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Are you connecting yourself to your truest desires or just the avoidance of your fears? This is a phenomenal question for both providers, Mamas. Regardless of what phase you’re in.

Monique Cowan is joining us in this episode, and she is a birth and postpartum doula and lactation educator. Monique's mission is to help mothers understand and connect them with their own innate and inalienable power. To truly support her clients holistically, so that birth and postpartum are full of love and joy and power. And to make that the norm, not the exception. 

As you're listening in to this, I really want you to take into consideration how you are connecting yourself, or your clients to their truest desires?

You can find Monique Cowan here:

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In this episode, we are sharing:

• Meet Monique Cowan
• Getting started as a doula
• Holding space for clients and connecting them to their true desires
• We all know what it is that we don’t want, learning how to switch our mindset from that, to focus on what it is that we do want and how to create it.
• Getting very intentional about what you want, in all areas
• Getting to a place of joy and delight
• Stress hormones and their effects
• Fear & how it impacts labor and birth 
• Finding a way to bring those fears to a minimum
• Mindset is everything
• The stress cycle that can happen from labor into postpartum that we want to avoid
• How we can help improve health outcomes, regardless of how we serve our clients
• Learning both the medical model and holistic model of care
• Learning to truly listen to our clients
• Offering solutions, that work for the person you’re helping
• Becoming the guinea pig when necessary
• Our experiences tend to shape our work
• Shaping experiences of childbirth through being given options and being supported throughout them, especially when things didn’t go as anticipated.
• How to find healing in postpartum from a traumatic labor or birth experience
• Getting our Mama’s nourished and nurtured
• We can treat things like they’re going to be good and normal
• You can follow Monique on Instagram (linked above)

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 The first step to nourishing our mind and soul is through food. In this interview with Alyssa Callahan, we are going to talk about re-learning to listen to our body and trust our intuition in order to really move forward and nourish our bodies. We also discuss food trauma and disordered eating in postpartum. Big, heavy topics that can feel hard to address.

These things are incredibly popular and common, and it is so important to learn how to continue breaking the barriers to discover intuition and how to use that with food and beyond.

You can find Alyssa Callahan here:

Website

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In this episode, we are sharing:

• Food Trauma and Disordered Eating in Postpartum
• Nourishment is the foundation of healing
• Maslow’s hierarchy of needs & how it pertains to postpartum
• Everything suffers when your basic needs aren’t being met
• Statistics  & negative thoughts and patterns with eating disorders
• You do not have to have a “diagnosed” disorder to be experiencing an eating disorder
• The struggle with food and body image
• Practical eating. What it is, and why it’s so important
• Intuitive eating
• The message of it tends to get really lost in translation on social media
• Fed is best, with mothers too.
• Nourishing your body
• Society and Mainstream media’s ideals and the issues that are causing
• Is it your nervous system, or your intuition? 
• Learning how to tell the difference
• If you have experienced trauma, please, seek support. You deserve it
• Grounding techniques 
• Mindful Meditation
• Are you in trauma response brain?
• Gut-Brain Connection
• Comfort and connection that comes along with food
• How are you feeling? Using this question and how it can change things for you.
• Women need to be supported where they are at.
• We are all on our own journey, within our own bodies, and deserve support.

For full show notes go to https://postpartumu.com/food-intuition-and-disordered-societal-eating-with-alyssa-callahan-registered-dietitian-ep37/

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Tami Kent joins us to discuss the deep disconnect that occurs within the motherhood space. There has been this forgotten work of energy and healing, and it is time we learn how to invite that back into our life. 

Get ready to learn how to embrace your feminine power and invite it back into your body. 

You can find Tami Kent here:
Website: http://www.wildfeminine.com/

Her books can be found on this website, where there are links to purchase:
https://www.wildfeminine.com/wild-feminine-book/
Wild Feminine
Mothering from Your Center
Wild Creative

In this episode, we are sharing:

• Introducing Tami Kent & the potential of the female body that she works hard to represent
• Disconnect within the motherhood space
• Where Tami found this passion in the motherhood space
• The importance of pelvic care in postpartum
• My experience with Tami’s book ‘Wild Feminine’
• What the patriarchy really is
• The importance of the pelvic bowl, and so much missing information for women
• The denigration of feminine power and the effects we are dealing with because of it
• The effects on everyone from this patriarchy
• ‘Mothering From Your Center’ by Tami Kent & what the book is all about
• Tools for healing the mother wound
• The attempt to be a tribe for our children, all by ourselves
• Learning to care for yourself as the mother
• By addressing your needs, you are also simultaneously addressing the needs of your family
• Disconnect, dysregulation, and depletion that we live in when we don’t operate from that core space
• Living in a depleted model
• How to reframe reciprocity with our children, and learning to mother ourselves as the mother
• The ebb and flow of the energetics of mothering
• Energy meditations
• Our bodies are meant to heal
• The lost art of feminine wisdom
• The sacredness of the female body is not something to be strived for, it IS sacred, no matter what.

For full show notes go to >> https://postpartumu.com/the-energetics-of-healing-with-tami-kent-author-of-wild-feminine-and-mothering-from-your-center-ep36/

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Food is very emotional, in fact, it is one of our very first emotional attachments as infants. Food is also something that is a huge part of community and connection to others, especially around the holidays.

If you want to learn how to use food as a tool to support you both emotionally and physically, even during the Holidays when you’re surrounded by goodies, then be sure to listen to this episode. I’m going to share all about the emotional connection that each of us has to food and how you can use it to support you through not only the holidays but every day.

In this episode, I’m sharing:

• How to eat well during the Holidays
• Food is emotional
• We learn from infancy, that food is good
• The Mind Gut Connection by Dr. Emeran Mayer MD 
• Your response to food is normal
• Food is more than just emotional, it’s also a bonding tool
• There is almost never enough community during postpartum
• The benefits of the Mediterranean diet
• Our state of mind while eating food
• Avoiding anything & everything that will cause you inflammation
• Going out to eat
• Planning meals with friends & family
• MY food is MY responsibility
• Your stomach has more nerve cells than your brain
• We aren’t just eating to replenish and sustain, we eat for comfort
• Guilt & Shame around indulging
• Operating from a trauma state
• Asking your soul not your body what you are needing from this particular food
• Assessing your needs & fulfilling them before indulging
• Avoid the guilt and shame for “not eating the right foods”

For full show notes go to >> https://marandabower.com/eating-for-comfort-hello-holidays-ep35/

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In the path to motherhood, so much of who we are is challenged and changed when we are, quite literally, cracked wide open and left raw. Whether you are a provider or a new mother, this episode will challenge you and help you look deeper into the psycho-spiritual changes and the identity shifts that occur in postpartum. It will help show you how to better expand and embody care for not only ourselves as mothers, but also the mothers we are caring for as providers and our friends and families as they step into parenthood.

I challenge you to take the information from this episode and ask yourself this question, how are you honoring the identity shifts that occur in motherhood and beyond for your clients? 

You can find Zoe - Embodiment Doula here:

The Memphis Doula - Zoe Etkin 

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Embodied Doula Training:

Website

 Instagram

In this episode, we are sharing:

• Psycho-spiritual
• The profound transition that occurs going into postpartum
• Grief & The Shadow side that is rarely talked about
• Helping mothers navigate this transformation
• Identity shifts in postpartum
• The energetic outpour that occurs after childbirth
• Childbirth cracks you wide open
• The struggle to see past the “immediate postpartum” & initial fog
• The lifting of the fog
• Being in a period of immense change, and riding it out
• There is a shattering of who you are when you become a mother
• The most essential type of self-care in postpartum
• Allowing new mothers to explore their identities and feel rested and nurtured

For full show notes go to  https://marandabower.com/motherhood-and-identity-with-zoe-etkin-co-founder-of-embodied-doula-trainings-ep34/

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When you're alone and feeling isolated, especially in postpartum and motherhood, you are more susceptible to falling prey to bigger narratives that influence how you think about yourself as a new parent. Being alone with your negative thoughts is not beneficial to anyone, and it's simply not the way things were meant to be. Kerry Ingram is the founder of community-supported postpartum and is joining us to discuss the importance of community in postpartum and as parents.

She is going to share how she got started in her business and transitioned to this specialty. Kerry has great insight on why you need a community during postpartum and how you can be creative in this post COVID world to keep your community alive. 

Find Kerry  & her offers HERE

Come listen in and see how having a community of support can make a difference in your life.

For full show notes click HERE

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Getting your period back in postpartum is yet another area that has a huge lack of readily available information, and simply isn’t being talked about enough. 

Just because these menstrual symptoms are very common, does NOT mean they are normal. It’s time to get down to the root cause of these symptoms and get it fixed.

I’m going to share with you what is considered normal in your cycle, some things that are more abnormal, and what can be done to help get your cycle back on the right track.

If you are struggling with any issues related to this, come join The Postpartum Circle Facebook group and ask questions there. We would love to help you heal!

In this episode, I’m sharing:

• Getting your period back
• What is normal after baby
• Breastfeeding can change when you get your period back
• Cycle length
• Each person is going to be different
• Symptoms that most everyone has
• Normal and common are different things
• Reasons your period is not normal after baby is born
• Listen to your body
• Thyroid disorders
• Sheehan syndrome
• Asherman’s syndrome
• How to bring back a normal period
• Nutrition
• Sleep
• Reduce stress
• Acupuncture
• Chiropractic care
• Vaginal steaming
• Learn to embrace your period instead of letting it hold you back

For full show notes go to  https://marandabower.com/getting-your-period-back-after-baby-ep32/

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Herbs and natural remedies were the only form of medicine for 1000’s of years.  They are incredibly amazing, and many are very powerful. The use of herbs and natural medicine is on the rise again, and you may have wondered to yourself if you could heal your postpartum issues with these more natural options.  I’m going to address this question and give you the list of my favorite herbs to help support your postpartum journey.

Please note, it is important to speak with your physician on any herbs you want to use because some herbs and natural remedies are so powerful they can interrupt pharmaceutical medications and those with underlying conditions. Of course, be sure to do your own research as well.

• Check out my herbalist here >> www.MarandaBower.com/Herbs

For full show notes go to  https://marandabower.com/healing-with-herbs-postpartum-ep31/

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The formula currently available for those that are unable to, or choose not to breastfeed is not up to the standard that it should be. It has become something pushed more and more, instead of giving mothers the support they desperately need to have a successful nursing journey with their new baby. 

Fionnuala is sharing her story of how she got started in researching the differences in formula and breastmilk, and why she is so passionate about it. She believes that education is where things need to start. Education from the government, the health care workers, and the formula companies. 

The lack of support we are seeing for mothers is unfathomable. Come join this conversation to gain some insight into these different topics, and see what Fionnuala believes needs to change in order for mothers to have better options.

In this episode, we share:

• Introducing Fionnula Doherty
• Breast milk vs formula
• Fionnuala’s start into this work
• The milk that is closest to human milk
• Proteins within milk
• A baby’s gut isn’t fully developed until 6 months
• Human milk changes at each stage
• Lack of breastfeeding support
• Formula is much easier to get which is wreaking havoc on our children and their health
• Lack of information
• Long term effects of being formula-fed
• Pushing other processed things over breastfeeding
• Formula can’t mimic breast milk
• Start advocating for better care & more support
• Fortifying formula
• Breast is best
• What are the other options?
• Education
• Lack of support, and not being given evidence-based information

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You’ve likely heard me talk about how raw vegetables and salads are not an ideal food for you in postpartum, and if you’re a vegan or vegetarian you may be wondering how on earth you’re supposed to get what you need in postpartum if those foods aren’t suitable for your body during that time. I’m going to break all of this down for you in this episode. To continue a vegan or vegetarian diet, especially in postpartum, you will need extra support to fully heal. Through supplements, and possibly some modifications to your diet.

Disclaimer, I will not be pushing either diet on you or go into the differences between the two. I am here to explain the most up-to-date scientific data about these diets and my recommendations.

In this episode, I’m sharing:

• Vegan and Vegetarian in postpartum
• Nutrition is a foundational piece to health
• Gut health issues and nutrient depletion
• Eating to heal your body
• Animal meat helps weak bodies return to health and wellness faster
• Nutrient-dense bioavailable foods
• Enzymes and gastric acids
• Don't add enzyme supplements
• Most nutrients are difficult to get from these diets
• All of our vitamins and minerals and nutrients work together 
• If you're deficient in one, it's likely you're deficient in multiple
• About 40% of vegan women are found deficient in iron
• Whole Foods are what helps with digesting key nutrients
• Vegan and vegetarianism is not sustainable without supplementation
• Eggs, bone broth, and herbal tea can make a massive difference in how one feels and support their healing
• Get your nutrient levels tested at least every six months
• Slowly reintroduce animal products
• If you’ve got questions, come join my Facebook group The Postpartum Circle

For full show notes go to https://marandabower.com/vegan-and-vegetarian-postpartum-what-you-need-to-know-ep29/

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