Pregnant and feeling in optimal health, Lorraine receives news that sends her world crashing around her. Through this lens she discusses how she went on to navigate the hospital system to birth her baby naturally.

High on the satisfaction of her birth outcome, Lorraine then fell victim to a system and society that does not know how to support the breastfeeding dyad. 

In intimate detail Lorraine describes the exhausting and despairing cycle of sabotage she endured that brought her to rock bottom. She goes on to describe her transformation of learning how to trust herself and her baby to see the truth of what was always in front of her.

Rebecca reveals her unique family structure, how she came to terms with witnessing a traumatic birth that wasn’t her own and preparing for her own first birth experience with new fears and old patterns.

Rebecca is a master reflector and an evocative storyteller. Her pregnancy cracked her wide open, no longer allowing her to ignore aspects of herself that had previously held her back. Journey with Rebecca and her family as she confronts her biggest fears so that she can be witnessed birthing as her whole magnificent self.

I’m joined by Claire, who worked with me to birth her business The Primal Dyad. After Claire experienced a difficult breastfeeding journey, she knew she wanted to help other women. She wasn’t quite sure what this would look like, and she also knew she had her own healing to do first. Listen to Claire as she shares how she discovered her own unique path to support breastfeeding women and the story of how she healed her own trauma. Claire talks about how she moved through her personal blocks in starting her business and how she learned to recognise her own self worth so that she could go on to create the life she desired for herself and her daughter.

Mali examines the stories of birth she'd been raised with and the subsequent influences that helped her reshape those stories.

With a new view for her birth, Mali prepared for her home birth. However, through this process she continued to scrutinise her feelings about her care-providers who's comments jarred with what she wanted for her birth.

Mali goes on to share her arduous but perfect freebirth with us describing it as the birth she needed to have.

Beck shares with us her distressing experience of pregnancy loss at 15 weeks and how that led her to seek out more support for her next birth.

Beck talks about the process of discovering what type of birth she wanted but how her self-sabotaging people-pleasing behaviour meant she didn’t put her own needs first. Beck goes on to share with us how reflecting on her traumatic birth experience led her to once and for all, address her life-long destructive behaviours. She shares with us how through this transformation process, she ultimately found her happiness.

Ashlee shares with us how she was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in her 20s and how through self-awareness and connection to her body, she became her own healer. It was from this foundation that she made the leap into a self-directed pregnancy and planned freebirth and she reveals how aligned it felt to her life philosophy.

Ashlee also talks about her grief for her breastfeeding journey that did not work out how she hoped and shares with us how she moves through the ups and downs of mothering in this day and age.

I met Karen several years ago when she approached me to work with her as she planned to birth her fourth baby vaginally after three previous caesareans. In this podcast we discuss how Karen realised that her fear was just too great to let go of and how after a long labour where she navigated difficult hospital policy, she decided to have a fourth caesarean. Karen shares how, since her son’s birth, she has been striving to master her fear in all facets of her life. Karen also gets vulnerable talking about her mothering style and how disconnected she was from her first three children. She shares that through self-reflection she has learned how to love herself and what that now means for her family.

Justine joins us to share how she overcame her tumultuous indecision so that she could freebirth her first baby in autonomy and joy. She recalls in detail how difficult the process was to take full responsibility for the birth she wanted and show up for herself by releasing the deeply held blocks that she knew were holding her back. Justine describes her birth to us in all its ordinary and extraordinariness.

Emma shares with us her first traumatic birth experience and the vulnerable story of how her second birth did not turn out the way she hoped. Emma tells us how owning her decision-making has meant a transformation of her life and her mothering, and shares with us what ultimately led to her discovering a sense of freedom.

Gemma shares the story of her first unsupported birth and delves into her feelings of isolation during the following years and tells how she found healing during the preparation for her next birth. Gemma talks about how her healing led her to take back her power and make the system work for her so her pregnancy and next birth were on her own terms.