The Serpentine Path

Today I share my tender, portal-opening conversation with my dear sister, Jaontra “JJ” Henderson.

JJ is a full-spectrum birthworker and the Founder and Executive Director of Full Spectrum Birthworkers, where she provides holistic support across the womb continuum — from preconception, pregnancy, birth, and postpartum. Deeply committed to supporting those who have been historically marginalized and harmed by the medical-industrial complex, she uses herbal allies, body literacy education, consensual touch, ceremony/ritual, and other tools to help people make informed decisions based on their own needs, wants, and desires. JJ has extensive experience supporting Black people, multiracial and multicultural families, and single parents throughout their reproductive journeys.

In this episode we get into:

• How modern women are currently relating to womanhood, sexuality, fertility, and feminine lineage work
• Taking on the role of birth companion as a maiden who hasn’t given birth yet and all the ways in which we can support female reproductive care outside of the birthing space
• The compartmentalization of women’s reproductive care and the revitalization of full-spectrum support and witnessing
• The reality of the Maternal Health Crisis in Black and Brown communities and addressing systems of exploitation and self-sacrifice from the inside out
• The importance of re-weaving the fractured web of feminine resourcing so that we all have various layers of support for our work in the world

May this episode realign you to your deepest, innate sense of internal power, authority, and irrefutable feminine wisdom.

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In today’s episode, I share my nourishing and life exalting conversation with the prolific new grandmother, Cynthia Zak!

Cynthia is a teacher, ceremonialist, writer (author of five books), songwriter (author of more than 170 songs), musician, journalist, international yoga teacher, mindfulness and meditation expert and a seasoned entrepreneur. She is moved by the certainty that the mystical realms are very close to us and she dedicates her life to create songs, music, books, training systems, and a whole movement to bring the esoteric world to a tangible reality that everybody can access. Cynthia is a HeartMath institute therapist, birth/postpartum doula and death doula working with children and families in the grief process. She practices sufism, buddhism, kabbalah, shamanic techniques and is a master tarot reader PLUS being a mother of three marvelous human beings, Marlon, Allegra and Satya and Grandmother of Atilla.

In this episode we get into:

• Her gorgeous life-long path as a student of various mystic traditions, faiths, + creative spiritual practices
• The medicalization + pathologization of menopause and how she rebirthed herself into her divine crone expression as the family/community matriarch
• Her work as a birth and death doula and taking on the role as the community midwife who initiates her people through life’s sacred rites of passage
• Her process of becoming a grandmother and the responsibility that we all hold to co-create a new earth for the children that are coming through right now
• The birth of her book, “The Joy of Sleeping Alone”! A in-depth synthesis on the history of the bed, the science of sleep, and everyday rituals to expand our dream time practice

May this episode awaken your own inner grandmother medicine and orient you, your family, and/or community towards the collective rebirth of intact family culture!

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In this extended episode with my guest, Stephanie Starr, we get into:

• Acute homeopathy for common childhood ailments such as ear infections, fevers, head bumps, etc

• Working with homeopathy throughout pregnancy

• Bringing instinctual and intuitive parenting back online after over a century of distorted birth practices and Western familial domestication

• Matridonal remedies to support the MotherBaby dyad with birth trauma healing and breastfeeding struggles

• Vaccine and drug detox support with homeopathy for people who have experienced injury, damage, and soul fracturing

• Homeopathy to support with substance abuse, addiction, destructive coping mechanisms, and severe mental health issues

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In this week’s episode I dive into a deep conversation of quantum ancestral realignment with my guest, Stephanie Starr. Stephanie is a student homeopath, home herbalist, and lifelong learner. She’s currently selling topical herbal products, working with clients using homeopathy, and continuing her studies in mind-body healing. After years of intense chronic symptoms, she’s brought vibrancy back to her life and is now on a path to help others navigate healing and reconnect to themselves, each other, and the earth.

In this episode we get into:

* How her own chronic health issues guided her down the rabbit hole of alternative/natural healing modalities that actually left her feeling even more disempowered than before

* A brief overview of homeopathic medicine and why this modality was purposefully blackballed and suppressed by the American Medical Association and the Rockefeller Family

* How we can work with homeopathy to clear energetic distortions (miasms) that get passed down through our families and create chronic health symptoms

* Utilizing homeopathy in the preconception portal in order to clear intergenerational trauma and birth a new generation into the family tree

* Energetic blocks that contribute to unexplained infertility and how homeopathy can help a hopeful couple conceive, gestate, and birth life

May our conversation open your eyes, ears, and heart to the possibility of healing your lineage 7 generations forwards and 7 generations back.

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Absent Periods, Acne, + Fertility Fears with S.

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Today’s episode with my guest S. is the final installment of the ongoing mini-series about women’s birth control stories. From the pill to injections to IUDs, we explore the commonalities between our shared experiences of returning to the medicine of womanhood.

In this episode we get into:

• How her experience of disordered eating as a teen led to her being put on the pill in order to “regulate” her absent menstrual cycle
• Her first attempt at transitioning off of hormonal birth control and the severe health implications that she experienced due to the hormonal imbalances
• Why she decided to get back on the pill out of desperation to resolve her extreme chronic acne and the education and preparation that she underwent in order to eventually transition off of it again
• Moving through her deep fears and grief around not believing that she would ever be able to become a mother
• How she eventually ended up getting pregnant (to her pleasant surprise!) without having ever experienced a real bleed

To learn more about everything discussed in this episode, you can purchase my class, ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠The Natural Birth Control Series⁠⁠⁠ -- a three-part class for women who are ready to reclaim their womb sovereignty and prevent unplanned pregnancy by utilizing their own bio-intuitive fertility signals and plant medicine allyship.

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JOIN THE NATURAL BIRTH CONTROL SERIES! NOW THROUGH OCTOBER 31

In today’s episode with my dear sister and return guest, Becca Loevy, we continue our ongoing series about women’s birth control stories. From the pill to injections to IUDs, we explore the commonalities between our shared experiences of returning to the medicine of womanhood.

In this episode we get into:

• How her chronic urinary tract infections, migraines, and overwhelming back pain eventually led her to the emergency room on Christmas Day
• Being diagnosed with fibroids and deciding to remove her own copper IUD when she couldn’t get an appointment at Planned Parenthood
• How her intuition guided her to Arizona where she met a wise woman who could finally hold space for her womb story and support her healing
• Why she decided to get uterine surgery and what the doctors discovered when they finally went in to investigate
• How she finally came into peace and alignment with her body after rebirthing herself through deep womb suffering

To learn more about everything discussed in this episode, I invite you to join my upcoming group class, ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠The Natural Birth Control Series⁠⁠⁠ -- a three-week long group class series for women who are ready to reclaim their womb sovereignty and prevent unplanned pregnancy by utilizing their own bio-intuitive fertility signals and plant medicine allyship.

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JOIN THE NATURAL BIRTH CONTROL SERIES! NOW THROUGH OCTOBER 31

In today’s episode with my guest, Sarah Stevenson, we continue our ongoing series about women’s birth control stories. From the pill to injections to IUDs, we explore the commonalities between our shared experiences of returning to the medicine of womanhood.

Sarah Stevenson is an intuitive coach, writer, and host of the Goddess in Training podcast, where she explores the intersection of intuition, transformation, and embodiment. Through her work as a Transition Doula, she guides others in navigating life’s major thresholds with presence and purpose—whether in identity, relationships, or creative rebirth.

In this episode we get into:

• The secrecy of going on hormonal birth control as a teenager and hiding your sexuality from your parents
• How use of hormonal contraceptives impact the kind of partners that we feel sexually attracted to
• How the medicalization of her fertility led her down a 2 year long journey of attempting to get pregnant via gestational surrogacy
• Hormonal imbalances, memory loss, soul fracturing, and the sacred portal of menopause
• Mothering teenage daughters and supporting their transition into their fertile, childbearing years

To learn more about everything discussed in this episode, I invite you to join my upcoming group class, ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠The Natural Birth Control Series⁠⁠⁠ -- a three-week long group class series for women who are ready to reclaim their womb sovereignty and prevent unplanned pregnancy by utilizing their own bio-intuitive fertility signals and plant medicine allyship.

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Reclaiming Womb Sovereignty — Goddess in Training Podcast

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⁠LEARN MORE ABOUT THE NATURAL BIRTH CONTROL SERIES -- STARTING OCTOBER 5!!!

In today’s episode with my guest, Claire Campolo, we continue our ongoing series about women’s birth control stories. From the pill to injections to IUDs, we explore the commonalities between our shared experiences of returning to the medicine of womanhood.

Claire is an herbalist & chiropractic student devoted to the innate intelligence of the body. Informed by her own journey of self-healing, her work weaves together women’s reproductive health, the wisdom of the plants, & somatic embodiment as pathways to wholeness, healing, & self expression.

In this episode we get into:

• How her transition off of hormonal birth control and SSRIs eventually guided her onto path with the medicine of ayahuasca
• The physical and multidimensional impacts of hormonal contraceptive use
• The gaslighting that women often experience in regard to their reproductive health and the lack of true care that they receive from medical professionals
• The fear of not knowing where to begin with womb care and reproductive re-education and finding the avenues to support us in our healing and remembering
• How women’s reproductive health mirrors the elemental expressions of the land, water, air, and fire and why relational stewardship has to start within our own bodies

To learn more about everything discussed in this episode, I invite you to join my upcoming group class, ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠The Natural Birth Control Series⁠⁠⁠ -- a three-week long group class series for women who are ready to reclaim their womb sovereignty and prevent unplanned pregnancy by utilizing their own bio-intuitive fertility signals and plant medicine allyship.

October 5, 12, + 19 from 1-3pm EST // $33 for access to all three classes + recordings

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LEARN MORE ABOUT THE NATURAL BIRTH CONTROL SERIES -- STARTING OCTOBER 5!!!

In today’s episode with my guest ,Zoë Galle, we continue our ongoing series about women’s birth control stories. From the pill to injections to IUDs, we explore the commonalities between our shared experiences of returning to the medicine of womanhood.

Zoe is a coach, educator, guide and facilitator teaching women how to listen to the billions of years of evolutionary wisdom informing their being so they can remember how to trust their wild nature and come back into relationship with their instinct and power. She draws on vedic eastern philosophy, dance and movement practices, polyvagal theory, meditation and the creative process to catalyze change and build toward collective coherence.

In this episode we get into:

• Her experience of being put onto the hormonal birth control at 18 in order to “regulate” her absent period
• The multiple pregnancies releases that she experienced throughout her twenties and the lack of community witnessing and support that she deserved in her transition from Maiden to Mother
• How the removal of her hormonal IUD landed her back into her body and awakened her TRUE dance practice
• The collective grief that arises when recognizes that loss of matrilineal wisdomkeeping traditions and the lack of communal and ceremonial initiation into womanhood
• The pathologization of the feminine and the re-remembrance of our natural gifts, wisdom, and beauty

To learn more about everything discussed in this episode, I invite you to join my upcoming group class, ⁠⁠⁠⁠The Natural Birth Control Series⁠⁠ -- a three-week long group class series for women who are ready to reclaim their womb sovereignty and prevent unplanned pregnancy by utilizing their own bio-intuitive fertility signals and plant medicine allyship.

October 5, 12, + 19 from 1-3pm EST // $33 for access to all three classes + recordings

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⁠LEARN MORE ABOUT THE NATURAL BIRTH CONTROL SERIES -- STARTING OCTOBER 5!!!

In today’s conversation on The Serpentine Path Podcast, I share another episode of an ongoing series about women’s birth control stories. From the pill to injections to IUDs, we explore the commonalities between our shared experiences of returning to the medicine of womanhood.

In this episode with Kim Clarete we get into:

• Her initial struggles with extremely painful and irregular periods that lead to her being put on the hormonal birth control pill in her early 20s after receiving a PCOS diagnosis

• The 7 years where she went on and off the pill in an attempt to manage her symptoms and why she finally decided to stop taking it once and for all

• Her journey of reconnecting to beauty, creativity, and her own innate womb wisdom after feeling entirely numb and disconnected for so many years

• Moving through the shame of not knowing anything about her menstrual cycle and female physiology

• How she eventually healed her PCOS naturally by reorienting her relationship with food and nourishment, reconnecting to nature, and activating her creative life force energy

  
  

To learn more about everything discussed in this episode, I invite you to join my upcoming group class, ⁠The Natural Birth Control Series⁠ -- a three-week long group class series for women who are ready to reclaim their womb sovereignty and prevent unplanned pregnancy by utilizing their own bio-intuitive fertility signals and plant medicine allyship.

October 5, 12, + 19 from 1-3pm EST // $33 for access to all three classes + recordings

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