By Dr. Gertrude Lyons
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In this episode, I speak with Amri Kibbler, the co-founder and Chief Community Officer of Hello Mamas and HeyMama, about cancer’s lessons, the value of motherhood, and crafting new mothering narratives.
Amri’s community, Hello Mamas, has impacted over 400 million moms worldwide. She shares her career journey from content creator to community organizer. Her cancer diagnosis was the first time she really explored self-care and self-exploration, an experience she calls both the best and worst thing to ever happen to her. This eventually led her to found HeyMama, an organization centered around mental and physical self-care for moms.
We then discuss how, in our culture of isolation, it’s more important than ever that women and mothers don’t settle for unfulfilling company but find groups that are truly replenishing and satisfying. Prioritizing meaningful relationships is a beautiful thing to experience and model for our children. Amri leaves us with her wisdom about creating value-aligned communities and mothering oneself.
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In this episode, I speak with Faith Laux, a somatic sex and relationship coach, about the taboo and misconceptions around kink, normalizing conversations about sexuality, and pleasure as a healing modality.
Think you know what kink is? How about your erotic language? Faith beautifully defines the spectrum of kink, its powers to heal and powers to pleasure. We discuss the relationship between embracing kink and doing shadow work. She then shares the most foundational piece of having great sex. Consent, safety, and communication truly play an unnegotiable role in ecstatic experiences.
Faith explains what good kink and good parenting have in common and an exercise for teaching our children to deeply understand the importance of consent. She then explains that the ability to give and receive pleasure is ultimately about accessing a flow state. She blends kink and pleasure into a healing modality which she offers through her coaching and Kink Curious workshop.
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In this episode, I speak with Dr. Jessica Lederhausen, a dentist and public health advocate, about how she is rewriting her mother and grandmother codes, embodying her values, and publishing her recent book, Oral.
Jessica’s journey of mothering is distinctly different from the norm. She embraces being different from what’s expected of a “normal” mom and imparts the importance of maintaining personal values to her children. Even as a grandmother, she fully embodies the role of grandmother that works for her, which isn’t the same as the stereotypical spoiling-the-grandchildren one!
Jessica shares how she navigated the differing mother codes of Sweden and the U.S. We discuss what it’s like to grow up in a culture that doesn’t outwardly discuss values but picks them up by the behavior of the people around you. We then discuss her latest book, Oral, and the accompanying course she recently launched, each a significant birth in her life!
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In this episode, I welcome back Elizabeth Tuazon. We discuss her current stage of motherhood, how the universe always wants us to succeed, and her family’s upcoming transitions.
With Elizabeth Tuazon’s daughter, Lyla Rose, now a year and one-month-old, I checked in with her for a motherhood update. Elizabeth shares how she celebrated her one-year anniversary of giving birth with a Montessori Walk Around the Sun. It was a beautiful time to reflect on the milestones and growth she and her family made in the last year.
We then dive into the lessons learned by exercising our free will to make choices and question things, even things accepted as normal or standard, like what a pregnant woman is allowed to eat or why babies are required to have their iron tested. Elizabeth has two significant transitions ahead: an au pair and a doctoral program. Elizabeth’s willingness, grace, and curiosity with which she accepts newness and every step of motherhood never fails to amaze me.
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In this solo episode, I discuss the importance of collective connection, working through a project's intense phases, and the wisdom shared by whales and bees.
Following up on last month’s solo episode about being in the process of becoming, I’m now in the last big push of my book project, deep in the editing and writing. I share what’s felt extra challenging during this final phase, and how these lessons can apply across our lives, especially when we are new at something or close to completing a project.
I return to the subject of whales in captivity as a metaphor for women within patriarchy and the lessons society is learning about why keeping whales in captivity and subjugating feminine power does not work. By rewriting the mother code, we can remember the possibilities of opening ourselves up to our vastness.
I’m so grateful to be working from Ireland and share the importance of boundaries while getting through this final project stretch, especially in a new space. One special place I’ve had the opportunity to visit while here has been the bee beds. Their wisdom contains so many cosmic codes, the embodiment of feminine and masculine, and healing energies. I so genuinely hope we can get back to a place of connection, not only with whales and bees but all of life.
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In this episode, I speak with Emma Miele, an ICF-certified coach and Founder of The Breathing Room LLC, about choosing to be a mother, egg-freezing, and grieving old life visions to embrace new ones.
The Breathing Room is not only Emma’s coaching platform but also a reminder to give ourselves breathing room to be where we naturally are in the moment and to remain curious about why we think things should be a certain way. She is a true embodiment of living what she teaches!
She shares how she is approaching the choice to be a mother. We discuss social pressures, egg freezing, and the business of birth. There’s a lot of fear-based and expensive messaging in our societies about choosing to have a child, which intentionally preys on people’s vulnerabilities about making that choice.
Emma shares how she is currently in a grieving process for the life she thought she was going to live, which included marriage and children, to gain more space to live the life she is actually living. A person’s value is not inherently wrapped up in their childbearing status, which our culture still deeply struggles with, and Emma shares how she is rewriting this mother code.
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My conversation with Emma will leave you with some possibly life-changing questions for reflection. Don’t miss out!
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In this special replay episode of Dr. Gertrude's most downloaded episode, Logan Steiner, a lawyer and a writer, shares her experience in exploring the journey of being a mother. She takes us through the years which prompted her into reflecting on life and its wonders, particularly on how writing helped her have clarity on motherhood. Through the years, she has been setting her focus on being there for her child and building herself into a strong and capable woman.
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Logan is a lawyer by day and a writer by baby bedtime. Her writing explores motherhood and the creative life--two things she once thought could never happily coexist.
Logan's debut novel After Anne will be released on May 30, 2023 by HarperCollins. For fans of Anne of Green Gables and fans of complex, creative women, the novel tells the life story of the author Lucy Maud Montgomery.
After graduating summa cum laude from Pomona College and cum laude from Harvard Law School, Logan clerked for three federal judges, spent six years in Big Law, and served for three years as an Assistant United States Attorney. She now specializes in brief writing at a boutique law firm.
Logan lives in Denver with her husband David, daughter Noa, and the cranky old man of the house, a Russian Blue cat named Taggart.
Logan Steiner’s book entitled After Anne is available for pre-order on Amazon
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In this episode, I speak with Meka Hemmons, one of my favorite portrait photographers, about her artistic journey, disrupting the beauty industry and living her purpose every day.
Meka beautifully shares her life journey and the importance of learning from rock bottom moments when they come along. Following a long depression in her career, she was able to completely turn her path around by engaging with the hard questions about her life purpose that lay in her heart. These intuitive messages are now source material for an exciting upcoming digital course that she is creating.
Meka discusses how knowing our purpose is only half the battle. Trusting ourselves to actually do something about it is where the magic happens. For Meka, this includes rewriting the beauty industry, including representation, how women are taught to value themselves, and their self-image. Part of rewriting these codes is the integral work of learning to believe in ourselves and our inner knowing again.
From her experiences as a portrait photographer primarily capturing women, Meka shares what makes women hesitate when they look at their photos and how being photographed can be such a liberating experience. We discuss how beauty and power are interchangeable and the dire need for a mindset shift across society to realize our full human potential.
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In this episode, I speak with Rebecca Dekker, the Founder and CEO of Evidence Based Birth® (EBB), about her experiences of obstetric care and homebirth. You will learn how to navigate the obstetric system, advocate for yourself, and understand the implications of hospital policies on maternal health.
After a disempowering birth experience, Rebecca sought answers to improve not only her future births but those of every woman. This research became the foundation for EBB. She shares the fascinating history of midwifery in the U.S. as well as the conscious decision to turn birthing into a business, eradicating the generations of knowledge passed between midwives, doulas, and communities of women. This is a cycle most of us are still very much inside of!
Rebecca discusses how fear-based hospital practices and language around birth can unnecessarily be and what we can do about it. In parts of the world that still have midwives, the maternity care is dramatically better, making this topic more important than ever. Rebecca details specific red flags too look out for with obstetric providers, and suggests if you see one or more of them to find a new provider. It’s never too late, or too early, to advocate for yourself!
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Coming to you live from Iceland! In this solo episode, I share what I’ve been learning from the whales, invite you into the harvest season with me, and open the doors to play.
August is truly the season of harvest, and in this episode, I invite you to really step back and consider what you are harvesting, how it aligns with your visions of the year, and how you can take an honest inventory full of compassion. I share how the harvest season is unfolding in my life, which has brought me to Iceland, and what I’ve learned from the year’s many ups and downs.
I share what I’ve discovered through honoring whales alongside the Sonar Summit in Iceland and the parallels between honoring the feminine and any other group or body that has consistently had its agency taken away from it, not unlike midwives in the birthing space. I am a passionate advocate for the release of whales from captivity worldwide and hope the empathy we collectively share for animals can extend to each other.
August is truly the perfect time to fearlessly check in to everything we’re in relationship with as a way of forwarding momentum and rewriting our mother codes.
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