Hearth Fire Podcast

Hearth Fire Podcast

Gather around the metaphorical hearth to share ideas & conversations on matters of the Heart, Hearth and Earth. Cross-pollinating as we span our wings, connecting the threads of ancestral wisdom. I believe ancestral wisdom provides a road map to a regenerative culture, contributing to thriving communities, healing and health.

Episodes

October 12, 2023 56 mins

One of my dearest friends and herbal sister, Aspen, joins me to chat about our love for herbal medicine, her journey with herbs, herbalism in the home, family and personally. We discuss what we have been up to seasonally with herbs here in Spring in Australia. We touch on comfrey, herbal oils, herbal juices & why local herbs are sometimes the best. I hope this chat inspires you to delve into the empowering and fulfilling world...

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Amy from Amy Armstrong Health shares with us an extremely information dense and important aspect of achieving holistic thriving health.

Bringing both personal lived experience and a wealth of knowledge and research, Amy explains the importance of mineral balance in our body and diet. Why we may actually not need more iron but a better balance of nutrients. This is important information for anyone at any life stage but especially if...

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Join me for my first solo herb podcast! This episode is about St John's Wort, my experience and story foraging it late last year. Then processing and using it for myself and clients. 

I also briefly:

- introduce the herb

- how to ID it

- process it to make oil

- the medicinal uses

- my recent client experience with it

- The fresh, small batch seasonal herbal products I offer


Nothing said or written here is medical advice. ...

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Anna Axisa from Homegrown Healthy Living shares with us her huge journey, alongside her family of moving to and setting up a 10 acre homestead, farm, business and now a wonderful book. After a diagnosis of MS in 2016 Anna took hers and her family's health and wellness journey to a whole new level, the book documents and shares all of the above. Including the story, challenges, successes, learning, resilience, skills, gardening,...

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Scott Hall joins me to share and discuss the exciting and important role Syntropic and Regenerative Agriculture plays in providing a pathway to long term resilient food producing systems and therefore thriving ecological health and human communities. 

You can find Scott at his:

Website https://www.syntropia.com.au/

Instagram

Facebook


Welcome to the Heart Hearth Earth podcast where we gather around the metaphorical hearth to sh...

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Welcome to the Heart Hearth Earth podcast where we gather around the metaphorical hearth to share ideas and conversations on matters of the Heart, Hearth and Earth.

Cross pollinating as we span our wings connecting the threads of ancestral wisdom. I believe ancestral wisdom provides a road map to a regenerative culture, contributing to thriving communities, healing and health.

This Episode is with Lydia from Internal Instinct on ba...

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September 29, 2022 27 mins

Welcome to the Heart Hearth Earth podcast where we gather around the metaphorical hearth to share ideas and conversations on matters of the Heart, Hearth and Earth.

Cross pollinating as we span our wings connecting the threads of ancestral wisdom. I believe ancestral wisdom provides a road map to a regenerative culture, contributing to thriving communities, healing and health.


The supplements my family and I use and recommend:

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Episode 41. Sophie Jeffreys from Bearing Wonder Pilates Instructor, Postpartum Corrective Exercise Specialist, Shiatsu Therapist & Postpartum Doula. Supporting women through the childbearing years with movement, nurture and wonderment. 

With a huge love and passion for working with new mothers, Sophie shares her knowledge, experience and thoughts on the importance of healthy movement, pilates, bodywork, love and awareness ...

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Nadine O'Mara from Conscious Life Yoga, Conscious Birth on doulas and yoga for fertility, prenatal, birth and beyond. Nadine, a mother, senior yoga teacher and doula, shares her strong passion for supporting women and their families from conception to birth and beyond. Nadine is also the co-director at Bliss Baby Yoga. 

Join us for a chat about many things yoga from: 

- Prenatal, birth, postpartum and beyond - Yoga for he...

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Episode 39. The Valley Below, collective voices, sharing experiences of postnatal anxiety & depression through song with Oneewa McDowell from Blackbird Songwriting

For national PANDA (Perinatal Anxiety and Depression Australia) week, this episode is a little bit different. Oneewa McDowell joins me to share how her sister Shara Hala'api'api and herself came together with 12 other women to create a song, a collective voice for ot...

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Join me for a super informative and down-to-earth chat about breastfeeding and the important role of lactation consultants.

Emma Maher from Empowered Lactation with Emma and I discuss:

- What exactly an International Board Certified Lactation Consultant (IBCLC or LC) is, their scope and why you should know how to contact your local one

- The magic of breastfeeding and some of the common challenges

- Key elements for optimising your...

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A rich conversation exploring the the major rites of passage, peri-menopause & menopause from a wholistic perspective. A profound call to action to redefine the wild wise woman phase of life with power. We discuss personal infant loss throughout

Brenda Rogers is The Menopause Naturopath & life coach specialising in health and wellbeing for women at midlife. Engaged to Paul; a devoted step-mum of a teenager, naturopath who l...

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Join me as I chat with Caitlin Dyer from Mother Down Under, Brisbane, Qld, Australia

Through Caitlin’s own personal and professional experience, she has created an empowering and holistic package supporting mothers and families from pregnancy to birth and through to postpartum. A hypnobirth instructor, postpartum doula with a background in psychology and nursing.

We discuss:

- Caitlin’s own experience in pregnancy birth and beyond

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Aurelie Athan PhD is a clinical psychologist and faculty member at The Teachers College, Columbia University in New York. Aurelie has dedicated much of the last 15 years of her career in Reproductive Identity, understanding and revival of the term Matrescence, originally coined by Anthropologist Dana Raphael in the 1970’s. In fact the popular TED Talk by Alexandra Sacks on Matrescence, was inspired by one of Aurelie’s conference ta...

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Rahma Yelwa-Adedji, wife, mother, daughter, sister, friend, teacher, doula, story teller, Nigerian woman living in Abudja. Gifted in her expression Rahma shares with us her heartfelt story of motherhood, having grown up with mothercare practises all around her and going on a learning journey to more deeply understand the whys behind the tradition to maintain them in our current world.

We discuss:

- Rahma’s observations as a teacher...

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Prairie Wolfe of Somatic Connections is dedicated to supporting mothers and families during the transition to parenthood by bringing together a unique and powerful skill set of therapies, modalities and care practices to assist in healing and preparation before during and after birth. With a beautifully grounded, wise way of sharing her knowledge and passion and we had such an in-depth, rich chat where Prairie shares:

- Her own sto...

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Genna Shaw from Māmā Toa (Strong Mama) is a birth prep and postpartum doula, HypnoBirthing practitioner and photographer.

The creator of the Not Another Childbirth Class where she puts together a line up of birth and postpartum professionals to discuss all the topics that aren't discussed in antenatal appointments. This is an in-person event as well as a web series.

Also the creator of the Indigenous Birth Collective, a websit...

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Zelma is a mother of two, social worker, writer, author and founder of the award winning The Postnatal Project.  Zelma experienced her own postpartum mental health personal challenges in the transition to motherhood and is dedicated and passionate about empowering and supporting others at any stage of parenthood. 

Zelma is the author of a number of books and resources spanning the practical to the emotional terrain, as we...

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Pollination Mamas Website - Facebook - Instagram

Lucy chats about the intention of the team behind the recent the inaugural #mumsmatter National Online Symposium themed A New Australian Narrative for Mums: Decolonising Motherhood.

We get an insight into the range of speakers that will share their own experiences of parenting, working with mothers, and organising community based events that will ask: how we can redefine motherhood i...

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My inaugural solo podcast! Recorded while we're all in lockdown, I was inspired to jump on and share an introduction to nourishing foods at this time. Partly as I had prepared for a talk local online support group and had my notes ready and partly because it has been harder for me to get free time to record with others. However I found a moment. I'm hoping to jump on and do more about this topic, home herbalism, the pillars of post...

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