Mothers at Midnight Podcast

Ep 72 Moving Through Heartbreak & Healing Your Life ~ Petrea King

In this week’s episode, we are honoured to share a deep yet uplifting conversation about navigating big life transitions and challenges with the warm and wise Petrea King. Petrea is often described as a leading light in the field of holistic health in Australia.She is the CEO of the Quest for Life Foundation and a well-known author, inspirational speaker, teacher and facilitator. She is also qualified as a naturopath, herbalist, clinical hypnotherapist, yoga and meditation teacher. Petrea...

Mini Ep 71 Countless women birthed before me ~ Marlies Verschoor & Indigo Melrose

A special offering from our hearts to yours. This season’s mini episodes are a 5-part collaboration with Marlies Verschoor, a self-care guide from the Netherlands whose mission is to support people on their path to self-love and connection. Each week Marlies and Indigo will explore how mothers can better care for themselves through loving self-connection. Each mini episode will offer a heart point, a self-share, a world share, a self-care strategy and a meditation.  This week’s offerings: ...

Ep 70 Second Pregnancy: Grief, Loss & Surrender ~ Indigo Melrose

Join us for a tender, raw, and honest conversation about the ups and downs of welcoming a second child into the family. In this episode, Indigo shares her journey as a mother travelling through her second pregnancy. Although Indigo feels deep love for her baby, we also make space for the more taboo and rejected aspects of her pregnancy journey including facing loss of the family unit, gender grief, facing near miscarriage, loss of control and ultimately learning to surrender. Ultimately, thi...

Mini Ep 69 My baby will come when they are ready ~ Marlies Verschoor & Indigo Melrose

A special offering from our hearts to yours. This season’s mini episodes are a 5-part collaboration with Marlies Verschoor, a self-care guide from the Netherlands whose mission is to support people on their path to self-love and connection. Each week Marlies and Indigo will explore how mothers can better care for themselves through loving self-connection. Each mini episode will offer a heart point, a self-share, a world share, a self-care strategy and a meditation.  This week’s offerings: ...

Ep 68 Childhood Trauma, Psychedelics & Christianity ~ Tara Rae Behr

In this week’s episode, we have a mind and heart expanding conversation with Tara Behr covering childhood trauma, psychedelics and Christianity. Tara is a psychotherapist, poet, writer, and singer-songwriter based in Colorado Springs. In addition to working with men, women, and couples who are experiencing anxiety, depression, and trauma, Tara writes poetry and essays on radical feminism, interpersonal phenomenology, animism, Christian mysticism, and psychedelic-assisted therapy. Tara's li...

Mini Ep 67 Taking Care of Myself Means Taking Care of My Baby ~ Marlies Verschoor & Indigo Melrose

A special offering from our hearts to yours. This season’s mini episodes are a 5-part collaboration with Marlies Verschoor, a self-care guide from the Netherlands whose mission is to support people on their path to self-love and connection. Each week Marlies and Indigo will explore how mothers can better care for themselves through loving self-connection. Each mini episode will offer a heart point, a self-share, a world share, a self-care strategy and a meditation.  This week’s offerings: ...

Ep 66 Our Brave Hearts ~ Jacqueline Kelly

Join us as we explore matrescence, mum guilt, and more with Jacqueline Kelly from Our Brave Hearts. Jacqueline is a fully certified Life Coach dedicated to supporting mums who feel lost in the transition from being the woman they used to be to the mother they are now. With a deep understanding of the matrescence journey, Jacqueline uses results-based coaching to guide others through this transformative process. As a mother, Jacqueline empathises with the guilt and pressure that comes with mo...

Ep 65 Innate Wisdom of the Healer ~ Alicia Melrose (Old Gold Season)

Today we are joined by a very special guest. Alicia Melrose is a Natural Health Consultant, Medical Herbalist, a truly wise woman and Indigo’s beloved mamma.  Alicia developed her enthusiasm for herbal medicine when she lived in Indonesia with a Sumatran Shaman. She went on to become a registered medical herbalist and has now been in practice for over 33 years and offers a multidisciplinary practice based on a holistic, supportive approach to health. Her goal is to enable a person to take a...

Ep 64 Anxiety to Awe: Shaped by the Earth ~ Tina Bramley (Old Gold Season)

How do you cope when you’re feeling anxious, depressed or overwhelmed? What if there was a place you could go to whenever you needed support or guidance? A place that allowed you to experience a feeling of well-being and a connection to a deeper, more sentient wisdom. The good news is that place DOES exist and is available to you at any time. It’s called an earth spot and you don’t necessarily need to leave the house to go there… In today’s episode, we explore the power of earth spots with...

Ep 63 Anger as Your Ally ~ Juna Mustad (Old Gold Season)

Although we often fear anger, at its core, anger is actually an ally here to help you better access your truth and your boundaries. Join us as we chat to Juna Mustad about the power of healthy anger and how to make anger an ally. Along the way, we’ll discuss the relationship between anger and intuition and how befriending our anger can support us to live a more soulful life.  Whether you’re an anger stuffer or an anger erupter, you’ll gain so much from this episode! Juna is a Life and Rela...

Ep 62 Breath To Transform ~ Joshua Alexander (Old Gold Season)

Our breath is an important anchor in life. It guides us and supports us through life’s experiences. The more conscious we are of our breath, the more we are able to consciously respond to our inner and outer world.  In today’s episode we chat to Josh Alexander, a qualified breathing coach and breathwork practitioner, who has personally experienced the profound transformative effect breathwork has on the individual and collective psyche.  We chat about: What breathwork is, the origins of b...

A New Season of M@M & a Mini Series on Reclaiming our Sacred Self ~ Rose & Indigo

Ep 60 Sitting in the Mud of Transition ~ Indigo Melrose

Are you navigating a time of transition? Perhaps you’re ending a relationship or are in a new one, perhaps you’re coming to terms with a life changing diagnosis, preparing for motherhood, or starting a new career… You might find your sense of self is shifting and things suddenly feel uncertain and overwhelming. Whatever the circumstances, transition is something we all know intimately and must dance with constantly throughout our lives. To be in transition is to be in a liminal space. It’s ...

Ep 59 Motherhood Book Club: Encountering Darkness

“Motherhood is the true hero’s journey―which is to say that it can be as harrowing as it is joyful, and enlightening as it is exhausting. For Jungian psychoanalyst Lisa Marchiano, this journey is not just an adventure of diaper bags and parent-teacher conferences, but one of intense self-discovery.” Drawing on Jungian analysis, fairy tales, myths, folklore, client case studies and personal stories, each chapter takes us on an inner journey of self-discovery that is sure to change the way yo...

Ep 58 Facing the Challenges of Our Time ~ with Jane Gilmer

How can we maintain a sense of equanimity in today’s world? With so many pressures and increasing polarisation, how can we, both individually and collectively, contribute to healthy change? How can we as mothers balance the demands of the material world with caring for our soul life and the soul life of our children? Join us as we explore how to face the challenges of our times with Jane Gilmer. Jane is a transformational guide, theatre artist and author of The Alchemical Actor. Her work wi...

Ep 58 Facing the Challenges of Our Time ~ with Dr. Jane Gilmer

How can we maintain a sense of equanimity in today’s world? With so many pressures and increasing polarisation, how can we, both individually and collectively, contribute to healthy change? How can we as mothers balance the demands of the material world with caring for our soul life and the soul life of our children? Join us as we explore how to face the challenges of our times with Jane Gilmer. Jane is a transformational guide, theatre artist and author of The Alchemical Actor. Her work wi...

Ep 57 Motherhood Book Club: Losing Ourselves

“Motherhood is the true hero’s journey―which is to say that it can be as harrowing as it is joyful, and enlightening as it is exhausting. For Jungian psychoanalyst Lisa Marchiano, this journey is not just an adventure of diaper bags and parent-teacher conferences, but one of intense self-discovery.” Drawing on Jungian analysis, fairy tales, myths, folklore, client case studies and personal stories, each chapter takes us on an inner journey of self-discovery that is sure to change the way yo...

Ep 56 Death is Necessary ~ with Natalie Roset

Gather in community with us as we discuss death and dying with Natalie Roset. Nat has been a palliative care nurse who has been supporting people through the dying process for over 20 years. Conversations about death and dying can be challenging, but we invite you to open your heart and mind as we travel with Nat into a realm many of us prefer to avoid or tip toe around in our day to day lives.  Nat provides a clinician’s perspective and also brings warmth, compassion and a sense of reveren...

Ep 55 Motherhood Book Club: Losing Control

“Motherhood is the true hero’s journey―which is to say that it can be as harrowing as it is joyful, and enlightening as it is exhausting. For Jungian psychoanalyst Lisa Marchiano, this journey is not just an adventure of diaper bags and parent-teacher conferences, but one of intense self-discovery.” Drawing on Jungian analysis, fairy tales, myths, folklore, client case studies and personal stories, each chapter takes us on an inner journey of self-discovery that is sure to change the way yo...

Ep 54 Burning Out, Burning Through ~ with Rose & Indigo

Burnout, the feeling of complete mental, physical and emotional exhaustion, is often associated with work stress. Yet in our experience it’s all connected - an overwhelming state that impacts every aspect of our lives.  Often, we don’t recognise the red flags or early warning signs of burnout and instead try to push ourselves to keep going. We might feel like we’re failing or not coping and try to manage our symptoms rather than addressing the underlying cause… which is often related to bei...

Ep 53 Motherhood Book Club: Losing Freedom

“Motherhood is the true hero’s journey―which is to say that it can be as harrowing as it is joyful, and enlightening as it is exhausting. For Jungian psychoanalyst Lisa Marchiano, this journey is not just an adventure of diaper bags and parent-teacher conferences, but one of intense self-discovery.” Drawing on Jungian analysis, fairy tales, myths, folklore, client case studies and personal stories, each chapter takes us on an inner journey of self-discovery that is sure to change the way yo...

Ep 52 Motherhood Facing & Finding Yourself ~ with Lisa Marchiano

Join us as we explore the journey of initiation that is motherhood with Lisa Marchiano. Lisa is a clinical social worker, a certified Jungian analyst, and a nationally certified psychoanalyst. She also co-hosts This Jungian Life, (one of our favourite podcasts) and is the author of Motherhood: Facing and Finding Yourself.  We have been exploring this wonderful book as part of our Mothers at Midnight Book Club and we are delighted to share our in-depth conversation with the author herself. T...

Ep 51 Motherhood Book Club: Journey To The Source

“Motherhood is the true hero’s journey―which is to say that it can be as harrowing as it is joyful, and enlightening as it is exhausting. For Jungian psychoanalyst Lisa Marchiano, this journey is not just an adventure of diaper bags and parent-teacher conferences, but one of intense self-discovery.” Drawing on Jungian analysis, fairy tales, myths, folklore, client case studies and personal stories, each chapter takes us on an inner journey of self-discovery that is sure to change the way yo...

Ep 50 Sailing The Partner-SHIP Through Parenthood ~ with Indigo & Rose (& partners!)

Welcoming a child into a relationship is a life changing rite of passage. Navigating the transition from being a couple to becoming a family can be both joyful and extremely challenging, with research from the Gottman Institute showing that 67% of new parents report decreased relationship satisfaction. As we learn to adapt to our new roles we can find ourselves facing uncomfortable emotions as all kinds of “stuff” is brought to the surface  - it’s a wild ride! Yet if we can sit in the discom...

Ep 49 Book Club Welcome for Motherhood: Facing and Finding Yourself by Lisa Marchiano ~ with Rose & Indigo

“Motherhood is the true hero’s journey―which is to say that it can be as harrowing as it is joyful, and enlightening as it is exhausting. For Jungian psychoanalyst Lisa Marchiano, this journey is not just an adventure of diaper bags and parent-teacher conferences, but one of intense self-discovery.” Drawing on Jungian analysis, fairy tales, myths, folklore, client case studies and personal stories, each chapter takes us on an inner journey of self-discovery that is sure to change the way yo...

Ep 49 Book Club: Motherhood: Facing and Finding Yourself by Lisa Marchiano ~ with Rose & Indigo

"Join a respected Jungian analyst for a deep dive into the emotional and symbolic journey of motherhood. Motherhood is the true hero’s journey—which is to say that it can be as harrowing as it is joyful, and enlightening as it is exhausting. For Jungian psychoanalyst Lisa Marchiano, this journey is not just an adventure of diaper bags and parent-teacher conferences, but one of intense self-discovery. In Motherhood, Marchiano draws from a deep well of Jungian analysis and symbolic research ...

A New Season & an Exciting New Offering!

Welcome to all you wonderful listeners that are on this journey with us.  In June 2023 we will be returning to share some rich and powerful conversations..here is what is to come:  - Motherhood Facing & Finding Yourself  ~ with Lisa Marchiano - Burning Out to Burn Through ~ with Indigo & Rose  - Death is Necessary ~ with Nat Roset - Transition the Messy Middle ~ with Indigo & Rose  - Facing the Challenges of Our Time ~ with Jane Gilmer - Sailing the Partner-SHIP through Parenthood ~ with In...

Ep 48 Matter to Yourself First ~ Katie Feder

Do you believe you matter? How might your life change if you truly valued yourself? Today’s guest wears many hats. Katie Feder is holistic psychotherapist, retreat facilitator, mentor, blossoming author and mother to two beautiful children. Katie brings a joyful authenticity to all these roles, and an unshakeable belief that she matters.Yet Katie hasn’t always felt this way, it’s been a long journey learning to reclaim “I matter”, one which she shares with openness and honesty. Join us as w...

Mini Ep 47: Earth Spot ~ Guided by Indigo

How your Earth Spot will support you.. How do you cope when you’re feeling anxious, depressed or overwhelmed? What if there was a place you could go to whenever you needed support or guidance? A place that allows you to experience a feeling of well-being and a connection to a deeper, more sentient wisdom. The good news is that this place does exist and is available to you at any time. It’s called an earth spot and you don’t necessarily need to leave the house to go there. This week, we’...

Ep 46 Birthing and being Birthed ~ Indigo & Rose

What do you know about your birth? Was your mother supported? What was her experience? Our birth stories are also origin stories and they can offer you powerful insights into your life and the stories and patterns you carry with you. Likewise, our experience of giving birth can reveal things about ourselves that were previously hidden. As Jane Hardwicke Collings says, “We have the births we need to have to teach us what we need to know about ourselves, to take us to the next place on our l...

Mini Ep 45: Connecting with your Heart ~ Guided by Indigo

This inner work exercise is adapted from an exercise known as the Freeze Frame from the HeartMath institute. The core of the HeartMath philosophy is that the heart, physically and metaphorically, is the key to tapping into an intelligence that can provide us with fulfilment. Science has shown that the heart communicates with the body and brain on various different levels.Research has found that the heart communicates on a biochemical level, releasing atrial peptide, a hormone that inhibits t...

Ep 44 Matrescence. Our Right of Passage to Motherhood ~ Elise Clement

“Matrescence”—a term coined by the anthropologist Dana Raphael— is defined as the process of becoming a mother. It's a word used to describe the physical, psychological, and emotional changes people go through during the monumental transformation that is motherhood. Join us for an intimate chat about this intense, life-changing rite of passage with the lovely Elise Clement.  Elise is a coach dedicated to supporting women's wellbeing and personal evolution through motherhood and matrescence....

Mini Ep 43: Meeting our Inner Critic & Vital tip ~ Guided by Indigo

The inner critic usually manifests as an inner voice and is often accompanied by a sense of anxiety, shame, low self-esteem, worthlessness or guilt. The inner critic can act as a “guardian of the threshold”, appearing when we’re at an edge or moving towards something outside of the boundaries of our familiar, everyday identity. The inner critic has all sorts of ideas and opinions about how things should be and about how we should think, feel and behave. We often give the inner critic author...

Ep 42 Finding Your Flow ~ Rose & Indigo

Mini Ep 41: Releasing Old Habits & Vital tip ~ Guided by Rose

How this exercise will support you We will be focussing on releasing any habits that aren’t aligned with our intentions. Many spiritual traditions hold the view that self-reflection and awareness of our patterns is the first step in breaking habits that are no longer serving our highest intentions. Rather than thinking of habits as “bad” or “good” we invite you to reflect on which habits are serving you and which are no longer serving you.  Before completing the following exercise, we reco...

Ep 40 Romancing Our Inner Artist ~ Tina Bramley

Join us as we connect with our dear friend and fellow psychotherapist Tina Bramley to explore the creative energy of the mother archetype. In this episode we explore how to enliven our creative fire, connect with our inner artist and how to channel our creative energy into the world. Tina is a multi-talented being - a poet, psychotherapist and organisational development consultant who brings depth, soul and creativity to everything she does. We invite you to pour a cup of tea or a glass of...

Mini Ep 39: Intention Setting & Vital tip ~ Guided by Indigo

We love creating spaces that feel nourishing. During our time together we will be creating a space for exploration of our inner life. Part of this is getting to know what you are seeking. In other words WHY you are here.  How this exercise will support you This exercise will support you to set meaningful intentions for your Vital Journey. Intentions are guiding principles for how we want to feel, behave and show up in the world. Intention setting is different from goal setting, although in...

Ep 38 Gestate to Create ~ Indigo & Rose

In today’s episode we explore the importance of incubation (or gestation) in the creative process. In creating Mothers at Midnight we’ve found that we needed space and time to allow our ideas to form, when we tried to push things along we inevitably ran into more challenges and things just didn’t feel right. Learning to slow down, follow the creative process and allow it to take shape in a way that feels authentic for us has been a big learning curve. We sat down together (well, actually w...

Ep 37 Welcome to Mothers at Midnight ~ Rose & Indigo

Welcome back! It’s been a while since we released an episode. We appreciate your support and patience as we’ve been in the process of transforming our much loved podcast Therapeia into Mothers at Midnight. Our new creation grew out of the final episode of season 3 of Therapeia - “ Meeting the Dark Mother”. In this welcome episode we share a little about the journey we’ve been on, why we’re now called Mothers at Midnight and what we have in store for you in this season. Mothers at Midnig...

Ep 36 Meeting the Dark Mother ~ Indigo & Rose [creators of Mothers at Midnight aka Therapeía]

For our final Season 3 episode we invite you to make a cup of tea or pour a glass of wine and join us - the co-creators of Mothers at Midnight aka Therapeía - for an intimate, vulnerable and sometimes uncomfortable chat about motherhood.  This conversation arose out of a desire to speak more openly about the difficult, confronting and challenging aspects of motherhood. We noticed that when these topics start to arise we often find ourselves changing the topic, making light of it or adding h...

Ep 36 Meeting the Dark Mother ~ Indigo & Rose [creators of Mothers at Midnight aka Therapeía]

For our final Season 3 episode we invite you to make a cup of tea or pour a glass of wine and join us - the co-creators of Mothers at Midnight aka Therapeía - for an intimate, vulnerable and sometimes uncomfortable chat about motherhood.  This conversation arose out of a desire to speak more openly about the difficult, confronting and challenging aspects of motherhood. We noticed that when these topics start to arise we often find ourselves changing the topic, making light of it or adding h...

Ep 36 Meeting the Dark Mother ~ Indigo & Rose [creators of the Therapeía Podcast]

For our final Season 3 episode we invite you to make a cup of tea or pour a glass of wine and join us - the co-creators of the Therapeía Podcast - for an intimate, vulnerable and sometimes uncomfortable chat about motherhood.  This conversation arose out of a desire to speak more openly about the difficult, confronting and challenging aspects of motherhood. We noticed that when these topics start to arise we often find ourselves changing the topic, making light of it or adding how much we l...

Ep 35 Metavision a Soul Calling ~ Christina Nielsen

Today we welcome a very special guest to the show. Christina Nielson is the founder and director of Metavision Institute, a vibrant community for holistic education where we undertook our psychotherapy training (and where the idea for this podcast first began to take shape).  The Metavision Institute has grown out of the need to heal the effects of living in a fragmented world. The Metavision ethos is to see the universe as sacred, with laws that govern and connect everything. To see the hu...

Ep 35 Metavision a Soul Calling ~ Christina Nielsen

Today we welcome a very special guest to the show. Christina Nielson is the founder and director of Metavision Institute, a vibrant community for holistic education where we undertook our psychotherapy training (and where the idea for this podcast first began to take shape).  The Metavision Institute has grown out of the need to heal the effects of living in a fragmented world. The Metavision ethos is to see the universe as sacred, with laws that govern and connect everything. To see the hu...

Ep 34 The Healer's Journey ~ Jamie-Lee Jones

Today we welcome Jamie-Lee Jones to the show. Jamie is a holistic counsellor, psychotherapist, youth worker and energy healer who has been on her own profound healing journey. Jamie believes that the healing journey is one that can put us on our true path in life. Today, we’ll be talking about the challenges and difficulties that we encounter on a healing journey as well as the gifts, wisdom and insights that can arise. We chat about: Jamie’s personal healing journey  (2:50) How we’re al...

Ep 33 Mental Digestion ~ Louise Largier

Today we welcome Louise Largier, our dear friend, colleague and fellow psychotherapist. Lou is a deeply insightful person who has spent many years exploring the mind body connection. In addition to being a psychotherapist, Lou has studied human bioscience, Ayurveda, herbalism, aromatherapy and yoga in her quest to gain a more holistic understanding of the human being and the connection between mind, body, and spirit. Today, Lou invites us to explore the mind and mental wellness from a new...

Ep 32 Conscious Communication through Love ~ Polly Greeks

Polly Greeks is a practitioner of Non-Violent Communication who aims to create a lifestyle that is harmonious with the earth. After numerous offshore adventures, Polly Greeks, her husband James and their children Vita and Zendo chose to put down roots in an isolated forest in New Zealand where they are slowly building a mortgage-free, off-grid home and discovering an entirely new way of life.  Non-Violent Communication (NVC), or conscious communication as Polly prefers to call it, has playe...

Ep 31 Alchemy & the Soul ~ Jane Gilmer

Join us as we explore the magic, mystery and wisdom of psychological alchemy with Jane Gilmer. Jane is a Transformational Guide, theatre artist and author whose work with psyche (or soul), is a deeply alchemical process influenced by the depth psychological work of Dr Carl. G Jung, and the spiritual scientific work of Dr Rudolf Steiner. Her work with alchemical theatre and the creative word has evolved from her training with Mechthild Harkness in NSW Australia in the 1980s.  Jane has writte...

Ep 30 Innate Wisdom of the Healer ~ Alicia Melrose

Today we are joined by a very special guest. Alicia Melrose is a Natural Health Consultant, Medical Herbalist, a truly wise woman and Indigo’s beloved mamma.  Alicia developed her enthusiasm for herbal medicine when she lived in Indonesia with a Sumatran Shaman. She went on to become a registered medical herbalist and has now been in practice for over 33 years and offers a multidisciplinary practice based on a holistic, supportive approach to health. Her goal is to enable a person to take a...

Ep 29 Intimate Matters ~ Anya Grichina

Content warning: In this episode we talk about sex, sexual trauma and sexuality. Today we talk intimate matters with sex therapist and counsellor Anya Grichina. Anya believes that a fulfilling and vibrant sex life is an integral part of our well-being. Yet one in five people have concerns about their sex life at some time in their lives.  Sex is about so much more than what happens in the bedroom and your sexuality is affected by the people and experiences in your past. This not only inclu...