Nourishing the Mother

NTM 208: Help! I get so frustrated with my children fightin­g!

Siblings huh? There­’s almost nothing mo­re grating, or fanta­sy-busting, than your loves fighting aga­inst each other. So how do you help them navigate their inn­er thoughts, feelings and beliefs, witho­ut having to complet­ely wail on their si­bling, or bring you to breaking point? Relevant links: Nourishing the Mother http://www.nourishin­gthemother.com.au Suburban Sandcastles – Bridget http://www.suburbans­andcastles.com The Listen InThe post NTM 208: Help! I get so frustrated with my children fightin­g! appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

NTM 207: Working through the intensity of toddlerhood

Toddlers! Argh! They can feel like a rude awakening after the beautiful baby-bubble – and for many of us, the hardest part the parenting. We explore why this is, and very often it’s a clashing of worlds, our timeline and theirs, our expectations and their reality, our desire for control and their need for independence Listen InThe post NTM 207: Working through the intensity of toddlerhood appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

NTM 206: Birth and women’s bodies

Birth represents an opening for a woman, physically of course, but also who she currently is, and who she is evolving into. How can we work with women’s bodies and pelvises, to create more space for babies and widen what ‘creating space’ looks like? If even 1mm of space can dramatically alter a babies position Listen InThe post NTM 206: Birth and women’s bodies appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

NTM 205: Meeting your anger in motherhood

Anger can feel like such a toxic emotion, we don’t want any part of it…and we shame ourselves when it (inevitably) comes flying out. What if you could develop a different type of relationship with your anger? One where you develop skills to move this galvanising feeling, so you can feel the hurt it’s masking Listen InThe post NTM 205: Meeting your anger in motherhood appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

NTM 204: Family wellness in the winter months

What does it look like to prepare and empower yourself and your family for winter? From nourishing food and supplementation to emotional and psychological wellbeing, we explore what health looks like through the lens of naturopathic medicine and the family dynamic. Relevant links: Nourishing the Mother http://www.nourishingthemother.com.au Suburban Sandcastles – Bridget http://www.suburbansandcastles.com The Pleasure Nutritionist Listen InThe post NTM 204: Family wellness in the winter months appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

NTM 203: I’m judging my child, how do I stop?

As humans, having a human experience, we can’t help but judge! So what do you do when you notice you’re beginning to judge your children?! How do you sit with what its bringing up, why its there and how in the heck do you move past it so you can love your whole child more Listen InThe post NTM 203: I’m judging my child, how do I stop? appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

NTM 202: Consciously preparing for birth – Bridget’s check in at 35 weeks

As Bridget begins the descent towards her third baby, we discuss what conscious birth preparation looks like, what it DID look like for Bridget in the birth of her first and second children, and of course the wisdom she’s gained along the way! Conscious birth is an evolution of our ’selves’, so what does it Listen InThe post NTM 202: Consciously preparing for birth – Bridget’s check in at 35 weeks appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

NTM 201: There’s nothing you can say that I can’t love

Ultimately all we want as humans is to be loved in all our wholeness; to be loved JUST as we are, without needing to change. How would it feel for you to know on a really deep level that who you are, is totally safe and completely loved? So HOW do we do this in Listen InThe post NTM 201: There’s nothing you can say that I can’t love appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

NTM 200: The unevenness of parenthood

We ALL feel this at some, or many, points in our journey. The mental load of motherhood can become all too much sometimes and we often want someone to blame, which ultimately has us experiencing more disconnection and disharmony in our lives. The unevenness of parenting is REAL…and it isn’t….here’s where we take the conversation Listen InThe post NTM 200: The unevenness of parenthood appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

NTM 199: How to show up even when you’re exhausted

Following some pretty juicy conversations in our member’s group, we break apart, get down and dirty with ‘exhaustion’ in motherhood. As per our usual fashion, we bust some stories, discuss a pathway forwards and what’s holding us back…and of course, we drop some bombs on the definition of self-care and our construction of identity…it’s PACKED! Listen InThe post NTM 199: How to show up even when you’re exhausted appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

NTM 198: “Emotional Safety”- great in theory…but how do you do it?!

There are thousand-and-one articles on how to listen to your Childs feelings, but very little on how that actually looks when you yourself are feeling ‘offline’ or triggered or in anxiety.  Following a listener’s questions, we distill our tools down to a 3-step process for HOW to create emotional safety and HOW to hold the Listen InThe post NTM 198: “Emotional Safety”- great in theory…but how do you do it?! appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

NTM 197: Inspiration for balancing attachment parenting and YOU

This week’s inspiration is from a listener’s email and we’re excited to dive into it!  We LOVE attachment parenting philosophies and styles of raising whole humans, but what happens when there’s aspects of this paradigm that stop working for you, that you begin to feel resentful about, that are creating rifts within yourself or your Listen InThe post NTM 197: Inspiration for balancing attachment parenting and YOU appeared first on The Wellness Couch.