The Matrescence Podcast

By: Kelly & Bree
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  • This is a place for you to find the information and support you need to make the transition to motherhood an empowering one.Together your hosts Kelly Wilkes and Bree Holling will combine evidence-based information with personal insight to help you heal from past experiences, make informed and empowered decisions, grow as individuals and mothers and find solidarity in this journey that is matrescence. Whether you are a mother, a birth worker or just a woman driven to be the best version of herself, as long as you like belly laughs, heart warming stories and over sharing, this is a place for you.
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Episodes
  • #45 Supporting Your Family Through the Death of a Loved One With Death Doula Amanda

    #45 Supporting Your Family Through the Death of a Loved One With Death Doula Amanda
    Aug 29 2022
    ,Content warning: Death, miscarriage, domestic violence In this week’s episode we chat to mum of 3 and death doula, Amanda. Amanda became a mum earlier in life than expected. While she breezed through conception and pregnancy, Amanda’s first birth was not what she had planned for, hoped for, or expected. Despite wanting a natural birth, Amanda agreed to have her first birth induced. After 17 long hours of back to back contractions, she was taken for an emergency c-section. She gave ...
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    1 hr and 28 mins
  • #43 Is She A Good Baby? With Dr Alix Vann.

    #43 Is She A Good Baby? With Dr Alix Vann.
    Aug 1 2022
    In this week's episode we chat to Alix. Alix is an eldest daughter, a mother to a 4-year-old daughter, a clinical psychologist, and a recovering ‘good girl’. Through both her post-graduate training and clinical experience, and her own lived experiences of being parented and raised in the pursuit of perfect, Alix has become intimately acquainted with the notion of "the good child” and how this presents in the mothering experience. Alix’s own introduction to motherhood was fraught, with he...
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    1 hr and 16 mins
  • #44 Our Story: Insights on The Mental Load, Working Motherhood and the Supermum Myth.

    #44 Our Story: Insights on The Mental Load, Working Motherhood and the Supermum Myth.
    Aug 1 2022
    8 years ago on a Sunday afternoon, Bree walked down Kel's long drive way for an interview. After the news that their neurdiverse son was no longer welcome at Before and After School Care, Kel and her husband had been forced to explore other care options. While the first nanny was okay, the fit wasn't quite right. 18 and with minimal experience with children, on paper Bree was probably not an ideal candidate. In fact, on her first day she had to call her mum to walk her through ...
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    1 hr and 6 mins

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