By Sacred Window Podcast
The podcast currently has 43 episodes available.
In this episode, Christine discusses the importance of flexible postpartum planning on the Sacred Window Podcast. She emphasizes the need to adapt plans to accommodate unexpected challenges, rather than rigidly adhering to a set schedule. Christine highlights the significance of food, rest, and community support in postpartum care. She shares personal experiences, such as preparing easy recipes for family members to help with meals. Christine also stresses the importance of mental and emotional well-being, advocating for rest and prioritizing joy. She concludes by encouraging listeners to create a nourishing, flexible postpartum plan that includes a support network.
Christine acknowledges that while the postpartum period can be challenging, it is also a time of profound transformation and growth. She encourages listeners to approach this transition with a spirit of curiosity and self-discovery, rather than fear or anxiety. By being open to the unexpected, Christine believes women can tap into their innate resilience and find new depths of strength and wisdom. She reminds her audience that there is no one-size-fits-all approach to postpartum care, and that the key is to listen to their own bodies and intuition to determine what they need most.
Furthermore, Christine emphasizes the importance of community support in the postpartum period. She stresses that no one person, whether a partner, family member, or professional caregiver, can shoulder the entire burden of postpartum care. Christine encourages listeners to build a "care circle" of trusted individuals who can provide practical, emotional, and spiritual support in a variety of ways. By cultivating this network of care, Christine believes women can feel truly held and nourished, allowing them to focus on their own healing and bonding with their new baby.
Know more about Christine
Christine is the Center’s Founder, Director and one of its Instructors since its inception in 2018. She has a background as an Ayurvedic Practitioner, Educator, Group Facilitator and Birth and Postpartum Doula. She is a busy mother of 4 boys, most of whom have been brought into the world using the principles we teach. She describes Ayurvedic Postpartum Care as truly powerful and transformative, and a missing link in modern postpartum care. Christine lives in Western Massachusetts with her pack of wild boys and amazing husband. Her love of this work continues to evolve as she focuses on the subtle changes people go through not only in postpartum, but throughout life, and how attending to the heart, mind and senses during all times of transition pave the way for healing of the body. Healing for the postpartum window is applicable ongoing as we navigate life as parents, partners and people wanting to do our best in the world!
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In this episode, Christine Devlin Eck and Nicole Bulow discuss the importance of pelvic floor health and its impact on overall well-being. Nicole, founder of SolFuel, a pelvic health physical therapy clinic, shares her journey from sports medicine to pelvic health, influenced by her own postpartum experiences. She emphasizes the interconnectedness of the body and the need for holistic approaches to healing. Nicole highlights common postpartum issues like urinary incontinence, pelvic pain, and the importance of early intervention. She advocates for integrating pelvic health into prenatal care and stresses the need for cultural and systemic changes to support postpartum individuals effectively.
Nicole's approach to pelvic health emphasizes the importance of listening to the body and allowing it to guide the healing process. She explains that by addressing the root causes of pelvic floor dysfunction, such as organ positioning or nervous system imbalances, lasting changes can be achieved. This holistic perspective contrasts with the traditional focus on isolated muscle strengthening, which Nicole believes often falls short in providing long-term solutions.
Furthermore, Nicole underscores the need for a collaborative, multidisciplinary approach to pelvic health. She envisions a future where pelvic floor therapists, midwives, doulas, and other healthcare providers work together to support individuals throughout their pregnancy, birth, and postpartum journey. This integrated model would ensure that each person's unique needs are addressed, empowering them to reclaim their pelvic and overall bodily health. By fostering this level of support, Nicole believes we can transform the cultural narrative around postpartum care and empower individuals to prioritize their well-being during this pivotal life transition.
Know more about Nicole Bulow
Nicole Bulow is the founder of SolFuel, a pelvic health physical therapy clinic. Nicole’s background is in sports medicine, and she transitioned into pelvic health as she travelled her own journey of motherhood.
Based in Seattle, Nicole has created her own integrated hands-on approach that treats the body as the interconnected system that it is.
Today, Nicole and I will be talking about pelvic health as full body health. We’ll be exploring how your pelvic floor influences your quality of life, how you feel about your body and the things you are able to do.
We’ll also discuss how our BODY influences the pelvic floor.
Our culture and specifically our systems of postpartum healing do not emphasize pelvic floor healing after birth, and thus it has become a normal thing to experience weakness and imbalance in the pelvic floor. We’ll speak about this too.
Much in alignment with the Ayurvedic approach to healing, Nicole’s approach embraces the mind, body, soul and emotions in how we heal and seek vitality.
SolFuel Wellness | Seattle Pelvic Floor Physical Therapy
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In this episode, featuring Tatiana Berindei and Sarah Kruse, delves into the concept of sacred windows in Ayurvedic texts, including menarche, postpartum, and perimenopause/menopause.
They emphasize the importance of community, storytelling, and intentional preparation for these life transitions. Tatiana shares her book "Path to Puberty" and its mission to support mothers and daughters. Sarah highlights the role of Ayurveda in balancing hormones and the significance of community support. The conversation underscores the need for cultural shifts to normalize these transitions and foster a supportive environment for women.
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In this episode, Christine introduces Sarah Kruse, founder of Embrace Ayurveda, who supports women in all stages of life through Ayurvedic consultations and coaching programs. Sarah emphasizes the importance of clearing and detoxifying the body, mind, and spirit before nourishment, which is often overlooked in Western medicine. Sarah discovered her passion for Ayurveda through a lecture by Dr. George AC, leading her to pursue further study with Dr. Of Asante lad in Albuquerque.
About Sarah:
Sarah Kruse is an Ayurvedic Doctor. She assists clients in returning to their true nature through Ayurvedic Consultations and Ayurvedic Health Coaching programs. She is in Cannon Beach, Oregon.
Sarah is a mother as well as trained in Ayurvedic postpartum care, which was her area of focus before becoming an Ayurvedic doctor.
Her passion lies around supporting women in receiving nourishment at every stage of life. And before nourishment happens, it is often appropriate to clear and detoxify the body, mind and anything else in the way. Some of the ways Sarah specifically helps her clients are in individual Ayurvedic Consultations, 3-month Ayurvedic coaching programs, her 10-week Metabolic Reset and Panchakarma cleansing retreats.
Sarah also offers a year-long mentorship program where she invites women who are already committed to their health and self-care to deepen their relationship with themselves, their communities and planet, as we follow the rhythms of Ayurveda.
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Sarah’s Links:
https://embrace-ayurveda.com/
https://www.instagram.com/embraceayurveda
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In this episode, Jennifer introduced her unique therapy map approach to healing. Christine and Jennifer began exploring the neurological needs of someone in the postpartum window but had more to discuss. Today, they will further examine birth as an initiatory experience and postpartum as 'the return.'
Specifically, Christine and Jennifer want to look more closely at how Western culture tends not to pause during initiations like birth to examine what is happening below the surface. Jennifer believes this contributes greatly to imbalances in mental health. Their conversation will harness the value in these profound life moments and the process of growth.
Jennifer Summerfeldt is the founder of ASK Therapy and author of Healing After Birth. She is a mother, a therapist, a writer and a mentor. Jennifer’s organization is a virtual counseling clinic dedicated to providing trauma, polyvagal and childbirth informed support to mothers navigating the entire perinatal continuum. Their goal is to contribute to the dialogue around maternal mental health, break stigmas and offer guidance to those who may be navigating similar journeys.
Christine expressed excitement to continue diving deeper with Jennifer into her unique perspective on healing and understanding the postpartum experience. She thanked listeners for joining and said she knows they will find the discussion insightful.
Learn More about Jennifer’s beautiful work in this world:
Writer|Therapist|Guide | Instagram, Facebook | Linktree
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Welcome to the Sacred Window Podcast. I'm Christine Eck and I'm excited to be joined today by Jennifer Summerfeldt to discuss her unique approach to mapping out a mother's healing journey. Jennifer is the founder of Ask Therapy and author of Healing After Birth.
Jennifer's own birthing experiences ignited her passion for supporting mothers in their journey. She has trained as a holistic doula, midwife and counselor to provide trauma and childbirth informed support. Her goal is to contribute to the dialogue around maternal mental health and offer guidance to those navigating similar experiences.
We'll dive into Jennifer's therapy map approach, which aims to guide clients from a place of wounding to wisdom. She emphasizes understanding the mind, body, emotions and spirit as interconnected systems impacted by limiting beliefs.
I'm looking forward to our discussion on finding the way up and out of perinatal mood disorders. Thank you for joining us today, Jennifer.
Jennifer Summerfeldt is the founder of ASK Therapy and author of Healing After Birth. She is a mother, a therapist, a writer and a mentor. Jennifer’s organization is a virtual counseling clinic dedicated to providing trauma, polyvagal and childbirth informed support to mothers navigating the entire perinatal continuum. Their goal is to contribute to the dialogue around maternal mental health, break stigmas and offer guidance to those who may be navigating similar journeys.
Learn More about Jennifer’s beautiful work in this world:
https://linktr.ee/j.summerfeldt
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This podcast discusses navigating professional identity and parenthood. Msulle shares their journey from working in finance to becoming a mother, noting lack of support for working mothers. They reflect on unexpected challenges of new parenthood and learning to embrace unknowns with flexibility.
Paragraph 2: Christine and Msulle discuss balancing work and motherhood, with Msulle's experience returning to work after maternity leave and feeling an emotional separation from their baby. They recognize the need to integrate different aspects of themselves to find richness in life. Christine reflects on compartmentalizing emotions versus seeking integration.
Msulle outlines a framework for self-discovery and personal growth with the four C's: clarify, communicate, commit, and celebrate. They emphasize the importance of self-awareness, community, and accountability in navigating life's challenges.
Christine and Msulle encourage new mothers to prepare for returning to work by reimagining their identity and communicating needs upfront. Msulle suggests reframing motherhood as expansive rather than restrictive, and approaching challenges with playfulness rather than fear. They discuss the importance of self-care, discipline, and embracing the unknown journey of parenthood.
Msulle’s Bio:
Msulle is a multidimensional being...she is a daughter, sister, wife to a beautiful soul, mama to three luminous boys and a friend.
She is an avid reader and lover of ancient traditional knowledege. She holds a masters in political economy of development and specializes in HR, Leadership Development and Coaching.
Msulle is passionate about helping women thrive as they navigate parenthood in and outside of the workplace. She offers virtual one on one coaching to women in the postpartum window, and career and lifestyle coaching.
Msulle lives in Copenhagen, Denmark and has lived in many places around the world.
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This episode discusses how to maintain loving connections with people despite differences in perspectives or disagreements. Lauren Pick shares a vulnerable moment from her therapy practice where a client felt misunderstood after an emotional outburst, but Lauren responded with even more love and empathy. She emphasizes the importance of drawing closer together rather than separating during conflicts.
Lauren discusses relationship dynamics and how disagreements don't need to divide people if they are willing to work through issues with curiosity rather than avoidance. Connecting during conflicts requires seeing the disagreement itself as a separate entity rather than each other. Speaker 1 agrees and notes this allows focusing on the relationship itself rather than individuals.
Lauren also provides an example of vulnerability in her own therapy session and how matching that vulnerability with openness and care can help clients release tension and connect on a deeper level. Postpartum care is discussed, highlighting the need to meet new mothers where they are at by providing information gradually to build trust and comfort.
The talk explores how prioritizing information over connection has imbalanced modern communication skills. Emotional intelligence is framed as a kind of wealth passed down through families via modeling communication skills. While these skills lie dormant within all people, conscious practices like eye contact and breath awareness can help activate deeper human connection.
Lauren's Bio:
Lauren Pick is a psychotherapist who focuses on grief, trauma and life transitions.
This is her story and what she has personally worked with.
She studied and is from Louisiana.
She’s been practicing for 12 years and works with clients in Lincoln NE.
She is a yoga teacher, a mind/body dance and fitness instructor.
She is a mom to two children and she is a passionate supporter of postpartum caregiving.
http://www.laurenpick.com
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This episode discusses the importance of sustainability for both postpartum doulas and new parents. Guest Joanne McIntosh shares her journey providing postpartum support in Australia and the healing she has experienced through this work.
Joanne reflects on experiences with traumatic birth and lack of support for her own mother that inspired her career. Through bodywork, she helps clients integrate memories and feelings from their perinatal experiences to promote healing. Postpartum is a sensitive time when changes can happen naturally with guidance.
To feel nourished in her caregiver role, Joanne prioritizes self-care like nature time and rituals. She also built a supportive network including a birth doula partner. They provide continuity of care from pregnancy to postpartum and debrief together to avoid burnout.
Living rurally, Joanne sees the value for new families in community support like women's circles. Christine emphasizes the joy in collaboration versus shouldering responsibility alone. Simple acts of self-care like tea time uplift caregivers' ability to give.
Learn more about Joanne:
Hi, my name is Joanne and I am a mum to two amazing humans, Amberlily 11yrs and Cian 9yrs and wife to my wonderful husband Bill. We live in Newcastle Australia, close to the ocean and nature which are my two favourite places to be! I am a Postpartum Doula and Massage Therapist and I love supporting women in their journey through the sacred window of postpartum. My passion in life is to “bring the sacred into the everyday” as I have always been interested in spirituality and mysticism. When I look back over my life journey I see the many threads that have led me here and understand now how they have woven together to create the tapestry of my work and life today. Spirituality, different cultures, healing, nature, animals and babies. My studies have been focused on Energetic Medicine, Anthroposophical Nursing and Education, Yoga, Reiki and Bach Flower essences and now Ayurveda is opening up new ways of thinking to add to my repertoire. I honour stillness and reverence, holding space for others, nurturing through food and touch, healing through bodywork, yoga and breathwork and guiding families to find their individual rhythm.
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This talk explores how community healing can be nourished through simplicity, intuition and herbalism. Guest Ayana Muhammad shares her journey from birth companion to community healer focusing on postpartum care. She discusses how even from a young age she was drawn to caregiving, and found various ways to support others through massage therapy and herbal remedies.
Ayana emphasizes how the small acts of self-care, like going outside, breathing and making tea can make a big difference. Through slowing down our nervous system we can center ourselves and intuitively know how to proceed. She applies these principles of simplicity in her one-on-one healing protocols, focusing on meal prep, breathwork and being in tune with what each person needs.
The conversation expands on how these concepts can benefit anyone, not just new parents. Men in particular are invited to practice more self-care and introspection. Ayana is interested in offering group circles in the future to broaden her reach. Her life is deeply intertwined with herbalism, passing this knowledge on to her kids and community through teas, remedies and education.
Ayana's long term vision is to create a Learning Hub empowering young men of color and those on the autism spectrum. Through teaching herbalism skills and job training, she hopes to cultivate future herbalists and entrepreneurs who can apply this in their own communities.
To learn more about Ayana's work, contact her through her website kehealingvibes.com, email [email protected], phone 240-270-4988 or Instagram @kehealingvibes.
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The podcast currently has 43 episodes available.