With the legality of abortion access in question across the country, I wanted to take the time to share some of my personal (and maybe unpopular) thoughts on the threatened abortion bans and possible overturning of Roe v. Wade. 

It's my deep desire that we all feel resourced internally and externally to self-govern our wombs and support our communities in doing so as well. May this be received in the spirit it is shared in.

I talk about:

- why I don't believe abortion is a "right"

- how the fight for legal rights often keeps us out of our power, and what we can do instead of asking for permission

-my qualms with the liberal "self-managed abortion" language

-taking responsibility for our innate ability to govern life and death in our wombs

-practical ways we can return reproductive sovereignty to our own hands

I am teaching an imprompty upcoming FREE class on an Introduction to Herbs for Reproductive Sovereignty on Wednesday, May 11 at 10am PST. Save your spot here. 

If you want to learn how to hold wisdom and care in your communities around pregnancy prevention, herbal allies, early release, and abortion healing, join me for my LIVE 10 week group program, Sovereign Cycles. Earlybird pricing available here! BIPOC partial scholarships available via email.

Other resources:

Learn fertility awareness for just $22 per month in our Womb Room Community Membership 

Other practitioners to know: Molly Dutton Kenny, Samantha Zipporah, Bonnie McIntosh

Do you know how to read your cervical mucus, track your ovulation, and understand what your cervical fluids mean about your health? 💦

Today, I’m talking with someone who loves talking about cervix just as much as I do— and that’s Chloe Skerlak! 

Chloe is a holistic reproductive health practitioner and full spectrum fertility awareness educator. Her mission is to break the taboo around the menstrual cycle, guide people on their journey to body literacy, and teach comprehensive and accurate fertility awareness to support people in their sexual and reproductive decision-making.

In our conversation we explore: 

• what our  cervical fluid actually  is, and how to find it 
• Different types of mucus and what’s considered “normal”
• How to accurately track mucus as part of a fertility awareness practice 
• Different categories of mucus in the symptothermal vs Justisse methods of fertility awareness 
• What cervical mucus can tell us about our health 
• How we can love on our cervix!

To connect with Chloe and her 1-1 and group coaching programs, check out her Instagram and her website !

To get access to Fearlessly Fertile, a video library for learning how to track your cycles, check out the Womb Room Community Membership!

Apply to Sovereign Womban, a year-long container in The Womb Room

At the core of our being is the psoas — sometimes known as a muscle, or as my guest Liz Koch calls it, a “fluid messenger” that has so much to teach us about what it means to walk rooted on the earth.

Liz Koch is an international educator the creator of Core Awareness,™ a somatic approach to deepening the experience of the human core, and the author of beautiful books including The Psoas Book and Stalking Wild Psoas.

In our conversation, we explore:

• the primal brain and the animal body — the sense of knowing we have in our womb
• the shift from viewing ourselves as disjointed parts to a living ecosystem
• the womb as an organ of perception
• how spiraling into menopause can bring a new level of wholeness and autonomy
• eldership and how as a collective we are missing our mothers
• how women have participated in handing over our power by outsourcing our fear, and how psoas can bring us back to our primal power
• the function of psoas and its relationship with fear and safety
• How we can come home to our body and the earth as a re-mothering process

…And sooo much more.

Check out Liz’s Incredible website, Core Awareness, and her recorded and live workshops. 

Get the Earlybird pricing for Confessions of a Well Nourished Woman until April 17!

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What if everything you've been told about anemia is a scam?

Chances are, if you're a bleeding woman, you've likely either been told you have "anemia," or that you need to be concerned about getting enough iron in your diet. 

But if we're all so concerned about getting enough iron, why is everyone still anemic?

In today's episode, we're busting some major myths about iron and anemia in female health, with my guest Loren De La Cruz, functional nutritional therapy practitioner, preconception specialist and owner of Innate Functional Nutrition.

We dive into the truth about iron in the female body and what's really causing symptoms of anemia (hint -- it's probably not what your doctor told you). 

We get into:

• Loren's journey from veganism and birth control into fertilty work and pro-metabolic nutrition
• What "iron deficiency anemia" actually is, and what it's not
• Why symptoms of iron deficiency in the blood often mean iron OVERLOAD
• Why more iron might be hurting, rather than helping, your health
• The connection between iron overload, pathogenic infections, and fatigue
• The importance of mineral balance, and why copper is critical 
• Key foods to support our body's ability to use iron
• If you choose to get bloodwork, the type of testing that actually tells you about true iron usage (it's not ferritin!)
• Practical steps you can take to nourish your fertile health

Check out Loren's Conscious Conception course and follow her beautiful Instagram for more pro-metabolic nourishment

Get the earlybird pricing for Confessions of a Nourished Woman (only $97 until April 17!)

Apply to Sovereign Womban, a year-long container in The Womb Room for female health & sovereignty

Resources mentioned: Jolene Brighten (post birth control syndrome);  Morley Robbins and the Root Cause Protocol

If you've experienced fibroids, you've likely felt the frustration, fear-mongering from providers, or sense of confusion that often comes with the question of, "can I eliminate fibroids without surgery?" In today's conversation, I talk with Cecili Simmons, owner of Operation Fibroid Freedom. She supports women in eliminating fibroids naturally and reclaiming their womb wellness as divine birthright. After her own journey with fibroids, Cecili's mission is to support all women with fibroids in having the tools to heal. 

We talk about:

• Cecili's journey and the courage to believe in healing
• The medicine of our fibroids and what they can teach us
• Cecili's cleanses and the role juicing plays
• What autophagy is and how you can support your body's innate elimination responses

Check out Cecili's Instagram, #byefibroids cookbook, and 1:1 and group coaching

 

I'm sharing something personal... I'm in a season of my own preconception time! This week, I'm sharing some of the ways that I'm nourishing myself in preparation for pregnancy and mothering. 

Sharing this is not meant to be prescriptive or to say what anyone "should" do, but rather to give a peek into my world and into the practices and tools that have been supporting my journey. And after witnessing hundreds of births and supporting so many women & families throughout the childbearing year... I feel more committed than ever to incorporate slow, simple medicine into my life. 

I share about:

• key nourishing foods and dietary changes I've made over the last year
• Why body work has been a huge part of my preconception time so far
• Re-mothering myself and inner child work
• Shifting patterns, how I'm already preparing for postpartum, and more!

This Spring in The Womb Room, we're diving into the themes of Desire, Fertility, and Mothering. It's going to be juicy.

Apply for the year-long Sovereign Womban container here!

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My favorite gut healing collagen and gelatin (I add collagen to teas, juice, oatmeal, baked goods and gelatin to soups, sauces and more!)

Trace Mineral drops for deep nourishment

Today I’m talking with Settareh Derafsh Kaviani, a first generation Persian-American woman, mother, birth worker and researcher, and witch who has devoted her life to healing herself and her lineage. After quitting her career as a clinical social worker, she continues to do the deep work of self-healing, and guiding women through the transformation from victimhood to freedom through transcendent birth and spiritual remembrance.

In our conversation we explore:

• Settareh’s journey through birth, lineage healing, moving out of victim consciousness and reclaiming her Persian identity
• Moving through intergenerational pain and patterns
• The language of “trauma informed” and how we choose to orient instead
• Re-orienting to triggers, shifting out of numbness, and taking responsibility with self-compassion
• How Settareh’s painless, ecstatic second birth propelled her healing journey

Connect with Settareh and her work on Instagram at thesacredwitch, and at her website at thesacredwitch.com.

Grief lives in the body. This is a simple truth, and yet in our culture, our collective conversation around grief is often focused on the mind, on “moving on,” and on processing in isolation. So how do we truly embody our grief, and stay open-hearted to the gifts it brings? 

Today, I share my conversation with Grace Harman, an embodied grief guide (and member of The Womb Room!) Grace brings her experience as a dance/movement therapist, as well as her own experience of grieving her mother, into her work with people as they remember how to bring the body back into grieving and, by extension, into fully living. We talk about the wisdom of our embodied grief, including:

• Why grief needs witnessing and moving out of our isolated grief culture
• Grace’s journey through grieving the death of her mother, and becoming an embodied grief guide
• Experiencing grief as a portal to spiritual and creative opening
• How we are held by our ancestors in our grief
• Being with grief as a healing gift to our lineages (mentioned: The Nap Ministry, Tricia Hersey)
• How not being in control can actually be a source of power

May our conversation nourish you and open your heart to the medicine of your grief. 

To connect with Grace, find her on her website and follow her on Instagram

Intro and outro music: “Cicada” by AnAkA. Thank you sister!

Save your spot in the free Sovereign Womb Masterclass: Opening to the Path of Your Power

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What do our hormones have to do with our gut health, and how can understanding this connection help us support healthy digestion?

This is what we explore in today’s episode with Ashe Milkovic,  a Nutritional Therapy Practitioner and Functional Hormone Specialist. The founder of The Functional Women’s Academy, Ashe has a  passion for spreading awareness about the power of functional nutrition for optimizing hormones & fertility. 

With gas, bloating, constipation and food intolerance becoming so normalized, it’s time to shed some light on what’s going on with our hormones, and how we can support optimal health!

In the episode, we discuss: 

• The gut- womb connection, and what estrogen has to do with digestive health
• The role of a functional nutritionist and Ashe’s journey to this role
• Common symptoms that aren’t actually “normal” and what optimal gut health looks like
• Lifestyle tips for hormone and gut health, and the “5-R approach” to gut restoration
• How you can become a practitioner through Ashe’s Functional Women’s Academy!

Enroll in The Functional Women’s Academy with $50 off using the code WOMBROOM50 (just a few spots left!)

Intro and outro music: “Cicada” by AnAkA. Thank you sister!

Save your spot in the free Sovereign Womb Masterclass: Opening to the Path of Your PowerApply to join The Womb Room, a year long container for womb sovereignty

"Period pain isn't normal." We hear this all the time in the menstrual health world and social media -- and I've said it too!

While it's true that period pain isn't inevitable or typically optimal, orienting to pain as bad or as a pathology doesn't serve us, either. 

In this episode, I'm sharing some of my thoughts on this phrase, the recent pushback to it, and how we can orient to our sovereignty, agency, and innate healing brilliance of our bodies. 

Save your spot in the FREE Masterclass, Cycles, Sex & Sovereignty: Opening the Path to Sovereign Female Health

Intro and outro music: “Cicada” by AnAkA. Thank you sister!