Me After You

Nov 18 2024 15 ep. 26 mins 428
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Me After You aims to answer the question "Who the hell am I, now that I'm a mum?". Host Laura Byrne walks us through the big post-motherhood moments with stories of wisdom, humour, breakdown, ambition, love, hope and rebirth from a truly diverse range of parents.

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Parenting Rewires Your Brain... Literally

Nov 18 2024 23 mins  
No you're not losing it, your emotions have changed and science says that having a child changes your brain forever. In latest episode of parenting podcast This Glorious Mess, Dr Golly breaks down the reason you may cry at the news. Or feel overcome by emotions at the smallest things. It turns out that your amygdala, your brain’s emotional HQ, opens up a whole new range of emoti

Checking In: Is Your Relationship In The Room-Mate Phase?

Oct 24 2024 22 mins  
Its been a while since we checked with you here at Me After You. Life can get hectic—between chores, work, and managing the mental load, it's easy for connection with your partner to slip down the priority list. Before you know it, you might find yourselves in the "roommate phase." On a recent episode of our parenting podcast This Glorious Mess we explored the telltale signs of

Introducing Restart: The Many Kinds Of Motherhood Regret

Mar 28 2022 33 mins  
Introducing our new podcast, Restart. If you like what you hear, search Restart wherever you get your podcasts... Two years ago, Madeleine West hit restart on her life. She packed up her life in Melbourne and moved to Byron Bay, split up with her partner of 15 years and the father of her six kids and she started life again. And now she wants to find out why and how women from acros

Me After Two: Laura Byrne's Very Busy Year

Nov 30 2021 41 mins  
If you're expecting, a new mum, or wrangling a toddler, we have all the best resources for new parents in our free newsletter here. Going from one to two, you think it's going to be easy, right? But then it happens and it's not at all what you anticipated. No one tells you that each pregnancy, each birth and each kid is going to be different. The second time around for Laura Byrne

Hope: Yes, You Are Still You

Sep 22 2020 31 mins  
If you're expecting, a new mum, or wrangling a toddler, we have all the best resources for new parents in our free newsletter here. This is the final episode of this season of Me After You and we wanted to leave you with a sense of hope. We find hope in the comfort of our shared fears and failures, in the shared joys and tiny wins. Hope for what comes next, for both you and your c

Friendship: Who Are My ‘Real’ Friends, Now?

Sep 15 2020 20 mins  
If you're expecting, a new mum, or wrangling a toddler, we have all the best resources for new parents in our free newsletter here. Friendship can be a fraught topic for lots of mums, with feelings of conflict and confusion about how to form new connections and keep old friends close if your lives are now very different. In this episode, Laura Jackel tells us how she felt she coul

Travel: Grounded With Kids

Sep 08 2020 24 mins  
If you're expecting, a new mum, or wrangling a toddler, we have all the best resources for new parents in our free newsletter here. Ahhh travelling with kids. Back in the days when we could actually travel beyond our home suburb, this was a topic that everyone had an opinion about, and no doubt will again. Whether you want to travel overseas or hit the road for a camping trip, goin

Self Care: You Remember That, Right?

Sep 01 2020 21 mins  
If you're expecting, a new mum, or wrangling a toddler, we have all the best resources for new parents in our free newsletter here. What does self-care look like, now you’re a parent? Who has time for meditation, massage and naps when they can't even get a solid six hours sleep at night? On this episode, you’ll be hearing from mums describing what self-care means to them, inclu

Home: A Battleground And Safe Haven

Aug 25 2020 21 mins  
If you're expecting, a new mum, or wrangling a toddler, we have all the best resources for new parents in our free newsletter here. Home after you become a parent is more than four walls and a roof. It’s a battleground, and a safe haven. It’s a never ending pile of washing, it’s memories, and it’s tantrums. On today’s episode of Me After You, you’ll be hearing from Emil

Family: If It Takes A Village, Where’s Mine?

Aug 18 2020 27 mins  
If you're expecting, a new mum, or wrangling a toddler, we have all the best resources for new parents in our free newsletter here. Motherhood doesn’t only change your relationship with yourself. It can also change your connections with those around you. Sometimes it brings you closer. At other times, you might wish you could get just a bit more space. On this episode of Me After