Which path?

In this short episode I give you the story of the Bear and the Blueberry bush, a metaphor that helps you see how you may be living small to prevent you from experiencing difficult feelings and what that might be cost you.

I am indebted to the work of Dr Joe Oliver and Jon Hill in their Acceptance and Commitment therapy for coaches book on "Distinctive Features"

Connect with me here www.instagram.com/motherofallmovement and let’s discuss this important topic.

See you next time.

Oh wow it’s Series 5! Hope you’re doing OK, I’m happy to be back and sharing these wonderful conversations again.

As mentioned in this preview, I’m doing things a little differently this series with 3 new types of episode:

Mondays: Mindset Shorts - a 10 min episode with a little snippet of mindset work to give you something to think about, helping motivate you towards your values and really focus on how you can get there.

Wednesdays: Podcast conversations with guests - 12 awesome women this series

Fridays: Top 5 “Rules to Live By” - each guest will share their top 5 mantras/rules/knowledge shares for an even better mum movement life.

You can also catch the conversation episodes on YouTube here

Come and chat to me any time about the things you hear, feedback, comments, love and anything else is all welcome. 

You can find me on instagram here: www.instagram.com/motherofallmovement

In this brilliant episode I chat with Baz Moffat, a London based PT and Dr Bella Smith, AKA The Digital GP, who are working together to forge a path to inspire and educate women on all matters around the menopause.

We talk about the facts around peri-menopause and menopause, the different options for helping minimise symptoms and what the change in hormones means to our adaptations with exercise.

Baz and Bella are so knowledgeable, so passionate and brilliantly informative on all things hormonal in this crucial phase of life. If all women go through the menopause and will probably spend longer on the other side of menopause than in all the years from cycles starting to menopause then we all owe it to ourselves, our families and friends to gain more knowledge and appreciation for how effective and awesome we can be.

I hope you enjoy and get loads from this episode.

You can find more about the work Baz and Bella do here: http://www.bazmoffat.com/in-the-workplace/

and you can connect with Dr Bella Smith here: https://www.instagram.com/thedigitalgp/

and Baz Moffatt here: https://www.instagram.com/bazmoffatstrongtothecore/

Please do leave a review and rate the episode, thank you I’m very grateful.

In this week’s episode I get to chat to one of my heroes in sports science, Dr Emma Ross, who is the Co-Head of Physiology at the English Institute of Sport and the lead for a new campaign they are running called SmartHER which is all about enhancing an athlete’s physiology through an awareness and improved understanding of female specific factors - namely hormones!

Emma is really passionate about her work, talks regularly to women and girls ranging from high school students to elite level athletes and their coaches and wants to get across how important this is for all of us.  It’s a crucial conversation whether you are a Saturday park runner, an amateur good-for-age triathlete or have kids who need to know how to navigate their changing cycle through puberty alongside their chosen sport.

I hope you enjoy the episode, please do leave a review, hop on over to instagram to chat with me about it and subscribe to get new episodes in your podcast platform first each week.

In this episode I wanted to acknowledge the role our mothers play in our own journey as a mother, particularly for those without their Mum still around. There is so much celebration and joy, exactly as it should be, for Mothers on Mothers Day and so today I wanted to recognise those who have a gaping hole in their lives through Mothers they are missing. Neema is not only a brilliant communicator on post-natal body image and the realities of motherhood with her 8 month old and nearly 3 year old, she has also talked about her life without her Mum and how that feels to her. 

My mission with this podcast has always been to show all sides of motherhood, the realities of movement and sharing experiences that either connect us or inspire us and I hope that the issues we talk about today, if they resonate with you, give you some hope and help.

Please do take a moment to review the episode you’re listening to, I’d love to hear back from those who listen to these episodes, it means so much to me that you join us for a listen each week. Thank you 

You can connect with Neema on Instagram here: https://www.instagram.com/bodywisemum/

In this 2nd special episode for International Women’s Day 2020 I have the pleasure in chatting to a real powerhouse in the sport and marketing world, Sue Anstiss - awarded an MBE in 2018 for her work for charities and organisations to promote sport for all.  Sue is the CEO of Promote PR, a founding trustee of the Women’s Sport Trust and the host of the brilliant Game Changers Podcast which features trailblazing women from the world of sport.

We had a great chat about why sport is so important, why she wants to work with brands who promote movement and participation rather than the aesthetic focussed body improving message and why she loves open water swimming now after competing for GB in her age group as a triathlete.

You can find out more about Sue’s work here: https://www.promotepr.com

And her podcast here: https://www.promotepr.com/gamechangers/

You can also connect with Sue on instagram here: https://www.instagram.com/sueanstiss/

Please go and rate and review this podcast, share it with your friends and let me know what you think by joining in the conversation over on instagram: https://www.instagram.com/motherofallmovement/

Thanks for listening.

In the next 2 episodes I want to celebrate the joy of sharing stories from brilliant women and this week I am joined by the totally brilliant Jenny Landreth who’s book “Swell: A Waterbiography” is an absolute joy allowing us to envelope ourselves in the glorious stories of women through history and how they fought for equal rights to swim.  

I love Jenny’s honesty and humour in communicating her research, what she found, what she thought and how that’s gone into her experience and practice, and I hope you find this chat really interesting.

You can find Jenny’s book here on Amazon: https://amzn.to/38jRMur

And read her Guardian articles here: https://www.theguardian.com/profile/jenny-landreth

Please do share this episode with friends, subscribe to receive episodes first and please go and rate and review right now!

Thank you x

In this week’s episode I had a super lovely chat with Brit Williams all the way from Dubai when she has just moved there with her husband and 2 year old daughter and waiting for her twins to arrive.  Brit wrote “Mind Body Bump” last year and I wanted to chat to her because it’s such a brilliant strength and conditioning approach to moving in pregnancy and beyond, not the usual “sit and breathe” advice.

You can win a copy of Brit’s book by writing a comment on Apple podcasts and the first one to appear and then message me on the post for this podcast on Instagram will be the winner.  You can find me here on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/motherofallmovement/

Brit’s website and her upcoming online course can be found here: https://fitbritcollective.com

Or her Instagram account is here: https://www.instagram.com/fitbritcollective/

Please do go and review and rate the episode and subscribe so you can get the episodes in your podcast platform first each week, thanks!

In this week’s episode I had the great pleasure of a long chat with Dr Angela White, a woman who has a lifetime of experience in her work as an orthopaedic surgeon in the NHS, a data analyst and health communication in recent years.  She also has a lifetime of experience as a person who didn’t move much, came to a tricky time in life with her teenage children, an overload of work, ill husband and relatives and a realisation that she was unfit and inactive knowing exactly where that would lead in the end.  So she decided to make small changes to her life over a number of years to improve how she felt and realised this was something that needed to be talked about more especially in the older populations.

We discuss those small changes, how change doesn’t need to be complex or massive life shifts, how preparation for a healthy older life starts in our 20s and 30s and Angela’s mission to provide a platform of information and advice to those growing old in a healthy body.  Oh and she holds the record for the oldest woman to run from John O’Groats to Lands End (18 days and a bit!) so we chat about that.

Join in the conversation on instagram, Angela is on: https://www.instagram.com/therunninggranny/

I am on: https://www.instagram.com/motherofallmovement/

And you can find out more about Angela and her work here: https://therunninggranny.co.uk

I look forward to hearing any comments, please do get in touch to chat more about this, and share, subscribe, rate and review the episode please!

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This week for episode 53 we are in the company of brilliant businesswoman and general go-doer, Clio Wood, founder of the &Breathe Postnatal Retreats which are an award winning retreat holiday for Mums, Dads, babies, toddlers, multi-generational families and women going through menopause. She has also started some new at home “retreats” - workouts and specialist support plus a food delivery service called Parentfood.

Find out more about the &Breathe retreats here: https://andbreathewellbeing.com

Parentfood: https://andbreathewellbeing.com/parentfood

Special podcast listener offer: use the code MOVE25 to get £25 off your first order

Clio’s retreat venue is here: http://www.lajugie.co.uk

I hope you enjoy the episode, get some helpful tips and advice and some understanding on the challenges new Mothers face.

Please also review the episode on Apple Podcasts, and share the episode you’ve enjoyed with friends or on social media, tagging me on Instagram: 

https://www.instagram.com/motherofallmovement/