Energetics, Intuition, and Staying Unbothered by the Noise in Pregnancy and Birth

In episode 25 of the Birth Like a Mammal™ podcast, Lindsay shares that she hasn’t released an episode in six months due to grief during the summer of 2025, cognitive shutdown, and full-time travel after selling her house, which made recording difficult with her girls always with her. 

She refocuses the podcast and her Birth Like a Mammal™ work on energetics: how scarcity vs. abundance mindsets and trust in intuition shape pregnancy, birth, and Motherhood, and how inner confidence can reduce reliance on external “saving” from hospitals or providers. 

She argues doulas need more education and supportive community aligned with mammalian biology and physiological birth, she emphasizes shutting out others’ noise and staying rooted in inner wisdom, and invites pregnant women needing guidance in preparing for birth to apply for limited one-on-one coaching spots. 

Key Takeaways:

1. Birth is energy: What is your energetic threshold for yourself?
2. Personal Belief System: What do you believe to be true about yourself and birth in general?
3. Outsourcing: Why do women outsource their power during pregnancy and birth?
4. Scarcity vs Abundance: ‘typically how we view the world around us is how we perceive pregnancy and birth to be. But that is a learned perspective and can be changed. 

Quotes:

• " In my experience….all of my doula education and professional groups and stuff is all focused on hospital birth and how do we advocate, and how do we teach our clients to make birth plans, and how do we teach them to talk to the staff, and how do we tell them when to go so they're not there too long but they get their in enough time, and like all this compliance and bending and flexibility and rerouting of their nervous system to to support hospital needs and wants and protocols and procedures… it's ridiculous! The hospital should be doing that for women."
• " Birth is energy. It's probably one of the most significant and highest forms of energy that we will experience in a lifetime. And how you give birth is how you prepare for it energetically beforehand.."
• "All of that belief in ourselves and the connection to our intuition and the trust in our design and all of those things mentioned is energy.""
• " I didn't really understand energetics and all of that when I had my first baby but because I listened to my intuition, and because I followed that innate knowing in my body, that carried me into this incredible mammalian birth that I knew existed because I'd seen horses do it, but I really didn't have anybody in my life that could tell a birth story like mine."

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Edited by: Stefanie Wenninger | Pine Peak Productions