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… Continue reading NTM 211: Who is your motherhood ‘authority’?
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… Continue reading NTM 210: How we let our collective daughters down
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,… Continue reading NTM 209: Bridget’s birth story – moving from ‘I can’t do it’ to an ecstatic birth
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… Continue reading NTM 208: Help! I get so frustrated with my children fighting!
“ Struggles happen for everyone, it’s whether you quit or not that counts… In this weeks episode Dr M dives into good and bad stress, and why the struggles you may be going through at the moment may be the sign greater things are just around the corner. Dr M revisits the worriometer and how… Continue reading BQS 89: Struggles happen, now what?
This episode is more for the cis-females in our audience, however, what we discuss is really important to the whole population! All the way from Canada, Lisa Hendrickson-Jack from Fertility Friday joins me on the show to talk all things female reproduction. Lisa is a podcaster and author like myself, as well a Fertility Awareness… Continue reading TNN 78: Fertility With Lisa Hendrickson-Jack
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… Continue reading NTM 207: Working through the intensity of toddlerhood
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… Continue reading NTM 206: Birth and women’s bodies
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… Continue reading NTM 205: Meeting your anger in motherhood
This is a chat I have always wanted to have! One that explores how we may begin to bridge the gap between the best of our ancestors and where we are today in order to optimise human health and longevity. Professor Herman Pontzer (PhD Evolutionary Anthropology, Duke) researches how the human body evolved, and how… Continue reading BMR 31: Lessons From Human Evolution with Professor Herman Pontzer