NTM 540: The Birth You Feel Again: Why Our Children’s Birthdays Bring Up Old Stories

Julie and Bridget dive into why mothers so often feel their children’s birthdays in their bodies - not just as a date on the calendar, but as an emotional echo of who they were when that child arrived.

They unpack the surprising way the body holds onto birth memories, how milestone birthdays can reopen old wounds or tender places, and why perimenopause, identity shifts, and grief can hit hard in the background of these celebrations. Together, they explore the collision of timelines: our children growing up while we’re changing, ageing, and renegotiating who we are, and offer gentle questions and reframes to help mothers meet these moments with more compassion, clarity, and reverence for the women they’ve become along the way.

In This Episode, We Discuss:
* How our children’s birthdays can stir old emotional echoes from the time they were born
* Why the body remembers more than we realise; and how those memories resurface during milestones
* The surprising overlap between adolescence, perimenopause, and the identity shifts of midlife motherhood
* The pull into self-doubt, regret, or “have I done enough?” and why it’s an emotional anniversary, not a failure
* Why big feelings around birthdays don’t mean something is wrong — they’re part of the mothering timeline
* How to hold yourself through emotional reactivation with softness rather than self-criticism
* Gentle questions to help you understand what this milestone is asking you to release, recognise, or step toward
* A simple grounding ritual to honour both who you were when they arrived and who you’re becoming now

Want support on this journey? Come join us inside Honey Club - where we melt these blocks together, one breath, one practice, one deep remembering at a time. Find out more at julietenner.love or visit: https://julie-tenner.newzenler.com/courses/honeyclub


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