The Motherkind Podcast

Welcome back to Motherkind Moment. Moment is your place on a Monday for calm and connection and maybe even a shift in perspective before the week ahead. This week’s Moment is with the wonderful Rhiannon Lambert where she shares why we need to stop stressing about mealtimes. I really needed this one. I hope it helps. You can listen to the clip by clicking above or the full episode here. GROUP COACHING PROGRAMME - STARTS 14th OF SEPTEMBER 2022 Our next round of group coaching starts on the 14the of September. If you want to be coached by me and feel like now is your time. I'd love for you to join us. It is a small group of 10 who come together for 8 weeks led by me to explore topics like boundaries, energy, values journaling and much more. It is going to help you find clarity, connection and community. Head to motherkind.co for more information. ABOUT RHIANNON LAMBERT Rhiannon Lambert BSc MSc RNutr is one of the UK’s leading nutritionists, a best-selling author and chart-topping podcast host. In 2016 she founded Rhitrition, a renowned Harley Street clinic, which specialises in weight management, gut health, sports nutrition, eating disorders, and pre-and post-natal nutrition. Registered with the Association for Nutrition, Rhiannon obtained a first-class degree in Nutrition and Health, a Master’s degree in Obesity, Risks and Prevention, and diplomas in sports nutrition, pre-and post-natal nutrition. She is a Master Practitioner in Eating Disorders, accredited by The British Psychological Society and a Level 3 Personal Trainer. Rhiannon hosts the top-rated ‘Food for Thought’ podcast, which gives listeners practical, evidence-based advice on how to achieve a healthier lifestyle. With more than five million downloads since 2018, it is firmly established as one of the UK’s most popular health podcasts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Hey everyone and welcome back to Motherkind. The show that is going to help you navigate the massive challenges of motherhood (and life) with more acceptance, ease, joy and purpose. This week’s episode is slightly different. It is with writer and spiritual teacher, Rupert Spira. I'm so keen to share with you on this podcast voices, experiences and ideas from a really broad range of experts. It's such a joy for me to contemplate all of these different ideas and how they can help us on our journeys as mothers. I loved this chat with Rupert. I'm not gonna lie, it was deeply confronting for me at times and a little bit like a personal one-to-one session, but ultimately really beautiful. Rupert said something I can’t stop thinking about since our recording, he said that: The most important thing we can do as parents is to model how we handle emotions and that that's way more powerful than anything we could ever teach or say. So whether you are deep into a spiritual quest or you have absolutely no idea what to expect from this chat, I think by the end you're gonna be left with a feeling of calm. My intention with this episode is to tap into curiosity, open-mindedness and wonder - Those can be powerful qualities - asking yourself what if I tried this, what would I experience? What would that be like? As always, we continue the conversation over on Instagram, so come and join us there. SPECIAL THANKS TO OUR SPONSOR GYMONDO Start a free 14-day trial and save 50% on your annual membership by visiting gymondo.com and enter the code motherkind. Studies show that regular exercise not only builds your physical strength, but also boosts your mood, reduces stress and increases self-esteem. I definitely know that one of the easiest ways for me to get that serotonin flowing is through exercise. So let's get more of that incredible post-exercise feeling with Gymondo. Gymondo is an online fitness and wellbeing platform with hundreds of 20 to 30-minute workouts. It works brilliantly for me with programs ranging from HIT and yoga to dance and meditation. Plus thousands of healthy recipes. Gymondo will help you make exercise a consistent part of your routine because as we all know, consistency is the key. And because Gymondo is online, it gives you the freedom and flexibility to decide when and where you work out, which, for me, is in my living room. GROUP COACHING PROGRAMME - STARTS 14th OF SEPTEMBER 2022 Our next round of group coaching starts on the 14the of September. If you want to be coached by me and feel like now is your time. I'd love for you to join us. It is a small group of 10 who come together for 8 weeks led by me to explore topics like boundaries, energy, values journaling and much more. It is going to help you find clarity, connection and community. Head to motherkind.co for more information. ABOUT RUPERT SPIRA From an early age, Rupert Spira was deeply interested in the nature of reality and the source of lasting peace and happiness. After spending twenty years immersed in the teachings of classical Advaita Vedanta, he met his teacher, Francis Lucille, who introduced him to the Direct Path approach whereby one may recognise the source of peace and happiness in oneself. Rupert has written several books and holds regular meetings and retreats online, as well as in Europe and the United States. He is also a noted potter, trained in the British Studio Pottery school, with work in public and private collections. www.rupertspira.com Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/rupertspira/ Twitter - https://twitter.com/RupertSpira_ Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/rupertspira Youtube - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCxXWjjtATq3OM545gMh9PUg Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Welcome back to Motherkind Moment. Moment is your place on a Monday for calm and connection and maybe even a shift in perspective before the week ahead. This week’s Moment is with the lovely Sarah Ockwell-Smith, mother of 4 and probably one of the UKs best-known parenting experts. In this short clip, Sarah shares her realisation that all her life she had been a good girl. Pushing down her emotions and keeping busy doing what she thought she was supposed to do. I know lots of you will relate to that. Sarah bravely shares how realising that she was being this good girl and changing her behaviour around it set her free to experience way more joy, calm, presence and connection with herself and everyone else in her life. I hope you love this clip. You can listen to the clip by clicking above or the full episode here. GROUP COACHING PROGRAMME - STARTS 14th OF SEPTEMBER 2022 Our next round of group coaching starts on the 14the of September. If you want to be coached by me and feel like now is your time. I'd love for you to join us. It is a small group of 10 who come together for 8 weeks led by me to explore topics like boundaries, energy, values journaling and much more. It is going to help you find clarity, connection and community. Head to motherkind.co for more information. ABOUT SARAH OCKWELL-SMITH Sarah Ockwell-Smith is the mother of four children. She has a BSc in Psychology and worked for several years in pharmaceutical research and development. Following the birth of her first child, Sarah re-trained as an antenatal teacher and birth and postnatal doula. She has also undertaken training in hypnotherapy and psychotherapy and is a member of the British Sleep Society. Sarah specialises in gentle parenting methods and is co-founder of the Gentle Parenting website www.gentleparenting.co.uk. She also blogs at www.sarahockwell-smith.com. Sarah is the author of twelve parenting books. and frequently writes for magazines and newspapers, and is often called upon as a parenting expert for national television and radio. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Hey everyone and welcome back to Motherkind. The show that is going to help you navigate the massive challenges of motherhood (and life) with more acceptance, ease, joy and purpose. Thanks to each and every one of you that come back every week to listen, learn and feel inspired. If you love the podcast, can you do me a favour and hit subscribe, it really does help. This week’s guest is the amazing Dr Julie Smith - Mum of 3, clinical psychologist and online educator. You probably know her from her massively successful book and number one Sunday Times bestseller - Why has nobody told me this before. The educational videos she creates and shares on social media are incredible, amassing her a whopping 3.4 million followers on TikTok. I really struggled with what to call this episode - because we talk about so much: The tension between motherhood, ambition and purpose Answer to that tension - hint, values Her realisation around her own self-care What she’s trying to model for her 3 children Our inner critic and how to move past perfectionism and mistakes This episode is so powerful - I know you are going to want to share it - so please do. As always, we continue the conversation over on Instagram, so come and join us there. SPECIAL THANKS TO OUR SPONSOR - ATHLETIC GREENS My sponsor this week is Athletic Greens. I love AG1. I take it every morning when I’m making the girls breakfast. AG1 has over 7k 5* reviews and I can see why. It’s a supplement with 75 ingredients and its special blend is designed to support gut health, nervous and immune system, energy, recovery, focus and even aging. It’s one of my non-negotiables. It tastes quite nice and while I’m drinking it I’m reminding myself I’m worth looking after and that I can only be the mother and person I want to be in the world when I look after myself. We are grateful to Athletic Greens for sponsoring this episode of the Motherkind podcast. Visit https://athleticgreens.com/motherkind to get a FREE year supply of immune-supporting Vitamin D AND 5 free travel packs with your first purchase. GROUP COACHING PROGRAMME - STARTS 14th OF SEPTEMBER 2022 Our next round of group coaching starts on the 14the of September. If you want to be coached by me and feel like now is your time. I'd love for you to join us. It is a small group of 10 who come together for 8 weeks led by me to explore topics like boundaries, energy, values journaling and much more. It is going to help you find clarity, connection and community. Head to motherkind.co for more information. ABOUT DR. JULIE Dr Julie Smith is a Clinical Psychologist with over a decade of professional experience, having previously worked in the NHS, with veterans and the MoD, in addiction and crisis centres, and now in private practice. She is also an online educator and social media star, sharing bite-sized mental health and motivational videos online, with a combined following of more than 3.5 million. In November 2019 Julie launched her Tik Tok account to make her services and education about mental health more accessible. During the COVID-19 pandemic, Dr Julie’s audience on TikTok grew astronomically as young people related to the videos she was making about mental health and put her advice to use. Why Has Nobody Told Me This Before? is Dr Julie’s first book: A mental health toolbox that is filled with ideas, techniques and insights to help you feel calmer, stronger and more resilient, no matter what life throws your way. Instagram TikTok MOTHERKIND PROGRAMMES AND RESOURCES FREEDOM FROM PERFECTIONISM: Are you ready to find freedom from guilt? Let me help you find Freedom from Perfectionism if you are a mother who has ever felt not quite enough. INSTAGRAM: @motherkind_zoe - come engage with Zoe and our community over on Instagram for inspiration, tips, and sometimes a bit of humour to get us through our day. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Welcome back to Motherkind Moment. Moment is your place on a Monday for calm and connection and maybe even a shift in perspective before the week ahead. This week’s Moment is with the brilliant Dr Sophie Brock. She is a motherhood studies sociologist. She literally has a PhD in motherhood. In this powerful clip, Dr Sophie shares why so much of our guilt isn’t ours at all, but is driven by our societal expectations about what we think we should be doing. And that is where the guilt comes in. The most important thing we have to do with guilt is hold it up to the light - don’t ignore it, don’t push it away -ask yourself do I feel guilty because I stepped out of my own values or is it because I have absorbed these messages about what I think I should be doing? Challenge and question your guilt. It is so powerful to be aware that the majority of our guilt is driven by what we think we should be doing instead of what we really want to be doing. I hope you really love this short clip. You can listen to the clip by clicking above or the full episode here. MOTHERKIND PROGRAMMES AND RESOURCES FREEDOM FROM PERFECTIONISM: Are you ready to find freedom from guilt? Let me help you find Freedom from Perfectionism if you are a mother who has ever felt not quite enough. INSTAGRAM: @motherkind_zoe - come engage with Zoe and our community over on Instagram for inspiration, tips and sometimes a bit of humour to get us through our day. ABOUT DR SOPHIE BROCK Dr. Sophie Brock is a Motherhood Studies Sociologist and Mother living in Sydney, Australia. She provides analysis of Motherhood in our culture, exploring the ways individual experiences of Mothers are shaped by broader social constructs. Sophie supports professionals, business owners and creatives in revolutionising what Motherhood means in our society, and how individual Mothers are supported and understood. Sophie’s offerings include self-study courses for Mothers and practitioners, her podcast The Good Enough Mother, and her Motherhood Studies Practitioner Certification program. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Hi everyone, and welcome to this special Father's Day episode on the Motherkind podcast. This is the show that's going to help you navigate the massive challenges of motherhood and, this week, fatherhood with more acceptance, ease, joy, and purpose. Thanks to each and every one of you that come back every week to listen, learn and feel inspired. It's father's day here in the UK on the 19th of June. And I am so excited about this episode. It is a powerful one. My guest is Bodé Aboderin (AKA Papa B). He is a writer, speaker, businessman, and stay-at-home dad. His wife is the amazing Candice Brathwaite, who has also been on the podcast. So check out that episode, if you haven't listened to it already Bodé is on a mission. He says we need a new way of thinking about masculinity and fatherhood. And he says it's vital that men unpack their beliefs about what it means to be a man and a father or else they risk perpetuating this old really stifling idea of masculinity. Bodé’s story is one of transformation. He shares how he used to believe being a man meant, earning more, not showing his feelings and having this unpenetrable mask of masculinity. Hitting rock bottom, he had a breakthrough that led him to totally transform how he sees his role as a man and a father. And that is what we talk about in this episode. It is incredibly powerful and I really, really hope that this is going to be one that you're going to share with the men in your life. Within minutes of recording it, I sent it to my husband, Guy. Urging him in all caps to please listen. His new book called Fatherhood, is brilliantly written, it's relatable, it's compassionate, and it is a credible call to arms for the men in our lives. I think you're also going to cry at the gift that he would give to all fathers. If you love the podcast, please do me a favour and subscribe. It really does help. I really hope you enjoy this father's day special episode. Here it is. As always, we continue the conversation over on Instagram, so come and join us there. SPECIAL THANKS TO OUR SPONSOR GYMONDO Studies show that regular exercise not only builds your physical strength, but also boosts your mood, reduces stress and increases self-esteem. I definitely know that one of the easiest ways for me to get that serotonin flowing is through exercise. So let's get more of that incredible post-exercise feeling with Gymondo. Gymondo is an online fitness and wellbeing platform with hundreds of 20 to 30-minute workouts. It works brilliantly for me with programs ranging from HIT and yoga to dance and meditation. Plus thousands of healthy recipes. Gymondo will help you make exercise a consistent part of your routine because as we all know, consistency is the key. And because Gymondo is online, it gives you the freedom and flexibility to decide when and where you work out, which, for me, is in my living room. Start a free 14-day trial and save 50% on your annual membership by visiting gymondo.com and enter the code motherkind. ABOUT BODÉ ABODERIN (AKA PAPA B) Bodé Aboderin (AKA Papa B) is a writer, speaker, businessman and stay-at-home dad. Through social media, speaking engagements and his writing, Bode is on a mission to communicate his rapidly changing beliefs on fatherhood and masculinity in real-time following his recent conversion from climbing a corporate ladder to running a household and family business. Alongside managing at home Bode, originally from Nigeria, now runs a growing media business with his wife, Candice Brathwaite, supporting and championing her plans for world domination. Bode’s debut book, ‘Fatherhood by Papa B’ was released in June and addresses fatherhood in such a way that is hard-working, practical and incredibly down-to-earth. The book looks at how a father's own upbringing and well-being can impact and revolutionise the relationship with their child. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Welcome back to Motherkind Moment. Moment is your place on a Monday for calm and connection and maybe even a shift in perspective before the week ahead. This week’s Moment is with Shelley Robinson of Raising Yourself. In this short episode, Shelley explains why her children triggered her anger so much and what she did about it. I hope you enjoy it. You can listen to the clip by clicking above or the full episode here. MOTHERKIND PROGRAMMES AND RESOURCES FREEDOM FROM PERFECTIONISM: Are you ready to find freedom from guilt? Let me help you find Freedom from Perfectionism if you are a mother who has ever felt not quite enough. INSTAGRAM: @motherkind_zoe - come engage with Zoe and our community over on Instagram for inspiration, tips and sometimes a bit of humour to get us through our day. ABOUT SHELLEY ROBINSON Shelly Robinson is a certified holistic family wellness coach, cycle-breaker, conscious parenting educator, and the creator of Raising Yourself. Her passion in life is to empower moms to turn their midlife crisis into midlife magic by teaching them how to reparent themselves, disrupt generational patterns, and take radically good care of their needs. When she's not connecting with her online community or geeking out on the latest neuroscience of cycle-breaking, she's likely making a mess in the kitchen with her two kids, trying to find her way out from under a pile of laundry, or decompressing with a good mystery in bed. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Welcome to the Motherkind podcast. The show that is going to help you navigate the massive challenges of motherhood and life with more acceptance, joy, ease and purpose. Thanks to each and every one of you that come back every week to listen, learn and feel inspired. If you love the podcast, please do me a favour and subscribe. It really does help. This week’s guest is, me, being interviewed by Arianna who hosts the brilliant Pachamama podcast. We dive into so many helpful topics: Self-compassion, pressure, control and surrender - why it is so hard to do but so important Power of little steps Why self-awareness needs to come before self-care I coach Arianna through the fog of being a sleep-deprived mother I have been thinking a lot recently about the idea that because motherhood is so tough, it gives us an opportunity to learn so much. In a way, motherhood breaks us and then makes us. What do you think about this? As always, we continue the conversation over on Instagram, so come and join us there. ABOUT ARIANNA AND PACHAMAMA Arianna started Pachamama because she wanted to create a supportive hub for women, as they transition into motherhood. Pachamama is an online community and platform that helps educate, inspire and connect new & expecting mamas. Pachamama exists to help women feel more supported in their transition into motherhood. Because motherhood is hard. Pregnancy is hard. And those hardships shouldn’t have to be faced alone. Becoming a mother is beautiful and brilliant but it can also be scary, isolating and tricky to navigate your new identity. We believe in the power of sharing lived experiences with one another to help inform, inspire, educate and empower the next generation of mothers MOTHERKIND PROGRAMMES AND RESOURCES FREEDOM FROM PERFECTIONISM: Are you ready to find freedom from guilt? Let me help you find Freedom from Perfectionism if you are a mother who has ever felt not quite enough. INSTAGRAM: @motherkind_zoe - come engage with Zoe and our community over on Instagram for inspiration, tips, and sometimes a bit of humour to get us through our day. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Welcome back to Motherkind Moment. Moment is your place on a Monday for calm and connection and maybe even a shift in perspective before the week ahead. I was recently a guest on the lovely Anna Mathur’s podcast, The Therapy Edit. I enjoyed it so much I thought I’d release it as a Moment here. In this episode, Anna asks me: What’s the one thing I want to share with other mothers. You can listen to the clip by clicking above or the full episode here. I hope you really enjoy it. And, check out Anna’s brilliant new book, The Little Book of Calm for New Mothers. MOTHERKIND PROGRAMMES AND RESOURCES FREEDOM FROM PERFECTIONISM: Are you ready to find freedom from guilt? Let me help you find Freedom from Perfectionism if you are a mother who has ever felt not quite enough. INSTAGRAM: @motherkind_zoe - come engage with Zoe and our community over on Instagram for inspiration, tips and sometimes a bit of humour to get us through our day. ABOUT ANNA MATHUR Anna is a mum of three, and a Psychotherapist, Author and Speaker. She is a warm communicator with a passion for taking therapy out of the therapy room. Whether sitting with a client in her living room, talking as a podcast guest, or addressing an audience of 1,000 in a seminar, her desire is to empower, encourage and equip people. Her hope is that through words, spoken or written, people will experience light-bulb moments, learn about themselves and be able to find more freedom and enjoyment in life. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Welcome to the Motherkind podcast. The show that is going to help you navigate the massive challenges of motherhood and life with more acceptance, joy, ease and purpose. Thanks to each and every one of you that come back every week to listen, learn and feel inspired. If you love the podcast, please do me a favour and subscribe. It really does help. This week’s guest is the lovely Anna Mathur, psycho-therapist, best-selling author and mum of three. I’m also very grateful to be able to say a good friend of mine and a massive supporter of the podcast. This is Anna’s 3rd time on the show and we recorded this episode to celebrate the launch of her 3rd book the Little Book of Calm for New Mums. It’s a fantastic book and I highly recommend it. Let me ask you a question: How often do you hold it all together, push through and keep it going? I think we all do that to some extent, and in some ways we have to. As Anna shares in the episode, from her own incredibly humbling experience with burnout, there is a cost to doing that and we first need to recognise that and then think differently about what we need to do to support ourselves. Anna is amazing. I know lots of you already know and love her. This is a really powerful episode and I know you are going to love it. As always, we continue the conversation over on Instagram, so come and join us there. Special thanks to our sponsor GYMONDO Studies show that regular exercise not only builds your physical strength, but also boosts your mood, reduces stress and increases self-esteem. I definitely know that one of the easiest ways for me to get that serotonin flowing is through exercise. So let's get more of that incredible post-exercise feeling with Gymondo. Gymondo is an online fitness and wellbeing platform with hundreds of 20 to 30-minute workouts. It works brilliantly for me with programs ranging from HIT and yoga to dance and meditation. Plus thousands of healthy recipes. Gymondo will help you make exercise a consistent part of your routine because as we all know, consistency is the key. And because Gymondo is online, it gives you the freedom and flexibility to decide when and where you work out, which, for me, is in my living room. Start a free 14-day trial and save 50% on your annual membership by visiting gymondo.com and enter the code motherkind. About Anna Mathur Anna is a mum of three, and a Psychotherapist, Author and Speaker. She is a warm communicator with a passion for taking therapy out of the therapy room. Whether sitting with a client in her living room, talking as a podcast guest, or addressing an audience of 1,000 in a seminar, her desire is to empower, encourage and equip people. Her hope is that through words, spoken or written, people will experience light-bulb moments, learn about themselves and be able to find more freedom and enjoyment in life. MOTHERKIND PROGRAMMES AND RESOURCES FREEDOM FROM PERFECTIONISM: Are you ready to find freedom from guilt? Let me help you find Freedom from Perfectionism if you are a mother who has ever felt not quite enough. INSTAGRAM: @motherkind_zoe - come engage with Zoe and our community over on Instagram for inspiration, tips, and sometimes a bit of humour to get us through our day. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Welcome back to Motherkind Moment. Moment is your place on a Monday for calm and connection and maybe even a shift in perspective before the week ahead. This week’s Moment is with the one and only Mel Robbins from our episode released in December 2021. Her words are so powerful. I love this clip and hope you do too. You can listen to the clip by clicking above or the full episode here. MOTHERKIND PROGRAMMES AND RESOURCES FREEDOM FROM PERFECTIONISM: Are you ready to find freedom from guilt? Let me help you find Freedom from Perfectionism if you are a mother who has ever felt not quite enough. INSTAGRAM: @motherkind_zoe - come engage with Zoe and our community over on Instagram for inspiration, tips and sometimes a bit of humour to get us through our day. ABOUT MEL ROBBINS Mel Robbins is a former lawyer, bestselling author, talk show host, and one of the most widely booked public speakers in the world. Her new book is The High Five Habit. She has spent the past decade coaching, teaching, and motivating millions of people around the world. Her practical, no-nonsense advice and life strategies provide tangible results and skills that help people push through the everyday challenges we all face in life, work, and love. Her social media platforms inspire more than 60 million people every month and her TEDx Talk is one of the most popular of all time, with nearly 30 million views. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Welcome to the Motherkind podcast. The show that is going to help you navigate the massive challenges of motherhood and life with more acceptance, joy, ease and purpose. Hey everyone and welcome back to Motherkind the show that is going to help you navigate the massive challenges of motherhood (and life) with more acceptance, ease, joy and purpose. Thanks to each and every one of you that come back every week to listen, learn and feel inspired. I actually can’t believe I’m here recording this - Motherkind’s 200th episode - WOW. Thank you to each of you that listen every week or have ever listened, it is only because of your support that I’ve made it to 200 - so thank you. Today is going to be a solo episode with me. I’m going to share with you: Insights and lessons I’ve learned along the way The 5 key takeaways across all 200 episodes that have really stayed with me Answers to your questions What’s the one gift I would give to all mothers in the world As always, we continue the conversation over on Instagram, so come and join us there. Special thanks to our sponsor ATHLETIC GREENS My sponsor this week is a product I use every day - Athletic Greens. I love AG1. I take it every morning when I’m making the girls breakfast. AG1 has over 7k 5* reviews and I can see why. It’s a supplement with 75 ingredients and its special blend is designed to support gut health, nervous and immune system, energy, recovery, focus and even aging. It’s one of my non-negotiables. It tastes quite nice and while I’m drinking it I’m reminding myself I’m worth looking after and that I can only be the mother and person I want to be in the world when I look after myself. We are grateful to Athletic Greens for sponsoring this episode of the Motherkind podcast. Visit https://athleticgreens.com/motherkind to get a FREE year supply of immune-supporting Vitamin D AND 5 free travel packs with your first purchase. About Zoe Blaskey Zoe Blaskey is a qualified transformational and executive coach specialising in working with parents and the founder of Motherkind, a personal development platform for parents. Zoe has coached hundreds of parents of all backgrounds on how to navigate the huge challenges of modern parenthood. Zoe hosts The Motherkind Podcast which is the UK’s number one family podcast on iTunes and has been featured in Red, The Telegraph, Psychologies, Goop, SheerLuxe and Mother&Baby. Zoe has delivered talks and workshops to some of the UK's leading businesses including Clearscore, BT, Sky and BBC. Zoe has two daughters and lives with her husband Guy by the sea in Dorset. MOTHERKIND PROGRAMMES AND RESOURCES FREEDOM FROM PERFECTIONISM: Are you ready to find freedom from guilt? Let me help you find Freedom from Perfectionism if you are a mother who has ever felt not quite enough. INSTAGRAM: @motherkind_zoe - come engage with Zoe and our community over on Instagram for inspiration, tips and sometimes a bit of humour to get us through our day. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Welcome back to Motherkind Moment. Moment is your place on a Monday for calm and connection and maybe even a shift in perspective before the week ahead. This week’s Moment is with Jess who runs Our Mama Village. She is a registered psychotherapist and mum of two little ones. This moment is from a brilliant episode we recorded together in January 2022. I hope you love the clip. You can listen to the clip by clicking above or the full episode here. MOTHERKIND PROGRAMMES AND RESOURCES FREEDOM FROM PERFECTIONISM: Are you ready to find freedom from guilt? Let me help you find Freedom from Perfectionism if you are a mother who has ever felt not quite enough. INSTAGRAM: @motherkind_zoe - come engage with Zoe and our community over on Instagram for inspiration, tips and sometimes a bit of humour to get us through our day. ABOUT JESS VANDERWIER OUR MAMA VILLAGE VanderWier is a Registered Psychotherapist who helps families understand and respond to their child’s “big feelings” with gentleness and respect. Jess has a Master’s Degree in Counselling Psychology and has logged thousands of clinical hours supporting parents and their children. Through groups, presentations, and one-on-one clinical sessions Jessica has helps hundreds of parents restore peace to their home. As the founder of Our Mama Village, Jess uses her expertise to support parents through online courses, personalized coaching, and free resources. Our Mama Village offers daily parenting guidance to over 480,000 families on their popular Instagram account. Jess lives in the Niagara Region with her husband Scott and their two daughters (4.5 & 2.5 years old). Whenever she finds the time, Jess loves to be outside in nature, hiking or biking, before refueling with Scott at a quirky hole-in-the-wall restaurant or a fun coffee shop. Our Mama Village website Instagram: @ourmamavillage FREE Masterclass Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

**CONTENT WARNING and TRIGGER WARNING** This episode contains swearing and TW/sexual abuse. Welcome to the Motherkind podcast. The show that is going to help you navigate the massive challenges of motherhood and life with more acceptance, joy, ease and purpose. This week’s guest is Natalie Lee. You might know her as Style Me Sunday. Natalie started her career as a midwife before starting her blog in July 2012. In the past decade, she has grown her platform from a blog to a brand and now reaches women across a variety of platforms and in so many different ways. Her book Feeling myself: how I shed my shame to find sexual freedom is out in June. I was lucky enough to get an advanced copy, and it is incredible. I think this book is going to help so many women. You are going to learn about: What is sexual shame and how it manifests Why using the correct terms for sex anatomy is vital How Natalie healed her sexual trauma and what that has meant for her girls What her dream is for the next generation This is really an emotional conversation and also an incredibly important one. As always, we continue the conversation over on Instagram, so come and join us there. We are grateful to Gymondo for sponsoring this week’s episode Gymondo is an online fitness and well-being platform with 100s of 20 to 30-minute workouts and training programmes ranging from HIIT and yoga to dance and meditation, plus over 1000 healthy recipes. Aside from the freedom and flexibility Gymondo offers, exercising at home is fun, saves you money, fits perfectly into your lifestyle and helps you stick to your fitness goals. Start a 14-day FREE trial and save 50% on your annual membership. You may access the offer just by clicking on this link or by going to gymondo.com and adding the code MOTHERKIND. About Natalie Lee Natalie Lee began her career as a midwife before starting her blog, Style Me Sunday, in July 2012. Over nearly a decade, she has grown her platform from a blog to a brand, and now reaches women across various different mediums. Throughout this time, she has run events, co-hosted a podcast (The Everything Project), been a panellist more times than she can count, taken part in a television project about women's quests for better orgasms where she had an orgasm on TV, and worked with a variety of household-name brands. @stylemesunday Natalie’s blog Style Me Sunday Mother kind programme and resources FREEDOM FROM PERFECTIONISM: Are you ready to find freedom from guilt? Let me help you find Freedom from Perfectionism if you are a mother who has ever felt not quite enough. INSTAGRAM: @motherkind_zoe - come engage with Zoe and our community over on Instagram for inspiration, tips and sometimes a bit of humour to get us through our day. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Welcome back to Motherkind Moment. Moment is your place on a Monday for calm and connection and maybe even a shift in perspective before the week ahead. This week’s Moment is with the amazing Dr. Sarah Woodhouse who is a trauma expert and research psychologist. I hope you enjoy this Moment. If you’d like to listen to the full episode, you may access that here. MOTHERKIND PROGRAMMES AND RESOURCES FREEDOM FROM PERFECTIONISM: Are you ready to find freedom from guilt? Let me help you find Freedom from Perfectionism if you are a mother who has ever felt not quite enough. INSTAGRAM: @motherkind_zoe - come engage with Zoe and our community over on Instagram for inspiration, tips and sometimes a bit of humour to get us through our day. ABOUT DR SARAH WOODHOUSE Dr Sarah Woodhouse is a trauma specialist, research psychologist, author, coach and creator of The Freedom ProcessTM - a transformative program designed to help people break free from childhood trauma and reconnect to their power and potential. She has just moved permanently back to the UK, after three years working and living in Australia with her husband and three young children. Before moving to Australia, Sarah spent a decade researching how different ways of thinking and interacting with other people can prolong trauma symptoms. Her research was funded by the UK’s Medical Research Council. In her current work, Sarah sees individual clients, helping them understand how their own childhood trauma is still affecting their life today, and supporting them to work through the eight steps of The Freedom ProcessTM. She also continues to research trauma for her next book. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Welcome to the Motherkind podcast. The show that is going to help you navigate the massive challenges of motherhood and life with more acceptance, joy, ease and purpose. This week’s guest is the brilliant Dr. Pragya Agarwal She is a behavioral scientist, academic, journalist and award-winning author who has written widely on racial inequality, parenting and gender. Her most recent book is (M)otherhood. I love this chat. I found Pragya’s story really inspiring and I hope you will too. As always, we continue the conversation over on Instagram, so come and join us there. THIS WEEK’S SPONSOR - GYMONDO We are grateful to Gymondo for sponsoring this week’s episode Gymondo is an online fitness and well-being platform with 100s of 20 to 30-minute workouts and training programmes ranging from HIIT and yoga to dance and meditation, plus over 1000 healthy recipes. Aside from the freedom and flexibility Gymondo offers, exercising at home is fun, saves you money, fits perfectly into your lifestyle and helps you stick to your fitness goals. Start a 14-day FREE trial and save 50% on your annual membership. You may access the offer just by clicking on this link or by going to gymondo.com and adding the code MOTHERKIND. ABOUT DR. PRAGYA AGARWAL Dr. Pragya Agarwal is a behavioral and data scientist and author of Sway: Unravelling Unconscious Bias (Bloomsbury, 2020), Wish We Knew What To Say: Talking with Children About Race (Little Brown, 2020), and (M)otherhood: On the Choices of Being a Woman (Canongate, 2021). She has also written a picture book for children, Standing up to Racism (Hachette, 2021). Pragya is the visiting professor of social inequities and injustice at Loughborough University and founder of a research think-tank, The 50 Percent Project, looking at global inequities. She is a two-time TEDx speaker and hosted a podcast, Outside the Boxes. Her writing has also appeared in the Guardian, Independent, Scientific American, New Scientist, Literary Hub, AEON, Hinterland Magazine, amongst others. Her next book, Hysterical, will be published in September 2022 with Canongate. You can connect with her at: @DrPragyaAgarwal drpragyaagarwal.com MOTHERKIND PROGRAMMES AND RESOURCES FREEDOM FROM PERFECTIONISM: Are you ready to find freedom from guilt? Let me help you find Freedom from Perfectionism if you are a mother who has ever felt not quite enough. INSTAGRAM: @motherkind_zoe - come engage with Zoe and our community over on Instagram for inspiration, tips and sometimes a bit of humour to get us through our day. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Welcome back to Motherkind Moment. Moment is your place on a Monday for calm and connection and maybe even a shift in perspective before the week ahead. Something a bit different for this week’s moment. I had the honour of being on the Made by Mammas podcast with the wonderful Zoe Hardman and Georgia Dayton. They asked me why I started this podcast so I thought I’d share my answer as today’s Moment. If you want to listen to the rest of the episode where we dive into my thoughts on perfectionism, control and generational patterns, then just search Made by Mamas wherever you are listening to this episode. I really hope you enjoy it. MOTHERKIND PROGRAMMES AND RESOURCES GROUP COACHING PROGRAMME - STARTS 11TH OF MAY 2022: Our next round of group coaching starts on the 11th of May. If you want to be coached by me and feel like now is your time. I'd love for you to join us. It is a small group of 10 who come together for 8 weeks led by me to explore topics like boundaries, energy, values journaling and much more. It is going to help you find clarity, connection and community. Head to motherkind.co for more information. FREEDOM FROM PERFECTIONISM: Are you ready to find freedom from guilt? Let me help you find Freedom from Perfectionism if you are a mother who has ever felt not quite enough. INSTAGRAM: @motherkind_zoe - come engage with Zoe and our community over on Instagram for inspiration, tips and sometimes a bit of humour to get us through our day. ABOUT MADE BY MAMMAS In 'Made By Mammas: The Podcast', TV Presenter & Radio Broadcaster Zoe Hardman combined with Georgia Dayton bring their mummy blog to life as they discuss the brands they love, the products they swear by, and the experiences they've been through during the first years of motherhood. Each episode sees Zoe and Georgia chat to a famous face or an expert in their field on a host of topics ranging from pregnancy to sleep to activities to do with little ones, and so much more! Your go-to for non-judgemental advice, support and a bit of love Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Welcome to the week’s episode of the podcast. Thank you for being here and pressing play. I really appreciate you. This is a very inspiring episode with the Olympic rower Helen Glover MBE. This story is incredible. After winning gold in Rio in 2016, Helen decided to hang up her rows, step away from rowing, and start a family. She now has 3 children, but the Covid-19 pandemic and the lockdown brought on a change in perspective. And despite not having stepped foot in a boat since Rio four years earlier, Helen decided to take a shot at a third Olympics in Tokyo. What happens next is incredible. Not because I want to start rowing or because I want to be a leading sportswoman, but because this episode is really about taking our dreams very seriously as mothers. And I think that is something we don’t do enough. It is being really intentional about the trade-offs we are willing to make for the big things we want to do in life. I ask her at the end what is harder: training for the Olympics or motherhood. I think her answer will surprise you. I hope you love this episode. As always, we continue the conversation over on Instagram, so come and join us there. THIS WEEK’S SPONSORS - GYMONDO We are grateful to Gymondo for sponsoring this week’s episode Gymondo is an online fitness and well-being platform with 100s of 20 to 30-minute workouts and training programmes ranging from HIIT and yoga to dance and meditation, plus over 1000 healthy recipes. Aside from the freedom and flexibility Gymondo offers, exercising at home is fun, saves you money, fits perfectly into your lifestyle and helps you stick to your fitness goals. Start a 14-day FREE trial and save 50% on your annual membership. You may access the offer just by clicking on this link or by going to gymondo.com and adding the code MOTHERKIND. ABOUT HELEN GLOVER MBE Double Olympic champion, three-times world champion, twice European champion and a multiple world cup gold medal winner – Helen Glover is one of the most decorated athletes in the GB Rowing Team. After stepping away from rowing to get married and have three children, Helen returned to the team in 2021 with the goal of being the first mother to compete for the GB Rowing Team. Glover only took up rowing in 2008 and won a historic gold medal at the Olympic Games in London just four years later. Her outstanding women’s pair partnership with Heather Stanning became the first British female rowers to successfully defend an Olympic title when they won gold at Rio 2016. That completed a perfect Olympiad for Glover in the pair – she won every race she competed in and claimed a hat-trick of world titles, one with Polly Swann and two with Stanning. You can follow her on Instagram. MOTHERKIND PROGRAMMES AND RESOURCES GROUP COACHING PROGRAMME - STARTS 11TH OF MAY 2022: Our next round of group coaching starts on the 11th of May. If you want to be coached by me and feel like now is your time. I'd love for you to join us. It is a small group of 10 who come together for 8 weeks led by me to explore topics like boundaries, energy, values journaling and much more. It is going to help you find clarity, connection and community. Head to motherkind.co for more information. FREEDOM FROM PERFECTIONISM: Are you ready to find freedom from guilt? Let me help you find Freedom from Perfectionism if you are a mother who has ever felt not quite enough. INSTAGRAM: @motherkind_zoe - come engage with Zoe and our community over on Instagram for inspiration, tips and sometimes a bit of humour to get us through our day. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Welcome back to Motherkind Moment. Moment is your place on a Monday for calm and connection and maybe even a shift in perspective before the week ahead. This week’s moment is with the incredible Dr. Rick Hanson. He is one of the world’s leading psychologists. This episode from January 2022 is one of our most downloaded to date. I love this clip. It is going to feel like a big exhale. Click above to listen to the clip, or click here to listen to the full episode. MOTHERKIND PROGRAMMES AND RESOURCES GROUP COACHING PROGRAMME - STARTS 11TH OF MAY 2022: Our next round of group coaching starts on the 11th of May. If you want to be coached by me and feel like now is your time. I'd love for you to join us. It is a small group of 10 who come together for 8 weeks led by me to explore topics like boundaries, energy, values journaling and much more. It is going to help you find clarity, connection and community. Head to motherkind.co for more information. FREEDOME FROM PERFECTIONSISM: Are you ready to find freedom from guilt? Let me help you find Freedom from Perfectionism if you are a mother who has ever felt not quite enough. INSTAGRAM: @motherkind_zoe - come engage with Zoe and our community over on Instagram for inspiration, tips and sometimes a bit of humour to get us through our day. ABOUT DR RICK HANSON Rick Hanson, Ph.D., is a psychologist, Senior Fellow of the Greater Good Science Center at UC Berkeley, and New York Times best-selling author. His books have been published in 30 languages and include Neurodharma, Resilient, Hardwiring Happiness, Buddha’s Brain, Just One Thing, and Mother Nurture – with 900,000 copies in English alone. His free weekly newsletter has 220,000 subscribers and his online programs have scholarships available for those with financial needs. He’s lectured at NASA, Google, Oxford, and Harvard, and taught in meditation centers worldwide. An expert on positive neuroplasticity, his work has been featured on the BBC, CBS, NPR, and other major media. He began meditating in 1974 and is the founder of the Wellspring Institute for Neuroscience and Contemplative Wisdom. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Welcome back to Motherkind Moment. Moment is your place on a Monday for calm and connection and maybe even a shift in perspective before the week ahead. This week’s moment is with the wonderful Dr. Soph who is a psychologist and Sunday Times best-selling author. If you have ever felt guilty or thought you were not a good mum, and who hasn’t, then this next couple of minutes is going to massively shift your perspective. Click above to listen to the clip, or click here to listen to the full episode. GROUP COACHING PROGRAMME - STARTS 11TH OF MAY 2022 Our next round of group coaching starts on the 11th of May. If you want to be coached by me and feel like now is your time. I'd love for you to join us. It is a small group of 10 who come together for 8 weeks led by me to explore topics like boundaries, energy, values journaling and much more. It is going to help you find clarity, connection and community. Head to motherkind.co for more information. FREEBIES! Find out how you can take control of your life, reconnect to you, and more! Download ‘10 Ways to Reconnect to You’ and our weekly and monthly check-in on Motherkind.co. Are you ready to find freedom from guilt? Let me help you find Freedom from Perfectionism if you are a mother who has ever felt not quite enough. ABOUT DR SOPH MORT Dr Soph has a bachelor’s degree in psychology, a masters in neuroscience and a doctorate in clinical psychology, and is one of the few clinical psychologists in the world right now taking psychology out of the therapy room. After seeing the staggering decline of the nation’s mental health, she left behind her traditional role as a clinical psychologist in the NHS in order to provide more people with the access they need to have good mental health. Since 2018, she has helped thousands manage their emotional wellbeing by sharing her psychological knowledge on Instagram, on her blog and through her online private practice. Dr Soph is an expert for the mindfulness app Happy Not Perfect and has been featured in global outlets including Vice Magazine, Girlboss, Psych Central and Teen Vogue. A Manual for Being Human is her first book. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Welcome to this episode of the Motherkind podcast. Thank you for listening. I really do appreciate it. My guest is Zain Asher. Zain is a CNN anchor and mother of 2. She is also the author of an incredible new book called Where the children take us. It tells the story of her mother’s harrowing fight to raise four children as a widowed immigrant in South London. Zain tells us in this episode how her mother teachers her children to overcome the daily pressures of poverty, crime and prejudice and how with her relentless support her children exceed all expectations. Listen to this about Zain and her siblings, one becomes a CNN anchor (Zain), another an oscar-nominated actor, another doctor, and another a thriving entrepreneur. It is an incredible story. It is also a conversation about values and culture. Speaking with Zain made me reflect very deeply on my own parenting and it made me ask myself what are the most important values in our family and how do we live those. I really hope this episode moves and inspires you. As always, we continue the conversation over on Instagram, so come and join us there. Where to find more about Zain: Zain’s book Where the children take us Instagram Ted Talk - watch it here FRAUPOW PORTABLE BREAST PUMP We are grateful for this week’s sponsor - Fraupow. Portable breast pumps are brilliant. They are convenient, fuss-free and allow us to get on with whatever we need to do handsfree. The Fraupow pump tucks into your bra so you can pump and go with no wires. It has 12 comfort levels and a capacity for 180 ml of milk. At a competitive price point, it is about £150 cheaper than the other leading pumps. Fraupow also offers a totally free chat live every Friday for advice with a professional mid-wife. Listeners can get 10% off the Fraupow breast pump at www.fraupow.com with the code MOTHERKIND10. Ts & Cs - MOTHERKIND10 offer code valid until the end of March, 2022. Not to be used in conjunction with any other offer. Code only valid at www.fraupow.com. Discount applies to products only. FREEBIE! Find out how you can take control of your life, reconnect to you and more! Download ‘10 Ways to Reconnect to You’ and our weekly and monthly check-in on Motherkind.co. Are you ready to find freedom from guilt? Let me help you find Freedom from Perfectionism if you are a mother who has ever felt not quite enough. Come follow Motherkind on Instagram for tips and announcements or just to reach out and say hi. GROUP COACHING PROGRAMME - STARTS 11TH OF MAY 2022 Our next round of group coaching starts on the 11th of May. If you want to be coached by me and feel like now is your time. I'd love for you to join us. It is a small group of 10 who come together for 8 weeks led by me to explore topics like boundaries, energy, values journaling and much more. It is going to help you find clarity, connection and community. Head to motherkind.co for more information. ABOUT ZAIN ASHER ZAIN EJIOFOR ASHER is the host of CNN’s One World With Zain Asher. Born in South London to Nigerian parents, she wrote this memoir as a tribute to her mother who raised her and her siblings alone after their father died in a tragic accident. Asher lives in New York City with her husband and two sons. She is a graduate of Oxford University and Columbia University. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Welcome back to Motherkind Moment. Moment is your place on a Monday for calm and connection and maybe even a shift in perspective before the week ahead. This week’s moment is with Dr Anne Lane who is a mother and clinical psychologist. We often have to talk to our children about heart-breaking topics, unfortunately, like divorce, war, and pandemics amongst many more challenging life situations. In this moment Dr Anne describes how we can protect our children’s mental health whilst also sharing the really hard things. Click here to listen to the full episode. GROUP COACHING PROGRAMME - STARTS 11TH OF MAY 2022 Our next round of group coaching starts on the 11th of May. If you want to be coached by me and feel like now is your time. I'd love for you to join us. It is a small group of 10 who come together for 8 weeks led by me to explore topics like boundaries, energy, values journaling and much more. It is going to help you find clarity, connection and community. Head to motherkind.co for more information. FREEBIES! Find out how you can take control of your life, reconnect to you, and more! Download ‘10 Ways to Reconnect to You’ and our weekly and monthly check-in on Motherkind.co. Are you ready to find freedom from guilt? Let me help you find Freedom from Perfectionism if you are a mother who has ever felt not quite enough. ABOUT DR. ANNE LANE Dr Anne Lane is a clinical psychologist and family therapist. For more than 20 years she has worked in mental health – within both the NHS and her own private practice. Dr Lane has taught on clinical psychology doctorate programmes and run countless workshops on mental health, parenting and emotional regulation. She is a lively, passionate communicator who cares deeply about the lives of the adults, families and children she works with. Anne lives in Hertfordshire, UK, with her husband and three children. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

My guest this week says that we need a confidence revolution for women. She says we need to change confidence not women. The old way, when we were told to be more confident, it was to be in the same manner as our male counterparts. What if there was a totally different way to be confident as a woman? Lauren Currie OBE is the founder of Upfront and she is on a mission to change confidence for 1 million women by 2023. She is also the trustee and chairperson for the incredible charity, Pregnant Then Screwed. And in 2017 she was awarded an OBE for her service in design and diversity. I am so excited for you to listen to this episode. I believe as mothers we all need more confidence in ourselves, in our dreams, and in our ability to mother exactly the way we want to. Imagine if doubt could be replaced with more confidence. Even just by 1%. Imagine the impact that would have on you and your life. This episode is going to help you to do that. In this episode you’ll learn about: Confidence doesn't need to look like being the loudest in the room - it's feeling more and more comfortable with who you really are Women have a reluctance to celebrate themselves and their work - we need practice doing it, so it becomes easier How Lauren is raising a feminist son and what we can all learn from her The vital, missing link between equality and women's confidence How to unlock your innate confidence - to feel more capable of achieving whatever it is you want to in life "Repeat after me, I am a confident woman speaking up for myself"- Lauren Currie As always, we continue the conversation over on Instagram, so come and join us there. Resources mentioned in this episode: Twitter @_laurencurrie_ Instagram Website Website https://laurencurrie.com A special thanks to this week’s sponsors - FRAUPOW PORTABLE BREAST PUMP We are grateful for this week’s sponsor - Fraupow. Portable breast pumps are brilliant. They are convenient, fuss-free and allow us to get on with whatever we need to do handsfree. The Fraupow pump tucks into your bra so you can pump and go with no wires. It has 12 comfort levels and a capacity for 180 ml of milk. At a competitive price point, it is about £150 cheaper than the other leading pumps. Fraupow also offers a totally free chat live every Friday for advice with a professional mid-wife. Listeners can get 10% off the Fraupow breast pump at www.fraupow.com with the code MOTHERKIND10. Ts & Cs - MOTHERKIND10 offer code valid until the end of March, 2022. Not to be used in conjunction with any other offer. Code only valid at www.fraupow.com. Discount applies to products only. About Lauren Currie OBE Lauren Currie OBE, is the Founder of UPFRONT, an organisation on a mission to change confidence, visibility, and power for women and marginalised communities. Lauren is a keynote speaker, describing her public speaking approach as “Everyone in the room will turn their own lights on”. She is chairperson of leading maternity discrimination Pregnant Then Screwed and has been recognised as a woman changing the world by Elle Magazine and one of the top businesswomen under 35 by Management Today. In 2017, she was awarded an OBE for her services to design and diversity. She grew up in Scotland and now lives in Stockholm with her family. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Welcome back to Motherkind Moment. Moment is your place on a Monday for calm and connection and maybe even a shift in perspective before the week ahead. This week’s moment is from one of my favourite ever episodes back from November 2020. It is with Kasia Urbaniak. I love this clip where she describes how to stop attacking yourself and why it is so ingrained in us to do that. She also says it is only once we can stop attacking ourselves that we can make space for our needs and desires. I really hope this episode gives you something to think about today. Click above to listen to the clip, or click here to listen to the full episode. I want to thank this week’s sponsors Sponsor - Skillshare Explore your creativity at skillshare.com/motherkind and get a one month free trial. Go to skillshare.com/motherkind and click on the Motherkind banner or use the code MOTHERKIND at checkout. GROUP COACHING PROGRAMME - STARTS 11TH OF MAY 2022 Our next round of group coaching starts on the 11th of May. If you want to be coached by me and feel like now is your time. I'd love for you to join us. It is a small group of 10 who come together for 8 weeks led by me to explore topics like boundaries, energy, values journaling and much more. It is going to help you find clarity, connection and community. Head to motherkind.co for more information. FREEBIES! Find out how you can take control of your life, reconnect to you, and more! Download ‘10 Ways to Reconnect to You’ and our weekly and monthly check-in on Motherkind.co. Are you ready to find freedom from guilt? Let me help you find Freedom from Perfectionism if you are a mother who has ever felt not quite enough. ABOUT KASIA URBANIAK Kasia Urbaniak is the founder and CEO of The Academy, a school that teaches women the foundations of power and influence. Kasia's perspective on power is unique. Over the course of nearly 20 years, she has worked as a professional Dominatrix, practiced Taoist alchemy in one of the oldest female-led monasteries in China and obtained dozens of certifications in different disciplines, including Medical Qi Gong and Systemic Constellations. Since founding The Academy in 2013, Kasia has taught hundreds of women practical tools to step into leadership positions in their relationships, families, workplaces, and wider communities. She has spoken at corporations and conferences worldwide. You can find out more about Kasia and her work via her website. You can also connect with Tara on Facebook, You Tube and Instagram. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

I absolutely love this week’s guest Dr. Rangan Chatterjee. He has been on the podcast before, so many of you already know and love him. And I’m lucky enough to call him a friend. He really is the genuine kind person that you see in the media. You’ll learn so much in this episode and it’s not just the usual things that you might think about when we talk about happiness. In this episode he shares: What he has learned about happiness Core happiness vs junk happiness What’s really important in life How his father has informed how he lives his life today I really hope that listening to this helps you think differently about happiness and what’s important to you. Please share it with your mum-friends who you feel should hear this. Be that person empowering, uplifting and inspiring other people and help me to do that too. Let’s keep sharing this wisdom and get more and more of these messages out to the people who need it. As always, we continue the conversation over on Instagram, so come and join us there. Resources from this episode: Rangan’s new book Happy Mind, Happy Life Website Podcast Feel better, live more Instagram MANY THANKS TO OUR SPONSORS WHO HELP MAKE THIS PODCAST POSSIBLE: Sponsor - Athletic Greens My sponsor this week is a product I use every day - Athletic Greens. My motto is ‘I can only be the mother I want to be when I look after myself too’ and taking Athletic Greens each morning for my health reminds me of that. We are grateful to Athletic Greens for sponsoring this episode of the Motherkind podcast. With 75 whole food sourced ingredients designed to optimize 5 key areas of health, AG1 is the delicious daily habit that sets you up for a healthy future. Invest in your health without compromise! Visit https://athleticgreens.com/motherkind to get a FREE year supply of Vitamin D ​AND​ 5 free travel packs​ with your first purchase. Sponsor - Skillshare Explore your creativity at skillshare.com/motherkind and get a one-month free trial. Go to skillshare.com/motherkind and click on the Motherkind banner or use the code MOTHERKIND at checkout. Sponsor - Typology Motherkind listeners get a free ingredient lip balm if you order the tinted lip balm or any other product. Just go to www.typology.com add the ingredient lip balm and code: motherkind at checkout. GROUP COACHING PROGRAMME - STARTS 11TH OF MAY 2022 Our next round of group coaching starts on the 11th of May. If you want to be coached by me and feel like now is your time. I'd love for you to join us. It is a small group of 10 who come together for 8 weeks led by me to explore topics like boundaries, energy, values journaling and much more. It is going to help you find clarity, connection and community. Head to motherkind.co for more information. FREEBIE! Find out how you can take control of your life, reconnect to you and more! Download ‘10 Ways to Reconnect to You’ and our weekly and monthly check-in on Motherkind.co. Are you ready to find freedom from guilt? Let me help you find Freedom from Perfectionism if you are a mother who has ever felt not quite enough. About Dr. Rangan Chatterjee Dr. Rangan Chatterjee is regarded as one of the most influential medical doctors in the UK. A practising GP for the last two decades, Dr Chatterjee wants to inspire people to transform their health and happiness through making small sustainable changes to their lifestyles. Dr. Chatterjee hosts the most listened to health podcast in the UK and Europe, ‘Feel Better, Live More’ which is one of Apple's most downloaded podcasts. His mission is to empower 100 million people to become the architect of their own health and to help them feel fantastic with simple, practical and digestible information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Welcome back to Motherkind Moment. Moment is your place on a Monday for calm and connection and maybe even a shift in perspective before the week ahead. This week’s moment is with presenter and journalist Kate Silverton. Kate is also the author of the incredible book called No such thing as naughty. This is a very short and powerful clip about how we can handle our children’s meltdowns. I hope it helps you this week. It has already helped me this morning. Listen to the full episode here. ABOUT KATE SILVERTON In 25 years as a journalist, Kate Silverton has become one of the BBC’s leading and most popular broadcasters. She has produced and presented numerous documentaries, including for the BBC’s flagship current affairs programme Panorama. She has come under fire on the frontline in Iraq and Afghanistan, covered the glamour of the Oscars in Hollywood, and stepped out beneath the glitter ball herself as a contestant for the BBC’s much-loved entertainment show, Strictly Come Dancing. Kate has spent decades interviewing leading figures throughout the world, from politicians through to celebrities and scientists. Throughout it all, Kate’s lifelong passion has been to advocate for children and their emotional well-being. Her academic roots are in child development with a BSc in psychology and, after having children of her own, Kate decided to retrain as a child psychotherapist. She now combines her career in journalism with her studies, currently volunteering as a counsellor on placement working with children at a London primary school. Philanthropically, for many years she has supported charities like Place2Be, the Anna Freud National Centre for Children and Families, The South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust, as well as the NSPCC and the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge’s Royal Foundation. Kate’s counselling work with children, her own personal experience of psychotherapy and the interviews she has conducted with world-renowned psychiatrists, neuroscientists and psychotherapists have all informed her approach and the concept she has devised for this book. Her philosophy is, ‘If we get it right from conception to five, we can set our children up for life.’ Her passion is to share what she has learned with as many parents as she can, to help them to have the parenting experience they always hoped to have, and for their children to have the parenting experience they deserve. Sponsor - Skillshare Explore your creativity at skillshare.com/motherkind and get a one month free trial. Go to skillshare.com/motherkind and click on the Motherkind banner or use the code MOTHERKIND at checkout. Sponsor - Typology Motherkind listeners get a free ingredient lip balm if you order the tinted lip balm or any other product. Just go to www.typology.com add the ingredient lip balm and code: motherkind at checkout. FREEBIES! Find out how you can take control of your life, reconnect to you, and more! Download ‘10 Ways to Reconnect to You’ and our weekly and monthly check-in on Motherkind.co. Are you ready to find freedom from guilt? Let me help you find Freedom from Perfectionism if you are a mother who has ever felt not quite enough. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Could you have post-pandemic depletion? This week’s guest says that living through the stress and uncertainty from the pandemic has probably had a far greater impact on us than we realise. And we need to take a moment to process it before diving back into the busyness of life Amy Taylor-Kabbaz is a matrescence activist, author, and journalist. She is also the author of the amazing book, ‘Mama Rising: Discovering the New You Through Motherhood’ . She came on the podcast back in 2020. I received so many messages about that episode so I’m absolutely thrilled that Amy is back talking about this important and underrecognized event we have all been through. I hope this episode offers you tons of validation and support. Please share it with your mum-friends who you feel should hear this. Be that person empowering, uplifting and inspiring other people and help me to do that too. Let’s keep sharing this wisdom and get more and more of these messages out to the people who need it. Resources from this episode: Head over to her website Follow Amy over on Facebook As always, we continue the conversation over on Instagram, so come and join us there. Sponsor - Athletic Greens My sponsor this week is a product I use every day - Athletic Greens. My motto is ‘I can only be the mother I want to be when I look after myself too’ and taking Athletic Greens each morning for my health reminds me of that. We are grateful to Athletic Greens for sponsoring this episode of the Motherkind podcast. With 75 whole food-sourced ingredients designed to optimize 5 key areas of health, AG1 is the delicious daily habit that sets you up for a healthy future. Invest in your health without compromise! Visit https://athleticgreens.com/motherkind to get a FREE year supply of Vitamin D ​AND​ 5 free travel packs​ with your first purchase. Sponsor - Skillshare Explore your creativity at skillshare.com/motherkind and get a one-month free trial. Go to skillshare.com/motherkind and click on the Motherkind banner or use the code MOTHERKIND at checkout. GROUP COACHING PROGRAMME - STARTS 11TH OF MAY 2022 Our next round of group coaching starts on the 11th of May. If you want to be coached by me and feel like now is your time. I'd love for you to join us. It is a small group of 10 who come together for 8 weeks led by me to explore topics like boundaries, energy, values journaling and much more. It is going to help you find clarity, connection and community. Head to motherkind.co for more information. FREEBIE! Find out how you can take control of your life, reconnect to you and more! Download ‘10 Ways to Reconnect to You’ and our weekly and monthly check-in on Motherkind.co. Are you ready to find freedom from guilt? Let me help you find Freedom from Perfectionism if you are a mother who has ever felt not quite enough. About Amy Taylor-Kabbaz Amy Taylor-Kabbaz is a journalist, researcher, author, coach and mother. She focuses on empowering women and understanding motherhood. Amy is known for her work on matrescence and the transition that women go through as a mother. Her latest book, ‘Mama Rising: Discovering the New You Through Motherhood’, was released in December through Hay House. To learn more about Amy and her work, head over to her website or follow Amy over on Facebook. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Welcome back to Motherkind Moment. Moment is your place on a Monday for calm and connection and maybe even a shift in perspective before the week ahead. This week’s moment is with Josh Connelly. A mental health expert that I spoke to back in November 2020. Josh shares why we only need to get it right 30% of the time and what getting it right looks like to him. I hope you enjoy this moment. Listen to the full episode here. ABOUT JOSH CONNELLY Josh Connolly is a coach, a speaker and one of the most influential advocates for mental health in the UK. He is a father of four children, and he speaks about his healing and parenting journey to inspire and empower other parents to become more self-aware, healthy and resilient. To find out more about Josh, you can visit his website. You can also find him on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, LinkedIn and YouTube. FREEBIES! Find out how you can take control of your life, reconnect to you, and more! Download ‘10 Ways to Reconnect to You’ and our weekly and monthly check-in on Motherkind.co. Are you ready to find freedom from guilt? Let me help you find Freedom from Perfectionism if you are a mother who has ever felt not quite enough. SPONSOR - SKILLSHARE I want to thank Skillshare for sponsoring this Motherkind Moment. Explore your creativity at skillshare.com/motherkind and get a one-month free trial. Go to skillshare.com/motherkind and click on the Motherkind banner or use the code MOTHERKIND at checkout. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Welcome to this very special Mother‘s Days episode. This Sunday the 27th of March is UK Mother’s Day and I was thinking about what I wanted to give all the mothers who listen to this podcast. Then I realised I have 100s of gifts for you because at the end of every podcast I ask each guest to give you all a gift. I ask: What is the one gift you would give to all the mothers in the world and why? I love this question and I love the answers even more. This is such a special episode. It’s a compilation of some of the favourite gifts we’ve been given over the years. It features a collection of your most loved guests - Dr. Gabor Mate, Dr. Shefali, Glennon Doyle, Sarah Ockwell-Smith, Eve Rodsky, and Dr. Nicole LePera. I’ve got to be honest with you, I cried so many times creating this episode for you. I genuinely wish that every mother in the world could have the gift of listening to these wise kind wise words from our guests. If you want to give something special to the mothers in your life, please do share this episode with five mums. Never has there been a more important time for us mothers to realise the incredible, important and often uncelebrated job that we do. Please help me to help celebrate ourselves by sharing this. One last favour from me, as you listen to this please do take these gifts into your heart and remember this Mother’s Day how incredible you are. #WEAREMOTHERKIND HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY - From Zoe + the Motherkind team As always, we continue the conversation over on Instagram, so come and join us there. FREEBIE! Find out how you can take control of your life, reconnect to you and more! Download ‘10 Ways to Reconnect to You’ and our weekly and monthly check-in on Motherkind.co. Are you ready to find freedom from guilt? Let me help you find Freedom from Perfectionism if you are a mother who has ever felt not quite enough. Come follow Motherkind on Instagram for tips and announcements. THIS WEEK’S SPONSORS FRAUPOW PORTABLE BREAST PUMP We are grateful for this week’s sponsor - Fraupow. Portable breast pumps are brilliant. They are convenient, fuss-free and allow us to get on with whatever we need to do handsfree. The Fraupow pump tucks into your bra so you can pump and go with no wires. It has 12 comfort levels and a capacity for 180 ml of milk. At a competitive price point, it is about £150 cheaper than the other leading pumps. Fraupow also offers a totally free chat live every Friday for advice with a professional mid-wife. Listeners can get 10% off the Fraupow breast pump at www.fraupow.com with the code MOTHERKIND10. Ts & Cs - MOTHERKIND10 offer code valid until the end of March, 2022. Not to be used in conjunction with any other offer. Code only valid at www.fraupow.com. Discount applies to products only. SKILLSHARE Explore your creativity at skillshare.com/motherkind and get a one-month free trial. Go to skillshare.com/motherkind and click on the Motherkind banner or use the code MOTHERKIND at checkout. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Welcome back to Motherkind Moment. Moment is your place on a Monday for calm and connection and maybe even a shift in perspective before the week ahead. This week’s moment is with the incredible Alexi Panos. She is a master coach and trainer and has achieved incredible things throughout her career. She is also a mum of four. In this clip, I ask her about motherhood and the ambition, presence and tension she feels. It is something I think about all the time. How do I be in the world and in their world? I hope this clip gives you food for thought. What does this look like for you and how do you grapple with this for yourself? I'd love to know your thoughts as it is something I still think about. Listen to the full episode here. ABOUT ALEXI PANOS Alexi is a leadership and embodiment trainer in The Bridge Method workshops (which she co founded and developed with her husband Preston Smiles), host of the Top 10 Self Improvement Podcast UNLEASHED, business strategist, artist and humanitarian (through her organizations E.P.I.C.); and as a bestseller, Alexi has authored the books 50 WAYS TO YAY! and NOW OR NEVER You can find out more about Alexi and her work via her website. You can also connect with her on Facebook, You Tube and Instagram. FREEBIES! Find out how you can take control of your life, reconnect to you, and more! Download ‘10 Ways to Reconnect to You’ and our weekly and monthly check-in on Motherkind.co. Are you ready to find freedom from guilt? Let me help you find Freedom from Perfectionism if you are a mother who has ever felt not quite enough. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Welcome to this week’s episode of the Motherkind podcast. Thank you for being here and pressing play. This week's episode of the Motherkind podcast is about transformation and how possible it is no matter what you have been through or are going through to create the life you want. Not only for yourself but also for your children. I’m speaking with trauma expert Dr. Sarah Woodhouse, and we dig into trauma and how we heal from it. This is a very deep and real conversation. I hope it informs and inspires you in equal measure. In this episode you’ll learn about: What she learned about herself through a 3-year move to Australia Attachment trauma and anxiety The daily activity of regulating our nervous system and tools for support How do we recognise trauma What is unprocessed trauma "To thrive you have to break free from your past." - Dr. Sarah Woodhouse As always, we continue the conversation over on Instagram, so come and join us there. Resources and links for Sarah: New book: You’re Not Broken - Break free from trauma and reclaim your life by Dr Sarah Woodhouse Course starting soon: The freedom process Instagram Peter Levine - Healing trauma Internal family systems EMDR Therapy FREEBIE! Find out how you can take control of your life, reconnect to you and more! Download ‘10 Ways to Reconnect to You’ and our weekly and monthly check-in on Motherkind.co. Are you ready to find freedom from guilt? Let me help you find Freedom from Perfectionism if you are a mother who has ever felt not quite enough. Come follow Motherkind on Instagram for tips and announcements or just to reach out and say hi. About Dr. Sarah Woodhouse Dr Sarah Woodhouse is a trauma specialist, research psychologist, author, coach and creator of The Freedom ProcessTM - a transformative program designed to help people break free from childhood trauma and reconnect to their power and potential. She has just moved permanently back to the UK, after three years working and living in Australia with her husband and three young children. Before moving to Australia, Sarah spent a decade researching how different ways of thinking and interacting with other people can prolong trauma symptoms. Her research was funded by the UK’s Medical Research Council. In her current work, Sarah sees individual clients, helping them understand how their own childhood trauma is still affecting their life today, and supporting them to work through the eight steps of The Freedom ProcessTM. She also continues to research trauma for her next book. THIS WEEK’S SPONSOR - FRAUPOW PORTABLE BREAST PUMP Listeners can get 10% off the Fraupow breast pump at www.fraupow.com with the code MOTHERKIND10. We are grateful for this week’s sponsor - Fraupow. Portable breast pumps are brilliant. They are convenient, fuss-free and allow us to get on with whatever we need to do handsfree. The Fraupow pump tucks into your bra so you can pump and go with no wires. It has 12 comfort levels and a capacity for 180 ml of milk. At a competitive price point, it is about £150 cheaper than the other leading pumps. Fraupow also offers a totally free chat live every Friday for advice with a professional mid-wife. Ts & Cs - MOTHERKIND10 offer code valid until the end of March, 2022. Not to be used in conjunction with any other offer. Code only valid at www.fraupow.com. Discount applies to products only. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Welcome back to Motherkind Moment. Moment is your place on a Monday for calm and connection and maybe even a shift in perspective before the week ahead. Today’s Moment is a really emotional clip from an incredible conversation I had with Candice Brathwaite back in 2020. Candice shares about the boundaries she has had to set for herself. She also talks about how lonely it can be standing in your power, but how she couldn’t imagine it any other way. Listen to the full episode here. ABOUT CANDICE BRATHWAITE Candice Brathwaite is an influencer, blogger and author. She is also the founder of Make Motherhood Diverse, an online initiative aiming to encourage an accurate and diverse depiction of motherhood in the media. You can reach Candice through her website and Twitter. You can learn more about Make Motherhood Diverse on their website and follow them on Instagram GROUP COACHING PROGRAMME - STARTS 16TH OF MARCH 2022 Our next round of group coaching starts on the 16th of March. I cannot wait. It is one of my absolute favourite things to do that brings our community together. If you want to be coached by me and feel like now is your time. I'd love for you to join us. It is a small group of 10 who come together for 5 weeks led by me to explore topics like boundaries, energy, values journaling and much more. It is going to help you find clarity, connection and community. Head to motherkind.co for more information. FREEBIES! Find out how you can take control of your life, reconnect to you, and more! Download ‘10 Ways to Reconnect to You’ and our weekly and monthly check-in on Motherkind.co. Are you ready to find freedom from guilt? Let me help you find Freedom from Perfectionism if you are a mother who has ever felt not quite enough. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

I have a special episode for you this week. This week features the incredible and poignant Julia Samuel MBE. She is a psychotherapist and author of several books, such as 'This too shall pass' and her recent book 'Every family has a story.' She asks some brilliant questions: What is it that enables some families to thrive when others fragment? What predicts a family breakdown? What makes a family functional or dysfunctional? Why do our families drive us so mad? Why is there no such thing as the perfect family? I think families are one of the most important, complex, joyful, infuriating, loving, and confusing things in the world. I learned so much from this episode and I know you will too. Please share it with your mum-friends who you feel should hear this. Be that person empowering, uplifting and inspiring other people and help me to do that. Let’s keep sharing this wisdom and get more and more of these messages out to the people who need it. As always, we continue the conversation over on Instagram, so come and join us there. RESOURCES FROM THIS EPISODE: Julia’s new book Every family has a story Website Podcast A living loss Instagram SPONSOR - ATHLETIC GREENS My sponsor this week is a product I use every day - Athletic Greens. My motto is ‘I can only be the mother I want to be when I look after myself too’ and taking Athletic Greens each morning for my health reminds me of that. We are grateful to Athletic Greens for sponsoring this episode of the Motherkind podcast. With 75 whole food sourced ingredients designed to optimize 5 key areas of health, AG1 is the delicious daily habit that sets you up for a healthy future. Invest in your health without compromise! Visit https://athleticgreens.com/motherkind to get a FREE year supply of Vitamin D AND 5 free travel packs with your first purchase. GROUP COACHING PROGRAMME - STARTS 16TH OF MARCH 2022 Our next round of group coaching starts on the 16th of March. If you want to be coached by me and feel like now is your time. I'd love for you to join us. It is a small group of 10 who come together for 8 weeks led by me to explore topics like boundaries, energy, values journaling and much more. It is going to help you find clarity, connection and community. Head to motherkind.co for more information. FREEBIE! Find out how you can take control of your life, reconnect to you and more! Download ‘10 Ways to Reconnect to You’ and our weekly and monthly check-in on Motherkind.co. Are you ready to find freedom from guilt? Let me help you find Freedom from Perfectionism if you are a mother who has ever felt not quite enough. Come follow Motherkind on Instagram for tips and announcements. ABOUT JULIA SAMUEL MBE Julia Samuel, MBE, is a leading British psychotherapist and the author of the Sunday Times bestsellers This Too Shall Pass and Grief Works. During the last thirty years, she has worked first for the NHS and then in private practice, and she is Founder Patron of Child Bereavement UK and the Vice President of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy. She features regularly in the national media and has presented the podcasts A Living Loss and Grief Works. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Welcome back to Motherkind Moment. Moment is your place on a Monday for calm and connection and maybe even a shift in perspective before the week ahead. This week’s clip is with the brilliant Eve Rodsky. The author of Fair Play. Eve created a system for families seeking balance, efficiency and more peace in their lives. She calls the system Fair Play. It offers couples a completely new way to divvy up domestic responsibilities. It is one of those game-changing episodes that I got 100s of emails about from our community. In this short clip, Eve talks about how to address the imbalance of domestic duties in our homes and why it is so fundamental for us to address it. Listen to the full episode here. ABOUT EVE RODSKY Eve Rodsky received her BA from the University of Michigan and her JD from Harvard Law School. After working in foundation management at J.P. Morgan, she founded the Philanthropy Advisory Group to advise families and charitable foundations on best practices. In her work with hundreds of families over a decade, she realized that her expertise in family mediation, strategy, and organizational management could be applied to a problem closer to home—a system for couples seeking balance, efficiency, and peace in their lives. Rodsky was raised by a single mother in New York City and now lives in Los Angeles with her husband and their three children. Fair Play is her first book. GROUP COACHING PROGRAMME - STARTS 16TH OF MARCH 2022 Our next round of group coaching starts on the 16th of March. I cannot wait. It is one of my absolute favourite things to do that brings our community together. If you want to be coached by me and feel like now is your time. I'd love for you to join us. It is a small group of 10 who come together for 5 weeks led by me to explore topics like boundaries, energy, values journaling and much more. It is going to help you find clarity, connection and community. Head to motherkind.co for more information. FREEBIES! Find out how you can take control of your life, reconnect to you, and more! Download ‘10 Ways to Reconnect to You’ and our weekly and monthly check-in on Motherkind.co. Are you ready to find freedom from guilt? Let me help you find Freedom from Perfectionism if you are a mother who has ever felt not quite enough. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Welcome to this week’s episode of the Motherkind podcast. Thank you for pressing play and listening. I’m so happy you are here because this episode is going to blow your mind. This conversation is transformational. That is a big statement but I really believe it. You’ll want to listen to it all the way to the end. Sarah Ockwell-Smith is the mother of four children. Following the birth of her first child, she re-trained as an antenatal teacher and birth and postnatal doula. And she has since worked with 1000s of parents over the past 17 years. She is also a prolific author of 12 books, including the Gentle Sleep Book and the Gentle Eating Book. This episode might not be what you think. Sarah vulnerably and honestly shares an incredible shift that has happened to her in the past few years that has totally transformed how she sees parenting and being a parent. In this episode you’ll learn about: Sarah’s transformational wake-up call Why looking at your childhood is the most important thing you can do as a parent Good girl adaptation People pleasing and boundaries What gentle parenting is and isn’t Our powerful exchange about the parenting advice industry Why you don't need another parenting book and what you do need I’m so grateful how honestly Sarah shares with us. Please share it with your mum-friends who you feel should hear this. Be that person empowering, uplifting and inspiring other people and help me to do that. Let’s keep sharing this wisdom and get more and more of these messages out to the people who need it. As always, we continue the conversation over on Instagram, so come and join us there. Resources mentioned in this episode: Gentle Parenting www.gentleparenting.co.uk Blogs at www.sarahockwell-smith.com Website New book How to be a calm parent About Sarah Ockwell-Smith Sarah Ockwell-Smith is the mother of four children. She has a BSc in Psychology and worked for several years in pharmaceutical research and development. Following the birth of her first child, Sarah re-trained as an antenatal teacher and birth and postnatal doula. She has also undertaken training in hypnotherapy and psychotherapy and is a member of the British Sleep Society. Sarah specialises in gentle parenting methods and is co-founder of the Gentle Parenting website www.gentleparenting.co.uk. She also blogs at www.sarahockwell-smith.com. Sarah is the author of twelve parenting books. and frequently writes for magazines and newspapers, and is often called upon as a parenting expert for national television and radio. Sponsor - Athletic Greens My sponsor this week is a product I use every day - Athletic Greens. My motto is ‘I can only be the mother I want to be when I look after myself too’ and taking Athletic Greens each morning for my health reminds me of that. We are grateful to Athletic Greens for sponsoring this episode of the Motherkind podcast. With 75 whole food sourced ingredients designed to optimize 5 key areas of health, AG1 is the delicious daily habit that sets you up for a healthy future. Invest in your health without compromise! Visit https://athleticgreens.com/motherkind to get a FREE year supply of Vitamin D ​AND​ 5 free travel packs​ with your first purchase. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Welcome back to Motherkind Moment. Moment is your place on a Monday for calm and connection and maybe even a shift in perspective before the week ahead. This week’s Moment is from an episode dating back to 2019 with Mastin Kipp. Mastin is a bestselling author and trauma expert. In this clip, he shares why we all get triggered and what to do about it. The words he shares in the clip - love is made in the repair - is something I remember so often when I’ve argued with guy or shouted at the girls. It reminds me that far from those triggers and challenges being something to run from they actually are the greatest opportunity to deepen the love between us and I often remind myself of that. It is so beautiful and so simple. Here is this week’s clip with Mastin Kipp. I hope you enjoy it. Listen to the full episode here. ABOUT MASTIN KIPP Mastin Kipp is a bestselling author and Creator of Functional Life Coaching. He is the author of Claim Your Power and The Daily Love, speaker and creator of Functional Life Coaching for people who are seeking rapid transformation in their lives. He has been recognized as a “thought leader for the next generation” by Oprah Winfrey. http://mastinkipp.com/ GROUP COACHING PROGRAMME - STARTS 16TH OF MARCH 2022 Our next round of group coaching starts on the 16th of March. I cannot wait. It is one of my absolute favourite things to do that brings our community together. If you want to be coached by me and feel like now is your time. I'd love for you to join us. It is a small group of 10 who come together for 5 weeks led by me to explore topics like boundaries, energy, values journaling and much more. It is going to help you find clarity, connection and community. Head to motherkind.co for more information. FREEBIES! Find out how you can take control of your life, reconnect to you, and more! Download ‘10 Ways to Reconnect to You’ and our weekly and monthly check-in on Motherkind.co. Are you ready to find freedom from guilt? Let me help you find Freedom from Perfectionism if you are a mother who has ever felt not quite enough. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Welcome to this week’s episode of the Motherkind podcast. Thank you for being here and pressing play. I am so happy you are here. Cathy Rentzenbrink is the author of the Sunday Times bestseller The Last Act of Love. She also has a new book out called Write It All Down: How to Put Your Life on the Page. I didn’t know Cathy before this conversation and wasn’t sure what to expect. I thought we might have a brilliant conversation about writing and journaling and its power to help us have perspective and insight. We did cover all of that. But, my gosh, this conversation blew me away because it is also so much more than that. I loved it and definitely found a new friend in Cathy. Cathy is so poignant in the way she reflects back on her journey as a mother. Yes, this episode is about writing and journaling and its profound power to support us as we wind through this path of motherhood, but it is mostly about self-compassion. I hope you listen to it and it helps you remember to connect to that kinder voice within you. The part of you that knows you are ok, it’s ok and it’s all going to be ok. IN THIS EPISODE YOU’LL LEARN ABOUT: The power of journaling Her journey as a mother Nurturing self-compassion As always, we continue the conversation over on Instagram, so come and join us there. THIS WEEK’S SPONSOR - FRAUPOW PORTABLE BREAST PUMP We are grateful for this week’s sponsor - Fraupow. Portable breast pumps are brilliant. They are convenient, fuss-free and allow us to get on with whatever we need to do handsfree. The Fraupow pump tucks into your bra so you can pump and go with no wires. It has 12 comfort levels and a capacity for 180 ml of milk. At a competitive price point, it is about £150 cheaper than the other leading pumps. Fraupow also offer a totally free chat live every Friday for advice with a professional mid-wife. Listeners can get 10% off the Fraupow breast pump at www.fraupow.com with the code MOTHERKIND10. Ts & Cs - MOTHERKIND10 offer code valid until the end of March, 2022. Not to be used in conjunction with any other offer. Code only valid at www.fraupow.com. Discount applies to products only. FREEBIE! Find out how you can take control of your life, reconnect to you and more! Download ‘10 Ways to Reconnect to You’ and our weekly and monthly check-in on Motherkind.co. Are you ready to find freedom from guilt? Let me help you find Freedom from Perfectionism if you are a mother who has ever felt not quite enough. Come follow Motherkind on Instagram for tips and announcements or just to reach out and say hi. ABOUT CATHY RENTZENBRINK Cathy Rentzenbrink is also the author of A Manual for Heartache (‘If her first memoir honoured her brother, Rentzenbrink’s slim follow-up honours her recovery….a generous and important addition to an expanding shelf of therapeutic memoirs that help us blunder through modern life’ Sunday Times); Dear Reader: The Comfort and Joy of Books; and Everyone is Still Alive (Her funny, moving, and wise debut novel which explores the deeper realities of marriage and parenthood). RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE: Write Your Memoir Online with Cathy Renzenbrink - YouTube Write It All Down: How to Put Your Life on the Page Website Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Welcome back to Moment. Moment is your place on a Monday for calm and connection and maybe even a shift in perspective before the week ahead. This week’s Moment is with Dr. Caroline Boyd. She is a registered clinical psychologist, writer and mother. She also has a fantastic new book out called the Mindful new mum. This week’s Moment is all about anger and we actually recorded it especially for this week’s Moment. Yes, it’s totally normal for mums to feel anger and in this episode Caroline unpacks what is going on in our brains and bodies when we are angry and, as mothers, understanding the context and triggers and what we can do about them. ABOUT DR CAROLINE BOYD Caroline is a Chartered Clinical Psychologist, HCPC registered, with nearly 10 years’ experience working in the NHS. She specialises in supporting parents perinatally - from pregnancy to childbirth and all aspects of the transition to parenthood. Birthing a new identity as a mum can be as demanding as birthing a baby – whether it’s your first or fifth. We know that dads can really struggle too. She offers a safe, non-judgmental space for you to make sense of changes to your multiple, intersecting identities. So you can honour and accept the kind of mum or dad YOU want to be. GROUP COACHING PROGRAMME - STARTS 16TH OF MARCH 2022 Our next round of group coaching starts on the 16th of March. If you want to be coached by me and feel like now is your time. I'd love for you to join us. It is a small group of 10 who come together for 5 weeks led by me to explore topics like boundaries, energy, values journaling and much more. It is going to help you find clarity, connection and community. Head to motherkind.co for more information. FREEBIES! Find out how you can take control of your life, reconnect to you, and more! Download ‘10 Ways to Reconnect to You’ and our weekly and monthly check-in on Motherkind.co. Are you ready to find freedom from guilt? Let me help you find Freedom from Perfectionism if you are a mother who has ever felt not quite enough. Newer Older Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Welcome to this week’s episode of the Motherkind podcast. Thank you for being here and pressing play. This week’s episode is something a bit different. It is with Jessica Urlichs. Jessica is an author and poet who lives in New Zealand with her husband and two young children. I wonder if some of you might have read her words because they often go viral on Instagram. Read one of her poems and you’ll see why. They go to the heart of being a mother. She is the author of 3 poetry books - From one mom to another, All I see is you and My after all. She is also a bestselling author of a the children’s picturebook called A rainbow in my heart. IN THIS EPISODE YOU’LL LEARN ABOUT: How to find inspiration from your innate creativity How a shift in perspective can help you see your children’s challenges differently Boundaries and social media She reads 3 of her favourite poems for us and explains the inspiration behind each of them - I have never heard of her doing this live before This episode is beautiful. I loved speaking with her. And listening to Jessica read these poems felt like a balm to my soul. I really hope her words have the same impact on you. As always, we continue the conversation over on Instagram, so come and join us there. RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE: Website Books Instagram FREEBIE! Find out how you can take control of your life, reconnect to you and more! Download ‘10 Ways to Reconnect to You’ and our weekly and monthly check-in on Motherkind.co. Are you ready to find freedom from guilt? Let me help you find Freedom from Perfectionism if you are a mother who has ever felt not quite enough. Come follow Motherkind on Instagram for tips and announcements or just to reach out and say hi. ABOUT JESSICA URLICHS Jessica Urlichs is a writer and poet. She lives in New Zealand with her husband and two young children. She is the author of three poetry books, 'From One Mom to a Mother', 'All I See Is You' & 'My After All'. As well as a children's picture book on emotions called 'The Rainbow in my Heart'. Shop for these here. She loves blogging and writing down her thoughts and in turn has a beautiful community on Instagram and Facebook of other like-minded mothers who are here for the messy and beautiful truth of motherhood. SPONSOR - FRAUPOW PORTABLE BREAST PUMP We are grateful for this week’s sponsor - Fraupow. Portable breast pumps are brilliant. They are convenient, fuss-free and allow us to get on with whatever we need to do handsfree. The Fraupow pump tucks into your bra so you can pump and go with no wires. It has 12 comfort levels and a capacity for 180 ml of milk. At a competitive price point, it is about £150 cheaper than the other leading pumps. Fraupow also offers a totally free chat live every Friday for advice with a professional mid-wife. Listeners can get 10% off the Fraupow breast pump at www.fraupow.com with the code MOTHERKIND10. Ts & Cs - MOTHERKIND10 offer code valid until the end of March, 2022. Not to be used in conjunction with any other offer. Code only valid at www.fraupow.com. Discount applies to products only. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Welcome back to Moment. Moment is your place on a Monday for calm and connection and maybe even a shift in perspective before the week ahead. This week’s Moment is a clip with Emmy Brunner who is a personal empowerment transformation coach. She is a psychotherapist and CEO of The Recover Clinic and author of an incredible book called Find your true voice. She has more than 21 years of clinical experience. Emmy is an absolute inspiration to me. She has walked the path of transformation and change in her own life and has now helped 1000s of others do the same. She is one of the kindest most compassionate women I know. It was an absolute joy for me to listen back through this episode. The clip that I have chosen is all about choices. My intention with this episode is to remind you that you are deserving of making loving choices for yourself today, this week and evermore. If you did enjoy this clip, have a listen to the full episode. It is pure gold. I recorded in the depths of lockdown in February 2021. I hope you enjoy this Moment and I am wishing you a wonderful week ahead. FREEBIES! Find out how you can take control of your life, reconnect to you, and more! Download ‘10 Ways to Reconnect to You’ and our weekly and monthly check-in on Motherkind.co. Are you ready to find freedom from guilt? Let me help you find Freedom from Perfectionism if you are a mother who has ever felt not quite enough. ABOUT EMMY BRUNNER Emmy Brunner is a Psychotherapist, Personal Empowerment and Transformation Coach, Hypnotherapist, CEO of The Recover Clinic London, Author of Trauma Redefined and Find Your True Voice, Founder of The Brunner Project and Speaker with more than 20 year’s experience in trauma and mental illness, across both the business and clinical worlds. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Welcome to this week’s episode of the Motherkind podcast. I am so happy you are here. Thank you for pressing play and listening. It’s children’s mental health week, 7 - 13 February. In honour of that this week’s episode is about raising emotionally healthy children. Dr. Anne Lane is a clinical psychologist working with children, teens and adults. She has a new book out called Nurture your child’s emotional intelligence: Five steps to help your children cope with big emotions and build resilience. If that isn’t the most important thing in the world, then I don’t know what is. This is an incredible episode and has a wonderfully kind and compassionate energy. Also, coupled with a deep expertise both professionally in her work as a psychologist and personally as a mother of three. You are going to learn so much in this episode and I loved it. In this episode you’ll learn about: Why emotions are contagious and what to do about that How to help both yourself and children put words to emotions How to communicate hard things with our children Why Anne thinks anxiety and depression is on the rise for our children and what we can do as parents early on What I learned most from this episode is that life is incredibly messy and what we need to do is help ourselves and our children be ok with that. Isn’t that what emotional health really is all about? Anne is open, honest and fantastically breaks down questions that I know we all have on our minds. I think you are going to love this one and want to share it. So please do. If there is someone in your life who you think can benefit from this wisdom, please do share it with them across Instagram, Facebook, or where ever you are. Let’s get this incredible information to as many mothers as we can. Here is the episode. I hope you really enjoy it. As always, we continue the conversation over on Instagram, so come and join us there. Resources mentioned in this episode: Website Free excerpt from Her new book Nurture your child’s emotional intelligence Instagram FREEBIE! Find out how you can take control of your life, reconnect to you and more! Download ‘10 Ways to Reconnect to You’ and our weekly and monthly check-in on Motherkind.co. Are you ready to find freedom from guilt? Let me help you find Freedom from Perfectionism if you are a mother who has ever felt not quite enough. Come follow Motherkind on Instagram for tips and announcements. About Dr. Anne Lane Dr Anne Lane is a clinical psychologist and family therapist. For more than 20 years she has worked in mental health – within both the NHS and her own private practice. Dr Lane has taught on clinical psychology doctorate programmes and run countless workshops on mental health, parenting and emotional regulation. She is a lively, passionate communicator who cares deeply about the lives of the adults, families and children she works with. Anne lives in Hertfordshire, UK, with her husband and three children. Sponsor - Athletic Greens My sponsor this week is a product I use every day - Athletic Greens. My motto is 'I can only be the mother I want to be when I look after myself too' and taking Athletic Greens each morning for my health reminds me of that. We are grateful to Athletic Greens for sponsoring this episode of the Motherkind podcast. With 75 whole food sourced ingredients designed to optimize 5 key areas of health, AG1 is the delicious daily habit that sets you up for a healthy future. Invest in your health without compromise! Visit https://athleticgreens.com/motherkind to get a FREE year supply of Vitamin D ​AND​ 5 free travel packs​ with your first purchase. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Welcome back to Moment. Moment is your place for calm and connection and maybe even a shift in perspective before the week ahead. This week’s Moment is about difference. It’s from May 2019 with Elaine Halligan who is the founder of The Parent Practice. She has been a parenting specialist since 2006. Elaine’s story is incredible. He little boy Sam was expelled from school three times by the time he was just 7. So she quit her job in the city and re-trained in positive parenting. She has now helped 1000s of parents totally transform their parenting journey. This is an incredible clip. When I think about difference, I actually feel most children are a little bit different. I hope you find this clip really reassuring, positive and inspiring. I know I did. Please share it or leave me a message on Instagram. You can listen to the full episode here. FREEBIES! Find out how you can take control of your life, reconnect to you, and more! Download ‘10 Ways to Reconnect to You’ and our weekly and monthly check-in on Motherkind.co. Are you ready to find freedom from guilt? Let me help you find Freedom from Perfectionism if you are a mother who has ever felt not quite enough. RESOURCES: Website: https://www.theparentpractice.com/ ABOUT ELAINE HALLIGAN It is Eliane’s mission to create a happier future generation by sharing parenting strategies that will have an authentic impact, transforming challenging children into confident and contented children with my personal style and a positive approach. Sponsor - Athletic Greens My sponsor this week is a product I use every day - Athletic Greens. My motto is I can only be the mother I want to be when I look after myself too and taking Athletic Greens each morning for my health reminds of that. We are grateful to Athletic Greens for sponsoring the Motherkind podcast. With 75 whole food sourced ingredients designed to optimize 5 key areas of health, AG1 is the delicious daily habit that sets you up for a healthy future. Invest in your health without compromise! Visit https://athleticgreens.com/motherkind to get a FREE year supply of Vitamin D ​AND​ 5 free travel packs​ with your first purchase. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Welcome to this episode of the Motherkind podcast. I am so happy you are here. Thank you for pressing play and listening. Do you know the importance of your gut health? Is gut health the key to health and happiness? I hope this episode is going to answer both those questions for you. Before you think, Zoe I'm far too busy to worry about this as well, our guest today, Dr. Megan Rossi, is a new mum herself so everything she shares is practical and achievable. In this episode you’ll learn about: What is gut health? Everything you need to learn about gut health How does someone know if they have a healthy gut or not? The connection between your gut to the rest of your body The guts impact on our mental health Evidence-based strategies to support gut health If we look after our gut, our gut will look after us. - Dr. Megan Rossi Here is the episode. I hope you really enjoy it. As ever, please do share it with someone you want to experience more happiness, better immunity, better sleep and all the benefits of looking after our guts that Dr. Megan shares on this episode. As always, we continue the conversation over on Instagram, so come and join us there. Resources mentioned in this episode: The Gut Health clinic: website Instagram: @theguthealthclinic Eat more, live well: book Score your gut health: 10 question assessment Athleticgreens.com/motherkind to get a FREE year supply of Vitamin D ​AND​ 5 free travel packs​ with your first purchase. FREEBIE! Find out how you can take control of your life, reconnect to you and more! Download ‘10 Ways to Reconnect to You’ and our weekly and monthly check-in on Motherkind.co. Are you ready to find freedom from guilt? Let me help you find Freedom from Perfectionism if you are a mother who has ever felt not quite enough. About Dr. Megan Rossi Dr. Megan Rossi is a registered dietician with an award-winning PhD in gut health. A leading Research Fellow at King’s College London, Dr Rossi is currently investigating nutrition-based therapies in gut health, including pre-and probiotics, dietary fibres, the low FODMAP diet and food additives as well as leading a gut-health clinic on Harley Street. Most recently, Dr Rossi has created a range of products called Bio&Me stocked in all major supermarkets, launched her own online platform Inner Community and regularly appears in the press. Her first book, Eat Yourself Healthy, was an instant Sunday Times bestseller SPONSOR - ATHLETIC GREENS We are grateful to Athletic Greens for sponsoring this episode of the Motherkind podcast. I use it every morning after breakfast with my daughters. With 75 whole food sourced ingredients designed to optimize 5 key areas of health, AG1 is the delicious daily habit that sets you up for a healthy future. Invest in your health without compromise! Visit https://athleticgreens.com/motherkind to get a FREE year supply of Vitamin D ​AND​ 5 free travel packs​ with your first purchase. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Welcome back to Moment. Moment is your place for calm and connection and maybe even a shift in perspective before the week ahead. This week’s Moment is with Joanna Fortune who is a psychotherapist and parenting expert. My intention with this clip is that it gives you permission to do something for you this week. As Joanna so wisely says, I can only be who you need me to be if I take care of myself too. I hope you find this clip helpful, please do share this little nugget of gold with any of your friends you think to deserve to take a moment for themselves too. You can listen to the full episode here. FREEBIES! Find out how you can take control of your life, reconnect to you, and more! Download ‘10 Ways to Reconnect to You’ and our weekly and monthly check-in on Motherkind.co. Are you ready to find freedom from guilt? Let me help you find Freedom from Perfectionism if you are a mother who has ever felt not quite enough. RESOURCES: Joanna on Instagram Her Books to learn more about 15-minute parenting. ABOUT JOANNA FORTUNE Joanna Fortune is a clinical psychotherapist and attachment specialist. She has been working with children and families for over 20 years with a specialisation in child and adolescent psychotherapy. Joanna is a theraplay practitioner and has trained extensively in all areas of attachment work. She works with parents and their children in sessions. You can connect with Joanna on Instagram. You can also buy her books to learn more about 15-minute parenting. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Welcome to this episode of the Motherkind podcast. I am so happy you are here. Thank you for pressing play and listening. This is such a great episode. It is with Jess VanderWier from Our Mama Village. I discovered Jess on Instagram and loved her compassion and her deep experience with families. This is an episode about gentle parenting and we talk about what that means. It’s also about the bigger picture so we are going to dive in together about why we might want to look into our values as parents and have a think about how we are parenting. In our busy lives, from the moment our eyes open to the moment our heads hit the pillow, it can just feel like go go go. It is so easy to forget to maintain perspective and the bigger picture of why your role as a parent is so important and how to navigate all the tricky parts with more grace and ease. I especially loved it when Jess talks about the seasons of parenthood and how to know when is the time to survive, to grit your teeth and get through it, and when is the right time to do that deeper work into what might be coming up for us as we go through the challenges of parenthood. What she shares is absolutely brilliant. IN THIS EPISODE YOU’LL LEARN ABOUT: What is gentle parenting Why we might want to look into our values as parents and have a think about how we are parenting The seasons of parenthood and how to know when to survive or do the deeper work Keeping it all in perspective What does punishment-free parenting look like If you love this episode, copy the link, tag me on social media and please do share it. The podcast has grown so much because you have helped me reach more mums through word of mouth. I have never spent a penny marketing. Be that person amongst your friends who is sharing, supporting and lifting others up with content like this. We all need this right now. If there ever was a time to support mothers, it is now. As always, we continue the conversation over on Instagram, so come and join us there. RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE: Our Mama Village website Instagram: @ourmamavillage FREE Masterclass FREEBIES! Find out how you can take control of your life, reconnect to you and more! Download ‘10 Ways to Reconnect to You’ and our weekly and monthly check-in on Motherkind.co. Are you ready to find freedom from guilt? Let me help you find Freedom from Perfectionism if you are a mother who has ever felt not quite enough. ABOUT JESS VANDERWIER VanderWier is a Registered Psychotherapist who helps families understand and respond to their child’s “big feelings” with gentleness and respect. Jess has a Master’s Degree in Counselling Psychology and has logged thousands of clinical hours supporting parents and their children. Through groups, presentations, and one-on-one clinical sessions Jessica has helps hundreds of parents restore peace to their home. As the founder of Our Mama Village, Jess uses her expertise to support parents through online courses, personalized coaching, and free resources. Our Mama Village offers daily parenting guidance to over 480,000 families on their popular Instagram account. Jess lives in the Niagara Region with her husband Scott and their two daughters (4.5 & 2.5 years old). Whenever she finds the time, Jess loves to be outside in nature, hiking or biking, before refueling with Scott at a quirky hole-in-the-wall restaurant or a fun coffee shop. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Welcome back to Moment. Moment is your place for calm and connection and maybe even a shift in perspective before the week ahead. Thank you for being here and hitting that play button. I have chosen this clip today because I needed to hear it. It’s with Mel Wells. She is a best-selling author and eating psychology and woman’s leadership coach. In this clip, Mel explains how to shift your relationship with your body to focus not entirely on what it looks like but on how it feels as well. Did you know the average woman will be exposed to around 5,000 advertising messages a day? Isn’t that crazy. Many of those, of course, will be about how we should look and what we should buy in order to ‘look better’. So it’s no wonder if, like me right now, you might not be feeling confident about how you look. I’ve chosen these words for us today to be a powerful reminder for me and for you that you are absolutely beautiful whatever you like. Here it is and please do share it if there is another mum in your life that you that could benefit from this shift in perspective today. You can listen to the full episode here. FREEBIES! Find out how you can take control of your life, reconnect to you, and more! Download ‘10 Ways to Reconnect to You’ and our weekly and monthly check-in on Motherkind.co. Are you ready to find freedom from guilt? Let me help you find Freedom from Perfectionism if you are a mother who has ever felt not quite enough. RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE: Mel Wells website Instagram @Iammelwells ABOUT MEL WELLS Mel share tools, practices and techniques to help women fall madly in love with themselves, and to connect deeply to their bodies, their souls, and their inherent feminine wisdom. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

I am so excited about this episode. This week’s guest, Dr. Sophie Brock, says that to connect to the authenticity of who we are we first have to deconstruct who the world expects us to be. Isn’t that so powerful? Dr. Sophie Brock literally has a PhD in motherhood. She is a motherhood studies sociologist. This episode is such a brilliant follow-on to last week’s episode with Dr. Rick Hanson. If you haven’t listened to that one please do after you listen to Sophie’s. I feel like this episode is so powerful. It does something really important, which is to put your individual experience of being a mother and all the challenges that come with that into the wider societal context. Essentially revealing what it means to be a mother in the world today. If you have ever felt mum guilt, this episode is going to help you so much. It’s going to help you feel freer, lighter and more self-compassion for your incredible role as a mother. Sophie explains that so much of the tension in motherhood actually comes from society and what it expects from us. In this episode you’ll learn about: What it means to be a mother in this world Where the tension and guilt of motherhood comes from Why you feel so guilty all the time How we can free ourselves from that guilt If you love this episode, copy the link, and please share it. Be that person amongst your friends who is sharing, supporting and lifting others up with content like this. We all need this right now. If there ever was a time to support mothers, it is now. I would be so grateful if you would help me spread the incredible wisdom of the guests we have on the podcast. As always, we continue the conversation over on Instagram, so come and join us there. Resources mentioned in this episode: https://drsophiebrock.com/ @drsophiebrock on Instagram and Facebook FREEBIES! Find out how you can take control of your life, reconnect to you and more! Download ‘10 Ways to Reconnect to You’ and our weekly and monthly check-in on Motherkind.co. Are you ready to find freedom from guilt? Let me help you find Freedom from Perfectionism if you are a mother who has ever felt not quite enough. About Dr. Sophie Brock Dr. Sophie Brock is a Motherhood Studies Sociologist and Mother living in Sydney, Australia. She provides analysis of Motherhood in our culture, exploring the ways individual experiences of Mothers are shaped by broader social constructs. Sophie supports professionals, business owners and creatives in revolutionising what Motherhood means in our society, and how individual Mothers are supported and understood. Sophie’s offerings include self-study courses for Mothers and practitioners, her podcast The Good Enough Mother, and her Motherhood Studies Practitioner Certification program. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Welcome back to Moment. Moment is your place for calm and connection and maybe even a shift in perspective before the week ahead. This week’s moment is with Philippa Perry who many of you know and love. She wrote that incredible book - The Book You Wish Your Parents Had Read This clip is so powerful. In it, she shares the truth about feelings, especially anger, and why it is vital for us parents to be able to feel our own feelings so then we can help our children do it. As we often talk about on the podcast, being able to connect to our feelings and help our children do that is the foundation for emotional health which we know is a massive indicator of how happy we are in our lives. I hope this episode is inspiring and helps you have an easier week ahead. You can listen to the full episode here. FREEBIES! Find out how you can take control of your life, reconnect to you, and more! Download ‘10 Ways to Reconnect to You’ and our weekly and monthly check-in on Motherkind.co. Are you ready to find freedom from guilt? Let me help you find Freedom from Perfectionism if you are a mother who has ever felt not quite enough. GROUP COACHING PROGRAMME STARTS 19 JANUARY 2022 - Will you join us for Reconnect to you - the reboot? Click here to find out more and to register. RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE: The Book You Wish Your Parents Had Read (and Your Children Will Be Glad That You Did) Couch Fiction: A graphic tale of psychotherapy ABOUT PHILIPPA PERRY After volunteering with the Samaritans, Philippa trained as a psychotherapist. She worked in the mental health field for several years before writing her graphic novel, Couch Fiction which lays bare the process of psychotherapy. Her recent book, The Book You Wish Your Parents Had Read (and Your Children Will Be Glad That You Did), was a Number One Sunday Times bestseller. As well as continuing her psychotherapy work with an organisation called Talk for Health, Philippa is also an agony aunt for Red Magazine and contributes to The Guardian newspaper. She has presented several documentaries including The Truth about Children Who Lie for BBC Radio 4, Being Bipolar for Channel 4 and How To Be A Surrealist with Philippa Perry for BBC Four. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Welcome to this episode of the Motherkind podcast. First of all, let me ask you a question, are you kind enough to yourself about how hard it is to be a mother today? Do you even truly recognise the day-to-day pressures with are all under? My guest this week is Dr. Rick Hanson. He is one of the world’s leading psychologists and he says it’s imperative we recognise the pressures we are under as mothers so we can support ourselves and ask for the support we need from others. Dr. Rick, back in 2002, wrote the seminal book, Mother Nurture. Because he saw his own wife, a happy healthy woman, becoming clinically depleted after having children. And with his decades of experience as a psychologist, he felt called to support mothers. This episode is incredible. Every word Dr. Rick says is like gold. You are going to finish this episode feeling so much more self-compassion and ease and hopefully be kinder to yourself. In this episode you’ll learn about: Practical ideas of how to reduce stress from Motherhood An analogy that made me cry His life-changing words about the impact of the pandemic As you might know if you are a regular listener of the podcast, I have a list on my desk of dream guests that I want on my podcast. And as of today, after being on that list for a while, I get to finally tick off Dr. Rick Hanson. This episode with Dr. Rick is incredible. Please share it and listen to it once, even twice. I think if all mothers could listen to this episode it would be nothing short of life-changing. "The very best thing we can do for all of our children and the future of humanity is to take good care of their mothers." - Dr. Rick Hanson As always, we continue the conversation over on Instagram, so come and join us there. Resources mentioned in this episode: Free weekly newsletter Book Mother Nurture Website FREEBIES! Find out how you can take control of your life, reconnect to you and more! Download ‘10 Ways to Reconnect to You’ and our weekly and monthly check-in on Motherkind.co. Are you ready to find freedom from guilt? Let me help you find Freedom from Perfectionism if you are a mother who has ever felt not quite enough. +++ GROUP COACHING PROGRAMME STARTS JANUARY 2022 +++ Will you join us for Reconnect to you - the reboot? Click here to find out more and to register. About Dr. Rick Hanson Rick Hanson, Ph.D., is a psychologist, Senior Fellow of the Greater Good Science Center at UC Berkeley, and New York Times best-selling author. His books have been published in 30 languages and include Neurodharma, Resilient, Hardwiring Happiness, Buddha’s Brain, Just One Thing, and Mother Nurture – with 900,000 copies in English alone. His free weekly newsletter has 220,000 subscribers and his online programs have scholarships available for those with financial needs. He’s lectured at NASA, Google, Oxford, and Harvard, and taught in meditation centers worldwide. An expert on positive neuroplasticity, his work has been featured on the BBC, CBS, NPR, and other major media. He began meditating in 1974 and is the founder of the Wellspring Institute for Neuroscience and Contemplative Wisdom. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Welcome back to Moment. Moment is your place for calm and connection and maybe even a shift in perspective before the week ahead. I have a treat for you today. This clip is from my episode with Dr. Gordon Neufeld. He co-authored a parenting book with my all-time favourite Dr. Gabor Mate. He is one of the world’s leading child psychologists and has been for over 40 years. This clip is like a motivational speech. I have listened to it so many times, and sometimes I listen to the bit in this clip when I’m feeling unsure or uncertain about myself. It makes me feel so empowered and confident and I wanted to share that gift with you today. Enjoy. You can listen to the full episode here. FREEBIES! Find out how you can take control of your life, reconnect to you, and more! Download ‘10 Ways to Reconnect to You’ and our weekly and monthly check-in on Motherkind.co. Are you ready to find freedom from guilt? Let me help you find Freedom from Perfectionism if you are a mother who has ever felt not quite enough. GROUP COACHING PROGRAMME STARTS JANUARY 2022 - Will you join us for Reconnect to you - the reboot? Click here to find out more and to register. RESOURCES: Neufeld Institute - website Hold on to your kids - book ABOUT DR. GORDON NEUFELD Before he retired, Dr. Gordon Neufeld had accumulated more than 40 years of experience as a clinical psychologist with children and youth and those responsible for them. A foremost authority on child development, Dr. Neufeld continues to be an international speaker, a best-selling author (Hold On to Your Kids) and a leading interpreter of the developmental paradigm. Dr. Neufeld has a widespread reputation for making sense of complex problems and for opening doors for change. While formerly involved in university teaching and private practice, he has devoted the best part of the last two decades to creating courses for parents, teachers and helping professionals. These courses are offered primarily through the Neufeld Institute – an online educational institute and world-wide charitable organization devoted to applying developmental science to the task of raising children. Dr. Neufeld’s life’s work has been to help adults provide the conditions for children to flourish. He is a father of five and a grandfather to six. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices