This episode is for HER.

✨ For the woman who senses there is more intelligence in her body than she has been taught.

✨ For the woman who was conditioned to dread her cycle.

✨ For the woman in perimenopause or menopause who was never given language for her power.

In this foundational teaching, you will walk through Cycle Mapping, a physiological and emotional framework for understanding your monthly infradian rhythm.

EXPLORE:

• The difference between circadian and infradian rhythms
• The Hypothalamic–Pituitary–Ovarian Axis explained simply
• Where estrogen and progesterone originate — and what they actually do
• Why ovulation matters for long-term mood, sleep, and vitality
• What shifts at menopause (and why it is redistribution, not decline)
• Your Four Inner Seasons: Winter, Spring, Summer, Fall
• How to read your bleed as sacred biofeedback

When you understand where hormones originate and what they are communicating, self-blame dissolves and biological literacy begins.

Cycle Mapping is not about control.  It is about sovereignty.

Your body was never chaotic.  It has always been rhythmic.

This episode is your invitation to remember.

RESOURCES

🖨️ Print your FREE Cycle Map here

Womben Wellness with Usha Anandi (for more about womb health)

The Living Temple with Sarah Jenks (for more about seasonal living)

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📲 Instagram: @BirthHumanity  

💬 You're invited to ask Elise what you'd like clarification on or learn more about. She'll do her best to address it in an upcoming episode.

If one thing rings true, follow that sound. Return the rest to the wind.

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This podcast is not medical advice. It’s education, story, discernment, and conversation. You are the authority of your life, your body, and your children. 

Labels help us make sense of the world, but they can quietly confine us when we forget they may be temporary.

In this deeply personal episode, I share stories from my own life: childhood eczema and allergies, to healing trichotillomania, to navigating motherhood, perfectionism, career evolution, and frequency work.

EXPLORE

• Why diagnoses are not destinies
• How the intensity of identity shifts over time
• The evolving meaning of “daughter”
• Perfectionism and withholding truth
• Career labels and reinvention
• Healing outside conventional frameworks
• The difference between title and frequency

COMPANION READING FROM THE BLOG

What it really means to be a matriarch

Why women circles matter (now more than ever)

Support the show

CONNECT WITH ELISE

🌐 website: BirthHumanity.com  

📲 Instagram: @BirthHumanity  

💬 You're invited to ask Elise what you'd like clarification on or learn more about. She'll do her best to address it in an upcoming episode.

If one thing rings true, follow that sound. Return the rest to the wind.

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This podcast is not medical advice. It’s education, story, discernment, and conversation. You are the authority of your life, your body, and your children. 

This episode is a 9-minute guided personal practice. A space to slow down, lay down armor, and return to your true self.

Practice begins at 2:44

Be sure to listen to Episode 6: Remembering Friday the 13th prior to starting this practice for context.

In this episode, I offer a simple, grounded embodied practice to embody the energy/purpose of Friday the 13th. This is not about doing more, fixing yourself, or reaching an outcome.

It is about allowing.

You don’t need experience with meditation or ritual.
You don’t need special tools.
You only need to arrive.

Return to this practice on each Friday the 13th in 2026 (February, March, and November) or anytime your body asks for space, softness, or remembrance.

Support the show

CONNECT WITH ELISE

🌐 website: BirthHumanity.com  

📲 Instagram: @BirthHumanity  

💬 You're invited to ask Elise what you'd like clarification on or learn more about. She'll do her best to address it in an upcoming episode.

If one thing rings true, follow that sound. Return the rest to the wind.

💗 Please follow, leave a review, and share this episode with someone you feel will resonate with it. 

This podcast is not medical advice. It’s education, story, discernment, and conversation. You are the authority of your life, your body, and your children. 

Friday the 13th has long been framed as unlucky, sinister, or something to avoid. But that story is relatively new.

In this episode, explore what Friday the 13th once represented for thousands of years - a sacred feminine day rooted in lunar cycles, women’s bodies, and ancient goddess traditions. Before patriarchal religion and modern medicine reshaped cultural narratives, the number 13 marked rhythm, fertility, intuition, and renewal.

This episode is not about superstition.
It’s about remembrance.

A reflection on how fear replaced reverence - and why the sacred feminine is rising again through curiosity, embodiment, and a return to rhythm.

For an embodied remembering - listen to the next episode (7: Friday the 13th - a ritual of remembering [personal practice]) on our three Friday the 13th's in 2026: February, March, November.

COMPANION READING FROM THE BLOG

Embracing the cosmic feminine

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CONNECT WITH ELISE

🌐 website: BirthHumanity.com  

📲 Instagram: @BirthHumanity  

💬 You're invited to ask Elise what you'd like clarification on or learn more about. She'll do her best to address it in an upcoming episode.

If one thing rings true, follow that sound. Return the rest to the wind.

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This podcast is not medical advice. It’s education, story, discernment, and conversation. You are the authority of your life, your body, and your children. 

In this episode, I  share the personal at-home practice I'm committed to for 2026 — not as self-improvement, but as devotion.

Not to escape the world — but to stay rooted inside it.

EXPLORE

• why gathering with women is essential for nervous system health and belonging
• the reclamation of Mary Magdalene as teacher, witness, and bearer of feminine wisdom
• how sacred oils and simple daily rituals can act as anchors in modern life
• why devotion doesn’t require changing your career — only how you show up within it
• how personal work ripples naturally into professional life

This episode is an invitation, especially if you haven’t yet chosen a rhythm or ritual for 2026. It’s not too late. 

RESOURCES

Embodied Asana, Amy Matthews

House of Reclamation, Elizabeth Lewis and Lauryn Laszczak

Priestess Presence - Rosa Mystica, Elayne Kalila Doughty and Diana Dubrow

Emerald Temple, Diana Dubrow holy anointing oils

Mary Magdalene Revealed by Meggan Watterson

The Living Temple, Sarah Jenks

COMPANION READING FROM THE BLOG

When the right frequency spirals you up

This version of you is enough

Living in alignment with your frequency

Support the show

CONNECT WITH ELISE

🌐 website: BirthHumanity.com  

📲 Instagram: @BirthHumanity  

💬 You're invited to ask Elise what you'd like clarification on or learn more about. She'll do her best to address it in an upcoming episode.

If one thing rings true, follow that sound. Return the rest to the wind.

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This podcast is not medical advice. It’s education, story, discernment, and conversation. You are the authority of your life, your body, and your children. 

This episode is a pause.

A return to discernment in a world obsessed with healing, self-growth, and “doing the work.”

Reflection is beautiful. Healing matters. And… not every healing space is actually "healing." Not every facilitator is embodied. Not every invitation is rooted in integrity.

In this episode, I speak directly to a growing concern in spiritual and personal-growth communities: when growth becomes synonymous with disruption — when people are encouraged to burn down their lives and call it healing.

The work is your real life.
Showing up day after day as your highest self — in partnership, in motherhood, in friendships, in work, in honest conversations and clean boundaries.

Not escapism. Not avoidance. Not dramatic exits without embodiment.

EXPLORE

• Why we are not wired to hold everyone else’s life and suffering
• The difference between true growth and fear-based disruption
• Red flags in facilitators and groups that prioritize individual breakthroughs over the greater ecosystem of a woman’s life
• Why certification without embodiment is dangerous
• How integrity, frequency, and lived experience matter in healing spaces
• Why the grass is not greener when avoidance is the answer

EMBODIMENT INVITATION
In the next episode, you are invited into a guided visualization (personal practice) to tap into and remember your highest self.

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🌐 website: BirthHumanity.com  

📲 Instagram: @BirthHumanity  

💬 You're invited to ask Elise what you'd like clarification on or learn more about. She'll do her best to address it in an upcoming episode.

If one thing rings true, follow that sound. Return the rest to the wind.

💗 Please follow, leave a review, and share this episode with someone you feel will resonate with it. 

This podcast is not medical advice. It’s education, story, discernment, and conversation. You are the authority of your life, your body, and your children. 

This guided visualization is a daily grounding practice to support real-life embodiment.

It is a return to your body, your values, and your purpose here on Earth.

This practice is meant to be used regularly, as a way to remember your highest frequency while staying rooted in your actual life.

In this visualization, I will guide you to:

• Ground your body and nervous system
• Reconnect with your highest self without leaving your relationships or responsibilities
• Clarify how integrity, presence, and purpose show up today
• Strengthen discernment when life feels noisy or urgent
• Anchor into steadiness rather than reaction

Your highest self is not a perfected future version of you.

She is the you who is regulated, rooted, and consistently aligned in conversation, in boundary, in care, and in choice.

This practice is under ten minutes and can be done daily, in the morning, before important conversations, or anytime you need to return to yourself.

One honest action is enough.

Support the show

CONNECT WITH ELISE

🌐 website: BirthHumanity.com  

📲 Instagram: @BirthHumanity  

💬 You're invited to ask Elise what you'd like clarification on or learn more about. She'll do her best to address it in an upcoming episode.

If one thing rings true, follow that sound. Return the rest to the wind.

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This podcast is not medical advice. It’s education, story, discernment, and conversation. You are the authority of your life, your body, and your children. 

Welcome to The Wild Haul with Elise. A slow-burn, no-tiptoe space for women who can feel there’s more going on than what they've been told. In this first episode, I (Elise Bowerman) introduce myself and open the invitation to decide if you want to trust me to walk with you.

In this episode, we explore:

• Why I'm not here to perform wellness or make womanhood palatable
• What “The Wild Haul” actually means 
• My background as a Michigan mom of two teens, raised with homeopathy and natural medicine first
• Two decades of supporting women through reiki, feng shui, medical intuition, dance + yoga, and birth/postpartum thresholds
• The identity shift I've been living since 2022 - the kind that costs being misunderstood, but gives you a life that belongs to you
• What women come to me for: discernment, permission, support, and a calm voice when the world wants compliance and speed
• What this podcast will hold: motherhood + partnership, intuition + medicine, cycles + nervous system truth, birth imprints, desire, power, money, pleasure—and what we’re “not supposed” to say out loud
• A closing ritual to help you return to your own knowing—just 5% more trust this week

💓 Shout out to the woman who taught me (in just ONE workshop) how to start a podcast: Laura Tomlinson, Founder of LT Lifestyle Management. Thank you for organizing a real way for someone with no experience to make this happen.

Support the show

CONNECT WITH ELISE

🌐 website: BirthHumanity.com  

📲 Instagram: @BirthHumanity  

💬 You're invited to ask Elise what you'd like clarification on or learn more about. She'll do her best to address it in an upcoming episode.

If one thing rings true, follow that sound. Return the rest to the wind.

💗 Please follow, leave a review, and share this episode with someone you feel will resonate with it. 

This podcast is not medical advice. It’s education, story, discernment, and conversation. You are the authority of your life, your body, and your children. 

Some seasons require grit. Others require release.

In this episode, I share a raw, real-time reflection on what it means to choose the path of least resistance—not as avoidance, but as a return to inner peace. When life hands you a reality you can’t control, surrender can become a form of strength: the moment you stop fighting what is, your body can finally exhale.

This is an episode about nervous system truth, the private life we can’t outrun, and the strange mix of grief and relief that can arrive in the same breath. If you’ve been "freestyle swimming"—pushing, forcing, trying to hold it all together—this might be your invitation into “backstroke season”: belly up, eyes to the sky, trusting you’ll reach shore.

A gentle note: this episode includes discussion of divorce and emotional overwhelm.

Support the show

CONNECT WITH ELISE

🌐 website: BirthHumanity.com  

📲 Instagram: @BirthHumanity  

💬 You're invited to ask Elise what you'd like clarification on or learn more about. She'll do her best to address it in an upcoming episode.

If one thing rings true, follow that sound. Return the rest to the wind.

💗 Please follow, leave a review, and share this episode with someone you feel will resonate with it. 

This podcast is not medical advice. It’s education, story, discernment, and conversation. You are the authority of your life, your body, and your children.