#25 SLOW DOWN: living with your moon seasons
This episode is meant to be a gentle reminder for you to lean deeply into your moons this year. To honor your menstrual cycles as much as the seasons outside.
To know when to rest and when to play.
To lean into the seasons with grace and awareness.
Every season of life and every season in nature has its magic. Every month the moon grows fuller and hangs heavy in the air, before it slowly disappears once more. Everything in nature is cyclical, and we are nature, and we are cyclical beings, too. To live linear lives is constantly creating resistance against ease and flow.
So embrace living with your moon seasons.
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#24 SOFTEN: your invitation to winter
In the last episode of 2023 I want to send you off with an invitation to deeply rest. To hibernate. To take a true winter. What would this season be like for you if you allowed yourself to winter? A time of prioritizing rest, to shed what is dead and to prepare our hearts for the new growth. A time to release your jaw, release the grip and trust that stillness is nothing to fear. Nothing to feel guilty of. Amongst reminders of how to slow down during Christmas I’m sharing ways to reflect on what was and to invite what is to come in the New Year ahead.
#23 SLOW DOWN: Christmas time hygge
In todays episode I share a bit about what I do in my house to infuse my days with Christmas time hygge. A beautiful reminder to relish the little moments, versus waiting for the big magic of the season to knock on your doorstep and then feeling disappointment when it never arrives. so grab a cup of something warm and comforting and get cozy with me.
#19 SIMPLIFY: The art of cozy gift giving & gift receiving
In this episode I'm talking about how to simplify gift giving around the holidays. You can have a cozy Christmas with a very minimal amount of thoughtful presents and I’m sharing how we do gifts in our home and why. In addition I am answering one of my most received question “How can I avoid unwanted things coming into my home?”.
Grab a cup of something steamy and comforting and enjoy this episode that invites you to approach gifting very cozily.
If you are looking for slow and cozy gift ideas listen until the end, where I share 5 hyggelige ideas with you.
#18 SLOW DOWN: 5 books to cozy up with this autumn
In this episode I'm sharing 5 books that I highly recommend this season.
Light comes later in the morning now, darkness arrives more quickly in the evening. The days days rapidly grow shorter, and the air gets crisper, the notion of spending time curled up with a good book and a cup of tea sounds increasingly perfect.
I’m talking in depth about:
“ON OUR BEST BEHAVIOR - The seven deadly sins and the price women pay to be good” by Elise Loehnen
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“MISTS OF AVALON” by Marion Zimmer Bradley
“THE RACHEL INCIDENT” by Caroline O’Donoghue
“CACOPHONY OF BONE” by Kerri ni Dochartaigh
“THE DREAM WE CARRY” by Olaf H Hauge
“MILK & COFFEE YEARS” by me, Eva-Maria Smith
#15 SLOW DOWN: 5 cozy takeaways from my week in Maine
I just returned from hosting my motherhood retreat in Maine. If Ireland and Norway had a lovechild it certainly would be Maine.
Emerald forests.
Blue lakes.
Ancient pines.
The salty embrace of the sea.
Quaint villages nestling into the cradle of rocky shores.
Maines is like a tapestry of serenity and beauty and an ode to the untamed elegance of the natural world.
This week on the Milk & Coffee Podcast I want to share 5 COZY TAKEAWAYS from my week in Maine.
Thank you for hyggeing with me.
#11 SOFTEN: Finding your village. Tips to build a sacred community for yourself as a mother
Creating a community for yourself as a mother is a vulnerable thing. It is hard to find and build nourishing friendships.
So what can we do to build a sacred community for ourselves?What do I even mean when I say sacred community?
I’m talking about truly meaningful relationships. Deep friendships that feel aligned and give us the safe space to show up as our whole selves. The good bits and the hard parts.
Join me as I explore some ways to build your village.
#7 SLOW DOWN: 10 minute nourishers & sustainable self-care
There is so much talk about self-care these days, and all the BIG ways (and mind you, capitalist inspired ways) to practice self-care and yet, the daily, sustainable, effortless practices of it, is still something that most of us struggle with.
In this episode I explore what 10 min nourishers are, which ones work for me and how they could really transform your everyday, as well into what it means to practice sustainable self-care as a mother.
#4 Summer guided by the sun
In this new episode I talk about how to enjoy a slow summer and let the sun guide our days and family rhythms.
#1 Slow - an Introduction
Welcome to the Milk & Coffee podcast. Im so grateful you are here. This is your invitation to slow down and simplify. Life is too short, to not be fully here for it.