The Heart of the Soul with Amana

I share about the conception, Birth & Death of my daughter Heartly who was born over 6 years ago on August 31st 2015 at 1:31 AM

You can watch this episode on Youtube @AmanaBeLove

This is a space where we remember what it means to be wild human and alive. Breathe Life back into story telling, Honor each other’s differences and Connect about that which Unites us All as Human Animals.  Before I begin Heartly’s Story today I would love to take a moment to remember one thing that unites us all… Death.  At this point in time all Living beings & ALL human’s experience a Physical Death at the end of their Life.  Connect with me Amana: 

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Amana Be Love

Recorded Monday August 16th 2021 5:30 PM in Spokane WA & Tuesday  August 17th 2021 10:30 AM in Sydney Australia We are ALL UNITED by GRAVITYWe all Experience GRAVITY Approximately 9.8m/s2 throughout the world with a small degree of variability.  In this episode there is some feedback on the microphone when I am speaking. I am sorry about that. Amana Mayfield~Faulkner & Dr Sophie Brock  ~ The Perfect Mother Myth

~ Mothers of children with disabilities and special needs

~ The Cultural Fishtank

~ Comparing ourselves to other mothers

~ Social and cultural Policing

~ Self giving vs self sacrifice and being selfless

~ How she decided to focus on

~ Motherhood Studies in Sociology 

~ “I knew Motherhood would be an experience I couldn’t prepare for” Dr Sophie Brock

~ How She drew on the strength of elder women in her life during her early postpartum days.

~ Sophie prompts me to share about how my experiences of grief in motherhood have shaped the ways I interact with and experience motherhood

~ How we often don’t need suggestions in motherhood, but to have someone hold space for us. 

~ How we are connected in our humanity.

~ Ways to connect Dr Sophie Brock Connect with Sophie:Her Website: https://drsophiebrock.com

Dr. Sophie Brock's Podcast: The Good Enough Mother Listen on Spotify     or I tunes

Follow her on Instagram @drsophiebrock

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Amana Be Love

Natalie Rees of The Renegade Mama

"The Renegade Mama is about following your intuition not the institution. We are sovereign, we are free. We start at birth and end at death." Natalie is married to Oliver, has two children Charlie & Stella. They live together in Perth, Australia the most isolated city in the world. 

Natalie has an acting background, studied Japanese & lived in Japan for a year. 

Shares her own birth story. 

Meeting her husband & how him being willing to do Karaoke with her won her over a bit.

Natalie’s Journey to Motherhood including using oral contraceptives in her maidenhood. 

Did you know that hormonal contraceptives have many negative effects and changes your attraction to other people? 

We mention the amazing book “Taking Charge of your Fertility” which we have both read and loved!

Facing her fears of having kids & how she found alignment

Navigating her “Good Girl” conditioning when she became pregnant 3 months prior to her wedding 

The Birth story of her son Charlie. She reflects on choices she made at the time & how she would choose differently in the future. 

How she always knew she wanted more kids. 

The story of conceiving her daughter Stella. How her son Charlie at 2.5 years was upset to learn that there would be another baby. 

How she created community by starting a natural parenting group. 

Learning boundaries through Mothering. 

Stella’s Birth Story

We speak about tearing in birth & choosing not to have stitches. 

Life with two babes. 

Pondering if she “overfeeds” her babies as she reflects on how her mother didn’t or couldn't feed her as a baby. 

How her community supported her in her post partum. 

Adjusting along with her son Charlie to Stella’s presence Earthside. 

Why she started her wonderful podcast “The Renegade Mama.”

The benefit of sharing our stories: What we don’t hear or see, we don't know is possible. 

Her practice of allowing Intuition to lead her as much as possible.

How she listens to herself and her children first. 

What it means for her to take Radical Responsibility for herself and her family.  

Vaccinations and her perspective. 

Why she doesn’t send her kids to school.   Connect with me, Amana:

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Check out my Sistership Offerings for Women: www.BirthingNova.Love

Watch interview Videos & More on YouTube @AmanaBeLove   Listen to my Interview on Natalie's Podcast The Renegade Mama on Spotify or Apple Podcasts   Connect with Natalie Reese The Renegade Mama Podcast on Apple Podcasts or Spotify

The Renegade Mama Website: https://www.therenegademama.co

You can also find her on Facebook as "The Renegade Mama"  & Instagram @The_Renegade_Mama

Summer Solstice Soul Flame Union  June 2014

We are all United as Humans through DANCE!!!

All babies instinctively dance!!!  

Episode Highlights:

• ​Stories of the time leading up to meeting my Soul Flame and our first months together. 

• ​A unique experience I had with a Bat and how this prompted me to camp alone for a night. Creating my Soul Flame Altar & 40 Day Ritual prior to meeting Owyn. 

• ​The detailed experience of meeting, falling in love, experiencing true magic at Conscious Culture FestivalI include some details that Owyn has filled in through our conversations, recollections

• ​ Link to Judith Brownhawk’s Episode, where she speaks of spirit.

• ​Purchase Judith Brownhawks’s unique Sacred Smudge by calling her at 509.879.5792

• ​Proposed for the first time 2 weeks after we met 

• ​When he proposed again to me…Our Wedding Ceremony: How I ran & Jumped into his arms,

• ​He Sang to me “Just Breathe,” We Crowned eachother Queen & King in the Center of Our Labyrinth, encircled by Loved Ones 

• ​How my life keeps reminding me that I can hold both the Light & the Dark 

Connect with me, Amana:

Check out my Sistership Offerings for Women: www.BirthingNova.Love

Recorded April 16th 2021

In this episode I am with Diane N. Solomon, PhD, PMHNP-BC, CNM. Director, Board of Directors Oregon Nurses Association .Vice Chair Nurse Practitioners of Oregon (NPO) Episode Highlights:~ Dr Solomon shares her home birth stories 

~ How Isolation is linked to  Postpartum Anxiety 

~ How Supporting Mothers and babies from the beginning and throughout makes sense.

~ Former Governor of Oregon who was also a physician was once asked ”If you made one healthcare investment of dollars that was going to pay off more than any other investment what would it be? and he said “Maternal Mental Health.”

~ More than Cancer, heart disease. Evidence Based. 

~ “Motherhood, the Hardest job we will ever have”

~ Dr Solomon’s experience with the Navajo

~ A myth in Obstetrics is that “You have to follow all these rules.” 

~ “The idea that if you just follow all the rules you are guaranteed a healthy baby is just not true”

~ How the Navajo taught her about accepting what is. 

~ In the early to mid 80’s ultrasound just started being used. 

~ The history of Modern Medicine 

~ The Sociology of Birth in the US

~ Physicians training is focused on Disease & Disease Treatment

~ Nurses are taught to be relationship based, focused on health promotion & prevention. 

 ~ Dr Diane’s dream of a “Relationship based Healthcare System that focuses on the whole person Health Prevention & promotion as well as disease treatment.”

~ Dr Solomon shares her PHD research on Hospice which coincided with the cancer diagnosis of her Mother. 

~ How her mother chose to stop eating & drinking when she found  her quality of life was no longer at a level that was comfortable with. 

~ How hospice asked again & again “What is most important to you now?”

~ How her answer changed over time. 

~ Diane’s experience of her Mother’s death and dying process 

~ Diane shares her philosophy of Empowerment in Dying. 

~ 95% of people want to die at home but only 20-40% of people actually do. 

~ Research about “What helped people have the best end of life experience…. & how to empower them to do that.”

~ How the medical system is hard to navigate and how people can’t advocate for themselves without a medical degree. 

~ The joke amongst oncologists: “Why do we put nails in coffins? So Oncologists can’t give chemo.”

~ How The culture of Oncology does not encourage Oncologists in being honest with people they care for about the end of their life being near. 

~ Her research about Mother Daughter dyads navigating the death of the Mother

~ Complicated Grief

~ How her Mother taught her through their culture of Judaism Connect with me Amana: 

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Amana Be Love