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 Podcast Swap Time with Kalen Getler from "The Strange Neighbourhood Podcast". Kalen is ALSO our official event photographer for Where The Wild Women Grow Festival and is passionate about women empowerment through her unique boudoir sessions. She's unapologetically authentic but in a way that's gentle and loving! We talk about her journey of "softening into herself".   - Finding healing with food and body imagine through her motherhood path. - "The Kindest Year". How one yoga affirmation, started her ceiling-less  personal growth journey. - The traits and epigenetic that our matrilineal line passes down to us. - Her painting and  boudoir photography passions. - Radical self responsibility and victim mentality around the Patriarchy. What it could look like then sacred masculine and the sacred feminine are whole and in harmony. - Feminist movements and how they have also harmed our sacred feminine. How we need room to ebb and flow in our lives as women.  - The eraser of women with the current cancel-culture and activism. What is the definition of a woman legally. Chest-feeding vs breastfeeding.  - How we need struggle to overcome so we can grow. - How "softening into ourselves" is what will heal the world now!  - The bifurcation of humanity as some people lean into fear and other lean into love.  Kalen’s Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/strange-neighborhood-podcast/id1605397682 Kalen’s Photography https://instagram.com/kalen_gettler_photography?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y= My IG Account: https://www.instagram.com/wherethewildwomengrow/ My Patreon Page: https://www.patreon.com/wtwwg?fan_landing=true Festival FB Group: https://www.facebook.com/wherethewildwomengrow.fest

Episode Highlights: Her origin story to self discovery. Jackie is all about definitions. We discuss the questions.  What is truth? What is sovereignty?  What is Radical? Our conditioning around living from our sovereign power. Everyone is their own highest authority = being the author of our own lives. How fear of death gets us into trouble when you’re making life choices. Making life choices from a place of love vs anger. Developing a relationship with yourself first. Love is everywhere present.Fear as a nervous copilot friend. The healing power of love and Sistership. Weathering our inner storms. Her near death experience The Birth Certificate truth, what the powers-at-be don’t want you to know. The steps Jackie took to reclaim her “status” and her removal from the government’s systems. Statuses: correcting her status, Her belief around Indigenous Status, and the statuses of all living humans. Doing “business”, or not, with the corporation that is Canada.Being enslaved by the corporation. What is a self-determining life? Her experience traveling with private plates, and choosing not to do business with ICBC.The the jurisdictions of L.A.W.Everything we do is a contract agreement, especially if you’re status is still under an estate. The self practices that have supported us through our struggles and “deep dives”. Our best meditation advice. When we look through the lens of love, the changes happening in the world currently, are actually really exciting. Everything is always great for Jackie, because she chooses to see things that way. Keep saying yes to yourself!  Jackie’s website and email http://energeticwellness.ca [email protected] Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/wherethewildwomengrow.fest/?notif_id=1652559973401146&notif_t=page_user_activity&ref=notif Where The Wild Women Grow Festival website https://www.wherewildwomengrow.com/ My Patreon Page https://www.patreon.com/wtwwg?fan_landing=true My Instagram  https://www.instagram.com/wherethewildwomengrow/    

Episode Highlights: We swapped our birth stories of our 8 babies which are each so unique beautiful, and often hilarious.Jackie dives into what birthing and birth support for women in our area looks like. In FSJ we birth an average of 600 babies per year with a town with 20k population. The only option for women is hospital or unassisted births.Some of our visions for the future of birth women and babies in our community. The inner warrior-midwife that is born after a women witnesses her own free birth or another woman’s free birth. The deep wisdom you tap into and  can’t ignore. Our understanding of how women took care of each other in birth and mothering, before the age of patriarchy. Do women need the hospitals to birth safely? We don’t believe so and here’s why.The ways the medical system isn’t working for birthing women.We could heal the planet with peaceful birth!All the ways birth parallels to everything else in life!Birth-Death-rebirth cycles helping us makes sense of and navigate life.Using our menstrual cycles to anchors us into flowing with life.Jackie actually puts her menstrual cycle on her families schedule so they  all can live around her cycles and the ways that creates peace in household. She’s the nucleus of her family!Why menstrual cycles should respected at minimum and revered at best.Why we believe peaceful birth can heal the world.Healing our matrilineal trauma.What used to look like witchcraft and magic at one point in time, turns out to be scientifically proven to be “a thing” in the future. Jackie breaks down some of the different midwifery terms for the newbies to this conversations. Being a doula/support person and the PTSD that come accompany that role.    Where The Wild Women Grow Festival website https://www.wherewildwomengrow.com/ **Use promo code MOMMALOVE to receive 30% 0ff tickets purchased  May 8th 2022 only!!**My Patreon page https://www.patreon.com/wtwwg?fan_landing=true  Jackies email [email protected] The BBC Documentaries Jackie mentioned: https://www.dailymotion.com/video/xzrlkv?fbclid=IwAR3LymXzYki3qNB5ZVvEcTzeBLeIUwKiFIzRMYBQT8DBP30ZwDfdzhPI-bc https://www.dailymotion.com/video/xzs4tj?fbclid=IwAR00JERKM7RE0QPKkESuM_YU9Non05DZWQFDJwXCEZcZd8GCTTh57q3LFkc https://www.dailymotion.com/video/xzrjcf?fbclid=IwAR1D8ybVnp134crDwLzfs1dfzQbl0ETYYJQ02MTKlBxrs8etkteuvJqV2Mw

Hunting, harvesting and eating meat can be an extremely polarizing topic for people! There are a lot of dogmas, stereotyping,  mis-information and assumptions made around these topics. That's why I called in Rebecca Peters to help me convey the concept of uniting hunters and non-hunters through understanding, compassionate and open conversations. She was once a non-hunter, living in urban paradise. By happenstance she found herself submerged into the hunting world, and was pleasantly surprised what she discovered there! Years later, she's became a passionate advocate for women hunters, wild game recipes, and conservation, all while finding her true self out in nature. This is not your " dad's hunting story". This is an unexpected unique conversation about a women loving animals and nature and how we can do our part to ensure a healthy and secure Earth for our kids, grandkids, great grandkids and so on. It's our hope that this conversation is shared with people of all walks of life to open up loving and compassionate conversations around what loving our Earth can look like in all the different ways.  Highlights: Her backstory and her reluctant introduction into the hunting lifestyle.How she was conditioned to think about guns and hunting in an urban city.How her vegetarianism journey ended up with her wanting better quality and ethical meat in her diet.How difficult it can be to get into hunting when you live in an urban centre.How she started talking to her urban peers about her new lifestyle. How awkward it can be when peers are not educated or aware about the hunting lifestyle. Communication Living: One way she’s been able to bridge the gap between non-hunters and hunters is by sharing meals with them! Her and her husband prepare meals for non hunters friends to show them how delicious wild game can taste and share the stories of how they harvested that meat. They often gift their wild game to members of their community.The importance of having a relationship with your food for our health, the health of the planet, and our communities. Mindful eating and hunting.The simple ways that nature can heal us, save our lives even! Keeping the Humanness in Humanity. The problem when society encourages us to be less human.How our bodies feel when all our senses are hyper aware and turned on! Spoiler alert: it feels amazing!Being in the purest natural form of yourself while hunting. How my first sheep helped me heal my postpartum depression and anxiety.Having compassionate conversations with anti-hunters, vegans, and non-hunters and why it’s so important to keep open conversation going. What it feels like to harvest you’re first animal.Using all parts of the animal, including the fat, bones and hides. We share some of our favorite wild game RecipesThe “trophy hunting” stigma… what THAT'S about?! We’ll tell ya! The difference between poaching and hunting.The uniqueness that women bring to hunting and wildlife conservation tables, and why women might even be better hunters than men! The amazing trip she won to go to Texas. There she and a group of women, completed a 5 day intensive hunting, harvesting, and cook program! Being an aging woman might make you a better hunt?! We explain why we think this. Rebecca’s IG: https://instagram.com/becca_peters4?utm_medium=copy_link Wild Sheep Society https://www.wildsheepsociety.com/  The foraging book I got for Christmas: https://borealherbal.com/ Jody Pecks Wild foraging IG account 

Highlights:  What going energetically in Canada right now and how she works with these energies ethereally.What it’s like being empathetic Planting seeds in people to love more by loving ourselves first. The importance of loving ourselves first so that we may love the planet more deeply. The ways that our souls become shattered and picking up those pieces with intention. My the ways I was shattered in my 4 birth and the ways Joss was shattered in Ayahuasca ceremony.her time spent living in Guatemala including getting robbed! How important boundaries are for empaths and empathic mothersHow she’s come full circle since moving back to our home town, and how she’s really embodied the truth that she’s always going to be ok, not matter what.Growing up in small town Fort St John and the restless to leave to find different community. Me finding a witchy-sister community in Fort St John through Women’s Sister and how that carried me through the pandemic. Healing our sister-wounds so we can trust even deeper with the women in our lives. Sovereignty and bodily autonomy in birth and live.Owing land vs stewardship. How absurd of a concept that humans can “own” land. We talk about our feelings the hydroelectric damn that’s being put in on our ancestral lands by force. Emotional maturity in conversations. Letting our triggered moments shine light on what still needs more personal work. Changing our thoughts through hypnosis. her relationship with her violin and when she’s choosing to play it and using it as a sacred instrument Loving Yourself deeply so you can really be of full service to others.Riding the waves of inspiration and burnout as a creative and an entrepreneur.Healing our wounded masculinity and balancing those two forces.My 3 year old sees spirits and how I try to handle myself with that. How important inner child work is for Joss and how she works with that a lot with her her hypnotherapy with her clients. Her hypnotherapy training.The beautiful energy that been radiating from the freedom trucker convoy.  To Subscribe for the $200 healing gift certificate GIVEAWAY: https://www.patreon.com/wtwwg?fan_landing=true.  Her business website: https://1lovehealing.com/ Joss’s FB Page: https://m.facebook.com/OneLoveHealing/ Elly’s FB: https://m.facebook.com/wherethewildwomengrow/?ref=bookmarks Elly’s IG: https://www.instagram.com/wherethewildwomengrow/ Sign up for Elly’s Newsletter: email me your email address and I’ll set you up!! [email protected]

Her website: https://elisebrathwaite.com/about Her Socials https://www.facebook.com/elisebrathwaitesrt http://instagram.com/elise_brathwaite http://www.elisebrathwaite.com/ My Patreon https://www.patreon.com/user My IG https://www.instagram.com/wherethewildwomengrow/ We Talk About:Elise’s origin story.Some of her offers and work in the world. What are Sages, Oracles, Soul Speakers.The interesting story of how she and I met at a festival and the impact that festival had on each of us.What are Akashic Records and my first experience of this with Elise. Why we carry forward the experiences of our past lives. Tears are the sacred waters of life.We discovered we’re both Aquariuses and how that can look for our businesses.Authenticity and being heart lead in business and how that looks for our businesses. Growing up in Montreal as a young biracial girl and trying to fit, when an Angel spoke to her and gave her permission to be herself and challenge and question everything. When those strong Aquarius influences gets turned up too loud, find balance with structure using this awesome affirmation (but you gotta listen to get it! I’m not just going to give this gold away 😜)Elise explains what it means to be on the planet which is transitioning from Age of Pisces to Age of Aquarius (spoiler alert: it’s about Unity)We go WAY back to talk about how Matriarchy switched into PatriarchyThe visions she received which explained Why are humans incarnating To evolve spiritually and how we have chosen to invoke the evolution. How living through our shadow and ego isn’t bad but is necessary for us to evolve.The collective lessons we have all learned over the past thousand years and the beautiful, inclusive New World that we’re coming together to birth. Unity of the sacred masculine and sacred feminine within ourselves creates the unity of all of humanity and the planet. Those of us who were there for the beginning are also here now for the rebirth of the New World.Unity Consciousness is being United but not that everyone thinks the same and does the same, it means I recognize the essence of god in you as I see it in me. The Photon Belt that the Earth has moved into; what it is and how it will support us collectively to clear out trauma and start healing. The purpose of our Egos historically and biologically and how this can be a disservice to us. Also how to work with it to help us heal. How having the strong need to control and need to be right is our Ego trying to survive. All events are neutral, we get to decide what each events mean to each person and respect that about each other. And letting how we perceive those events control us. Her experience of being sexually abused as a little girl and how she has worked through that pain by descending deeper into her heart in order to ascend her consciousness. We need to experience our difficult experiences so that we can access our medicines so we can heal.

Welcome to This Episode where Claire and Elly chat about: Breastfeeding Grief and TraumaHer personal journey with breastfeeding her daughter which ended at 6 weeks.the trauma of not breastfeeding IS a thing, and effected her deeply. How birth trauma and breastfeeding trauma is the same yet different.Women who do not accomplish their breastfeeding goals often feel like their bodies have failed them and why that’s often a false narrative.What constitutes as a true breastfeeding problem and what’s often just a lack of support.Elly’s personal journey with breastfeeding which is a wide range of different experiences.We talk about tongue ties in our children and what we’ve learned along the way about ties and the most useful resources we’ve found.Using the Internet to get us through breastfeeding issues, the good the bad and the ugly.True low supply issues and potential causes.Using breastfeeding covers or not.The Gorilla who was taught to breastfeed by humans. The moral of the story is breastfeeding needs to be taught to younger women through witnessing.Biologically, seeing each other breastfeeding is the best and most natural way for us to learn how to breastfeed! Not when we’re having our own babies for the first time.The benefits of breastmilk for moms and babies. Also the fascinating intelligence of how the Breast and breast milk changes to meet each baby’s hourly, daily, monthly change in needs.Fed is Best vs Breast is Best vs Support is Best.Breastfeeding and formula feeding with in 1st world vs 3rd world countries.How the act of breastfeeding helps to develop our muscleskeletal, dental, breathing and air ways.The pros and cons to bed sharing while breastfeeding and how the risk of SIDS might be decreased.Her career in peer to peer support while women go through their breastfeeding grief.What adequate support for women should look like.What processing her grief has looked like and the raw emotions of failure and inadequacy.What to say (and what not to say) to women who are struggling with breastfeeding.Mothers deserve and are worthy of support for breastfeeding grief.The messages that women are constantly bombarded with, around not being able to trust or love our bodies and how that effects breastfeeding, birthing, mothering and all aspects of being female).The root cause of women not achieving their breastfeeding goals is failing social structure and support.To find Claire, work with her 1:1 or to join her virtual breastfeeding grief circles : https://www.theprimaldyad.com  and her IG https://www.instagram.com/theprimaldyad/ 

One woman's story of finding heart-led parenting and Unschooling of her 4 children, which required a slowl unravel of layers of lifelong conditioning and programming. What revealed its self was a unique and truly authentic parenting style that totally went again the social normative grain.  Even when something feels good to your heart and soul, that doesn't mean it's an easy path to follow! She shares about her fears and insecurities as well as the triumphant wins as she and her husband boldly blaze the trail for their family and all those watching!  Subscribe to my Patreon for early access, bonus content and GIVEAWAYS! https://www.patreon.com/join/wtwwg/checkout?rid=5120414 Jackie’s definition and lived experience of Unschooling. What peaceful parenting looks like for Jackie and her family. How Jackie came to heart lead parenting. Some examples of their their “rule-less household”The personal work that goes into parenting with an unconventional style. Radical trust in our children’s and baby’s capability to learn.How transitioning into public curriculum has been for her older children. Some of the unique opportunities her children have experience with thanks to unschooling. Open and honest communication with children including conversations around consent, and sexuality. A raw honest conversation about our parental wins and parental looses and the general insecurities involved with unconventional parenting styles. Giving our kids permission to call us out on our bullish!t to keep us honest. Dayna Martin’s website as mentioned: www.daynamartin.com  “Continuum Concept” Book as mentioned https://www.amazon.ca/Continuum-Concept-Search-Happiness-Lost/dp/0201050714 Follow Jackie on IG:  https://www.instagram.com/soulefullife/?hl=en Email Jackie at: [email protected] Follow me on IG: https://www.instagram.com/wherethewildwomengrow/  My email: [email protected]

Ive been observing and following Mother Nature and giving myself full on permission to hibernate and deeply rest! Here's a little solo episode of some of the low and high key adventures me and my family have been on this winter. I talk about a family sheep hunt, gearing up for Christmas as well as adding Yule Celebrations to the table this year. I talk about how my family has gotten pommeled with illness after illness this winter (including chicken pox!).  There's also a bit on my intention setting for the upcoming year. Since many of you are asking, I also share an update on how my "social media free" life has been thus far and some of the interesting revelations I've discovered through that. And how I've discovered the importance of embracing deep rest. The book I mentioned, "Untethered Soul" by Michael A. Singer https://untetheredsoul.com/untethered-soul Link to my Patreon page. Check it out and sign up here: https://www.patreon.com/user My Instagram account is still live although I haven't been active on it, still worth a boo: https://www.instagram.com/wherethewildwomengrow/ Keep Wildly Loving Yourself, Elly

Highlights: Her location on the planet and the witchy uniqueness of that place. How Kimberley pioneered online spiritual business models in the early days of the Internet. The pro and cons of participating in these on line spaces then and now. How she’s observed the online business world has changed over the last decade and a half. The feminine and masculine energies of entrepreneurship. Her first viral blog when “The Witch Wound” was coined by her. The ways that women can carry the witch wound. How it manifests within our bodies sometimes.Her matriarchal lineage of the gifts of intuition that were passed down to her. Her deep curiosity and deep yarning to understand the witch wound as young girl.Spiritual Crisis’ and the intensity of Spiritual Awakenings. And how these often are diagnosed as mental health issues. The interesting similarities she’s noted over her 20 years of working with women through their spiritual crisis’, one being that this initiation is often around child birth. She answers my questions on Where women called witches before patriarchy? Or were they just being women? The original way way to be Woman, our true nature. The taking over by Patriarchy and colonialism. It wasn’t about getting rid of witches, it was about get rid of women.The lingering effects of the witch wound in our intimate relationships. Re-traumatizing ourselves by thinking and feeling about the ancestral trauma vs. Healing the ancestral traumaSeeking support by someone who is trauma informed and who you feel safe with.The sneaky ways the witch wound comes up for us everyday life. Our current Spiritual Crisis of our plant and how women are quietly being initiated into their power so they can lead the way into a new world.Those of us who don’t fit into this Patriarchal world, are Designing a new world that we will fit into. Spiritual Crisis websites: https://www.spiritualemergencenetwork.org/  https://spiritualcrisisnetwork.uk/ Canadian Spiritual Crisis Website: https://spiritualemergence.net/ Mary Magdalene Revealed book: https://www.megganwatterson.com/mary-magdalene-revealed

Highlights: Her journey with healing her own birth trauma and how that revolutionized her life.  And how her career switched from supporting women birthing in hospitals to supporting women choosing freebirth.  The ego work around birth attending and our wanting to “save women” from birth.  The trauma that birth workers encounter.  The difference between needing to be saved from the medical system and choosing to be in the medical that can be harmful. Taking radical responsibility for our births and our lives. People pleasing and how that affects our careers and how we show up for clients.  Doing “The Work” to take responsibility for our births, our businesses and ultimately our lives.  Dealing with unhappy clients.  How she earned the name “The Compassionate B******t Caller” Finding your unique niche with in your business and really owning it.  Her leap of faith into her new business model.  How Covid time actually fast tracked her new business model.  Unraveling the “good-girl conditioning”. Embracing our “inner quitter”! Redefining what it means to be a “quitter”.  The “Selfless Mother” plight.  The invisible loads that mothers carry.  The biology of early mothering newborns vs toddlers and how we’re missing the tipping point.  The importance of mothers modelling for new mothers in their communities.  Setting breastfeeding boundaries with extended breastfeeding.  What the world would look like if mothers were properly supported.  Many of us desire to mother differently or better by our own standards, but most of us are not able to achieve this… We vulnerably about Having compassion for ourselves and our short-comings as mothers.  Breaking the the cycles of our matrilineal lines so I kids do better yet, and having compassion for our mothers who did the same for us.  Mom rage.  Authentic mothering vs. s****y mothering. How the mom-guilt had been holding me in an anxiety pattern. Some of my journey with anxiety and how I released so much of it this summer by facing some of my fears.  Her struggles with staying grounded with the state of the world so she can continue to support her community.  Waiting around for people to create the things we want to see in the world. OR just starting it ourselves!  Using your genius only And just hire out the rest to creates freedom and ease in your life and business.  Using birth as a personal-work tool… or NOT. Both options are right. Competition in the business space is obsolete when we’re choosing to show up authentically in our businesses. (Also look at your sister-wounds here). A message of peace within this shit-storm we find ourselves in.  Leisa Masters' Website:  https://www.earthsidebirthservices.com.auEarthside with Leisa Masters - Personal coaching for the time of ... Leisa's Instagram Account: https://instagram.com/leisa.masters?utm_medium=copy_link

How hard it can be to identify as  witches, and the negative connotations around the word witch.  What Samhain celebration is. And the other events on the Wheel of the Year. The unique energies of autumn and the similarities to our menstural cycles. The cultural fear of death and how that hinders ours ability to connect with our ancestors and ultimately ourselves.Acknowledging our pasts and our ancestors which can heal us. Plus shadow work. Honouring our mothers and grandmothers and their feminist movements which  have progressed us forward. The differences of feminine and masculine energies and how they can work in harmony in our bodies.The fall matriarchy, and the taking over of the patriarchy hundreds of years ago. The evil of colonialism and Christianity taking over. The ways modern women are reclaiming their feminine power at this time, and how Matriarchy is rising again. Reconnecting to ourselves as busy “mom-preneurs”. What Katy’s personal witchy practices look and feel like. We talk about our upcoming Samhain circle/celebration and our growing excitement. Lisa Listers Book: https://www.amazon.ca/Witch-Unleashed-Unapologetic-Lisa-Lister/dp/178180754X My Patreon Link: https://www.patreon.com/user