Herbal Womb Wisdom
Curious about herbal and holistic approaches to womb wellness (i.e. periods, infections, libido, pleasure, pain, PMS, hormones, body confidence, fertility, PCOS, cycle irregularity, etc)? No matter what phase of life you are in, or what you've been told is - or isn't - possible, if it's related to your wombspace, it's covered here. Clinical herbalist and integrative health educator Kay'aleya Hunnybee will guide you through a range of topics by combining traditional wisdom, embodied practice, and modern science. With her years of experience as an herbalist and history as a student midwife, doula and massage therapist, she brings a broadly integrative perspective. Expect inspiration, stories, research, some interviews, plenty of plant talk, occasional humor, a whole lot of being real, and a compassionate heart. You'll leave every episode with actionable steps to enhance your menstrual, sexual and hormonal health and enrich your life.
Episodes
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If you're reading this, my guess is you're likely already aware that your menstrual cycle is something you can cultivate a generative relationship with.
In the process of getting to know our cycles (whether through pure observation, actively tracking signs and symptoms and/or embodying cyclical living practices), we gain valuable understanding of what our bodies are telli...
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Well late summer is here, and between medicine making, food preservation and family visits, life is full.
So today I'm bringing you a medley full of juicy past episode snippets all about understanding your cycle and your choices.
First you'll hear about your choices of non-hormonal birth control -- specifically focusing on the copper IUD and condoms, but you can ...
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How do you find resources you can trust around perinatal herbal care?
Whether you're a birthworker, an herbalist, or on your own fertility/pregnancy/postpartum journey, it can feel confusing to sort through all the information on herbal safety and efficacy in pregnancy, birth and postpartum (especially if you're nursing).
Not to mention how to comfortably incorpo...
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As humans, grief is an unavoidable part of life. Loss, illness, unexpected upheavals internally and externally, in relationship to others, self, the earth, our wombs, the cycles and seasons of life, and on and on.
There's no poverty of opportunities to face grief, but there is a poverty of grief literacy -- at least here in the United States.
Most of us are socialize...
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Last week I had some discomfort "down there." I felt a slight tinge of pain when I walked, and a little itchiness, and it felt like something was growing on my vulva.
I took a mirror and a headlamp and checked it out. (Yes, you can do that too. If you've never looked at your vulva, please do. It's a treasure.)
What I found was a little red stretched pea ...
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Herbs for surgery?
Something commonly overlooked is how many surgeries women and folks with wombs encounter in their lifetime.
From high cesarean rates and hysterectomies to endometriosis excision surgeries to hip or knee replacements post-menopause, we experience a LOT of surgical intervention and we're often far underprepared for how we can restore the tissue integ...
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Fertility is a reflection of your overall health, wellbeing, vitality, capacity.
I think it's common to pigeonhole "trying to conceive" as all about hormones, but actually our body's reproductive resilience is a mirror of what else may be going on in our bodies.
There are so many factors at play, from nutrition to movement to environmental exposures to...
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What comes up for you when you think of offering yourself gentleness?
I think for many of us, we don't feel time for things like slowness, soothing, gentleness, tenderness, caretaking our own selves.
We're often preoccupied with any number of other roles and responsibilities in life, and as women and folks with wombs, we've often been socialized to place our...
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What's the difference between body positivity and body neutrality?
I think this is a really important distinction that today's guest - strength coach Kali Perry - gives insight into surrounding her own journey in her body as she eventually found her way to finally having a breast reduction she'd been considering for many years.
The concept of body positivity...
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What does it mean to connect to your womb, anyway? I mean, is that a practical thing or totally intangible?
It's a fair question, and one I would have asked many years ago when I was completely and utterly disconnected from the part of my body "where the sun don't shine."
It took me many years to find my way there.
It's interesting, a cou...
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The energy of peak summer is upon us.
It's been HOT and the speed of the everything-all-at-onceness with all the plants coming in, the quickening energy of social time, long days, short nights, holidays, travel, adventures, and so much more.
How can you better navigate all these energies by connecting with the plants and your own body?
Today I'm offerin...
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IC might look like all the symptoms of recurrent urinary tract infections (UTI's) though it lacks the bacteria that cause those infections. But because it's exceedingly common to not test for bac...
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What happens when we look beyond the basics of "herbs for fertility?"
Because let's be honest that quite often folks who are on a fertility journey, trying to conceive, are experiencing far more than a simple hormonal imbalance.
Though of course, some folks are... and we can look in that direction too.
The truth is though, that the path of TTC can ...
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Becoming a mother or parent is transformational - no matter what- and there is growth with every pregnancy and birth along the way too.
But the journey of meeting, acquainting with and then navigating the world of complex caregiving when your new baby is born with special medical needs is likely hard to understand if you haven't walked the path yourself.
Personally I h...
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Okay, wait what!? Is it actually possible to experience an empowered pelvic exam?
If you've ever laid on an exam table with your feet in stirrups awaiting a cold speculum from a practitioner who's giving dozens of pelvic exams each day, you'd probably answer, 'hell no.'
Almost every part of a gynecologic exam feels awkward to most of us. Pants off,...
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This is a first my friends.
I can't always answer Q's, especially in my DM's and emails, from listeners so I thought this would be a great way to share my answers (which always tend to be more nuanced than a quick response, let's be honest).
If someone is asking these questions, my guess is that many more of you are too.
So I hope you enjoy th...
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I'll be the first to admit that it irks me when people use the term "plant medicine" to refer to psychedelics, or what perhaps could be more properly termed "entheogens."
First of all, half of those are isolated compounds that are created in labs (perhaps originally derived from plants, but not always) and others are derived from fungi or animal compounds. <...
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We all know loss, grief, heartbreak. But how many of us know how to tend it in ourselves or in those we love?
Once we've made it into adulthood, many of us have experienced heartbreak -- a total shattering -- at least once, if not multiple times.
And as we move onward into midlife and beyond, the heartbreaks just compound, don't they? We begin to identify, for y...
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Herbs and pregnancy.
Let's just say this is a topic with all kinds of perspectives depending on who you talk to. Or what link you click after your google search.
So, how do you know what's safe, what's not, and who to trust when it comes to herbs, like for instance red raspberry leaf, in pregnancy?
Well, it's a multi-layered response really, wh...
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What does it mean to hold trauma in the wombspace? And what are some signs that indicate that womb trauma may be present?
The topic of "womb healing" is a bit of a buzz these days and sometimes I wonder what people mean by that. I see social media profiles of "womb healing practitioners" and "womb healing" programs and honestly it's a vague concep...
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