Chantal Blake is a Holistic Menstrual Health Educator and Author, with a professional background in Nursing, Environmental Engineering, and Peristeam Hydrotherapy.  She weaves the fields of medicine, environmentalism, and holistic self-care into fascinating and practical instruction for women of all ages. 

In this interview we discuss the power of recognizing other culture's menstrual practices as well as storytelling to release the shame + embarrassment that is commonly found around the topic of menstruating. We talk about holding ceremony for the girls and women in your life who are bleeding, how to begin the topic of discussion with your own daughter and how to slow down and sync your cycle with your life. Chantal enlightens us with her own womb story and how vaginal steaming changed her life.

Books mentioned in this episode are: Women Code and In The Flo by Alisa Vitta

Chantal mentions the Steamy Chick Institute, where she got her peristeaming certification.

Please find Chantal's work, Honored Womb, through her website:

https://honoredwomb.com

or on Instagram @honoredwomb

Pre-Order her book today: https://honoredwomb.com/pre-order-book

There is so much wisdom in ancestral ways of healing trauma, hormone imbalance, cysts and more with the art of vaginal steaming. We talk with Ayurvedic Practitioner and Womb Steaming Consultant, Sabrina of Ummul Herbals, on her family's rich history with herbalism, her own personal relationship with plants, how she was able to heal from a difficult postpartum and excruciating menstrual cycles, why she's drawn to serving postpartum women and how she is expanding her business even further with trauma healing.  

Sabrina mentions a few resources that helped guide her down her path: the book, Moon Time by Lucy H. Pearce and her dedicated teachers Kami McBride and Keli Garza. You can take Kami McBride’s Healing Herbal Oils course through Sabrina’s affiliate link here. This is a phenomenal course that I cannot recommend enough!! I have personally taken it and have learned so much. If you are an herbal oil creator, I truly think this will take your practice + relationship with herbalism much deeper. 

You can also use this link to become a vaginal womb steaming practitioner through Keli Garza’s class. This was life changing for Sabrina and she goes into depth in it in this episode. 

And last but certainly not least, visit Sabrina’s incredible creations through her website. You can browse her offerings and 1:1 sessions. Sabrina’s products are potent beyond belief, gentle, healing and filled with so much love and prayer and intention. You can also follow her on Instagram at @sabrina.womb where she shares beautifully colored herbal photography along with heart-created Reels that educate and encourage women. She is truly such a gift. 

 **edit: there is a small part of the podcast where it cuts out for a few seconds due to the snowstorm I was getting on the mountain. Thank you for understanding!!

This episode is for parents of infants or toddlers. In a culture that undermines children, let's be the ones to guide them with trust, respect and empathy. Topics we discuss:

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/moral-landscapes/201112/dangers-crying-it-out

https://www.bellybelly.com.au/baby-sleep/cry-it-out/

Hunt, Gather, Parent; Dr. Michaeleen Doucleff

The Awakened Family; Dr. Shefali Tsabury 

Janet Lansbury Podcast- Respectful Parenting

Join me as I venture back to my childhood days of speaking to trees and listen to how the plants never left my side even through poverty, postpartum depression, cancer and birth. My business has manifested into what it is after much trial and error. My biggest mistake was believing the herbs were here for me and creating products out of herbs that I did not have authentic relationship with. My biggest take-away from all said experiences was that herbs are living things that reciprocate relationship. I talk about this more in this episode. 

Things I mention: 

How trees speak + communicate/ mother trees- look up anything by Suzanne Simard

Herbal Academy

Of Forest & Human Website + Offerings

My Patron 

Follow me on Instagram: @of.forestandhuman