Welcome to this week's Moment episode. I'm SO excited for you to listen to this episode with the incredible Susanna Abse, where we discuss how to navigate disappointment in marriage. Susanna has been a leading couple’s therapist for 35 years. There is not much Susanna doesn’t know about love and relationships. This is an incredible MOMENT episode. You're going to learn so much. If you enjoy it, please share this episode with anyone you think would benefit from listening. As always, we continue t...
Aug 14, 2023•8 min
Welcome to this episode of the Motherkind podcast. This week we are re-releasing this episode with the incredible Dr. Nicole LePera (The Holistic Psychologist). Throughout August I have a break from recording new episodes to reset, take a breath, and reconnect with the family. During this period, we re-release the most downloaded episodes from the past 6 months. This episode feels life-changing and I’m super excited for you to hear it. It is with Dr. Nicole LePera, best known as the holistic psy...
Aug 10, 2023•1 hr 11 min•Ep. 259
Welcome to this week's Moment episode. I'm SO excited for you to listen to this episode with the incredible Dr. Rangan Chatterjee where we discuss what's really important in life. Dr. Rangan Chatterjee is regarded as one of the most influential medical doctors in the UK. Dr Chatterjee, a practising GP for the last two decades, wants to inspire people to transform their health and happiness by making small, sustainable lifestyle changes. He also hosts the most listened to health podcast in the UK...
Aug 07, 2023•13 min
Welcome to this episode of the Motherkind podcast. This week we are re-releasing this episode with the incredible Dr. Rick Hanson. Throughout August I have a break from recording new episodes to reset, take a breath, and reconnect with the family. During this period, we re-release the most downloaded episodes from the past 6 months. Dr Hanson is a world-leading psychologist on topics such as happiness, relationships, and motherhood. His first book over 20 years ago was called Mother Nature, whic...
Aug 03, 2023•1 hr 9 min•Ep. 257
Hi everyone and welcome back to The Motherkind Podcast. I’m so happy you’re here. This moment episode is a re-release with writer and spiritual teacher Rupert Spira. 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. I think you’re going to really enjoy this moment episode. As always we continue the conversa...
Jul 31, 2023•11 min
Welcome to this week’s episode on the Motherkind Podcast, which features the incredible Dr Zoe Williams. She is a GP, Author and This Morning’s resident doctor. I absolutely loved this episode because Dr Zoe was so honest about her own experiences of motherhood, how lonely she felt in those early months and why she found herself thinking I just can't do this. We also talked about: How she thinks we need to change how we care for Women's Health in postpartum Tips on how to advocate for our own he...
Jul 27, 2023•53 min•Ep. 255
Louis Weinstock is a Child Psychotherapist who works with children and the child inside us all. For over 20 years, he has been guiding children and grown-ups through some of the toughest challenges life can throw at us – loss, trauma, divorce, burnout and breakdowns. In this moment episode, we talk about how to help your child navigate body confidence issues. I hope you love it! --- As always, we continue the conversation over on Instagram, so come and join us there @Zoeblaskey Learn more about ...
Jul 24, 2023•9 min
Welcome to our community episode, where we feature mothers from our community to talk about their highs, lows, challenges and everything in between in motherhood. This week we speak to Emma, whose story is one of a lot of heartache and loss. We often don't talk enough about navigating matrescence whilst you're experiencing grief. I hope you find comfort and inspiration in Emma's words. - I really hope you love this new format, and if you’d like to come on the podcast, then please email: angie@mo...
Jul 21, 2023•28 min
Welcome to this week's episode on the Motherkind Podcast, where we chat with the incredible podcaster and author Lorraine Candy. She is a journalist for pretty much all my favourite magazines, including Sunday Times Style, and she recently gave it all up to create her podcast – Postcards from Midlife which celebrates and supports midlife women. She's also written a book about it which is absolutely brilliant. This episode is about: Why we need to understand better the changes that happen to us h...
Jul 20, 2023•53 min•Ep. 255
Welcome to this week's moment episode of the Motherkind podcast. I am so happy you are here. Thank you for pressing play and listening. This week features a clip from my episode with Cathy Rentzenbrink, who 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. Cathy is so poignant in how she reflects on her journey as a mother. Yes, this episode is about writing and journaling and its profound po...
Jul 17, 2023•10 min
Welcome to our community episode, where we feature mothers from our community to talk about their highs, lows, challenges and everything in between in motherhood. This week we speak to Hannah, who is a mum of three boys and she talks about how she faces three huge life changing events in her life. I loved Hannah, I loved her energy and I loved her insides. I hope you love this episode too. — I really hope you love this new format, and if you’d like to come on the podcast, then please email: angi...
Jul 14, 2023•44 min
We have such a good episode for you today, it’s with Jess founder of Nurtured First (formally known as Our Mama Village). She is a registered psychotherapist and a mum of three, and in this episode, she shares: - How hard she found it going from two to three children - How to cope when you're not coping - What to do when we just feel I think you'll love this one, and if you do, please send it to anyone going through that transition in your life right now, maybe from one to two children or two to...
Jul 13, 2023•54 min•Ep. 254
Welcome to this week's moment episode of the Motherkind podcast. I am so happy you are here. Thank you for pressing play and listening. This week features a clip from my episode with Dr. Megan Rossi, who is a registered dietician with an award-winning PhD in gut health. A leading Research Fellow at King’s College London. We talk about gut health and how your family's microbiome is shaped. Do you know the importance of your gut health? I hope this episode answers that for you. Special thanks to o...
Jul 10, 2023•11 min
Welcome to our community episode, where we feature mothers from our community to talk about their highs, lows, challenges and everything in between in motherhood. I'm chatting to Debra this week, who shares how she was blindsided by motherhood and how she overcame anxiety and intrusive thoughts to feel quite differently today. **Trigger warning** If you think hearing about intrusive thoughts is more harmful to you than helpful, please skip this one. --- I really hope you love this new format, an...
Jul 07, 2023•30 min
This week's episode is with Dr Serena Rosa, a doctorally prepared women's health nurse practitioner and founder of postpartum Dr. Her mission is to change the narrative around postpartum and motherhood- showcasing that it can be beautiful, expansive, transformational, and healing. In this episode, we discuss postpartum because that is Dr. Serena's specialism. However, this episode goes beyond that, and we chat about: The pressures we put on ourselves as mothers and how to be much much kinder to ...
Jul 06, 2023•47 min
Welcome to this week's moment episode, where we chat with Lisa Olivera. She is an author, therapist and mum. Her work centres around radical acceptance, cultivating compassion, and integrating our stories and full humanity. Lisa answers my question of how do you still grieve and do your healing work during the busyness and intensity of motherhood? I hope you love it. Special thanks to our sponsor Athletic Greens: Visit https://athleticgreens.com/motherkind for a FREE year supply of immune-suppor...
Jul 03, 2023•10 min
Welcome to our community episode, where we feature mothers from our community to talk about their highs, lows, challenges and everything in between in motherhood. I'm chatting to Jenny this week, who shares why she wishes ALL mothers could be told about matrescence at their first midwife appointment. --- I really hope you love this new format, and if you’d like to come on the podcast, then please email: angie@motherkind.co with your story. --- Special thanks to our sponsor Athletic Greens: Visit...
Jun 30, 2023•29 min
***Trigger Warning*** We discuss graphic intrusive thoughts, so if hearing that experience might be more harmful than connecting for you, please skip that bit. It's about 10 minutes in. This week we have the incredible Donna Lancaster back on the show. You love her first episode, so I hope you'll love this one even more. Donna has worked as a coach, a group facilitator and a therapist for more than 30 years - I cannot tell you how much I respect Donna and her work. This is one of those episodes ...
Jun 29, 2023•57 min
This is an incredible episode with Tobi Asare about re-thinking work-life balance. Tobi is an author, mum of two, speaker and founder of My Bump Pay, an online platform to help women smash the glass ceiling with a baby on the way and beyond. Her debut book The Blend, released in March 2023 is a guide to navigating a successful career whilst raising a family. 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 - @...
Jun 26, 2023•7 min
Welcome to our community episode, where we feature mothers from our community to talk about their highs, lows, challenges and everything in between in motherhood. This week we chatted to Kelly. Kelly is a mum of two, and she shares in this episode: - How challenging she found the transition to motherhood - How perfectionist and critical she was self - How when she connected to her own childhood to what was going on for her when she was younger that she was able to transform everything in her mot...
Jun 23, 2023•29 min
Welcome to this week’s episode with Lucy Jones. She is an investigative journalist, award-winning author and has just written a new book called Matrescence. Matresence is one of my favourite words and subjects ever. It describes the process of becoming a mother - the confusing discombobulating cocktail of emotions that happens when we transition from woman to mother. All the physical, emotional and spiritual changes. A bit like the transition from teenager to adult. Listen to hear about: - What ...
Jun 22, 2023•43 min
This week's Motherkind moment is with the incredibly Terri Cole, a licensed psychotherapist, global leading relationship expert and author of the best-selling book Boundary Boss. Terri’s mission is to empower as many people as possible to stop living out learned boundary behaviours that don’t serve them. 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 - @zoeblaskey Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podc...
Jun 19, 2023•11 min
Welcome to the first ever brand new community episode on Motherkind. I get messages from you about your lives and your journey in Motherhood - and I find these messages SO inspiring, helpful and connecting. I can’t keep them to myself anymore. So I’ve decided to pilot a series where I interview YOU, mums in the community, for 6 episodes. This week is Amy. Amy is a solo mum to her 5-year-old daughter. We talk about: Navigating anxiety and perfectionism in motherhood How she struggled with a reall...
Jun 16, 2023•28 min
Hi everyone, and welcome to this special Father's Day. It's Father’s Day here in the UK on the 18th of June, and I am so excited to share this episode with you. 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. Listen to hear about: What he used to believe being a man meant: earning more, not showing his feelings and having this impenetrable mask of masculinity. How hit...
Jun 15, 2023•53 min
This week's Motherkind moment is with the amazing Laura Brand. She is a mum of 2 and the author of 3 incredible books. Her newest book is called 'Slow Down and Be Here Now'. A gorgeous book about nature and how it can help us slow down and be more present. 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 - @zoeblaskey Join our mailing list to receive news, updates and new episode releases by clicking here. Lea...
Jun 12, 2023•10 min
An exciting podcast announcement from Zoe and team Motherkind. We're launching a new bi-weekly episode in addition to our main episode on a Thursday and Monday moments. These episodes will feature YOUR stories, Q&A with Zoe and so much more. We hope you love the upcoming episodes as much as we do. Please tell us what you think over on Instagram - follow @zoeblaskey Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Jun 09, 2023•8 min
***Explicit - we talk about eating disorders - if this is a negative trigger for you, please pass on this one*** I'm SO excited about this week's episode; it's with funny, wise and kind Louise Boyce (AKA Mamma Still Got It). When Louise asked to come on the podcast, I knew I wanted to dig deeper and learn about the woman behind the little hands and how her experience of motherhood and life have shaped who she is today. We talk about her experiences: The modelling industry and her eating disorder...
Jun 08, 2023•47 min•Ep. 249
This Moment is with Dr Nicole LePera (you might know her as The Holistic Psychologist). Dr Nicole is the author of the #1 New York Times bestselling book How To Do The Work and the recently released Bestselling How to Meet Your Self Workbook. She is the creator of the #SelfHealers movement and founded SelfHealers Circle, the first virtual self-guided healing membership where members in over 100 countries are joining together to heal in community. She is the host of the weekly ad-free podcast Sel...
Jun 05, 2023•12 min
So many of our Motherkind community are being diagnosed with ADHD, wondering if they have ADHD or may be curious about it. I asked Dr Samantha Hiew, a leading voice and expert on ADHD for women, who was diagnosed herself aged 40 right after the birth of her second child. We talk about: Why there is a huge rise in ADHD diagnoses in women What are the characteristics of ADHD for women How does ADHD intersect with Motherhood But most importantly… I ask her whether it’s neurodivergence or the stress...
Jun 01, 2023•48 min•Ep. 248
This week’s Moment is with Beth Berry. Beth is a coach, author of Motherwhelmed and mother to four daughters. She says we can’t afford to pretend to love motherhood. Not this version of it. The version that has us raising our kids alone in our homes, disconnected from one another, immersed in a culture of judgment and perfectionism under the allusion that we are the ones who can’t get our act together. I hope today's Moment inspires you this week. Come engage with Zoe and our community over on I...
May 29, 2023•11 min
