“I think a lot of that has to do with your own mindset and your faith that everything’s going to work out. Which is just so important in life in general, in your business, in your life - just trusting. And granted, it doesn’t always work out in an easy way, but I believe that things are going to work out well for people that are doing good work.”

Lindsay Courcelle is a mother of three, a myofascial release practitioner, and woman of many more hats, including a teacher and mentor for me in this world of bodywork, business, and body.

We discuss…

* Slowing down in country life - the homestead Lindsay and her husband have created, and the way they are now inviting people in

* “When I touch my body I touch the earth” - Our intimacy with our bodies (or lack thereof) correlate to our relationship to earth. How we have each fallen out of relationship with earth throughout seasons of our lives - and how we got it back, along with our creativity and power.

* The dynamics behind women (people?) being afraid of touching our own bodies - What will we discover? Can we trust that our hands can do something powerful for our own body? Can we trust that whatever comes up, we can hold?

* In a culture of orientation to drama, to big - what it means to slow down and tune in to subtlety of the daily devotions.

* You can touch your own body! You can use your own hands to heal your own children. Our bodies, our hands, especially as mothers are so wise.

* Pregnant bodies are less fragile, and less complicated in many ways than perhaps we think. Bodywork, self touch is amazing in pregnancy!

* Lindsay’s progression through three pregnancies and three babies, from mildly clueless (in the most loving way!), to trying to do everything right, to caring for herself gently, and letting things just flow.

* In person community - both the building of and the lack of. (Gah, I am so jealous of her community sauna! in her small town in VT). And a bit of my story of living in community and the beauty of seeing mother MOTHER around me, to creating more space for our family, more boundaries, more differentiation.

* Introducing our children to out bleeds, our female physiology.

* Child spacing! “Traditional” family spacing vs our more modern standards of closely spaced families. Nourishment between babies is huge.

* “Life is intense and has a will of it’s own” - The balance between resting and nourishing (especially with little kids) - and creation and business building.

* Our mineral lines - what our grandparents ate, and what we have been passed down. (We go deeper into this in the bonus.)

* Living in a ToXiC wOrLd (gosh, that capitalization is hard) - and allowing ourselves to chill, especially when it comes to kids. Avoiding all the things when possible - food dyes, EMFs, toxins, etc - without creating fear and hypervigilance.

* And how we share our foundation of values behind our choices with our children and relinquish control.

* The schooling, licensing, and following the rules quandaries - but tying it all back to community, values, and making your own choices and following your own path.

Subscriber Content

* A beautiful conversation about ancestry, land, grief and longing. The places and plants that feel like home, and the ways we are still searching for that feeling of “This is it. This is home.”

* I tell a story as a bonus bonus of working with a family line trauma - that coincided (or perhaps intentionally preceded) my pregnancy.

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Resources & Links

* Genie Era - Starts April 3rd! (But I bet you can still get in after)

14 days to release the trauma that’s been bottled up in your pelvis, so your body can support a 7 figure business and you can lead with the power of a woman who answers to no one but herself.

* Fascia Care for Kids and Infant Fascia Care courses.

* I highly recommend following Lindsay on Instagram!

* And my favorite set to music version of On Children by Khalil Gibran sung by Sweet Honey in the Rock.

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