Mothering the Mother Podcast
81 episodes - Afar - Latest episode: about 4 years ago - ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsWelcome to Mothering the Mother podcast hosted by Registered Nutritional Therapist, blogger and mother, Alison Barker. Matrescence - the process of becoming a mother, is a deeply transformative experience that is not typically acknowledged as a rite of passage in our western culture. This transformation begins from pre-conception through to the postnatal period, and beyond. Some think it may last a lifetime. Many mothers long for the village in which to raise their children. In this podcast you will hear from mothers, leading experts and those involved in the field of mother-care and women's wellness. It will be a community to connect with, nourish and support mothers to bring about change mother to mother family to family. For more information you can find Alison at www.alisonbarker.com or on Instagram @alison_barker_ or join the Facebook Group Mothering the Mother.
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Episodes
Mother magazine Isabella & Us with Emma Cottam
September 05, 2019 04:43 - 47 minutes - 44.2 MBAbout Emma Emma is a speaker, writer, editor and designer promoting positivity with the Winning as a Mummy® movement through campaigns, the Positive Wellbeing Zine for Mums and the Positive Wellbeing Podcast for Mums. Episode highlights How Isabella & Us started Emma’s journey into motherhood How the magazine has given Emma a sense of purpose Emma’s vision for the brand How motherhood has given Emma the impetus to do more than she ever imagined The importance of Emma’s support ...
Postpartum Depletion with Dr Oscar Serrallach
August 30, 2019 07:40 - 58 minutes - 54.4 MBAbout Oscar Dr Oscar Serrallach graduated with a medical degree (MBChB) from the Auckland School of Medicine, New Zealand in 1996. He received his fellowship of Family Medicine and General Practice in 2008 and is currently completing a Fellowship in Nutritional and Environmental Medicine. He is the owner and principal doctor at the Mullumbimby Integrative Medical Centre based in Northern NSW Australia, which he has been running since 2011. Episode highlights The famous GOOP article. Wh...
Maternal care for black women with Mars Lord
August 23, 2019 07:00 - 44 minutes - 39.7 MBAbout Mars Lord Mars Lord is passionate about birth and about women having and making informed choices. She became a doula because believed that birth is a wonderful thing and can be a wonderful time. As a mother of 5 (including twins) she know that even when it doesn’t seem to go the way that we want it to, it can still be an incredible experience. It should be your incredible experience. Mars has a special place in my heart for clients who: • Love a good glass of red and a great meal...
Post Baby Body and Body Confidence with Wendy Powell
August 16, 2019 07:00 - 49 minutes - 47 MBAbout Wendy Wendy Powell is a globally recognised leading voice offering education and inspiration on postnatal issues and body confidence. Certified postnatal specialist, international speaker, award winning entrepreneur, author and teacher, she is founder and Director of world best-selling online programme MUTU® System and accredited education provider MUTU Pro. MUTU is trusted by more than 54,000 women and is recommended by medical health professionals around the world. After more...
Hypnobirthing, Flexible working and Minimalism with Emiliana Hall
August 08, 2019 21:50 - 44 minutes - 40.4 MBAbout Emiliana Emiliana is the founder of The Mindful Birth Group®, mama to Mollie and Theo and married to James. They are an adventure-loving family and travel is one of their favourite things to do together. So much so that she recently had a van converted into a campervan to make seeing the world that bit easier. Emiliana has started teaching parents all around Europe when they are on trips, so she feels very fortunate to be able to mix her passions together. Emiliana’s journey with h...
Yoga Nidra - Rest Revolution with Karen Brody
August 02, 2019 07:36 - 50 minutes - 46.4 MBAbout Karen Karen Brody is a mother, women’s health advocate and founder of Daring to Rest.com, a global movement to help individuals rise up rested and create a well-rested world. She is the author of the book, DARING TO REST: Reclaim Your Power with Yoga Nidra Rest Meditation. Karen has written for Yoga Journal, MindBodyGreen, Best Self Magazine, and hosts the Daring to Rest podcast. Her book, DARING TO REST, has been called a “masterpiece,” “simply brilliant,” and a 40-day program tha...
Yoga for postpartum recovery with Juliet Lundholm
July 26, 2019 09:07 - 48 minutes - 25.3 MBAbout Juliet Juliet is a mother of 2 beautiful children and teaches alignment based Hatha Yoga from her home studio in South Norwood as well as working with other venues across London. Juliet trained under the highly acclaimed Triyoga teacher training programme with leading teachers Anna Ashby and Joey Miles, she is also a member of the British Wheel of Yoga and Yoga Alliance and has been practicing for over a decade. Juliet was first drawn to yoga amidst a challenging time in her life, ...
Kite - an app for mums with Hannah Hardy-Jones
July 19, 2019 08:32 - 49 minutes - 26.7 MBAbout Hannah Hannah is mum to Alice and Henry and lives with her husband Nick in Christchurch, New Zealand. She has worked in Human Resources for the past 13 years, within the health, media and manufacturing/design industries. She has a Bachelor of Arts (majoring in Psychology) and a PG Dip in Human Resources Management. When Hannah became a Mum, she was amazed to learn that there were very few solutions for dealing with some of the everyday challenges that being a mother presented. She ...
Ayurvedic approach to nourishing the new mother and the story of Dadima's
May 19, 2019 22:31 - 59 minutes - 60.8 MBAbout Dadima’s - Anni and Getta Anneeka - also known as Anni - is behind the dadima's brand and the Dadima’s cookbook . In 2015, Anni started research for her book. Anni’s quest was to gather culinary wisdom from wise grandmothers (or dadimas) around the UK, and then share this knowledge for all to benefit. Anni says she chose to learn from those grandmothers who had been cooking traditional, timeless, recipes, with love, for years – just like my own dadima. Anni talks of her Dadima: “...
Matrescence and motherhood as a spiritual journey with Aurelie Athan
May 11, 2019 21:56 - 1 hour - 60.6 MBAbout Aurelie Athan Today I am talking to Aurelie Athan who is a full-time lecturer and program Coordinator of the Masters Program in the Department of Clinical Psychology at Teachers College, Columbia University where she revives the term matrescence through education, theory, and practice. Aurelie’s courses and certificate program are firsts in Reproductive Psychology. She studies mothers' development holistically, both their thriving and distress, to normalise the transition to mothe...
Birth Trauma with Dr Rebecca Moore
May 08, 2019 08:33 - 52 minutes - 28.5 MBAbout Dr. Rebecca Moore Dr. Moore is a renowned Perinatal Psychiatrist working in London. With over 20 years of clinical experience working with women during pregnancy and the postpartum period. Dr. Rebecca Moore specialises in working with women with depression, anxiety, birth trauma or PTSD, OCD and psychosis. Dr. Moore also works with women with PMDD and through the menopause or through Infertility. Dr. Moore’s focus is to provide high quality compassionate, collaborative care for women...
Doing less and Cyclical Living with Kate Northrup
April 28, 2019 20:42 - 40 minutes - 22.2 MBAbout Kate Northrup As an entrepreneur, bestselling author, speaker, and mother, Kate Northrup has built a multimedia digital empire with her husband, Mike Watts, that reaches hundreds of thousands globally. They are committed to supporting ambitious women to light up the world without burning themselves out in the process. Kate teaches data-driven and soul-driven time and energy management practices that result in saving time, making more money, and experiencing less stress. Kate has a me...
New Motherdom Magazine with Anna Ceesay
April 15, 2019 22:44 - 36 minutes - 35.3 MBAbout Anna Anna is the founder of Motherdom magazine. Anna is a former BBC journalist and a mum-of-two with personal experience of maternal mental health issues. (Anna’s daughter is nearly 6 and my son is 2 at the time of the Podcast going live). Anna experienced low mood and anxiety during her second pregnancy. She realised that the information out there about parents’ mental wellbeing was still quite fragmented and wanted to create a space to put it all together. Anna wanted to share...
Postpartum - The Golden Month with Jenny Allison
April 06, 2019 20:44 - 48 minutes - 44.3 MBAbout Jenny Allison Jenny is an acupuncturist and teacher based in New Zealand who has spent a decade researching her book, The Golden Month. The book aims to debunk the anxiety-inducing myth of the perfect postpartum body. It focuses on a mother’s long-term well-being, looking at both mental and physical health. Golden Month also explains the importance of nutrition and includes nutrient-dense recipes to ensure optimum recovery during the postnatal period. Episode highlights Golden M...
Motherhood and Relationships with Molly Millwood Ph.D
March 29, 2019 23:00 - 53 minutes - 31.1 MBAbout Molly Millwood Ph.D Molly is a licensed psychologist-doctorate with a Ph.D. in clinical psychology. She has 21 years of experience as a therapist and have been in private practice in Vermont for 14 years. She is also an associate professor at Saint Michael's College, where she teaches in both the undergraduate psychology and graduate clinical psychology programs and engage in research and scholarly writing related to her areas of expertise: psychotherapy, psychological distress and ...
Second Babies and Gentle Eating approach with Sarah Ockwell Smith
March 22, 2019 20:31 - 47 minutes - 27.3 MBSarah Ockwell-Smith Sarah Ockwell-Smith is a well known parenting expert and a highly regarded popular parenting author who specialises in the psychology and science of parenting, ‘gentle parenting’ and attachment theory. Born in Bedfordshire, England in 1976, Sarah Ockwell-Smith is a mother of four school aged children, three boys and one girl. Sarah lives with her family, cats and numerous ducks and chickens in a 350 year old cottage in rural Essex. After graduating with an honors de...
Pursuing adventures and motherhood with Beth French
March 08, 2019 07:52 - 46 minutes - 24.9 MBAbout Beth French Beth French is an ultra-marathon swimmer and environmentalist and is an inspiration to anyone who wants to achieve their dreams. Beth was struck with glandular fever at 10 and didn’t fully recover- her adolescence being marred by periods of immune dysfunction and exhaustion. It was not until she was 17 and wheelchair bound that she was diagnosed with ME. Beth now lives without symptoms and spent years regaining trust in her body and her ability to challenge herself. S...
Episode 14 - EFT Tapping with Sharon King
March 01, 2019 10:52 - 1 hour - 50.9 MBTRIGGER WARNING: We discuss birth trauma in this Episode so please consider whether you are in a space where you are able to hear this. The topics discussed are not intended to place any judgment, shame or guilt for past choices you have made - the Mary Angelou quote captures it well " Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better." MAYA ANGELOU. We are all on a journey of self discovery and doing the very best we can at any given moment. Please be gentl...
Using Instagram in an authentic way with Sara Tasker
February 22, 2019 22:30 - 52 minutes - 31.6 MBAbout Sara Tasker Sara Tasker is a photographer, writer and creative coach - she is the creator of Me & Orla and an author to the recently released book, Hashtag Authentic. Sara left her NHS day job to turn her internet passion into a business. She travels the world for speaking work, runs a multiple six-figure business and helps other creatives. She was awarded runner up for Natwest’s Creative Entrepreneur of the Year Award, and won Content of the Year in the Cosmopolitan Influencer...
10 of Zen with Nikki Wilson
February 15, 2019 07:55 - 47 minutes - 27.1 MB*****TRIGGER WARNING ***** - we talk about Nikki's traumatic start to motherhood at the beginning of the Podcast. About Nikki Nikki left her job as CEO at the London-based charity Wings for Life UK to set up 10 of zen. She also began to explore the role of meditation in her life, finding inspiration in Raja Yoga Meditation and the practitioners Thich Nhat Hanh, Tara Brach, Mark Williams and Kristin Neff. Her commitment to a regular 10-minute daily meditation practice started when she b...
Vaginal steaming in postpartum with Keli Garza
February 09, 2019 09:24 - 55 minutes - 51.6 MBThis episode is for information purposes and does not constitute advice. Please speak to your medical provider before trying vaginal steaming. For the avoidance of doubt, it should absolutely in certain circumstances including when pregnant or when taking certain contraceptives - this is discussed in the Podcast and other contraindications are set out on Keli’s website although this may not be exhaustive. About Keli Keli Garza has a Masters degree in International Development graduating...
Postpartum depression and disordered eating with Stefani Reinold
February 01, 2019 07:36 - 50 minutes - 28.3 MBStefani Reinold is a board-certified psychiatrist, maternal mental health expert, and founder of Not the Typical Mom, a lifestyle brand dedicated to helping moms escape the stereotypes, abolish mother guilt, and live their own authentic mom lives. Out of her own suffering from postpartum depression and losing herself as a new mother, she decided to ditch the details of life and reconnect with the most important part of herself, and now helps fellow mothers do the same! Whether through indivi...
Motherhood, Intuition and Spirituality with Dr. Punam Krishan
January 25, 2019 07:00 - 56 minutes - 47.4 MBDr. Punam Krishan is a practising family doctor in Glasgow with a specialist interest in Public health, preventative and lifestyle Medicine. Punam is also a certified mindset coach, an honorary senior clinical lecturer at the University of Glasgow, a freelance writer and most importantly, to her, a mum. Episode highlights Punam’s traumatic birth experience. Punam’s sense that something was not right with her son - he later stopped breathing and was diagnosed with silent reflux. Puna...
Doulas, Postpartum and Breastfeeding with Maddie McMahon
January 18, 2019 07:00 - 47 minutes - 39.7 MBEpisode Highlights: Maddie McMahon's work as a Doula – providing social support for mums. Maddie has supported over 120 births and over 100s of postpartum since 2013 – she sees it as a profound and fulfilling role Such a beautiful community, amazing and nurturing, sisterhood We discuss how Maddie ensures she looks after her own self care – certain amount just reflecting and learning through the job. Everyone has certain limits, need to understand – what are the boundary and rules She ta...
Minimalism and Delcuttering as a Mother with Beth Henson
January 11, 2019 06:48 - 42 minutes - 35.8 MBBeth Henson is a home schooling mother of 2 who has embarked on a journey of minimalism in her family life and home. She has started a blog to document her journey. Beth talks about her journey into minimalism as a mother. Taken from her blog: “Two years ago, spurred on by an endless desire to gain more time with my family and for myself, I made the decision to simplify our lives. This in turn led to getting rid of 80% of our belongings and finding a better version of us. The us th...
Baby Brain - Changes to the Maternal Brain with Jodi Pawluski
January 04, 2019 07:00 - 45 minutes - 38.2 MBJodi Pawluski is: a researcher at the university of Rennes 1 Editorial Board member - Archives of Women's Mental Health @AWMH_Journal. Co-organizer Parental Brain Meeting 2018 Fellow International Behavioral Neuroscience Society • www.ibnsconnect.org@IBNSConnect Episode highlights: We discuss: Changes to the maternal brain known as neuroplasticity. Functional MRI studies that show the changes in the maternal brain. We discuss the common references to “baby brain” or “porridge br...
Self Care with Suzy Reading
December 28, 2018 07:00 - 43 minutes - 36.8 MBSuzy is a mother of two, a Chartered Psychologist, Yoga Teacher, and Health Coach. She specialises in self-care, helping people manage their stress, emotions, and energetic bank balance. It was her life experience of motherhood colliding with the terminal illness of her father that sparked her passion for self-care which she now teaches to her clients. Suzy is a contributing editor for Psychologies Magazine and the Psychology Expert for wellbeing brand Neom Organics. She grew up in Sydney...
Matrescence - The Transition Into Motherhood with Dr. Alexandra Sacks
December 21, 2018 04:21 - 42 minutes - 36.1 MBDr. Alexandra Sacks M.D. is a reproductive psychiatrist whose matrescence TED Talk has gone viral. Her coauthored book, What No One Tells You: A Guide to Your Emotions from Pregnancy to Motherhood can be preordered now, with a due date for April 2019. The Birth of a Mother article by Dr. Sacks was the number one most read piece of 2017 for the “Well Family” section of the New York Times. Episode highlights: Dr. Sacks noticed a pattern where women who thought they had postnatal depress...
Postpartum Real Talk and an Awakened Pregnancy
December 09, 2018 22:54 - 38 minutes - 32.9 MBDr. Sterling is an OB/GYN practicing in San Diego, California, and combines her passion for taking care of women with her drive to understand the mysteries of the brain and the mind-body connection. Dr. Sterling has been meditating since childhood and, over the last decade, has studied Buddhist, Transcendental and Mindfulness techniques. She is an expert in the cutting-edge science of the brain as well as the ancient Eastern philosophies of the mind. Her background in neuroscience and me...
Women Dismissed and Misdiagnosed
December 09, 2018 22:54 - 38 minutes - 54.9 MBMaya Dusenbury is author of the book Doing Harm: The Truth About How Bad Medicine and Lazy Science Leave Women Dismissed, Misdiagnosed, and Sick Maya discusses her findings of a lack of knowledge about women’s health and a lack of trust in their reports of their symptoms where women’s reports are too often disbelieved ― a problem rooted in the history of hysteria – and often passed off as 'all in your head'. We discuss the systemic problems in the medical world from funders, researchers, ...
Nourishing New Mothers in Paris
December 09, 2018 22:53 - 38 minutes - 33 MBSophie Lazarski started Nourish Paris having moved to Paris and had her own children. She recognised the distinct lack of care mothers received in the sacred window after giving birth. Sophie uses her love of cooking to serve women in her community by delivering home cooked, nourishing foods to mothers and their families in the postpartum time. We discuss the qualities of food cooked with love that go beyond simple nutrients, the positive mother-care community in Paris, the web of connecti...