’s time to reclaim the balance after spreading yourself too thin? Why do we do it in the first place? In this episode Julie and Bridget explore the reality of the multi-tasking mother and how to bring a sense of control and calm to the chaos.The post NTM 74: Spreading Yourself Too Thin appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

In this weeks episode Bridget and Julie discuss the underpinnings of revolutionising your life, so you can actively participate in the creation of the life you want to live. Why wait for retirement to live the life you want?! Let’s get real about the beliefs that hold us back, the concepts that propel us forwards Listen InThe post NTM 73: Life by Design appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

In this episode we pull no punches! Its a very honest dive into the feeling of isolation; why its here and what it brings us, what do we do to transform it.The post NTM 72: Isolation in Motherhood + Do You Hide Behind It? appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

Amid the plethora of ambitious ‘mindful mothering’ content, Julie and Bridget get real on the realities of anger in motherhood, how to understand it, find it’s gifts and transform it in a way that is enriching and constructive for ourselves and our children.The post NTM 71: Zen As Fuck: What To Do With All-Consuming Anger appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

In this juicy topic we share deeply from experience and wisdom the 5 greatest challenges of motherhood – you know those ones we don’t really talk about?? Those ones we keep to ourselves and struggle in private with?? Those ones…Isolation, Infatuation, Loathing, Body-hate, Identity. It’s juicy indeed!The post NTM 70: 5 Things no one tells you about motherhood appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

This episode deep-dives into women, their stories through motherhood and their bodies afterwards.  We discuss pain, dysfunction, emotional and physical rebuilding and what insights such an experienced and sort-after professional has from working with women for over 20 years.  We really hope you enjoy it as much as we did xx Natalie’s Bio: Dr. Natalie Listen InThe post NTM 69: Women, Pelvises and Babies – Interview with Natalie Lejeune appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

Want to understand more deeply how your relationships are reflecting you? In this week’s episode Bridget and Julie discuss what your intimate relationships are revealing to you, how to begin to work on what’s in the way and what our intimate relationships offer for our own growth. Its a juicy one!The post NTM 68: Partnership Dynamics appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

In this episode we take a dip in the wellspring of the feminine! What is the feminine? What is YOUR feminine? How do you access her? What impact does she have on you, your relationship and your family? We lovingly caress you through this episode as a reminder to reconnect to your sensuality, your pleasure Listen InThe post NTM 67: Embrace the Feminine appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

The road to becoming a mother can be all-consuming for many women, but what happens when a four year journey to get pregnant breaks you open and makes you realise that nothing is missing? Speaker, mentor and writer Sherrie Laryse shares with Bridget her story of transforming her greatest challenge and her vision for motherhood Listen InThe post NTM 66: When Motherhood Takes a Different Form with Sherrie Laryse appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

In this episode we interview acclaimed author of The Queens Code, Alison Armstrong. We delve into juicy discussions around partnerships and relationships, the inner critic, how to transform your communication, how to love yourself and your men more fully.  Its a fave of ours and we really hope its as perspective-shifting for you as it Listen InThe post NTM 65: Relationships, The Masculine and The Queen’s Code with Alison Armstrong appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

With each birth we birth a new form of ourselves as mothers and as our children grow they call ever deeper to raising ourselves, in order to raise them with some consciousness. In this episode Bridget and Julie talk intimately about their evolutions as mothers with each child and the effect of these choices on Listen InThe post NTM 64: How We Evolve As Mothers appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

What is spaciousness? In a busy life, how do we have a sense of connection, alignment and inspiration…not to mention calm…amid the busyness of life and motherhood? In this weeks episode, Bridget and Julie openly discuss how they create spaciousness and what that looks likeThe post NTM 63: Creating Space When You Have None appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

Motherhood can bring with it an immense disconnection from our body and our sexuality. In this episode Julie and Bridget discuss how to recreate that connection both within yourself and your intimate relationship.The post NTM 62: Intimacy After Babies appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

Somebody doesn’t have to lose for you to win! Through understanding and communicating in peoples values, you can create wonderful outcomes for all involved! Bridget and Julie illustrate through stories of their own and universal principals how you too can create everyday wins and learning opportunities for your children!The post NTM 61: How to Create a Win-Win appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

Many of us will have a story around our mother in law! Many of us will experience emotional triggers and responses by just being around them. in this podcast Bridget and Julie shatter the illusion that the problem is all about them and instead demonstrate the gifts they are presenting to us for our own Listen InThe post NTM 60: The Mother in Law Clash appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

It may seem a lofty ideal, but we all have within us a desire to make a vast difference during our lifetime. How do we tune into our inner voice and listen to what it’s saying? What does it look like to live in alignment with a long-term vision of the legacy you want to Listen InThe post NTM 59: What’s your legacy? appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

What does It mean to set boundaries for yourself with your children and others? Why is it important? In this episode Bridget and Julie explore how when we fail to listen to our own needs and limits, we lose our own inner compass and feel out of balance.The post NTM 58: Knowing your boundaries appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

How deep can you go with your friends, and what is the recipe for connection, vulnerability and openly sharing your heart with another soul? Julie and Bridget discuss the power of building a tribe of women who you can bare your soul to and how holding the space for another can create immense healing and Listen InThe post NTM57: The Depth of Friendship appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

What do a new mother and baby need? How do we best prepare ourselves in this role, and support the women around us to feel nurtured and cared for in this important period? Julie and Bridget explore the biological needs of newborn babies and the ancient tradition of the Blessingway for creating intention and connection Listen InThe post NTM56: The Fourth Trimester appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

What does it mean to be a ‘conscious’ parent? How can we use the mirror our children offer us for our own awakening? In this episode Julie and Bridget discuss the beauty, challenge and pain of approaching parenting as a tool for transformation, to allow ourselves and our children to be who we really are.The post NTM 55: The Conscious Parent appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

In this episode Bridget and Julie share their tips for awakening their sensuality and incorporating the ancient feminine arts into their lives.The post NTM 54: Living A Sensual Life appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

In this episode Bridget and Julie share their daily habits for living in alignment and connection with their inspiration. We really do incorporate what we teach!The post NTM 53: Living An Awakened Life appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

Why do we find it so difficult to “put back in”, to nurture, to surrender and immerse in pleasure?  Why is giving to ourselves so hard?  In this episode, Bridget and Julie discuss what gets in the way of love and receiving as mothers.The post NTM 52: The Art of Receiving appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

You know those times when you feel completely lost – you don’t know who you are or where you’re going, what your purpose is – and really, what the point is in general? In this episode Bridget and Julie delve into the messages hidden within these seasons and the tools to move through it with Listen InThe post NTM51: What To Do When You’re Feeling Lost appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

Do you find yourself using punishment as a way to absolve yourself of guilt; depriving yourself as ‘penance for your ills’? Maybe your autopilot response with your children is punishment too. In this episode, Julie and Bridget offer ways to transform the self-punishment and awaken new possibilities within your family.The post NTM50: Transforming Punishment appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

Does the hustle to look one way?  Do we need to hustle to the point of exhaustion and breakdown?  Or is there another way…..?  In this episode Bridget and Julie examine how our purpose is to grow in every area of life and how to effectively do that.The post NTM49: The Slow Hustle appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

Our children are master manifests and extremely creative at getting their needs met!  In this podcast we explore what motivates certain childhood behaviours and how you can bring more consciousness to them.The post NTM48: How Kids Get Their Needs Met appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

Take a deep breath, its a big one!  This week Bridget and Julie discuss what a money block is and how they impact our ability to create wealth and financial security.The post NTM47: Money blocks appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

The past is over and done with, right? Not so, as Julie and Bridget explore in this podcast, which looks at how we are continuing to relive our patterns and ways of being until we shift them. Sometimes, you have to dig up the past to create your intentional future.The post NTM46: Why dig up the past? appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

Is there a way to avoid the fuck-up?  In this episode Bridget and Julie discuss how the imperfections and challenges of childhood serve the adult and their golden guideposts for raising resilient, well-adjusted kids.The post NTM45 : How not to fuck your kids up appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

How often do you blame your partner for what they do or don’t do? Do you wish your relationship was something different? Tools, strategies and quality questions to shift your relationship to be the one you want it to be.The post NTM 44 : Relationship dynamics appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

How do you come into alignment enough to start creating the future you desire? Julie and Bridget explore the tools and reflections you can adopt to start creating change today.The post NTM43: You are the creator of your reality appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

In this podcast we interview Marion Rose, PHD, on aware parenting and attachment play. Children can express their feelings and heal through laughter or tears as we explore through this insightful and thought-provoking episode. Awaken your self-care and expand your parenting toolkit.The post NTM42: Attachment Play with Marion Rose appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

How do you feel in your skin? In this episode we begin the deep-dive into body image, self love, and practical questions to ask yourself and tools you can adopt to move forward, no matter where you are on your journey to awakening more self confidence.The post NTM41: Getting comfortable in your skin appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

Our sexual emergence creates so much of our sexual story as women, so when our children begin to trigger these aspects within us it can be very challenging.  in this Podcast we interview Lael Stone on womens sexuality, your sensual/sexual self and how to navigate your teenager through it into an awakened, pleasure-full sense of Listen InThe post NTM40: Sexuality and Your Inner Teenager with Lael Stone – Part 2 appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

Navigating puberty, hormones and awakening individuals can trigger so much within us!  In this Podcast we interview Lael Stone on all things teenager, how to navigate a relationship that nourishes the emerging adult and creates connection that grounds them in love and respect – ultimately how to love your inner teenager!The post NTM 39: Parenting and Your Inner Teenager with Lael Stone – Part 1 appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

How to prepare emotionally for birth and the journey of labour – what it can challenge us to awaken, what the story is behind our story and how to bring your partner into that.The post NTM38 : Creating the space for birth appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

Who is your wild woman? What lessons does she bring you? When we connect to our guiding intuition and let ourselves be drawn by what we feel she can awaken within, she will feed every area of your life.The post NTM37: Embracing your ‘Wild woman’ appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

If you’re health-conscious, it’s pretty easy to think you’ve ‘failed’ if you get sick. In this episode, Julie and Bridget challenge the illusion of health without disease, and explore what our symptoms may be trying to communicate.The post NTM36: Why am I sick? appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

Often our greatest gifts and potential for contribution to the world lie in what seems to come effortlessly to us, yet is a challenge for others. Julie and Bridget explore this concept, each other’s ‘genius zone’ and how we can identify it in our children.The post NTM35: Your genius zone appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

This week we talk vulnerability, finding your own voice through your challenges, and paying attention to what your life is teaching you, as explored through Bridget’s news on her own path to growing her family.The post NTM34: Trusting the Journey appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

What to do when you feel trapped in a never-ending cycle and you just don’t want to do it anymore!  What is this feeling telling you, how do you get out of it and how do you make the changes you need to feel back in alignment again.The post NTM 33 : when it feels like groundhog day appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

In this Episode Bridget and Julie discuss tools, tips and tactics for building resilience and cultivating empathy and emotional intelligence within our children.The post NTM32: Cultivating your child’s emotional intelligence appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

Following on from last week’s episode, this week Bridget and Julie discuss tools for healing and provide examples by delving into their own stories and wounds.The post NTM31: Love where you’ve come from appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

In this episode Julie and Bridget open up the discussion on sexual trauma and how that directly affects a woman spiritually, emotionally and psychologically.The post NTM30: Traumatised womanhood appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

(Laughs) We’ve jumped in the deep end and begin opening up the discussion on women’s bodies, intimacy and orgasm.The post NTM29: The Spiritual Vagina appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

Do you sometimes wonder why you have conflict in your life?  In this weeks episode we discuss how our conflict serves us, what to do with it and what role your inner Temptress plays.The post NTM28: Your Temptress and conflict appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

Forget resolutions, what worked in 2015 and how do you build on it in 2016?The post NTM27: Reflections and intentions for the New Year appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

How do you get back in love and lust with your partner? How do you maintain it? Julie and Bridget open up the conversation on expanding and reconnecting with the love and intimacy in your life.The post NTM26 : Get back in love appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

What challenges you holding your authentic space?  What can you do to come back into alignment with your true self?The post NTM 25 : Holding your space appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

Living authentically requires that we have a congruency between what we preach or teach to others and what we do for ourselves.  Are you living in alignment?  What does it mean to be authentic?The post NTM 24: Are you living what you’re preaching? appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

What happened to that woman you used to be? Where did she go? Is she gone?  This week we look at how you know when you’re done having babies and how to find yourself again after the intensity of early parenthood.The post NTM23: Who are you after babies? appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

What to do when you’ve hit rick bottom and your world feels like its closing in around you. Julie and Bridget explain overwhelm with a tool kit to tackle it and find clarity.The post NTM 22: Dealing with overwhelm appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

Live Christmas on your terms!  Heading into the crazy Christmas time how can you find space to be intentional about the Christmas you want to create for you and your family.  The post NTM21: Live life on your terms appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

What do you do when you’re stuck in the comparison loop of judgement, shame and punishment? How do you get to your authentic self and express that beauty with the world?The post NTM 20: Comparison and the beauty myth appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

What does ritual look like in our modern-day lifestyle and what does it have to offer us? How can we use ritual to create intent and gratitude for the support and challenge we experience in our lives?The post NTM:19 Ritual in our lives appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

What is health beyond what we put in our mouths? How do you know what’s healthy? Bridget and Julie open up the discussion on health beyond the nutritional paradigm.The post NTM:18 What is ‘healthy’? appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

Children are brilliant at following their intuition, but as we grow it can become clouded under layers of social conditioning. Bridget and Julie discuss what it means to follow intuition in the context of uncovering your ‘soul purpose’, and some practical tools to strengthen your connection.The post NTM17: Awakening your Intuition appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

Many women, particularly those who have experienced loss, harbour fears in pregnancy. Bridget and Julie explore their own experiences, what fear represents, and some strategies to work through it.  The post NTM16: Fear in pregnancy appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

For many women, miscarriage can be a painfully isolating, confusing experience. Bridget and Julie open up in a raw and honest way to recount their own stories and explore the deeper wisdom that they drew from their journeys, offering some insights into how to honour the loss and move forward.  The post NTM15: The journey of miscarriage appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

Bridget and Julie explore what it means to awaken and connect with our Divine Feminine energy. We live in a world that thrives on being busy, doing more, and constant achievement and as a consequence many of us live more from a masculine energy to keep up. How does it feel to you to just Listen InThe post NTM14: What is the Divine Feminine? appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

Do you think your family is dysfunctional? Do they push your buttons? This week Bridget and Julie explore family dynamics and the perfection in what we tend to label as ‘dysfunctional’.The post NTM13: Family dynamics appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

This week Bridget and Julie explore what our emotions are trying to reveal to us, how we can use them to grow and what can happen when we don’t listen.The post NTM12 : What our emotions mean appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

Following a request on the Facebook page, Bridget and Julie discuss how to find your own way into motherhood and some resources to create an intentional parenting toolkit.The post NTM 11 : The transition into motherhood appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

Bridget and Julie interview Bree Downes on her recent experience of ‘love-bombing’, the weekend of ‘yes’ and the gifts it provided Bree, as a woman and mother, and how it shifted her son’s behaviour and their family dynamic.  The post NTM 10 : Love-bombing appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

Bridget and Julie open up the conversation on sexuality in our culture. What does a woman owning her sensuality look like? How does she connect with it and explore it? How do we live our lives from the point of seduction, pleasure and joy?The post NTM 9 : The Seductress appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

Julie and Bridget explore classic feminine archetypes through fairytales. What can we learn as women and what can they offer our daughters for their own journeys?The post NTM 8 : ‘Princess’ Archetypes appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

We interview Elle Griffin – Founder and Editor-in-Chief at Over The Moon Magazine and host of Over The Moon Radio.  Elle is an expert in Mariology, Divine Feminine and Female Archetypes. Whether you’re religious or not, we all come from ancient religious societies, and therefore the women archetypes in these religions and stories continue to Listen InThe post NTM7 : Historical feminine archetypes with Elle Griffen appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

In this juicy episode we dive deep into women’s psyches, their intimate support group and how these influence a woman’s birth experience.  We share stories of what empowered birth is – with intervention and drugs, and without.  Make your birth the best experience you can in order to birth the mother you desire to be! Listen InThe post NTM6 : Exploring birth – Part 2 appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

Bridget and Julie delve into our current birth culture, the choices women have available to them and Julie shares the Top 10 questions to ask your care givers to achieve a great birth experience, however that looks for you.The post NTM5 : Exploring birth – Part 1 appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

Bridget begins this episode with a challenge to the conventional language of ‘infertility’ and discusses with Julie some of her own personal viewpoints and experience with choosing Traditional Chinese Medicine to assist her fertility journey after being diagnosed with PCOS six years ago.The post NTM4: Infertility appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

What is the Red Tent and what relevance does it have to your life and your soul journey? In this episode Bridget and Julie explore how you can work with your rhythms to create a more harmonious and joyful life.The post NTM 3: The Red Tent appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

What does it mean to be present? To ourselves. To our children. To our desires and soul journey. In this episode Bridget and Julie explore how to create more joy in your life through listening to your needs and wants and what happens when things get in the way.  The post NTM2 : Being present appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

Bridget and Julie launch the podcast show with an honest look at where they see the challenges of motherhood today, and also the beautiful opportunities to presented to us to grow, however it looks for each of us. Hear what inspired them to create this space and take up the invitation to join a community of women Listen InThe post NTM1 : Why ‘Nourishing the Mother?” Our stories, our vision appeared first on The Wellness Couch.