Welcome to episode one. We're really diving straight in with this one.
I'm Kate Holm, naturopath, nutritionist, and mum of three, and this podcast is about the parts of motherhood that taste amazing, the parts that make a mess, and the parts you keep hearing are good for you but have no idea what to do with.
This week I'm talking about something that comes up in almost every appointment I have with my patients - stress and the nervous system during motherhood. Not in a "just meditate more" way. In a real, physiological, "this is what's happening in your body" way.
A lot of women come to me chasing a diagnosis, whether that's perimenopause, IBS, food sensitivities, thyroid issues, and a lot of the time, the nervous system is sitting underneath all of it. Sometimes causing it. Sometimes just making everything worse.
I also answer a deeply personal question from my friend Liz about how my own experience of being raised has shaped the mother I'm trying to be. We go there on episode one.
Plus a recco this week that I did not expect to love as much as I do.
In this episode:
Why your body can't tell the difference between a stressful email and actual danger
How chronic stress quietly depletes progesterone and starts to look like other conditions
The gut-nervous system connection and why it matters more than most people realise
Three things you can start doing today that don't require extra time or childcare
A conversation about estrangement, re-parenting yourself, and the repair that matters most
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