birthawakening - for sovereign women
Birthawakening is for holistic-minded, sovereign women who lead with their intuition and think differently about our food, our relationships, and even how we give birth and raise children. Holistic, conscious living means we're in for a grand re-envisioning of what we've been told is 'the good life'.
Episodes
Ask questions, and don't just accept the answers blindly. There’s not really any such thing as a “routine” procedure, except for what's part of your care provider’s typically-preferred routine. It’s all Optional. Recommended. Suggested. Commonly practiced. If your care provider tells you to get a test or procedure done, ask what it’s for, and whether it’s medically necessary. Is this just something he or she likes to do to...
Are you committed to having a better birth? Do your own research!
Don't rely on your health care professional to tell you everything you need to know, because they won't.
Not because they're a jerk or anything of the sort. It's just that they don’t have the time to spend telling you things that aren’t medically necessary for you to know.
The medical community, on the whole, is trained to look for and deal with patho...
Why do we need empowered childbirth? How would we even cultivate such a thing?
Women often experience fear throughout pregnancy in our culture--and tend to look toward modern obstetric care to “deliver them” from the unknown experience of birth.
We have become disconnected from the true nature and ability of our bodies. The intense, primal, transformational experience of an unfettered birth is something that far too many ...
Welcome to the RELAUNCH of my podcast, now with a video component on YouTube. In this episode, I talk about my reluctant path of becoming a doula, supporting Cesarean births, and how I slowly realized that I didn't quite fit into the typical world of birth pros!
Watch this on YouTube instead: https://youtu.be/PPuSKHM_Sn4
Read my Birth articles on Substack: https://www.krystaltrammell.com/s/birth
- Why doulas are trained to distrust birth
- Ancestral wisdom whispers, and fear drowns it out
- Freebirth doens't need to mean ALONE
- How to balance professional liability with trust in birthing women
- Freebirth isn't radical, it's simply a response to how the system treats women
Does religion inform your beliefs, or do your beliefs come first?
My grandma was Catholic, but not the normal kind.
Am I a 2nd generation "new ager"?
How the concept of oneness is getting co-opted by hate
Who's REALLY sexualizing your child?
Fashion and makeup as art
Teaching discernment
Releasing victim mentality
Internalized shame is not protection
We've unschooled for 17 years now, and it's had the greatest impact on (not just education, but) our entire worldview...
- Innate curiosity is meant to be nurtured, not micromamanged
- Your child isn't 'behind' anything - it's all made-up and arbitrary!
- How grades encourage us to stick to safe, boring topics
- Why I don't call it "child-led" learning {can you say BURNOUT?}
- Why modelling boundaries is the best thing you...
Meeting my cancer-survivor friend who ate 'clean dairy' and avoided grains rocked my world, and THEN my husband's wheat allergy took over:
- Misadventures in solving your own mystery illness through food
- Registering my shock that meat is part of a 'health-promoting' diet for Celiac
- Ahimsa, the Wiccan rede, and WTH those have to do with nutrition...
- Spoiler alert: everything is connected!
Okay, we all know that the-year-that-must-not-be-named did a number on society...but did it make you rethink pretty much everything? Yeah.
- When we blogged about immune support, her medical board told her to stop
- When the rest of America and Canada were not worried yet, we were already cautious!
- How the goalposts keep moving, but you're an asshole if you talk about it
- What if the emperor has no clothes? (except for a clot...
I had five kids over 12 years - and THEN I became trained as a doula and birth pro!
- At age 18, I was one of the youngest clients to deliver at my small-town birthing center
- I had two hospital births, one so-so, and one that traumatized me (details left unsaid in this podcast - but check the links below)
- Writing to re-live my trauma as purge-therapy - unkind, but it helped
- My husband's fears around unassisted birth (whose...
This is part one of my food journey, from militant vegan teen to apathetic mama in survival mode:
- healing my views around eating-as-drudgery, and learning to find joy in food
- the effect of epigenetics and how we can influence our gene expression
- brain-retraining - i.e. what you THINK about your food while you're eating it /matters/
- it helps to have a hawt husband who's also an epically talented chef + foodie
Welcome! Today I'm jamming on a Terence McKenna quote and following rabbit-trails of...
- Nourishment from the Earth vs. vitamins and shortcuts
- Permaculture's influence on our lifestyle
- Katy Bowman's 'Nutritious Movement' and why interconnectedness is key
- My mama's ethical vegetarianism - and blind spots (we all got 'em!)
- Stressful jobs and how meditating for 5 minutes a day won't fix it all
in which i explain a teeny bit about who i am and what this gig is all about!
- was hippie before the internet existed
- unschooling and how that term has been co-opted by chaos
- emotional space-holding, doula work, and freedom to speak truth into being
- not much cursing but definitely will be using my fucking voice in this show! you've heard it here first
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