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Discover the hidden truths of motherhood that many overlook. Melissa shares her journey through unexpected postpartum challenges, revealing insights that can transform your approach to motherhood. From surprising labor responses to postpartum symptoms like hair loss, this episode empowers you to listen to your body and embrace its wisdom.Explore the healing power of rituals and traditional postpartum care, as Melissa discusses nurturing practices that help women feel whole. Perfect for new moms and birth workers, this episode invites you to honor your body's resilience and transform pain into power.Join us to reframe postpartum stories and celebrate the sacred experience of motherhood.

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Join host Natasha Preckajlo and Kristin Cronic as she goes into her journey from military officer to mother to full-time artist shows how life’s chaos can fuel creativity. In this episode, she shares how motherhood became a catalyst for deeper artistic expression, transforming setbacks into inspiration for her luminous paintings.

Discover how Kristin navigated leaving the military, a flooded home, and societal expectations to carve out her creative space. Her story challenges the myth that life’s challenges diminish creativity; instead, they deepen it.

This episode is a must-listen for anyone seeking resilience and permission to create without apology. Kristin’s insights illustrate that creativity is a vital part of our humanity, ready to flourish even when life is messy.

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Join Natasha Preckajlo and guest Jacqui Garcia, founder of Create Yourself Co., as she shares her journey from motherhood to self-empowerment. Discover how embracing neurodivergence and shedding societal expectations transformed her life. This episode offers insights into reconnecting with your essence and creating the life you crave.

Explore how motherhood reveals our deepest truths, why neurodivergence can be a gift, and the importance of radical acceptance. Learn practical tools for unlearning societal conditioning and embodying your authentic self.

Perfect for women navigating motherhood and identity, this conversation is your catalyst for change. Listen, reflect, and start creating yourself anew.

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Why I Started Out of the Reeds: Motherhood, Creativity, and Transition

Natasha Preckajlo, LCSW introduces her podcast Out of the Reeds and explains why she created it. Drawing from her postpartum journey and her book The Art of Motherhood, which blends art, poetry, and memoir after her first son’s birth in 2018. A licensed clinical social worker with yoga, and energy work training, she shares how creativity helped her process identity shifts, sleep deprivation, anxiety, and the magnitude of parenting. She reads her poem “The Fire That Forged Me,” reflecting on the primal intensity of early motherhood. The podcast aims to feature diverse guests and real stories without prescriptive advice, exploring creativity, spirituality, and life transitions. She explains the title’s symbolism and previews next week’s first guest, Jacqueline Garcia.

00:00 Welcome to the Show
00:11 Why I Started
00:45 Motherhood to Art
03:26 From Poetry to Book
04:38 Therapy and Yoga Roots
05:55 Creativity in Transition
06:36 Poem The Fire
08:13 Sleep Deprivation Truths
09:58 Rethinking Parenthood
12:09 What the Podcast Offers
14:04 Everyday Creativity
19:24 Spirituality and Shifts
22:16 Why Out of Reeds
24:52 Guests and Community
26:35 Closing Thanks

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