Nourishing The Mother

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.