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December 21, 2023 95 mins

Soul tender and doula Trudy Titilayo shares about coming into relationship with her ancestors as they help her guide souls through the spiral of life and death. 

You’ll also hear about:

  • Being called into relationship with the ancestors

  • Moving from being the Witness into being the Teacher

  • Doulaing as more than just supporting the birthing process

  • Teaching our daughters choice

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Trudy Titilayo is a witness to Life's longing for itself. A humble steward of this sacred journey through birth, breath, death and rebirth, in honor of our Ancestors and the next seven generations. 

 

In this episode, we talk about:

  • Ancestral calls to the spiral road

  • Trudy’s relationship with her grandmother 

  • Witnessing and connecting the dots of memory

  • The reciprocal gifts Trudy has both given and received within the Earth Speak Collective

  • Learning to show up for oneself and finding one’s voice

  • Going through the pandemic as a chrysalis moment

  • The power of sitting (and dancing) with the ancestors without expectation or knowing why

  • The journey of becoming a doula including Trudy’s own birth story

  • Birth and death as our most vulnerable moments

  • The damage that being separated from our ancestral land causes not only ourselves, but future generations

  • Trudy’s pilgrimage to her ancestral lands

  • Big news from Shawna

  • Trudy’s experiences recognising the death transition and holding her family through the portals of life

  • The subtlety of signs and learning to trust the call

  • How the work Trudy has done towards liberating herself has impacted her daughters

  • Giving yourself permission to claim all of yourself

  • Doulaing identity

 

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