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Episode 4: From TSW to FreeBirth : Skye’s story of healing and birthing
Skye is a creative writer, postpartum doula, free-birthing mama, and healing warrior. She also happens to be a dear friend of mine! Fun fact, we actually went to high school together and reconnected years later when she reached out for pregnancy support.
On this episode, Sky shares her journey of radically trusting her body through healing from TSW and free birthing her son, River.
What we cover:
-healing through Topical Steroid Withdrawal
-pain and healing as a rite of passage
-body sovereignty and medical freedom
-you don’t need anything but your body to birth
-the free birth story of River Kawai
-how fear and tension shows up in birth
-accepting death to embrace birth
-making decisions rooted in intuition and trust vs fear
-the importance of emotional safety and peace in birth
-the value of having a solid birth team
-Zuri’s experience as Skye’s birth witness/support person
-trusting spirit baby intelligence
-the second birth: the placenta
Follow along with Skye’s journey:
Books mentioned:
-Untamed by Glennon Doyle
-Radical Acceptance: Embracing Your Life With the Heart of a Buddha by Tara Brach Ph.D.
-Unassisted Childbirth by Laura Shanley
Let me know what you think! Email me your reflections at [email protected]
Zuri’s website + upcoming childbirth education course www.mamabearth.com
Special thanks to my dear friend Chris Nabile for creating the music for our show. Reach out to hire him for your musical needs at [email protected]. He'll create custom music for your own podcast, or play live for ceremonies and events.
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Woman, Period. is a collection of stories and musings - from women, for women.
Together we explore the taboo, the sacred, the ancient, & the scientific;
all within the realms of sovereign womanhood.
Woman, Period. recognizes and celebrates the wise woman archetype within us all.
Grab a cup of tea, take a seat in our circle, and together we'll remember what it means to be Woman.
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As always, thank you for keeping an open mind and heart during our conversations here. Feel free to take with you whatever resonates, and leave behind whatever doesn’t. Please keep in mind, this is a collection fo stories, theoretical and archetypal anecdotes about the mystical and mysterious nature of womanhood. We are not intending to give any sort of professional, medical, or therapeutic advice, and nothing we say should be thought of as such.
Episode 4: From TSW to FreeBirth : Skye’s story of healing and birthing
Skye is a creative writer, postpartum doula, free-birthing mama, and healing warrior. She also happens to be a dear friend of mine! Fun fact, we actually went to high school together and reconnected years later when she reached out for pregnancy support.
On this episode, Sky shares her journey of radically trusting her body through healing from TSW and free birthing her son, River.
What we cover:
-healing through Topical Steroid Withdrawal
-pain and healing as a rite of passage
-body sovereignty and medical freedom
-you don’t need anything but your body to birth
-the free birth story of River Kawai
-how fear and tension shows up in birth
-accepting death to embrace birth
-making decisions rooted in intuition and trust vs fear
-the importance of emotional safety and peace in birth
-the value of having a solid birth team
-Zuri’s experience as Skye’s birth witness/support person
-trusting spirit baby intelligence
-the second birth: the placenta
Follow along with Skye’s journey:
Books mentioned:
-Untamed by Glennon Doyle
-Radical Acceptance: Embracing Your Life With the Heart of a Buddha by Tara Brach Ph.D.
-Unassisted Childbirth by Laura Shanley
Let me know what you think! Email me your reflections at [email protected]
Zuri’s website + upcoming childbirth education course www.mamabearth.com
Special thanks to my dear friend Chris Nabile for creating the music for our show. Reach out to hire him for your musical needs at [email protected]. He'll create custom music for your own podcast, or play live for ceremonies and events.
—————
Woman, Period. is a collection of stories and musings - from women, for women.
Together we explore the taboo, the sacred, the ancient, & the scientific;
all within the realms of sovereign womanhood.
Woman, Period. recognizes and celebrates the wise woman archetype within us all.
Grab a cup of tea, take a seat in our circle, and together we'll remember what it means to be Woman.
---
As always, thank you for keeping an open mind and heart during our conversations here. Feel free to take with you whatever resonates, and leave behind whatever doesn’t. Please keep in mind, this is a collection fo stories, theoretical and archetypal anecdotes about the mystical and mysterious nature of womanhood. We are not intending to give any sort of professional, medical, or therapeutic advice, and nothing we say should be thought of as such.