Nourishing The Mother

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.