Nourishing the Mother

NTM 220: Expanding your child’s genius

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.

NTM 219: Parenting the way I want VS reality

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.

NTM 218: Thriving with a newborn and beyond

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.

NTM 217: Social Situations and Conscious Parenting

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.

NTM 216: How do I use boundaries and still parent consciously?

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.

NTM 215: How do I get him to….

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.

NTM 214: The roadmap to deepening your relationship

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.

NTM 213: The line between consciousness and overthinking

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.

NTM 212: Newborns, Siblings, Family Dynamics

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.

NTM 211: Who is your motherhood ‘authority’?

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.

NTM 210: How we let our collective daughters down

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.

NTM 209: Bridget’s birth story – moving from ‘I can’t do it’ to an ecstatic birth

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.