Nourishing The Mother

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 wha

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

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 t

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

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,

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

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

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 vitali

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,

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 ins

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 Motherho

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 intelle

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 embo

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 NatureI