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


Reach out to Bridget for 1:1 coaching - bridgetwood.life