A postpartum, bedside retelling of Alisha’s recent birth of her third baby, a boy named Justus. Alisha was Margo’s first midwifery apprentice, who in 2020 transitioned into serving her community as a midwife. This birth was her “final project” they joke, and what a birth it was! Listen in to hear the story of how Margo missed the birth and how being a midwife impacted Alisha’s birth experience this time around.

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On this episode of Well, Actually, Margo talks with Lisa Henrickson-Jack of the Fertility Friday podcast! Fertility Awareness was the way that Margo became interested in women’s health and bodily autonomy, and has the potential to capture the imagination and excitement of a whole new generation of powerful women.

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Lisa Hendrickson-Jack is a certified Fertility Awareness Educator and Holistic Reproductive Health Practitioner who teaches women to chart their menstrual cycles for natural birth control, conception, and monitoring overall health. In her new book The Fifth Vital Sign, Lisa debunks the myth that regular ovulation is only important when you want children by recognizing the menstrual cycle as a vital sign. Drawing heavily from the current scientific literature, Lisa presents an evidence-based approach to fertility awareness and menstrual cycle optimization. She hosts the Fertility Friday Podcast, a weekly radio show devoted to helping women connect to their fifth vital sign by uncovering the connection between menstrual cycle health, fertility, and overall health.

more of Lisa’s work at https://fertilityfriday.com/

This time I get to sit down with Jessie Harrold and talk about how the shift into motherhood takes way longer than the typical 6 weeks that we think of in our dominant culture.

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Jessie Harrold is a doula, coach, women’s mentor, author of the recent book Project Body Love and her upcoming title, MotherSHIFT. Her work weaves between the worlds of science and magic, the personal and the political, exploring life transition and rites of passage, ecofeminism and mythology, neuroscience and attachment psychology, ancestral skills and restoring the wild feminine. She serves women and mothers one-to-one as a doula and life coach, teaches two online programs, reWILD and MotherSHIFT, and leads wilderness quests and pregnancy retreats. She lives in a tiny oceanside cottage in Atlantic Canada, where she writes, works, mothers her two children, and tends to her many gardens.

https://jessieharrold.lpages.co/mothershift/

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Jennifer Summerfeldt, Master of Arts in Counselling Psychology (MACP), has nearly two decades of experience in maternal health and psychology. In addition to being a counselor, Jennifer has also been a childbirth advocate, maternal educator, doula, midwifery apprentice, and published writer.

As the founder and creator of the Healing After Birth program, Jennifer uses her expertise and pioneering voice to help advance the dialogue on motherhood, mental health, and healing.

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https://www.jennifersummerfeldt.com/

In this episode of Well, Actually… Margo talks about self-care from the car!

In this episode of Well, Actually… Margo interviews Kimberly Ann Johnson, author of the newly released book The Fourth Trimester: A Postpartum Guide to Healing Your Body, Balancing Your Emotions, and Restoring Your Vitality.

In this episode of Well, Actually… Margo interviews Keli Garza of Steamy Chick (steamychick.com)

In this episode of Well, Actually… Margo interviews Ijeoma about her unassisted breech homebirth.

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