Herbal Womb Wisdom

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I'm sure every single one of us have experienced a craving for chocolate either during our premenstrual days or when we're bleeding. 

Our bodies crave chocolate with an innate knowing at different times of our cycle, really. Mine does at least!

But today's guest, founder of Emerging Wisdom Cacao Samantha Veitch, shares a much deeper story on the ways cacao can support us through...

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Last week I read some quotes from Dr Rosales Mesa. 

She said, 

"The prophecy of a new ancient world isn't something we wait for. It's something we EMBODY TOGETHER... Your ancestors prayed for you to awaken the wisdom in your blood and bones. You were not born for colonial submission... Despair keeps us in the colonial story. Hope is ancestral."

And my goodness, they resonate...

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Not sure I've ever gotten so vulnerable on a podcast to date. 

First of all, we are essentially celebrating FOUR YEARS of this podcast this week. Weekly episodes. A true labor of love.

Secondly, I have a very vulnerable ask I share within the first 7ish minutes. If you'd be open to listening to that and perhaps sharing my work, this episode, the video, or the Natural Contraception pr...

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I read a post this morning from someone in Slovenia who said we are "underreacting" here in the United States. In some cases, this may be true. 

But I also see a lot of people highly reacting to the immense onslaught of too much-ness that we're navigating right now.

And in that reacting, it could be actively doing things, but it may also look like reactively numbing or...

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Many of us are feeling the wobbliness of the world right now. It's not easy to know what to say, how to engage with our daily lives, or really what's going to happen.

And while that can feel destabilizing (obvs), it can also be a really good time to consider our own personal resilience -- to honor that, listen within, and build towards greater capacity. This is not the same for ever...

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How do you relate to the fierce intensity that is rage? So many of us are socialized to dim this part of ourselves, to tuck it inside, that it is NOT welcome in the world.

For women and female-bodied folks, it is common to be labeled "hormonal" or "hysterical." And what does that typically mean? Anger, irritation, rage...

This is so deeply embedded in our cultural ways of k...

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How can the wheel of the year support your inherent wellbeing? 

Not just seasonal connection, but actually feeling into the qualities the season offers and intentionally working with some of that energy to enhance your life...

Today's conversation with Corinna Wood explores this topic as she describes the Wise Woman's Needs Wheel she developed at a time in her life when she was walki...

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What if your cycle was a storyteller? An oracle? A guide to help you more deeply understand what your body is telling you?

This is exactly what your cycle is, whether you're in your peal fertility years, have irregular cycles, hormonal imbalances, are perimenopausal or beyond. 

And while for some people, hormonal birth control is an important ally, for others they were put on the pill to ...

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What is arousal and how is it related to your vagus nerve, past trauma or feeling unsafe, your stress levels, or even your body just being built differently?

In today's medley episode we explore all of these concepts. 

In this liminal time out of time that is "holiday season" there is often an overstimulation happening, but also an invitation to slow down. 

I heard recently that ...

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What can it look like, even in the fullness of the holiday season, to orient to restorative practices for deep wintertime wellbeing?

What if we treated this time as the transitional rite of passage that it is along the sun's path of rebirth into the new wheel of the year?

In this week's medley episode, you'll hear about practices from Ayurvedic, Traditional Chinese Medicine and ...

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So many of us live with some form of chronic or acute pain. We get used to it, we look for ways to relieve it, we may find some things that work - temporarily or long term. 

Sometimes that's movement practices, sometimes it's bodywork, sometimes it's structural adjustments, etc. 

But more often than not, we're not actually looking to the root of the pain. 

And unfortunately ...

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It is a total MYTH that nursing is birth control, so if you've heard that I'm sorry to say, you're out of luck. It is true that for some people, lactation may deter ovulation for many months or years. But it is NOT true for everyone, unfortunately.

This is why there are so many unexpected pregnancies that come soon after a previous one. And honestly, unless you are planning on ...

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How does living in deep relationship to the seasons and cycles of nature impact your sense of belonging on the earth?

Today's guest, co-founder of Moon Seeds planner - Erica Ela Bartoli, spent some formative years traveling and living in intimate connection with the elements, first in a yurt and later as she traveled around Africa, with the sky often as her ceiling.

During these "rew...

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So much of life these days seems to be polarized. As if the world is black and white, right and wrong. And this is no different in the birth world.

As social media reach has taken hold, I've been watching the rise of polarity especially in the "free birth" community. Honestly, I had friends freebirthing before Instagram existed, but I also trained in homebirth midwifery for 5 y...

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Holy mama! This week is monumental and I want to honor it with you because this podcast would be nothing without the community of thousands of listeners who have tuned in over time. THANK YOU.

Today marks episode 200!! 

So I decided to craft a simple episode highlighting the power of celebration -- to embody the practice of celebrating (including 2 of my biggest celebrations from this podcast ...

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What does it mean to connect with your inner wild woman (or wild womb)? 

And how can you more fully embody this innate creative, sensual, generative, wisdom-keeping part of yourself in ways that feel inspiring and unique to you?

It can be easy to look online at social media accounts painting with menstrual blood or embodying some fierce quality of themselves with animal hides and think... &quo...

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Navigating the whirls and twirls of perimenopause can feel like a wild ride. 

But amidst all of this transitional terrain, what if there was also a potential for immense power?

There is! And this is a lot of what we explore in this week's episode.

Business mentor and life coach Olivia Bowen shares about everything from how her births supported her spiritual growth to how her surprising ent...

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So many of us are walking around with the beliefs we created in childhood running the show.

And almost always, we are unconscious of it. Largely because we have other parts of ourselves protecting us from feeling or becoming aware of the hurt parts of ourselves.

These "parts" protect us, or try to, and in a way cause us to act and react to everything from social intera...

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Let's be honest that most of us are poorly informed about all the non-hormonal birth control options we have. 

Our providers basically tell us we should either choose something they have on offer (whether that's IUD's or hormonal contraception of one kind or another), and dismiss the efficacy of the myriad non-hormonal birth control options we have access to outside of the medi...