Mothers at Midnight Podcast

Polly Greeks is a practitioner of Non-Violent Communication who aims to create a lifestyle that is harmonious with the earth. After numerous offshore adventures, Polly Greeks, her husband James and their children Vita and Zendo chose to put down roots in an isolated forest in New Zealand where they are slowly building a mortgage-free, off-grid home and discovering an entirely new way of life.
Non-Violent Communication (NVC), or conscious communication as Polly prefers to call it, has played an integral role in their journey. In today’s episode we talk about the principles of conscious communication and explore how it can support us to live more connected lives in harmony with ourselves, others and the Earth.
This discussion will invite you to be curious about how to better connect with yourself, others and the land. Compassionate communication is more than just a tool, it will revolutionise your relationships.

We chat about:

• Polly’s story and how she came across Conscious Communication (3:00)
• The key principles of Conscious Communication (5:00)
• The importance of curiosity and presence in connecting others (10:36)
• How to get back in tune with our feelings and deeper needs (17:00)
• How focusing on the qualities of our the needs shows us the pathway to getting those needs met (21:50)
• Using conscious communication to connect with the land (26:00)
• Conscious communication with our bodies (32:00)
• Navigating conflict in polarising times (36:00)
• The importance of taking responsibility for our feelings (43:00)
• The wheel of choice and the power of choosing how we respond (47:00)

And so much more!

Contact Polly

Episode Resources

Nonviolent Communication by Marshall Rosenbern

A New Earth by Eckhart Tolle

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What do you know about your birth? Was your mother supported? What was her experience? Our birth stories are also origin stories and they can offer you powerful insights into your life and the stories and patterns you carry with you. Likewise, our experience of giving birth can reveal things about ourselves that were previously hidden.
As Jane Hardwicke Collings says, “We have the births we need to have to teach us what we need to know about ourselves, to take us to the next place on our life journey, our journey to wholeness”. This is a huge topic, we’ll explore our own stories as well as the wisdom others bring to this topic.
We invite you to pour a cup of tea or a glass of wine and settle in as we explore the topic of birth.
We chat about:

• Our own birth stories and how they reflect the way in which we show up in the world
• Our experience of giving birth to our children
• Birthing creative projects
• Birth as a rite of passage that teaches us something we need to know about ourselves
• Challenging births

And so much more!

Resources

School of Shamanic Womancraft

Ways to connect with us:

Email [email protected]

Check out our Patreon page: https://www.patreon.com/mothersatmidnight

Join us for a Vital Journey! A Vital Journey is a 12 week online program to support you to transform your health and experience true vitality now and into the future, naturally.

A Vital Journey is the creation of Alicia Melrose, a wildly talented and experienced medical herbalist, Indigo’s talenta mamma and past podcast guest. Alicia has been offering this program for over 30 years, first in the UK and now in New Zealand and is now delighted to offer it fully online so you can experience the benefits of a holistic health retreat from the comfort of your own home. We will be supporting the mental wellness aspect of the program through supported groups and guided inner work exercises.

To find our more, check out our website or email us

Use code MIDNIGHT2O at checkout to receive 20%

Your Life Myth is a blueprint that highlights themes you will face throughout your life, including your growth edges. Working with our Life Myth can allow us to access more of our innate resources, work our growth edges, cultivate our capacity and navigate life. Today we are joined by Elsa Henderson, a teacher, coach, facilitator and Process Worker based in Portland, Oregon. Together, we’ll be taking a deep dive into this rich and fascinating topic.

DIVE INTO ELSA'S MIND...

• How Elsa came into contact with the topic of Life Myth (2:20)
• What Life Myth is (4:30)
• Life Myth as a psychological inheritance that encompases our family, ancestry and culture (7:20)
• How we can begin to discover our own mythic blueprint (8:58)
• Life Myth as a process of individual and collective evolution (11:27)
• What growth edges are and how to recognise them (13:30)
• Why it’s helpful to bring a mythic perspective to our lives (19:00)
• How dreams, body symptoms, and relationship challenges all point towards themes in our Life Myth (22:50)
• How to start working with your own Life Myth (32:00)

And so much more!

Episode Resources

A Path Made by Walking by Julie Diamond and Lee Spark Jones

Contact Elsa: catalysttochange.net

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We love creating spaces that feel nourishing. During our time together we will be creating a space for exploration of our inner life. Part of this is getting to know what you are seeking. In other words WHY you are here.

How this exercise will support you

This exercise will support you to set meaningful intentions for your Vital Journey. Intentions are guiding principles for how we want to feel, behave and show up in the world. Intention setting is different from goal setting, although intentions can support us to achieve our goals. Unlike goals, which express a desired outcome or accomplishment, intentions reflect a greater aim or purpose and allow us to align our actions with our highest truth. Whereas goal setting is more future oriented and directed towards outward achievements, intentions can guide us moment to moment and support us to become clear on how we want to feel and BE in the present.

Before completing the following exercise, we recommend you take some time to unwind and connect with yourself more deeply. You might like to take a walk, soak in a relaxing bath or sit quietly and sip a cup of your favourite herbal tea. When you’re ready, grab a pen and your journal or some paper and we’ll begin.

Listen to our guided exercise to set your intention..

Ways to connect with us:

Email [email protected]
Check out our Patreon page: Mothers at Midnight

Join us for a Vital Journey!

Starting February 24th, a Vital Journey is a 12 week online program to support you to transform your health and experience true vitality now and into the future, naturally.
A Vital Journey is the creation of Alicia Melrose, a wildly talented and experienced medical herbalist, Indigo’s talented mamma and past podcast guest. Alicia has been offering this program for over 30 years, first in the UK and now in New Zealand and is now delighted to offer it fully online so you can experience the benefits of a holistic health retreat from the comfort of your own home. We will be supporting the mental wellness aspect of the program through supported groups and guided inner work exercises.
To find our more, check out our website or email us
Use code MIDNIGHT2O at checkout to receive 20%

Are you navigating a time of transition? Perhaps you’re ending a relationship or are in a new one, perhaps you’re coming to terms with a life changing diagnosis, preparing for motherhood, or starting a new career... You might find your sense of self is shifting and things suddenly feel uncertain and overwhelming. Whatever the circumstances, transition is something we all know intimately and must dance with constantly throughout our lives.

To be in transition is to be in a liminal space. It’s the messy, murky unknown we encounter when we’ve left behind what’s familiar and are on the precipice of something new. Navigating times of transition can be an uncomfortable and confusing experience. Yet times of transition are also rites of passage that hold enormous potential for growth and self-discovery.
Join us as we explore the messiness and transformational potential of transitions big and small.
We chat about:

• How Indigo came to choose “transition” as the topic for her doctorate and why this topic is close to our hearts
• Transitions as an invitation to learn to be with discomfort and “not knowing”
• Navigating the transition to private practice as therapists
• Transitional places as sacred spaces
• Finding practices that support and hold you in times of transition
• Learning to slow down and be open to what is emerging
• How times of transition can invite encounters with Soul
• Navigating grief and loss in times of transition

... and so much more!

Resources

• Cacao Recipe: Click HERE and scroll to the bottom of the page :-)
• Heart Connection Exercise: Listen HERE
• Music: 'Lutruwita'~ performed by DENNI

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Connect with Mothers at Midnight:

• You can write to us at: [email protected]
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Individual Therapy or Triads with Rose & Indigo
ROSE HARVEY
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INDIGO MELROSE
W: www.indigomelrose.com
E: [email protected]
Instagram: indigomelrose

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