In this episode, I sit down with Alisha Lynch, the creator of Naughty Naturopath Mum and her beautiful Wildflower Essences. We dive into what flower essences are, how they work, and why they’re such a safe and powerful support for mums, children, and families.
Alisha shares the story behind her very first blend, Mama Magic, created during her own transition into motherhood 14 years ago. We talk about her most popular blends for mums (Mama Magic, Mojo, Help), how flower essences can support our children through emotions, sleep, and tantrums, and her brand-new Becoming Collection designed for preconception, pregnancy, birth, and postpartum.
What you’ll learn in this episode:
■ What flower essences are and how they work
■ Why Australian essences have such a powerful vibration
■ The most supportive essences for mums (including Mama Magic, Mojo, and Help)
■ Blends to support children with sleep, tantrums, focus, and transitions
■ Alisha’s brand-new Becoming Collection for preconception, pregnancy, labor, and postpartum■ The powerful connection between a mother’s emotional state and her children’s
About Alisha:
Alisha Lynch is a qualified naturopath and founder of Naughty Naturopath Mum, a much-loved Australian brand creating flower essence blends to support emotional health for mums, kids, and families. With a down-to-earth and compassionate approach, Alisha blends her past clinical knowledge with lived experience of parenting, perimenopause, and modern life’s mental load. She’s passionate about helping women feel supported, less alone, and more balanced - with tools that are practical, natural, and easy to weave into daily life.
Links & Resources:
- Explore Naughty Naturopath Mum essences via the website and Instagram
- Use my exclusive listener discount at checkout to save: Danni10
- Connect with me on Instagram: @dannielle.illingworth
In this heartfelt conversation, Steph (a nutritionist, paediatric feeding therapist, and mum of two) shares her journey through motherhood, postnatal depression, and the healing power of food. She opens up about her passion for helping families reduce mealtime stress, create positive food relationships for children, and give mums back their confidence in the kitchen.
We talk about:
• What a paediatric feeding therapist does, how it can support fussy eaters
• Practical meal planning tips to reduce the mental load for busy mums
• Time-saving hacks for busy families
• Steph’s in-home meal prep sessions that give mums confidence and momentum
• Her personal journey through trauma, postnatal depression, and why she is so passionate about supporting families
• The importance of asking for help, trusting your instincts, and knowing you’re not alone
About Steph:
Steph is a qualified nutritionist who empowers women to lose weight without restrictive dieting, creates simple and nourishing family meals, and helps children build a healthy relationship with food through school-based education. You can find out more on her website and Instagram.
In this episode we cover:
- What “matrescence” means and where the term comes from
- Why it helps to view matrescence like adolescence (a normal developmental stage)
- The many domains that shift: physical, brain, values, relationships, career,spiritual/existential
- Why 'bouncing back' after becoming a mother is a lie
- Feeling “lost” vs being held through a rite of passage
- Maiden → Mother: why hyper-independence can keep us stuck
- How partners, family and community can truly support us as mothers
- Ways to mark the threshold (mother blessings, simple rituals, elder support)
- Why it’s never too late to honour your passage
About Ali:
Ali is a mother, circle facilitator, postpartum doula, motherhood studies practitioner and matrescence educator and guide. She supports mothers to move into and through motherhood with self compassion, kindness, empathy, understanding and awareness.
Ali supports mothers online in birth debriefing, motherhood mentorship and group coaching, and in her local community through doula support, mother blessings, retreats and workshops.
You can connect with Ali via her website, Instagram, and Facebook.
And I'd love to open up a discussion in the comments, so let us know: what was your biggest takeaway from today's episode? What did you find most helpful to hear? Comment below xxx
In this insightful episode, I’m joined by Elizabeth Santos to discuss an often-overlooked aspect of postpartum recovery — Genitourinary Syndrome of Lactation (GSL).GSL is a newly recognised condition affecting many breastfeeding mothers, caused by naturally lowoestrogen levels after birth. Elizabeth explains the symptoms, why awareness is so low, and how itconnects to overall pelvic floor health. We also cover treatment options — both medical and natural— and when to seek professional support.
Whether you’re a new mum, currently breastfeeding, or supporting someone in postpartum, thisepisode will empower you with knowledge, practical tips, and reassurance that you don’t have to just “put up with” pelvic health symptoms.
What You’ll Learn in This Episode:
- What GSL is
- The role of oestrogen in postpartum recovery and pelvic floor health
- Common GSL symptoms (and how they can impact daily life)
- Why so few women talk about or seek help for these issues
- Medical and natural treatment options available for GSL
- How GSL symptoms can change when your period returns
- When and how to seek help from a trusted health professional
Resources & Links Mentioned in This Episode:
Follow Elizabeth Santos on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/wholewoman_elizabethsantos/
Take part in Elizabeth’s GSL research survey: http://tiny.cc/xn8g001
Disclaimer: This episode contains general information only and is not a substitute for professionalmedical advice. If you are experiencing symptoms, please speak to your doctor or a qualifiedwomen’s/pelvic health physiotherapist.
If you've ever wondered "Am I neurodivergent?" or "Do I have ADHD?", this episode is for you.
About Nicole:
With over 20 years of experience as a registered Occupational Therapist, Nicole supports neurodivergent families through online parent coaching. She is passionate about helping mothers and caregivers as they navigate the unique challenges of raising neurodivergent children.
Nicole uses a neurodiversity affirming approach and her special interest in matrescence to support mothers to work towards bringing a little more ease and joy to their lives.Nicole is an autistic ADHDer and is raising three neurodivergent girls. She uses her own lived experience of neurodivergence and matrescence to support other mothers, including recovery from postnatal depletion and autistic burnout as well as parenting and advocating for her ND children.
She spends many hours learning all there is to know about neuroaffirming practice and matrescence, thanks to her ability to hyperfocus on her special interests.
To find out more about Nicole's offerings which include 1:1 online coaching and online Neurodivergent Mothers Circles, head to her website www.nourishandconnect.com or catch her on IG @nourishandconnect or FB Nourish and Connect .
Your needs matter. How you treat yourself matters. In this episode, I dig into what self care and self nurturance really needs to look like for mothers (spoiler: it's not massages and bubble baths!).
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In this episode, I interview RTT Therapist and Master Coach Sivan on all things subconscious mind. Sivan has some great suggestions to help you get started on your personal healing journey, and we also discuss the ways in which her knowledge and awareness of subconscious patterns and programs has helped her in her own daily life.
The book Sivan recommends in the episode is 'The Power of Your Subconscious Mind' by Dr Joseph Murphy
Sivan is a Trauma Informed Master Coach + Rapid Transformational Therapist, PSYCH-K Facilitator and Nutritional Therapist.
Working with nutrition clients, Sivan quickly observed that her clients' food and health challenges were only surface-level symptoms of much deeper-rooted issues. This lead her to follow her fascination with human behaviour and the subconscious mind and Sivan now supports men and women across the world to uncover and release the root cause of their unwanted patterns and behaviours, so that they can live a more empowered, fully expressed life.
You can find Sivan at the links below:
IG: @wellness.with.sivan
Freebie hypnosis recording: https://wellnesswithsivan.com/joy/
Lavinia Brown (MA Oxon) is a trauma-informed psychodynamic coach who supports mothers to stop feeling anxious, depressed and angry through understanding and healing their past, clearing inherited emotional baggage, overcoming unconscious patterns and asserting healthy boundaries so that they can own their authentic feminine power without feeling ‘too much’, selfish or guilty.
In this episode, Lavinia and I chat about the inner child particularly from the perspective of motherhood: why it is so important that we heal our inner child wounds as mothers, and how we can do that.
You can find more from Lavinia at any of the links below:
Website: www.laviniabrown.com
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/laviniabrowncoaching
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCtFSVu5DC5O2-f25L0U8rAw
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/laviniabrowncoaching
This episode is a wrap on season one: all things subconscious mind, inner child, limiting beliefs, fears, stories, programs, patterns, and so on. I cover all of the basics and give you my best tips to help you get started on your personal healing journey.
I also share with you my most favourite books to keep you on track with your healing.
Links and book names:
The Big Leap by Gay Hendricks - covers limiting beliefs and how they impact us as adults
Mastering Your Mean Girl by Melissa Ambrosini - a great, easy read about your inner thoughts and how to change the way you talk to yourself
Brene Brown - honestly, one of my favourite people in the world. Any book by her is worth reading! You can also watch her famous TED talk here and she has a documentary on Netflix as well.
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About me:
Dannielle Illingworth is a kinesiologist, naturopath and author of “Quit Stressing About Food!”. Spurred by her lifelong love of learning, Danni has spent over a decade delving into the self-development world, and shares her professional and personal experience in 1:1 coaching and group programs.
With special interests in perfectionism, body image, emotional eating, parenting, anxiety and inner child healing, Danni’s holistic approach incorporates physical, mental, emotional and spiritual wellbeing.
You can connect with Danni through her website [www.dannielleillingworth.com], and on Instagram [www.instagram.com/dannielle.illingworth] + Facebook [www.facebook.com/dannielle.illingworth].
Generational patterns and trauma are passed on through family lines, and can be both direct and indirect. In this episode, I discuss the ways in which generational patterns and trauma are passed on and how to work your way through it. I also discuss the parent-child relationship and why it's important to heal from it.
This episode is also one for any parents out there wondering how they can avoid passing on a heap of generational patterns and trauma to their own children - the end of the episode outlines the very best thing you can do for your own healing and for your childrens'. The goal is never to be a perfect parent, but we can make a conscious choice to break cycles and try to avoid passing down generational patterns and trauma.
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And find me on Instagram here: www.instagram.com/dannielle.illingworth
About me:
Dannielle Illingworth is a kinesiologist, naturopath and author of “Quit Stressing About Food!”. Spurred by her lifelong love of learning, Danni has spent over a decade delving into the self-development world, and shares her professional and personal experience in 1:1 coaching and group programs.
With special interests in perfectionism, body image, emotional eating, parenting, anxiety and inner child healing, Danni’s holistic approach incorporates physical, mental, emotional and spiritual wellbeing.
You can connect with Danni through her website [www.dannielleillingworth.com], and on Instagram [www.instagram.com/dannielle.illingworth] + Facebook [www.facebook.com/dannielle.illingworth].
Now that we know a bit more about the inner child, in this episode it's all about how we can start to heal your inner child and work through some of the 'stuff' you're holding onto from your childhood.
In this episode, I discuss a technique known as reparenting - where you connect with your inner child and step into an adult parent role for them. I also chat about why self-compassion is the key to any kind of self-healing, including inner child healing.
Follow me on Facebook here: www.facebook.com/dannielle.illingworth
And find me on Instagram here: www.instagram.com/dannielle.illingworth
About me:
Dannielle Illingworth is a kinesiologist, naturopath and author of “Quit Stressing About Food!”. Spurred by her lifelong love of learning, Danni has spent over a decade delving into the self-development world, and shares her professional and personal experience in 1:1 coaching and group programs.
With special interests in perfectionism, body image, emotional eating, parenting, anxiety and inner child healing, Danni’s holistic approach incorporates physical, mental, emotional and spiritual wellbeing.
You can connect with Danni through her website [www.dannielleillingworth.com], and on Instagram [www.instagram.com/dannielle.illingworth] + Facebook [www.facebook.com/dannielle.illingworth].
This episode is all about your inner child - what it is, why it matters, and how you can start to connect with him/her.
In this episode, you will learn:
- what the 'inner child' is
- how your inner child is different from your subconscious mind (and how it's similar)
- why inner child work is important for you today, as an adult
- how to start forming a connection with your inner child so that you can begin healing that part of you
I highly recommend you find a meditation or visualisation to help you get started, my favourite app is Insight Timer and you can download it (totally free) and just search 'inner child'. Find a meditation that resonates with you and maybe give it a couple of listens - it can feel a bit weird the first time you start connecting with your inner child, but the more you practice, the easier it becomes. And once you delve in you'll really start to understand why inner child work is such as an important part of your healing journey.
You can download the app here.
You can find full show notes on my website: www.dannielleillingworth.com/podcast
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And find me on Instagram here: www.instagram.com/dannielle.illingworth
About me:
Dannielle Illingworth is a kinesiologist, naturopath and author of “Quit Stressing About Food!”. Spurred by her lifelong love of learning, Danni has spent over a decade delving into the self-development world, and shares her professional and personal experience in 1:1 coaching and group programs.
With special interests in perfectionism, body image, emotional eating, parenting, anxiety and inner child healing, Danni’s holistic approach incorporates physical, mental, emotional and spiritual wellbeing.
You can connect with Danni through her website [www.dannielleillingworth.com], and on Instagram [www.instagram.com/dannielle.illingworth] + Facebook [www.facebook.com/dannielle.illingworth].
In this episode, I chat about your inner voice - why it matters, and how you can start to change the way you talk to yourself on a daily basis.
Key takeaways for you:
- Your inner voice can come from how you were spoken to as a child, and/or how you witnessed other people in your life speak to themselves, or about themselves and others
- A parent who is self-critical will often raise children who are highly self-critical. We learn from observation, not just through what is directly said to us. This is why doing your own healing work as a parent is the greatest gift you can give to your child/ren!
- No one thrives when they're being constantly criticised, judged, blamed and shamed. So don't treat yourself that way.
For a step-by-step breakdown of how to change the way you speak to yourself, check out the full show notes: www.dannielleillingworth.com/s1e3
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And find me on Instagram here: www.instagram.com/dannielle.illingworth
About me:
Dannielle Illingworth is a kinesiologist, naturopath and author of “Quit Stressing About Food!”. Spurred by her lifelong love of learning, Danni has spent over a decade delving into the self-development world, and shares her professional and personal experience in 1:1 coaching and group programs.
With special interests in perfectionism, body image, emotional eating, parenting, anxiety and inner child healing, Danni’s holistic approach incorporates physical, mental, emotional and spiritual wellbeing.
You can connect with Danni through her website [www.dannielleillingworth.com], and on Instagram [www.instagram.com/dannielle.illingworth] + Facebook [www.facebook.com/dannielle.illingworth].
In this episode, I explain exactly where those pesky little thoughts, beliefs and fears in your subconscious mind come from. You might be surprised to learn that it's not just about what you experienced as a child or earlier in life, but actually what your brain decided as a result of those experiences.
Key takeaways for you:
- Your subconscious mind is filled with beliefs, fears and mindset blocks that you have gathered over your lifetime
- Your perspective of a situation, memory or experience is what holds the power when it comes to your subconscious mind
- Delving into your childhood is never about blaming anyone else, including your parents. It's about bringing light to what you have held onto for too long, to what is holding you back now as an adult, so that you can release it and move forward
- As a child, we take everything so personally because we don't have a fully developed logical mind. Things that wouldn't affect us as an adult can have a huge impact on us as a child, depending on what we make it "mean"
- Your subconscious fears, beliefs and blocks are only in control when you're unaware of them. Once you recognise what is in your subconscious mind, it's like you're able to get back in the drivers seat and take back control of your own decisions, actions and behaviours. Remaining ignorant to your subconscious beliefs, programs and fears is like sitting in the passenger seat while your 4 year old self takes the wheel!
You can find full show notes on my website: www.dannielleillingworth.com/podcast
Follow me on Facebook here: www.facebook.com/dannielle.illingworth
And find me on Instagram here: www.instagram.com/dannielle.illingworth
About me:
Dannielle Illingworth is a kinesiologist, naturopath and author of “Quit Stressing About Food!”. Spurred by her lifelong love of learning, Danni has spent over a decade delving into the self-development world, and shares her professional and personal experience in 1:1 coaching and group programs.
With special interests in perfectionism, body image, emotional eating, parenting, anxiety and inner child healing, Danni’s holistic approach incorporates physical, mental, emotional and spiritual wellbeing.
You can connect with Danni through her website [www.dannielleillingworth.com], and on Instagram [www.instagram.com/dannielle.illingworth] + Facebook [www.facebook.com/dannielle.illingworth].
In this episode, I go right back to the beginning and explain how I went from a naturopath specialising in weight loss, to a kinesiologist and intuitive coach focused on the subconscious mind, mindset and emotions.
I also share a bit about my own personal journey with food, weight and body image - and how discovering the power of the subconscious mind changed everything for me.
– If you’re feeling stuck and frustrated in your life, and you’re blaming yourself for what you haven’t been able to achieve – chances are the answers lie in your subconscious mind
– When you ignore the subconscious mind, you’re trying to forge ahead harnessing only 5% of the power of your mind
– Imagine the subconscious mind like a dingy, dark, forgotten attic in the back of your house. We don’t open the door and rip everything out at once, we gently creak open the door and decide what you’re ready to open and let go of. Bit by bit.
You can find full show notes on my website: www.dannielleillingworth.com/podcast
Follow me on Facebook here: www.facebook.com/dannielle.illingworth
And find me on Instagram here: www.instagram.com/dannielle.illingworth
About me:
Dannielle Illingworth is a kinesiologist, naturopath and author of “Quit Stressing About Food!”. Spurred by her lifelong love of learning, Danni has spent over a decade delving into the self-development world, and shares her professional and personal experience in 1:1 coaching and group programs.
With special interests in perfectionism, body image, emotional eating, parenting, anxiety and inner child healing, Danni’s holistic approach incorporates physical, mental, emotional and spiritual wellbeing.
You can connect with Danni through her website [www.dannielleillingworth.com], and on Instagram [www.instagram.com/dannielle.illingworth] + Facebook [www.facebook.com/dannielle.illingworth].
