NTM 463: Building the capacity to mother the way we WEREN’T mothered - Part 2, Julie’s lens

Nourishing the Mother

When we’re trying so hard to mother in ways that we were not mothered, we can find we exhaust ourselves at the altar of ‘perfection’. What would it look like to stop parenting from a place of lack or fear, and start parenting from a place of love and wellbeing. Let’s find out…

In this episode we discuss:

- The need to overperform to feel okay

- Parenting from a place of lack, fear and anxiety

- Being socialised into intensive mothering, with an endless capacity

- Venomous blame cycles, vs overflow of service where we feel balanced and fulfilled

- Pushing and performing, vs feeling good in your motherhood - We adapt to the environment, privilege included

- They will not appreciate what their ‘set point’ is - We can’t save our children from having voids

- Make sure you take your wellbeing with you

- Have areas of your life that are nurtured outside of your children

- Taking separation personally, and clawing your relationship back

- Looking at your child’s movement towards you and away from you as normal, rather than ending up in guilt and shame
To explore feminine embodiment, intimacy and relationship in Honey Club with Julie, visit https://julietenner.love/
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