There are SO many gems within this conversation, and I guarantee this will inspire and move you as a woman/mother, where you have sons or daughters (or want to be a mom some day).

We talk about...

• How parenting somewhat "begins" in the toddler phase
• Nicole's instinctual, embodied mothering approach and the weaving together of primal needs and mothering in modern times
• A discussion on boundaries with young children and the necessity of being physical
• Gentle parenting and animal, embodied parenting - and of course, kindness and respect is a core pillar and foundation. AND, what does true respect for children mean? At times, being an authority figure.
• The weight of responsibility when we don't take up the role of it for our children
• Under age 7, the children are the mother's domain
• Getting into a conversation about boys specifically and their path in life, the mother's role and leading them well into manhood
• Noticing how our children feel SAFE within hierarchy
• Inherent differences between boys and girls, and how she is teaching her sons how to interact differently with girls (which will inform how they treat women later on)
• Our responsibility as mothers to orchestrate their needs, and the difference between that and MEETING their needs ourselves
• What it truly means for Nicole raise boys with the intention of making them good, kingly men
• Her vision for her boys in the second plane of childhood, ages 7-14 - what she will bring in for them and her commitment to homeschooling

• Our job to be our children's gatekeeper and semi-permeable membrane vs mainstream approach of "you can't shelter them forever"
• Nicole's intention to have her children be in her family unit/orb their whole lives
• How our culture routinely and innately gaslights mothers (and babies)
• School as an alternate form of life and how it does not set up our children well for adulthood and "real-world" life
• Rampant distrust of self/embodied knowing in modern mothers; the wisdom of outsourcing as well as the shadow side, and her practice for developing internal knowing (hint: she looks to the animal kingdom)
• Getting to a place of radically calm and stable boundary setting, without guilt or anger
• The enmeshment and over-responsibility that happens for our children when we don't show up in these ways as mothers
• The crucial importance of honoring the mother-baby period, in order to usher our children out of babyhood and into healthy toddlerhood and beyond

Nicole is a primal mother of four sons, keeper of sacred postpartum, and lighthouse for embodied motherhood. She believes that aligning with the brilliant design of our bodies softens us into our most vibrant, nourished lives – she walks with women along the mothering continuum to reclaim this truth together.

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