Single Mother Survival Guide

In this episode of the Single Mother Survival Guide Podcast, Julia chats with single mums Nadia Mori and Lyndsey Bramble about secret single mums business for the fourth time. We chat about dating, mean girls on the P&C, frequent flyers, the state of Australian politics, buying houses, running a business, recovering from break-ups and settling into single mum life.

Links mentioned in the episode:

Listen to our first Secret Single Mums Business Episode here.

Listen to the second Secret Single Mums Business Episode here.

Listen to the third Secret Single Mums Business Episode here.

Don't Just Survive, THRIVE! - The online course for single mums to get empowered (kicking off on 22nd October 2018) - JOIN THE TRIBE HERE.

Blog post: THE DAY I REALISED I LET MY DAUGHTER DOWN .

New business details: website isn't live yet, BUT the first workshop details are HERE.

To contact Julia, email: [email protected].

For information about the single parent mentoring programs available with Julia, visit Single Mother Survival Guide Mentoring and E-Courses.

Book in for your complimentary 30 minute Clarity Call with Julia here.

Book in for your 90 minute one-off intensive one-on-one session with Julia right HERE.

Visit us at Single Mother Survival Guide.

Or connect with Single Mother Survival Guide on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, or Pinterest.

In this week's episode, Julia chats with Lauren Patterson. Lauren is a single mum, a personal trainer, mental health advocate, and blogger at Mad Max Mum.

Lauren knows what it's like to hit rock bottom. After living with depression and an eating disorder in her younger years, separating from the father of her children, and suffering from post-natal depression, a passion for living a balanced and healthy lifestyle was fueled which focused on self-love, empowerment and mindfulness.

In this episode Lauren shares some of her single mum story and life. Lauren chats with Julia about how being a single mum brought out positive changes in her life, how she managed with her relationship break-up and PND, getting through the dark days of being a new single mum, challenges of being a single mum, and how her view on herself as a single mum has changed.

Lauren also shares the benefits she's found being a single mum and her advice for new single mums.

A must listen!

Links mentioned in the episode:

Mad Max Mum

Connect with Lauren on Facebook or Instagram.

Don't Just Survive, THRIVE! - The online course for single mums to get empowered (kicking off on 22nd October 2018) - ENROLL HERE.

To contact Julia, email: [email protected].

For information about the single parent mentoring programs available with Julia, visit Single Mother Survival Guide Mentoring and E-Courses.

Book in for your complimentary 30 minute Clarity Call with Julia here.

Visit us at Single Mother Survival Guide.

Or connect with Single Mother Survival Guide on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, or Pinterest.

In this solo episode, Julia answers some of the most common questions sent in by listeners relating to when the ex gets a new partner...

• How to deal with it as an ex partner?
• How to deal with it as a mum?
• How to talk about it with the kids?
• And the dreaded... do I have to meet them?
• PLUS, what if your ex insists your children call his new girlfriend "mum"?

Links mentioned in the episode:

To contact Julia, email: [email protected].

For information about the single parent mentoring programs available with Julia, visit Single Mother Survival Guide Mentoring and E-Courses.

Book in for your 90 minute one-off intensive one-on-one session with Julia right HERE.

Book in for your complimentary 30 minute Clarity Call with Julia here.

Visit us at Single Mother Survival Guide.

Or connect with Single Mother Survival Guide on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, or Pinterest.

Isiah McKimmie, one of Australia's leading relationship and sex experts is back to chat with Julia in this week's episode of the Single Mother Survival Guide Podcast.

This time, Julia and Isiah talk about sex and pain. Sex and pain are not two words we'd typically like to put in a sentence together; not when it's unwanted anyway.

In this episode Isiah chats with Julia about:

• The different types of pain including sexual pain, pelvic pain, and chronic pain.
• If there are any stages in life where it could get worse.
• How common it actually is for women to experience pain during and after sex.
• What the potential causes are of the pain.
• And how to fix it! - the treatment options available (and why orgasms support the body in dealing with pain).

Isiah also shares preventative tips to prevent pain.

If you have ever experienced pain during or after sex then this is the episode for you!

Isiah is a passionate couples therapist, sex therapist, sexologist and tantra expert who has been helping women and couples discover deeper intimacy and desire for over a decade.

One of the most qualified Sex and Relationship Experts in Australia, Isiah holds a Masters degree in Relational Psychotherapy, a Master degree in Science in Medicine (Sexual Counselling/Psychosexual Therapy), a Post-Graduate Diploma of Sexology and a Certificate from the prestigious Institute for the Advanced Studies of Human Sexuality.

She has been featured in or written for publications such as Harper's Bazaar, The Huffington Post, Mamamia, Cosmo, the SMH, Cleo, My Body and Soul and has been on the Today Show and SBS. She is the go to expert on sex in Australia.

Links mentioned in the episode:

Listen here for the first episode that Isiah was on the show for - all about sex and body image.

Listen here for the second episode that Isiah was on the show for - all about orgasms.

Listen here for the third episode that Isiah was on the show for - about sex and stress.

https://www.isiah-mckimmie.com/

Connect with Isiah on Twitter, Facebook or Instagram.

To contact Julia, email: [email protected].

For information about the single parent mentoring programs available with Julia, visit Single Mother Survival Guide Mentoring and E-Courses.

Book in for your complimentary 30 minute Clarity Call with Julia here.

Visit us at Single Mother Survival Guide.

Or connect with Single Mother Survival Guide on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, or Pinterest.

In Australia, Father's Day is on Sunday. In this solo episode, Julia talks about the emotions that can come up for single mums on Father's Day, especially the single mums with majority care of children and some great reasons to celebrate.

Links mentioned in the episode:

Blog post : Five behaviors that scream your ex is a Disneyland Dad

To contact Julia, email: [email protected].

For information about the single parent mentoring programs available with Julia, visit Single Mother Survival Guide Mentoring and E-Courses.

Book in for your complimentary 30 minute Clarity Call with Julia here.

Visit us at Single Mother Survival Guide.

Or connect with Single Mother Survival Guide on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, or Pinterest.

Anna Kellerman is passionate about art, kids, sharing and connecting. She is a trained art educator, with a Bachelor of Art Education, majoring in Educational Psychology, and a registered art therapist with a Masters in Art Therapy. She has published a thesis on the benefits of working with clay and children with anxiety disorders. Over the past ten years she has worked with kids and teens with a range of emotional and behavioural problems, and most recently worked with children from domestic violence backgrounds.

Anna is also the founder of Mama Creatives which is about building a supportive and collaborative community for creative mothers to connect and flourish. And she's also a single mum and she's on the show this week to share her story. Julia and Anna discuss the following points.

• Debunking the relationship myth that long term relationships = success, and therefore, the end of a relationship must = failure. Not true!
• The fear of being single in middle age.
• Choices.
• How life changed for Anna as a single mum and how she felt about it.
• Co-parenting.
• Rebuilding after separation.
• Text rage.
• Divorce parties.
• Empowerment through independence.

Anna also shares the benefits she's found being a single mum and her advice for new single mums.

Links mentioned in the episode:

Mama Creatives

Connect with Anna on Facebook or Instagram.

BOOK: Conscious Uncoupling - 5 Steps to Living Happily Even After by Katherine Woodward Thomas

PODCAST: Where Should We Begin? with Esther Perel

To contact Julia, email: [email protected].

For information about the single parent mentoring programs available with Julia, visit Single Mother Survival Guide Mentoring and E-Courses.

Book in for your complimentary 30 minute Clarity Call with Julia here.

Visit us at Single Mother Survival Guide.

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In this solo episode, Julia talks about forgiveness and why it is crucial.

Links mentioned in the episode:

To contact Julia, email: [email protected].

For information about the single parent mentoring programs available with Julia, visit Single Mother Survival Guide Mentoring and E-Courses.

Book in for your complimentary 30 minute Clarity Call with Julia here.

Visit us at Single Mother Survival Guide.

Or connect with Single Mother Survival Guide on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, or Pinterest.

Just a few weeks after Rosanna found out she was pregnant, she was diagnosed with cancer and shortly afterwards, her partner left her. He moved out of their home whilst she was interstate and she never saw him again. Her life was turned upside down.

Although encouraged to terminate her unborn child, Rosanna carried on with her pregnancy and started treatment to fight for her and her unborn child's life.

This is her story.

In this episode of the Single Mother Survival Guide Podcast, Rosanna shares how she dealt with becoming a single mother and having cancer during pregnancy, cancer treatment throughout and after pregnancy, how cancer changed her, what she learned through her experience, her identity struggles, how she copes having an ex partner who has zero involvement with her daughter and how she intends to explain the situation to her daughter. Rosanna also shares her advice for new single mums, her advice for anyone going through cancer, and what she loves the most about being a single mum.

Links mentioned in the episode:

To contact Julia, email: [email protected].

For information about the single parent mentoring programs available with Julia, visit Single Mother Survival Guide Mentoring and E-Courses.

Book in for your complimentary 30 minute Clarity Call with Julia here.

Visit us at Single Mother Survival Guide.

Or connect with Single Mother Survival Guide on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, or Pinterest.

This episode is essential listening for any single mother in Australia. In this episode, Julia chats with Kerry who has been investigating the My Health Record system, and the potentially devastating impacts on single-parent families.

Links mentioned in the episode:

• Sign up for the Don't Just Survive, THRIVE e-course kicking right here - doors close Friday 3rd August 9pm (AEST).
• Contact the PM HERE.
• OPT OUT of My Heath Record HERE.

Articles:

• SMH Article by Dana McCauley - My Health Record a new battleground in family disputes.
• My Health Record undermines teens' right to medical privacy, critics fear.
• My Health Record privacy framework 'identical' to failed UK scheme, expert says.
• As a doctor, here's why My Health Record worries me.
• Why I support My Health Record after my husband's terminal illness.
• 'Serious' risks of domestic violence in new online health system.
• There is no social licence for My Health Record. Australians should reject it.
• My Health Record: confusion as some Australians shocked they already have one.
• My Health Record could be our worst government data breach yet.
• Stay or go? My Health Record opt-out met with fierce debate.
• Why I'm opting out of the government's digital health record and you should too.
• My Health Record: Former digital transformation head raises concerns about security of online system.
• My Health Record: the case for opting out.

To contact Julia, email: [email protected].

For information about the single parent mentoring programs available with Julia, visit Single Mother Survival Guide Mentoring and E-Courses.

Book in for your complimentary 30 minute Clarity Call with Julia here.

Visit us at Single Mother Survival Guide.

Or connect with Single Mother Survival Guide on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, or Pinterest.

In this solo episode, Julia chats about what's going on in her life at the moment, her daughter's recent return from a trip with her dad, and some weekly challenges. Plus she answers one of the most common questions she's getting asked lately.

Links mentioned in the episode:

• Sign up for the Don't Just Survive, THRIVE e-course kicking off on the 30th July right here.
• Blog post - Enough with the parent alienation accusation if it's not true.
• Blog post - How I got through the dark days.
• Vote for Julia in the Podcast Awards

To contact Julia, email: [email protected].

For information about the single parent mentoring programs available with Julia, visit Single Mother Survival Guide Mentoring and E-Courses.

Book in for your complimentary 30 minute Clarity Call with Julia here.

Visit us at Single Mother Survival Guide.

Or connect with Single Mother Survival Guide on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, or Pinterest.