Welcome baby Asher into the world! I'm sharing all the details of our son's natural home birth, how we prepared, the birthing experience and the things I've done postpartum to encourage healing. 

If you or someone you know is pregnant, hoping to conceive or considering a home birth, we dive into the mindsets around natural birth and how to prepare. I also touch on postpartum healing and mindsets around embracing the new body after the delivery of a baby. Birth is not just physical, it's emotional and spiritual and it's important to acknowledge and prepare holistically for the birth you envision.

Stick around to the end to hear the prayer Brooke prayer over mothers, expecting and current!

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Fitness is an appealing topic for some, and dreaded one for others. In this episode we're taking a "less is more" approach, and restoring the joy to movement once again. The "how", "how often", "why", "when" question can get in the way of mindful movement. Especially for those who have full schedules or little kids at home, motivation for extra movement can seem monumental. This episode covers all these questions with the goal of helping you find a rhythm with movement to workout smarter, not harder.

Katie Beam is a personal trainer, accomplished fitness competitor, coaching groups including the Minnesota Vikings Cheerleaders, and volunteers at a local farm. Katie lives a consistent lifestyle of movement and wellness despite having a toddler and running her own personal training business.

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Chronic illness has the potential to derail the strongest person among us. Lingering symptoms without clear answers or resolution can quickly hinder resolve. As Christians, how do we stand in the tension of real suffering in our body and the full healing available through Jesus. There's times with reality does not align with the truth.

Sondra Doty has walked through years of unexplained pain yet has continued to live in faith and hope of full restoration in body. Sondra is incredibly authentic in the struggle she's faced, but also shares her victories along the way. Whether you or a loved one has struggled with chronic illness this episode will bring encouragement and hope. 

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There is redemption in pain and suffering. God's redeeming power is far greater than our current circumstance. Join Sondra and I in this important episode.

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In this episode we cover how to heal the metabolism holistically and why sometimes modern medicine including the naturopathic world can fall short from providing answers we need in order to truly heal. 

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Ashlee Rowland is the founder of Simplholistic where she focuses on simplifying women’s wellness. She is also a certified Holistic Nutritionist teaching women how to balance their hormones by returning to nature. Her health journey began after experiencing infertility, PCOS, hormonal chaos, thyroid disease, autoimmunity and total gut hell. Today, Ashlee has made it her mission to teach women how to reverse PCOS naturally through her Bare Naked Hormones Course.

Join us as we silence the noise of diet culture and tune into our bodies original design.

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Stress impacts hormones. The body will convert progesterone (the hormone needed to sustain a pregnancy and prevent miscarriage) and other sex hormones into cortisol during stress. This protective measure is not ideal to make a baby and mimics a famine. The result is the body switches to a stress mode, and impacts hormonal balance and the ability to conceive. The first step to healing fertility and improving health is getting out of a stress mode and back to your vital health through mindset and movement. 

Dr. Liz Berg, founder of Nourish Family Chiropractic shares her own journey with fertility and practical lifestyle shifts for optimal fertility and overall health. 

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Believe it or not, many of us are living as orphans. Not in the literal sense but a spiritual one. 

The Father wants to speak to us about certain mindsets and habits that keep us trapped and the offender could be an orphan spirit, not a lack of willpower. Even for those of us who love God, follow him and are used by him.

Has an orphan spirit revealed itself in your marriage in manipulation, getting easily frustrated or constant missed expectations?

Has an orphan spirit showed up in your parenting? Parenting children based on immediate comfort and preference rather than for their good? Quick to get frustrated by our children's mistakes, more concerned with their conformity to our ideas rather than cultivating an environment where they can fail forward, explore, and create without fear?

Has an orphan spirit showed up in how you related to God? Are you carrying shame that is creating distance in your relationship with God? 

Has an orphan spirit showed up how you treated yourself? Are you overly concerned with your appearance to others because the risk of rejection? 

In this episode I share a very personal encounter I had with the Father where He helped me identify the reality that I was a high-functioning orphan. How to identify an orphan spirit in operation in your life and most important of all, how to get rid of an orphan spirit, embrace identity and step into a renewed sense of confidence and vision.

Did you know that there is a literal river flowing in Heaven right now? Not only is this River flowing, but that River flows up through us when we surrender our lives to Jesus!

Before you freak out and check your pants for a flowing stream, I'd like to invite you to embrace the power and life that’s flowing to you right now. You can access this River at any time. It never stops flowing. Once you jump in you'll awaken to the truth that your life is meant to be a fountain of living water for others.

Understanding this Kingdom Key will transform you from the inside out. It will impact your health, your attitude, your relationships, your confidence and unlock provision. On this episode I will share how its touched every part of my being bringing divine healing and restoration. 

Let’s jump in the river!

What does true femininity look like in the Kingdom of Heaven?

I see the hand of God on women in such profound ways in this hour and I’m excited about the army of warrior women the Father is raising up. Like every move of the Spirit, the enemy is always prepared with a counterfeit.

The enemy has worked to suppress women throughout history reducing their value to providing meals and procreation. Their voices were not heard and their rights were taken away.

As important as it is to identify "What is Kingdom Femininity?", so is naming what it is NOT. Join us for this episode of the Well Women Co Podcast as we dig into God's "original" and very good design for women!

Imagine being on a high balcony and looking down below. Beneath, you see your enemies snarling at the gate. Anxiety, fear, chaos, offense all clawing at the walls, trying to break through. The presence of your enemies is real, but the strength of your fortress of impenetrable walls keep you safe and secure. 

The enemy may be present in your days, but does not need prevail. You may hear his intimidating whispers but it doesn’t hold any authority over you. No, you've learned how to stay covered in an invisible blanket of God's glory keeping you steadfast and immoveable. No matter how hard he tries he can’t reach you.

So how do we become "untouchable"? When we’re hidden in Christ. When we know who we are and who He says we are. When we come to a place of resolute faith that knows God's Word has the final say. Period. It's time to take a stand against anxiety, fear and chaos that desperately wants to surround us. I'm sharing 5 practical ways to remain "untouchable" from them, along with sharing openly about times when I've felt overwhelmed.

Minta was not unfamiliar with the Christian Faith, or reading the Bible. However, a couple kids and some heartbreaks later, she found herself wooed by what the world had to offer, and left with faith a mile wide and an inch deep. Minta's story is a powerful testament to the redemptive nature of  Father God. She has and continues to overcome immense challenges while digging even deeper into the living Word of God in such a way that's bringing transformation to herself and many others through her podcast, teen ministry and heart for local outreach.

If you're faced with faith a mile wide and inch deep, or have never fully surrendered your life to the Way of Jesus, this story will bring encouragement and practical tools to dive into an authentic, beautiful relationship with God like never before. 

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