Nourishing The Mother

In this episode, we welcome writer & mother of four, Virginia Tapscott, co-author of the book "All Mothers Work: A revolutionary plan to truly liberate women and fix failing care systems“.Virginia shares her powerful journey of realising the systemic undervaluing of care work and her mission to empower parents and advocate for true support systems. This episode is a must-listen for anyone passionate about redefining the narrative around motherhood, challenging societal biases, and creating a more equitable future for all caregivers.In this episode we discuss:- The complicated relationship between the feminist movement and the devaluing of caregiving work.- The value of parental care in the first three years - Why we never want a system where the best interests of children are competing with financial profits - The organisation of our current national economy needs work inside the home to be done ‘for free’ in order to function- Key policy changes needed to better support unpaid care work, such as sup

When was the last time you truly felt seen by your partner? Or that you made them feel valued beyond the daily grind? For so many couples, appreciation quietly slips away, leaving behind a relationship that feels more transactional than connected. But what if gratitude could be the key to reigniting that spark between you? In this episode, we’re diving deep into the power of appreciation—how small acts of gratitude can fuel both emotional and physical intimacy, bringing lightness and depth back into your relationship. Whether you've been together for years or just starting out, this episode will guide you to reconnect, reawaken, and remember why you chose each other in the first place.In this episode we discuss:- Why appreciation is the secret ingredient to long-lasting connection - How to keep your relationship from becoming just a partnership in logistics- How the feminine energy craves being seen and valued for the invisible labour she contributes - Why acknowledging invisible labour changes everythin

Does every touch feel like it has a hidden agenda? When physical affection only leads to one destination, it can start to feel more like a transaction than a true connection. Over time, this can create distance and make intimacy feel forced, even hollow. In this episode, we explore how to transform transactional touch into genuine connection, bringing back the warmth, playfulness, and emotional closeness that so many couples crave. If you’re ready to make touch feel meaningful again, without pressure or expectation, this episode will show you how to reconnect with your partner through small, intentional moments that deepen your bond.In this episode, we discuss:- Why touch feels loaded when it’s only about sex.- How non-sexual touch creates emotional closeness.- The difference between transactional and intentional touch.- How touch communicates “I see you” and “you matter.”- Why the feminine energy longs for touch without expectation.- How the masculine energy responds to invitational, open touch.- Simple, eve

We’re often told that as our children grow, the path toward ‘freedom’ should get clearer, with parenting becoming less hands-on. But what happens when you find yourself still in the trenches, feeling isolated and exhausted, even as your kids get older? You’re not alone. Join us as we share real stories, uncover the unspoken challenges, and help you rediscover permission to reclaim purpose and energy in your own motherhood journey.In this episode we discuss:- Redefining the Motherhood Journey- Breaking Down the ‘Selfless Mother’ Ideal- Finding Permission to Prioritise Yourself- Embracing Non-Linear Growth for Mother and Child- Practical Tools for Energy Renewal- Navigating the Identity Shift of Motherhood- Stories from the Trenches- Building Flexible Rhythms and Routines- Managing Overwhelm in the ‘Second Stage’ of Motherhood- Cultivating Joy and Connection in Daily Life- When there’s no room for you and it’s all about service - The dynamic that sets you up for resentment - Wondering ‘who am I?’ And ‘Where’s m

How would it feel to have conversations that go beyond tasks to tap into what you’re really craving; to be seen, heard and connected with? Let’s get you on path with tweaking one tiny thing to change everything in your relationship and world. In this episode we discuss: - How easily communication can turn into a list of who is doing what - Feeling disconnected and resentful - Understanding masculine and feminine energy needs - Transactional communication pulling you further from what you really want and need - Not landing ‘in’ each other, but running in the same direction - Tiny shifts in your daily check-in, with big impacts - Learning to be independent and having your own back…but avoiding vulnerability - Validating invisible labour within yourself so your external world can reflect that - Feeling dehydrated and full of tension to spacious and refreshed - The importance of structure to facilitate deeper connection - Transforming day-to-day conversations into moments of heart-opening connectionFIND OUT MORE

The modern mother lives life feeling pulled in all directions, playing ‘whack a mole’ with problems, and ending up in a heightened buzz of productivity, but never feeling like she really gets where she wants to be. Get your journal out, this one’s a self-reflective podcast.In this episode we discuss:- Looking at the areas of your life that consistently drain your energy or create tension- Noticing where you’re feeling stuck or unfulfilled - Shifting how you think about your problems- Reality versus your interaction with it- Steps that help you move forwards, not keep spinning in circles - Up-regulated overwhelm and down-regulated exhaustion - Butting up against relationship attachment styles - Making space for the thing you really want - Revealing the layers between you and what you want - Showing up with baby steps - When it’s too hard you stop turning towards it- Feeling grounded and easeful in growth and changeFIND OUT MORE ABOUT:COUPLES RETREAThttps://www.julietenner.love/couples-retreatNTM Community Dayh

“But hang on Bridget and Julie, don’t we want to get better, more conscious, and more attuned with our kids?” We know! This episode might seem counterintuitive, but what we’re leading you into, is instead of a rulebook in your head, we want you to drop into your experience, and parent from there. In this episode we discuss:- The dynamic of always trying to find ‘more’ spaciousness when you haven’t got anything left- Holding pride in being the ‘perfect, conscious parent’- Dynamics that balance your psyche to create connection and love- Allowing experiences that humble you - Setting our kids up for unrealistic relational expectations- Your unwillingness is important for their development - Holding fantasies about being calm and spacious - Learning to track what’s happening in your body - Holding being disliked and judged - Boundaries and people-pleasing - Recognising when you’re seeking to be oaky in your child’s eyes, rather than tuning into their direct experienceFIND OUT MORE ABOUT:COUPLES RETREAThttps://www

In an ideal world, we’d love our kids to be active and enthusiastic participants in social, community and sporting scenarios. However, that’s not always how it rolls, is it? And it can get under your skin! So let’s talk about the edges around our child’s teamwork. In this episode we discuss:- When you have a set of values and your child chooses the opposite, it’s designed to make you feel frustrated and annoyed - that’s feedback- When your child’s behaviour feels like nails down a chalkboard - When you have a high value on family and community and it feels like they’re clashing- The fullness of feminine feeling colours everything for our children - Loving unpredictability instead of control - Wishing they would join in so you can have 5 minutes to talk to another adult - The whiplash of when your kids love something and then drop it for the new thing - The unseen tax on mothers for conscious, gentle parentingFIND OUT MORE ABOUT:COUPLES RETREAThttps://www.julietenner.love/couples-retreatNTM Community Dayhttps:

Women tend to colour their life based on how they feel. How you feel is what the law of attraction is bouncing back to you. So what are you creating in your life, and do you want to change that? In this episode we discuss:- Overloaded ‘mental stuff’ can be an avoidance of emotions and feelings- The law of attraction (also called the law of resonance and vibration) just hits the ball back to you- Running your life through a filter that’s colouring everything a particular way- Creating wider thinking to expand your capacity to feel different feelings- Your attachment to wanting something ‘better’ than what you have - Believing you’d struggle less ‘if…..’ - When the fantasy spirals into blame, shame and judgement - This is not enough; me, you life - creating a lack of appreciation - Feeling shame when you’re not ‘perfect’ according to the ideal you hold for yourself - Taking wisdom from how you regulated yourself as a childFIND OUT MORE ABOUT:COUPLES RETREAThttps://www.julietenner.love/couples-retreatNTM Communi

What are you not saying, that if you spoke the truth of, would elevate your relationship? When you consciously allow your protective strategies of anger, or avoidance to dissolve, what you’re left with is a really authentic connection and communication, where you stop relying on performance, and old, learnt habits. So let us help you get more fulfilled in your relationship, quickly!In this episode we discuss:- Resistance to getting support, and relying on hyper self-sufficiency as a trauma response- When you stop exposing your vulnerability because of old experiences of abandonment and criticism - Becoming a hoarder of tasks and mental load - Learning to love the eruptions and disconnections as opportunities for a more fulfilling relationship - Showing up in the face of fear of rejection and abandonment - Recognising your strategies when someone you love is angry with you - Defending what you think is ‘right’ is you being defensive of your highest values - We need to give to the bank of relationship to be abl

Do you put your relationship, your partner or each other, below the dishes or the laundry? Have you ended up being ships in the night, co-habitating, but never really connecting? We all want to be chosen as partners, not someone’s vehicle of convenience. So let’s explore how to shift where you’re at!In this episode we discuss:- What do you need to be more interesting, or interested, than the dishes or the laundry?- The waves of attraction and repulsion are normal in long-term relationship - Your partner used to be the thing that you valued most- Why is relationship sex and your partner last on the list now? - Habits and patterns are learnt and can become armoury - Reducing your partner down to ‘oh, you just want sex’ - Bringing your sexual connection back as sacred - Growth that feels confronting to contemplateFIND OUT MORE ABOUT:COUPLES RETREAThttps://www.julietenner.love/couples-retreatNTM Community Dayhttps://julietenner.thrivecart.com/ntm-community-day/To explore feminine embodiment, intimacy and relation

Lost at sea, asking yourself “who am I…and who are my people?” But you don’t quite know where you fit in? Let’s let go of old cultural narratives of cattiness and competitiveness in female friendships and let’s move towards forging friendships that expand, soften and inspire you as a woman, mother and lover. In this episode we discuss:- Knowing your values and where your people hang out - Being brave and authentic - Self-sabotage on friendship-seeking journeys- The insidious ways performance leads to exhaustion - When you’re infatuated, you’re hiding parts of yourself - Infatuation will lead to resentment, and undermine the friendship - Feeling lonely and isolated because YOU have shifted, but your friendships haven’t - Manifesting and being an energetic match for the friendships you seekTo explore feminine embodiment, intimacy and relationship in Honey Club with Julie, visit https://julietenner.love/To explore conscious parenting and inspiring motherhood in Reimagining Motherhood with Bridget, visit https://

We all grew up on a diet of fairytales, romcoms, and Hollywood romance - and if this is you, too, you might feel that your relationship is wrong for you. We want you to know that ALL relationships have seasons of repulsion. So let’s work with your forces of attraction and repulsion in your relationship.In this episode we discuss:- Why repulsion is normal and how it benefits you- Attraction comes from having your values met, or outsourcing parts you haven’t owned yet- Change your psychology to change how feel around your partner - Disconnection from them means connection to you - Move faster through seasons of repulsion by owning what’s yours - There’s nothing wrong with you or them; repulsion is a function of relationship- The more open you are to the wisdom of repulsion, the faster you move through it - You’re not seeing him for him, you’re seeing a comparison - Chemistry happens before the physical body responds- Chemistry is created in the mindTo explore feminine embodiment, intimacy and relationship in Ho

Don’t we all love a good avoidance strategy? Are you sick of your own BS yet?! Are you ready for change? Let’s stop sabotaging growth by tripping over the same challenges over and over again. Bring on the fast, effective change, now!In this episode we discuss:- When you’re on the cusp of great change, and how to set yourself up for it - Going beyond ‘I can’t show up’ - Trying to have everything sorted before you begin - Your window of change means you’re often in survival mode - Your environment influences whether you rise to your skillset or fall to your conditioning- Leading yourself towards growth, rather than waiting for change - Surviving on micro-satisfactions - Crowding out your own expansion - Knowing how and why you are where you areTo explore feminine embodiment, intimacy and relationship in Honey Club with Julie, visit https://julietenner.love/To explore conscious parenting and inspiring motherhood in Reimagining Motherhood with Bridget, visit https://www.bridgetwood.life/

Your desire to have what you don’t yet have, requires you to behave in ways you’ve not yet behaved. Either, you’re going to choose fear, and end up in fate, over and over again - or you’re going to choose fate, and open up to destiny. Which one will you choose?…In this episode we discuss:- Fear protecting us from wanting to make the change we seek- The physiological and psychological feedback is the same in choosing faith and fear- When you choose fear, you and your world shrink- When you choose faith, you and your world expand - Welcoming the eustress that’s required to make the change you say you want - When you’re having difficulty initiating the change you want - When you’re stuck in negative loops and justifying it - The fulility of wanting a different life, but staying in the life you’ve created- The illusion of control and certainty - Asking how else this might lookTo explore feminine embodiment, intimacy and relationship in Honey Club with Julie, visit https://julietenner.love/To explore conscious par

Are you noticing challenging feelings coming up in your motherhood? Are you noticing little whispers in your conscious and gentle parenting mind that seem to shame your anger, aggression and frustration? So let’s move beyond the patriarchal programming of sugar and spice and all things nice, to embrace your wholeness as a woman and a mother. In this episode we discuss:- How we feel about expressions of anger and aggression in our children - When you hit your edges of self-worth in your anger and frustration - That habit of flicking off ownership and making it someone else’s fault - Our strong desire to get back into being ‘kind’ - Pedestalling and infatuating with being calm and spacious- The invitation to see and love more of ourselves and others- Feedback that your values are changing - Anger is the war-cry against the mental and emotional-labour jailTo explore feminine embodiment, intimacy and relationship in Honey Club with Julie, visit https://julietenner.love/To explore conscious parenting and inspiring

Do you find yourself in a persistent dynamic where you’re completely fed up with the pattern…but yet you’re still here? Do you find yourself asking “I want your help and advice! But I’ve already tried all the things” OR “It’s because they’re not/they can’t/they won’t…” Babes, what if you’re just not ready for change? Let us help you hold yourself here.In this episode we discuss:- When you find yourself in futility and at the edges of your own window of tolerance - You’re an energetic match for the reality you’re existing in- Energy organises itself around a belief system- Feeling vindicated in the problem being outside of you - Recognising the pieces of you that are averse to change - Allowing for change when you don’t also have a handbrake on - Your suffering is relative to the degree you’re in resistance or surrender - You’re not ready to have a conversation with ‘them’ if you’re not ready to have a conversation with yourself - Surrendering to being the student and letting the teacher teach you - How to lov

The daily grind of family life can have a us feeling like we don’t recognise who we are, and feeling anything but calm. Yet at the same time, berating ourselves for not being the calm, perfect mother. Even the best family calendar in the world will not save you from family chaos. So let us help you get comfy in chaos, so you’re more available to find the calm. In this episode we discuss:- Making chaos safe in your nervous system - Over-infatuation with calm- Building your tolerance for chaos - Pairing the chaos with something meaningful- If you don’t have awareness of who you really are, you’re more attached to who you’re supposed to be - Authenticity includes chaos- Rising above your daily kryptonite triggers - Finding the right buffers for you, so you can feel more connected to you- Doing something that creates resistance or creativity - Remembering it’s not all on you - Action planning your day to keep you on track - Knowing your priorities when chaos arrives - Bringing gentleness and compassion to yoursel

Join us for an insightful conversation filled with tips and encouragement to help you thrive in your friend and romantic relationships. Balancing friendships and family as a busy mum can be tricky, but it’s crucial you maintain both relationships as part of your overall well-being and happiness. We dive into how different stages of motherhood require unique approaches to making friendships work, and learn how integrating family needs into your social life can create a supportive and fulfilling community. We’ll tackle the common feelings of guilt and societal pressure that come with spending time away from family, providing practical strategies to navigate and overcome these challenges. In this episode, we discuss:⁃guarding against romantic relationships needing to be everything⁃Friendships making you a better mother and lover⁃Creating an integrated community with your family⁃When you WANT to ‘go out’ but you can’t - bringing your flexibility and adaptability to make it work⁃Hosting so you don’t have to get ba

In this episode, we dive into the heart of authentic connections. We explore the journey of finding those magical women who become our trusted confidantes and lifelong friends. How do you cultivate deep, honest relationships in a world full of surface-level interactions? Join us as we share insights, stories, and practical tips on building genuine bonds with like-minded women. Whether you're seeking new friendships or looking to deepen existing ones, this conversation will inspire you to embrace the beauty of true companionship. In this episode we discuss:- Be available, put yourself out there and trust your attraction force - Do you know what you’re looking for?- Conscious questions on why you don’t have it yet - Going first and showing up for the relationship - The law of the one and the many - Where are you available and where are you unavailable for the connection you seek - We’re all working through childhood stuff on our ‘safety to be seen’ - Craving connection and sabotaging depth - The ego death