ME + MOTHERHOOD with Benita Bensch

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ME + MOTHERHOOD is a fortnightly podcast rich with meaningful, inspiring and practical conversations for all mothers who want to reclaim ME in motherhood. This podcast is for you if you are ready to return to yourself through self-exploration, find your spark again in motherhood and give yourself permission to be happier and healthier. Join podcast host Benita Bensch and other special guests to delve deeper into the mother in motherhood, because she who does the holding needs to be held.

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Ep 27. Taking a Podcasting Break and Why

Nov 14 2023 38 mins

“Is this decision serving me to my greater good?”This is one of the questions I want to leave you with as I take a break from this podcast.I have found making the decision to put the podcast, and other parts of my business on hold to be incredibly difficult, and I understand that readjusting your priorities can be hard, but you are important and your health is important.Adam an

Ep 26. Dr Sophie Brock on The Perfect Mother Myth and Social Construct of Motherhood

Oct 31 2023 36 mins

Dr Sophie Brock is a motherhood studies sociologist and mother living in Sydney, Australia. She provides analysis of motherhood in our culture and the ways individual experiences of mothers are shaped by broader social constructs.Sophie's work contributes to changing the cultural conversation on motherhood and the individual experiences of mothers to create a world where mothe

Ep 25. My Motherhood Story: Steph Schmidt

Oct 17 2023 58 mins

“Our challenges now will be their strengths in the future” shares Steph Schmidt on navigating her motherhood journey.Steph is a psychologist working in farmer mental health and grassroots and community based strategies. She is also a mother to 3 boys and alongside her husband runs a sheep and cropping farm in South Australia.Steph openly admits that she has found motherhood to

Ep 24. Your Two Most Powerful Words

Oct 03 2023 12 mins

“I am”Have you ever thought about the power and potency of these words?What we impress on our subconscious mind is what comes to reality for us.The power that words hold for us can easily be overlooked or thrown to the side, and in the last 18 months I have become aware that since I was a teenager I have been managing a tendency towards anxiety and made the conscious decision t

Ep 23. Sunny Roberts on How to Keep Your Relationship Alive Post-Kids

Sep 19 2023 50 mins

Sunny Roberts is deeply passionate about helping women return to their feminine energy. Born and raised in Germany and working in a corporate career she spent her 20s operating in masculine push mode and burnt out at 28 which led her to become a yoga and mindfulness teacher. Becoming a mum of two boys she found herself struggling in her own marriage of 7 years and was ready to give

Ep 22. My Motherhood Story: Kate Fisher

Sep 05 2023 52 mins

**Themes of mental health, pregnancy loss, medical trauma and women’s health issues.**This is not an episode for little people's ears. Pop your headphones on, or listen to it when you're alone.“I’ve really learned that the best parents, and the best mums that I know are the ones that become the parent that their child needs them to be” shares Kate Fisher on her mo

Ep 21. Navigating Burnout and The Black Hole in 2018

Aug 22 2023 27 mins

My own invisible battle.This has been on my heart for a while now, and it will give you some context for the work that I do with mums, my experiences and hardships with mental health from my own motherhood journey.In this episode I share a very personal, raw and vulnerable letter that I wrote in November 2018 and emailed to a group of Mums around the same stage of motherhood I was.

Ep 20. Katrina Myers on Productivity and the Cost of Saying Yes

Aug 08 2023 43 mins

Katrina is a Meditation and Wellbeing educator, a fourth generation farmer and co-owner of the family run business, Barham Avocados. Katrina is a passionate rural advocate who cares deeply about rural and regional Australia and is on a mission to support Rural Women to thrive and lead through her Meditation and Mindset Training Business. Her experience travelling all over the world

Ep 19. My Motherhood Story: Riana Davis

Jul 25 2023 58 mins

“No matter how fiercely independent you are and how much you struggle to ask for help, when push comes to shove, you end up having to ask for help” shares Riana Davis on her motherhood lessons.Riana has been officially part of our family for around 10 years, and I am so grateful to call her my sister-in-law. Riana is married to my younger brother Shawn and together they have t

Ep 18. The Art of Trying: An Introduction

Jun 13 2023 13 mins

The Art of Trying.In this context, trying is the colloquial term used to describe the process of deliberately timing intercourse to coincide with ovulation for the purpose of creating an embryo.It implies action.I came to detest the word trying because it invoked in me a sense of hard work, futility and never quite getting there.It’s also the title of my book.Whilst my husband an