Raising Up - The podcast with Rowena Hobbins

Welcome to "Raising Up: The Podcast," where we delve into the journey of motherhood with a focus on neurodivergent children. I'm Rowena Hobbins, your host, a certified life and menstrual coach, and a mother navigating the complexities of raising neurodivergent kids. Join me and my guests as we share insights, education, and personal experiences to support you through the challenging moments. From the newborn stages to navigating menopause, we explore how to reclaim our bodies, minds, and spirits.In today's episode, I open up about my own experiences as a mother of neurodivergent children, an anxiety sufferer, and someone with neurodivergent family members. We discuss the importance of self-care, especially when carrying a significant mental load. I share practical tips on creating morning and evening routines that prioritize your well-being, emphasizing the power of setting realistic expectations.We also touch on the impact of childhood experiences on caregiving, exploring ways to navigate triggers and seek support. From stakeholder meetings to daily challenges, I provide insights into managing the unique aspects of parenting neurodivergent children. I highlight the significance of choosing peace in moments of chaos and offer valuable advice on taking breaks for self-reflection and growth.Throughout the episode, I share my recent family trip to the States, addressing the challenges faced while traveling with neurodivergent children. We discuss the importance of lowering expectations, embracing the unpredictability of parenthood, and finding joy in shared experiences.Additionally, I touch on the emotional aspects of parenting, advocating for mental health breaks, and the transformative power of stepping away for self-discovery. I encourage fellow parents to release feelings of guilt and embrace opportunities for personal growth, recognizing that taking care of ourselves ultimately benefits our children.As we approach the end of the school year, I offer a glimpse into the anxiety surrounding transitioning to a new school year and share that a future episode will focus on preparing neurodivergent children for school.Thank you for joining us on this journey of "Raising Up." For additional information, show notes, and details on working with me, visit raisingup.com.au. Until next time, keep raising up.

Welcome to "Raising Up The Podcast" with Rowena Hobbins, a certified life coach and menstrual coach, and a mother of neurodivergent children. Join Rowena and her guests as they navigate the journey of motherhood, from newborn stages to menopause and beyond. In this episode, Rowena welcomes Jade, a fitness coach, and together they explore topics like weight loss, healing relationships with trainers, and the transformative power of reclaiming one's body, mind, and spirit.Jade shares her journey from a corporate career to becoming a fitness coach, emphasizing the importance of a holistic approach to health and wellness. They discuss the significance of mental health, breaking free from toxic fitness trends, and celebrating small wins in the journey towards a healthier, stronger self.The conversation takes a heartfelt turn as Jade opens up about her personal experiences, including the loss of her brother, which became a catalyst for profound life changes. Rowena and Jade reflect on grief, resilience, and the power of choosing to embrace change.This episode is a powerful exploration of self-discovery, healing, and the impact of genuine connections in the process of raising oneself and others. Tune in to "Raising Up The Podcast" for insightful conversations and valuable tools to support your journey through life's challenges.You can find Jade at Align___coaching on instagram or Jade Collins coach and also make an appointment to have a discovery call to see if she is the right PT for you (highly recommended by Rowena) www.aligncoaching.co.uk

Welcome to Season Two of "Raising Up The Podcast"! In this highly anticipated first episode, we're diving straight into thought-provoking topics that will resonate with you on a profound level. Have you ever pondered the origins of the patterns and behaviors that shape your life? Join us as we explore the captivating concept of generational influences, tracing the intricate threads of your existence back through the women who came before you. Alongside this, we'll delve into the intriguing realm of personal safety—both in a physical and emotional sense. Our host Rowena shares her own journey of self-discovery, navigating the landscape of safety protocols, weight loss milestones, and the internal dialogues that propel growth. With transparency and vulnerability, she reveals the support systems that have been instrumental in her transformation, inspiring you to reflect on your own path of evolution.Embarking on a reflective journey, we'll discuss the patterns of safety that might unknowingly hold you back from embracing your truest self. As we navigate the seasons of life and the cycles of the moon, you'll find resonance whether you're in the midst of menstruation or aligning with the moon's phases. Join us in this episode as we uncover the wisdom that accompanies each stage of life, embracing the Crone elder version of ourselves with grace and curiosity. Your host invites you to engage in this collective exploration, prompting self-discovery and self-acceptance.If you've been captivated by our podcast's conversations, we encourage you to hit that subscribe button, ensuring you never miss an enlightening episode. Your thoughts and feedback are invaluable, so don't hesitate to share your impressions and insights. And for those craving a deeper dive into the transformative concepts discussed, visit our website for enriching resources. If you're seeking personalized guidance, our online coaching spaces are open, as well as opportunities to join in-person retreats and one-on-one embodiment coaching. Today's episode brings into focus the powerful interplay between growth and examining our past wounds. Delve into the intricate layers of your personal safety protocols, recognizing that these mechanisms have traversed generations of women, each seeking security and affirmation. As you journey through various life stages, whether embracing motherhood or birthing creative endeavors, remember that shedding the cloak of perfection and vulnerability is an act of empowerment. It's time to rewrite the narratives of enoughness and value, honoring the transformative process that is uniquely yours.www.raisingup.com.auTo book an appointment with me https://raisingupappointmentclients.as.me/To find an amazing health coach please go check out Jade at Align Coaching via instagram by searching Align Coaching 

Stay tuned for a new catch up style with Rowena and her new guest host Antoinette as they talk about the start of school obstacles for their children, the challenges of speaking up for your child with caregivers as well as the devotion of motherhood and how trauma and our childhood experiences make a huge difference in our own humaness. A regular catch up with both Rowena and Antoinette is scheduled monthly on Raising Up If you would like to find out more about the lifestyle coach Rowena has been supported by You can head over to Align Coaching on instagram and tell the ladies Rowena sent you ❤️https://instagram.com/align___coaching?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=You can also listen to in the inspiring address to the National Press club that motivated Rowena to shake up and speak her daughters truth using a checklist for teachers to under her neurodivergent needs here https://youtu.be/4Z-JzH6b9y8

Alysha is a solar powered queer woman, sunflower lover and a cancer. She is an Occupational Therapist and co-host of the sexual health and education podcast  “Here To F*ck Spiders.” Alysha is passionate about reducing stigmas relating to sexuality and fostering connection for others.You can find her hanging out on Instagram in her brand new sexiselfcare account where she shares resources, education and personal experience relating to all things sexuality and health.https://instagram.com/sexiselfcare_?igshid=ZDg1NjBiNjg=https://instagram.com/heretofckspiderspodcast?igshid=ZDg1NjBiNjg=

Erin is an Organising Expert, Interior Stylist, Lifestyle Concierge, Wife, Mother & Coffee Enthusiast. As a highly organized human and having report cards and certificates from school detailing this ability. Erin also has a deep love for fashion, furniture and homewares. This love led her to working in retail whilst in school, in these fields. Erin then moved into Visual Merchandising for furniture stores and department stores across QLD. She has also worked for Design Firms and Interior Designers AND am also a qualified hairdresser. Basically if it involves creating/creativity, people, connection, beauty and styling Erin is in! The culmination of these years across multiple companies and industries led her to launch my business which operated very much as a side hustle until she took the limelight in October 2021 and I took the leap and gave "her business" all her love and energy and haven't looked back since. You can find Erin at https://theclutterconsultant.com.au

Sharon is a life coach who empowers women to remember in a gentle and loving way that you are enough. Spending her younger years in small communities in remote WA and as a young mother, Sharon learned that she wanted more for herself but was challenged by thoughts of not being good enough. Living in a remote area and having a FIFO husband, she soon learned to build not only a community around her but also an extensive network online as well as finding support with a coach to help her through feeling like she wasn't worthy to stepping outside of her comfort zone to challenging herself to help others. Sharon is a vivacious and bubbly character who always offers safe spaces for all to come and drop completely into who they are exactly as they are in soft gentle ways that makes huge ripples. 

In this episode, Michelle shares insight into how she has used her mindset toolbox and journalling to help her through lots of major transitions from moving consistently with her husband and his sporting career to sharing how she has moved from perfectionism to balancing the unedited versions of herself to help her deal with the loss of her father whilst being pregnant with her first child and being away from family due to lockdowns. The diagnosis of her Dad with Multiple Myeloma and the subsequent treatment and cancer journey she and her family went on with him, combined with his passing, of which she was 4 months pregnant at the time was as Michelle describes her Raising Up moment.This podcast gives a unique look into how reimagining life for yourself doesn't have to always be perfect but instead allow space for you to be true to yourself. Michelle helps mums create a mindset toolbox that enables them to prioritise themselves without guilt, tangibly create calmness and presence, resiliently adapt to motherhood challenges and beautifully soak in the everyday moments of their lives.

Hana O'Neill is known as Hana the Suburban Witch and is a professional Tarot reader, Natal Astrologer and Eclectic Witch located in Australia. Hana's goal is to make Witchcraft and alternative spirituality fun, informative and accessible to all. She runs a course on Psychic Divination, blogs about Witchcraft and Astrology with pop culture references to fandoms such as Disney and Harry Potter. She hosts the podcast ‘Witch Talks' interviewing key Witches in the community, has a thriving YouTube channel with content from Spellcrafting, Tarot tutorials, Witchcraft basics and even details her own journey from Pentecostal Christian to proud Witch.You can find Hanah at - www.suburbanwitchery.com@suburban_witchery on instagram@suburbanwitchery on Facebook, TikTok, YouTube and Patreon@hanathesw on Twitter

Sam is a mum of 2 young boys 4 and 1, from the NW coast of Tasmania. She works as an Enneagram coach to support women to understand themselves better so they can lean into owning their strengths and thriving in life and business. Ennegram coaching is such a unique way to understand the human spirit and on this podcast, Sam shares her Raising Up moments to help her on the path to also help other women calm their inner critic and understand themselves at a much deeper level.In this episode, Sam shares her journey through her two miscarriages and how the inner critic played a huge part in taking time out to listen to what she truly needed. This episode may be triggering for some humans when we cover subjects like pregnancy loss so please go gentle with yourself when listening in a safe and supportive enivironment. You can find Samanth through her website https://www.samanthajanecoaching.com/links/Or on instagram at https://www.instagram.com/samantha_jane_coach/You can also find support on the topics we have discussed today at https://www.pregnancylossaustralia.org.auhttps://www.sands.org.au

Charlotte Pointeaux is an internationally award-winning Wild Feminine Cycle Coach. On today's podcast she shares with us her journey that started her to follow her true north star and what had always been written in the stars of helping other young girls and women to walk through and celebrate who they are at the core, even after experincing abandonment and deep wounds from her own childhood. Charlotte shares her deeply heavy story of her own broken lineage and how a cancer scare made her realise how important it was for her to be working with girls and women who needed support. Please note that this story comes with a trigger warning with sensitive material and also please approach Charlotte with words of "I see you" in her own story. Charlotte is a speaker, teacher, children's menstrual educator, shamanic guide of the cycle mysteries, host of the Wild Flow Podcast and Founder and Facilitator of First Moon Circles®.Charlotte guides women to explore, honour and embody their menstrual cycle, to heal their relationship with their womb and body, and to create, live, love and lead in business in flow with their cyclic powers.She shares tips on cyclical living, cycle self-care, and rite of passage healing, and is on a mission to minimise menstrual shame and create period and cycle-positive cultures in families, schools, workplaces and communities.As Founder and Program Director of the First Moon Circles® Facilitator Training, Charlotte leads a globally-recognised program and community of over 60 menstrual educators who do period education differently. Weaving together science, the sacred and sisterhood, First Moon Circles educate, prepare, celebrate and honour children aged 9-12 to feel confident about puberty and beginning their menstrual cycles.You can go check Charlotte out at https://charlottepointeaux.comFB PAGE https://www.facebook.com/charlotte.pointeaux.coach/and listen to her podcast Wild flow on spotify or apple podcast https://open.spotify.com/show/6fakdXa7QbXFvgukucA7w3?si=8cf753b887e84e7b

Come listen to this next episode where Rowena shares how one piece of integral information really helped her to take her wounded story of birth and trace the deep origins of it leading back from the past of the female lineage 

In this episode, Antoinette shares moments of her life that revealed to her that she was only existing in life until she decided that the abusive relationship she was in had to end and then a cataclysm of events lead to her moving as well as coming to the realisation that her constant internal struggles to stay focussed and failure to achieve in life was due to being undiagnosed until later on as an adult with inattentive ADHD. She shares her struggles that she has had and what impact it has had on her as well as even the struggle to get diagnosed. Please see show notes for all the research Rowena the host speaks about in this episode as well as support help lines ADHD Test: Do I Have ADD? Symptoms in Adultshttps://www.additudemag.com/adhd-symptoms-test-adults/ADHD Symptoms as Risk Factors for IntimatePartner Violence Perpetration and Victimizationhttps://www.researchgate.net/profile/Brian-Wymbs/publication/277406418_ADHD_Symptoms_as_Risk_Factors_for_Intimate_Partner_Violence_Perpetration_and_Victimization/links/56cc649c08ae5488f0dcfb35/ADHD-Symptoms-as-Risk-Factors-for-Intimate-Partner-Violence-Perpetration-and-Victimization.pdfIn defense of the medical model of neurodiversity https://www.forbes.com/sites/drnancydoyle/2022/01/31/in-defense-of-the-medical-model-of-neurodiversity/?sh=5c4342685bb4Decades of failing to recognize ADHD in girls has created a “lost generation” of womenhttps://qz.com/592364/decades-of-failing-to-recognize-adhd-in-girls-has-created-a-lost-generation-of-women/The lost girls: ‘Chaotic and curious, women with ADHD all have missed red flags that haunt us'https://www.theguardian.com/society/2020/nov/02/the-lost-girls-chaotic-and-curious-women-with-adhd-all-have-missed-red-flags-that-haunt-usThe Secret Heartache of a Girl with Inattentive ADHDhttps://www.additudemag.com/secret-heartache-of-a-girl-with-adhd/Risks and benefits of ADHD medication on behavioral and neuropsychiatric outcomes: a qualitative review of pharmacoepidemiology studies using linked prescription databaseshttps://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6697582/Adult ADHD and comorbid disorders: clinical implications of a dimensional approachhttps://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5567978/The Complete Picture: How Estrogen Affects Women with ADHD - CHADDhttps://chadd.org/adhd-weekly/the-complete-picture-how-estrogen-affects-women-with-adhd/PMS and ADHD: How Menstrual Cycle Hormones Intensify Symptomshttps://www.additudemag.com/pms-adhd-hormones-menstrual-cycle/Hormones and Women's ADHD Symptoms—Part Two - CHADDhttps://chadd.org/adhd-weekly/hormones-and-womens-adhd-symptoms-part-two/If you or someone you know is suffering from intimate physical, emotional or financial abuse - please reach out for help 1800 RESPECThttps://www.1800respect.org.au/

In this episode, Rowena shares how she went through a traumatic birth experience in order to open up to others as well as into her own healing experiencing her own Raising Up biggest moments leading her to a career of helping others into their own Raising Up. Listeners are advised that this podcast contains content in regards to medical trauma as well as pregnancy loss. 

In this episode, Rowena starts to share her story of how she came to her breaking moments just before her second baby was born and the start of her opening into Raising Up. Trigger warning ; Rowena talks about in the episode  bereavement and medical trauma as well as physical abuse. Rowena in this episode talks about being diagnosed with placenta previa which is a medical condition that effects pregnant women where the placenta covers the opening of the uterus. It can result in bleeding during the pregnancy and after as well as meaning that the pregnancy can result in a planned or emergency c- section. You can find more information here and here.You can also find help here with support from PANDA  and LIFELINE if you are feeling any big emotions with your pregnancy.Rowena speaks about her psychologist that she saw in her 20's Dr Rebecca Ray which you can purchase her books from any good online and in person book store.  If you have suffered from physical or emotional abuse by any other human please reach out to white ribbonOr please see your doctor. In Australia we have access to mental health plans to help anyone that needs support. Getting support is a huge part of everyone's Raising Up. Reach out to people that feel safe. You are not alone and there is no shame in what you may be experiencing. If you have liked this podcast please share and rate it as well as leaving me feedback. Thank you for all your support and if you are here doing your own soul journey and find yourself at a crossroad - welcome to your own Raising Up.Rowena

In the introduction - get to know the host Rowena Hobbins a little better with a quick overview on what Raising Up means