Nourishing The Mother

In this two-part series, we interview Gillian Howarth, a homeschooling mother of three, former primary school teacher and creator of Born Wise School. As so many of us plunge into ‘school at home’ during COVID-19, we quickly come face-to-face with our own deeply ‘schooled’ approaches to learning, inviting us to re-examine educational philosophy and our Listen InThe post NTM 252: Exploring homeschooling and natural learning PART 1 appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

Do you notice how in ‘conscious parenting’ we can have one set of ‘rules’ for how we strive to show up for our children..but miss the truth that much of this also applies to our intimate partnership too? Seeking to understand them, offer the respect we’d like to receive, looking at the ‘mirror’ they offer Listen InThe post NTM 251: Stop separating relationship and parenting appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

In this episode, we discuss what’s getting us and our kids through this time of COVID-19 social distancing and ‘iso’. There’s tips, hacks and chit chat about our private practices making all the difference right now. We hope this episode offers something that resonates for you, too x This podcast is sponsored by SPACEMAKER WARDROBES! Listen InThe post NTM 250: Home practices for difficult and uncertain times appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

How do you want to create magic for your children during this time of global uncertainty, challenge and change? What do you think homeschooling needs to look like? In this episode we explore what this unique time can offer us and our children, seeking to live by the adage that ‘when life gives you lemons, make lemonade’! Listen InThe post NTM 249: Removing the rules to make your own recipe for homeschooling appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

We are all experiencing immense change and uncertainty as the COVID-19 pandemic grows and many families are thrust together in the home, amplifying opportunity for both connection, and conflict. How we get through this time with our children will leave a lasting impression on them – when life gives you lemons can you make lemonade? In this Listen InThe post NTM 248: Parenting through Coronavirus appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

We ALL have aspects of our children we find difficult to be with, or simply don’t want to see…but what if all behaviour is functional, and it’s here to show you the way?….it’s controversial, but what if your child’s behaviour which you detest, is a signal asking you to grow? Relevant links: Nourishing the Mother Listen InThe post NTM 247: What if the parts you find hard in your child, are the parts you reject in you appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

Do you define yourself by your parenting? Is your worth tied up in how well you showed up and who your kids turn out to be? Do you believe there’s your way, or the wrong way? In this episode we explore the dance that parenting presents to us in holding on and letting go. Relevant Listen InThe post NTM 246: Holding on and Letting go of attachment appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

It grips your throat, it tugs at your chest, its the monkey you can’t get off your back – anxiety. In motherhood it can have us feeling overwhelmed, underprepared, frayed and frazzled. Yet it’s part of the human condition. So how do we roll when we’re feeling pinned? In this episode we explore through story Listen InThe post NTM 245: Moving with and beyond anxiety in motherhood appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

So if you were hooked on part 1 of this conversation and story-telling, then you’re going to LOVE part 2! Julie shares her soapbox style monologue on money, success and ‘her crazy’ before bringing it waaayy down into some pretty real truths of intimacy and practices to quit being bitchy and start being honoured and Listen InThe post NTM 244: Even Julie’s relationship gets hard – part 2 appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

Long term relationship is h.a.r.d. Maintaining intimacy is as much about finding ourselves, as it is the other person. But what does that mean when it’s boiled down into an ‘everyday relationship’? It does NOT mean being perfect, but instead being willing. In this most intimate of sharings, Julie shows you the art of revealing, Listen InThe post NTM 243: Even Julie’s relationship gets hard – part 1 appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

Following on from last week’s episode, we continue exploring the challenges of parenting a child with additional needs through Julie’s story, which unveils the reality of a mother committed to really ‘seeing’ her child and searching for answers, and what we can learn about ourselves when we view our children through our lens of the parent-child Listen InThe post NTM 242: Parenting kids with additional needs – Part 2 appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

In this week’s episode, Julie vulnerably opens up on the experience of being seen and heard as she navigates the path of parenting a child with additional needs. We explore the edges she’s found herself at and what looking down the tunnel of a diagnosis might mean.   Relevant links: Nourishing the Mother http://www.nourishingthemother.com.au Suburban Listen InThe post NTM 241: Parenting kids with additional needs – part 1 appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

Following on from last week’s episode, we complete Bridget’s Home Office and reflect on all the family patterns, the emotional highs and lows, the family dynamics that come up when physically clearing space…which of course is also metaphysically shedding layers and clearing space! We hope it inspires you to literally ‘create the space’ for the Listen InThe post NTM 240: How your home tells the story of you PART 2 appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

Following on from Manifesting with intention and potency, comes who you need to step into being in order to have that reality….part of this is living in the space ‘that’ woman lives in, vibing with the energy ‘that’ woman vibes with and our homes reflect both who we are and offer us an energetic exchange that Listen InThe post NTM 239: How your home tells the story of you PART 1 appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

We allll have stuck places – the places we stop, close down, shut down, avoid, move around, pretend don’t exist…and then get frustrated as all heck when we run into them time and time again….what happens when we see the stuck places and CHOOSE to enter them?….we find a wellspring of energy and untapped potential Listen InThe post NTM 238: Liberate your life beyond your stuck places appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

Setting an intention for your year…or next decade…is pretty serious business – at least we think so! WHAT you call in, and HOW you call it in, matters, and can be potency-packed when its in alignment and integrity with who you are, and your vision. If you call it in, you better be ready to Listen InThe post NTM 237: How to manifest with potency appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

What does it look like to raise self-confident kids? What does it look like to raise our own internal self-confident kid? What does it even mean to HAVE confidence?! In this episode we go off in many-a-passionate tangent as we discuss what tools and insights YOU need to raise the kind of kids who greet Listen InThe post NTM 236: Your Self-Confident Kid appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

In order to move into conscious manifesting for 2020, you need to sit in the gratitude, appreciation and reflection of the year that was. In this episode we look at what our 2019 was; good and ‘bad’ personally and for Nourishing The Mother, and what we want to call in for 2020.  What we discuss Listen InThe post NTM 235: Reflections of 2019 and Intentions for 2020 appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

When we champion one-way of living, we often come crashing into it’s opposite. We’re chasing kind, loving, connected Christmas’ and we end up overwhelmed, frustrated and reactionary and then we chase the kind and loving more fervently, only to meet it’s opposite with equal ferocity!  You’re a two-sided being; if you only celebrate one side Listen InThe post NTM 234: We want kind, but we get ‘shit show’… appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

Ok. So you know we LOVE conscious parenting, we deeply value respect, communication and awareness…bet you do too…but what happens when you parent with someone who, well, doesn’t so much….? How do you ‘teach them’? How do balance your child’s needs with your partners?…. Relevant links: Nourishing the Mother http://www.nourishingthemother.com.au Suburban Sandcastles – Bridget http://www.suburbansandcastles.com Listen InThe post NTM 233: When your partner parents differently to you appeared first on The Wellness Couch.