Nourishing the Mother

Back to school isn’t just a diary change…it’s a full nervous system reboot.

In this episode, Julie and Bridget get radically practical about what actually creates calm in the return-to-school season. Not mindset hacks. Not “just be more organised.” But the real, lived strategies that reduce friction, soften mornings, and help both parents and kids land back into rhythm; especially when neurodivergence, sensory needs, or emotional overwhelm are in the mix. This is about removing the predictable stress points so you’re not burning through your capacity before 8.30am… and so you can meet your children with steadiness instead of snapping over socks.

In this episode, we discuss:

- Why back to school dysregulates parents just as much as children, and how to work with that instead of against it
- How small, repeated friction points quietly drain your nervous system (and why it’s never really about the socks)
- Identifying your personal school-morning kryptonite before it takes you out
- Running each child individually, instead of treating the family like one blurred system
- Supporting neurodivergent kids with predictability, sensory-aware systems, and reduced decision load
- How personalised stationery, colour-coding, and clear structure can dramatically lower anxiety
- Why writing everything down actually restores capacity (and isn’t another thing to “get right”)
- Front-loading the obvious — socks, uniforms, lunches — so you’re not regulating chaos later
- The reframe: you don’t need more patience, you need more margin
- How logistics create emotional safety for kids (and parents)
- Streamlining lunchboxes and routines to reduce daily decision fatigue
- Having the conversations early that prevent meltdowns later
- Clarifying assumptions around sleepovers, screens, bedtimes, and flexibility
- Preparing for wobble: school changes, transitions, big feelings…without trying to prevent them
- Why this isn’t control… it’s care
- How planning for reality lets you soften into the year instead of bracing against it

This episode is for the parent who wants calmer mornings, steadier energy, and a school year that feels more doable - not because life is easier, but because you are better resourced.

Want support on this journey? Come join us inside Honey Club - where we melt these blocks together, one breath, one practice, one deep remembering at a time. Find out more at julietenner.love or visit: https://julie-tenner.newzenler.com/courses/honeyclub

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In this episode, Bridget shares her experience of her grandfather’s passing, and the reflections that surfaced in the aftermath. Together, Julie and Bridget explore how our understanding of the people we love is always shaped by proximity, role, and family narrative.

We unpack the idea that we never truly know a whole person; only the version revealed to us through relationship, family dynamics, and shared stories. This conversation gently examines legacy, memory, and the quiet humility required to accept that every life is larger and more complex than the slice we are given. It’s a reflection on grief, inheritance, and the ways family both connects us and limits what we can see, without needing answers, conclusions, or neat meaning-making.

In this episode we discuss:
- What it’s like to lose a grandparent and sit with what remains unspoken
- How family stories shape who someone is allowed to be in memory
- The idea that we only ever know people through our own relational lens
- How different family members can hold entirely different versions of the same person
- Why legacy is never the full truth of a life; just a fragment
- The tension between intimacy and unknowability in close relationships
- How grief can soften certainty rather than create clarity
- What it means to honour someone without needing to define them
- The humility of accepting partial knowing
- Allowing complexity to exist without trying to resolve it

Want support on this journey? Come join us inside Honey Club - where we melt these blocks together, one breath, one practice, one deep remembering at a time. Find out more at julietenner.love or visit: https://julie-tenner.newzenler.com/courses/honeyclub

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You don’t need a quiet house.
You don’t need a fresh journal, a candle, or the “right headspace.”

In this episode, Bridget and Julie walk you through 10 gentle New Year reflection questions in real time - the kind you can answer as you listen. Sitting in the car. On the couch. With a notes app open and a half-drunk cup of tea beside you.

We pause.
We give you space.
And then…imperfectly and honestly…we answer them ourselves, on the fly.

This is not about crafting beautiful intentions or saying the “right” thing. It’s about noticing what’s actually true after a full year of living, loving, mothering, working, holding, and becoming.

You’re invited to reflect alongside us - not as a student, not as someone who needs to get it together - but as a woman in motion.

Let this be messy.
Let it be simple.
Let it meet you exactly where you are.

Press play. Grab your phone or a pen.
And join us in meeting the year ahead, without forcing it.

Want support on this journey? Come join us inside Honey Club - where we melt these blocks together, one breath, one practice, one deep remembering at a time. Find out more at julietenner.love or visit: https://julie-tenner.newzenler.com/courses/honeyclub

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The post-Christmas crash can leave many women feeling not just tired, but disconnected — from their bodies, their partners, and their erotic selves. In this deeply relieving episode, Julie and Bridget explore how the adrenaline of December masks exhaustion until it drops, and why that comedown so often shows up as sexual shutdown. They gently dismantle the myth that intimacy requires energy women simply don’t have at this time of year, and explore what it looks like to reconnect without pressure, performance, or guilt. This conversation reframes low libido not as a relationship problem, but as an intelligent signal of depletion, mental load, and modern motherhood…and offers a softer, more honest pathway back to connection.

In this episode we discuss:

- Why the post-Christmas adrenaline crash often brings emotional and sexual disconnection

- How modern motherhood, constant vigilance, and over-functioning contribute to sexual shutdown

- Why Christmas and January amplify “roommate mode” in long-term relationships

- The link between mental load, resentment, and loss of erotic aliveness

- Why low libido is usually a symptom; not the problem itself

- How women’s bodies move into protection when overloaded or depleted

- Why many women confuse loss of desire with loss of love

- How arousal is contextual and relational; not a random internal drive

- The difference between erotic aliveness and sexual performance

- How pressure (even loving pressure) quietly kills arousal

- Why fixing sex by focusing on sex often backfires

- The power of noticing and appreciating everyday contributions in a relationship

- Small, genuine interactions that reduce resentment and rebuild connection

- Ways couples can stay connected that aren’t about sex — but often lead back to it

Want support on this journey? Come join us inside Honey Club - where we melt these blocks together, one breath, one practice, one deep remembering at a time. Find out more at julietenner.love or visit: https://julie-tenner.newzenler.com/courses/honeyclub

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In the final week before Christmas, when the lists are finished and the adrenaline drops, many women don’t feel relief…they feel flat, teary, irritable or quietly undone. This episode is an emotional temperature check for overstretched mothers asking, “I should be happy… so why do I feel empty?” Julie and Bridget name the invisible load women are carrying and explore why Christmas becomes the moment everything catches up. This isn’t about fixing yourself, it’s about naming what’s real instead of performing festive happiness, and understanding what your body and heart have been holding all year.

In this episode we discuss:

- Why women often get sick, emotional or unravel right as the “finish line” approaches

- What happens in the nervous system when the doing stops and there’s finally space to feel

- The invisible labour of holding logistics, emotions, magic and family harmony

- The silent bargains women make with themselves to keep going…and the cost of those bargains

- The thoughts women don’t say out loud because they feel ungrateful, dramatic or selfish

- Why Christmas stirs grief for younger selves, lost parents and past seasons of motherhood

- How desire and libido don’t disappear — they go into protective shutdown

- The emotional contradictions of this season: love and resentment, gratitude and grief, desire and numbness

- Why being told to “just rest” can feel infuriating when you’re already depleted

- The difference between coping and actually being okay

- How to tend yourself gently without adding another thing to your to-do list

Want support on this journey? Come join us inside Honey Club - where we melt these blocks together, one breath, one practice, one deep remembering at a time. Find out more at julietenner.love or visit: https://julie-tenner.newzenler.com/courses/honeyclub

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