Nourishing The Mother

The fertility journey can be a deeply emotional rollercoaster of heartache and longing. In this episode, Fertility Psychologist Cath Corcoran opens up the discussion on what it is to build hope and trust amidst an experience of resentment, betrayal, disconnection and struggle. Topics we discuss include: Anger at your body not working Building gratitude for where Listen InThe post NTM 312: Loving your body through your fertility journey with The Conception Psychologist, Cath Corcoran appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

What we repress, our skin tends to express, so what are the stories your skin is revealing? How can we better understand and care for this, the largest organ of our body? In this episode, through honest conversation and expert insight, we learn about problem skin, hormone levels, environmental pollutants and our skin, and how Listen InThe post NTM 311: Loving the skin you’re in with Naturopathic Skin Specialist Sallie Roberts appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

Body confident kids are raised by parents who have a strong sense of body image and body-positive language…but how do you do this in a social, media and family culture with such strong body-shame messaging? In this episode, we talk with Body Positive parenting coach Cliona Byrne on how you can create a body-positive environment Listen InThe post NTM 310: Body positive parenting with Cliona Byrne appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

When our cultural message is so deeply ingrained, how do we step out of that and be what our body really needs? In this episode, we interview postpartum specialist and personal trainer, Chloe Anne, on rehabilitation and restoration post-birth and how we can shift the paradigm from disconnected external measures of body-image to connected, nourishing and Listen InThe post NTM 309: Defying the bounce-back postpartum body with Chloe Anne – Embodied Leader, Personal Trainer and mother of two appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

How much is the relationship you have with food, reflective of the relationship you have with life? And if you extrapolate out the conditional love you offer yourself when it comes to your body and/or food, where else might this conditional love be appearing? In this juicy conversation with The Nourished Naturopath, Charmaine Newmark, we Listen InThe post NTM 308: Rewriting our relationship with food with Charmaine Newmark, The Nourished Naturopath appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

How do we love and feel sexually alive in our body, when it’s very different to how it used to be? What do we do with the stories and shame we may find ourselves circling through? What if your body could be an instrument of worthiness? What if instead of looking at our bodies and Listen InThe post NTM 307: Body image in the bedroom with Somatic sexologist Bonnie Bliss appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

We desire to love more of our body as a result of the voids we have on loving it. What does that look like, and what have been the paths charted on loving more of our bodies for Bridget and Julie? Let’s dive in to all the rich conversations and vulnerable places on body image, Listen InThe post NTM 306: The stories our bodies could tell appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

It’s the modern mothers’ affliction; yelling. How do we find ourselves here and what can we put in place to create more ease and flow? How do we find our gentle and early with our boundaries self vs feeling resentful and protective of what’s been overtrodden? It’s a great conversation that could just change your Listen InThe post NTM 305: Finding my boundaries early and gently vs late and angry appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

The topic we’re emailed about the most! ‘How do I find my community?’…what if you’re projections are what’s in the way and moving towards your hearts yearning is the answer? In this episode we discuss what it means to create your community and find the people who light you up and bring you alive in Listen InThe post NTM 304: Creating community and finding your peeps appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

We can find ourselves addicted to support when in the face or challenge and addicted to drama when it brings us connection. So what do you do to ‘conscious yourself’ out of these conundrums? In this episode we explore through story what it means to expand your thinking beyond what’s habituated and how you can Listen InThe post NTM 303: Do I shrink + stay safe or do I expand and speak my truth? appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

“These parents are parenting in intense situations where dysregulation reigns and the child is largely over-stimulated and overwhelmed, for a far more extended period of time”. In part two of this powerful and practical interview with neuro-diversity parent-coach experts Tara and Meg, we seek to shed light on the invisibilised experience of parents to additional needs children and the Listen InThe post NTM 302: Neurodiverse children with experts Tara Broughan & Meg McIntosh – for parents, carers and professionals working with children with additional needs – Part 2 appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

“Every family has ingredients of challenge and wonder” says Tara “and we need to reframe self-care into family-care – because it is”. In this powerful and practical interview with neuro-diversity parent-coach experts Tara and Meg, we ask the deeply meaningful questions from parents within our community who experience challenges in parenting their own neuro-diverse children. Listen InThe post NTM 301: Neurodiverse children with experts Tara Broughan & Meg McIntosh – for parents, carers and professionals working with children with additional needs – Part 1 appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

Feed a fantasy and you breed a nightmare. What ideals or fantasies have consumed you and your identity in motherhood? What has the fallout from previously held ‘truths’ or beliefs been? What if you could mitigate the level of suffering you experience as you fall from grace, by simply bringing awareness and asking a few Listen InThe post NTM 300: Exploring the fantasies in motherhood appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

How do you handle conflict? Can you move toward it or do you shrink? How do you handle greatness? Can you move toward it or do you shrink? These could be two of the most powerful and impactful questions you will ever ask yourself and it is where we navigate this week’s conversation, through the Listen InThe post NTM 299: Finding strength in Conflict appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

If everything that is currently conscious for you, is a manifestation of what has previously been unconscious…where does that leave you? The master of your fate or too scared to think?! Through conversation and story, we break down the synchronicity of our past week and how you really are the most powerful being in this Listen InThe post NTM 298: How your life is revealing yourself to you appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

In this episode we explore the law of transparency and reflection and see through story how we can create more freedom by moving beyond our perceptions of how the world is and who we are within it. We talk science, spirituality, relationship and family dynamics in this fascinating episode. You can join us in Soul Listen InThe post NTM 297: You see the world as you are, not as it is appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

Do I belong here anymore? When the moments and transitions of your children’s growth and development call you into mourning and letting go of what has always been up and until now, how do you meet and reform your identity from this tender place? If you stay too attached to the identity you’ve developed up Listen InThe post NTM 296: The holding on and letting go of identity in motherhood appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

What does it look like to show up for intimate love during the ‘sameness’ that lockdowns can cultivate? How do you practice ‘loving well’ during these often stress-filled times? In this episode we explore our experiences in 2020, and muse on our current reality in another lockdown, this time for Valentine’s Day. Nourishing the Mother Listen InThe post NTM 295: Love in the time of Corona appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

We feel you. There’s seasons in motherhood and exhaustion is certainly one of them. Whether it’s awake through the night with babies or teething toddlers, extracurriculars or playground dynamics that leave you spent, we cover it all in this podcast, sharing our own current experiences and dynamics of exhaustion and how to be with it Listen InThe post NTM 294: Parenting through exhaustion appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

In this week’s podcast we riff in answer to a listener’s question ‘What is truth?’. It’s a mind-bending, soul opening conversation that drops so many bombs you’ll want to delve into what truth is for you, how you share your truth, how you hold your truth back and what you’re teaching your children. We’d love Listen InThe post NTM 293: What is truth actually? appeared first on The Wellness Couch.