We all get here; the mother of all bad moods, the funk you just can’t get yourself out of… The question is not, “How do I get out of it?” Or, “How do I prevent getting here?” The question is; “What is this trying to reveal to me?” Our feelings are feedback and our darker… Continue reading NTM 152: When you’re in the mother of all funks
In answer to a listener’s question, this week we expand on the ‘sex talks’ with our kids. What it looks like, sounds like, and how to approach it. It’s tricky, we have to raise our own inner selves in order to forge a different path for our children. Relevant links: Nourishing the Mother http://www.nourishingthemother.com.au/ Suburban… Continue reading NTM 151: How much do you talk about sex with your kids?
Why do we want you to honour your cycles? Why is it important? And how on earth are you supposed to do it with kids??! In this episode we answer a listener’s question on parenting with your period. We explore our inner ‘seasons’ and the spiritual dimensions they open us up to, how to honour… Continue reading NTM 150: Parenting with your period
There’s a lot in this discussion! We move from being IN our body, to the edges of our comfort zone, to improv and the purpose of it in maintaining presence. Sarah has a flare for the dramatic arts and a huge ‘why’ behind helping kids develop and expand who they are and how they show… Continue reading NTM 149: Interview with Sarah Chapman from Drama Rama Factory on improv and body movement
What does that mean? Do you believe it or do you joke about it? What does it mean to be conscious about health and how do we tap into the wisdom that is innate within our body? In this episode, we expand the conversation around what health is, what drives our health, how we influence… Continue reading NTM 148: Your body is a temple
Loss. Grief. Shame. Pain. All experiences many women, and couples, bury in their journey to children. In this intimate and vulnerable interview with Megan and Regan from Aila and Lior, we discuss their own journey of immense pain in losing two babies during pregnancy and how they have shaped this into a movement of opening… Continue reading NTM 147: Miscarriage and baby loss with Megan and Regan from Aila and Lior
Well, are you? And what does that even MEAN? This motherhood gig brings us to our edges of pride, self-depreciation, shame and guilt and often these drive our experience of motherhood itself. What if there was another way to be? Another way to explore who YOU are when you’re alive and lit up by your… Continue reading NTM 146: Are you getting it ‘right’?
In this week’s episode we interview Catherine Middlebrooks who loves to help women get the confidence back in their bodies to live a life of “yes!”. We bust open the myth of the 6-week postpartum “okay to go” tick of approval, to really begin to listen to the whispers of our post-baby body and bring… Continue reading NTM 145: Post-baby core & pelvic floor with Catherine Middlebrooks, postpartum yoga specialist
What is ‘good’? What does it mean to you? In this episode we listen deeply to the wisdom that is Bree Downes as she talks us through her journey of her three births, what insights and understandings she gained about herself, birth and the climate in which we are birthing. We discuss what you need… Continue reading NTM 144: The secret to a ‘good’ birth with Bree Downes, doula and birth photographer
Using play as a tool in parenting to build connection and create cooperation is a profound way to bring joy and ease to mothering, and heal our own inner child discomforts and wounding stories. How can we ‘bring in the play’ even when it feels hard? Is there anything that is ‘off limits’? In this… Continue reading NTM 143: Leading the way through play MASTERCLASS