Episode 8: With Great Love Comes Great Grief: Planned Freebirth, Stillbirth & Near-Death Experience with Emma Cardinal

In this deeply moving episode, Emma Cardinal shares her story of love, loss, and transformation through the journey of a planned Freebirth, Stillbirth and personal Near-Death Experience.

This conversation explores:

- The intersection of birth, death and transformation

- The healing crisis within modern midwifery

- How grief and love are inseparable

- The importance of context, community and compassion in every birth story

- Why walking the middle way means honoring paradox and many truths

Emma’s son, Floyd, lived only in the womb, but his spirit continues to breathe Life into this world through his mother’s voice. Her words remind us that Birth and Death are not opposites, they are two threads woven throughout the same tapestry.

This conversation is not about choosing sides.It is not about hospital vs. home, licensed vs. unlicensed, medical vs. mystical.It is about being HUMAN.It is about being humbled by Life.It is about the ways we love so deeply that it breaks us open, and how that expansion becomes our medicine.

Women are awakening to their strength and power, but also softening to the truth that Birth cannot be controlled.To walk with Birth is to walk with Death.To Midwife Life is to Midwife loss.To love is to grieve.

This episode is an offering to the Middle Way, a space beyond polarity, where paradox and many truths can exist simultaneously. A space where context matters, where compassion leads and where every story is sacred.

My prayer is that you listen with your heart open and your spirit grounded. May we hold Emma’s story, and all stories like it, with the reverence they deserve.

Thank you Dear Emma & Floyd for your graciousness, generosity and contributions to the Evolution of Human Consciousness through the portals of Life and Death.

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About Emma Cardinal:

Emma Cardinal is Floyd’s Spirit Mama. Earth Woman. Space Holder.Grief tending, death keeping, birth honoring, story medicine — walking the middle way. A prayer born from loss. 🥀 Connect: Instagram → @ahummingbirdprayer

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