Resentment is quiet… until it isn’t.And when it leaks through your tone, your silence, or the way you half-turn when he walks in the door, it can change the entire ecosystem of your relationship - even when you don’t mean it to.

In this episode, we dive into the real energetic difference between speaking from bitterness and speaking from love. We explore why so many long-term couples get caught in confirmation loops, scorekeeping, and micro-withdrawals… and how the smallest shift in tone, softness, or openness can bring a whole relationship back online. Through a client story that moved from near-separation to reconnection, we unpack how resentment builds, how it melts, and why the quality of your “hello” at the door can set the emotional temperature for your whole evening. This episode is a mix of deep truth and deliciously human moments — the friendship, the coaching, and the reality of women doing life and love in real time.

In This Episode, We Discuss:

• The subtle ways resentment leaks through tone, posture, and silence — even when you think you’re “being fine.”

• The client story: from near-divorce to reconnection through clarity, responsibility, and shifting the energy behind her words.

• How testing, scorekeeping, and waiting for him to fail creates the very distance you fear.

• The difference between speaking from bitterness (“did you even…?”) and speaking from love (“hey love, could you…?”).

• The moment a woman realises “everything you don’t do automatically means I do it” — and why this belief keeps resentment alive.

• Over-functioning vs under-functioning: how these nervous system patterns lock couples into power struggles.

• Why the daily greeting — that tiny “hello” at the door — shapes the entire emotional temperature of your night.

• How to create safety and connection by inviting your partner in instead of silently testing them.

• The role of exit strategies and why knowing you can leave often makes you stay with more truth and softness.

• The magnetic influence women hold in relationships — not through force, but through the energy of receptivity and clarity.

• How bonding with friends over partner-complaints keeps you stuck in resentment loops without even realising 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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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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This week, we’re opening the door on one of the most invisible seasons of womanhood — being in ‘the sandwich generation’. The stretch between raising children and caring for ageing parents can feel like living two lives at once: one full of growth and beginnings, the other shaped by endings and decline.

In this conversation, we unpack the exhaustion, the guilt, the grief, and the quiet unraveling that happens when you’re holding everyone else together — and explore how to navigate this season with tenderness, truth, and boundaries that honour your own humanity.

In this episode, we discuss:
• What it feels like to be stretched to breaking point; emotionally, physically, and financially…while holding generations together.
• The whiplash of mothering in both directions: when your parents need care and your kids still need you steady.
• How old wounds resurface in caregiving, and how to meet them with compassion instead of collapse.
• Grieving while giving: facing mortality, memory loss, and decline while still showing up for life’s daily demands.
• Redefining what it means to be a “good daughter” and a “good mother” - and the difference between guilt-driven care and love-led presence.
• Why micro-rituals of care are leadership, not luxury…and how they protect your capacity to love.
• The courage to let legacy be love, not martyrdom: showing your children that boundaries are devotion.
• How couples can stay connected and compassionate through the demands of caring for two generations.

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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