MUSINGS + MAGICK: Navigating the Discomfort of Shifting Seasons in Motherhood and Business (MAY FULL MOON ILLUMINATIONS with Lauren & Nicole)
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05/24/24 • 51 min
In this episode, we vulnerably reflect on the turbulence we’ve both experienced this past month and how it’s impacting our nervous systems, our creativity, our productivity, and our sense of Self. We share our own journeys of discomfort and fear, and embrace the concept of pausing and slowing down to return in a more authentic way.
As we continue to deepen into cyclical embodiment, we both acknowledge that being in a season of slow down is normal and necessary despite societal conditioning telling us to push through. We share both the discomfort and expansion of paving our own ways.
As always our conversation pulls the threads of many different topics including:
- Seeking so called “balance” between business and the ever changing phases of motherhood
- Body image struggles
- Mom guilt and self worth
- Reframing burnout, shifting priorities, and embracing a season of self-tending
- Redefining procrastination and leaning into your own creative process
- Healing perfectionism and witnessing the embodied growth
We have no doubt that some part of this episode will be relatable or offer language to your own experience as you untangle the messy middle of motherhood or entrepreneurship. As always, we love to hear from you! DM us on IG and let us know what this episode stirs up for you.
Resources mentioned:
Find epic copywriting support with our friend Gerry (@itsgerrytait)
Connect with Nicole on IG (@nicolepasveer)
Connect with Lauren on IG (@nestandnourish)
I'd LOVE to hear your thoughts and feedback... send a text message directly to the show.
Join the community over on instagram to connect with your host Lauren @nestandnourish.
In this episode, we vulnerably reflect on the turbulence we’ve both experienced this past month and how it’s impacting our nervous systems, our creativity, our productivity, and our sense of Self. We share our own journeys of discomfort and fear, and embrace the concept of pausing and slowing down to return in a more authentic way.
As we continue to deepen into cyclical embodiment, we both acknowledge that being in a season of slow down is normal and necessary despite societal conditioning telling us to push through. We share both the discomfort and expansion of paving our own ways.
As always our conversation pulls the threads of many different topics including:
- Seeking so called “balance” between business and the ever changing phases of motherhood
- Body image struggles
- Mom guilt and self worth
- Reframing burnout, shifting priorities, and embracing a season of self-tending
- Redefining procrastination and leaning into your own creative process
- Healing perfectionism and witnessing the embodied growth
We have no doubt that some part of this episode will be relatable or offer language to your own experience as you untangle the messy middle of motherhood or entrepreneurship. As always, we love to hear from you! DM us on IG and let us know what this episode stirs up for you.
Resources mentioned:
Find epic copywriting support with our friend Gerry (@itsgerrytait)
Connect with Nicole on IG (@nicolepasveer)
Connect with Lauren on IG (@nestandnourish)
I'd LOVE to hear your thoughts and feedback... send a text message directly to the show.
Join the community over on instagram to connect with your host Lauren @nestandnourish.
Previous Episode
MUSINGS + MAGICK: Redefining Consistency, Commitment, and Devotion in Motherhood and Entrepreneurship (APRIL FULL MOON ILLUMINATIONS with Lauren & Nicole)
Listen in as we redefine consistency, untangle (and embrace) our natural cyclical rhythms, and discuss the delicate balance between desire and obligation and where devotion fits into motherhood and/or conscious entrepreneurship.
While we are both celebrating the 1 year anniversary of our podcasts, we reflect on our devotion to getting to this point by defining our own rules around consistency. We open up about the challenges of staying dedicated to our vision as entrepreneurs, the societal pressures to be consistently productive, and the impact of podcasting on our lives.
We reflect on the changing capacity within motherhood during the toddler years in contrast to the need for dedication and commitment to business, all while continuing to unlearn from previous programming, and resistance to obligation and mainstream definitions around productivity.
We dissect how obligation might be tied to self-doubt, lack of self-trust, and people-pleasing behavior, contrasted with desire seen as a more authentic, and feminine embodied driver, and of course what aspects of this are being illuminated to us in this lunar cycle, and inviting us into deeper devotion to our values.
We have no doubt that some part of this episode will be relatable or offer language to your own experience as you untangle the messy middle of motherhood or entrepreneurship.
As always, we'd love to hear from you! DM us on IG and let us know what this episode stirs up for you.
Connect with Nicole on IG (@nicolepasveer)
I'd LOVE to hear your thoughts and feedback... send a text message directly to the show.
Join the community over on instagram to connect with your host Lauren @nestandnourish.
Next Episode
MUSINGS + MAGICK: The Marriage of ‘Being’ and ‘Doing’ in Modern Motherhood (JUNE NEW MOON INTENTIONS WITH LAUREN AND NICOLE)
We’re so often given the advice of “more being, less doing” yet what does this actually look like in modern motherhood as busy, potentially high achieving, and conscious mothers or women entrepreneurs?
It can be easy to enter a shame spiral when we find ourselves betraying our own needs or not following through on things we intend to do.
In this episode, we uncover the identity of efficiency and discuss how being efficient can be a strong motivator in our day to day actions. We reflect on how societal conditioning and external validation has led to a distortion around self worth and productivity.
We explore how to show our nervous systems that it’s actually SAFE not to be efficient despite past and current programming, and we talk about different ways we are each personally infusing micro pauses of intention into our day without massive adjustments to our to-do lists.
This episode invites you to find ways to infuse more being into your doing.
Some ideas we offer include practicing awareness and strengthening your muscle of discernment. Strengthening awareness and discernment can increase Self trust and Self worth in small, bite sized ways while allowing flexibility for the changing seasons of one’s capacity.
We set new moon intentions for ourselves and invite you to join us in asking yourself questions like:
“What does my body need right now?”
And “Have I felt my heartbeat today?” and invite you to either follow through on what comes up in response to those questions, or hold space for what's present without jumping to fix it or take it away.
Resources mentioned:
The Healing Power of Pleasure: Seven Medicines for Rediscovering the Innate Joy of Being by Juila Paulette Hollenbury (book)
Connect with Nicole on IG (@nicolepasveer)
Connect with Lauren on IG (@nestandnourish)
I'd LOVE to hear your thoughts and feedback... send a text message directly to the show.
Join the community over on instagram to connect with your host Lauren @nestandnourish.
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