Feeling overwhelmed by resolutions that fizzle out before February? In this episode, we explore a simpler, more purposeful way to guide your year: choosing one word. But what about the fear of locking in a word and experiencing the fallout if it doesn’t live up to your hopes? We’ll unpack why this fear holds us back from creating what we truly want and how to shift it. Discover how a single, intentional word can help you stay focused, aligned, and inspired—without the pressure of rigid goals. Find out how to choose your word, embody it daily, and let it become your compass for a more grounded, meaningful year. Because sometimes, less really is more.

In this episode we discuss:

- Balancing the pressure of a new year with gratitude for the previous year

- Feeling a sense of lack because we’re looking at our year in a silo

- Interacting with your word of the year

- Knowing your word will sit differently depending on the season you’re in

- Dancing with and embodying your word

- Experiencing the light and dark of your word

- Choosing a word that allows you to expand in creative ways

- Being open the form your word takes and holding the fear

- The manifestation of your word will be present in your top values but the form may be different

- Holding fear around choosing a word

- Do more with inspiration towards your future rather than avoiding a pain of the past

- Holding back and tiptoeing around what we fear will happen

- Imagining a bigger vision that is fulfilling to grow towards

- You can use your word gently or to bludgeon yourself with; it’s your word to move with


COUPLES DATES
Reignite the spark in your relationship in just 12 dates & create an intimacy and connection that lasts all year https://julie-tenner.newzenler.com/courses/couples-dates

To explore feminine embodiment, intimacy and relationship in Honey Club with Julie, visit https://julietenner.love/

ALCHEMY 1:1
Elevate your experience of mothering, and beyond, with intimate, high touch 1:1 support
http://www.bridgetwood.life/coaching-mentoring

To explore conscious parenting and inspiring motherhood in Reimagining Motherhood with Bridget, visit https://www.bridgetwood.life/

Sound familiar? In this episode, we unpack how busyness becomes a sneaky barrier to intimacy, creating disconnection, silence, and resentment—even when you’re sharing a life together. You’ll learn why this happens, how to break the cycle, and the small, intentional actions that can bring you back to each other amidst the chaos of life. Because connection doesn’t need more time—it needs more intention.

In this episode, we discuss:

• How busyness acts as a coping mechanism to avoid feeling

• Why “keeping busy” feels easier than addressing feelings of disconnection or resentment

• How busyness keeps couples in logistical partnership (“What’s the schedule?”) instead of emotional connection

• How busyness feels productive, but it can become a way to avoid the very connection you long for

• Intimacy isn’t always about grand gestures—it's built in micro-moments of presence

• Creating “connection snacks”

• The chaos doesn’t need to stop for connection to happen

• “Offloading” together: Sharing the invisible to-do list and dividing responsibilities

• Interrupting resentment with shared laughter and small acts of tenderness


COUPLES DATES
Reignite the spark in your relationship in just 12 dates & create an intimacy and connection that lasts all year https://julie-tenner.newzenler.com/courses/couples-dates

To explore feminine embodiment, intimacy and relationship in Honey Club with Julie, visit https://julietenner.love/

ALCHEMY 1:1
Elevate your experience of mothering, and beyond, with intimate, high touch 1:1 support
http://www.bridgetwood.life/coaching-mentoring

To explore conscious parenting and inspiring motherhood in Reimagining Motherhood with Bridget, visit https://www.bridgetwood.life/

How do we forget, every single year, what December is like as mums? We somehow expect ourselves to 10X the events, organisation, and emotional load — without creating any extra space for it.
Sound familiar? Us too.
But as conscious mums, we’re always asking: How can we realign, embody, ground, and anchor ourselves in the chaos?
Let's explore how to hold it all — without losing ourselves in the process.

In the episode we discuss:
- When you’re already full, how do you fit more in?
- Berating ourselves for not being more patient, more organised and more present
- The organisation required to hold our kids’ anxiety for an event is often bigger than the organisation of the actual event
- Just like your kids, are you allowed to feel overwhelmed? Can you make it okay?
- Shifting from ‘I’m not doing enough’ when they meltdown to ‘What if they need this?’
- How much flexibility can you bring to your festive season?
- Can you throw out any rules around how this festive season should be
- Nice enough is good enough
- What’s your guiding intention for this season?
- When things don’t go to plan, when kids aren’t met, we can hold and anchor
- If we can’t be with our own guilt or shame, we’ll find it hard to be with our kids’ disappointment
- How do you want this time of year to feel?

COUPLES DATES
Reignite the spark in your relationship in just 12 dates & create an intimacy and connection that lasts all year https://julie-tenner.newzenler.com/courses/couples-dates

To explore feminine embodiment, intimacy and relationship in Honey Club with Julie, visit https://julietenner.love/

ALCHEMY 1:1
Elevate your experience of mothering, and beyond, with intimate, high touch 1:1 support
http://www.bridgetwood.life/coaching-mentoring

To explore conscious parenting and inspiring motherhood in Reimagining Motherhood with Bridget, visit https://www.bridgetwood.life/

The festive sugar load can have us spinning into anxiety, apprehension and control, so let’s talk with Naturopath Jess from Natural Super Kids on how to move away from perfect and make change accessible to all of us. Tune in for practical tips, mum advice, and simple solutions to sugar-swings.

In this episode we discuss:
- Moving away from ‘perfect’ and optimising your child’s nutritional balance
- Recognising nuance and your individual child’s limits
- Loosening up our boundaries around sugar and feeling into our own experience of that
- Sinking into the realisation that the best lessons are the ones they learn on their own
- Recognising where your “I can’t let you have more sugar/stay up late etc” is because you can’t be with what’s on the other side of that choice.
- Having internal flexibility around their sugar intake is possible when you can maintain a healthy base of good quality protein, healthy fats and complex carbohydrates.
- The effect of sugar on our kids’ microbiome, immunity, tummy problems, toilet accidents, skin issues, behaviour and mood changes.
- Pimping up their meals with protein
- ‘Division of responsibility’ approach and how it takes the pressure off parents
- Reducing stress and control around meals
- Struggling to hold our kids’ disappointment
- The importance of hydration

Jessica Donovan is a mum of two, Naturopath and founder of Natural Super Kids who helps mums raise super kids with healthy food and natural medicines.
She is passionate about educating parents on nourishing their children with real food, helping to boost their health and heal naturally. Jessica combines her extensive naturopathic knowledge with a realistic, empathetic, inspiring and down to earth approach to empower mums to take charge of the wellbeing of their families.

Links
Website https://www.naturalsuperkids.com/
Podcast https://www.naturalsuperkids.com/podcast/
Instagram https://www.instagram.com/naturalsuperkids/

Freebie - 3 Breakfast recipes to support kids mood and behaviour https://www.naturalsuperkids.com/breakfast

In this special episode, we’re bringing you an intimate glimpse into our NTM Community Day. With a playful twist, we invited listeners to roll the dice and answer heartfelt, thought-provoking questions about love, relationships, and parenting. From navigating boundaries and fostering independence in kids to the profound lessons learned through motherhood and partnership, these community voices remind us of the shared beauty and complexity of our journeys. Join us for a celebration of vulnerability, connection, and wisdom from the heart of our community.

And if this resonates with you, come join us next year for another day of deep connection, laughter, and shared growth. We’d love to have you as part of our beautiful community!

In This Episode, We Discuss:
- The one thing our listeners wish they’d known about relationships before becoming parents.
- Transformative lessons learned about love and partnership on the journey through motherhood.
- Reflections on balancing boundaries and fostering independence in parenting.
- The powerful identity shifts and growth inspired by motherhood.
- Advice our listeners would share with their younger selves.

This episode is a rich tapestry of insights, shared wisdom, and heartfelt moments you won’t want to miss!


COUPLES DATES
Reignite the spark in your relationship in just 12 dates & create an intimacy and connection that lasts all year https://julie-tenner.newzenler.com/courses/couples-dates

ALCHEMY 1:1
Elevate your experience of mothering, and beyond, with intimate, high touch 1:1 support
http://www.bridgetwood.life/coaching-mentoring

The holidays can bring out both the best and the worst in relationships. Amidst the chaos, joy, and togetherness, subtle cracks in your connection can start to show. Increased stress, family obligations, and the busyness of the festive season often magnify unresolved issues, making it easier for red flags to slip under the radar. In this episode, we’re shining a light on the small (and not-so-small) behaviors that quietly erode trust, intimacy, and connection over time. From criticism to neglect, we’ll uncover the habits that can pull you apart and explore how to stay intentional, connected, and communicative during this busy season.

In this episode we discuss:
- High-stress festive season impacting tension and team work
- Relational habits and behaviours that contribute to you feeling unsupported and disconnected
- The great cosmic joke; a season of pleasure and joy breeds another side
- The repellant energy of criticism and contempt
- Defensive and deflecting behaviours that avoid vulnerability
- Stonewalling triggering your abandonment wound
- Jumping to conclusions about what your partner is thinking or feeling
- Red flag checkins: questions to reflect on
- Simple habits to stay connected and avoid resentment
- The silent killers of relationship
- How taking your partner for granted damages intimacy
- Emotional withdrawal as a weapon
- The power of our strategies to keep us safe and avoid what’s hard


COUPLES DATES
Reignite the spark in your relationship in just 12 dates & create an intimacy and connection that lasts all year https://julie-tenner.newzenler.com/courses/couples-dates

ALCHEMY 1:1
Elevate your experience of mothering, and beyond, with intimate, high touch 1:1 support
http://www.bridgetwood.life/coaching-mentoring

NTM Community Day
Come hang out with us for a day and enjoy soaking up the vibes of connection and relaxation
https://julietenner.thrivecart.com/ntm-community-day/

Do you find yourself in the worst type of dejavu, Where you’re constantly running into the same issues in parenting? Wouldn’t it be life-changing to feel back in control with your behaviour with a whole heap of self-compassion and good dose of spaciousness. Let’s do this together, step by step, with a whole lot of gentleness.

In this episode we discuss:
- Your origin story and how your past experiences inform your current view and actions
- Bringing softness to ourselves
- The edge where we lose ourselves, and control
- React, repair cycles where you feel out of control
- Build capacity to move beyond your rut
- Having a foot in your own solidness with boundaries
- Moving into authenticity outside of social conditioning
- Striving to participate in social conditioning (eg perfect mother myth)
- Guilt, shame and resentment when our kids step outside of our conditioning
- The complexity when our conditioning competes with our love for our child
- Rehabilitation from ‘perfect conscious parenting’
- Impossible self-policing
- Parenting and pride entanglement


COUPLES DATES
Reignite the spark in your relationship in just 12 dates & create an intimacy and connection that lasts all year https://julie-tenner.newzenler.com/courses/couples-dates

ALCHEMY 1:1
Elevate your experience of mothering, and beyond, with intimate, high touch 1:1 support
http://www.bridgetwood.life/coaching-mentoring

NTM Community Day
Come hang out with us for a day and enjoy soaking up the vibes of connection and relaxation
https://julietenner.thrivecart.com/ntm-community-day/

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 superannuation on parental leave and reducing for-profit dominance in childcare.
- The misuse of research for ideological purposes
- The economic and long-term health impacts of low birth rates and the need for better support for unpaid caregivers.
- The creation of a society that relies on dual income
- Challenges Virginia faced in self-publishing her book "All Mothers Work" and the importance of the Kickstarter campaign.
- The precarious financial position many unpaid carers face.
- The importance of men engaging more in unpaid care work.
- Legitimising unpaid care as work
- Changing our own language to reflect the worth in our unpaid care
- Systemic failure vs personal responsibility

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COUPLES DATES
Reignite the spark in your relationship in just 12 dates & create an intimacy and connection that lasts all year https://julie-tenner.newzenler.com/courses/couples-dates

ALCHEMY 1:1
Elevate your experience of mothering, and beyond, with intimate, high touch 1:1 support
http://www.bridgetwood.life/coaching-mentoring

NTM Community Day
Come hang out with us for a day and enjoy soaking up the vibes of connection and relaxation
https://julietenner.thrivecart.com/ntm-community-day/