#27 REBRAND - welcome to MILK & BONE
Hey hej and welcome to Milk & Bone,
Formerly Milk & coffee.
In this episode wanted to take a moment to explain what has brought on this re-brand and explain the meaning of the new name.
#26 CONVERSATION with Kat Farrell Davis: living the poem
You are a poet, mother.
A gentle conversation with beautiful and gifted poet Kat Farrell Davis on poetry, motherhood and how to integrate the two.
#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.
#22 SOFTEN: Gratitude
In this episode, I’m reading a brief chapter from my motherhood memoir of poetry and prose called “Milk & Coffee Years”.
The chapter title “gratitude” is the perfect easy listen on today’s Thanksgiving day.
I am so grateful to you for listening.
#21 SIMPLE KITCHEN: attainable ways to make any kitchen cozier
In this episode I’m inviting you to grab a cup of coffee and listen to me talk about my favorite ways to make the kitchen a cozy place. After all, it is the heart of the home in many ways.
From art, to lighting and more I’m sharing easy ways to bring more hygge into your kitchen. Cozy decor doesn’t have to involve big changes, or expensive items.
#20 SIMPLE KITCHEN: Eating with joy - during the holidays and always - Interview with Rachael Hollinger
In this episode I have invited my first ever interview guest.
Friend and business partner at “the Pause Retreats” Rachael Hollinger and I talk about why women suppress their hunger, both literally and metaphorically and how to eat with joy through the holidays and beyond.
We talk about which winter foods we particularly love and want to encourage you to experience food without constant restriction. Food not just as nourishment, but also as pure joy in our lives.
A cozy and very delicious episode just in time for the big food-holidays ahead.
#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
#17 SOFTEN: Kind things you tell your child, that you should speak over yourself
As I was watching my almost two year old pull an espresso shot almost entirely by himself, this episode came through me.
The moment I realized with heaviness and quiet despair, how easy it is for me to embrace him and speak kindness over him and how hard it is to extend the same to myself.
So today, I want us to reflect on 3 wonderful things we tell our children, that we should also really be telling ourselves and the mothers around us.
#16 EMBODIED HOME: The spaces we make and the spaces that make us
In this episode I talk about the spaces we make and the spaces that make us. Something I call the “embodied home”, which implies that in a literal sense, our homes are places of shelter, comfort and belonging, but in a metaphorical sense, there is a deep emotional connection between our spaces and ourselves and our homes can influence how we “feel”.
A cozy home is not determined by how good it looks, but how good it makes us feel, because every home should be a lived-in vision board of how we want our lives within the home to unfold.
#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.
#14 SLOW WARDROBE: Cozy autumn style & the mindset shifts that help me turn my back on fast fashion
Grab your favorite warm beverage, cozy up and let’s talk about my perfect autumn wardrobe, while also taking a step away from fast fashion.
In this episode I’m sharing about what mindset helps me to slowly turn my back on fast fashion for good, which staples I have in my autumn wardrobe & which pieces I am looking to source this fall.
I talk share a sentiment on what I feel makes pieces TRULY cozy and intentional and you will also get an idea of my personal style and my autumn inspiration, which reads something like…
“laid back scandi-style mom goes off to write at a british cottage and can’t be bothered”
Thank you for hyggeing with me.
#13 SIMPLE KITCHEN: cozy ingredients I always have on hand
In this episode I want to invite you to step into my kitchen, where I use a few simple, but high quality ingredients to make any meal cozy.
I want to share a few pantry staples that really make my heart warm and my soul content, and maybe you can discover them for yourself, because it does not take an elaborate list of ingredients or complicated recipes to make amazing home cooked meals. Quite the opposite in fact.
The kitchen is the heart of my home and simplicity is the heart of my kitchen.
#12 SOFTEN: Influence and Inspiration
“Who would I be as a mother, if I had never opened an Instagram account”
A question that crosses my mind every once in a while and something I felt was worthy softening into a bit.
In this episode I want to explore Inspiration and being inspired versus Influence and being influenced.
What is the difference between the two? Is influence a bad thing? How can I limit the negative effects of social media? What is positive influence?
The episode is an open exploration of all this and more, because life is really too precious to spend it trying to live someone else's life.
#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.
#10 SLOW DOWN: End of summer HYGGE
August is well underway and before you know it we will bid farewell to the sun-drenched days of summer. Autumn, is upon us and while I am looking forward to return to slow rhythms and a cozy fall homes, I am also trying to mindfully enjoy the end of summer.
Todays episode is a bit of a bridge between summer and autumn. A very cozy episode about the feeling of end of summer hygge and how to invite in the art of Danish coziness this month.
#9 SOFTEN: A grounding meditation dedicated to mothers & mother nature
This is an invitation for you to relax and get grounded. Enjoy this very first gentle motherhood meditation on the Milk & Coffee podcast.
#8 SIMPLIFY: A minimal vacation wardrobe
As I am about to embark on a road trip to the beach I am exploring the question, why we feel compelled to update our wardrobe before our vacation and why I think a minimal wardrobe is the way to go for the planet and our mental health.