Happy Mama Movement With Amy Taylor-kabbaz

Ever since learning about matresence and the transformations it can bring, I really knew that this had the potential to resonate with Mamas all over the world. No matter what their experience has been.Yet, several thoughts rose alongside the potential matresence holds. What about cultural differences, language differences, religious differences?In getting closer to answering those very questions, I was honoured to meet Hend ElQady who reminded me of the potential that matresence has, while also reminding us of how common our struggles really are. Hend ElQady has joined me alongside my programs, taking in every breath and capturing the very essence of standing in your power and growing into the possibilities of the future.Listen as Amy and Hend discuss:  Expectations around being a good mother and the role of sacrifice within her culture which is seen as entirely ‘normal’ and necessary.     The inner split and two versions of ourselves which challenge and can build immensely.

How is it possible after so much change and unpredictability, we can still hold deep trust that we’ll be ok? I’m not sure I have the answer to that… other than: it just comes. Daily practice. Deep commitment to riding the waves of it all. Not denying any of the steps - even the awful messy ones. And then coming back to - look how much I’ve already been through. I remember more than a decade ago, when I began this inner work, whenever I would be in the depths of overwhelm with my newborn baby, I would have to remind myself of all the times I got through a challenge. I would think back to my days as a Japanese-illiterate exchange student in a Japenese-only speaking family and all-girls school at just 15, and the inner strength and resilience that took… And I would, quite literally, BREATHE THAT KNOWING BACK IN AGAIN. If I did that, I can do this. That was my mantra. It was my mantra then, when I had a baby who wouldn’t sleep and wouldn’t feed…And it’s been

What does it mean to truly remember yourself? Especially in the process of motherhood? Sarah Poet believes in transparency and integrity to build authentic relationships. And she is doing exactly that through raising her son after several awaking experiences throughout her motherhood. Listen to this inspiration interview as Amy and Sarah discuss:   The sacred remembering of the feminine and worthiness in motherhood.    Adoptions at a young age, driving for success and overachievement as a numbing mechanism.      The essence of the feminine and welcoming her beyond things that have happened to us.Trusting our sons to become and know who they are here to be.To simply witness this conversation, will move you. Sarah is a wonderful and delicate storyteller, alongside understanding and instinctive compassion. You can find out more about Sarah at https://www.instagram.com/embodiedbreath/ and listen to her TedX talk here https://www.sarahpoet.com/watch-

There still seems like there is so much work to do for mothers and their return to work after giving birth. My guest today deeply understands the challenges that still rise. Andrea Bombino is by anybody's definition and incredibly ambitious and successful woman. She set her sights on creating a career at a young age that would really change the trajectory of her life. And then, along came motherhood. She looked around at the industry that she was working in and saw no examples of women successfully working at that level and juggling motherhood. Dive headfirst into this remarkable conversation as Amy and Andrea discuss.Conscious and unconscious bias affecting career progression. For example, women of a certain age, who have just got married, have had one baby and it’s about a year and a half later.Responses from clients and colleagues when sharing the news of pregnancy; judgements, anxieties and disrespect.The wobble of craving intellectual connections vs wanting to be with our babies.   The jug

Motherhood can be completely consuming. You can loose parts of yourself, with dreams and hopes swept up into the everyday. In this solo episode Amy explores and remembers the exact moment that she remembers feeling that core part of herself abandoned.Listen to this shorter bite sized episode as Amy talks about:The logistics of spontaneously going to a movie seem like hard work and sometimes just too exhausting.Being present and allowing yourself to really appreciate times when you do get to ‘date’ yourself.The desire to be seen, heard and acknowledged.Practical ideas to explore in order to appreciate the invitation to find a small part of yourself again.Because, this will not last forever. These moments do not define you. Even if it is just the tiniest thing, I hear and see you and within these conversations we change the way mothers are valued and seen in our society and spread the whispers of Matrescence together.Find out more about Amy Taylor-Kabbaz and receive your Matrescence map here https://www.amytayl

There is still a stigma attached to discussions of intimacy, especially within Motherhood, within public spaces. For years we have been taught that intimacy is wrong, shamed and shut behind closed doors. This conversation bursts open the intertwine of masculine and feminine and how they can revolutionise our relationships. Julie Tenner is one of the world's best teachers and guides on the topic of relationships, intimacy and dancing alongside motherhood and matresence. Listen as Amy and Julie discuss:Finding our way back to self, connection with body, connection with heart, connection with pleasure and desire in what feels really good.Narratives we hold, including that we have to sacrifice everything in order to be a good Mum.The capacity to receive when we are giving so much of ourselves to others.Remembering that we have ultimately chosen our intimate partners and how we can entangle our lives and spaces to reconnect in meaningful and beautiful ways.Ironically, this episode oozes intimacy, respect and a mag

The Happy Mama Movement Podcast is dedicated to providing a balance between the insights from experts, teachers, authours and researchers from around the world around motherhood and Matresence. Within this sphere we also chat to Mamas. Mamas who are living and breathing examples of what it is like in the depths and dedicated to changing paradigms and asking the challenging questions of who they want to be, how can they speak up, how can they forgive themselves? Today, Amy joins with Catherine Hennessy for an everlasting conversation about redefining our relationships. A conversation which will resonate deep into your soul and leave an impression both as you listen and for a long time after.Listen as Amy and Catherine discuss: Anger, resentment and how they appear, build and wear you down. Investing in ourselves, first and foremost and the ripples that can have onto those around us. Feeling that, as women and mothers, we need to be the strongest leader in transforming the relationship. How it often ‘feels’ lik

Why, after decades of social progress, is motherhood still so much harder than it needs to be? It seems that while Mothers are trying hard to fit into all sorts of identities, while also losing their own. Eliane Glasser is a writer, mother and joins Amy for this honest and upfront conversation, including discussion about:How feminism has almost left Motherhood behind.Guilt, resentment, anger and the feelings of injustice and isolation, particularly after years within the COVID pandemic culture.Being more separated than ever, with judgement, types of parenting, sleeping, food and the social patterns that have emerged from that.Gap and gatekeeper syndrome and media portrayals.The discussion between Eliane and Amy is rich, exciting, progressive and heart-warming at the same time. There needs to be a change in the way mothers are valued and seen in our society. We are here to spread the whispers of Matrescence together.To find out more about Eliane please visit https://elianeglaser.org/Find out more and receive y

#183 - Are You Too Much? With Amy Taylor-Kabbaz Recently, in researching how Matrescence can be the catalyst for so much more than just a redefining process of what it means to be a mother, I reached out to women in my life and asked: what were you told growing up? Here's just some of their answers: Too sensitiveToo wildToo caringToo crazyToo givingToo loudToo shyToo boldToo quietToo needyToo independent Too angryToo much. This is what we carry inside us - the legacy of definitions of what it means to be a woman and a mother. Isn't it time we changed that? What I have seen over and over again after coaching thousands of women is that... understanding Matrescence is an invitation. It's an invitation to not only realise that you are changing, but that you also get to decide for yourself:What does being a mama really mean to you? What stories are you carrying about who you should be and how this should feel? And once a woman begins to look at THIS part of herself, the door opens to so much more! What other stori

It blows my mind that I get to work with women like Dusk.That Dusk has been trained in the Mama Rising formula and is now a facilitator teaching others about matresence. As you can hear from this deep, moving and sincere conversation, Dusk brings a wisdom, knowledge and grace to all that surround her.Listen as Amy and Dusk hold space for each other, and an entire network of Mamas who listen, including:honouring the incredible giving that comes alongside birth and matresencewhen its hard to be present with silence and how much gentleness it can requirehow the feeling of not being able to get up, at different points in your motherhood journey, needs to be looked at differently, without shamehow 'it' is not wrong anymore, it is as it is.This conversation will move you, stay with you after the conversation has ended.Dusk Liney is a listener and space holder, who lives, works and mothers on Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung Land. Dusk has two businesses: The Listening Squad (with her biz partner Jo) and The Listening Mama. D

What happens when we fell like we are powerless and don't have a choice? Do we carry on regardless, or aim to find peace while committing to presence?The conversation between Amy Taylor-Kabbaz and Bronnie Ware is enticing, captivating and has the ability to shift your perspective moving forward. Listen as they discuss:learning to be grateful for freedoms you are given, and how acceptance alongside chronic disease can heal and offer a different appreciation in lifeletting go of control and trusting in the big picturehow happiness is in the knowncommitting to presence, dreaming and understanding the power of being in the moment.The dynamic between Amy and Bronnie is one which reconnects, inspires and portrays exactly why conversations like this are needed in order to grow and develop in todays world. For more information about Bronnie please visit her website https://bronnieware.com/.The song, Turn Off The News And Build A Garden by Melanie Horsnell (mentioned in this episode) is also available at https://youtu

The Happy Mama Movement Podcast is back for 2022. And while many aspects of our lives are similar to last year, there are many parts which are still not quite the same.This episode extends on the thoughts of the last two years, checking in to see if, you too, are holding your breath, waiting to feel normal again.The transformation we have received, the grief we have endured, it has changed the conversations we have had, changed us forever.I invite you to acknowledge our journey, together and how our new normals can be celebrated in small ways together.Within this conversations we change the way mothers are valued and seen in our society and spread the whispers of Matrescence together.Find out more and receive your Matrescence map here https://www.amytaylorkabbaz.com/matrescence/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

There are many aspects of Motherhood that crack us right open. Some more expected than others. When Amy Taylor-Kabbaz became a single mother last year, it wasn't the plan. You hope, assume you are bound stronger, and it can feel like a societal failure to admit that it just isn't working anymore. Although incredibly hard, it is also a empowering and enlightening experience to redefine ourselves through this time.Listen as Jacinta and Amy discuss:Single motherhood and how it alters, differs and reshapes your identity.Grieving the loss of dreams, hopes and desires for both ourselves and our children.Social exclusion and lonliness, while also finding great satisfaction in opening up conversations and bonds.What communal, societal care looks like for single mothers.This episode is not only for Single Mamas. It is insightful, acknowledging and only highlights the importance of Matresence for mothers far and beyond. Jacinta Tynan is a former news presenter, Sunday Life columnist and mother of two young bo

In this Solo episode Amy talks straight from the heart. It's raw, honest, up front and comforting to hear that we are indeed not alone in our Matresence journey.Amy touches on:The Mask of Motherhood, including how it can perpetrate a similar pattern and story if pretend that we've got it all together.Acknowledging post pandemic depletion and the cracking open of that and how it impacts us within Motherhood (and beyond).That micro-moments such as one good night sleep, a babysitter for a few hours, a long hot shower does not mean we're 'fixed' and magically okay.Industrialisation and busy-ness, what that means and redefining success.Allowing ourselves to not be okay is critical in our journey within Womanhood and makes the larger moments smoother and easier too. To find out more about the Mask of Motherhood and Susan Maushart as mentioned in this episode you can visit https://www.susanmaushart.com/.Within this conversations we change the way mothers are valued and seen in our society and spread the whispers of

Sometimes there are conversations which surprise you, fascinate and delight you and that send you a bit sideways in how they relate to your very own journey. The conversation between Amy and Anna McKie is exactly that. This is a conversation which allows tears, laughter, intrigue, lots of wow moments and a memorable and inspirational experience.Listen as Anna, a surrogate in Adelaide Australia, speak about:Giving back as a surrogate and what that means for the entire journey, including the 4th trimester, PND, friendships and beyond.Surrogacy laws and permissions within Australia.How it takes a village to make and raise a child and all the different variations of becoming a parent.The sheer enormity of surrogacy and all that it involves.Prepare to be touched, with a memorable and profound conversation which is an important part of the entirety that involves Motherhood and all she brings.To find out more about Anna please visit https://surrogacysafari.com/author/surrogacysafari/ and SASS https://www.surrogacyau

Join Amy Taylor-Kabbaz as she talks intimately to one of her long time friends about how the body keeps the score and trauma that shows up and often rises in Motherhood, especially in the 4th Trimester and beyond.Claire lives and breathes her very mission. Living a life in alignment, inner attunement and embodied transformation through simple, powerful, potent tools coupled with my wisdom-filled guidance. Join us in conversation about:Her own definition and embodied way of surrendering and life events that allow us to surrender in a way unlike any other.Emergency cycles as a natural way of handling trauma and how support for individuals to process trauma has been somewhat falsified in order to release properly.Flashbacks and judgements from the past and how that presents itself post-partum.Irritation as a sign of invitation, that there’s something still in your body that needs to be processed.The spaciousness to share, absorb and discover within this conversation demonstrates a dynamic between Claire and Am

For a lot of my motherhood journey I don't think I came to a deep understanding of how much our lives change and the benefit of trying not to make my life fit into doing, getting and being 'better'.In this conversation I touch on:taking stock of where you are and seeing that, quite often, it's two steps back before it's three steps forward.The gift that comes from reflection and the core of who we are.Octopuses and divine goddesses, being steady to our core and supporting those around us.Realigning the parts of you, acknowledging the journey in its full form.Enjoy this conversation and all that it offers so we can create amazing relationships, bonds and change the way we shape our future.We can change the way mothers are valued and seen in our society by having profound conversations and spreading the whispers of Matrescence together.Find out more and receive the Matrescence map here https://www.amytaylorkabbaz.com/matrescence/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

My guest today presents a real, raw, honest conversation about how, when we enter Motherhood and especially the 4th trimester, the triggers can come right up and be one of the biggest hurdles when it comes to mothering.You will hear:how our children are our mirrors and how sitting with ourselves and looking within provides great insight.working together on ourselves as partners and the impact that can have on relationships within and around.the last straw, learned behaviours and getting wrapped up into victimhood.becoming compassionate with ourselves when triggered and tools, techniques and practices on how to get there.Enjoy this conversation and all that it offers so we can create amazing relationships, bonds and change the world with our children and our partners.To find out more about Susy, download her free meditation and find out about her book I invite you to visit her website https://susyohare.com/We can change the way mothers are valued and seen in our society by having profound conversations and spr

You are about to meet one of my favourite people, Gladys Kangau. She was the successful recipient of Mama Rising scholarship and you will hear why spread throughout this conversation. Gladys is changing the world and reminds me every single day of what is possible in this world.We touch on:the misalignment of postpartum depression and matresence in the 4th trimester, when we know deep down it's something more than just the label society gives it.how being the backbone of the family can sacrifice and undervalue mothers.how villages are changing within African communities and the huge responsibilities that come alongside that.the need to belong, self-care and feel at home, no matter where we are in the world.and much, much more.I would love you to join me and show your support for Gladys by following her on Instagram motherhood_unscripted https://www.instagram.com/motherhood_unscripted/You can also find out more about the forgotten transition (as mentioned at the end of this episode) via my website https://www.

Often you meet a soul that seems to talk directly to you, deepen your understanding and question life itself. For me, Sarah Durham Wilson ticks all those boxes.This conversation could have easily lasted for hours. We chatted about:the way in which we are approaching motherhood and feeling lost in how to truly acknowledge a woman's right of passage throughout her life.the passage from wounded maiden into maturity and the expectations society places on this process.the difference between having a mother and being mothered, how many women are not equipped with the tools and support to do so.listening to what works for you, self-actualisation You can find out more about Sarah via her instagram here https://www.instagram.com/sarahofmagdalene/ and pre-order her book, Maiden to Mother here https://www.amazon.com/Maiden-Mother-Unlocking-Archetypal-Feminine/dp/1683647025/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=maiden+to+mother+sarah+durham+wilson&qid=1634655214&sr=8-1We can change the way mothers are valued and seen