Your relationship is a living mirror — not just of your partner, but of the parts of yourself you’ve hidden, avoided, or outgrown. In this episode, we explore the conscious relational tools that don’t just keep your love alive, but help you grow as an individual within it. Because love isn’t something that just happens — it’s something we do, on purpose.

We’ll unpack how high-functioning burnout, stress, and survival mode quietly kill intimacy, why polarity and independence are essential for long-term desire, and how nervous system safety makes or breaks connection. You’ll learn how to meet your less-than-shiny parts with grace, soften into your body, and use repair and micro-moments to create real intimacy — not just surface communication.

This episode is a beautiful reminder that relationship is a practice, not a destination; and when you show up for it on purpose, it can be the most transformational path you ever walk.

In this episode, we explore:
- How conflict reveals your shadow…and what to do when it hurts
- The difference between a new wound and an old one that's just been triggered
- How to meet your ego with humility instead of defensiveness
- Why boundaries are an expression of self-respect, not punishment
- The link between the mother wound and burnout patterns in women
- Why arousal goes offline in survival, and how to know if it’s trauma or just your nervous system in overdrive
- The danger of “talking about” intimacy vs actually feeling it
- How micro-moments of touch, eye contact, or softening build more intimacy than long conversations
- Replacing blame with repair — how to rewire conflict into connection
- Understanding that most fights are a cry for closeness, not just logistics battles
- Why sameness kills desire, and how to reclaim the magnetic tension of your differences
- How to intentionally separate in order to reconnect (hint: space invites spark)
- Masculine and feminine energies as dynamics, not gender roles — and how to shift between them
- The beauty of solo time, soft embodiment, and surrender in building feminine energy
- Making peace with wanting to be cherished, protected, and desired — it doesn’t make you “too much”

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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Everything you have right now was once a dream — the relationship, the home, the family, the love. But when life becomes a checklist and connection becomes transactional, we forget what we once longed for.

In this episode, we take you inside the three relationship habits we see drop off the most in long-term love — and why they’re the very glue that keeps desire, appreciation, and intimacy alive. This is your reminder that disconnection doesn’t mean you’re broken — it means the relationship is asking to evolve. And it starts with these three simple but powerful shifts.

In this episode we explore:
- Why appreciation is the gateway to desire…and what happens when admiration dies
- How to rewire resentment as a signal you're ready to share the load (instead of shouldering it all)
- Why prioritised time is the oxygen of intimacy; and how to stop waiting for it to appear
- The sneaky way we outsource validation when our partners stop seeing us
- How stagnation in your body becomes stagnation in your relationship
- Why "it's just easier to do it myself" becomes a prophecy of loneliness
- The real reason sex and intimacy start to feel like pressure

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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In this episode, we explore celebration as a radical act of receiving; not just balloons and bubbly, but a mirror for how safe you feel to be seen, acknowledged, and loved.

We unpack why so many of us deflect recognition or wait for others to validate what we struggle to honour in ourselves, and how that can leave us quietly starving for emotional nourishment.

We talk about how to host gatherings that feel like love (not performance), how to work with social anxiety (yours or your guests’), and how celebration becomes a practice of nervous system repair, self-validation, and joy.
Whether you’re planning a party, a milestone, or just learning to let love land — this episode will help you create and receive celebration in a way that feels true, intentional, and nourishing.


In this episode, we discuss:
* Why celebration can stir up unworthiness and the fear of being fully seen
* How it mirrors your ability to receive love, attention, and generosity from the community you've built
* The hidden hunger many of us carry: to be seen, acknowledged, validated — and how unmet celebration turns into resentment when others don’t reflect what we won’t give ourselves
* How learning to celebrate yourself can rewire old wounds around visibility, belonging, and emotional nourishment
* The joy of hosting as a creative act: designing an experience for others to feel love, safety, connection, and beauty
* Why the process of celebration matters: setting your intention, knowing how you want to feel, and layering in sensory cues for a beautiful vibe
* Tips for designing gatherings that feel cosy, connective, and authentic, including invitations, intros, shared activities, and emotional tone-setting
* How to support socially anxious guests (and yourself) with gentle structure, grounding rituals, and sanctuary spaces
* Why a simple follow-up message after the event can deeply affirm those who find celebration challenging
* Celebration as nervous system work, relational repair, and an act of radical self-permission

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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In this episode, we unpack the complex, emotionally loaded space where your child’s bids for connection meet your very real, very human need for separation.

Whether it's bedtime, the end of a long day, or another moment when you feel like they’re clawing at your leg and you just have to get away, we go deep into the internal and external pressures that make this one of the most painful tensions in motherhood.

We explore how unmet needs, maternal conditioning, nervous system dysregulation, and identity structures shaped in survival can all feed a sense of powerlessness and depletion. But we also explore what’s possible when we stop seeing this as a binary — them or us — and begin creating safety, spaciousness, and mutual respect in the way we separate and reconnect.

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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Life moves fast…and if you’re not careful, it’ll pass by in a blur. In this deeply heartfelt episode, we share how presence is what makes a moment last, and how the simple act of breathing it in can transform the ordinary into the unforgettable.

Drawing on a powerful message from a Honey Club member, this episode is a call back to what truly matters; not the roles we play, but the memories we feel.
This one is for the part of you that craves slowness, sacredness, and the kind of life you’ll actually remember when you’re old and grey.

In this episode, we discuss:
* Why life becomes a blur when we’re not present
* How presence transforms ordinary moments into lasting memories
* A collective pause to feel it, honour it, and let it imprint
* How the weight of responsibility can pull us out of living
* Why you don’t need to do more — just be in it

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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What happens when your heart is at home, but your body’s at work — or when your head’s in the spreadsheet but your child’s in tears at daycare drop-off?

In this episode, we explore the inner tension so many mothers feel between being present, connected parents and being purposeful, ambitious humans doing meaningful work in the world. It’s not just about time management — it’s about the deep, identity-level stretch of holding two powerful callings that often ask for completely different parts of you.

We talk about the primal urge to nurture and protect, the heartbreak of early separation, and the guilt that rushes in when your heart isn't in it — wherever “it” is. We also explore the cost of maintaining a work track built on outcomes and mental focus, while simultaneously trying to parent in a way that is attuned, relational, and emotionally available.

And we name what doesn’t get said enough: that this isn’t just personal; it’s systemic. The modern nuclear family model, the lack of community care, the outdated expectations placed on women to “balance it all” — these all feed the guilt loop. But there is another way.

This is an invitation to integrate rather than split, to move from guilt into awareness, and to begin gently merging the parts of you that long to belong — at home, and in the world.

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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So many couples find themselves tangled in the same painful dance: pressure, predictability, and the slow death of desire.

In this episode, we’re unpacking why your sex life isn’t just about sex - it’s the meeting place of both your worlds. Why men often feel sex as devotion (and rejection like a dagger), why women need connection to even want sex, and how survival mode and arousal simply can’t coexist.

We’ll explore how to stop counting acts and start cultivating an erotic climate where your ‘yes’ becomes inevitable - not out of duty, but from deep, authentic desire.
Because your erotic self is still there. Vibrant. Alive. Waiting for you to make space.

In this episode we discuss:
— Why a man telling a woman how she should experience sex is a dangerous slope
— The kernel of truth that stings (and why it lands)
— How most men feel sex as devotion, and why rejection cuts so deep
— Why your sex life isn’t just his or yours, it’s a shared garden you both must tend
— That sex is anything that makes you feel alive, soft, open, connected - not just penetration
— How pressure and predictability strangle desire
— Why survival always wins over arousal, and what to do if you have responsive desire
— How to stop keeping score and build an erotic climate where your ‘yes’ is inevitable
— And why choosing your pleasure is radical, dismantling the old martyr mother story once and for all

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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What if your capacity wasn’t a measure of your worth? In this episode, we dive deep into motherhood as the ultimate redefinition of capacity — where contraction and expansion dance together, and holding more often comes with the relief of letting go.

We explore the emotional labor mothers invisibly carry, the myth of the perfect mother who endlessly gives, and what happens when over-functioning becomes your normal. Because capacity isn’t static; it stretches and recoils, it asks you to meet yourself honestly in your edges.

What if your children’s growth was as much about your own? What if tending to your limits was the most loving thing you could do for them? This conversation is a gentle, honest reckoning with how we hold, share, and sometimes spill over.

In this episode we discuss:

- Why capacity isn’t a fixed trait: it contracts and expands, often in response to life’s demands.
- The hidden energy of emotional labor in motherhood, from preempting needs to managing outcomes.
- How overriding your own limits becomes normalised, and how that leads to cycles of burnout.
- The relief that can come with hard changes, and how your kids asking more of you can reveal where your capacity truly sits.
- The tension between what your kids “should” do and what they can realistically handle.
- The power of saying “I need a moment to regroup” instead of pushing through.
- How voicing your needs creates room for others to respond and support you.
- Releasing the perfect mother myth to honour what you actually have space for.
- Why sustainable family life requires equitable emotional labor — teamwork rooted in well-being, not sacrifice.
- The concept of emotional currency in relationships: building deposits so you can both withdraw when needed.
- The importance of checking in with your nervous system and giving yourself genuine rest breaks, not just bracing for the next tsunami.

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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