The Motherkind Podcast

This week's episode is with Clare Pooley, author of the hugely successful 'The Sober Diaries - How one woman stopped drinking and started living'. Clare found the juggle of a stressful career and family life a struggle so she left her successful role as a Managing Partner in one of the world's biggest advertising agencies to look after her family. She knew the change wouldn't be easy but she never expected to find herself drinking more than a bottle of wine a day. The book is her journey back to herself, through getting sober and is an inspiring, funny and poignant story of living life to the full. We chat about: - when to consider stopping drinking - how she knew she had a problem - what she learned about herself through sobriety - her sober social life - sober parenting Hope you enjoy it, to accompany the episode I've written about my own experience of sobriety over on the blog https://www.motherkind.co/blog-1/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

This episode is with the amazing Katie Abbott who has worked as a Therapist and Coach from 1 Harley St for the past 10 years and is also the Founder of Pause Place, the first Certified Coach Training dedicated to the strength of love, presence and connection. Katie is a mum of 2 and we chat about embracing imperfection, connection, feeling feelings and being an empath. Katie runs retreats in Italy and India and runs regular events for both Shoreditch and Soho House in London. This year, Pause Place will take place at the newly launched 42 Acres in Shoreditch and will run from May-October. If you are interested please visit www.pauseplace.com to discover more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Welcome to this special episode to celebrate International Women's Day, 8th March. It's with the amazing Zing Tsjeng who is a journalist and author, she currently works as the UK editor of Broadly, VICE’s channel for millennial women. She has also written about feminism, arts and culture, politics, race and LGBTQ identity for publications like the Guardian, Buzzfeed, Dazed, i-D magazine and the Debrief. Her books 'The Forgotten Women' series are out today and uncover the lost histories of the influential women who have refused over hundreds of years to accept the hand they've been dealt and, as a result, have formed, shaped and changed the course of our futures. We chat about: - her process writing the books - her favourite stories and why - what we can learn from these women Hope you enjoy the episode and Happy International Women's Day https://www.octopusbooks.co.uk/books/detail.page?isbn=9781844039715 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

This week I'm chatting to the wonderful Emma Mills. Emma is a meditation teacher and the creator of emmamillslondon.com. She is the mindfulness expert on the board of advisers at luxury brand, Neom Organics, and has contributed to the Telegraph, Lonely Planet, City AM, the Irish Enquirer, Amnesty International, MIND, Red Magazine and Cosmopolitan. She has a private practice in central London, as well as in the Midlands. She holds events and meetings across the UK. We cover: - How she got started - Her unique definition of meditation - Not planning and going with the flow - Why being curious is our secret weapon - How she uses affirmations and mantras - Her meditation tips for busy mums http://www.emmamillslondon.com/about/aboutemmamills/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

This week I chat to the wonderful Lizzie King, from Lizzie Loves Healthy. Lizzie is an author, nutritional health coach, food writer and mum of 3. If you've ever been confused by the sugar debate, worried about fussy eaters or need some healthy snack inspiration...then this one is for you. Lizzie was a joy to talk to, not only is she highly knowledgeable she's also practical and down to earth. As a mum of 3, she knows how to manage busy mum life with healthy eating for the whole family. We chat about: - How she started - Sugar - what to avoid and how - Easy, healthy snacks to replace the junk - Fussy eaters and how to introduce new foods - Her amazing health hacks (cherry and charcoal!) - The one thing she'd give to all the mums in the world Hope you enjoy the episode. If you did, please share it and rate us on i tunes, it really does make a difference. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Episode 12 is with Nicky Raby - Nicky is a is an actor, coach, writer, and speaker. I know for so many of us when we become a parent, it sharply puts our working life into focus. What do we really want to do? How can make work, work? Nicky is passionate about helping mothers define their own version of success. We chat about: - Figuring it out as we go - How becoming a mum can help us get clear on what we really want and what success means to us - how a lack of time can actually be a gift - boundaries, saying no and asking for help - how becoming a mum helps us look at our expectations and limiting beliefs - knowing our worth, even in a new venture I hope you enjoy the episode, join us on instagram @motherkind.co to continue the conversation. If you're interested in working with Nicky find her on the usual social channels and at www.nickyraby.com/personalbrandplan. ARE YOU PREGNANT? I'd love to see you at my self-care for new mums workshop 'Becoming Mum' 24th Feb in London. All details are on the website www.motherkind.co. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Episode 11 is with Dr Rebecca Moore, who is a consultant perinatal psychiatrist with over 20 years experience in treating the psychological aspects of pregnancy, birth and early motherhood. Her clinical expertise covers PTSD, birth trauma, anxiety, depression, and the mum-baby bond. She is also training to be an Integrative Practioner - which is a healing-oriented medicine that takes account of the whole person, including all aspects of lifestyle. I was so excited to chat with Becca and learn more about this vitally important area and the work she does. What we cover in this episode: - What birth trauma is and how we know if we need help - What we can do to prepare for birth - The importance of normalising psychologically challenging births - The power of journaling and other ways we can start to process our birth experiences I hope you enjoy the episode and if you want to talk directly to Becca about anything we cover in the episode, she is happy to respond to direct messages on Instagram @drrebeccamoore. Please join the conversation from this episode on Instagram @motherkind.co. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Anya Hayes is a health and wellbeing writer and speaker, and Pilates teacher specialising in pregnancy and post-natal. She is also the author of four books: My Pilates Guru, A Little Course in Pilates Pregnancy, The Naked Truth and her latest book, The Supermum Myth: Overcome anxiety, ditch guilt and embrace imperfection. On her blog - Mothers’ Wellness Toolkit - Anya shares her parenting journey, inspiration and loads of great tools on how to navigate the challenges of motherhood - check it out here motherswellnesstoolkit.wordpress.com and her Instagram, @mothers.wellness.toolkit. I really enjoyed our chat, Anya and I could have chatted for hours – there was so much I wanted to talk to her about. She’s hugely inspiration and down to earth at the same time. I think we’ll definitely be recording another episode soon. What we cover in the episode: - The danger of expectations for both birth and motherhood - 3 simple tools for staying calm during a toddler meltdown - Control - why we crave it and what happens we lose it - Listening to our instincts and not giving our power away - Technology and social media - how to manage it mindfully I came away from my chat with Anya with an even deeper appreciation of how challenging motherhood, and in particular, early motherhood is. It reaffirmed to me the importance of having tools in our toolkit to enable us to really enjoy those early days and the journey rather than being in survival mode all the time. I really hope you enjoy our chat and if you did please leave a review on iTunes and join in the conversation on Instagram @motherkind.co. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

This episode is with Natalie Pennicotte-Collier, the London based supercoach. Natalie is on a mission to transform the Sleep, Mental Health & Wellbeing for pupils, parents, athletes and gen X. Natalie is a mum of 2 and the only integrative hypnotherapist & Mindful practitioner working in Elite Sport. Natalie has developed a 5 week sleep Mindset course, to transform your relationship with sleep and wellbeing and through CalmerRama (@calmerrama), Nat is on a mission with her award winning youth mental health workshops championing modern mindfulness for all. What we cover in the episode: - Limiting beliefs - what they are and how they hold us back - How we can help our children's mindset from an early age - The surprising things about sleep you probably don't know - A new approach to sleep for mum's I hope you enjoy the episode and if you did, please leave a review on in tunes and join the conversation on Instagram. You can find out more about Nat and her work at mindtonictherapy.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Nicky Clinch is an incredibly inspiring woman having recovered from substance addiction at a really young age to now making a hugely positive impact on the world through her work as a Transformational Life Coach, Macrobiotic Counsellor and Chef. Nicky and I cover so much in this episode including: - Being authentic on Instagram and social media - Her challenging start to life and why she's grateful for it - Living and healing from the inside, out - Her journey through motherhood and why she ended up throwing all her 'how to' books away - 12 step Recovery and motherhood - Her non-negotiable self-care ritual (it's not what you might expect!) - Learning how to trust our own instincts - Bed sharing, breastfeeding and truth telling I hope you enjoy the episode and if you did please leave a comment on Instagram and a review on i tunes Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices