In this episode, I have the pleasure of speaking with Kristin Hauster: a mother, acupuncturist, herbalist, and somatic sex educator who supports women to create lasting hormonal resilience and fertility through postpartum.

Inspired by the ancient wisdom of Chinese Medicine, the modern understanding of hormonal physiology, and a deep reverence for the innate intelligence of the body, Kristin is a deep well of experience and wisdom.

In this episode, we speak at length about what Kristin calls the Mother Victim story: the spot where we mothers can feel victimized by the responsibility and intensity of mothering.

We speak at length about the medicine of responsibility, something we have both been served in our mothering journeys.

We speak about the "yin" undercurrent or female physiology of mothering that supports our arousal and pleasure.

We speak about how accessing our power in birth and motherhood sets the stage for the influx of eros and eroticism.

I really loved this conversation and really appreciate Kristin's expertise. I think you will too.

Show notes:

4:18 - The split between motherhood and sexuality

5:45 - The energetics of the yin state and how that relates to mothering and eros

7:72 - Radical responsibility for our sexuality and leading our partners

10:30 - The feminine frequency goes first

14:47 - The Mother Victim archetype

16:25 - What does motherhood provide for women?

18:30 - Kristin's experience of Mother Victim

22:11 - The underworld journey of mothering

29:00 - Disorientation and the deconstruction of our identity post birth

33:30 - Holding sensation and eros

34:30 - Birth and eros

37:19 - Rewriting the stories of our pelvis in birth

46:00 - Supporting a yin state and the pleasure we experience

50:00 - Birthing in power and eros immediately postpartum

58:30 - Pleasure as yin tonic and Kristin's upcoming course Mother Alchemy