Mothers at Midnight Podcast

A special offering from our hearts to yours. This season’s mini episodes are a 5-part collaboration with Marlies Verschoor, a self-care guide from the Netherlands whose mission is to support people on their path to self-love and connection. Each week Marlies and Indigo will explore how mothers can better care for themselves through loving self-connection. Each mini episode will offer a heart point, a self-share, a world share, a self-care strategy and a meditation.

This week’s offerings:

Heart Point: The mother in me is born alongside my baby

Self Share: Marlies talks about how in the Netherlands you have a helper after the birth for a week. Indigo shares her experience of birthing alone during COVID and how her second pregnancy has focused on creating a community of care. We talk about how each birth heralds a birth of a new self: from ‘the innocent mother’(first birth) to the shrewd mother (second birth).

World Share:  Matresence:  physical, emotional, hormonal and social transition to becoming a mother.

Strategy of self-care: How to create your own maternity and postpartum care plan,

Meditation: “The mother in me is born alongside my baby”

Connect with Marlies:

• Marlies Verschoor’s Website
• Follow Marlies on Instagram: marlies.verschoor 

Connect with Mothers at Midnight:

• You can write to us at: [email protected]
• Follow us on Instagram: Mothers_at_midnight

ROSE HARVEY
Instagram: rose_harvey_therapy 

INDIGO MELROSE
W: www.indigomelrose.com

Or check out our Patreon page for bonus episodes, behind the scenes content and updates on our circles and other offerings.

Our chat this week is all about relationships as we are joined by Tracy Proud, founder and Principal Psychotherapist at Nest Psychotherapy and Counselling. Tracy is a warm, connected and experienced therapist with a special interest in relationships and promoting gender and sexuality diverse affirming practices.

As part of her practice, Tracy runs the Relationship Retreat, intensive therapy based on the Gottman Method for couples feeling lost, stuck, overwhelmed or unsure how to move forward their relationship.

We chat about

• Complexity in relationships
• How to know when it’s time to end a relationship 
• Navigating endings (especially when there are children involved)
• Navigating the transition to parenthood as a couple
• How to connect more deeply with our partners
• Tips for intimacy after children
• The principles of the Gottman Method, including tools and techniques to enhance your relationship

Join us as we explore these points and so much more, this a soul nourishing conversation we know you will enjoy.

Resources 

• The Gottman Institute
• The Relationship Retreat
• Contact Tracy 

Connect with Mothers at Midnight:

• You can write to us at: [email protected]
• Follow us on Instagram: Mothers_at_midnight

ROSE HARVEY
Instagram: rose_harvey_therapy 

INDIGO MELROSE
W: www.indigomelrose.com

Or check out our Patreon page for bonus episodes, behind the scenes content and updates on our circles and other offerings.

A special offering from our hearts to yours. This season’s mini episodes are a 5-part collaboration with Marlies Verschoor, a self-care guide from the Netherlands whose mission is to support people on their path to self-love and connection. Each week Marlies and Indigo will explore how mothers can better care for themselves through loving self-connection. Each mini episode will offer a heart point, a self-share, a world share, a self-care strategy and a meditation.

This week’s offerings: Heart Point: Women around the world are birthing alongside me

Self Share: Baby and mum are a team ~ image you’re held whilst going through birth. Birth is a natural phenomenon and at the same time a magical one! How to have connected conversations during conception/pregnancy.

World Share:  Women of the community birth together AND men need to come into the field. Men have to relearn the power of birth and the baby being born vaginally as an act of magic not as something to be ‘disgusted by’. 

Strategy of self-care: Record affirmations in the voice of someone you love to support you through your pregnancy/birth.

Meditation: Women around the world are birthing alongside me

Affirmations for Birth 

Record these in your voice or the voice of someone you love. 

• I prepare for the birth of our baby filled with confidence
• I focus upon a calm, easy birth
• I trust that my body knows what it has to do
• My mind is relaxed and my body is relaxed
• I feel confident, I feel safe, I feel secure
• My muscles work together in complete harmony to make the birth easier
• I feel a natural calm flowing through my body 
• I relax, while we move swiftly and easily throughout every phase of birth 
• My cervix opens and lets our baby through with ease
• I relax completely and let nature take its course
• I see our baby exit my womb softly and with ease
• The birth of our baby will go smoothly, because I am relaxed and full of confidence
• I breath and let go of any tension
• I leave the birth to my body and our baby
• I am prepared to move along with every turn this birth will take
• Our baby calmly finds its way
• Every wave of my body brings our baby closer to us
• I am completely relaxed and comfortable
• My body stays calm and relaxed
• I breathe along with every wave of my body
• I put all fear aside and welcome our baby with joy
• While my body stays relaxed, I breathe along with ever wave

Connect with Marlies:

Marlies Verschoor’s Website: https://www.marliesverschoor.nl
Follow Marlies on Instagram: marlies.verschoor

Connect with Mothers at Midnight:
You can write to us at: [email protected]
Follow us on Instagram: Mothers_at_midnight

ROSE HARVEY
Instagram: rose_harvey_therapy

INDIGO MELROSE
W: www.indigomelrose.com

Or check out our Patreon page for bonus episodes, behind the scenes content and updates on our circles and other offerings.

In this week’s episode, we are honoured to share a deep yet uplifting conversation about navigating big life transitions and challenges with the warm and wise Petrea King.

Petrea is often described as a leading light in the field of holistic health in Australia.She is the CEO of the Quest for Life Foundation and a well-known author, inspirational speaker, teacher and facilitator. She is also qualified as a naturopath, herbalist, clinical hypnotherapist, yoga and meditation teacher.

Petrea views crisis as a catalyst for personal growth and understanding and as an opportunity for healing and peace. Her own healing journey and life experience of illness, trauma, grief and loss informs her work in her residential programs and workshops where she has supported tens of thousands of people living with cancer and other life-challenging illnesses, and those dealing with grief, loss, trauma, and tragedy.

We chat about:

• Petrea’s story including facing illness, the loss of her brother to suicide, and the spiritual experience that was the catalyst for her healing journey.
• How meditation and the integration of past traumatic experiences became paramount in her recovery from acute myeloid leukaemia.
• Healing the patterns we pick up in our family of origin 
• Looking beyond our beliefs, judgements, anxieties and fears to discover our true nature
• The importance of self-forgiveness
• The neuroscience behind spirituality and why we need to train the brain to be in service of our true nature
• How suffering can be the catalyst for personal growth, healing, and peace… and yet we do not need to suffer in order to wake up
• The importance of cultivating wonder, awe, gratitude, and connection
• How we can awaken to our essence, which is a loving expression of life

And so much more!

Join us as we explore these points and so much more, this a soul nourishing conversation we know you will enjoy.

Resources 

• Quest for Life
• Petrea’s Books and Meditations 
• Rainbow Meditation for Children

Connect with Mothers at Midnight:

• You can write to us at: [email protected]
• Follow us on Instagram: Mothers_at_midnight

ROSE HARVEY
Instagram: rose_harvey_therapy 

INDIGO MELROSE
W: www.indigomelrose.com

Or check out our Patreon page for bonus episodes, behind the scenes content and updates on our circles and other offerings.

A special offering from our hearts to yours. This season’s mini episodes are a 5-part collaboration with Marlies Verschoor, a self-care guide from the Netherlands whose mission is to support people on their path to self-love and connection. Each week Marlies and Indigo will explore how mothers can better care for themselves through loving self-connection. Each mini episode will offer a heart point, a self-share, a world share, a self-care strategy and a meditation. 

This week’s offerings:

Heart Point 3: Countless Women Birthed Before Me
Acknowledging the Card Deck we use:  CLICK HERE 

Self Share: Take comfort in knowing that you are part of a long line of women that have done this. We have all been carried by our mothers, in a womb, have all been birthed into this world. Magical fact: the egg that was necessary for you to be conceived, was already inside your grandmother’s womb! A woman's eggs are all created inside her mothers womb.

World Share:  Healing the mother wound and our wounded feminine lineage

Strategy of self-care:  How you were born is how you birth projects. Talk about your own birth with your mother (if possible). How to make a mother shrine.

Meditation: Countless women birthed before me

Connect with Marlies:

• Marlies Verschoor’s Website
• Follow Marlies on Instagram: marlies.verschoor 

Connect with Mothers at Midnight:

• You can write to us at: [email protected]
• Follow us on Instagram: Mothers_at_midnight

ROSE HARVEY
Instagram: rose_harvey_therapy 

INDIGO MELROSE
W: www.indigomelrose.com

Or check out our Patreon page for bonus episodes, behind the scenes content and updates on our circles and other offerings.

Join us for a tender, raw, and honest conversation about the ups and downs of welcoming a second child into the family. In this episode, Indigo shares her journey as a mother travelling through her second pregnancy. Although Indigo feels deep love for her baby, we also make space for the more taboo and rejected aspects of her pregnancy journey including facing loss of the family unit, gender grief, facing near miscarriage, loss of control and ultimately learning to surrender. Ultimately, this is a conversation about learning to mother the mother within, making space for all that we feel on our journey.

We chat about:

• The family we dream of vs the family we have
• Addressing gender related grief and disappointment
• Coping with the loss of control inherent in motherhood
• Embracing the unexpected journey each child takes us on
• How each child reveals something different within us as mothers

… and so much more

Resources

• https://www.indigomelrose.com
• Gender Disappointment Guilt
• Gender Disappointment: Grieving the idealised child

Connect with Mothers at Midnight:

• You can write to us at: [email protected]
• Follow us on Instagram: Mothers_at_midnight

ROSE HARVEY
Instagram: rose_harvey_therapy 

INDIGO MELROSE
W: www.indigomelrose.com

Or check out our Patreon page for bonus episodes, behind the scenes content and updates on our circles and other offerings.

A special offering from our hearts to yours. This season’s mini episodes are a 5-part collaboration with Marlies Verschoor, a self-care guide from the Netherlands whose mission is to support people on their path to self-love and connection. Each week Marlies and Indigo will explore how mothers can better care for themselves through loving self-connection. Each mini episode will offer a heart point, a self-share, a world share, a self-care strategy and a meditation. 

This week’s offerings:

Heart Point: My baby will come when he or she is ready

~ Self Share: External pressure once we pass our ‘due date’. Marlies and Indigo have both experienced this. The medical profession can use frightening terminology. Marlies ~ during birth I was rushed. Marlies ~ speaking to the women trying to conceive and waiting. 

~ World Share:  Australia has the highest rate of induction. Domino effect of interventions, medicalisation of birth. Manufacturability ~ want to control everything big fear over loss of control (that we don’t actually have), want to control our when, how we get pregnant, what gender/how many children, what our birth will look like (birth wishes [plans] - how I want to ‘look’ as how I want it to feel) and we lose the ability to birth naturally. Knowing our options can be empowering.

~ Strategy of self-care: Make a vision board of how you would like to feel and how you want to experience your birth.

Meditation: My baby will come when he or she is ready

Connect with Marlies:

• Marlies Verschoor’s Website
• Follow Marlies on Instagram: marlies.verschoor 

Connect with Mothers at Midnight: You can write to us at: [email protected] us on Instagram: Mothers_at_midnight

ROSE HARVEY

Instagram: rose_harvey_therapy

INDIGO MELROSE

W: www.indigomelrose.com

Or check out our Patreon page for bonus episodes, behind the scenes content and updates on our circles and other offerings.

In this week’s episode, we have a mind and heart expanding conversation with Tara Behr covering childhood trauma, psychedelics and Christianity.

Tara is a psychotherapist, poet, writer, and singer-songwriter based in Colorado Springs. In addition to working with men, women, and couples who are experiencing anxiety, depression, and trauma, Tara writes poetry and essays on radical feminism, interpersonal phenomenology, animism, Christian mysticism, and psychedelic-assisted therapy.

Tara's life has been dedicated to the discovery of what supports human flourishing and what prevents it. She believes it is our birthright to be connected to freedom, compassion, self-love, and people who respect, honour, and mirror you in your goodness. As a survivor of psychedelic abuse, Tara brings a nuanced and balanced view to the conversation around psychedelic assisted therapy. 

The heart points Tara shares in this episode:

• Psychedelics will not save you or the world, but love will. 
• Singing our song of truth is the deepest medicine
• You are a sacred being of divine light, not a problem to be fixed. 

Join us as we explore these points and so much more, this a soul nourishing conversation we know you will enjoy.

Resources 

• Tara’s Website
• Tara’s Instagram
• Tara’s essay on the hidden harms within the psychedelic renaissance (a must read!)
• Tara’s Substack

Connect with Mothers at Midnight:

• You can write to us at: [email protected]
• Follow us on Instagram: Mothers_at_midnight

ROSE HARVEY
Instagram: rose_harvey_therapy 

INDIGO MELROSE
W: www.indigomelrose.com

Or check out our Patreon page for bonus episodes, behind the scenes content and updates on our circles and other offerings.

A special offering from our hearts to yours. This season’s mini episodes are a 5-part collaboration with Marlies Verschoor, a self-care guide from the Netherlands whose mission is to support people on their path to self-love and connection. Each week Marlies and Indigo will explore how mothers can better care for themselves through loving self-connection. Each mini episode will offer a heart point, a self-share, a world share, a self-care strategy and a meditation. 

This week’s offerings:

Heart Point 1: “Taking care of myself means taking care of my baby” 
Acknowledging the Card Deck we use:  CLICK HERE 

Self Share: Marlies ~ breaking the ‘all or nothing thinking’ ~ making it sustainable and pleasurable. Indigo ~ burned out mothering is unfulfilling. 

World Share: Women today do everything, but nothing is done quite right. What really calls you? Following our passion and making room for creativity in a time of immense creativity! 

Strategy of self-care: Starting the day with a daily question “when you don’t have much time or energy what really fills your cup/nourishes you?”.  & can you incorporate your kids into self care practices? 

Meditation: Taking care of myself means taking care of my baby

Connect with Marlies:

• Marlies Verschoor’s Website
• Follow Marlies on Instagram: marlies.verschoor 

Connect with Mothers at Midnight:

• You can write to us at: [email protected]
• Follow us on Instagram: Mothers_at_midnight

ROSE HARVEY
Instagram: rose_harvey_therapy 

INDIGO MELROSE
W: www.indigomelrose.com

Or check out our Patreon page for bonus episodes, behind the scenes content and updates on our circles and other offerings.