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Mothering can be an inspired journey to our most glittering, authentic, passionate, creative and connected selves. Through the mirror offered to us by our children, we are taken to every hurt, unmet need, and also every joy and excitement we’ve ever experienced. We want every woman and mother to give themselves and those around them the compassion, love and healing they so readily offer their children, but rarely allow themselves. Journey with us as we discuss the many layers of being a mother today, where we have come from and where we want to go. Learn tools to connect with yourself, offer compassion to those parts we’d rather deny and get back in love with yourself, motherhood and who you are as a feminine woman.

Nourishing the Mother Bridget Wood & Julie Tenner

    • Kids & Family
    • 4.2 • 22 Ratings

Mothering can be an inspired journey to our most glittering, authentic, passionate, creative and connected selves. Through the mirror offered to us by our children, we are taken to every hurt, unmet need, and also every joy and excitement we’ve ever experienced. We want every woman and mother to give themselves and those around them the compassion, love and healing they so readily offer their children, but rarely allow themselves. Journey with us as we discuss the many layers of being a mother today, where we have come from and where we want to go. Learn tools to connect with yourself, offer compassion to those parts we’d rather deny and get back in love with yourself, motherhood and who you are as a feminine woman.

    NTM 455: Stop making your ‘undone’ list mean something about you

    NTM 455: Stop making your ‘undone’ list mean something about you

    Do you ever think “If I can just get this done…I’ll feel worthy” only you never quite feel enough? What would it be like to separate your list, from your worth? Let’s go there in this conversation.
    In this episode we discuss:
    When we look outside for our value, we devalue our workYou can make not getting to your list mean something negative, or you can make it mean an investment in your valuesMotherhood invariably holds the paradox of one foot in ‘fun’ and one foot in ‘responsibility’Where are you feeling weighed down and resentful and what are you choosing to believe about that?There’s some truth in ‘clear space, clear mind’And the inverse is equally true, where we’re using cleaning as a control strategyRigidity creates the punishmentBeing in conversation with your kids’ valuesThe lower your self-worth, the more the list will feel like your worth
    To 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/

    • 43 min
    NTM 454: Hard to be around your child today? Try this

    NTM 454: Hard to be around your child today? Try this

    Let’s talk about the swing of resentment and infatuation with our children - which is completely normal! Let this conversation and tools unlock you so you can gain capacity, gratitude and heart-bursting love back again.

    In this episode we discuss:

    - What spacious, attuned and respectful communication with our children really looks like
    - Denying the value of your authentic expression
    - Acknowledging your anger where it’s authentic
    - The power of self-acknowledgment for the impact that your child’s behaviours have on you
    - Regulated means connected to yourself
    - Authentic communication means connected to you truth; not shutting it down or vomiting it over
    - It’s hard living with the expressions of your repressions
    - The natural in-breath and out-breath of love and parenting
    - The goal is to embrace the synthesis of infatuation and resentment, because that is love


    To 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/

    • 26 min
    NTM 453: Holding your power

    NTM 453: Holding your power

    Let us walk you through a practical process of connecting and holding your power physically, mentally and spiritually so that you can feel deeply connected, authentic and powerful in your own life, irrespective of outside circumstances or people.

    In this episode we discuss:

    - How to stay connected with yourself within the pressure of motherhood
    - The governance you have over your body, rather than shutting down
    - Your perceived responsibility to ‘hold it all’ creates a stress response
    - Learning the language of your body
    - Changing attachments and perceptions to change how you feel
    - The ‘reset’ so you can come back to yourself
    - What’s your bigger picture and vision?
    - Being the woman who lives up to that vision


    To 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/

    • 42 min
    NTM 452: Moving beyond your imprint to create something different

    NTM 452: Moving beyond your imprint to create something different

    Most of our listeners are fairly in touch with their own experience of being mothered, and based on that, will lead themselves with one of two choices: 1. Replicate the experience. 2. Do the opposite.

    Through heartfelt story and potent wisdom, in this episode we give you the insights to lead yourself in heart-connected mothering and grand parenting by opening yourself up to different experiences so you can create a mothering experience that is aligned and inspired, not obligated or in reaction.

    In this episode we discuss:
    - Grandparent goals
    - Letting your children lead themselves, and your parenting meeting them where they’re at
    - Allowing for a child’s normal developmental struggle, not seeking to remove it
    - Infatuation with your provision
    - Easing burden versus taking away valuable struggle
    - The mother archetype that gives permission to rest and return to herself
    - Appreciation deactivates expectation
    - Our responsibility is to the relationship we’re creating
    - Holding yourself in what’s uncomfortable so you can create more choice in your life


    To 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/

    • 37 min
    NTM 451: Hurt lingering? It’s never too late to lead with love

    NTM 451: Hurt lingering? It’s never too late to lead with love

    In this episode we give you 10 easily accessible, easy-to-do ideas on how to break the BS cycles of disconnection and resentment and get back on the connection train that’s taking you to destination ‘the relationship’ you want to live.

    In this episode we discuss:
    - What are you an energetic match for?
    - What do you feel worthy of?
    - What are you available for?
    - Asking for what you want
    - Halting disappointment cycles
    - Growing who you are to grow your relationship
    - It takes way more energy to ‘hold back’ than it does to give love
    - The part of you that’s not dialled into your intimacy needs
    - Ten easy, cool ideas to get back on track!


    To 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/

    • 40 min
    NTM 450: Stop holding yourself back: 9 years of lessons and learnings in pursuing your work in the world + conscious motherhood

    NTM 450: Stop holding yourself back: 9 years of lessons and learnings in pursuing your work in the world + conscious motherhood

    The point of this podcast is to leap before you’re ready, and do the thing that makes no sense, even though it’s hard. We want you to have the courage to back your dreams instead of staying in the excruciating agony that is ‘the waiting place’.
    Don’t focus on perfect, and move forwards with us, through our lessons and learnings that you can implement straight away.
    In this episode we discuss:
    - Just f*****g starting!
    - Embracing the peaks of the experience, and the valleys when it all feels too hard.
    - There’s medicine and service in your pain and wobble
    - Holding yourself in the valleys, be reconnecting to why you’re here, that’s not dependent on outcomes
    - Waiting to ‘have space’ after you tidy ‘this mess’ is folly
    - Life doesn’t get easier, you just get more accountable
    - All parts of you need a creative pursuit
    - If you wait for perfect you’ll wait forever
    - The scared part within us is there to listen to, and check in with, so you can move into greater alignment
    - Stop waiting for people to agree with you
    - Moving beyond ‘I can only do this if I have your blessing’
    - Your service is always serving someone
    - It’s no one else’s responsibility to hold your vision
    - Moving beyond ghosting or resenting social media
    - Recognising the opportunities your ancestors never had, to use your voice in the world
    - Reinvention is the only certainty


    To 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/

    • 53 min

Customer Reviews

4.2 out of 5
22 Ratings

22 Ratings

Vipiski ,

Great resource

Overall incredibly insightful. There are some audio issues and a lot of “mmmmms” between them. And the episodes are long. But I still recommend it.

mara_new york ,

Really appreciate the real talk!

Real talk from women who feel like your friends exploring all the issues that come up in motherhood - with a nice focus on the journey and centering yourself in the conversation ❤️

mlop0610 ,

The “mmmming” is obnoxious

I’m not sure which host it is, but one of them continually makes a humming/moaning “mmmmm” noise every two sentences when the other person is speaking and it’s honestly so annoying I had to turn it off!

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