Happy Mama Movement With Amy Taylor-kabbaz

Welcome Mamas.While the demands of motherhood and other responsibilities can be overwhelming at times, taking time for simple pleasures can help you stay grounded and maintain a positive mindset. and to remember that the enjoyment of these simple pleasures is not a luxury, but a necessity for your mental, emotional, and physical health. Incorporating these small moments of joy into your daily routine really can make a big difference in your overall well-being.With this in mind, i introduce you to the beautiful guest joining me on this week's podcast: Regan Figg. A self-professed pleasure seeker in all the right ways.Regan's book, A Mother’s Pleasure is a modern guide to summoning your sensuality and weaving pleasure into the very fabric of your life. She also hosts The Pleasure Collective podcast.After being diagnosed with Post Natal Depression after the birth of her son, she had trouble coping with what was happening to her body. Even after 15 years of yoga practice and teaching, and practicin

Welcome Back, Mamas!Why would a podcast about Matrescence and the experience of becoming a mother interview the author of a book about women WITHOUT kids? Because, as you'll hear in this fascinating conversation with author Ruby Warrington, as women, we are all facing the same questions and assumptions of who we should be and how we should live. A woman is SUPPOSED to want to be a mother, and love every minute of it. A woman is SUPPOSED to follow a certain path and rules set by society. A woman's reproductive status is a matter of open conversation and judgment. This interview - and Ruby's phenomenal book - stirred in me an even greater commitment to breaking down ALL of the gendered-assumptions we have about mothering and woman... whether we are mothers or not. And it also provided a powerful and important insight into the experience of women WITHOUT kids - whether by choice or by circumstance.[Time Stamps][0:00] - Acknowledgements[0:41] - Intro[2:23] - Mothers Without Kids[3:41]- A Book For Anybody[6:34] -

Welcome back, Mama's.We have something special and incredibly inspiring to celebrate and acknowledge this year's International Women's Day'.A power-house of grace and steadfastness. The ever wonderful, Yemi Penn, is my guest this week and brings her passion and insight to us with such eloquence and gusto.Yemi Penn is a Global Thought Leader and Ph.D. Candidate on the transformation of trauma, looking at non-western and alternative ways of healing. She fuses her engineering profession with her creative research to evoke radical change in communities and organizations. Her first documentary ‘Did I choose my trauma?’ was a finalist in the 2021 Sony Film Festival (Australia & New Zealand) short film category. She has since been invited to speak on the TEDx Ocala, Florida stage where she invites the collective to make the choice to transform their trauma as opposed to transfer it.Join us today, as Yemi and I dive deep into the trauma of identity and belonging, a crisis of the ages, but with it comes blessings

I have something very exciting for you today... a brand new style of podcast that I have been ITCHING to share with you for months! It's called: Mama Q, and it's a conversation between myself and one of our Mama Rising Coaching trainers in which we answer YOUR questions! I love this for 2 reasons: 1. I want this space to feel like somewhere you can come for support and insights.Yes, I will keep bringing you interviews with authors, experts and mamas around the world, so you can hear their stories and be inspired. But, I also want it to be a place where you are heard too - your questions, your voices and your experiences are important. They matter. They need to be heard. 2. You get to meet our three Mama Rising Coaching Trainers! This is important because not only do you get to meet the team of coaches who train and support all our new coaches, but you also get to hear the many and varied ways a question can be answered. There is no ONE expert when it comes to motherhood and womanhood. There is no ONE answer t

Welcome back, Mamas.This world is very often telling us that our value comes from our achievements, the grades we get, the awards we receive, the attention we get, and the level of income we provide.We have been raised this way, believing this is right and this is how it should be. Status, merit, and praise through this measure of success and validation. Validation through, annual KPIs or a pay rise to assure us of 'a job well done'.Its this external validation that often gives us our sense of self. If we are not acknowledged by the people and systems we are encased in, who are we then, and what then of our essential worth and value? Considering this, where do we stand as we enter motherhood? When we are used to having this type of external validation out in the world, in our jobs, the transition to motherhood can lead us to expect this validation we were used to to then come from our partner to retain that sense of value for all our efforts. This week I spent some time with Nathalie Biviano who swapped suits

Welcome back, Mamas. For many mothers who really feel the creative impulse, the act of making art is not only a means of preservation but also a form of self-expression and a way to explore their own identity, not to mention a way to make a living.Having children is a transformative experience that can inspire new perspectives and ways of seeing the world. This can lead to a deeper appreciation for the beauty and complexity of the world, and a desire to capture and share these insights through the arts; photography, film, music, the written word, or dance. In fact, ALL WE DO is a creative act.We are all intuitively creative beings who need to create and express ourselves in some form. One question dominates my mind though; why is it, that mothers are overlooked in the artistic field?Enter Rachel Larsen Weaver. An artist-educator and photographer joyfully living on the Maryland beaches of the Chesapeake Bay. A mother to five and creator of moments, her enthusiasm for details and self-love are infectious, infus

Welcome Mamas!!!Today I have a special BONUS Podcast Episode for you.This episode is a sincere introduction to the Philosophy and practices behind Matrescence.It is a breakdown of the need to educate and assist mothers who are not being supported or valued in a way that recognizes their essential and irreplaceable role. The Mama Rising Facilitator Training is a strong step forward on the path to re-educating and establishing new protocols and requirements for Mothers of all nations, classes, and creeds. We must have this in order to serve our role to the highest degree. Mamas and Women everywhere.Take a moment today. Grab a drink. Put your feet up. Grab a pen and paper. And commit to having a think about how YOU factor into this change. [Time stamps][0:00] - Acknowledgements[2:20]- Matrescence and the Revolution of Motherhood[8:52] - Mothers need to fix this?![11:16]- Into and through Motherhood[12:46] - MATRESCENCE[15:18] -This Word Changed Everything[19:48] - A Different Way[22:10] - The Mama Rising Way[25:

Welcome Mamas to this week's Happy Mama Movement Podcast episode.After years of building a successful business around assisting and educating women to better understand themselves and the world we live in, one questions that I am often asked is around the theme of better preparing for what's to come.Most of us have read 'the books', been to 'the workshops' and 'the seminars', taken 'the classes', attended 'the webinars', and routinely practiced various techniques...But, has any of this significantly made us less anxious and prepared to fearlessly face the unknown? Can we ever actually prepare ourselves for an unforeseeable future? Can we ever know enough? Can we ever practice enough? Can we ever have enough foresight to maneuver, without taking enumerable falls, the stumbling blocks in our lives?It seems no matter how hard we try, none of us are removed from the world of things and the uncompromising change that buffets us to and fro' all of our days. So what is there left for us to do?In this solo episode, I

Welcome back Mamas! Thank you so much for finding your back way here for our first episode of 2023. On this occasion, I have the privilege of interviewing Kate Northrup, the author of the fantastic book, 'Do Less'. A book about breaking down the established masculine structures, that are pushing us to do more, climb higher, 'succeed', be busy, rush, achieve more... and rather, choosing to 'do less', maintain equilibrium, and still sustain a feeling of fulfillment and joy, creating our own schedule, on our own terms.This week we explore this idea with beautiful insights from Kate, as she relates her experiences and gives up a crash course in honoring our bodies, our inner world, and synchronizing with the 'seasons' that govern our lives.[3:38] - Introduction[5:38] - Lessons from Motherhood[9:49] - Safety and Agency and Calm[11:40] - A Crash Course[12:58] - Like a Trampoline[15:00] - Our Cyclical Nature[17:47] - The Cover Crops of Life: Things that fill us up.[21:03] - Masculine Structures[22:47] - The 'Reality

Welcome to the final episode for 2022.How are you? I mean, really how are you?I know it's cliché, but my goodness we have all been through a lot over the last three years. And this has created a sense of one thing after another, after another. As we pause at the end of another year, I invite you to reflect and think about our needs vs what feeds us. This concept has been presented to me again recently in the book Unbound by Kasia Urbaniak. Come with me as I explore and offer prompting questions in this solo episode. Talking about:Expectations of us alongside subtle power dynamics. How we can unbind and free ourselves to actually get what we most need.The balance of our mothering, giving, nurturing instincts and supporting what feeds our soul, heart and sense of self at the same time.Grieving when we are not needed anymore, the seasons that ebb and flow and how that can present its own challenges. Celebrating all we have done and who we are becoming, as we recognise and love our own needs alongside those of ot

Our children are a vital source of creativity and future vision. And a big part of our parenting involves reconnecting to yourself so you can connect to them differently, and be the parent you've always dreamed of being. Today's guest is by far one of the most inspiring women I have the privilege of knowing. She is a mother, humanitarian, artist, teacher, bestselling author and host of the Practice You Podcast. This conversation is potent and powerful and encourages us to listen to our own wisdom within. Join Amy and Elena as they talk about:Being at the mercy of emotion and how to trust that we're learning all the time and very much a human work in progress.Tenderness for our anger and sitting practices which help us to notice the meanderings of our mind.The simplicity of bringing it back and realising others are having an experience of their own. We have a choice.The role of parenting and important question of how are we sending this human being into the world?There is no doubt you will come away from

Day in, day out I hear stories from mothers all over the world about just how difficult they find it to balance their own needs, desires, creative expressions, dreams with the reality of motherhood. If you've been listening to this podcast and my work for a while, this is of no surprise to you. It raises questions such as - how do we hold a sense of self without support? When today's day and age requires so much of us? I recently watched a documentary called Who Does She Think She Is? and was extremely moved. I highly encourage you to watch the documentary for yourself, which supports what we talk about in this conversation. Listen as Pamela and I talk about: Art, storytelling, and our culture. How the dialogue and stories of mothers is lacking because it feels almost impossible to pursue your desires and be the mother you want to be. Different ways that artists are making the most of their time, doing it in between, alongside and changing our relationship instead of starting at two in the morning. The layers

Today I want to explore an idea with you. Something that has been permeating within me ever since I had a divine conversation with Nicole Matheson on her new book, The Beauty Load (episode number 211). During that conversation we talked about how we often gaslight ourselves and each other when it comes to the beauty load. This heavy load we carry around the way we should look, the way we should present ourselves, the way we should be viewed and seen as women. Listen as I reflect and think about:How well meaning comments, with right intention, often answers we have been taught to say can actually be unhelpful in acknowledging each other.How we can start to question our own realities, memories or perceptions.How to stop dismissing our own feelings and allow ourselves to be heard, within our heart, head and within community.Turning the conversation around, both externally and internally with each other and with ourselves.There needs to be a change in the way mothers are valued and seen in our society. We are her

I am continued to be surprised at how much I can learn within every single conversation each week for the Podcast. I already believe with every essence that the conversations around matresence are powerful and transformational, yet I am blown away at how much more expansion there is within ourselves, and this week was no different. Fleur Chambers is an authour, meditation teacher and mama of three boys. The conversation moved me, allowed me to hear a fresh perspective, a different tool, new insights and also reflection on the process of matresence that really brought new light to it for me. Listen as Amy and Fleur discuss:The deep responsibility we feel for our children's health, happiness and wellbeing, alongside high expectations and loneliness which, at the end of the day, are signals about how we have lose our way and need to come home to ourselves.Offering ourselves compassion by dipping into and lingering within our sensate world, one moment at a time.How we judge what we don't understand and what we ar

I've been reflecting a lot over the last few years and began having the conversations with women and mamas around me about the process of acceptance, grief and surrender that we go through when we realise our children will need us more than we expected when we started out on this journey. It's a tough, yet necessary, conversation, because it's an emotional one. Listen to this solo episode with Amy as she talks about:The process of matresence and transformation of where we are no longer who we used to be, while also figuring out who we are.Grieving and letting go of your maiden self as we say goodbye to parts of ourselves and welcome the new.How we often hold onto hope that periods and phases will end. They will grow, go to school, become independent and times we crave will return.Reimagining what our child's and our own future will look like.We need to grieve and most importantly acknowledge as mamas. Put support around us and ask the questions such as; How are you with this? How are you with this? How are yo

It is so very powerful within the work that I do when women wake up and say, enough is enough. And Grace Gulley is certainly healing and using her voice to stand strong in her advocacy for mothers, mental health and fighting against the systems that oppress mothers and caregivers. Grace experienced a somewhat unexpected pregnancy, being let go from her job, and a pandemic thrown in. After suffering in silence with an undiagnosed (and ignored) perinatal mood anxiety disorder for the first year of new motherhood, she came across matrescence and importantly the Mama Rising book to encourage alongside. Listen to I chat with Grace in a touching and powerful conversation which includes:Postpartum rage, burnout, anxiety and emotional realities alongside the isolation of pandemic pregnancies and early motherhood.The rig system. Patriarchy, rules around motherhood, value from productivity and money and how it is designed to benefit those upholding the system - rarely supportive enough for current day mothers.Current c

Motherhood can start with a whisper, an inkling and desire. And it goes all the way through to the other side. Melissa Ambrosini had a long and deeply personal journey to get pregnant and after thinking it would happen quickly, had to devote and commit to the spiritual assignment alongside a deep yearning to be a mother. She knew if she shared extensively people would give their opinion, yet this was a process with lessons she could never imagined.Listen as Amy and Melissa share intimate details from their journey including:Preparing for pregnancy and priming your body well before trying to conceive to learn and understand the best protocols.Realising the spiritual nature of birth, pregnancy and motherhood. It’s not just about our timeline, when a soul enters into a family it affects your partner, children and the whole unit.How our confidence can wobble, and low confidence can really take us by surprise. Often early motherhood can be one of the hardest times to trust, go inward and is part of the stretching

I am blown away by the women who walk the journey alongside me and turn challenges into something they can share with others. Jodie McGrath does exactly that through sharing her current journey alongside light bulb moments and an adult diagnosis of ADHD. Listen as Amy and Jodie discuss:Finding other ways to get things done rather than feeling like you need to do it all and making it mean something about our character, rather than about our brain.The internal dialogue. How we often come up with reasons to explain our behaviours without realising we've spent a lifetime of feeling that we aren't able to meet expectations of ourselves and others.Everyday tasks of organisation, cleaning and other coordinated efforts which can feel overwhelming if we let them.Accepting that it is a continual process and gradually getting to the point working with our brain, rather than feeling like we're fighting it.Jodie acknowledges she is very much still in the stage of discovery and curiosity beside her somewhat recent diagnosi

Matresence brings up time and time again many questions of who am I? What do I want to do with my life? What is our own definition of being a good mother? And ultimately, is this still what I want? The period of questioning everything, who we are and what we want is part of the cracking open of matresence. It's part of how we help to define ourselves, wipe away significant programming. Amy reflects on her very own journey with a curiosity now within this solo episode. Touches on:When we think we're static and need to live a certain way because we believe it is true.Being okay with realising sometimes we might not fully know who we are.Building our lives on beliefs of thinking we know who we are and how matresence changes that.The honour and privilege that is to ask these questions of ourselves, even if they can be uncomfortable.It is clear that matresence involves so many of these questions and I invite you to simply ask the question, is this still what I want.Within these conversations we change the way moth

It can take some real reprogramming in order to stop, slow down and listen. Motherhood sparks a drive which often sees up pursue new adventures, businesses, lifestyles - the true beauty and complexities of matresence. It's that internal struggle when matresence is activated - part of us that is ambitious, focused, ready and rearing to go while alongside we are a growing into motherhood while healing, growing, grieving and becoming and simply trying to catch our breath. This raw and honest conversation today shows that sometimes stepping back is completely okay. Listen as Amy is joined with Sam Murrell and they chat about:Postpartum anxiety, stress and desires, even as your life appears to be supported and comfortable to the outside world.Giving ourselves permission to step back, heal and accept that seasons will allow for different adventures to create their own paths.The pressure and responsibility we feel for little humans and how that can impact.The desire to reach many and shout to the whole world that it