Freya Women

What if the contractions are too intense? What if I can’t do this?

I had these thoughts before birth and even while giving birth. Yet I went from living with anxiety to experiencing two empowered home births without medication.

In this episode, I share how years of working with my body and breath prepared me for birth without me even realizing it. I talk about why studying birth and becoming a doula gave me information, but didn’t automatically make me feel safe, and what truly helped me move from fear toward trust.

You’ll learn how changing my relationship with discomfort transformed the way I experienced contractions, along with a practical breathing tool you can begin using today to meet physical and emotional intensity without immediately fighting it.

Because preparing for birth isn’t only about learning positions or creating the perfect plan. It’s also about learning how to stay connected to your body when things become intense.

If this episode resonates with you, follow the Freya Women Podcast and share it with a woman preparing for birth.

This episode shares my personal experience and is intended for general information only. It is not medical advice. Please speak with your midwife or healthcare provider about your individual pregnancy and birth plan.

Are you pregnant and afraid of giving birth or wondering how you’ll move through the pain?

I had those questions too. In this episode, I share my journey of preparing for birth and birthing my two boys at home without pain medication. I talk about what helped me feel safe, how I connected with my breath and body, and why those experiences changed the way I saw myself.

We explore fear of birth, the importance of feeling supported, and how breathwork and body awareness can help you meet the intensity of labor. I also share a simple breathing practice you can begin exploring as you prepare for birth and motherhood.

This conversation is about discovering your own strength while leaving room for the uncertainty, choices, and support that every birth deserves.

🤍 PREPARE FOR BIRTH WITH ME — REBIRTH

REBIRTH is my birth preparation program for pregnant women who want to feel ready for birth, work through fear, and learn practical tools to support their nervous system through labor and into motherhood.

Together, we make space for what you’re feeling, and I teach you the tools I used in my own births. Through breath, movement, and body awareness, we practice ways to move through intensity and reconnect with your own strength.

Message me “REBIRTH” on Instagram to learn more:
https://www.instagram.com/freya.thegoddesswithin/

With love,
Joanie 🤍
Founder of Freya · Certified naturotherapist · Somatic coach · Breathwork facilitator · Doula-trained · Mama of two

Why don’t my kids listen to me, and how do I discipline them without punishing them?

When my boys were babies, motherhood felt natural to me. I knew how to nurture them, hold them and respond to their needs. But as they grew older, became more independent and started testing boundaries, I realized something uncomfortable: I had no idea how to discipline them.

In this episode, I share what I’m learning about the difference between discipline and punishment, setting loving but firm boundaries, and regulating myself before reacting to my children. We explore how our own childhood experiences shape the way we parent and why learning to listen to the body and trust our intuition matters so deeply in motherhood.

This conversation goes beyond parenting. It’s also about the way we discipline ourselves, pursue our dreams and stay devoted to the life we truly want.

Because discipline doesn’t have to mean shame, control or punishment. Discipline can be devotion, to our children, to ourselves and to the future we are helping create.

What if creating the life you desire isn’t about forcing, controlling, or constantly doing more, but learning to listen to your body, trust your emotions, and recognize what feels truly aligned?

In this episode, I explore what it means to co-create with the universe and live as if your dreams are already unfolding. I share personal stories of growth, rebirth, and the uncomfortable clash we can feel when we’re becoming someone new but still holding on to an old version of ourselves.

We’ll talk about trusting your desires, releasing limiting beliefs, balancing doing with being, and finding abundance in the beauty that already exists around you.

The episode ends with a guided breathwork meditation to help you anchor your intentions, connect with your desires, and embody the life you’re ready to create.

What does a beautiful life look and feel like to you?

In this episode, I exploree beauty beyond appearances and the connection between your emotions, inner alignment, and the life you are creating.

Through personal stories, practical reflections, meditation, and breathwork, you’ll discover how to reconnect with your authentic self, notice beauty in ordinary moments, and create more of what feels true, joyful, and fulfilling to you. You will FEEL different after this episode & notice that beauty is SO contagious.

Beauty is deeply personal. You decide what is beautiful for you and your emotions can help you recognize whether you are truly aligned with it.

Your body is always speaking to you.

Through your breath. Your emotions. The tension you carry. The feeling in your stomach when something doesn’t feel right and the expansion you feel when something is meant for you.

But as sensitive women and mothers, many of us have learned to override these signals. We keep giving, doing and moving forward, even when our bodies are asking us to slow down.

In this episode, I share my journey of reconnecting with my body through breathwork and introduce EARTH, the foundation of the Freya Method.

We explore what happens when we disconnect from our bodies, how the breath can help regulate the nervous system and why healing doesn’t always require doing more. Sometimes, it begins by returning to what is simple, natural and already within us.

This is an invitation to exhale, listen and come home to the body that has been carrying you through it all.

Do you keep telling yourself that you’ll finally feel at peace when life calms down?

When the list is finished. When the decision is made. When you reach the next milestone. When everything around you finally feels okay.

For sensitive women, peace can easily become something we’re always waiting for but rarely allowing ourselves to experience now.

In this episode of the Freya Podcast, we explore why your mind and nervous system may struggle to let go, even when everything seems “fine”, and how to stop making your inner peace dependent on what is happening around you.

Through nervous system regulation, breathwork, embodiment, and simple practices, you’ll learn how to come out of overthinking, feel safer in your body, and return to yourself in the middle of real life.

You don’t have to wait for everything to change before you can feel at peace.

Peace begins here. In your body. In your breath. In this moment.

How to Get Out of Your Head & Feel Safe in Your Body Again

Do you ever feel like you’re constantly thinking, doing, planning, fixing… but rarely actually feeling yourself?

Maybe you overthink your decisions. You feel anxious without always knowing why. You’re doing everything you’re “supposed” to do, yet something inside still doesn’t feel settled.

I know this place.

For years, I experienced anxiety and panic attacks. I thought anxiety was something I needed to get rid of. What I eventually discovered was that it became an invitation to come back to myself.

Back to my body. Back to my breath. Back to the present moment.

In this episode, I share my own journey with anxiety and what helped me stop living almost entirely from my mind and begin creating a sense of safety within myself.

We talk about the nervous system, breathwork, emotions, intuition, the pressure to constantly perform, and why learning to be instead of always doing can completely change the way you experience your life.

You’ll also experience a guided breath + presence practice you can use whenever you feel overwhelmed, disconnected or caught in your thoughts.

If you’ve been feeling anxious, stuck in your head, disconnected from yourself, or exhausted from constantly trying to do and be more, this episode is for you.

Maybe you don’t need to fix yourself.

Maybe you need to come back to yourself.

One breath at a time.

✨ Go deeper with me inside DIVINE

DIVINE is a space for women ready to move out of performance and come back to themselves through the body, breath, nervous system and the five elements.

Comment DIVINE and I will send you the information on the upcoming masterclasses.

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Et si, derrière tout ce qu’on essaie de faire, d’accomplir, d’améliorer… on avait surtout besoin de réapprendre à ÊTRE?

Dans ce premier épisode en français du FREYA Podcast, je vous partage une partie de mon histoire. Mon expérience avec l’anxiété, les crises de panique, le stress, la déconnexion de mon corps… mais surtout le chemin qui m’a tranquillement ramenée vers moi.

Vers mon corps.
Vers mon souffle.
Vers le moment présent.
Vers une vie qui me ressemble davantage.

Je vous partage aussi pourquoi j’ai créé Freya et ce que j’ai envie de construire à travers ce podcast : un espace où l’on peut ralentir, respirer, ressentir et revenir à l’essentiel.

Parce qu’on peut passer des années à chercher à l’extérieur de soi ce qui nous aidera enfin à nous sentir mieux, plus en sécurité, plus en paix.

Mais parfois, le chemin commence simplement par revenir ici.

Dans le corps. Dans le souffle. Dans ce qui est déjà présent.

Chaque épisode explorera des thèmes comme la respiration consciente (breathwork), la régulation du système nerveux, le travail somatique, l’anxiété, la présence, la reconnexion au corps, le bien-être et la connaissance de soi.

Et surtout, je veux que ce podcast soit quelque chose que vous puissiez vivre, pas seulement écouter.

Bienvenue dans l’univers de Freya.

Welcome home. 🤍

✨ LAST EPISODE OF THE SEASON ✨

This one is special.

This one is from the heart (as usual but double, because WE TWO)

For this final episode, we’re doing something different, a bilingual conversation (English & français) 🤍

It is such an honour to welcome Alexandre Dussault into this space for a deep, real, raw, and expansive conversation.

Together, we explore what it truly means to move from ego to heart…

To release fear, reconnect to your truth, and lead your life, and your business, from a place of deep inner alignment.

This episode is for the entrepreneurs, the seekers, the ones who feel there is more…

More truth. More depth. More YOU.

If you’ve been building from pressure, expectations, or fear, listening to this will feel SOOO god damn good.

You don’t need to force your path. You’re meant to ENJOY it, FEEL it, BE ALIVE in it.

Inside this episode:

– Authenticity & vulnerability as your greatest strengths

– Breathwork, intuition & reconnecting to your inner voice

– Releasing fear and societal expectations

– Choosing heart-led living over ego-driven success

– Trusting yourself, even when it feels uncomfortable

Let this be the episode that brings you back to yourself.

Tune in, soften, and remember...Your heart knows the way.

Everything you desire is already within you.