The Well Rested Mother

If you struggle with health anxiety, chronic pain, or mystery symptoms, this is your check in, you don't need another pill or powder, and what you really do need.In it I dive into what is keeping me well rested, some batch cooking that my future self will so appreciate. Along with what's been supporting me through a recent pain flare up that would have been so drastically different if I experienced it a few years ago. The reminder, the work works. LINKS:Connect with Maddie on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Join The Gentle Practice (7 Day Free Trial)⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Receive FREE 'Feel Into Your Body' 5 min meditation⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠

The modern village is something we are all currently craving for and looking at how it fits together. However your village comes together is valid. Daycare, paid babysitting, au pair's, grandparents ,siblings, uncles, paid cleaners, meal delivery drops, or your trusty robe vac. It's all included. In this ep, I dive into the importance of discomfort when creating your village. And if you think that your village is created all by people who look the same as you, are the same age as you and think the same as you, you're actually getting in your way of truly calling in your community and village. LINKS:Connect with Maddie on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Join The Gentle Practice (7 Day Free Trial)⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Receive FREE 'Feel Into Your Body' 5 min meditation⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠

This week I dive into a recent conversation I had with a bunch of girlfriends, half mothers, half not, and the importance of not gatekeeping parenting from the co-parent. Next I go there, is it a mother's mental load, yes it's real, yes it exists. OR is it the complete undernourishment of your nervous system, dsyregualted nervous system and fight-or-flight your existing in? This is a conversation for the middle, while it might seem a little spicy, I know that the people who need to hear it and get it will. LINKS:Connect with Maddie on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Join The Gentle Practice (7 Day Free Trial)⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Receive FREE 'Feel Into Your Body' 5 min meditation⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠

In this week's episode I am diving into a transformative experience I had in a float tank recently. Pondering how much effort am I exhausting trying to impact life through my own force, compared to allowing life to meet me where I am. I've spent the last few years cultivating trust within myself, and I am now being called to cultivate trust within life itself, and relinquishing control and gripping. It's an interesting deep dive, and I know you're going to get some takeaways from this one too. LINKS:Connect with Maddie on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Join The Gentle Practice (7 Day Free Trial)⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Receive FREE 'Feel Into Your Body' 5 min meditation⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠

I have been meditating daily for a decade this year, so this week I am sharing with you all that I have learnt, what I wish I knew and any regrets I've had along the way.Also diving into what is keeping me a well rested mother this week. Chatting all things village living and doing life side by side. Don't forget if you want to start, create or deepen your own meditation practice, join The Gentle Practice for a 7 day free trial, this Monday we are launching a new '7 Days to Daily Meditation' mini series to support you in creating a consistent meditation practice. I'd love to see you there. LINKS:Connect with Maddie on ⁠⁠⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Join The Gentle Practice (7 Day Free Trial)⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Receive FREE 'Feel Into Your Body' 5 min meditation⁠⁠⁠ ⁠

Stress is a natural part of life, there's no changing that. There's the small stressors, the big stressors, the stressors that are self-imposed by our own ideals of what a "good" or "perfect" mother should do. There's the stress of living in the world, and navigating life. We can't get rid of it, but we can learn how to stress more effectively and how to manage chronic or persistent stress and anything that's really starting to overload your nervous system. I talk through the 4 major ways you can support your nervous system by the daily small action steps to empty your stress bucket. Enjoy!LINKS:Connect with Maddie on ⁠⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Join The Gentle Practice (7 Day Free Trial)⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Receive FREE 'Feel Into Your Body' 5 min meditation⁠⁠ ⁠

Parenting on your period is a serious feat. So if you have a cycle, are wanting more support for yourself - physically, mentally, emotionally and energetically than this is the episode for you. Diving into:- the house reset, clean that purges energy and is supporting me feeling well rested. - well rested doesn't mean passive, no effort or only rest.- the importance of taking care of yourself on your period. - how to support your physical, mental, emotional and energetic capacity. - taking care of yourself, doesn't mean you are not capable, strong or an independent women. - how to be a period positive household for the sons and daughters .LINKS:Connect with Maddie on ⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠⁠⁠Join The Gentle Practice (7 Day Free Trial)⁠⁠⁠⁠Receive FREE 'Feel Into Your Body' 5 min meditation⁠

Have you got a serious case of the Winter Scaries as we start to descent into winter, the colder and darker months? Instead of making it wrong or resisting what is, how can you go about embracing and meeting life where it is. Don't make life perfect, but meet each moment making it perfect.LINKS:Connect with Maddie on ⁠Instagram⁠⁠Join The Gentle Practice (7 Day Free Trial)⁠⁠Receive FREE 'Feel Into Your Body' 5 min meditation

Managing overwhelm is certainly unique as a mother. The overwhelm has probably never been higher, but the time and capacity has never been more limited. In this episode I dive into - overwhelm and how it shows up for mothers.- the low down on emotions- the importance of not labelling them as good or bad- how they are highly contagious - the specific struggles as a mother when managing overwhelm- the important process of feeling it, naming it & writing it downPlease share this episode with a mother in your life who is feeling the overwhelm. In exciting news - I'm currently working on a prenatal meditation program. So if you're a mother-to-be, wanting to call in your spirit baby, nurture yourself in the two week wait window, and wanting to connect with your baby, clear stress and fear, and prepare for birth and postpartum, keep your eyes peeled. Make sure you're following along on the journey over on IG. LINKS:Connect with Maddie on InstagramJoin The Gentle Practice (7 Day Free Trial)Receive FREE 'Feel Into Your Body' 5 min meditation

It's so important to learn how to support yourself when times are stressful. Stress is apart of life, but ensuring you are stressing better is something I am passionate about. In this episode I dive into:- the importance of stressing better.- looking to the animal kingdom and how they manage stress.- why going harder isn't necessarily what you need right now. - the perils of always wanting more and where our kids get it from.- the importance of feeling into your body to feel into your emotions. - the important tip most people miss when managing stressful times. LINKS: Connect with Maddie on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/maddison_vernon/followers/Join The Gentle Practice (7 Day Free Trial): https://maddison-vernon.mykajabi.com/tgpReceive FREE 'Feel Into Your Body' 5 min meditation: https://maddison-vernon.mykajabi.com/body

We're finally out of the woods right now, and enjoying being high on life and feeling well-rested and well-supported. Also officially weaned my little girl, and enjoying the feeling of freedom, even though the reality is still very much the same. This week , I'm diving into supporting you with your chronic dysregulation. Feeling exhausted in the morning, tired but wired at night, and like you're not doing any of the things that ACTUALLY support you? Like just low-key, bare necessities of functioning and looking after yourself?This ep is for you. - the reminder that taking care of yourself is not a 'nice to have' but a necessity. - my experience of postpartum and how it shaped how I show up for myself as a mother. - I talk through my bare necessities from early motherhood and how they've grown and changed. - what to do when committing to your daily necessities, especially if you're child needs something from you. - what people often get wrong about gentle parenting and how to support your child through boundaries. - the importance of emotional regulation, supporting your own nervous system (taking care of yourself) and how that shows up in motherhood. Come along and try The Gentle Practice to be that support system you need for motherhood. Free 7 day trial. LINKS: Connect with Maddie on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/maddison_vernon/followers/Join The Gentle Practice (7 Day Free Trial): https://maddison-vernon.mykajabi.com/tgpReceive FREE 'Feel Into Your Body' 5 min meditation: https://maddison-vernon.mykajabi.com/body

This week I am back checking into how I've been navigating 'well rested' especially while navigating a lot of solo parenting days. Then we dive into parenting basically being continuing to emotionally regulate yourself so you can show up for your child or children when they're losing their shit. Or navigating the fullness of life. The more you can emotionally support yourself is the more you can show up as a stable base for your children. Or repair when you get it wrong. Which of course, comes back to being a well-rested mother. This week we're diving into: - how my perception of intimacy has shifted after becoming a mother & how this mindset shift has positively impacted my life. - the importance of shifting 'everything taking away from me' to what is 'life giving me'. - the important life affirming situation from an unexpected source. - the importance of resting and taking care of yourself being fundamental in caring for the wellbeing of your family.- 3 focal areas to create everlasting change, to be a well rested mother to support regulating yourself. - examples of the busy mother of the perfect mother that's keeping you busy & chasing perfection. LINKS: Connect with Maddie on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/maddison_vernon/followers/Join The Gentle Practice (7 Day Free Trial): https://maddison-vernon.mykajabi.com/tgpReceive FREE 'Feel Into Your Body' 5 min meditation: https://maddison-vernon.mykajabi.com/body

I am currently stuck in a revenge cycle loop. Chances are you've been there yourself? - I am feeling so spent the moment I get time to myself, instead of doing something that will uplift me, I'm doom scrolling, and wasting my time being busy. - The difference between passive and active rest or what I'm calling junk food/fast food rest and nourishing rest. - The importance of building in 'you time' amongst the day, model it for your kids. - Choosing the best option and then adjusting if and when it needs too.- Shifting your expectations from pre pregnancy, when you had one kid and so forth. Finally I dive into what's keeping me well, and what's a little warning and it helped to talk it out. LINKS: Connect with Maddie on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/maddison_vernon/followers/Join The Gentle Practice (7 Day Free Trial): https://maddison-vernon.mykajabi.com/tgpReceive FREE 'Feel Into Your Body' 5 min meditation: https://maddison-vernon.mykajabi.com/body

Being pregnant after a pregnancy loss is such a different experience. I know that when I was going through my loss and then pregnant again I was so eager for this information. How did people manage, how did they navigate the experience once more? So I wanted to share about the unique experience of navigating pregnancy after a loss. If you're there right now, sending you so much love. In this episode I dive into:- the importance of disassociation, when navigating big things. - my experience navigating first trimester post loss. - how you never arrive at a big moment of feeling safe, you slowly start to build a new footing. LINKS: Connect with Maddie on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/maddison_vernon/followers/Join The Gentle Practice (7 Day Free Trial): https://maddison-vernon.mykajabi.com/tgpReceive FREE 'Feel Into Your Body' 5 min meditation: https://maddison-vernon.mykajabi.com/body

I knew I wanted to touch on this topic as it's something that I speak to a lot of women about. If you've experience pregnancy loss, then it's something you feel touched by, wanting to support and be there for other women in the same experience. In this episode I dive into:- my experience with my missed miscarriage. - why language matters and the importance of referring to as pregnancy loss. - the difference between the mother and the partner's experience of grief. - navigating a loss of timeline and loss of direction. If you know someone who is going through this experience, please share this with them to be that moment of support amongst the darkness. It's unfortunately so common, yet doesn't stop you navigating the difficult grief. LINKS: [1 IN 4] Post about pregnancy loss: https://www.instagram.com/p/CxXQsdGPylg/Connect with Maddie on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/maddison_vernon/followers/Join The Gentle Practice (7 Day Free Trial): https://maddison-vernon.mykajabi.com/tgpReceive FREE 'Feel Into Your Body' 5 min meditation: https://maddison-vernon.mykajabi.com/body

Welcome to the first episode of The Well Mama podcast. I am so excited you are here!In this episode, I dive int: - Why small moments add up to big moments in motherhood, especially when taking care of yourself. - What does being a 'well mama' even me? Do you have to be perect?- The importance of using your discernment for yourself and your family. - What you can expect from this weekly show. LINKS: Connect with Maddie on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/maddison_vernon/followers/Join The Gentle Practice (7 Day Free Trial): https://maddison-vernon.mykajabi.com/tgpReceive FREE 'Feel Into Your Body' 5 min meditation: https://maddison-vernon.mykajabi.com/body