Rooted Woman

Emma is an inspiring woman who is deeply rooted in her ancestral Wise Woman ways of herbalism, ceremony and ritual, birthkeeping, and so much more. Enjoy this episode about peaceful birth, sitting in trust of the wisdom of the body, and leaning on herbal remedies for well-being.

We talk about:

• Emma's easeful, trusting, and magical pregnancy and birth story
• Sauna as a womb space for birth and death and ritual/healing in Northern traditions
• Women's deep need for blessing during their pregnancy
• Her challenging postpartum as initiation and the sense that modern women are truly not prepared for this time
• How she thought she would want to be alone in the postpartum time, but instead discovered she really needed other wise women around her
• The blend of instinct and modeling in mothering
• The loss of divine love, protection, and blessings on a large scale - from not calling in our ancestors to be with us in our births, which is a core aspect of Ancestral Midwifery
• The expansion of pregnancy, down to the bones
• The steep learning curve of mothering and how we come to nourishing ourselves and finding our inner peace in our journey to heal an imbalance of over-giving
• The necessity of prioritizing solo time as our step to re-villaging and avoiding resentment towards our partners
• A conversation about the reality of village and community living, and how we may not be ready to make those concessions culturally yet.
• How Emma weaves in healing, nourishing, and herbal practices throughout her life - for herself and for her daughter
• Great herbs and homeopathy for babies and children and integrating them into their lives

Resources Mentioned:

DNRS (Dynamic Neuro Re-training System)

Hunt, Gather, Parent: What Ancient Cultures Can Teach Us About the Lost Art of Raising Happy, Helpful Little Humans - Michaeleen Doucleff

Medicine Mama's Apothecary Sweet Bee Magic All-in-One Healing Skin Cream

Wild Mother's Medicine Chest (Arielle de Martinez)

Emma is a clinical herbalist & educator, radical birth keeper, postpartum care provider, ceremonialist, and mother. Her work focuses on reclaiming our ancestral wisdom traditions, our intimacy with the earth, and tending women, mothers, and families with herbal medicine. She offers remote 1:1 herbal healing counsel, online and in-person workshops, and ceremony and mother-centered care for women seeking sisterhood through pregnancy, birth, and postpartum. Follow Emma @⁠blackspruceherbals ⁠and on her website ⁠here⁠. Her other resources:

1:1 herbal and holistic health coaching

Upcoming online classes and workshops

The Wise Woman Way course

Must Have Herbal Remedies for Babies & Toddlers ebook

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Enjoy this (part 2) conversation with Shakti Priya, where we deepen into the truly sacred path of conscious conception and the honor of bringing in life. She also shares deeper about these topics with the foundation of her tantric perspective. We talk about:

- Walking the path of conscious conception as a way to bring forth a child who isn't weighed down by the pain and burden of its ancestors

- How you bind your body and soul via blood oath with the father of your children, and how you carry and create his lineage through your body

- Conscious conception requires unlearning bad habits, purification, and deconstruction

- The importance of healing our wound with men before conception, and coming into harmony with the sacred masculine

- Where you are at during conception imprints upon your child for their very first cellular memory

- The tantric approach to alchemical union; tantra as deep embodiment

- "What is going on spiritually between the masculine and the feminine right now, is in the hands of the feminine"

- Shifting to what we can expect from men vs. what we should not

- Widening the lens to multi-generational healing

- The vision for healing our sister-wounds, bridging the ancient/cosmic ways and the future

- Shakti Priya's parents, model of mothering, and personal conscious conception journey as a way of life

- "My role is to create the foundation so that once these children come through, I can give them a life that is pure Heaven."

- Deepening into what the tantric path looks like for her - an infinite well, a way of life, surrender and receptivity, and leading you into full embodiment

- The invitation to bring more consciousness when a woman is feeling a strong primal urge to conceive

- "The practices are meant to open you up so that you can always be in practice"

- Ways to bring in presence, embodiment, and connection to Life practically

- Integration of technology into a path of awakening; recognition of their reality and listening to our bodies as always

- "Conscious conception in bringing forth leaders and ancient beings that are here to re-grid the planet. This is a big mission, and requires a lot of patience and extreme dedication to being real with yourself: how much pain are you in, how triggered do you get? If you're not in your highest state, that's an invitation to go deeper, to free yourself even deeper."

Listen to our first conversation, ep 25 | Maiden as Lifeblood of Our Womanhood + Her Archetypal Healing Journey

Shakti Priya is a heart awakener, internal architect, and High Priestess of the divine light. She is passionate about uplifting women into their goddess nature, and teaching them to heal sexual trauma because this work saved her life. Read her complete, full bio over HERE and find her on IG @iamshaktipriya.

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Enjoy this solo episode where I talk about what is working in my life, and reflections on how we weave nourishment into our mothering.

Season 1 is coming to an end this month! Wanna be on season 2? If you have a woman story, mother story, birth story, healing story, reach out to me at [email protected]

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Anna shares her stories of the calling to serve mothers, leading her into the system as a labor and delivery nurse, and her emergence out of that world after the traumatic first full-term birth of her son. She talks about psychedelic conception, early pregnancy loss at home, her story and approach with pre-eclampsia, and her most recent fast freebirth of her second son at home. Anna's stories are her evolution as a woman and mother; stories of cultivating deep trust and instinct through birthing in her power.

Follow Anna @freebirth.freelife.

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This is a special and thought-provoking conversation. I'm excited to bring on Kristin Hauser again (see Ep 18 for part 1) to deepen into talking about the experience of motherhood, womanhood, and womb vitality. Each sub-topic is so rich and could be expanded on a lot. In this episode, we talk about:

• What Kristin's integration and shifting as a mother of 3 looks like now, and how she's set up structure/support to make life more easeful
• How she maintains and carries her self-care practices throughout the season of early motherhood, and her devotion to nourishment
• What welcoming in more support has looked like for her
• How women have an innate and instinctive knowing and "North Star" to guide us, if we can trust it
• How different the evolution of a first-time mother is from those with older/multiple kids, and what experience can bring
• The menstrual cycle as a psychospiritual journey, and how we exchange Jing and Yin for spiritual expansion and to bring in children
• Jing is our Essence and genetic material, and there's different schools of thought in relation to how it gets used up or its potential to be replenished
• Pregnancy as a state of excess and how it can shift certain patterns in women (autoimmune conditions, painful cycles, yin deficiencies)
• Kristin's experience of a healing, regenerative 3rd pregnancy
• "We offer our Jing, or Essence...and in return, we also get closer to that Essence of who we are, each time [pregnancy]"
• How trauma depletes us further and uses our resources vs. an untraumatized pregnancy/birth experience - how it impacts your long-term vitality and how that Jing gets preserved or not, or how you come closer to or further away from your soul Essence
• How many women who miss out on an undisturbed, physiological birth are seeking to re-imprint that missed experience of altered states of consciousness through plant medicine
• The impact of powerful plant medicines on women's hormonal health, and learning about re-building from women who have experience with these medicines without burnout
• "The big issue is that we are not being initiated into the blood rites, or initiated into what the menstrual cycle can really offer us"
• Ways to find more balance in our Yang culture: "For mothers, their stress hormones are higher than anyone"
• Complications during the birth process can make it difficult for women to tap into the Yin state of their physiology, but we can re-build/restore/re-pattern (especially during the postpartum time)
• How we can use the postpartum time to restore our Yin and to not get stuck in those Yang states of physiology. It's a practice that expands during the early mothering years.
• "How can I choose to be in relationship to the pleasure of motherhood and the pleasure of my day to day life that can help sustain me over time?"
• Orienting more towards states of pleasure rather than dysregulation, overwhelm, and exhaustion in motherhood
• Staying in victim-mode obstructs mothers from fully healing their depletion, because it drains your vitality when you are disconnected from your own source of agency.
• Questioning the narrative around "vitality lost" and shifting the focus on areas that are going well
• Her stories about her mother
• Book suggestions

Kristin Hauser is an acupuncturist, Herbalist and Somatic Sex Educator. Her practice is focused on women’s hormonal, sexual and pelvic health, fertility through postpartum. You can visit Kristin and her body of work/offerings at www.wombmedicine.com and on IG @kristinhauser

Resources Mentioned:

"Hormone Repair Manual" - Lara Briden

"Getting to Zero" - Jayson Gaddis

"The Myth of Normal" - Gabor Mate

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This week, Corinne shares her stories of entering motherhood without support and nourishment, its impact, and the many lessons learned along the way that inspired her current work in serving mothers in the postpartum time. She talks about:

- Her path into motherhood

- Her postpartum experience, the impact of lack of rest and supportive nourishment

- The foundation of birth and postpartum preparation is connecting to your instinctual nature and body; your Source

- Disturbance and sabotage of physiological breastfeeding within the mainstream culture, and Corinne's experiences. How so often we initially expect things to just work out, or be instinctual, and are shocked if it's not

- The turning point when she started to prioritize embodiment practices, nourishment, boundaries, and self-care

- Corinne's idea of an ideal postpartum time

- The prevalence of modern breastfeeding issues and many mothers who want to stop nursing early

- What being present with our children can bring up for us, and uncovering the invitation for presence/embodiment. Child consciousness

- The unraveling, letting go, and sacred surrender of the postpartum time

- Nourishing foods and embodiment practices as the foundation of RESILIENCE as a mother

- What her lifestyle/eating looks like now to re-mineralize and heal depletion, 2 years postpartum

- The nature of giving and receiving love in community-building

- More about Corinne's work supporting new mothers: she serves mothers in-person, including making food that is nourishing to the body AND soul. Online, she helps support women with postpartum preparation on all levels and with practical strategy (as she shares at the end, she is also offering these calls free for a limited time, so reach out to her!).

Resources Mentioned:

Women Who Run with the Wolves by Clarissa Estes

The Wild Woman's Way by Michaela Boehm

About Corinne:Corinne is a postpartum doula, cook, and mother who has a passion for nourishing women - body and soul - through food and raw conversations. She works closely with new mothers to create personalized meal plans that support their individual needs and preferences. Corinne also offers guidance on how to prepare for postpartum, deepen a connection to the body through gentle movement and mindfulness practices, and empowers women to cultivate generational health in their families. You can find her on her Instagram or Facebook.

Book Your Session with Corinne

Thrive in Postpartum Workshop

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In this episode, I talk about some of the ways of how I see the regenerative nature of pregnancy, birth, and the early postpartum time. I focus a lot on the physical, but also touch on the energetic aspects. Within the portal of this initiatory time, there is an opportunity and a call for elevation on all levels.

Resources Mentioned

Placenta industry post on my IG

Vagina by Naomi Wolfe

Pelvic Awakening (read more about pelvic healing practices)

Music credit: Edwina Masson

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In this personal solo episode, I share about honoring my ancestry, what it means to me, and why it feels important to reclaim in these times. I talk about wanting to separate from my family when I was younger, and my more recent evolution into matriarch of my lineage, and discovering the strength and peace it has given me to connect to my ancestors and carry on old (and bring in new) traditions. I talk about the recognition of our full spectrum of humanity; how we can see both the gifts and release that which we do not wish to carry on in our family line. I share some personal stories, talk about the importance of introducing altars and sacred spaces into our children's lives, and how ultimately we carry our ancestors in our bones, even when the stories and rituals are lost.

This title comes from a song that I learned from a friend - you might have heard it in a women's circle as well.

Books Mentioned:

The Chalice and the Blade: Our History, Our Future - Riane EIsler

Sacred Pleasure: Sex, Myth, and the Politics of the Body - Riane Eisler

Music credit: Edwina Masson

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Reighn was my first guest on the podcast (listen to her birthing stories on ep 5. "Reighn's Stories of Birth, Resilience, and Nourishment") and now she comes back to do a deeper dive into her work surrounding eating and nourishment.

We talk about...

• What it means to eat for your physiology and why that is the guiding light for all of Reighn's nutritional advice
• Dogma and ideology in the wellness sphere
• Reighn's path with eating differently in different seasons of her life
• "Feeling good is not enough"
• Pro-metabolic and Weston A. Price are ways of eating for peak human physiology
• "Our ancestors would have considered eating vegan a great famine"
• The shift to seeing all responses as an intelligence and wisdom in our bodies and plants
• The complexities of sugar and the differences between ripe and unripe fruit
• Vitamin D, the "original hormone therapy", and the issues with supplementing
• Re-considering cod liver oil for those with certain ancestry and at certain times of the year
• Healing depletion after pregnancy/birth/breastfeeding, and pre-conception preparation
• The idea that there are physiological truths...is not quite the truth
• Some insight for those who feel they carry extra weight after pregnancy - "I allow my body to heal what it needed to heal, I let it be uncomfortable, and then it gave me the sign - okay, we're done. Time to move on."
• CRISPR technology, bioengineered bacteria use in our foods and its impact on the body
• When we are confused by health "experts" and manipulation tactics, coming back to our bodies and our instincts as the foremost expert
• The value of guides who truly bring the power back to those they serve
• Reighn's support as a guide in in sovereign healing and birthing

Resources Mentioned:

Jim Stephenson MitoLife podcast

Reighn's Links:

Website

Instagram

Music credit: Edwina Masson

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This class comes from a retired practitioner training, and this is a class women who want to know their history and wise women practitioners alike, will appreciate.

I talk about:

Music credit: Edwina Masson

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Ways to Support My Work:

My Instagram is @⁠bethanyjanewilde⁠

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