This is an episode that I’ve been waiting to share, and it’s the one you’ve most asked for!

Today, we begin a new series on The Midwife of Healing Podcast: Sovereign Birth Stories.

True, raw, honest accounts of undisturbed Birth, where the woman is at the center and no one takes her power away.

Our first guest, Madeline Ross, is a radiant Mother who walked through the fire of initiation and emerged with her power intact, not because she was spared intensity, but because every CHOICE was hers.

This is the story of a Woman who said YES to Birth, fully.

Who met every wave, every whisper and every instinct with deep trust and self-direction.

And because of that, her Rite of Passage was not disrupted. It was completed.

What makes this story even more powerful is that Madeline chose to invite the nurturing presence of a Licensed Midwife (ME) into her Birth space.

Her choice was not from a place of fear, but from a deep place of DISCERNMENT.

This is Sovereignty in Action.

Choosing the kind of support that uplifts, witnesses and never interferes with the unfolding.

In a world where so many Birth stories are cut short—medically, emotionally, spiritually—this one Heals something just by being told.

Together Madeline and I explore:

✦ What happens when a woman is honored in her unfolding

✦ How self-directed Birth gives Birth to embodied Mothers

✦ Why sovereignty is the medicine modern Birth and Midwifery has forgotten

✦ What a fully sealed Rite of Passage can look and feel like

✦ How love deepens when Birth is honored as sacred

✦ How collaboration with skilled, loving care can amplify sovereignty, not diminish it

Madeline’s story is a Remembrance, an Invocation and a Celebration of the LIMITLESS POSSIBILITIES when the path of Birth and Midwifery are walked together with presence, trust and no need to be saved.

Tune in, breathe deep and let this story land in your bones. It’s a deep one!

🎧 Listen HERE or wherever you find your Podcasts: Apple, Spotify, YouTube

With love and devotion,

Catalina Clark - The Midwife of Healing

Madeline Ross is a mother, psychotherapist and women’s guide for liberation and growth. She believes and teaches that truth lives in the willingness to stay present to the wisdom of our bodies. You can connect with Madeline at [email protected] & her Substack Madeline.

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📍 I am a practicing Home Birth Midwife in West Sonoma County California

You can find me here:

📸 Instagram → @catalina.clark

🌐 Website → catalinaclarkbirth.com

🎧 The Midwife of Healing Podcast → Apple, Spotify, YouTube

Here’s how we can walk together:

Book an Individualized 1:1 sessions that invites you to awaken to yourself and the remembrance of your own healing power.

Virtual Prenatal Visits

Birth Preparation

Birth Partner Support

Midwife and Doula Mentorship

Postpartum Planning

Birth Story Integration

Ceremonial Breathwork

Thank you for being here. It is an honor to walk this path with you. May we continue to remember these ancient and future ways together. 🤍

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