Bethany Webster joins us to discuss her article Navigating “No-Contact”: When Estrangement from Your Mother is the Healthiest Choice.

Bethany talks us through;

• Why it’s still considered taboo to be estranged from our Mother
• What can lead to estrangement and how it can be a sign of healthy personal growth
• The grief that comes once we’ve made the decision
• The empowerment that comes once we’ve made the decision!
• Coping with those around us that are triggered by our decision
• Do we need to forgive our Mothers to truly heal?
• Why anger is the key to moving forward.

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Melanie is an experienced Soul & Shadow Worker, Womb Medicine Woman, podcast host, writer and trainer.

For over 20 years, she has supported individuals and healing professionals to restore connection with the body, repair attachment and separation wounds, and embody primordial wisdom rooted in the womb, heart and soul.

Melanie's approach blends somatic womb healing, shadow integration, shamanic healing and soul-level repatterning - offering a deep and lasting pathway back to the true self.

She hosts The Sacred Womb Podcast, leads The Unification Of The Divine Masculine & Feminine Training and is currently writing her first book: The Sacred Womb - a handbook for coming home to our true nature, along with Poems For Peri-Menopause.

Isabella Lazlo joins us to tell us all about She Who Knows Magazine and their Crowdfunding campaign. 

She shares how the project started, what it's all about and their mission to expand their reach of this informative and supportive printed publication for Awakening Women around the world!

Women are rising, we are remembering our sacred innate connection to Earth, we are hearing her call to stand in protection of life and we are bringing our powerful voices and agency as daughters of Earth. She Who Knows Magazine weaves the threads of women's voices from the rich tapestry and ever expanding, inspirational pool of women's wisdom that is speaking out across our Globe. Our aim and hope is the strengthening of our web in the creation of a just new world.

At this time in history/herstory the preservation of life requires us to be willing to look beyond what we are being sold by mainstream society, to step away from the comfort of our consumer mindset and to feel beneath the surface. When most women's magazines offer a drip feed of images and information designed to undermine our inherent beauty and worth in order to increase sales and consumption, we at She Who Knows are offering something different; we honour the beauty and wisdom of every woman and recognise the strength and power we all have to effect change. May the pages of these magazines serve to affirm us all and to free us from the false notion of perfection sold to us by mainstream media.

1. https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/shewhoknows/

2. https://www.thesacredwomb.com/chocolates-for-the-menstrual-cycle-milly-watson-brown-moontime-chocolates/

The Blood Tales is a one woman show that will transport you to depths of the Mystery carried inside. It’s a rewiring of the shame and disgust. It’s a reclaiming of the magic and power of woman’s body.

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Melanie is an experienced Soul & Shadow Worker, Womb Medicine Woman, podcast host, writer and trainer.

For over 20 years, she has supported individuals and healing professionals to restore connection with the body, repair attachment and separation wounds, and embody primordial wisdom rooted in the womb, heart and soul.

Melanie's approach blends somatic womb healing, shadow integration, shamanic healing and soul-level repatterning - offering a deep and lasting pathway back to the true self.

She hosts The Sacred Womb Podcast, leads The Unification Of The Divine Masculine & Feminine Training and is currently writing her first book: The Sacred Womb - a handbook for coming home to our true nature, along with Poems For Peri-Menopause.

Fertility Massage Therapy™ ignites our passion by re-awakening our connection to our Womb. Clare joins us to talk about this unique physical & spiritual treatment.

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Melanie is an experienced Soul & Shadow Worker, Womb Medicine Woman, podcast host, writer and trainer.

For over 20 years, she has supported individuals and healing professionals to restore connection with the body, repair attachment and separation wounds, and embody primordial wisdom rooted in the womb, heart and soul.

Melanie's approach blends somatic womb healing, shadow integration, shamanic healing and soul-level repatterning - offering a deep and lasting pathway back to the true self.

She hosts The Sacred Womb Podcast, leads The Unification Of The Divine Masculine & Feminine Training and is currently writing her first book: The Sacred Womb - a handbook for coming home to our true nature, along with Poems For Peri-Menopause.

Victoria De Aboitiz has written a gorgeous book called The Moon's Gift. It's an introductory book that welcomes girls into womanhood. Aimed at girls age 11+, the book offers a simple, kind and holistic approach to the Female Cycle.

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Melanie is an experienced Soul & Shadow Worker, Womb Medicine Woman, podcast host, writer and trainer.

For over 20 years, she has supported individuals and healing professionals to restore connection with the body, repair attachment and separation wounds, and embody primordial wisdom rooted in the womb, heart and soul.

Melanie's approach blends somatic womb healing, shadow integration, shamanic healing and soul-level repatterning - offering a deep and lasting pathway back to the true self.

She hosts The Sacred Womb Podcast, leads The Unification Of The Divine Masculine & Feminine Training and is currently writing her first book: The Sacred Womb - a handbook for coming home to our true nature, along with Poems For Peri-Menopause.

Milly takes us through her process of birthing her idea for the chocolates, what's in them and how they can help us to tune in to the difference phases of our cycle.

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Melanie is an experienced Soul & Shadow Worker, Womb Medicine Woman, podcast host, writer and trainer.

For over 20 years, she has supported individuals and healing professionals to restore connection with the body, repair attachment and separation wounds, and embody primordial wisdom rooted in the womb, heart and soul.

Melanie's approach blends somatic womb healing, shadow integration, shamanic healing and soul-level repatterning - offering a deep and lasting pathway back to the true self.

She hosts The Sacred Womb Podcast, leads The Unification Of The Divine Masculine & Feminine Training and is currently writing her first book: The Sacred Womb - a handbook for coming home to our true nature, along with Poems For Peri-Menopause.

‘Observing The New Moon and Her steady growth helps us to attune with our menstrual cycle at the point we -emerge out of Moontime – when it can be tempting to get straight back in the game.‘

New beginnings are within and all around us.

The sunrise each day,

the first birdsong of spring,

and the crescent of silver light that is a New Moon – reminding us that the cycle of life continues.

Within the Universal cycle, we have the cycle of our own lives ~ birth, childhood, adulthood, elderhood.

And within this, our menstrual cycle ~

new seed, gestation, fruition, birth/release.

This cycle of creation that we as women embody can be utilised not only for the creation of physical life, but also for releasing the old, and for the birthing of new consciousness.

PREPARING THE GROUND

It’s important to remember the whole cycle.

‘Weeding the ground’ before we set new intentions is often skipped over, and as such, our intentions may come to fruition somewhat confused or diluted.

The Moon goes Void before it renews. The Dark Moon is just before the New Moon.

Here’s a Dark Moon Ceremony and meditation to clear space.

The New Moon and The Menstrual Cycle

As our Menstrual Cycle is a mirror of The Moon Cycle – the corresponding point in our cycle is when have just finished bleeding.

Our Womb is empty and we are starting to come out of our ‘Moontime Cave’ back into our outer world.

During this phase we might be tempted to re-emerge ‘all guns blazing’, heading straight back into doing from our being state.

This is a crucial point because we can spend all our energy in a few days and run out of juice for the rest of our cycle.

Learning to manage our energy at this point is a real friend.

We can take our cues from Nature on how to Be with our cycle.

And so we look, once again, to Grandmother Moon.

The New Moon is a slither of silvery light in the night sky. The next night, there is a little more – each night showing a little more of Her light. Steadily, gradually building to Her peak at The Full Moon.

And this is how we can manage our energy. Gradually emerging, steadily speeding up, meeting out outer world step by step.

The cultural pressure is for us to get back to normal. With the normal being linear and on all the time.

To dissolve this system that we call patriarchy, we as women can own our part in it and go with our own flow. We can commit to living aligned with our cycle. For we are all makers of the patriarchy, and so we all have the Power to Create something else more fruitful.

I encourage you Dear Sister – Sacred Creature of La Luna –

to make a commitment to yourself this cycle,

to track and follow your own flow…and notice the difference.

IMPORTANT NOTE ON SYNCHRONISING THE MENSTRUAL AND MOON CYCLES

It is not necessary that our menstrual cycle synchronises with The Moon Cycle in a specific way.

Simply note where you are at in your menstrual cycle and experience how your cycle and The Moon energy at this point interacts.

New Moon Ceremony

* SET UP THE SPACE – put on some incense, or light a fire outside and arrange the space so that you have space to think clearly and be Creative.

* START WITH AN OPENING CHANT

(you can download one below)

It is a chant to the The East – The New Moon – the place of new beginnings.

Sing along, drum, rattle, dance, go for it!

* SET YOUR INTENTION

Get clear about what you’d like to create or work with this cycle.

I recommend focusing on one main intention. That seems to me most effective.

Can cloth menstrual pads cause infections?

Rachael Crow and I address this question and talk about;

-possible reasons you might feel a bit itchy with some pads

-menstrual taboo and how it shows up in subtle ways

-menstrual cups

-menstrual blood

-popping invisible taboos of negative menstrual conditioning

The action step, or rather challenge from this episode is to touch your menstrual blood

and let us know what happens in The Sacred Womb Private Facebook Group.

Join us here https://www.facebook.com/groups/moontimewisdom/

Miscarriages are common and can be very tough; emotionally, physically and spiritually. Here are 9 guidelines to help you process your experience.

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Melanie is an experienced Soul & Shadow Worker, Womb Medicine Woman, podcast host, writer and trainer.

For over 20 years, she has supported individuals and healing professionals to restore connection with the body, repair attachment and separation wounds, and embody primordial wisdom rooted in the womb, heart and soul.

Melanie's approach blends somatic womb healing, shadow integration, shamanic healing and soul-level repatterning - offering a deep and lasting pathway back to the true self.

She hosts The Sacred Womb Podcast, leads The Unification Of The Divine Masculine & Feminine Training and is currently writing her first book: The Sacred Womb - a handbook for coming home to our true nature, along with Poems For Peri-Menopause.

3 Key questions to help you relieve period pain; How do you really feel about being a cyclical Being? What Menstrual Products are you using? What do you do during Moontime?

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Melanie is an experienced Soul & Shadow Worker, Womb Medicine Woman, podcast host, writer and trainer.

For over 20 years, she has supported individuals and healing professionals to restore connection with the body, repair attachment and separation wounds, and embody primordial wisdom rooted in the womb, heart and soul.

Melanie's approach blends somatic womb healing, shadow integration, shamanic healing and soul-level repatterning - offering a deep and lasting pathway back to the true self.

She hosts The Sacred Womb Podcast, leads The Unification Of The Divine Masculine & Feminine Training and is currently writing her first book: The Sacred Womb - a handbook for coming home to our true nature, along with Poems For Peri-Menopause.