Radiant Midlife

Nourishment, Vitality & The Mother Wound: Unlocking Prosperity

• Tara Preston, Founder of the Akashic Women's School, Mentor To Women Leader's, Divine Prosperity Consciousness Teacher

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Join myself, Tara Preston as I unlock the secrets to vibrant living and what it means to transform your life with the wisdom of nourishment and prosperity consciousness. 

Ill share with you the powerful concept of holding a nourished energetic capacity, and how it connects to Mother consciousness, Gaia, goddess energy, and the mother wound. 

Discover how these elements influence your ability to nourish yourself and maintain vitality, and learn to redefine traditional motherhood roles for a more self-nourishing approach as a KEY to wholistic prosperity.

We will explore ways to embrace mindfulness in your relationship with food, enhancing your capacity to receive life with joy and abundance as well as  embracing the power of embodiment, creative expression, and self-care strategies to reset your system, clearing subconscious patterns and anchoring yourself into a harmonic existence. 

Imagine a life where prosperity flows naturally, unburdened by urgency and fear-driven success. 

We'll explore how to embody prosperity consciousness, contrasting it with common stress-inducing mindsets, and discuss practical steps for personal growth and prosperity alignment. 

Connect with our community and take that vital step toward nourishing your life and aspirations.

Grab your FREE e-book : Sacred Nourishment for Midlife Radiance: subscribepage.io/midliferadianceguide


Reach out to tara@tarapreston.com to learn more about ways to work with her through your life reinvention.

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Hi and welcome to Lead Like a Mother. I'm your host, tara Preston. We're on episode two. Welcome. We are still working on the fancy intro with the music and all the good stuff it's coming. Until then, thanks for your patience.

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I'm going to actually hop right in to today's topic, which is all around vibrant living, nourishment and the mother wound. This is actually. It's a really important topic and most women that I've worked with and I've been working with women very intimately for over 14 years my primary body of work is the Akashic Records, the flower of life method that I've developed, and so many women have an energetic capacity for nourishment and vitality. Like, think about that, and I want to make that invitation to really take a moment to assess your own experience and your own life right. Like, does it feel vital? Does it feel vibrant? Do you feel nourished in your body? Right, and there's so many ways to explore vitality and nourishment, especially when we start to invite in and we start to awaken and cultivate the goddess energy. This is something that I really love to play with, because when we start to unlock the goddess energy, life starts to flow and open with a creative expression that is very nourishing, both internally at the body level and throughout our life experience, and I'm going to invite you into this conversation. I'm also going to at the very end, hopefully. I hope that I'm going to offer some inspiration and some understanding of where maybe you're at a capacity right, where you do desire greater nourishment, vitality, creative expression flow, right, but you feel like you're kind of hovering in a same old spot, right, and so often when we're hovering in that same old spot, we have again an energetic capacity and often that has to do with how we allow ourselves to receive life, to receive vitality, to receive nourishment.

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The mother wound is, you know, part of healing the mother wound is depletion right, and so when we're talking about the mother wound and so for some of you this might be new you know I've traveled so many different layers exploring the mother wound over the last 14 years and one of the aspects of the mother wound which we can break down or understand in terms of old paradigm motherhood, which we often see and understand as depletion, pushing, going as depletion, pushing going, doing prioritizing others' needs over our own right. So there's not really a lot of space for the mother to nourish herself in a way that feels vital and vibrant and expressive and free right, and there's a lot of different layers to the mother wound and I have many other podcast episodes where I get into this, but today I want to speak specifically to nourishment. I want to speak specifically to even food. Food has a lot to do with our experience of the mother and how we allow ourselves to be in relationship with nourishment. So sometimes when I'm working with women, you know there'll be key themes that come up in terms of their relationship with their mother, how they connected to food as children, how they saw their mother experience life, vitality and food right. Especially, different generations will have different experiences with food, but when we think about our mothers being deeply nourished, vibrant women, very often they had an energetic capacity for what that looked like and, of course, given the different experiences that we all have, that will look different for each of us, but typically, in terms of our lineage and our mother wound, we'll all often hit a level of energetic capacity, especially us traveling. You know the cycle breakers, the karma killers, those really traveling that evolutionary path. They know they want more right. It's the conscious mothers and leaders like they're doing the work.

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The thing is is that, without actually touching in on this piece, we can't move forward and actually hold the level of success that we desire. The nourishment won't be there, the energetic capacity won't be there, the vitality won't be there, it won't be built in at a foundational level that actually allows us to hold it all. And I know this from working with many, many women, and also I know this from my own journey. I discovered long time ago there was no point in building a bigger business or holding a bigger vision if I didn't have my nutritional, nourished foundation in place first. Otherwise it potentially leads to a weakened energetic system burnout, exhaustion, depletion, disconnect, all of the things. So we want to build in the proper foundation and then be able to structure our homes, our families, our lives, our businesses around that new energetic capacity for nourishment and vitality.

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So even kind of looking at one of the key pieces if we're looking at how we receive life, if we look at how we're receiving nourishment, one of the key factors in that is how pleasurable we allow our meals to be, our food experience to be. Are we actually truly taking the time to sit down to have an experience that lets us slow down with food right, where we can actually receive the vibrancy of the meal, the colors, the textures, vibrancy of the meal, the colors, the textures where we can actually assimilate the nutrients that we're taking in. Right, and so we live in a very rush, rush society which often creates a disconnect just from our body. Right, and so this actually allows us to slow down, to assimilate, to connect and to receive life. And so I'm making that invitation to really notice where maybe there's not a lot of space, maybe you're standing while you eat, or you're eating and you're rushing, and while you can't necessarily make big changes right off the bat, it's just noticing where there's room to maybe slow down, to really invite that receptivity in right.

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Receptivity is where we allow ourselves to be nourished by life, where we allow ourselves to receive and this really truly also enhances our ability to receive prosperity right, to receive nourishment from life. Right, creativity, color, joy, right. And so looking around at your experience and seeing you know where do you sit within the context of that, but also where do you desire more. This is something I really evaluated about a year ago and ended up stepping into a big exploration of nutrition and actually went to school to become a holistic nutrition and I just kind of dove into the world of herbal allies and broth making and I really was exploring my own capacity for nourishment. How much nourishment could I allow myself to hold in my body at a cellular level, at a vibrational level? How good can I let myself feel? How good can you let yourself feel?

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And so what often happens is that part of the journey is developing the habits, creating the space, looking at how to receive more nourishment in our experience, and then we look at how long we can hold it for, and so we can have blocks and patterns connected to just our inability to receive right, to actually allow ourselves to prepare a beautiful, colorful, textured nutritional meal that is just for us to nourish our bodies right. We can have patterns within that. This is where the Akashic Records to become a very beautiful tool where we can actually travel to the point of creation where different patterns were established, and clear it out, to shift the relationship to not only food but how we get to receive vitality and nourishment. It's very, very powerful and it's a key piece in how we learn to mother ourselves right. I see food and herbs and how we feed ourselves as a part of the mother, as a part of the mother consciousness, as a part of this experience of how mother earth gets to nourish us and that relationship that we have with the mother, how we mother ourselves and how we get to experience a deep sense of vitality within that.

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So the second piece that comes along with this is where our patterns take us out of this new integrated experience of feeling good, right. So oftentimes we start to feel really good, we're starting to develop an awareness around being in our bodies and feeling nourished and holding a new energetic level. And then self-sabotage creeps in. And this is where the shadow work aspect, the Akashic records, become really beautiful. Because why are we sabotaging how good we feel in our bodies, with a certain level of nourishment, with a certain level of vitality? We're letting things in. It feels good, we're flowing, we feel nourished. You know, we're feeling in our creativity which is so nourishing as another aspect too, of really opening up that goddess energy, that flow, and this is a key part of prosperity consciousness getting the flow working, getting the Shakti moving and flowing, being in a receiving energy around that as well.

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It's prosperity consciousness, right, it's so different than the flat stuck pushing, going. Nothing's moving, money's feeling like it's being repelled. There's a gripping energy right, taking a step back and coming into that full, colored, vibrant living. It's a different space of nourishment. We start to cultivate a vibrational experience where we're full from the inside out. It's prosperity consciousness, right. And as we grow that and as we hold that, the circulation of prosperity starts to shift in our experience and our ability to receive it and hold it also shifts, and not from that place of pushing, doing, going and gripping right, not from that place. So it's a different place and it's a different muscle and it's a beautiful muscle, right, and it's how we're meant to be as women, as mothers, as conscious leaders, right, vital, vibrant, inner creative life force, energy flowing, feeling anchored, feeling alive. These are all the things we know are our birthright right, but there are so many women, I know, still operating from that energetic state. And you don't have to, and there's, it's, you know.

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I see so many women who approach vitality from the lens of I've got to build the business first, I've got to create the money. There's a sense of urgency, there's a sense of fear, without building the proper foundation first that allows them to start to build their business and their lives from a place of prosperity consciousness that allows them to start to build their business and their lives from a place of prosperity consciousness, which actually it's a whole other aligned way of starting to create. So a lot of women they're used to creating from that push go, urgency, do right, that contraction, that holding on right which ultimately creates the same old karmic consequence of a really tight energetic experience. We got to learn how to embody in a very integrated way new levels of nourishment, of vitality. We've got to build that capacity in our systems right.

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So a lot of the way that I work is really untangling, doing the shadow or getting into the deep subconscious to shift our experience and our relationship with nourishment, building that capacity while also giving you steps and new ways of being and restructuring right to create new patterns and new structures that support and honor your nourishment, your vitality, your creative expression, your flow, which ultimately builds this beautiful vibration of prosperity consciousness that allows us to start to navigate our experience of business, life, family relationships and money in a different way, right. Our vibration has shifted. We've learned how to feed ourselves, we've learned how to nourish ourselves, we've learned how to receive life, and so that is a big, big part of my work around the mother wound and the thing is, is that so much of the disconnect from feeling nourishment, of operating out of depletion, is connected to our mother line right, and so women will often reach this place of oh yeah, well, I know how to nourish myself, but they hit a plateau right, they can see the evolution of their vision of who they're being called to be, but they're hitting a plateau and their ability and their level of being able to integrate a new level of nourishment and vitality and it often hits on the highest point of their mother's ability to hold nourishment right, like maybe the mother's like able to, if she really focuses, if she's really committed to like staying very vibrant and vital right, then there's a threshold there and it's a little bit of a trickle effect in that the next generation even though maybe the woman that I'm working with has done a lot of work her energetic minimum is still tangled up in the highest energetic set point of her mother. It's really fascinating, and so when we can untangle that however she picked that up in her experience when we can untangle that, get to the root of it and really let it go, she's able to move forward into a new energetic experience of nourishment, vitality, leadership and prosperity. It's really powerful and it's a sneaky way of how the mother wound can often hold us back in our leadership and our desire for more. So when we can untangle that from the mother line, we can move forward, and oftentimes there'll be a ripple effect as well. We'll see that ripple effect with our daughters and then also we can see that ripple effect with our daughters and then also we can see that ripple effect with our mothers.

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My invitation for you is to really dream into and this is like you know, it's such a big part of the work that I do is it's around nourishment, it's about it's around embodiment, about, you know, being in our bodies, feeling juicy, feeling alive, nourish, vibrant, getting that creative energy moving and flowing, and then also how we get to build that out with our businesses, our income streams, our dreams and, ultimately, our vision. But I want to make that invitation to dream into what your desire is, what your vision is for nourishment, for vitality. I'm just going to take a sip of water here For full colored living. Like what does it feel like? What would it feel like to feel so good in your body, all right, like where it's just kind of like got that subtle hum because things. Just there's a general sense of like, of balance, of harmony. Things just feel really good. Right, your energy levels feel really good. There's like a tingling sense of joy. You're enjoying being in your body. Right, your cup is feeling full. Right You're, you've got space for, for creativity and fun. Right, these are all like really important aspects of our vitality as women. Right, your kitchen is full with, like well, what would it look like to you? But it's full with, like, nourishing herbs and food of all colors.

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So, just kind of dreaming into that version of you because it's very possible, very possible, and so a lot of what we desire, especially in terms of, like, money and opportunity. And when we want our experience of prosperity to shift. Well, what if we bring it back to our level of integrated, nourished capacity? What if we bring it back to that Like, imagine how your experience and your vibration shifts. Right, the foundation of your body, the foundation of your life shifts right, what we become an energetic match to how we start to navigate our experience in the world shifts. So, of course, we create a different outcome and this shifts over time as we shift our relationship to ourselves, to mother consciousness, to nourishment, to vitality, to our full creative expression Right, and so this is the journey that I'm often taking women on Right, and there's so much that opens up from this space because we start to learn how to receive life, we receive money, we receive opportunities, we receive love. It's so powerful and the way opens from that place.

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But just tapping into that feeling, that version of you right and, and looking at how to nurture that from right here, from this space, right here, one of my favorite ways, honestly, and it's so simple, you know, working with women is I'll often give them like little creative assignments just to get the creative energy moving and flowing. And I have so many women who are like, oh yeah, I used to paint, I used to be creative, okay, well, that we need to bring back because it's so nourishing it is. It opens up creative energy and creative flow. But you know, what else does Cooking, does being creative in the kitchen, going shopping with like a love and appreciation of like all of Gaia's food, right, looking at the colors and the textures, looking for different recipes that feel inspiring and nourishing, and maybe it's just like a recipe that's for you that's inspiring and nourishing, and you're making it on a Sunday and you light a candle and you put some music on and you start to play with the food right, you let the food, the colors, the textures romance you. You let it feel good, you allow yourself to feel fed by the experience right, and then you make that nourishing meal and then you sit down and you light a candle right. Maybe you take a moment to just give thanks, to pray over the food that you're about to receive, the nourishment that you're about to receive, and then allow yourself to slow down to assimilate the nourishment, the nutrients, to take it in.

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And this is how it starts. We start to look at where else can I build in nourishment? Where else can I receive Gaia's medicine? Right, and maybe we start to look for like herbal allies Right, I love working with herbs and herbal teas and yoni steams and tinctures and all of Gaia's medicine right. All of the mother's medicine, right. How can we become an ally with that, with her to nourish ourselves the way we're meant to be nourished Right. And then maybe we start to invite in dance and movement right, movement that feels really good to your body. And maybe we start to make more time to get out in nature right, to connect to the mother to ground, to anchor, to regulate, connect to the mother to ground, to anchor, to regulate, right All of these things that are meant to nourish us, to stabilize us, to bring us into a relationship with self, with spirit, with earth.

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So I hope there were some nuggets here.

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If this is something that you'd love to explore, if you'd love to come in and experience a private session, a 60-minute session, a divinely nourished mama session, we can drop in and we can start to look at the vision that you have for your life, for your family, right, who you're being called to be, right, what that level of nourishment in your body looks like for you.

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And then we can go in and we can start to clear out the deeply rooted shadow aspects, the subconscious aspects, the patterns, right, we can give your whole system a beautiful reset, really drop you in and anchor you into this prosperity consciousness, to the alignment of your vision, map out a couple of steps, embodiment steps, a couple of self-care strategies to just get everything rolling, to really open up that foundation. So you can reach me at Tara, at TaraPrestoncom, and if you'd just love to come hang out, you can meet me over at the Facebook group Link below Matriarchal Royal Rise. That's the name of the Facebook group, although I'll probably be changing the Facebook group name here soon. All right, and just pop into the Facebook group. Let's have a conversation. I am wanting to start on Substack, the Nourished Mother newsletter or weekly share, so you can stay tuned for that and otherwise take care and I'll see you again soon. Bye for now.