The Well-Nourished Mother: Helping You Thrive in Pregnancy, Birth & Motherhood
Motherhood is a rite of passage. This podcast treats it that way.
Join Lauren Fortuna-Floch for honest, inspiring conversations with experts, mothers, and badass wise women — blending the head and the heart to help you nourish yourself body, mind, and soul through pregnancy, birth, and beyond.
The Well-Nourished Mother: Helping You Thrive in Pregnancy, Birth & Motherhood
Latest Episodes
26. Everyone's Talking About Matrescence. But Is It Actually Helping You?
Matrescence is finally getting the attention it deserves — but is the conversation actually helping mothers move through it? Naming the transition is a start. But naming it isn't the same as navigating it.In this episode...
25. The Lost Art of Honoring the Mother
In this episode Lauren explores what's been quietly lost in the way modern culture approaches birth — and how to begin bringing it back through simple, intentional ceremony. Lauren shares about the history of birthing rituals, why t...
24. Ancestral Medicine for Modern Mothers: Rebozo, Ritual, and Cultural Respect with Andréa de Keijzer
How can we bring the beauty, wisdom, and deep healing of traditional practices into modern birthwork and motherhood, while honouring their roots?In this moving conversation, Lauren sits down with Andréa de Keijzer,...
MUSINGS + MAGICK: ADHD Diagnosis Dilemmas and New Seasons of Motherhood (SEPTEMBER FULL MOON WITH LAUREN AND NICOLE)
Under September’s full moon, we sit in the messy middle of it all—thresholds, tenderness, and the very human urge to know what’s on the other side. In this episode, Lauren shares the mixed cocktail of grief and excitement as her daughter starts...
MUSINGS + MAGICK: Matrescence & the Nervous System (JULY FULL MOON WITH LAUREN AND NICOLE)
Concepts like matrescence and the nervous system are getting more attention, FINALLY! But as they become buzzwords, they’re often watered down, overgeneralized, and stripped of the nuance they deserve. In this epis...