THE GOOD ENOUGH MOTHER PODCAST
Surrendering and Softening into Mothering During Challenging Times
May 18, 2020
MOTHERHOOD, THE LOST DAUGHTER, THE BAD MOTHER, CULTURAL TABOOS, PODCAST EPISODE
with The Mamma Coach Sophie Burch
This conversation is with Sophie Burch, mother of 4 boys including twins, and therapist and coach, who is on a mission to help people maintain their mental wellbeing from pregnancy through birth and parenting. Sophie talks openly about her experiences in mothering her boys, and shares her professional insights and expertise as someone who speaks to parents everyday about the challenges they face in parenting. We reflect on the ways that surrendering, self-compassion, and Sophie’s terminology of ‘softening’ into the most challenging parts of mothering are what help us through. We talk about mindfulness, ‘micro moments’ of self-care, reframing tools, mirroring, and modelling, and Sophie shares with us a brilliant and practical strategy that you can adopt and implement into your daily life as a parent when things feel overwhelming.
Listen up.
This episode is designed to be a little tonic; a moment of presence and space to breathe. A way for us to 'come home' to ourselves, within the context of us as a collective.
Meet
Sophie Burch
(alias Mamma Burch).
I’m a mother of 4 boys (2, then twins) and a cocker spaniel. Wife to Pappa Burch living by the sea in Kent, UK. I’m an Author, founder and Leader of a Collective called Beyond Birth, an Executive Director and Trainer for Perinatal Mental Health Training CIC, a Hypno-CBT (HCBT) therapist, 14+ years as a Hypnobirthing Practitioner, 16 years as an IAIM Baby Massage Teacher, 20+ years IFA Aromatherapist, Holistic and Pregnancy Massage therapist, Usui Reiki therapist and ex-professional singer.
All rolled into one: I’m The Mamma Coach! (Fully accredited by the CNHC, General Hypnotherapy Register, GHRsc and fully insured).
I’m on a mission to bring mental health awareness and emotional well-being practices into the lives of all parents and professionals during the perinatal period and parenting experience. I’ve collaborated with some very inspiring people in the birthing world (Dr Jane Hanley, Mark Williams, and more), and been a Parental Mental Health expert on The Baby Show twice. I keenly support organisations like Make Birth Better and Pandas Perinatal Mental Health Charity as well as the incredible work of the Maternal Mental Health Alliance.