SO excited to have Sam and Angelia on my podcast! Both of these amazing ladies have been working alongside of me the last year as students and apprentices and friends. I love the conversation we had and the insights and energy they always bring to the table. Imagine being raised as a student midwife with these concepts of managing your own energy, and of knowing how to create a sacred circle with the women we serve. I will miss them as I head off on a sabbatical but know that our paths will continue to align in the ways they need to!

In this podcast, I reflect on the old and new ways that midwifery is broken. With our new Elevate program, we seek to create a new consciousness. Check it out, registration closes this week!

https://indiebirth.org/elevate

So fun to have my friend Bridget back on my podcast after many years! In this chat, Bridget shares her insightful and humble self-directed journey from vegan expert to someone that’s embraced animal products and ancestral foods in the last few years. I loved talking about the power of our blood, reciprocity and hearing more from her experience of long-time veganism and the positive changes animal products have made in her life and experience.

This is Bridget’s podcast with me from 2017 about vegan nutrition.

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There are many ways and reasons that midwives are taught, and continue to do, really weird things. I want to share more about some of the reasons behind this all, as well as using some of the weird things rarely and in a sacred nature! All of this and more will be covered and supported in our new Elevate program for practicing midwives; get on the list now, because we will open enrollment March 1 and begin the program March 21 or so. Hope you enjoy this look at weird things!

Our new Elevate program for midwives:

I’m back for what might be a long awaited Mothering episode! Someone asked me recently to talk about how we handle money and chores and all that in my house. So tune in if you are curious about it all; beliefs around money, how we approach jobs and working and what we pay (and don’t pay) our kids to do around our home and property.

The new paradigm is such that we MUST use our discretion and our internal compass to know what, who, why or when is right (or not right for us). Gone are the days of “I work with every single woman that comes my way” unless someone chooses to be there or needs to learn those lessons. In life in general for me, this is my mantra: If it’s not a yes, it’s a no!

With the darkness coming to an end, we release that which does not serve. And heading into the light, we can have appreciation for it and imagine what we will create! Come with me on this journey through my last year; the highlights and low points and lessons. Perhaps it will inspire you to do your own year in review so that you are clear to move ahead this coming year. Blessings to all.

A short channeled podcast about the sacred space that is created within us AFTER birth and how if we could just honor that, our world would change.

A more recent review of what is in my prenatal and birth bags nowadays! Most of the items I carry are pretty standard (outside of the fun stuff for prenatals!), but I thought that this might inspire questions or thoughts especially for those students that are putting together equipment and tools for themselves.

The last few years have changed ALL of us. This is not an exhaustive list but just a peek into the ways I’ve been altered in my own life, and how these differences have rippled out to the way I embody the role of midwife. Change is good, and I am always excited to see how this continues to evolve for me. I also encourage all women, all birth workers to embrace change and continually question, both inside and out.