Nourishing the Mother

Do you find yourself in the worst type of dejavu, Where you’re constantly running into the same issues in parenting? Wouldn’t it be life-changing to feel back in control with your behaviour with a whole heap of self-compassion and good dose of spaciousness. Let’s do this together, step by step, with a whole lot of gentleness.
In this episode we discuss:
- Your origin story and how your past experiences inform your current view and actions
- Bringing softness to ourselves
- The edge where we lose ourselves, and control
- React, repair cycles where you feel out of control
- Build capacity to move beyond your rut
- Having a foot in your own solidness with boundaries
- Moving into authenticity outside of social conditioning
- Striving to participate in social conditioning (eg perfect mother myth)
- Guilt, shame and resentment when our kids step outside of our conditioning
- The complexity when our conditioning competes with our love for our child
- Rehabilitation from ‘perfect conscious parenting’
- Impossible self-policing
- Parenting and pride entanglement
COUPLES DATES
Reignite the spark in your relationship in just 12 dates & create an intimacy and connection that lasts all year https://julie-tenner.newzenler.com/courses/couples-dates
ALCHEMY 1:1
Elevate your experience of mothering, and beyond, with intimate, high touch 1:1 support
http://www.bridgetwood.life/coaching-mentoring
NTM Community Day
Come hang out with us for a day and enjoy soaking up the vibes of connection and relaxation
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In this week’s episode, we chat with the delightfully insightful Meg Berryman, who was herself a homeschooled child, on her experience as a child and young adult, her insights from a lived experience of herself and her two siblings, and her choices with her own children. It’s honestly an inspired conversation that breaks down barriers, Listen In

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Sound familiar? In this episode, we unpack how busyness becomes a sneaky barrier to intimacy, creating disconnection, silence, and resentment—even when you’re sharing a life together. You’ll learn why this happens, how to break the cycle, and the small, intentional actions that can bring you back to each other amidst the chaos of life. Because connection doesn’t need more time—it needs more intention.

In this episode, we discuss:

• How busyness acts as a coping mechanism to avoid feeling

• Why “keeping busy” feels easier than addressing feelings of disconnection or resentment

• How busyness keeps couples in logistical partnership (“What’s the schedule?”) instead of emotional connection

• How busyness feels productive, but it can become a way to avoid the very connection you long for

• Intimacy isn’t always about grand gestures—it's built in micro-moments of presence

• Creating “connection snacks”

• The chaos doesn’t need to stop for connection to happen

• “Offloading” together: Sharing the invisible to-do list and dividing responsibilities

• Interrupting resentment with shared laughter and small acts of tenderness
COUPLES DATES
Reignite the spark in your relationship in just 12 dates & create an intimacy and connection that lasts all year https://julie-tenner.newzenler.com/courses/couples-datesTo explore feminine embodiment, intimacy and relationship in Honey Club with Julie, visit https://julietenner.love/
ALCHEMY 1:1
Elevate your experience of mothering, and beyond, with intimate, high touch 1:1 support
http://www.bridgetwood.life/coaching-mentoring
To explore conscious parenting and inspiring motherhood in Reimagining Motherhood with Bridget, visit https://www.bridgetwood.life/

We’re all pretty comfy with the physical aspects of birth, but what about the unconscious ‘deep dark forest’ that we enter as a rite of passage? What about the emotional and spiritual growth our pregnancy is calling us into? How can we approach ‘our stuff’ more consciously in pregnancy as a way to prepare for Listen In

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In this juicy episode we dive deep into women’s psyches, their intimate support group and how these influence a woman’s birth experience. We share stories of what empowered birth is – with intervention and drugs, and without. Make your birth the best experience you can in order to birth the mother you desire to be! Listen In

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