Hi Mamas. This week is a double episode as I wind up the poddy for 2024 and beyond. It has been nothing less than an absolute privilege to share space with all my wonderful guests as they share some of their most intimate truths about what mothering has been like for them. I have been creating this podcast for 2 years now and for the time being it going to be on pause while I shift focus to some other projects happening at Life After Birth Psychology. I do plan to bring the podcast back but I'm ...
Dec 10, 2024•54 min
Hi Mamas! This week is a double episode as I wind up the poddy for 2024 and beyond. It has been nothing less than an absolute privilege to share space with all my wonderful guests as they share some of their most intimate truths about what mothering has been like for them. I have been creating this podcast for 2 years now and for the time being it going to be on pause while I shift focus to some other projects happening at Life After Birth Psychology. I do plan to bring the podcast back but I'm ...
Dec 10, 2024•59 min
Hi Mamas. Today, I have an incredibly special guest, Jayde Couldwell. You may know her as the co-host of Beyond the Bump and Beyond the Balls, two popular podcasts for mums and dads navigating the ups and downs of parenting. In this powerful conversation, Jayde opens up about her journey through motherhood and the unexpected lessons that have shaped her along the way. From her experience with postnatal depression after her third child, the challenges as a mama of three, and the deep sense of sel...
Nov 26, 2024•1 hr 24 min
Hi Mamas. This week I’m talking about grief. The grief that’s in me and I’m guessing may also be in you. We have the grief that comes from our personal lives/mothering, and then there is the grief that comes from knowing about the harm and loss that is occurring in the world around us – and from feeling unable to change that. It’s been a big year of loss and atrocities, and as we approach the holiday season in a post US election moment – I’m REALLY feeling it. So I’m briefly talking about grief ...
Nov 19, 2024•31 min
Hi Mamas. Today, I have the pleasure of talking with Bernadette Lack, the founder of Core and Floor Restore and co-creator of Motheration. In this powerful conversation, Bernadette opens up about her journey through parenting, sharing her heartwarming stories of fostering children and the raw realities of her own motherhood experience. We also discuss the challenges and growth she experienced during her postpartum journey, highlighting how community and connection became her anchor. In this epis...
Nov 12, 2024•1 hr 27 min
Hi mamas. Today, I have the pleasure of talking to Kendra Blake, an occupational therapist who has been supporting women throughout all stages of life for nearly a decade. In this powerful episode, Kendra shares her personal journey through motherhood, especially now as a mother of two young children, with her newest little one being just two weeks old! We discuss her transition into motherhood, the unravelling of her perfectionism, and how she has come to deeply trust herself in this new role. ...
Oct 29, 2024•49 min
What You Need To Know About: Perimenopause and Motherhood Hi mama. Today, I'm diving into a topic that doesn't get enough attention: mothering during perimenopause. This is something I've been exploring lately, both through my own experiences and those of the incredible women I work with, so I wanted to shed some light on this often overlooked phase that so many of us may be navigating without even realising it. In this episode, I discuss: The hormonal changes that occur during this transition p...
Oct 22, 2024•38 min
Hi Mamas. Today on the podcast, I’m joined by Alex Field, a holistic psychotherapist and naturopath who brings so much wisdom and heart to the conversation about discovering yourself during motherhood. Alex opens up about her incredible life journey, from her adventurous days as an underwater filmmaker in Egypt to her transformational experience as a mother to two teenagers in Australia. Alex and I discuss: How her time in Egypt encouraged self-discovery, and how moving to Australia marked a new...
Oct 15, 2024•1 hr 7 min
Hi mamas. Today on the podcast, I’m diving into a therapeutic approach that has been a complete game changer for so many of the mothers I work with—Internal Family Systems (IFS). This modality helps us understand the different “parts” within ourselves, heal intergenerational wounds, and cultivate self-leadership. I know many of you are on this path of exploring your inner world, and IFS offers such a profound way to do that. In this episode, I’ll guide you through: Understanding our mind as an i...
Oct 08, 2024•29 min
Hi mamas. Join me as I speak with Jane McFadden, mum of three and the woman behind the ADHD Mums podcast. In this episode, Jane reflects on her childhood growing up with now-diagnosed ADHD and autism, how this impacted her school years, her approach to work and her experience of becoming a mother. We discuss the struggle that so many of us experience with regards to perfectionism and high-performance, and how this can often be heightened when we become mothers, due to the many societal expectati...
Oct 01, 2024•1 hr 2 min
*This is a replay series of previously released episodes, as I prepare all new episodes with new guests. New episodes will be back on the regular by Oct 2024. This replay series are the top 4 most listener to episodes and although we can't have favourite - they are very loved by me too!* HOLY MOLY mamas! I actually just don’t even know what to say about this week’s episode with Cath Counihan. It’s just THAT good. Cath is a London based trauma-informed Integrative Psychotherapist, lecturer, and h...
Sep 17, 2024•1 hr
*This is a replay series of previously released episodes, as I prepare all new episodes with new guests. New episodes will be back on the regular by Oct 2024. This replay series are the top 4 most listener to episodes and although we can't have favourite - they are very loved by me too!* This week, I’m joined by Mike Dyson and Erin Spahr in a thought-provoking discussion on an issue that struck a chord with my instagram audience: when fathers define themselves as "family men" but their actions t...
Sep 10, 2024•1 hr 16 min
Hi mamas! Today I am joined by the wonderful Tracy Gillett , an adventure-loving mum, writer, and advocate for natural parenting. You might know her as the founder of Raised Good, an inspiring platform that empowers parents to trust the voice of their intuition. Tracy is also the author of "The Lost Art of Natural Parenting" and the host of the annual Raised Good Online Parenting Summit. In this powerful conversation, Tracy and I explore her journey into motherhood, her passion for what she call...
Sep 03, 2024•1 hr 10 min
*This is a replay series of previously released episodes, as I prepare all new episodes with new guests. This replay series are the top 4 most listener to episodes and although we can't have favourite - they are very loved by me too!* In this episode, I’m speaking to Minna Dubin, the Author of ‘Mom Rage: The Everyday Crisis of Modern Motherhood.’ I absolutely loved this book and was so excited to invite Minna to speak with me for this episode. Minna’s writing has been featured in The New York Ti...
Aug 27, 2024•54 min•Season 1Ep. 50
*This is a replay series of previously released episodes, as I prepare all new episodes with new guests. This replay series are the top 4 most listener to episodes and although we can't have favourite - they are very loved by me too!* In this episode of Life After Birth I chat to Lael about her experience of becoming a mother and travelling this path for the past 20 odd years. We talk about her experience with a challenging birth, the far reaching impacts of that, surviving her first year as a m...
Aug 20, 2024•1 hr 3 min•Season 1Ep. 49
Hi mamas. Today on the podcast I am joined by Danielle Facey, also known as the breastfeeding mentor. Danielle is an author, speaker and a fierce advocate of breastfeeding empowerment. In this beautiful and courageous conversation, Danielle shares her story of becoming a mother; one that includes her experience of miscarriage, birth trauma and her journey back to herself. We discuss how Danielle's experiences of loss and trauma influenced her need for control and resulted in a heightened sense o...
Aug 13, 2024•54 min•Season 1Ep. 48
Hi mamas. Today I’m so excited to be joined by the wonderful Sarah Ashton, a mental health occupational therapist whose work beautifully blends motherhood studies with occupational therapy, providing support for women as they transition, adapt and transform through matrescence. In this conversation, Sarah shares her experience of becoming a mother, and in particular we discuss what Sarah calls her hyper-focus around her and her baby’s sleep, and how this impacted her experience of mothering in t...
Jul 30, 2024•49 min•Season 1Ep. 47
Hi mamas. Today on the podcast I’m joined by Haylee Collins, who is a book publisher and creator of the magazine, Howl, which is how I came to know her. Howl is an incredible magazine that explores the intersection of motherhood and creativity, and was born out of her own observations of watching and speaking to other artists, writers, designers and photographers who are also mothers about how they occupy both of those identities at the same time. In this episode we discuss Haylee’s experience o...
Jul 16, 2024•1 hr 6 min•Season 1Ep. 46
Hi mamas. Today on the podcast I’m so happy to be joined by my lovely friend and podcast host, mother, writer and producer, Lucinda McKimm. She is the host of the podcast Ready Or Not, and the co-host of Witching Hour, and a mother of two. In this conversation, we discuss Lucinda’s experience of becoming a mother and how, despite her expectations that the day-to-day of the role would be challenging, she was not prepared her for the emotional intensity of motherhood, in terms of the rawness of th...
Jul 02, 2024•1 hr 5 min•Season 1Ep. 45
Hi mamas. Today, I’m excited to have Joy Netanya Thompson on the podcast. Joy is a writer who covers the intersection of motherhood, culture and identity and whose writing has appeared on sites like Parents, Motherwell, Romper, Coffee & Crumbs, and she’s also the author of the substack newsletter, Midweek Joy. She lives in LA with her husband and 8-year-old daughter. This is a rich and raw episode where Joy shares with me her experience of becoming a mother, the traumatic birth of her daught...
Jun 18, 2024•58 min•Season 1Ep. 44
Hi mamas. Today on the podcast, I’m joined by Jacqueline Kelly, a matrescence coach who supports mothers who feel like they’ve lost themselves in motherhood. Founding Our Brave Hearts, Jacqueline works to challenge the unrealistic standards of motherhood that we are encouraged to aspire to and to support mums in rediscovering and reclaiming their confidence. In this beautiful conversation, Jacqueline reflects on her own journey of matrescence and her transition from the freedom, adventure and sp...
Jun 04, 2024•52 min•Season 1Ep. 43
Hi mamas. Today on the podcast, I’m joined by Penny Moodie, a writer, OCD advocate and mum of three. In 2023, she wrote the incredible book, ‘The Joy Thief’, sharing her personal journey and the stories of fellow OCD sufferers, exploring OCD stigmas and treatments with raw honesty and zero judgement. In this conversation, we talk about Penny’s experience of becoming a mother, and in particular her experience of this while suffering with OCD. Undiagnosed at the time of her first child’s birth, sh...
May 21, 2024•42 min•Season 1Ep. 42
Hi mamas. Today on the podcast, I’m joined by Rachael Shepard-Ohta, who is a certified sleep consultant, a parent educator, content creator, podcaster, mother of three and founder of Hey Sleep Baby. I had the pleasure of being on Rachael’s podcast, No One Told Us, last year and I was so happy to have the opportunity to have another wonderful conversation with her here. In this episode, we discuss Rachael’s expectations prior to becoming a mother and how her lived experience compared to this, and...
May 07, 2024•46 min•Season 1Ep. 41
Hi mamas. Today on the podcast, I’m joined by Chrissy Powers, a licensed marriage and family therapist, mum, wife, writer and embodiment coach. I’ve been following Chrissy on social media for quite some time and I just love her beautiful, authentic, warm presence, which shines through in this conversation. In this episode, we discuss Chrissy’s background and some of her early internalised ideas of being the ‘good girl’, how this showed up in her adulthood and her mothering, and her departure fro...
Apr 23, 2024•47 min•Season 1Ep. 40
Hi mamas. In this episode of Life After Birth, I am joined by Ali Heppell, a postpartum doula, matrescence educator and guide, and women’s circle facilitator. She is also a wife and mum to two boys. In this conversion, we discuss Ali’s experience of becoming a mother after losing her own mother to cancer just a few years prior. We discuss Ali’s experience of the grief of losing her mother, her honouring of this grief and how it shaped her own mothering journey. Ali shares her immense loss and lo...
Apr 09, 2024•52 min•Season 1Ep. 39
Hi mamas. Join me as I speak with Renee Cachia, experienced psychologist and founder of Inner Bloom Psychology Practice. Renee is committed to improving the lives of families by empowering parents with psychoeducation and creating environments for young people to thrive from the inside out. She is a mum to her 2-year-old daughter and, at the time of recording this episode, was pregnant with her second child. In this conversation, we hear about Renee’s journey as a mother; her experience of reinv...
Mar 26, 2024•1 hr 2 min•Season 1Ep. 38
Hi mamas. This week I talk to Dr. Elyse McNeil, Mental Load Expert and Founder of Share to Thrive, who is passionate about helping couples thrive in their relationships by providing them with strategies to help them navigate the mental load of parenthood. In this beautiful conversation, we discuss Elyse’s preparation for her own transition into mothering, and the kinds of conversations she and her husband had to facilitate sharing the load. We discuss the importance of open and intentional commu...
Mar 12, 2024•57 min•Season 1Ep. 37
Hi mamas. In this episode of Life After Birth, I am joined by Kelly Wright who has recently joined me at Life After Birth in a therapist capacity. Kelly is a mother and therapist trained in social work, attachment theory, nutrition, internal family systems, polyvagal work, and I’m so happy to have her on the team. In this raw and vulnerable conversation, Kelly shares some of the challenges she has experienced in her mothering journey, and the disparity between what she expected to come with moth...
Feb 27, 2024•1 hr•Season 1Ep. 36
Hi mamas. Join me for this beautiful conversation with Zoe Blaskey, mum of two and the woman behind the Motherkind Podcast. Zoe invited me to be a guest on her podcast a few months ago, and so I was excited to return the invite and have her come on Life After Birth to share more of her story and insights with you all. In this conversation, Zoe shares with me about her own upbringing, and reflects on the ‘credits’ and ‘debits’ of her childhood and the role they played in her life and the forming ...
Feb 13, 2024•54 min•Season 1Ep. 35
Welcome back mamas! This is the final episode for 2023, and it's all about inviting more ease and joy into the holiday season. In this episode I talk you through 5 things you might want to consider, including prioritising your well being, simplifying your plans, setting boundaries, creating low stress traditions, and embracing imperfection. While listening to this week’s episode, I want you to remember that your experiences this holiday season matter just as much as the experiences of your child...
Dec 12, 2023•32 min•Season 1Ep. 34
