Nourishing the Mother

NTM 232: Healing your inner scrooge

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.

NTM 231: Julie and Bridget’s highlights and takeaways from You Totally Can

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.

NTM 230: You totally can mix motherhood and business

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.

NTM 229: Starting your day right; your morning mindset

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.

NTM 228: Our Top 5 Most Influential Books for Bridget and Julie

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.

NTM 227: When their needs are endless and all you want to do is run

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.

NTM 226: Standing on shaky ground in post-partum

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.

NTM 225: If you’re beating yourself up, where are you building yourself up?

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.

NTM 224: The screaming toddler in the shopping centre

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.

NTM 223: Open Mic – Julie answers your questions!

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.

NTM 222: When it comes to sibling dynamics, what’s your kryptonite?

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.

NTM 221: 5 reasons to stick with sibling fights

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.