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“I think a lot of that has to do with your own mindset and your faith that everything’s going to work out. Which is just so important in life in general, in your business, in your life - just trusting. And granted, it doesn’t always work out in an easy way, but I believe that things are going to work out well for people that are doing good work.” Lindsay Courcelle is a mother of three, a myofascial release practitioner, and woman of many more hats, including a teacher and mentor for me in this world of bodywork, business, and body. We discuss… * Slowing down in country life - the homestead Lindsay and her husband have created, and the way they are now inviting people in * “When I touch my body I touch the earth” - Our intimacy with our bodies (or lack thereof) correlate to our relationship to earth. How we have each fallen out of relationship with earth throughout seasons of our lives - and how we got it back, along with our creativity and power. * The dynamics behind women (people?) being afraid of touching our own bodies - What will we discover? Can we trust that our hands can do something powerful for our own body? Can we trust that whatever comes up, we can hold? * In a culture of orientation to drama, to big - what it means to slow down and tune in to subtlety of the daily devotions. * You can touch your own body! You can use your own hands to heal your own children. Our bodies, our hands, especially as mothers are so wise. * Pregnant bodies are less fragile, and less complicated in many ways than perhaps we think. Bodywork, self touch is amazing in pregnancy! * Lindsay’s progression through three pregnancies and three babies, from mildly clueless (in the most loving way!), to trying to do everything right, to caring for herself gently, and letting things just flow. * In person community - both the building of and the lack of. (Gah, I am so jealous of her community sauna! in her small town in VT). And a bit of my story of living in community and the beauty of seeing mother MOTHER around me, to creating more space for our family, more boundaries, more differentiation. * Introducing our children to out bleeds, our female physiology. * Child spacing! “Traditional” family spacing vs our more modern standards of closely spaced families. Nourishment between babies is huge. * “Life is intense and has a will of it’s own” - The balance between resting and nourishing (especially with little kids) - and creation and business building. * Our mineral lines - what our grandparents ate, and what we have been passed down. (We go deeper into this in the bonus.) * Living in a ToXiC wOrLd (gosh, that capitalization is hard) - and allowing ourselves to chill, especially when it comes to kids. Avoiding all the things when possible - food dyes, EMFs, toxins, etc - without creating fear and hypervigilance. * And how we share our foundation of values behind our choices with our children and relinquish control. * The schooling, licensing, and following the rules quandaries - but tying it all back to community, values, and making your own choices and following your own path. Subscriber Content * A beautiful conversation about ancestry, land, grief and longing. The places and plants that feel like home, and the ways we are still searching for that feeling of “This is it. This is home.” * I tell a story as a bonus bonus of working with a family line trauma - that coincided (or perhaps intentionally preceded) my pregnancy. 🧡 You can upgrade your subscription right here. Resources & Links * Genie Era - Starts April 3rd! (But I bet you can still get in after) 14 days to release the trauma that’s been bottled up in your pelvis, so your body can support a 7 figure business and you can lead with the power of a woman who answers to no one but herself. * Fascia Care for Kids and Infant Fascia Care courses. * I highly recommend following Lindsay on Instagram! * And my favorite set to music version of On Children by Khalil Gibran sung by Sweet Honey in the Rock. If this resonated… * Comment here in the comments! * Leave a review on Apple Podcasts or Spotify * Share this episode with someone who needs to hear it Connect with me * Instagram - @maible.arden * Website - MaibleArden.com This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit motherwisdom.substack.com/subscribe

We’ve seen what happens when a whole culture forgets how to care for mothers. Forgets we NEED to care for mothers. But the design of postpartum isn’t something to survive but a sacred window to be honored. One that ripples out into the rest of your life, your family, and your community. In this nourishing and honest conversation, I sit down with Christine Eck, founder of the Center for Sacred Window Studies (who I studied with twice!), to explore the conscious, Ayurvedic approach to postpartum care. We talk about what it really means to learn from our own bodies, how to tend to the subtle shifts that can make a huge impact in our overall experience of the postpartum time, why digestion (Agni) is the key to recovery, and how receiving care transforms not just the mother, but the entire community. Whether you’re postpartum now, preparing for it, supporting others, or still untangling your own experience of not being supported, this conversation is a reminder that rest, honesty, and asking for care are not only allowed, but deeply wise, deeply necessary. We discuss… * Why honoring rest and nourishment in postpartum is so radical and so necessary * What happens to Vata and Pitta after birth, and how to observe and know yourself, and simple tools to bring them back into balance * Why postpartum depletion isn’t inevitable; it’s cultural, not natural * Letting the floor be dirty: grief, discomfort & stepping out of productivity culture * Why your body isn’t “broken” postpartum, this is the design. The sensitivity, the slow down, the vulnerability, all of it. * Ayurveda as a living tradition of remembrance, a blueprint for what you already know, not a rulebook * Agni 101: What your digestive fire has to do with healing (spoiler: everything) * Why receiving care is the work, not a luxury * Why healing is communal, not something you DIY with willpower, spreadsheets, and meal prepped date balls Subscriber Content * A lightning round on common postpartum advice through the lens of Ayurveda * A beautiful breakdown of the Universal Mother Principles - energetic foundations for how we offer care, hold space, and mother ourselves and others. * Free 5-Day Mini Course on Ayurvedic Postpartum Care If you want to nerd out more or just be reminded that care is your birthright, this bonus content is for you. 🧡 You can upgrade your subscription right here. Resources & Links * Healing Recipe Collection (comforting, simple, deeply nourishing) * Conscious Postpartum Caregiver Training with the Center for Sacred Window Studies Feeling the pull to support new families in a deeper way? Mention this podcast when you reach out and get a special discount. * Connect with Christine on Instagram: @sacredwindowstudies * The Sacred Window Podcast - or wherever you listen to podcasts If this resonated… * Comment here in the comments! * Leave a review on Apple Podcasts or Spotify * Share this episode with someone who needs to hear it Connect with me * Instagram - @maible.arden * Website - MaibleArden.com This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit motherwisdom.substack.com/subscribe

Today’s episode is with Amy Burday, a friend and a fellow Ma School-ian. We began studying as womb continuum care practitioners in July, and were together in Greece in November for a two week intensive training. We reflect on our time in Greece, and on our experience this work of Womb Continuum Care so far. We talk about what it's been like to have such an intensive experience and then integrate that into our lives. We talk about perfectionism, our relationship with the internet, Instagram, social media as either substitutes of bolsters of community and connection. As a bonus for Substack subscribers, we share stories of changes we've experienced in our own bodies as a result of this work. (Some wild things that happened in my body, and I'm so grateful to have received that work for two weeks straight.) We Discuss * How we both found this work, and fell/felt into a deep yes to the training. What it means to follow the womb’s call * Tending to the web of women’s health through womb continuum care - how up-leveling our skills and offerings not only benefits us personally, but also all the women we get an opportunity to serve. * Undoing the martyr mother - the disorientation, but ultimately the freedom, of making choices for myself as a woman, not only and always as a mother. And how making choices to be a more well nourished mother can benefit your children and the family web as a whole. * The social media dilemma - all the feels about using our phones as either (or both) touch points of connection and bolsters of community, and excuses to avoid being seen by real humans, and engaging in our actual lives. (Amy has some great wisdom here) * Choosing higher standards for ourself, our health, our joy, and our womanhood - not in defiance of cultural norms, but to uplift and uplevel what women expect and believe is possible to create. * The balance between the leap of being a beginner and doing the thing anyway, and putting yourself out there as a fully fledged… whatever, without the actual experience to back you up. How this work both demands higher standards, while also inspiring change on a deep level. Subscriber Content * A bonus chat with Amy where we discuss changes we’ve experienced as a result of receiving womb continuum care. Our bodies have shifted, softened, and healed so much in those two weeks, and the interconnection of our entire body is pretty remarkable. 🧡 You can upgrade your subscription right here. Mentioned in this Episode * Motherfoods - free class with Rachelle Seliga and Carly Rae Beaudry Connect with us: * Find Amy on Instagram, or her website * Connect with me * Instagram - @maible.arden * Website - MaibleArden.com If this resonated… * Leave a comment on Substack * Leave a review on Apple Podcasts or Spotify * Share this episode with someone who needs to hear it * Tag me on Instagram with your takeaways @maible.arden This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit motherwisdom.substack.com/subscribe

I am so pleased to be able to speak with Chelsea Connor on the podcast - The queen of nuance, @houseofnourishment on Instagram, deep thinking woman here for joy, for nourishment, for self reflection and exploration. We talk about all the forms and flavors of nourishment; food, connection, nature, and so much more. And while good food is only a part of the story, it is absolutely vital. Food is so much more than just like a tool for shaping our body. It is the basis of everything - our brain cannot function, our nervous system cannot be grounded, at ease, and out of that survival state without the proper nutrients that we need in our diet. Not only are we trying to nourish ourselves in this new world where there’s so much technology, toxins, EMFs, and general bad news bears, acting against our nourishment, we’re also kind of dealing with a whole childhood of Lunchables, purple ketchup flavored with who knows what a microwave waffles made enriched with iron shavings - a real lack of real food nourishment. There’s so many layers to our symptoms, our bodies and what’s going on with our health and our culture, and I am so happy to have talked to Chelsea about it. We Discuss: * The push-pull of posting, sharing about your life and potentially even “health advice” on the crazy interwebs. The balance of sharing valuable content on line in your wheel house, and showing up as an imperfect, multidimensional human * How Chelsea did a radical thing and *gasp* decided to go for a walk during the first few days of her bleed instead of just resting and her journey with intense menstrual pain. * The overall personal development movement from creating rules for yourself to scaffolding of nourishment. And how we can build foundations before we can move on to the building blocks. We need to nourish before we can fine tune, start eating 3 meals a day before lifting weights every day. * What self care from a grounded, resourced place looks like. When your body feels the inspiration and spark to begin to change things instead of knowing what you need to do because that’s what you’ve been told * Chelsea’s transition from crazy fast city life to her nervous system allowing for more space, quiet, and slow. It’s not all easy and smooth! * Her engagement!!! And how her difficulty, her resistance to imagining a beautiful engagement ring turned into an analogy for receiving goodness in life. How can we open to receive more than we believe is possible for us, more than we believe we deserve. Subscriber Content * Chelsea’s SIMPLE NOURISHMENT Fall/Winter PDF cookbook. * I can’t believe I didn’t know I could make epic hashbrowns at home for breakfast until this cookbook. I also love the teriyaki drumsticks, dandelion root chai, so many good ones. And I can’t believe I haven’t tried the caramelized onion roast beef sandwich recipe yet. There’s also a list of seasonal produce, budgeting tips, and meal and snack building resources. 🧡 You can upgrade your subscription right here. Connect with us: * Find Chelsea on Instagram * Connect with me * Instagram - @maible.arden * Website - MaibleArden.com If this resonated… * Comment here in the comments! * Leave a review on Apple Podcasts or Spotify * Share this episode with someone who needs to hear it * Tag me on Instagram with your takeaways: @nurtured.grove and @houseofnourishment This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit motherwisdom.substack.com/subscribe

In this episode of Mother Wisdom, I watch the pendulum swing between victimhood, radical responsibility, and the seductive (and harmful, in my opinion) idea that you were simply an “energetic match” for your birth experience. Was it random? Was it cosmic? Was it preventable? Was it what you really wanted deep down in your subconscious? These are the uncomfortable questions so many mothers, women, humans grapple with, especially when things don’t go as imagined. And especially when you’re on the internet in the alternative health, quantum blah blah blah, corners. This episode is a meditation on making meaning from what has happened, rather than obsessing over what could have been. On taking responsibility for the choices you made, not claiming you’ve masterminded the entire universe around your subconscious. I talk about the damage I perceive can come from telling women they “attracted” their birth experience, how spiritual bypassing hides behind personal growth language, and how to hold the complex truth that sometimes things just happen, without slipping into blame or victimhood, or on the other side, playing God in your own life. In this conversation I explore: * The illusion of control and the reality of chance * The harm in “you manifested this” narratives around birth * What radical responsibility actually means (hint: it’s not about controlling the uncontrollable) * Acknowledging both randomness and deep intelligence in the unfolding of birth. And life. And mothering. * Exploring the many threads that may influence birth: fascia, trauma, nutrition, ancestry, biomechanics. But perhaps most importantly, the humility of not knowing. * How to take aligned responsibility without ego * The mental gymnastics we do to avoid feeling what is or was (as I watched myself do when I was late the other day) and the invitation to come back to presence * Turning difficult experiences into wisdom, not through spiritual bypassing, but through embodied reflection and integration Subscriber Content * The lovely little, or not so little (it’s 37 pages!) Placenta Birth Guide - women centered, mother powered placenta birth videos, all about cord burning, traditional understandings of the spiritual significance of the placenta, a placenta burial ceremony ‘recipe’. * A delicious bundle of guided meditations for the childbearing year including…. Relaxation Meditation Settle into our bodies, becoming still, and just be in this moment and in our experience. Birth Visioning Meditation A guided exploration into your birth portal and the divine vision you hold for yourself, as well as listening to any messages your baby may have for you. Releasing to the River Meditation A fear release meditation. Exploring relaxing our grip on fears or anything else that may feel heavy in this process of preparing for birth. Opening to Receive Meditation Made with postpartum in mind. Opening to the energies of receiving, and an opportunity for you to tune into any mantras or reminders that may come through. 🧡 You can upgrade your subscription right here. Mentioned in this Episode * Free Mini Placenta Guide If this resonated… * Comment here in the comments! * Leave a review on Apple Podcasts or Spotify * Share this episode with someone who needs to hear it * Tag me on Instagram with your takeaways: @nurtured.grove Connect with me: * Instagram - @maible.arden * Website - MaibleArden.com This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit motherwisdom.substack.com/subscribe

Welcome to the first episode in this new chapter of the podcast, Mother Wisdom. In this intimate and nourishing conversation, I’m joined by Dr. Suuzi Hazen - mother, doctor of Traditional Chinese Medicine, farmer, and founder of Mother’s Best Liver Pills - for a deeply embodied exploration of what it really means to nourish ourselves through pregnancy, postpartum, and beyond. Based on her knowledge of TCM and our own real life experiences (both in nourishment and true self care, and the mistakes and missteps we made) together, we un-peel the onions of maternal depletion, body image, nutritional wisdom, traditional weaning (this may not be what you want to hear!), morning sickness through the lens of TCM (turns out, there are actually things you can do to support yourself through it), and the very real tension between self-sacrifice and self-honoring as mothers. Dr. Suuzi shares her two wildly different pregnancy and birth stories, from a morning sickness fraught pregnancy ending in a near death experience and emergency cesarean to a pregnancy of eating well and truly supporting her body, and a fully natural VBAC. These threads continue to play out in how she learned to support her body in motherhood through food, boundaries, and traditional practices. In this conversation, we explore: * What does white label actually mean? * Suuzi’s two radically different pregnancy & birth experiences: * Her first, shaped by severe morning sickness and undernourishment, a castor oil induction, and a near-death emergency cesarean birth * Her second, guided by nourishment and a deeply supporting her female body, ending in a straightforward VBAC * How intermittent fasting to lose the ‘stubborn baby weight’ and long term depletion led to a total metabolic crash, and how Suuzi slowly nourished her way back to life * Why these “crashes,” as brutal as they are, can be thresholds into the Wise Woman tradition — into slow, into simple, into nourishment, into the spiral of healing. * The tension between intuition vs. intellect in motherhood: Do I follow what my body knows, what my spirit knows... or what I think I know? * TCM insights on morning sickness, tandem nursing, and child spacing — and why many traditional cultures built in space for maternal recovery * The facades of health (and motherhood, and life) we see on social media, and the dangers of trying to recreate someone else’s life without tending to our own foundations * What our current breakfasts look like and why sustainable, gradual nourishment is a much better route than drastic change. * My own shift from vegetarianism rooted in community acceptance over my bodies messages to an ‘ancestral diet’ that supports my body, family, and values This episode reminded me of the gentle wise woman nourishment as the path of motherhood and womanhood - not getting overwhelmed by information and comparison, but focusing on our nourishment and the soup in front of us. Can we let it be simple? Giveaway + Subscriber Bonus To celebrate this first episode, we’re giving away a bottle of Mother’s Best Liver Pills!Here’s how to enter: * Become a paid subscriber here on Substack (either $5/mo or $40/year) * Leave a comment on this post That’s it. (Yes, this is still a very small Substack, so your chances are pretty dang good.) Even if you don’t win, paid subscribers get access to a discount code for all of Dr. Suuzi’s products including her Lucky Duck Electrolytes and liver pills. 🧡 You can upgrade your subscription right here. Resources & Links Dr. Suuzi Hazen * Website: mothersbestliverpills.com * Instagram: @drsuuzihazen * Her podcast here on Substack, or wherever you listen to podcasts, Women's Bodies * TCM Morning Sickness Reel Series (It’s a 4 part thing) * Pregnancy and Breastfeeding Reel Mentioned in this Episode * Armstrong Sisters’ discussion of the Minnesota Starvation Experiment If this resonated… * Leave a review on Apple Podcasts or Spotify * Share this episode with a mother or friend who needs to hear it * Tag us on Instagram with your takeaways: @maible.arden and @drsuuzihazen This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit motherwisdom.substack.com/subscribe

In a world where blogs are written by AI, I turned to the flowers for inspiration. Walking in my favorite field, I’m starting a new chapter in this podcast. Welcoming in Season 4 with the bluebirds, mushrooms, an abundance of native wild flowers, and a fresh air blowing through this podcast. If you’re looking for chronology and logistical details, head on over to the Mother Wisdom Reintroduction - regular edition. If you’re wanting to be infused by the smells and colors of my dreams for this space, you’re in the right place. Moving forward, I’m going to co-create bonus content for each episode available for subscribers, so if this corner of the universe fills you up, consider being a subscriber for only $5 a month. Mother Wisdom is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit motherwisdom.substack.com/subscribe

Welcome to Mother Wisdom, a space for stories, musings, and medicine from the heart of motherhood. Here, we walk the spirals of fertility, birth, postpartum, and the becoming and unbecoming that is motherhood continuum. Orienting to wisdom and intuition, softness and strength, practical and magical, relationship and autonomy, physiology and mystery, personal and collective. I’m Maible Coughlin — Here for the wisdom of our bodies, our babies, our motherlines, the earth, and the sacred web of all mothers - past and present. Our exploration is in making the collective map, not exact directions and never medical advice. Make your own choices, and Trust your own wisdom. As Wise Birth Radio was ready to round a corner into season 4, we blossomed into Mother Wisdom. I’m your host, Maible Coughlin, postpartum care provider, mother, dishwasher, laundry folder and tomato sauce canner, student midwife and soon to be womb continuum care provider. On this podcast you will hear about the depth and breath of the experience as woman, as mother, and human. Connecting with the wisdom of our own bodies, lineages, and the archetypes of Mother in all her forms, I am here for grounded, nourished, powerful women. Subscribers will receive access to bonus content for each episode, whether that is deeper conversation, giveaways and discounts or further resources, as well as my collection of guided meditations for the childbearing year, and other things I will create. Mother Wisdom is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Related Episodes & Additional Resources * Stay tuned for Mother Wisdom Intro - the ‘Unhinged” Version aka Let’s ask the flowers about it) * Lindsay Courcelle - Myofascial release training * MA School - hands on, hands in pelvic work Community * Become a Mother Wisdom subscriber - This is the most impactful way to support the show, for only $5/month * Sign up for the newsletter - (monthly-ish, actual good stuff, no filler nonsense just for the sake of marketing.) * Follow me on social media - @nurtured.grove This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit motherwisdom.substack.com/subscribe

Honestly, this is the kind of episode you can't write a description for. Our beautiful friend Ixchel Prisma talked with us today about the depths and beauty of her second trimester loss with her spirit baby, River Nova. This story goes back at least a decade to her initial connection with a baby spirit. Ixchel has spun lead into gold, experiencing death and grief in pregnancy as a profound portal to herself. To her own growth and connection to spirit. And to a greater understanding of the workings of spirit baby connection and soul contracts. -------------------------- You can find Ixchel -   Her beautiful song - Birthing Spiral All of her music on Bandcamp And Spotify And her beautiful floral earrings! ------------------------ Thanks for listening! If you’re enjoying our show, please leave us a rating and review! If you have anything you want to hear more about, or any questions you'd like us to address, please reach out at [email protected]. We welcome your feedback.    Follow us on Instagram @catskillsbirtheducation for more musings and information on wholistic pregnancy, physiological birth, and intuitive motherhood.   Check out our online, comprehensive birth education course Wise Woman, Sacred Birth to go deeper into self responsibility, trust and connection with your inner self, and knowledge and wisdom of the biological truths of the childbearing year, and connection with other beautiful mamas. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit motherwisdom.substack.com/subscribe

When asked about their postpartum plan, so many women say "Well, my husband is taking 3 weeks off work...". While thats great (although we'd be more into all fathers being given paid paternity leave for at least a month), that alone should not be your postpartum support in an ideal situation. We talk about: How we envision the ideal postpartum time to look and feelHow sinking into this design can allow the blessing of a different time perception and brain wave state to come aboard. A delicious, relaxed, healing, state.Postpartum is designed to be slow - we need to have enough support to hold the energy of slowPartner needs slow as well! Mother can't fully relax if everyone around her is running around and feeling hectic.Fathers need also need time to integrate as well! This is a huge transition for the whole family.Father's can’t be doing constantly and expect to also have space to feel The theory of everyone in the postpartum time needing two layers of supportCreating healthy fatherhood begins with the birth of the father!It's often more difficult, but extremely important for men to practice dropping from a space of doing to a space of beingSometimes new fathers experience a crash as way of slowing down. We need postpartum support to allow them to stay present.Your next tangible steps spelled out to creating sacred space for both parents postpartum -------------------------- Mentioned in the show:   Our Postpartum Planning Guide Rachelle Garcia Seliga of Innate Traditions Birthfit postpartum program Wise Woman, Sacred Birth A few of our relevant previous episodes: Manifesting Your Ideal Postpartum Time Your Motherhood is For You - with Nicole The Vital Energies of Receiving in the Postpartum Time -------------------------- Thanks for listening! If you’re enjoying our show, please leave us a rating and review! If you have anything you want to hear more about, or any questions you'd like us to address, please reach out at [email protected]. We welcome your feedback.    Follow us on Instagram @catskillsbirtheducation for more musings and information on wholistic pregnancy, physiological birth, and intuitive motherhood.   Check out our online, comprehensive birth education course Wise Woman, Sacred Birth to go deeper into self responsibility, trust and connection with your inner self, and knowledge and wisdom of the biological truths of the childbearing year, and connection with other beautiful mamas. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit motherwisdom.substack.com/subscribe

Postpartum care provider and educator, mother to 4, this postpartum was probably perfect, right? Beautifully, postpartum is an ever deepening, ever challenging, ever incredible spiral into yourself. With the opportunity for new lessons, new messages, and new challenges each time. Sara and I had a lovely walk and talk about her fourth postpartum after the birth of her son, Akiva. We talk about: She hosted her first nesting party at 36-ish weeks pregnant. (Highly recommend.)Boundary medicine in postpartum time!Yes, everyone wants to see the baby, but it’s so important for you to protect your energetic bubble.You are so sensitive and so vulnerable in this time, so while you need so much support and love and care, you also need to be discerning with who is in your space.How her husband, Z, and her three kids mentally prepared themselves for her to be resting and less available for many weeks.Sara’s top baby gear recommendation (vacuum snot sucker)Her baby, Akiva, made milk (curse of the midwife?)Sara’s relationship with her own body! This is so strongly passed down the matrilineal paths, often in a not so helpful way. Sara opens up about her own relationship with her body and body image, and how she is choosing to teach her kids to relate.Sara’s early menstrual cycle returnAnd what she’s been doing starting at a few days, postpartum to care for her body, heal, and feel strong.How we can have an understanding of the ideals, while also flowing with the realities of life. -------------------------- Mentioned in the show:   Our Postpartum Planning Guide Nicole's incredible offering - rooted Our podcast episode with Adrian Dimatteo Restore Your Core - postpartum movement   ------------------------ Thanks for listening! If you’re enjoying our show, please leave us a rating and review! If you have anything you want to hear more about, or any questions you'd like us to address, please reach out at [email protected]. We welcome your feedback.    Follow us on Instagram @catskillsbirth for more musings and information on wholistic pregnancy, physiological birth, and intuitive motherhood.   Check out our online, comprehensive birth education course Wise Woman, Sacred Birth to go deeper into self responsibility, trust and connection with your inner self, and knowledge and wisdom of the biological truths of the childbearing year, and connection with other beautiful mamas. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit motherwisdom.substack.com/subscribe

Agreements: - I am not obligated to do dishes - I will avoid lifting heavy things - I will be mindful of eye contact, and utilize tools of energetic protection - I will avoid heated discussion - most things that I think NEED TO BE TALKED ABOUT RIGHT NOW actually don't... - I give myself full permission to not cook if I don't feel like it - I will keep my body, especially my feet, head, and womb, warm and out of the wind.   I also talk about: -How I've begun very organically scheduling my life around my cycle. I don't think it would have made sense if I had just started off with a calendar or a plan because someone else told me to do it... -How I'm feeling these energies of outer and inner spring. The challenges for an Aries and the beauty of it -I finally understand what drawing a line in the sand is actually supposed to mean! But does it really make sense? -The concept of creating an energetic red tent for myself - Exploring the idea of marking the end of bleeding like a mikvah from the Jewish tradition   -------------------------- Mentioned in the show:   Fertility Friday podcast My favorite Indie Birth sweatshirt My favorite fiction - Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley Our curated fertility/cycling book list ------------------------   Thanks for listening! If you’re enjoying our show, please leave us a rating and review! If you have anything you want to hear more about, or any questions you'd like us to address, please reach out at [email protected]. We welcome your feedback.    Follow us on Instagram @catskillsbirthcollective for more musings and information on wholistic pregnancy, physiological birth, and intuitive motherhood.   Check out our online, comprehensive birth education course Wise Woman, Sacred Birth to go deeper into self responsibility, trust and connection with your inner self, and knowledge and wisdom of the biological truths of the childbearing year, and connection with other beautiful mamas. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit motherwisdom.substack.com/subscribe

What if SOUND HEALING (insert feathers and crystal bowls here) didn't have to be a big complicated thing, but was actually woven into your every day life? What if you could be constantly working with frequency and vibration as tools for health and balancing in your body, mind, and spirit? Oh wait, YOU ALREADY DO! I loved our talk with Adrian DiMatteo; musician, author, sound healer, and genuine, down to earth, hilarious, and insightful human. We explore some of the ways sound shows up in our every day lives, especially as pregnant women and mothers, and how we can very simply tap into that as a source of connection and healing. This is so relevant to birth, and I am excited to see where this exploration leads us in the future.   We talk about:   - Utilizing sound as neurolinguistic programming - this doesn't have to be complicated, start by using different words to describe your experiences - The different levels of sound//thoughts moving through the mind into the body and the spirit - How music, mantras, movement, dance, rhythm, are all expression of sound - "Sound Healing" isn't this isolated event that happens only on the full moon in a yoga studio. - How we can utilize this in pregnancy and birth, to overcome fear and re-program our belief systems - “Sonic massage” - how we can intuitively use our body's vibration for healing for our families - Applying musicality and mantra healing to the rhythm of everyday life. Vibration, frequency, rhythm isn’t something we practice outside of motherhood/pregnancy, it is inherent in our bodies and ready to be activated at any moment - Vibration and the vagus nerve! Carrying vibration, movement, and allowing more oxygen to the cells for healing and pain relief. (SO RELEVANT FOR BIRTH!) - How the natural sounds of the body are essential in releasing emotions, like a dog shaking off the day, we can allow our sighs, yawns, and stretches to reset our systems. - How we could utilize our understanding of frequencies and the human body to curate your birth environment for this sacred ceremony - I'd love to see Adrian and Nikko Kennedy (from episode #33) to design a labor and delivery unit and NICU! - The future of birth support - sound healing? Bringing frequency medicine into the birth space doesn’t have to mean you bring your guitar and know a thousand mantras. It’s the vibration of being calm, present, and in your heart, regardless of what you are saying or not saying. - “Silence is the mother of sound” - Approaching ultrasound technology from the highest possible frequency - Integrating sound healing in the simplest ways - this is so accessible and so simple!   -------------------------- Mentioned in the show:   Adrian's new book - Elements of Sound: A Full-Spectrum Exploration of Sound and Consciousness   His organization, Sonic Institute   Sound Healer Trainings - (I'm going to do it one of these days!)   And his music - While You Are Awake is the background music for this episode and the perfect addition to a birth playlist! ------------------------   Thanks for listening! If you’re enjoying our show, please leave us a rating and review! If you have anything you want to hear more about, or any questions you'd like us to address, please reach out at [email protected]. We welcome your feedback.    Follow us on Instagram @catskillsbirthcollective for more musings and information on wholistic pregnancy, physiological birth, and intuitive motherhood.   Check out our online, comprehensive birth education course Wise Woman, Sacred Birth to go deeper into self responsibility, trust and connection with your inner self, and knowledge and wisdom of the biological truths of the childbearing year, and connection with other beautiful mamas. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit motherwisdom.substack.com/subscribe

With all of the birthy support roles I am currently holding, it may be a surprise that I am not, and have no intention of being a birth doula.   But once, long long ago (or at least that's how it feels!), I was! I thought that being a birth doula was path through which I wanted to serve women... at least until I started doing it.   I talk about how: - The sister wound has made it's presence known in my business aspirations. I couldn't really serve women in this way if I din't really even want to be friends with them! - I balled my eyes out after the first 3 birth I went to - but convinced myself it was from the joy and beauty of birth -Something deep down inside me knew - with no instruction, example, or experience that what I was witnessing wasn't really birth as some part of my ancestral being knew it to be. It was a gross manipulation/mutilation that we're all supposed to applaud and whisper about 'the miracle of childbirth' - My one home birth experience as a doula opened my eyes to a brief moment of feeling the true power of a birthing woman, then swiftly shifted to an uncomfortable understanding of my own, and our collective cultural orientation towards 'medical professions' as authority, and therefor all the ways in which we give up our power.   --------------------------   Mentioned in the show:   Indie Birth's Sacred Sisterhood Doula Training Taking Back Birth Episode - When Doulas Become Cogs in the Wheel of Medicalized Birth ------------------------   Thanks for listening! If you’re enjoying our show, please leave us a rating and review! If you have anything you want to hear more about, or any questions you'd like us to address, please reach out at [email protected]. We welcome your feedback.    Follow us on Instagram @catskillsbirthcollective for more musings and information on wholistic pregnancy, physiological birth, and intuitive motherhood.   Check out our online, comprehensive birth education course Wise Woman, Sacred Birth to go deeper into self responsibility, trust and connection with your inner self, and knowledge and wisdom of the biological truths of the childbearing year, and connection with other beautiful mamas. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit motherwisdom.substack.com/subscribe