#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.