Rooted Woman

There is some background noise as I recorded this episode when I was driving home from a solo trip to the Texas coast. I still feel it's a valuable conversation to have on the topic of what it means to be a rooted woman (for me) and reflections on the path of emotional maturation. Enjoy

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In this episode, I talk to Laura Prentice, a woman who leads circles and classes for girls ages 9-18.

We talk about:

- About Laura's current maiden circle

- Integrating ritual, body literacy/awareness and seasonal connection into older girls' lives

- A girl's longing to be in community and in circle

- Cultivating a simple, sacred circle through ritual Laura's path to working with girls + becoming a FAM and body educator

- How to speak to girls about the magic in their bodies + modeling for the younger girls

- The more challenging parts of holding circle space + how having multiple facilitators is helpful

- The role of mothers and "aunties" in a girl's life

- About Laura's women + girls festival, where there will also be a menarche ceremony for girls 

- The five blood mysteries, girls vs. boys rites of passage and red tent initiation

- The inherent nature of initiation within a girl's/woman's body

- The Crone/Priestess/Menopause time in a woman's life

- Sacred songs for the death portal

- Laura's current + future offerings, including her mentorship to support women in starting these circles in their own community in-person. 

Laura Prentice is a Fertility Awareness educator. She works with girls who crave deep connection with their bodies, helping them gain a sense of ease and peace around their fertility, health, and pregnancy choices. She runs maiden circles, FAM and cycle classes, and is offering her first women + girls festival in Spring of 2023 in North Texas. You can find Laura on www.beldamwomancare.com and Instagram @beldamwomancare

Join us at MaidenFire Festival April 13-17 in North Texas! If this is an event that calls to you, I'd love you to use my affiliate link HERE (Note on this: I'll be using affiliate commission to buy my own ticket. I'd honestly be sharing this either way - Laura is my real life friend, and I am a huge advocate for women's festivals and women's-only spaces).

Things we mention in this episode:

Womancraft Publishing

"The Red Tent" by Anita Diamant

Song: Now I remember that I am a prayer... 

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Today we have Afkar on to share her birth stories. Her quiet power, calm, and instinctual knowing is very felt. She shares finding her way in her first two births, and then choosing something different with a traditional birth attendant in her 3rd birth, and the healing that brought her.  She talks about expanding and surrendering through her pregnancies and births and how she experienced healing in her maternal lineage after her own twilight birth through remaining true to trusting in her body. We also talk about healing through peaceful birth, integrating our births, and more. Enjoy <3

You can find Afkar on Instagram @afkarba

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In this solo episode, I reminisce and offer advice about the postpartum time: what mothers and babies really need, why it is SO important to prepare for, and what the reality often looks like compared to what we think it'll be like. As I write this, there's so many other things I want to share about, but this is a start! I talk about:

- Romanticizing vs. reality

- Altered rhythms of the postpartum/newborn time

- The postpartum time as integration, reflection, bonding + rite of passage completion

- Creating your postpartum sanctuary - things to consider about support, food + breastfeeding

- Reflections on the sacredness of the postpartum time

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Ways to Support My Work:

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Corie shares the stories of the births of her three children, her choice to freebirth after the birth of her first child, and her journey of healing herself and her family through transitioning from a vegan to a more ancestral way of eating. You'll love her stories of simple, sacred birth and how her mother-intuition led the way.

Corie is a mother of three who awakened her portal of intuition through the pregnancies and births of her children. Beginning with the illness and eventual passing of her mother during her teenage years, she recognized the gaps in the medical industrial system when it comes to healthcare. This experience led her to birth her first baby at home with a midwife and doula.  Strength and independence led her to freebirth her last two children solely in the presence of her supportive husband. Toward the end of her first pregnancy, she adopted a vegan lifestyle, and after several years and a second baby, she found herself concerned for her own health and the health of her children.  After leaving the diet dogma behind for traditional nutrient dense foods, she has found natural ways to support her and her family’s health and healing.

You can find Corie on Instagram @corie.moe

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Rachel, originally from the UK, shares the story of her first son's birth in her home in Nicaragua. She talks about birthing her first child with an 82-year-old local elder midwife, and then how things cascaded after birth. This is an important listen to know what can happen when we don't have people around us that trust us, and trust birth. We also talk about the influences of cultural beliefs surrounding birth and postpartum and how we can weave together the wisdom of the past with our knowledge of physiological + sacred birth.

You can find Rachel on Instagram @la_vida_sagrada_de_rachel

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Enjoy this conversation with me and my friend Katherine on raising daughters, re-villaging and preserving the old ways and adding in the new, and knowing that our inherent nature of womanhood/motherhood is strength. Katherine also wrote a beautiful, poetic + dreamy book called "The Horned God: A Mythic Remembering". You can find it here on Amazon.

In this episode we talk about:

- How things have shifted and evolved in Katherine + her daughter's life until now (babyhood-4 years old), and her instinctive mothering approach

- Importance of being a regulated mother to support children in their emotions + unfolding

- How Katherine has been community-building lately

- The grief of knowing a village as our birthright, and not having it

- The inherent strength of women + mothers

- The magic witchy-ness of our own mothers

- How she builds seasonal cycles of ceremony/ritual into their lives

- Raising girls + boys in the "red tent" + the place of children there

- First moon healings + initiations

- Supporting our daughters through their girlhoods + into womanhood - in wildness, power, heart + strength

- Wild nature time for her daughter

- Envisioning the matriarchal communion, and utilizing mother-strength to move forward in these times

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After a traumatic first birth within the system on all levels, Amber chose something different for herself and her family for her second son. This is such a sweet story of reclamation of power, and family healing.

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I talk about unintentional (miscarriage) and intentional (abortion) pregnancy releases - my experiences and suggestions for finding womb + spirit healing after. This is an expansive topic, and just a stream of consciousness-type episode on some aspects of processing and integrating these experiences.

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Ways to Support My Work:

My Instagram is @⁠bethanyjanewilde⁠

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Jess shares with us her stories of choosing herself and her babies through sovereign pregnancy, birth, and loss...and calling in her 2nd child. She luckily saw the what the system had to offer her before she conceived her first child, and chose peace + power instead. You will love her humor, wisdom, humility, and energy. You can follow Jess and her journey of raising babies and homesteading projects on Instagram @jess_keffer

Beautiful birth video mentioned: HOME BIRTH: gentle, Natural FAMILY WATER BIRTH (Jinti Fell's Birth Video) 

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