Nourishing the Mother
Bridget Wood & Julie Tenner
Publishing Details
About This Podcast
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.
Podcasting 2.0 Features
Explore Statistics
Recent Episodes
NTM 560: Perimenopause, Pressure & The Rage Button
If you've ever found yourself snapping at your partner, yelling at your children, or wondering why your anger feels bigger, faster and harder to contain than it used to, this conversation is for you.…
NTM 559: Helping… Or Just Adulting? The Mental Load & Why So Many Couples Feel Resentful
What happens when one partner feels like they are carrying the invisible weight of parenting, household management, life admin, remembering, planning, and emotional labour… while the other insists…
NTM 558: Perimenopause Unpacked: Hormones, Burnout & Your Next Evolution with Naturopath Charmaine Newmark
Perimenopause can feel like your body, mind and identity are shifting beneath your feet - but what if this season is not simply hormonal chaos to survive, but a profound invitation into your next…
NTM 557: Attraction Isn’t Betrayal
Attraction doesn’t switch off when you’re in a committed relationship — but what it means, and what you do with it, is where everything changes. This episode reframes attraction from something…
NTM 556: When You Know You’ve Cracked the Generational Pattern
There’s a quiet, almost surreal moment when you realise… it didn’t pass through you. The reaction that used to be automatic doesn’t land the same. The pattern that shaped your family line stops with…
NTM 555: Follow on from the Perfect Parent Trap convo: The Guilt/Shame spiral
There’s a particular kind of fall that happens after we’ve tried to be the perfect parent - not just good, but better than what we had growing up; more conscious, more patient, more healed. And when…
NTM 554: The Perfect Parent Trap with Lisa Taylor
In this episode, we’re joined by family therapist and author Lisa Taylor (The Perfect Parent Trap) for a deeply honest conversation about what’s really happening underneath our parenting. Lisa brings…
NTM 553: Long-Term Love: The Difference Between Wanting Out and Waking Up
This one goes right to the heart of what so many long-term couples quietly sit in but rarely say out loud; the moments where you question everything, where disinterest creeps in, and where part of…
NTM 552: Friendship Drama at School: When Do You Step In… and When Do You Step Back?
Friendships are one of the first places our children meet the raw edges of relationship: loyalty, exclusion, conflict, repair and belonging. And if you’re a parent watching from the sidelines, it can…
NTM 551: Why Some Friendships Don’t Survive Motherhood
Adult friendships can look very different once life fills up with partners, children, careers and shifting values. In this conversation we explore what it really means to navigate friendship as grown…
NTM 550: Parenting, Pressure & Protecting Your Partnership
In this honest, grounded conversation, we unpack what it really takes to sustain a long-term relationship through parenting, midlife shifts, sexual differences, resentment, novelty, and the quiet…
NTM 549: The Emotional Load No One Talks About in School Systems
In this episode of Nourishing the Mother, Julie and Bridget dive into the invisible labour of advocating for your child inside school and medical systems; especially when your child is…
NTM 548: When Masculine Defensiveness Meets Feminine Overwhelm
A simple ask for help on the sidelines becomes a powerful mirror into long-term relationship dynamics. In this episode, Julie and Bridget unpack a very real rupture between Julie and Nick, revealing…
NTM 547: Creating Back to School Calm (Without Losing Your Mind)
Back to school isn’t just a diary change…it’s a full nervous system reboot.In this episode, Julie and Bridget get radically practical about what actually creates calm in the return-to-school season.…
NTM 546: Who They Were Depends on Where You Stood; Family, legacy, and the limits of knowing the people we love
In this episode, Bridget shares her experience of her grandfather’s passing, and the reflections that surfaced in the aftermath. Together, Julie and Bridget explore how our understanding of the…
NTM 545: New Year Reset: 10 Questions to Meet the Year Ahead (Without Forcing It)
You don’t need a quiet house.You don’t need a fresh journal, a candle, or the “right headspace.”In this episode, Bridget and Julie walk you through 10 gentle New Year reflection questions in real…
NTM 544: When Sex Feels Like One More Job: Christmas, Exhaustion & the Loss of Erotic Self
The post-Christmas crash can leave many women feeling not just tired, but disconnected — from their bodies, their partners, and their erotic selves. In this deeply relieving episode, Julie and…
NTM 543: The Christmas Collapse: Why Women Fall Apart When the Doing Stops
In the final week before Christmas, when the lists are finished and the adrenaline drops, many women don’t feel relief…they feel flat, teary, irritable or quietly undone. This episode is an emotional…
NTM 542: Coping with Festive Season Sensory Overload in our kids and us!
The festive season looks magical on paper: twinkly lights, long lunches, sparkling moments with kids… but for so many families, it’s actually a sensory avalanche waiting to happen. In this episode,…
NTM 541: Resentment vs. Love: The Energy Behind Your Words
Resentment is quiet… until it isn’t.And when it leaks through your tone, your silence, or the way you half-turn when he walks in the door, it can change the entire ecosystem of your relationship -…
Frequently Asked Questions
Nourishing the Mother has published 561 episodes since June 2015, covering topics in Alternative Health, Health & Fitness.
Nourishing the Mother is currently highly active with new episodes weekly. Average episode length is 40m.
Similar Podcasts
Grys en Gatvol
Melanie Verwoerd and Maritza Breitenbach
18 episodes
Radio Naturopath
Name: Fran Storch, N.D. and Ron Manizza
160 episodes
The Diet Obsessed Podcast
Veronica Santarelli
136 episodes
Kies Lewe I Reinhard Kotze en Dr. Francois Swart
Radio Tygerberg 104FM
150 episodes
Radio Naturopath
Name: Fran Storch, N.D. and Ron Manizza
148 episodes
The Diet Obsessed Podcast
Veronica Santarelli
131 episodes