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Episode 18: Amber on Breaking Cycles, Spirituality & Rewriting the Script
This week I'm joined by my 18th guest, Amber, for a conversation about growing up too soon, breaking cycles and completely changing the script for you and your children. Amber grew up in a broken home on a council estate, having to become independent and grow up before her time. She completed a hairdressing course at school before becoming pregnant at just 17, and in many ways, Amber feels like she did life the other way around. Now her children are older, and their relationship has evolved into something incredibly special — they're not just her children, they're her best friends. 🤍 Amber opens up about being in a toxic relationship while her children were unhappy, and the moment she realised something had to change. She shares her journey into spirituality, including her experience with plant medicine, and how it became part of a much bigger journey of healing, growth and finding herself again. A story about resilience, motherhood, spirituality, healing and breaking generational cycles.
Episode 17: Charley & Danielle on Motherhood, Mental Health & Three Generations of Love
This week I'm joined by my 17th guests, Charley & Danielle — my first ever mum and daughter duo — for a conversation full of honesty, vulnerability, motherhood and some really interesting discussions. Danielle talks about growing up with a dad who was a detective, while Charley opens up about her dad's struggles with bipolar disorder and mental health, and how her grandparents stepped in and played such an important role in her childhood. After losing her grandad, Charley struggled with health anxiety and shares her experience of cognitive behavioural therapy and counselling. We also talk about how midwives and maternity care have changed over the years, seeing spirits, NICU experiences, breastfeeding, children's diets and preservatives and colourings, injections, and the reality of motherhood behind the picture-perfect version we see on social media. And we finish with the very different experiences of being a mum versus becoming a nan. 🤍
Episode 16: Emily O'Rawe on Career Changes, Birth Trauma, Breastfeeding & Finding Her Own Way
This week I'm joined by my 16th guest, Emily — a mum of three — for a conversation full of honesty, vulnerability and some really important discussions about motherhood. Emily takes us through her journey raising two girls and a boy, and the differences she's noticed between them. We talk about traumatic birth experiences, haemorrhaging and tearing, the realities of recovery, colic, reflux and the struggles she faced with breastfeeding. We also dive into miscarriage, moving home with children, the role of dads during birth, school holiday fines, home schooling and whether some of life's most valuable lessons are actually learnt outside the classroom. 🤍
Episode 15: Alanna Groom on Family Trauma, Postnatal Depression, Addiction & Finding Herself Again
⚠️ Trigger warning: this episode includes discussions of emotional abuse, postnatal depression, addiction and suicidal thoughts. Please listen with care. 🤍 This week I'm joined by coach Alanna Groom — known as @iknowafatlossgirl — for an incredibly honest conversation about being raised by teenage parents, family trauma, divorce, emotional abuse, postnatal depression, slimming tablets and addiction, discovering ADHD, and how a lockdown decision turned into a global coaching business.
Episode 14: Rob Swaine on Fatherhood, IVF, Health & Why Dads Should Do More At Home
This week I'm joined by coach and dad Rob Swaine for an honest conversation about parenthood with no manual, their IVF journey, a surprise second baby born the day they moved house, life with a threenager and a terrible two, why stay-at-home mums deserve far more recognition, and the truth about peptides, weight-loss injections and feeling good rather than just looking good. 🤍
Episode 13: Hollie Dowding on Domestic Abuse, Coercive Control & Turning Trauma Into House of Her
⚠️ Trigger warning: this episode contains discussions of domestic abuse, violence, cancer and serious illness. Please listen with care. 🤍 This week I'm joined by the incredible Hollie Dowding — mum of two, business owner and domestic abuse advocate. Hollie bravely shares her experience of coercive control and violence, how she found the strength to put her abuser in prison, and how she turned one of the darkest chapters of her life into House of Her, a trauma-informed hub supporting women navigating domestic abuse.
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