The She Births® Podcast

Brooke Elliston's Birth Story today is inspiring in so many ways. Like so many of you out there Brooke had a looming threat of induction - rates of which have doubled in the last twenty years in Australia. 

I know a lot of women are struggling with whether to have an induction or not. So I have included a huge amount of information and data linked at the end of these Podcast show notes to a blog on the She Births® website to help you make the decision that is right for your family. https://shebirths.com/australian-birth-stories/to-induce-or-not-to-induce/⁠

Brooke is a yoga teacher and we begin by talking about the language of the body and intuition. Then go onto discuss women’s power in birth plus many ideas and concepts I am exploring in depth in my new book. 

In the podcast we talk about:

At the end we also talk about conscious conception at the quantum level. And how the shakti takes us over during birth. And we go through a little ‘birth harvesting’ as I call it, where we speak to the gifts we receive from our births.

This is one of my favourite types of conversations, where we get to be spiritual but also really really practical, pragmatic and grounded in the body. This is one of the reasons I love birth so much, and yoga too because it really is where the rubber hits the road. 

There are numerous issues unfolding along with the increase of inductions such as increased resuscitation of babies, decreased maternal satisfaction and increased postpartum hemorrhage. A lot of experts are saying we might be reaching the point of doing more harm than good in the birth space right now.

The data and articles below will help you make an informed and empowered decision. Remember that your choice needs to be an embodied decision also. Whatever you choose, remember that birth matters and you have rights. You have intelligence within your body. And you can connect to your higher self and inner feelings to help guide you at any time.

Our work at She Births® is to empower you and help protect you from the conveyer belt of the systems. But you have to take the education and apply it. Make sure that you choose a team that supports you 100%. 

If these topics are of interest to you. If you want to connect more deeply with your intuition or if the idea of harvesting gifts from your birth or preparing in a pragmatic yet spiritual way for labour sounds like you, then make sure you subscribe to be part of my VIP book list. You will gain sneak peek access, discount offers and even help me choose the final title! 

My upcoming book is perfect if you are pregnant, a mum currently or a partner wanting to be useful or understand birth more fully, and of course it is perfect if you are a birth worker. Go here to sign up www.shebirths.com/book

FOR MORE INFORMATION GO TO:

Decoding the Labour Dilemma: To Induce or Not to Induce – Weighing the Options: https://shebirths.com/australian-birth-stories/to-induce-or-not-to-induce/

S 7 Ep 4, Intuitive Eating & Earth Cakes With Jana Brunclikova

How to eat for the seasons, your body and make magic happen in your kitchen

She Births® Birth Course: ⁠shebirths.com⁠⁠ | ⁠⁠Free Holistic Pregnancy Guide⁠⁠ | ⁠She Births® Full Online Course

Jana Links: http://www.thesecretkitchen.net | ⁠https://www.instagram.com/thesecret_kitchen
Today’s guest, Jana B is an author, Naturopath & Plant Based chef. She has over 15 years of naturopathy experience and a Bachelor degree in Health Science.

Jana grew up in Eastern Europe and has a long relationship with herbs and their medicinal qualities which have been an important part of her life from a young age. 

In our conversation Jana shares her passion and experience about healing foods, cycles of nature and the importance of authenticity. Her two self published books, Intuitive Eating and Earth Cakes are a work of art and also make healthy eating easy! Her birthday cakes are extraordinary.

In our chat we discuss what intuitive eating actually is and the practical tips and strategies to become more intuitive with our food, body and nature.

My favourite part is hearing Jana’s stories as a child growing up in a communist country and how this has shaped her offering to us, as a green witch. 

Let's all become green witches I say!

We hope you enjoy. 

Please share, subscribe and especially review our podcast so that we can keep delivering wisdom through the airwaves.

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MumLife with Ruby Challenger and She Births - Award winning director shares the beauty, chaos and struggles of motherhood

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Connect with Ruby: Ruby Challenger Instagram⁠ | Vimeo⁠ | ⁠IMDb⁠ | MumLife Trailer

In my soon to be published book I am writing a lot about how screens and stories are creating subconscious wiring and belief systems about birth and motherhood. Through exposure we are all continually absorbing a culture, a set of beliefs. Culture eats birth plans for breakfast! 

In other words, if you don't take charge of what culture and the narrative is doing inside your brain and body you will not get the birth you want. 

Ruby Challenger⁠ is also on fire about this. It was a spark ignited at her She Births® course many years ago and now blazing through her work as a filmmaker. 

Ruby's short film, MumLife, screened in official competition in the 2022 La Cinef section at Cannes Film Festival. Five weeks earlier she had given birth to her second baby, so she packed up her family of four and took them to the festival! MumLife is a 15 minute musical about postnatal anxiety and is now enjoying a festival run.

Ruby completed her Masters at the Australian Film Television and Radio School (AFTRS). She wrote her thesis on motherhood and the cinema, looking at mothers in front and behind the screen, which is being released on Instagram to further the discussion about mothers in film. 

Ruby has been on film sets since she was born - legend has it her first trip after the hospital was a film set to visit her dad. 

Alongside her award winning musical film, MumLife, her advocacy work for families will fill you with passion and purpose - to make all the places we go more inclusive and family friendly. 

In our podcast today we discuss media and the common birth/parenting culture. Plus, look at what it's really like studying or working as a mum, in one of the most intense and male led industries, film.

As Ruby says: It's important that we change these narratives. Most of the women that you see on film and TV or any media who are mothers, are not going to be a protagonist.

Don’t miss this latest inspiration and on fire conversation with Ruby Challenger 

Please leave us a review of the She Births® Podcast if you are enjoying the show.

S7, Ep2 Lesha Nelson - Healing birth trauma - How trauma imprints and how the nervous system heals

shebirths.com | Pregnancy Guide | Lesha Nelson Meditation

Our guest today is Lesha Nelson, who is an expert in somatic therapy and healing trauma.

Lesha has spent over a decade studying trauma, meditation, stress responses in the body, embodiment, psychosomatics, the womb, and birth work.

She believes it’s possible to re-pattern your nervous system from dysregulation, childhood conditioning, and insecure attachment patterns...to a place of connection and deep trust.

Lesha guides her clients to their blueprint of health through womb healing, nervous system alchemy, and somatic trauma resolution.

She offers guidance in calling your spirit baby into life, preventing and treating birth trauma, and creating more coherence with your own soul’s conception and birth process.

I love her vision statement: My dreamiest vision is a world where we feel safe in all of our relationships, feel safe to be authentic, and feel like we belong because we are deeply resourced and open to pleasure.

In our podcast we cover what trauma is. What is big and small trauma and how they wire in the brain body and nervous system. How trauma is released and healed.

What the opportunities are for us as parents being ‘good enough’ for our children. How we can avoid birth trauma and how to think about birth from a babies’ perspective.

LINKS:

facebook.com/lesha.nelson11

IG @lesha_nelson

https://www.leshanelson.com/

Link to Lesha’s meditation

https://leshanelson.ck.page/interception

Astrology for you and your family with Emma Vidgen: A troubleshooting guide to unlock motherhood, creativity and soul purpose

Welcome to Season 7 of The She Births® Show.

In this episode Emma shares her two beautiful c-section birthing stories and all we love about astrology!

We love the way Emma talks and writes about astrology and birth charts. It is so spiritual and so pragmatic. Plus, Emma relates so much wisdom back to ‘how we mother’ and our moon sign.

In this episode Emma and Nadine take a deep dive into her new book The Astrology of You. Exploring our unique way of thinking and feeling via the stars as well as the critical south and north nodes that reveal our evolutionary soul journey.

Grab it quickly as her book is already being reprinted and translated into Spanish and Swedish.

The Astrology of You: Finding Love, Creativity and Soul Purpose in your Birth Chart is available via booktopia.kh4ffx.net/2rvEP0

You can cast your chart and discover your sun/moon/rising and nodes and learn more about Emma’s offerings at https://theastrologyofyou.com/

Connect with Emma Vidgen:

Instagram @emma_vee

TikTok @theastrologyofyou

She Births® Resources:

Free Holistic Pregnancy Guide at https://shebirths.com/holistic-pregnancy-guide

She Births® revolutionary Birth Course at : https://shebirths.com/online-birthing-classes/full-online-course

Welcome to our bonus episode where you can Ask Us Anything.

There are so many questions that arise when you become pregnant and approach birth and amongst all that excitement and love, it's totally normal to feel overwhelmed and nervous.

So that's why we created our Ask Us Anything events on Instagram, and share them now in our podcast.

Today you will hear my conversation with She Births® Educator, Danielle Syme.

Danielle is a qualified midwife with over 30 years experience. She works as the team leader of a busy Midwifery Group Practice in Orange, Central West of NSW.

As a mother of three, she is also an IRON MAN and loves swimming, walking her dog and being in nature.

She is extremely passionate about Woman centered care - making sure mums get what they want. And also spontaneous labour.

She loves witnessing the transformation that She Births® couples go through after attending the Weekend Course. She sees firsthand how important quality childbirth education is for an empowering birth experience.

We talk about:

+ The differences she sees when women are educated

+ How to refuse an induction and what it means

+ Preventing tearing and perineal damage

+ Movement and diet during pregnancy

+ The best stories to listen to in the lead up to birth

+ Plus, is the cascade of intervention BS

I hope you enjoy it and we will see you at a She Births® course soon either with Danielle in Orange or any of our other locations, or online.

Nadine xxx

Founder of She Births®

Book in your weekend course today: https://shebirths.com/weekend-birthing-classes/events/

Welcome to our bonus episode where you can Ask Us Anything.

There are so many questions that arise when you become pregnant and approach birth and amongst all that excitement and love, it's totally normal to feel overwhelmed and nervous.

So that's why we created our Ask Us Anything events on Instagram, and share them now in our podcast.

Today you will hear my conversation with She Births® Post Natal Expert, Leah Sizeland.

Leah is trained by me to run our magical Soul Mama Circles in Bondi, Inner West and the Northern Beaches of Sydney plus on Zoom.

She is a postnatal doula, yoga teacher and mother of two. In the first half Leah shares how preparing and then chanting her way through contractions allowed her body to open during her first birth. But how she also felt completely shell shocked after birth.

In the second half we talk about the maiden to mother transition, the science of matrescence (maternal adolescence) and the rise of the feminine happening on the planet right now.

Plus of course we talk about why every mum deserves a deeper heart felt community with special support and guidance.

The days and months after birth are such an important time of change where our brains are literally melting and rewiring anew. It is such an opportunity for growth when we have the right container.

I hope you enjoy and we see you at a Soul Mama Circle soon. Click to to view upcoming circles in your area.

Nadine xxx

Founder of She Births®

Quick links to all of She Births®  Resources: https://shebirths.com/links

At She Births we begin our course with nutrition! Because, you are what you eat, right…

Today’s guest is Lily Nichols. She is a registered dietitian/nutritionist and certified diabetes educator. Lily has worked in prenatal nutrition public policy, consulting, research, writing, and clinical practice.

She has an in-depth understanding of why conventional policy is what it is and where there’s room for improvement.

For me personally what is amazing about @lilynicholsrdn is that she has all the science (over 930 citations in her books) showing us that mums and babies are both impacted by diet, in the short term and the long term.

There was so much to cover in this conversation. Together Lily and I discuss simple ways you can tweak your diet to not only optimise your health but also improve your birthing outcomes.

We talk about my favourite, magnesium! And of course, gluten, grains, glyphosates and soy.

Why knowing and understanding your GI levels is important for ALL pregnant women, not just GD mums. How we minimise the risk of induction by changing our diet and improve the health of our children by what we eat during pregnancy.

Visit Lily’s site https://lilynicholsrdn.com and check out Lily’s bestselling books; Real Food for Pregnancy & Real Food for Gestational Diabetes.

After you listen make sure you share the love with a friend.

Nadine xxx

Founder of She Births®

Links:

https://lilynicholsrdn.com/sourdough/

https://lilynicholsrdn.com/liver-organ-meat/

https://lilynicholsrdn.com/shellfish-pregnancy/

https://lilynicholsrdn.com/electrolytes-pregnancy/

Quick links to She Births®  Resources and birth courses can be found at http://shebirths.com/links

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Unapologetic Power With Kemi Nekvapil

Links

Connect with Kemi at @keminekvapil + https://www.keminekvapil.com/

Preparing for birth? Discover She Births® incredible online course here. 

Receive our Free Holistic Pregnancy Guide here https://shebirths.com/holistic-pregnancy-guide/

Connections between birthing and menopause

Stop people-pleasing and discover authentic self-care

Welcome to Episode 4 of Season 6, our Rise of the Feminine season.

This collection of podcasts talks about how the feminine rises within us during pregnancy, birth and beyond. I’m so grateful you are listening to these conversations about living in a way that fully honours our feminine journey and strength.

I absolutely loved talking to this remarkable woman, Alison Brahe Daddo. Her honesty and generosity are so refreshing.

Alison is a screenwriter, podcaster, teacher and former model who appeared regularly on the cover of Cosmopolitan, Dolly and Cleo magazines in the ‘90s.

She grew up alongside a generation of Australians. Now, she’s all grown up and has gone through menopause, an experience she shares in her new fantastic book Queen Menopause Finding your majesty in the mayhem.

Menopause changed Ali’s perspective on life, relationships and body image.

It made her realise the implications of being silent, speaking up, consent, boundaries, and the importance of feeling, of being and of anger. She reveals how all the shifting within gave birth to a new sense of self and her life.

In this episode, we chat about the following: 

Wherever you are along the journey of womanhood, it is time to practice deep self-awareness and authentic self-care.

Pull together a team of practitioners that can help you the way you want. Invest in your health of body, mind and soul. 

Remember, we can’t stay busy forever!

As we continue with our Rise of the Feminine season, stay tuned at the end when Alison shares her vision of what the world would look like with restored feminine power and wisdom.

I highly recommend Alison’s book so that you can become the Queen of your life, whatever stage you are in.

I hope you enjoy it.

Nadine x

She Births®

Episode Resources:

Follow Ali on Instagram at @alidaddo

Her book is available everywhere, and I highly recommend it. 

She Births Doula service can be found at https://shebirths.com/doula.

Free 7-Day Introduction to prenatal yoga: https://shebirths.com/prenatal-yoga

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