The Motherkind Podcast

Welcome to the third episode in this very special series - the Toddler Milestone Moment Series which is created in partnership with my friends at Baby Annabell.Baby Annabell is the UK’s #1 nurturing doll brand and is passionate about sharing the power of role-play to support toddler milestones.This third episode in the series is with the brilliant mum of two and child nutritionist Charlotte Stirling-Reed. In this episode you will learn:  How to set up healthy eating habits for life in your toddler  What to do if your toddler refuses food or becomes fussy  Mealtime manners for toddlers  How doll play can support your toddler with developing positive mealtime routines  I’m very excited to tell you that the lovely team at Baby Annabell have gifted me an incredible package of their dolls and accessories - worth over £300. To enter the competition to win this package - head over to my Instagram at @zoeblaskey to enter. T&C’s apply.ABOUT CHARLOTTE STIRLING-REEDCharlotte began her working life in the NHS after gaining a first class honours degree in Nutrition and Human Biology and then a Postgraduate Degree from Bristol University in Nutrition and Public Health. Since then Charlotte has worked in various areas of nutrition but enjoys nothing more than reading, writing and talking about her specialist area – Maternal, Baby & Children’s Nutrition. ABOUT BABY ANNABELL Baby Annabell is the UK’s #1 nurturing doll brand and has been on the market for almost 25 years, inspiring nurturing play and little imaginations. Make sure to follow @babyannabelluk on Instagram for their latest products and lots of doll-play inspiration! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

This week’s guest says we can’t afford to pretend to love motherhood. Not this version of it. The version that has us raising our kids alone in our homes, disconnected from one another, immersed in a culture of judgement and perfectionism under the allusion that we are the ones who can’t get our act together.Beth Berry is a coach, author of Motherwhelmed and mother to four daughters.This episode is a call to arms to start taking your needs seriously. We just can’t keep giving and giving to our paid and unpaid work as mothers and carers and not expect ourselves to get burnt out and resentful. And, ending up, of course, adoring our children, but hating our day-to-day lives.I really hope this episode gives you the fire you need to start giving yourself even a small amount of what you give outwards.If there is someone in your life who you think can benefit from this wisdom, please do share it across your favourite social media platforms. Let’s get this incredible information to as many mothers as we can.As always, we continue the conversation over on Instagram, so come and join us there.Resources: Revolution from home - Website Instagram FREEBIE! Find out how you can take control of your life, reconnect to you and more! Download ‘10 Ways to Reconnect to You’ and our weekly and monthly check-in on Motherkind.co.Are you ready to find freedom from guilt? Let me help you find Freedom from Perfectionism if you are a mother who has ever felt not quite enough.Come follow Motherkind on Instagram for tips and announcements.About Beth BerryBeth Berry is a life coach, small group and retreat facilitator, mother of four daughters and author of Motherwhelmed. A revolutionary at heart, she helps mothers better meet their needs, live with more ease and fulfillment, and step into their power as changemakers. She believes that self-aware, self-compassionate, well-supported mothers who know themselves to be worthy of pleasure and joy-filled lives are powerful beyond measure and essential to the healing of the world. Follow her journey at www.revolutionfromhome.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Welcome to the second of this very special series - the Toddler Milestone Moment Series which is created in partnership with my friends at Baby Annabell.Baby Annabell is the UK’s #1 nurturing doll brand and is passionate about sharing the power of role-play to support toddler milestones.In this second episode, I am speaking with Dr Martha who is a clinical psychologist. We will cover lots of tips and advice for the milestone of welcoming a new sibling into the family when you already have a toddler. We’ll be discussing: How to talk to your toddler about their new sibling How to introduce the new sibling to ensure a really positive start What to do with all that guilt about spending time with your new baby and not enough with your toddler How to handle sibling arguments How doll-play can be used to support your toddler in this really important milestone  The lovely team at Baby Annabell has gifted me with an incredible package of their dolls and accessories worth over £300. If you want to give doll-play a go and start practicing doll-play and role-play, head over to Instagram where you can win £300 worth of Baby Annabell dolls and accessories. Go to @zoeblaskey to enter. T’s & C’s apply.ABOUT DR MARTHA DEIROS COLLADODr Martha is a clinical psychologist and HCPC registered practitioner with over 20 years of clinical and academic experience.ABOUT BABY ANNABELL Baby Annabell is the UK’s #1 nurturing doll brand and has been on the market for almost 25 years, inspiring nurturing play and little imaginations. Make sure to follow @babyannabelluk on Instagram for their latest products and lots of doll-play inspiration! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Welcome to this week’s episode of the Motherkind podcast. I am so happy you are here. Thank you for pressing play and listening.This week’s guest is Dr. Becky Kennedy. She is a clinical psychologist, social media superstar, mum of 3, and Founder of the brilliant parenting platform Good Inside.You are going to learn so much from this episode. I guarantee this is going to make your parenting life and your life in general easier.We talk about: Why we are all good inside and how that simple idea can radically change how we respond in the moment to our children How beliefs get passed down the generations - Dr. Becky’s is the simplest and best explanation I have ever heard How to know which mode we are in as mothers - and why knowing that changes everything Why selflessness helps no one and what to do instead Why our generation of mothers is part of this vital empowerment movement and how we all need to play our part in that I think you are going to love this one and want to share it. So please do. If there is someone in your life who you think can benefit from this wisdom, please do share it with them across your preferred social media platform. Let’s get this incredible information to as many mothers as we can.As always, we continue the conversation over on Instagram, so come and join us there.RESOURCES: Good Inside - Website Instagram GROUP COACHING PROGRAMME - STARTS 14TH OF SEPTEMBER 2022Our next round of group coaching starts on the 14the of September. If you want to be coached by me and feel like now is your time. I'd love for you to join us. It is a small group of 10 who come together for 8 weeks led by me to explore topics like boundaries, energy, values journaling and much more. It is going to help you find clarity, connection and community. Head to motherkind.co for more information.FREEBIE! Find out how you can take control of your life, reconnect to you and more! Download ‘10 Ways to Reconnect to You’ and our weekly and monthly check-in on Motherkind.co.Are you ready to find freedom from guilt? Let me help you find Freedom from Perfectionism if you are a mother who has ever felt not quite enough.Come follow Motherkind on Instagram for tips and announcements.ABOUT DR. BECKY KENNEDYDr. Kennedy is a clinical psychologist, mom of three, and founder of Good Inside.When she first started out, she practiced a popular behavior-first, reward-and-punishment model of parent coaching. But after a while, something struck her: those methods felt awful — for kids and parents. So she got to work, taking everything she knew about attachment, mindfulness, emotion regulation, and internal family systems theory, and translated those ideas into a new method for working with parents. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Welcome to the first of this very special series - the Toddler Milestone Moment Series which is created in partnership with my friends at Baby Annabell.Baby Annabell is the UK’s #1 nurturing doll brand and is passionate about sharing the power of role-play to support toddler milestones.In this first episode, I am speaking with Dr. Nneka Ikeogu She is a child and educational psychologist and the founder of the Mellonest. In this episode, Dr. Nneka shares practical tips and ideas to help you and your toddler with the pre-school milestone. We’ll be discussing: How to make sure starting or returning to pre-school is happy and positive What exactly you should do if it isn’t a positive experience How doll-play can support your child with this transition If you want to give it a go and start practicing doll-play and role-play, head over to Instagram where you can win £300 worth of Baby Annabell dolls and accessories. Go to @zoeblaskey to enter. T’s & C’s apply.ABOUT DR. NNEKA IKEOGUDr. Nneka Ikeogu is a child psychologist who specialises in educational psychology. She has been working with families and children for 10 years and is the co-founder of Mellownest. Her mission is to empower parents to approach parenting with a focus on emotions and connection. ABOUT BABY ANNABELLBaby Annabell is the UK’s #1 nurturing doll brand and has been on the market for almost 25 years, inspiring nurturing play and little imaginations. Make sure to follow @babyannabelluk on Instagram for their latest products and lots of doll-play inspiration! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Welcome to this week’s episode of the Motherkind podcast. I am so happy you are here. Thank you for pressing play and listening.As you may know by now, through August I take a break to re-charge and reconnect with my family. This month I release our most popular episodes over the past six months. Next week I’ll be releasing all new episodes.This week is with the amazing nutritionist, Rhiannon Lambert. If you have ever felt stressed out about feeding yourself or your children, then this episode is for you.I find eating nutritious food quite a stressful area of my life. I have a fussy daughter who eats about the same 5 foods on repeat. I also think about my own diet. Am I giving myself the best chance of having the energy levels that I want and need. Am I eating healthily enough. It is an area of my life I do worry about.This episode was a gift. Rhiannon Lambert is one of the UK’s leading nutritionists, a best-selling author of Re-Nourish: A Simple Way To Eat Well and chart-topping podcast host of Food For Thought. Safe to say Rhiannon is an expert and one of the UK’s leading nutritionists. She also became a mum during the pandemic.Don’t miss her new book The Science of Nutrition.In this episode you’ll learn about: What it was like having a baby during the pandemic The importance of looking after ourselves Important messages about feeding our children and ourselves New ideas around nutrition Simple tools and ideas for making healthy food prep more stress-free It felt like a massive dose of reassurance and compassion and kindness. This is a huge area for us mums and our children.I do not need another diet book. I need someone like Rhiannon with simple ideas and tools to help us all make eating easier. Here is the episode. I hope you love it and I hope it is a balm of reassurance.As always, we continue the conversation over on Instagram, so come and join us there.RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE: The Science of Nutrition: Debunk the Diet Myths and Learn How to Eat Well for Health and Happiness by Rhiannon Lambert. Food for thought podcast Instagram Website GROUP COACHING PROGRAMME - STARTS 14TH OF SEPTEMBER 2022Our next round of group coaching starts on the 14the of September. If you want to be coached by me and feel like now is your time. I'd love for you to join us. It is a small group of 10 who come together for 8 weeks led by me to explore topics like boundaries, energy, values journaling and much more. It is going to help you find clarity, connection and community. Head to motherkind.co for more information.ABOUT RHIANNON LAMBERTRhiannon Lambert BSc MSc RNutr is one of the UK’s leading nutritionists, a best-selling author and chart-topping podcast host. In 2016 she founded Rhitrition, a renowned Harley Street clinic, which specialises in weight management, gut health, sports nutrition, eating disorders, and pre-and post-natal nutrition.Registered with the Association for Nutrition, Rhiannon obtained a first-class degree in Nutrition and Health, a Master’s degree in Obesity, Risks and Prevention, and diplomas in sports nutrition, pre-and post-natal nutrition. She is a Master Practitioner in Eating Disorders, accredited by The British Psychological Society and a Level 3 Personal Trainer.Rhiannon hosts the top-rated ‘Food for Thought’ podcast, which gives listeners practical, evidence-based advice on how to achieve a healthier lifestyle. With more than five million downloads since 2018, it is firmly established as one of the UK’s most popular health podcasts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Welcome back to Motherkind Moment. Moment is your place on a Monday for calm and connection and maybe even a shift in perspective before the week ahead.This week’s moment is with the wonderful Dr. Tara Swart. She is a neuroscientist, medical doctor, and author of best-seller ‘The Source’.In this short clip, we talk about the power of journaling. If you know me, you know I love journaling. It is one of those foundational tools I use day in and day out to keep me on even keel.I hope this short clip inspires you to grab your pen and get those swirling thoughts down on the page. It will make a massive difference, trust me.If you haven’t listened to the full episode I highly recommend it. You can listen to the short clip by clicking above or the full episode here.GROUP COACHING PROGRAMME - STARTS 14TH OF SEPTEMBER 2022Our next round of group coaching starts on the 14the of September. If you want to be coached by me and feel like now is your time. I'd love for you to join us. It is a small group of 10 who come together for 8 weeks led by me to explore topics like boundaries, energy, values journaling and much more. It is going to help you find clarity, connection and community. Head to motherkind.co for more information.ABOUT DR TARA SWARTDr. Tara Swart is a neuroscientist, medical doctor, executive advisor, Senior Lecturer at MIT Sloan, and author of best-seller ‘The Source’ which has translations in 36 global territories.Tara is passionate about disseminating simple, pragmatic neuroscience-based messages that change the way people live and work. She personally advises a small number of individuals via personal recommendation only, and speaks at major conferences globally.You can find out more about Tara and her work via her website. You can also connect with Tara on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.MOTHERKIND PROGRAMMES AND RESOURCES FREEDOM FROM PERFECTIONISM: Are you ready to find freedom from guilt? Let me help you find Freedom from Perfectionism if you are a mother who has ever felt not quite enough. INSTAGRAM: @zoeblaskey - come engage with Zoe and our community over on Instagram for inspiration, tips, and sometimes a bit of humour to get us through our day. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Welcome to this week’s episode of the Motherkind podcast. I am so happy you are here. Thank you for pressing play and listening.As you may now by now, In August I take a break to re-charge and reconnect with my family. This month I release our most popular episodes over the past six months.In honour of children’s mental health week back in February, I spoke with Dr. Anne Lane about raising emotionally healthy children. This is an incredible episode and I can see why it is one of our top 3 most downloaded.This is one of those episodes that I wish that every single parent could listen to. I truly believe if every parent could listen to this, we would make things radically different for ourselves and our children.Anne is a clinical psychologist working with children, teens and adults. She has a new book out called Nurture your child’s emotional intelligence: Five steps to help your children cope with big emotions and build resilience. If that isn’t the most important thing in the world, then I don’t know what is.What I learned most from this episode is that life is incredibly messy and what we need to do is help ourselves and our children be ok with that. Isn’t that what emotional health really is all about? Anne is open, honest and fantastically breaks down questions that I know we all have on our minds.IN THIS EPISODE YOU’LL LEARN ABOUT: Why emotions are contagious and what to do about that How to help both yourself and children put words to emotions How to communicate hard things with our children Why Anne thinks anxiety and depression are on the rise for our children and what we can do early on as parents I think you are going to love this one and want to share it. So please do. If there is someone in your life who you think can benefit from this wisdom.. Let’s get this incredible information to as many mothers as we can.RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE: Website Free excerpt from Her new book Nurture your child’s emotional intelligence Instagram GROUP COACHING PROGRAMME - STARTS 14TH OF SEPTEMBER 2022Our next round of group coaching starts on the 14the of September. If you want to be coached by me and feel like now is your time. I'd love for you to join us. It is a small group of 10 who come together for 8 weeks led by me to explore topics like boundaries, energy, values journaling and much more. It is going to help you find clarity, connection and community. Head to motherkind.co for more information.ABOUT DR. ANNE LANEDr Anne Lane is a clinical psychologist and family therapist. For more than 20 years she has worked in mental health – within both the NHS and her own private practice. Dr Lane has taught on clinical psychology doctorate programmes and run countless workshops on mental health, parenting and emotional regulation. She is a lively, passionate communicator who cares deeply about the lives of the adults, families and children she works with. Anne lives in Hertfordshire, UK, with her husband and three children. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Welcome back to Motherkind Moment. Moment is your place on a Monday for calm and connection and maybe even a shift in perspective before the week ahead.This week’s moment is from an episode in March 2021 with the incredible Dr. Nicole Le Pera. You might know her as the Holistic Psychologist.Dr. Le Pera is someone I have personally learned a lot from. I find myself recommending her book How to do the work almost on a weekly basis. It is incredible.In this clip, she talks about how most of us are living on auto-pilot or sleepwalking through life as I call it and how to change that.I hope you love it.If you haven’t listened to the full episode I highly recommend it. You can listen to the clip by clicking above or the full episode here.GROUP COACHING PROGRAMME - STARTS 14TH OF SEPTEMBER 2022Our next round of group coaching starts on the 14the of September. If you want to be coached by me and feel like now is your time. I'd love for you to join us. It is a small group of 10 who come together for 8 weeks led by me to explore topics like boundaries, energy, values journaling and much more. It is going to help you find clarity, connection and community. Head to motherkind.co for more information.ABOUT DR NICOLE LE PERADr. Nicole Le Pera, who you might know as the holistic psychologist, was trained in clinical psychology at Cornell University and the School for Social Research.MOTHERKIND PROGRAMMES AND RESOURCES FREEDOM FROM PERFECTIONISM: Are you ready to find freedom from guilt? Let me help you find Freedom from Perfectionism if you are a mother who has ever felt not quite enough. INSTAGRAM: @zoeblaskey - come engage with Zoe and our community over on Instagram for inspiration, tips, and sometimes a bit of humour to get us through our day. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Welcome to this episode of the Motherkind podcast. I am so happy you are here. Thank you for pressing play and listening.Throughout August I have a break from recording new episodes to re-set, take a breather and re-connect with the family.We do however over this period re-release the most downloaded episodes from the past six months. And this week’s is brilliant. It is with Jess VanderWier who is a registered Psychotherapist, family and child therapist and founder of Our Mama Village, which has a massive one million Instagram followers.I absolutely loved this episode. I cried and got really emotional at the end when Jess describes her grandmother. It instantly connected me to a sense of perspective and what’s important. I feel like I constantly need that reminder to get out of the weeds of my day-to-day life and stress and to think about the big picture and this episode did it for me.I discovered Jess on Instagram and loved her compassion and her deep experience with families. This is an episode about gentle parenting and we talk about what that means. It’s also about the bigger picture so we are going to dive in together about why we might want to look into our values as parents and have a think about how we are parenting.In our busy lives, from the moment our eyes open to the moment our heads hit the pillow, it can just feel like go go go. It is so easy to forget to maintain perspective and the bigger picture of why your role as a parent is so important and how to navigate all the tricky parts with more grace and ease.I especially loved it when Jess talks about the seasons of parenthood and how to know when is the time to survive, to grit your teeth and get through it. And when is the right time to do that deeper work into what might be coming up for us as we go through the challenges of parenthood. What she shares is absolutely brilliant.IN THIS EPISODE YOU’LL LEARN ABOUT: What is gentle parenting Why we might want to look into our values as parents and have a think about how we are parenting The seasons of parenthood and how to know when to survive or do the deeper work Keeping it all in perspective What does punishment-free parenting look like GROUP COACHING PROGRAMME - STARTS 14th OF SEPTEMBER 2022Our next round of group coaching starts on the 14th of September. If you want to be coached by me and feel like now is your time. I'd love for you to join us. It is a small group of 10 who come together for 8 weeks led by me to explore topics like boundaries, energy, values journaling and much more. It is going to help you find clarity, connection and community. Head to motherkind.co for more information.FREEBIES! Find out how you can take control of your life, reconnect to you and more! Download ‘10 Ways to Reconnect to You’ and our weekly and monthly check-in on Motherkind.co.Are you ready to find freedom from guilt? Let me help you find Freedom from Perfectionism if you are a mother who has ever felt not quite enough.ABOUT JESS VANDERWIERVanderWier is a Registered Psychotherapist who helps families understand and respond to their child’s “big feelings” with gentleness and respect. Jess has a Master’s Degree in Counselling Psychology and has logged thousands of clinical hours supporting parents and their children. Through groups, presentations, and one-on-one clinical sessions Jessica has helps hundreds of parents restore peace to their home.As the founder of Our Mama Village, Jess uses her expertise to support parents through online courses, personalized coaching, and free resources. Our Mama Village offers daily parenting guidance to over 480,000 families on their popular Instagram account.Jess lives in the Niagara Region with her husband Scott and their two daughters (4.5 & 2.5 years old). Whenever she finds the time, Jess loves to be outside in nature, hiking or biking, before refueling with Scott at a quirky hole-in-the-wall restaurant or a fun coffee shop.0 Likes Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices