What did it/does it feel like to enter motherhood? This week, we are joined by Muriel, conscious energy coach and founder of Pre-Parenting, who supports pre-parents and parents in preparing ourselves emotionally and spiritually for parenthood. Muriel shares her passion to support families in receiving guidance, creating awareness, and learning how to support themselves prior to becoming a parent thanks to her experience as a nanny and birth doula. While there are educational programs to support the physical birth of our child, there have not been programs to support a parent's entry into the personal transformation that is parenthood itself. Thus, the impetus for Muriel's work.

As we speak to the transformative nature that is motherhood/parenthood, Muriel discusses the necessity to become curious about ourselves, courageously investigate and reconcile our childhood experiences, release the need to control our child's behavior, and the divine nature of parenthood. We touch on what consciousness is, what it means to be highly sensitive, and how we can differentiate between labeling our experience and our child's and observing our experiences without identifying as the experience itself.

This conversation is power packed with insight, wisdom, and an opportunity for you to reflect on yourself.

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At this moment in time, we can all benefit from a little extra mothering of self, grounding, and support. Fortunately, world renowned transformational energy coach, speaker, and trainer - Natalie Ehmka joins us this week to support us in our transformational process and in learning how to protect, strengthen, cleanse and clear our energy. This episode is so juicy for all of us expanding our consciousness, committing to our inner work, and seeking the freedom to stand in our true power. Natalie shares how we can see ourselves as world changers within our families and the impact our healing has on past and future generations. We learn about the three spheres of energy and how we can expand our awareness of our energy vs. another's. We touch on our houses of consciousness and how we can remodel or move into a new house with the assistance of a coach or an 'energetic contractor'. And, we discuss how we can find more love for ourselves, our families, and the world we are navigating right now, even in the uncertainty and chaos that exists.

Tune in to be reminded of the power of your intention and how we can show up as empowered empaths who are redefining compassion. I can't wait for you to experience Natalie's power and wisdom!

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Welcome back to the Mothering Myself Podcast! This season is getting a boost in love, light and energy as we head into year two. In this episode, we take a moment to honor the growth process, reflect on the transformative nature of our motherhood, and allow ourselves to evolve into our most expanded potential. I get personal about what I have learned about myself over the past year and how I have been shifting my ancient energetic familial pain into more love. In addition, I share the changes I am currently navigating and the uncertainty that surrounds me as I look toward what I am building for myself and my family.

As we discuss the unknown of the future, we consider how we can reconnect with ourselves in the present moment. This episode identifies opportunities to support ourselves as we continue to navigate our global pandemic and anticipate the outcome of the 2020 election and the upcoming holiday season. We continue to recognize that supporting our people begins by learning how to support ourselves.

AND - find out what's in store for the rest of 2020! Can't wait to share this season with you! Thanks for being here!

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I don't know about you, but sometimes I think I can do everything on my own and I forget to ask for help. I have been reminded recently how nourishing it is to allow myself to receive support; it felt like a huge relief. This episode considers how we learn and grow alongside of one another, but many of us believe that we're meant to figure things out on our own. We recognize the common reasons we avoid assistance rather than seeking support for our growth, while we acknowledge what we gain when we do allow ourselves to lean on others. We also consider what we are able to learn about ourselves through our experiences attempting to meet our needs. This conversation reminds us that true freedom is found outside of our comfort zone, and that we see ourselves more clearly through our relationship with others.

Have you noticed yourself being hard on yourself? Many of us expect more of ourselves than anyone else does of us because we have internalized the voices of others that make us believe that we are not good enough. It feels like the human tendency to push ourselves to be more rather than to take a moment to acknowledge and congratulate ourselves on the entirety of our journey up until this point. In this episode we consider how we began to accumulate the armor that we wear or have worn to protect ourselves from softening. What do we consider soft? What does it mean to soften? Is it safe to surrender when we have only been taught to fight our way toward our goal?

Perhaps it is time to embrace the peaceful warrior and lay down our weapons. Perhaps it is time to feel our experience instead of pretending that we do not feel anything.

What is your relationship with transparency? Do you feel like you can be fully transparent with others in your life, or are there aspects of yourself and/or your experiences that you feel are necessary to hide? This episode builds off of the previous episodes that explore the totality of who we are. We consider what transparency is and how we have and/or have not experienced transparency in various areas of our lives and our relationships. Is transparency self-responsibility, accountability, or vulnerability? Does the lack of transparency correlate with deeply held fears of what others will think? Are we so entangled in what we think we need to be that we forget who we are? Are we more afraid of dealing with what the truth may reveal than living within the illusion that we have been sold?

This episode uncovers the layers that cloak our ability to be transparent personally and collectively. We ask ourselves why it is we learn to hide the truth and what it is that we feel we need to hide, and what purpose this serves?

Have you experienced the dark night of the soul? Are you familiar with the concept? In this episode we uncover what the dark night of the soul feels like and how this experience, in its enormity, catalyzes our spiritual awakening. We consider how the dark night of the soul propels us into our authenticity. Throughout this conversation we consider how we each enter the world with unique gems that quickly become our buried treasure. We spend a majority of our lives identifying and drooling over the gold in others, and not realizing that we, too, are in possession of our own rare and potent gifts. In this episode we visualize our quest to become what it is we see, only to get lost in our search. How do we stumble upon our own self-serving direction?

The 'dark night of the soul' is a monumental and pivotal moment (or time period!) in our lives. As we navigate this journey we consider the spiritual growth this experience inspires. And, we remember again and again that we each are both the creator and experiencer of our journey throughout this lifetime. Moving beyond this experience does not mean we will never again experience more challenges and difficulties, but enables us to surrender to what comes rather than to resist what is.

This podcast episode originated as an Insight Conversation hosted by Natasha Wilson from Raising Alchemy that took place on Facebook Live on Thursday, August 5, 2020. Natasha asks questions like:

* What is your perspective on re-parenting? * How do we parent our children without being triggered by our childhood experiences and/or what our parents parented us? * How do we constructively use our difficult emotions like anger? * Why is it we shut down our emotions? * How did the Mothering Myself podcast begin? * How do we make time for ourselves a priority (especially as parents)? * What simple steps can we take right now to love/mother ourselves?

Listen as we discuss the mothering energy born within us all and how we can embrace the divine feminine energy to bring balance to the masculine. We speak to the need to learn how to love and care for ourselves so that we can truly be present with and support others, whether they are our family members or members of our community.

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Ever wonder why you're here, or what you're doing here on Earth? Have you found yourself questioning how you got to this point and where you go from here? These ponderings are so very human, and so very normal. Many of us struggle to embrace the idea that we choose our parents, families, and life circumstances that feel intolerable. However, who would we be and what would we know if we had not lived through what we have been through? How would we gain our super powers or know what we are capable of overcoming if we hadn't been pushed out of our comfort zone?

This conversation considers our soul journey and transcends our identification with our mind and our body. We surrender to our lives rather than resist the life we have had or have in this moment. We contemplate how each experience and relationship offers a clue as to who we are as opposed to who we have been told to become. And, we allow ourselves to take a birds eye view of ourselves rather than see only what we can see in front of us.

Do you need confirmation that you're here for a reason? Listen in.

Are you familiar with the shadow self? Our shadow consists of the aspects of ourselves that we cannot see, or we do not identify with for a plethora of possible reasons. Part of our healing journey is to reclaim this shadowy nature within and accept our darkness as we accept our light. This episode considers how we learn to disassociate with parts of ourself that we have bee taught to condemn. We reflect on how we project our insecurities and react out of a defensive nature to protect ourselves from being something that we have learned is unacceptable.

While this conversation is not a therapy session, it encourages us to consider the aspects of ourself that may feel uncomfortable, while it reminds us that the discomfort is an acceptable and beautiful part of being human. We cannot accept in another what we reject within ourself. This conversation reminds us that no one can accept us more than we are able to accept ourself.