Today, on the podcast, we have a beautiful episode with Karlie Koval. Karlie is a mother of two living on a Mediterranean island with her Polish husband who has an important journey to share about claiming the right to birth on her own terms after initially giving her power away. You’ll hear Karlie’s stories of always being a little bit ahead of the curve, starting with her first bleed at age 10 to getting pregnant at 21 despite having a copper IUD in, and the radically beautiful choices she has made to live in alignment with exactly who she is and center herself as the energetic anchor of her family. This episode is so sweet, so powerful, and I know you’re going to absolutely love it.

In this episode…

• Mother as the energetic anchor of the home
• Karlie’s “early” Menarche at 10 years old and the imprint it left her of always being one step ahead of her peers
• The awkwardness of being a preteen who is (for the first time) smelly, hairy, and bleeding in a society that demands girls and women are none of these things
• The story of Karlie’s 21-year old adventure to find herself in Southeast Asia (as one does) where she met a sweet European man, got unexpectedly pregnant with a Copper IUD and then moved to Poland
• How Karlie gave away her power in her first birth (with *22* people in attendance) and was left saying “I’ll never do that again” right after her son was born
• Conscious conception, womb healing, nourishment and embodied intuition that led to Karlie’s second pregnancy
• The difference in capacity for healing and ritual between Maiden and Mother and giving yourself what you truly need
• When Karlie reclaimed her power, moved to a Mediterranean island and free birthed her daughter on her own terms (despite her husband not being on board at all)

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Today, on the podcast, we have a true treasure of a woman, my dear sister, Jeanelle. Jeanelle has a beautiful, deep story full of her initiations into both light, pleasure, and sensuality, and into the dark, the void, and life’s mystery. She shares her wisdom on living within all your different seasons and how every single woman has access to this through her own womb. You’ll also hear her incredibly sweet Menarche story that will leave you feeling inspired to initiate all the girls you know with love and care!

In this episode…

• How to negotiate when earth’s seasons do not match out inner seasons- the different lenses we can view and understand ourselves through
• The story of Jeanelle’s Menarche and how her mom greeted her with love, celebration, and a care package of chocolates, flowers and a bubble bath (and how Jeanelle did the same for her little sister when she got her first bleed)
• The importance of creating a safe home environment for young maidens to counteract the shame present in the overculture 
• What happens when the womb wakes up and why it may initially create more “pain” in your body as she demands your attention
• How a yoga practice brought Jeanelle from being an observer of her life to being fully in her body, and her womb began to wake up just enough for her to realize there was more to life and being a woman
• How the womb carries things that may not belong to us: Jeanelle’s initiation into the darkness, experiencing the full spectrum of life and how her blood was her constant reminder of how life keeps going
• The magic of “allowance” and living with an open heart

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Today, on the podcast, we have Olivia Dzundza, who takes us on a powerful journey along her spiral path, from maiden to mother, exploring the profound shifts she's experienced in her life. She shares how her first trimester of pregnancy mirrored the phases of her own birth and menarche, and how the wisdom of her maiden self—courage, curiosity, and self-discovery—guided her through challenges, including the painful moment at 19 when she was told she might never conceive. Olivia reflects on her journey through the medical system, from birth control to being offered a hysterectomy, and how these experiences ignited her desire to break the cycle of defaulting to the system. Olivia shares how she now embraces a life she loves, feeling complete and whole, as she enters her second trimester of pregnancy. This episode is a celebration of Olivia's courage to reclaim her innate wholeness and trust in her body's wisdom.

In this episode…

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Today, on the podcast, we have a powerful episode with Tatiana Berindei, author of Path to Puberty, the ultimate resource guide to moms of daughters. This is a rich and dynamic episode full of Tatiana’s experiences in the counter culture, her initiations into the womb mysteries, death, and birth, and her own birth stories. Tatiana seriously has the best stories. You’ll also hear some of the magical moments Tatiana has witnessed within her daughter as she has been initiated into womanhood in an intact and reverent way. This episode will make you both laugh and cry, which I think is the sign of any good story, really.

In this episode…

• “Post 40 is f-ing awesome”- Tatiana’s experience of moving closer to the Sorceress phase of life and loving yourself
• Knowing her first bleed was potent and powerful, but having nobody to join her in that space as a girl (despite having been sent to a moon lodge in the woods)
• The story of generational healing with Tatiana’s daughters first bleed and how important it is to model healthy self-image to girls (plus the incredibly healing moment of what Tatiana’s daughter wrote on her inner thigh that will bring you to tears)
• The scary birth control experience that was the beginning of Tatiana’s womb journey
• Chronicles of Tatiana’s experiences with the counter culture and the importance of seeking out new experiences in Maidenhood (even naive ones)
• When Tatiana left an abusive teacher/partner relationship, and was powerfully initiated into the womb mysteries by Pele on the Big Island of Hawaii
• Being responsible with your magnetism as women and not taking advantage of men
• Different ways we bring the feminine into our spirituality: womb wisdom, goddess initiations, yoni steaming, blood magic and more
• Our lives are not Disney movies: how healing is not what it was sold to us as, embracing life’s ups and downs and choosing your path
• When Tatiana returned home to Massachusetts, went into deep healing around her father wound, and met her husband who treats her like a Goddess
• Life is hard without elders, and why we should not be expected to know everything
• How the death of Tatiana’s father and brother within 3 months initiated her into birth, ceremony, and her life’s work
• Death does not equal failure
• Tatiana’s first pregnancy alongside her midwifery apprenticeship, and the interference that created a traumatic first birth experience for her
• Deciding that she would be the one to take responsibility for her choices in birth, and why the midwifery model does not allow for that
• The redemptive freebirth of Tatiana’s second daughter (as well as the one moment she ignored her intuition and the impact of that)
• What postpartum during peak lockdown was like and how Tatiana is “re-doing” those early years with her now 4 year old now
• Our rites of passage build on each other- from menarche to postpartum to menopause
• How Tatiana is feeling the transition into her 40s: everything is up for renegotiation, moving energy through her body, and normalizing lower energy

A new woman’s story is released every Wednesday, so go ahead and subscribe for your new favorite ritual. And make sure to rate and review this podcast so that more women get their eyes and ears on it.

Today, on the podcast, we have my sweet friend Sarah. Sarah’s story takes us on a journey from deep shame around her bleed and not telling anyone she got her period for the first three years of her womanhood, to her womb awakening at a ceremony in Costa Rica and living in a community where she felt honored as a bleeding woman (and wanted to tell everyone she knew about the menstrual cycle). You’ll hear more stories of how Sarah has deepened into her own womanhood, shared the wisdom she’s has gleaned with others and created a life in which she honors her cycle above all. This episode is imbued with Sarah’s grounded spiritual orientation to life, and you won’t want to miss it!

In this episode…

• Sarah shares the ways she has evolved from the dreamy 20 year old girl to the more grounded and responsible 31 woman she is today
• The story of how Sarah hid her first bleed from everyone in her life for three years and breaking down where this early shame even comes from
• How being on birth control made Sarah an atheist
• When Sarah quit her job, got off birth control, and moved to Costa Rica and the story of her magical, ceremonial womb awakening there
• How to integrate women’s cycles into community-care as well as self-advocacy for your bleeding needs
• Sarah’s full circle moment of returning to teach at the schools she attended as a more embodied woman, and the flack she got for teaching senior high school girls about their menstrual cycles
• The ceremony Sarah led for women in Guatemala and the ritual that has helped women get their missing bleeds back
• Sarah’s time living on a wooden tall ship, and how she learned to advocate for her cyclical needs and taught the younger girls to do it too
• What happens when your inner seasons don’t match the outer seasons
• How Sarah prioritizes her cycle as the center of her life now

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Today, on the podcast, we have my incredible mentor, Kristin Hauser. Kristin is a powerhouse of a woman, supporting both the women she works with towards hormonal resiliency as more, and her family of (soon to be) 6. Kristin shares how her own menstrual challenges led her to the work she is doing now, and how she views motherhood as a path to spiritual maturity. One of my favorite parts of this episode is how Kristin goes about her pregnancies and birth as she does the rest of her life- without medical interference, and in a totally normal, no fanfare type of way. This episode is steeped in Kristin’s wisdom and her stories that many women will be able to relate to and find common ground in.

In this episode…

• Kristin shares how she experiences the cyclical archetypes within her pregnancy trimesters
• How pregnancy is just a normal part of Kristin’s life 
• Kristin’s excitement about menarche, and how intuitively she taught herself to track her cycle along with the moon
• Her parents divorce and the connection between the fracture between her and her mother and her period pain
• Kristin shares her wisdom on the Heart Womb channel (and how our traumas affect our wombs)
• The many things that led Kristin from not wanting kids to wanting to become a mother
• Kristin’s magical maiden to mother nude photoshoot
• Kristin’s first homebirth story and her warrior-like attitude towards it despite the birth being pretty easy
• Kristin’s intense and unexpected breastfeeding challenges and how being around other breastfeeding women is what she wished she’d had
• Wild pregnancy and freebirth as “the next step” on Kristin’s journey
• Kristin’s second birth that was just another day for her family
• The financial struggles that Kristin’s family experienced in her second postpartum, and how this became an opportunity to uplevel her relationship with money
• Kristin’s third pregnancy, her move across the country in her third trimester, and her first “land birth”
• Motherhood as a path to spiritual maturity
• Kristin’s wisdom on developing the capacity for self-trust

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Today, on the podcast, we have Emily Sims! Emily is a Menstruality Mystic whose story is characterized by doing things a little differently and learning to be okay with that. You’ll hear her stories of reclaiming her menstrual cycle, remembering God as both feminine and masculine, having a pain-free birth, and more. In each turn of the wheel, Emily has courageously chosen to question the narrative and step into her own truth, while holding space for others to do the same. Tune into this one for a deep, nourishing, and playful conversation between two devoted women of the womb.

In this episode…

• Emily shares how she embodies each phase of her cycle and how it is all just happening naturally
• Working with the luteal phase and the inner critic
• The difference in “alone time” in the maiden and mother life phases
• How Emily remembered her first bleed and found resolution in a Menarche Reclamation Ceremony 
• Working with the fear of tampons and how we can support young bleeding girls
• The experience of “having” to be on birth control to take the medication Acutane
• How Emily fell in love with tracking her cycle and realizing her sovereignty, but felt a bit lonely in the process
• Tribal visioning, the Red Tent, rituals to the Goddess and why women may want to bleed together
• From evangelical to heretic: Emily’s reclaiming of her God as both feminine and masculine
• Emily’s beautiful story of her easeful pregnancy and pain-free birth
• The difference between fitting in and belonging
• How Emily received her “intense initiation” in her postpartum, rather than her birth
• Emily’s experience of becoming who her son has called her to be
• Learning to be in “the void”

A new woman’s story is released every Wednesday, so go ahead and subscribe for your new favorite ritual. And make sure to rate and review this podcast so that more women get their eyes and ears on it.

Today, on the podcast, we have Houyem! Houyem is a mother who is changing up the cultural narrative of how we move through rites of passage and modeling the same for her children. Through Houyem’s stories of her first bleed, her time on birth control and learning to own her fertility to her pregnancies and sacred postpartums, and now as a mother to a coming of age girl looking towards perimenopause, she shares how she has come to normalize and sacred-ize each turn of the wheel (within her cycle and her larger life cycle). This is a sweet and deeply inspirational episode.

In this episode…

• Houyem shares why the Luteal/Sorceress phase is her favorite one despite its “bad rep”
• Why you shouldn’t be working out your “issues” during menstruation
• Houyem’s early menarche (first bleed) and how she pretended it was not real
• The lack of honoring and understanding menstruation that is so common with girls and how Houyem is changing this narrative with her daughter and her daughters friends
• Her journey from birth control to the mixed emotions she felt when finally learning about her fertility
• How it is a conscious outside effort to disconnect women from their bodies and how we must reclaim it
• Why you might not meet the right person while on birth control
• The importance of healing your relationship with your menstrual cycle before giving birth- how menstrual shame impacts birth outcomes
• Houyem’s first home birth, a beautiful initiation into motherhood
• How Houyem’s mother and mother-in-law cared for Houyem in her postpartum in the traditional Tunisian manner
• The importance of postpartum support
• Houyem’s path as a doula, seeing medical sabotage in the hospitals and her free birth story
• Her excitement when her menstrual cycle has come back after each of her babies, and for her impending perimenopause
• The importance of taking care of yourself before menopause
• Reclaiming ALL of your rites of passages from the medical system

A new woman’s story is released every Wednesday, so go ahead and subscribe for your new favorite ritual. And make sure to rate and review this podcast so that more women get their eyes and ears on it.

Today, on the podcast, we have Briana Girard, a woman who has chosen massive transformation for herself and her family. Briana shares her stories of being a young girl, not knowing her bodily anatomy, going on birth control because she thought she could get pregnant on any day, working as a nurse and having a csection to learning the Fertility Awareness Method and giving up birth control for good, speaking to her baby in the womb and intuitively knowing he was okay, honoring her womb and her cycles and free birthing her second boy in total peace and power. Her story has a true, beautiful arc of growth and personal responsibility, and you’ll love the way Briana passionately, openly, and honestly, tells her story.

In this episode…

• The postpartum period without a cycle as being in a tideless ocean and how Briana is prepping for her period to return
• How Briana doesn’t remember her Menarche despite having an incredibly strong memory, but she does remember trying to (unsuccessfully) put a tampon in for the first time
• Growing up without knowledge of female anatomy and thinking you can get pregnant any day of the cycle
• Briana’s 10 years on birth control and how it kept her from becoming herself
• Her journey from birth control pills to a copper IUD to finally learning the Fertility Awareness Method and developing a relationship with her womb for this first time
• Briana’s time as an RN, having an overly medicalized first pregnancy
• How Briana learned to talk to her baby in the womb and began to “wake up” 
• The story of Briana’s C-section and the criminal mistakes and lack of consent on the part of her medical providers in her initiation into motherhood
• When Briana fully woke up and began choosing what she actually wanted for herself and her children (after an abusive pediatrician visit)
• Briana’s second pregnancy, skipping all her OB appointments, hiring and then firing her midwife, and enjoying the last few weeks of her pregnancy as a retreat
• Briana’s free birth story and how it was the catalyst that changed her family’s lives for the better

A new woman’s story is released every Wednesday, so go ahead and subscribe for your new favorite ritual. And make sure to rate and review this podcast so that more women get their eyes and ears on it.

Today, on the podcast, we have Linda Ma sharing her transformative journey through life's twists and turns. Linda shares her early initiations, including her menarche and first sexual experience. You’ll hear about her profound ayahuasca journey in the Amazon, meeting her ex in Hawaii, and the courage it took to leave that abusive relationship with two young daughters. Linda reflects on her two hospital births, uncovering truths about medical consent, and her evolution from licensed midwife to sovereign practitioner. As she cares for her elderly mother, she shares a magical vision of familial spirits and the comforting wisdom she’s gained about death as a gift. Linda is a woman walking her life path with a lot of trust and an open heart. Join us for this episode steeped in reverence for the sacred dance of womanhood.

In this episode…

• How Linda has always felt compelled to rest on her period, even as a young girl
• Linda’s life phase and is perimenopause real?
• Two initiations within one year: Linda’s menarche and first sexual experience stories
• From the Amazon to the Hawaiian Islands: Linda’s ayahuasca initiation, and how she met her ex, the father of her children, on his way to anger management class
• The path to finally leaving her abusive relationship when her children were 3 and 1, and what that actually takes for women
• Linda’s two hospital births, and how she found out years later when she got her medical records that they gave her all sorts of medications and procedures without her consent
• How Linda became a midwife and then resigned her license and left the system to be a sovereign midwife
• The role reversal initiation Linda is experiencing while caring for her elderly mother and the magical vision Linda got of her grandmother telling her that her mother’s spirit is free
• Linda shares her wisdom on death as a gift and how she has always felt comfortable with it
• How Linda has normalized bleeding in a house with three teenagers and the sweet ritual they all participate in

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