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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The festive season looks magical on paper: twinkly lights, long lunches, sparkling moments with kids… but for so many families, it’s actually a sensory avalanche waiting to happen. In this episode, we unpack what’s really going on beneath the meltdowns, the indecision, the clinginess, the crankiness, and the “I can’t do this” moments (from kids and parents). We map nervous systems, explore individual sensory needs, and name the pressure cooker that December becomes — especially when you’re juggling perimenopause, presents, dinners, social expectations, and kids who are already overstretched. This conversation is honest, practical, and deeply human: how to choose magic moments without drowning in them, what regulation actually looks like for each child, and why being brutally honest about your capacity is the most loving thing you can do for your family. 

 In This Episode, We Discuss:

• How the festive season overloads children’s nervous systems through noise, crowds, smells, transitions, and too much “magic” too fast.
• The three major overwhelm responses in kids: meltdown, anger spikes, or freeze/shut-down; and what they’re trying to communicate.
• Why one child needs silence and retreat, another needs cold drinks and blankets, and another needs fidgets, weight, rhythm, or background sound.
• How Bridget’s youngest regulates through touch and closeness, while her middle daughter can’t settle without constant sound.
• Why mindful “magic-moment picking” helps your child stay regulated instead of spiralling into overwhelm halfway through the day.
• The emotional labour of parenting in December — the pressure to make it magical while your own nervous system is scraping the bottom.
• Practical sensory-based regulation strategies for each child, and how to support differences without making anyone wrong.
• Why parents’ sensory thresholds drop dramatically during perimenopause, and how to honour that instead of pushing through.
• Julie’s “TV dinners” survival strategy for dinner prep and evening chaos when her own system is overloaded.
• Bridget’s regulation rituals and why they work so well.
• The importance of being brutally honest about your capacity and creating a “family sensory plan” for December.

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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Resentment is quiet… until it isn’t.And when it leaks through your tone, your silence, or the way you half-turn when he walks in the door, it can change the entire ecosystem of your relationship - even when you don’t mean it to.

In this episode, we dive into the real energetic difference between speaking from bitterness and speaking from love. We explore why so many long-term couples get caught in confirmation loops, scorekeeping, and micro-withdrawals… and how the smallest shift in tone, softness, or openness can bring a whole relationship back online. Through a client story that moved from near-separation to reconnection, we unpack how resentment builds, how it melts, and why the quality of your “hello” at the door can set the emotional temperature for your whole evening. This episode is a mix of deep truth and deliciously human moments — the friendship, the coaching, and the reality of women doing life and love in real time.

 In This Episode, We Discuss:

• The subtle ways resentment leaks through tone, posture, and silence — even when you think you’re “being fine.”

• The client story: from near-divorce to reconnection through clarity, responsibility, and shifting the energy behind her words.

• How testing, scorekeeping, and waiting for him to fail creates the very distance you fear.

• The difference between speaking from bitterness (“did you even…?”) and speaking from love (“hey love, could you…?”).

• The moment a woman realises “everything you don’t do automatically means I do it” — and why this belief keeps resentment alive.

• Over-functioning vs under-functioning: how these nervous system patterns lock couples into power struggles.

• Why the daily greeting — that tiny “hello” at the door — shapes the entire emotional temperature of your night.

• How to create safety and connection by inviting your partner in instead of silently testing them.

• The role of exit strategies and why knowing you can leave often makes you stay with more truth and softness.

• The magnetic influence women hold in relationships — not through force, but through the energy of receptivity and clarity.

• How bonding with friends over partner-complaints keeps you stuck in resentment loops without even realising 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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Julie and Bridget dive into why mothers so often feel their children’s birthdays in their bodies - not just as a date on the calendar, but as an emotional echo of who they were when that child arrived. 

They unpack the surprising way the body holds onto birth memories, how milestone birthdays can reopen old wounds or tender places, and why perimenopause, identity shifts, and grief can hit hard in the background of these celebrations. Together, they explore the collision of timelines: our children growing up while we’re changing, ageing, and renegotiating who we are, and offer gentle questions and reframes to help mothers meet these moments with more compassion, clarity, and reverence for the women they’ve become along the way.

In This Episode, We Discuss:
* How our children’s birthdays can stir old emotional echoes from the time they were born
* Why the body remembers more than we realise; and how those memories resurface during milestones
* The surprising overlap between adolescence, perimenopause, and the identity shifts of midlife motherhood
* The pull into self-doubt, regret, or “have I done enough?” and why it’s an emotional anniversary, not a failure
* Why big feelings around birthdays don’t mean something is wrong — they’re part of the mothering timeline
* How to hold yourself through emotional reactivation with softness rather than self-criticism
* Gentle questions to help you understand what this milestone is asking you to release, recognise, or step toward
* A simple grounding ritual to honour both who you were when they arrived and who you’re becoming now

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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This week, we’re opening the door on one of the most invisible seasons of womanhood — being in ‘the sandwich generation’. The stretch between raising children and caring for ageing parents can feel like living two lives at once: one full of growth and beginnings, the other shaped by endings and decline. 

In this conversation, we unpack the exhaustion, the guilt, the grief, and the quiet unraveling that happens when you’re holding everyone else together — and explore how to navigate this season with tenderness, truth, and boundaries that honour your own humanity.

In this episode, we discuss:
• What it feels like to be stretched to breaking point; emotionally, physically, and financially…while holding generations together.
• The whiplash of mothering in both directions: when your parents need care and your kids still need you steady.
• How old wounds resurface in caregiving, and how to meet them with compassion instead of collapse.
• Grieving while giving: facing mortality, memory loss, and decline while still showing up for life’s daily demands.
• Redefining what it means to be a “good daughter” and a “good mother” - and the difference between guilt-driven care and love-led presence.
• Why micro-rituals of care are leadership, not luxury…and how they protect your capacity to love.
• The courage to let legacy be love, not martyrdom: showing your children that boundaries are devotion.
• How couples can stay connected and compassionate through the demands of caring for two generations.

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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If guilt were cardio, every mum would be an Olympian. But what if guilt isn’t proof you’re failing — it’s proof you care? In this episode, we unpack the emotional weight mothers carry and how “mum guilt” has become a badge of honour we never asked for. From the cultural conditioning that tells us a good mother should give everything, to the quiet courage it takes to choose ourselves without crumbling under judgement, we explore how to move from guilt as punishment to guilt as guidance. You’ll learn how to stay anchored in your own truth, meet your children’s reflections with grace, and reclaim a version of motherhood that’s values-led, not shame-fuelled.

In this episode we discuss:
• How guilt has become the default emotional setting for modern mothers.
• The difference between guilt as a values compass and guilt as a shame loop.
• When your child says “how can you choose work/friends/yourself over me!” and how to stay calm and anchored instead of defensive or withdrawn.
• The courage to be disliked without closing, contorting, or hardening.
• Shifting from external validation to self-anchoring: defining your worth from within.
• Seeing guilt as a lopsided perception; finding the other side and asking, “Do I need to feel guilty here?”
• How to tell when guilt signals a values misalignment versus when you’re actually in alignment.
• The patriarchal version of the “good mother” versus the archetypal mother, and which one you’re subscribing to.
• How to meet guilt with curiosity, compassion, and objectivity instead of criticism.

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, we discuss what to do when your child slams the brakes on; from “I’m not going to school” to daily battles over getting dressed or leaving the house. We explore how to stay grounded when their storms threaten to pull you in, how to use play and connection to move through resistance, and why your regulation is the most powerful parenting tool you have. We unpack what happens in your body when you feel backed into a corner, how to find your anchor, and the small moments of humour, affection, and attunement that can shift even the hardest days.

In this episode, we discuss:

• What’s really happening when your child resists…and why matching their frustration only fuels the fire
• How to stay anchored and calm when their emotions feel overwhelming
• Using playfulness to shift tension, reconnect, and move through sticky moments
• Finding micro-moments of humour and connection when you’re tired or touched-out
• Reframing play as a mindset, not another task on your list
• How your regulation invites theirs and makes co-regulation possible
• Holding the bigger vision for how you want moments like these to end, even when it’s hard
• Why there’s no “magic trick” to fix behaviour - but there is a way to lead with steadiness, warmth, and presence

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, Julie sits down with Fertility Coach Liz Walton to redefine what fertility really means. Liz, founder of the Australian Fertility Summit, brings her own lived experience - ten years of “failed” IVF rounds, deep personal healing, and eventually conceiving her daughter naturally at 46 - to shine light on what so many women long for but rarely hear: that fertility isn’t just medical. It’s emotional, relational, spiritual, and deeply personal. Together, we explore how to hold women through infertility, loss, and longing with compassion, and what it really means to nourish the mother before she becomes one.

In this episode we discuss:
* Redefining fertility beyond doctors’ offices and treatments
* What women truly need on this journey - body, mind, relationship, and self
* Holding space for the woman, not just the patient
* Emotional struggle, self-attack, and how mainstream care overlooks it
* Surprising blocks to conception - emotional, and subconscious scars
* Unexplained infertility and the hidden role of trauma or abuse
* The importance of internal fertility: self-talk, self-kindness, and a fertile relationship with self
* Feeling broken or like your body has failed - and rewriting that narrative
* Why 57% of women stop IVF because of the emotional toll
* How relationships can survive the pressure and stay connected through IVF
* The power of communication, compassion, and emotional support in partnership
* The grief, anger, envy, and pain of seeing others conceive when you cannot
* Letting go of blame and judgement in relationship dynamics
* Liz’s daily practice for “deleting your fears” and moving forward with self-love
* If society could reframe fertility, what would shift
* A grounding practice women can do today to feel more nourished and whole
* What Liz most hopes women take away from the Fertility Expo
The Melbourne Fertility Expo, Nov 8
https://australianfertilitysummit.com.au/

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Liz
https://lizwalton.org/

https://www.instagram.com/lizwalton_fertilitycoach/?hl=en

What really turns mothers on isn’t roses or lingerie….it’s partnership. It’s not having to carry everything alone, not having to think about one more thing, not feeling swallowed up by kids and needs with no solo time left. In this episode we explore why sharing the load is the ultimate aphrodisiac, how appreciation and acknowledgement fuel intimacy, and why true partnership is so much sexier than performative help. When you feel like it’s not all on you, when you’re a team doing it together, when you trust in each other’s best intentions - that’s where turn on lives.

In this episode we discuss:

- Defining invisible labour: remembering birthdays, meal-planning, emotional holding

- How doing the dishes or handling school emails is foreplay because it reduces resentment and creates space for turn-on

- Why true partnership is hotter than performative help

- The intimacy of “thank you” and “I see what you did”

- How acknowledgement turns everyday tasks into moments of being valued

- Why feeling seen is often the gateway to wanting to be touched

- The difference between “checking the box” sex and “I want you” intimacy

- How nervous system safety and emotional connection unlock desire

- Practical shifts like flirting in the day, slowing down, making sex about connection rather than performance

- Not having to think about something as a turn-on in itself

- The idea of being a team and doing it together as sexy

- Protecting each other’s solo time so you’re not swallowed up by kids and constant needs

- The turn-on of feeling it’s not all on you

- Running with the assumption of your partner’s best notions and intentions as a foundation for intimacy

Bare-Bones to Booked
3-day FREE workshop series for Solo Practitioners and Service-Based Businesses.
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Bridget is a full-time working mother navigating the reality of decreased time and increased pressure — which demands a new level of discernment about what can and can’t be held. In this episode, we explore how to protect your energy, bring more equity into your relationship, and create room for your dreams without over-functioning to keep the peace. We talk about holding your partner accountable, building flexible rhythms that support the whole family, and why truth-telling, shared responsibility, and protecting your wellbeing are non-negotiables for long-term love and fulfilment.

In this episode we discuss:

- The inherited belief that “good mothers sacrifice everything” and how desire is actually sacred life force
- Guilt as a compass pointing to your conditioning, not your truth
- Why you don’t need hours of time to move forward, and how micro-actions compound into big results
- Using presence, not perfection, so that what you do carries more impact
- Boundaries that protect your energy; with time, tech, and the mental load
- Support systems and nervous system practices that let your dreams breathe even when life is full
- Moving from “I’ll do it when life is easier” to “I’m doing it in the cracks because it matters now”
- Increasing discernment on what gives you energy versus what drains you
- Holding your partner accountable so you’re not the default parent, and why equity is essential in relationships
- Truth-telling and shared responsibility as foundations for long-term connection
- Protecting what matters most between you and your partner so you feel respected and connected
- Balancing guilt with congruence in the give and take of relationships so complaints don’t hold resonance
- Letting tolerance of what you don’t like exist alongside protecting your dreams and wellbeing
- Knowing this season is about compounding effort, not single moments, and feeling proud of showing up meaningfully

Bare-Bones to Booked
3-day FREE workshop series for Solo Practitioners and Service-Based Businesses.
https://www.julietenner.love/booked


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