This week I'm speaking with Rebecca Wilson, who facilitates Shamanic Womb Healing and Rites Blessings. Rebecca is the Founder of Womb Connection Healing & Awakening which has been birthed from her personal journey of womb awakening. She is a Womb Keeper, Womb Healer, Wise Womban, Spirit Baby Doula, and Birth Doula and holds a powerful Earth-filled medicine that naturally infuses all her work and offerings. In this episode, we discuss the power of conscious conception, our philosophies on and insights into miscarriages, how Rebecca guides women in conscious, grounded conception journeys. She shares valuable advice for women interested in starting a conscious conception journey and offers extremely eye-opening and comforting words for mothers who have experienced loss.

This week on the podcast I am speaking to Zandra Spencer. Zandra is an Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT Tapping) and Matrix Birth Re-Imprinting practitioner, with a background in psychology and counselling. She supports women struggling with anxiety in pregnancy, and mums who are holding onto difficult birth stories, supporting them to release and reset. In this episode, we speak about the importance of processing and reclaiming our birth stories. We speak about how the energy held in our bodies after birth affects our motherhood experience. The impact of not honouring our transitions into motherhood can have and so much more. We also share our upcoming collaboration with the listeners which you can register your interest in via https://view.flodesk.com/pages/6064801f5a1c0a9e03a9615c  

This week I'm speaking with Claudia Spahr, a published author, speaker, activator, visionary and sacred space holder, and Founder of HolyMama Retreats. She's also an integrative health coach, retreat leader, retreat facilitator trainer, fertility expert and mother. Having become a mother of three in her 40's, Claudia is passionate about getting women to feel more in control of their health, well-being and life. In this episode, we discuss the different transitions women experience throughout their lifetime and in motherhood, as well as how we can honour and celebrate these transitions more collectively in society. Claudia highlights the effects of healing our mother wounds and honouring our rites of passage as women, sharing stories and examples of the benefits of gathering in community and in women's circles.

This week I'm speaking with Bethany Wilde, a women's health bodyworker and author. Bethany offers holistic womb and pelvic healing sessions, weaving together intuitive bodywork and ceremony, energy medicine, and deep presence. She also offers online education for womb and pelvic connection and healing, for women and mothers. In this episode, we discuss how the womb has the blueprint for mothering wisdom and healing, the powerful effects of womb and pelvic connection on our minds and bodies, and how to start a simple womb-centred practice. Bethany shares about her journey with conception, loss, and becoming a mother, then we talk about the various transitions women go through in life and the role community plays in supporting and honouring these transitions. She also shares how we can integrate yoni steaming and jade egg practices into our lives to heal and care for our wombs.

This week I'm speaking with Jodi, who is a mindfulness teacher and Mum to her 3-year old son Clovis. She is a certified Midwife, Doula and Perinatal Yoga teacher, as well as the Founder of Mama Sangha, a mindfulness community for mums whose mission is to support mothers to awaken to their inherent goodness. Jodi offers online mindfulness courses and workshops, as well as a free monthly meditation Sangha, to support mums in feeling more love, peace, and joy. She believes in the fundamental wisdom of all mothers' hearts and she shares these practices to guide us back to a place of inner knowing, trusting in our instincts and to parent from the heart. In this episode, we discuss the benefits of mindfulness and the ways you can incorporate mindfulness into your life and your children's lives. Jodi speaks on the many issues we face as modern mothers, from competition to overwhelm, and how we can overcome these struggles by tapping into our inner knowing. She shares simple tips for becoming more mindful and enhancing the mindfulness of your kids.

This week I'm speaking with Beth Berry, a life coach, small group and retreat facilitator, mother of four daughters and author of the recently published #1 Best-Seller, Motherwhelmed. Though you may not have heard that term before, you may resonate with it… I certainly do! Mothers all over the globe experience overwhelm on a whole different level to other people, but we have the ability to release this overwhelm and find peace. In this episode, Beth and I talk about what has inspired her to connect with mothers and support them in their reclamation of motherhood, as well as the stories we're being fed about what motherhood should look and feel like and how they affect us. We explore the unconscious contracts we allow ourselves to create before becoming mothers and how to rewrite those contracts from a new perspective, examining our worth and our true desires. Beth sheds light on the unrealistic pace that we're striving to live in, the importance of learning to remother ourselves, and the power in coming together to create community to move away from feelings of isolation and overwhelm.

This week I'm speaking with Clare Spink, the founder of Womb & Fertility Massage Therapy, a fusion of womb massage, pulsing, rebozo and emotional healing to enhance successful conception and womb healing. Clare's passion is for women to truly know their bodies and their wombs. Helping women connect to the innate wisdom of their wombs enables us to release trauma, experience more pleasure and peace, and live a fuller and juicier life. In this episode, Clare and I talk about reconnecting to the womb through self-massage and why it's so beneficial for us to practice this. We discuss conscious conception, as well as the role of the psoas muscle in our health, its function in allowing us to release trauma, and how it affects the womb when it's in a state of tightness. Clare also speaks on the relationship between breathwork and womb health and the desensitisation of our wombs and menstrual cycle, emphasizing the power in remembering and honouring these beautiful cycles we experience as women. "Heal the womb, heal the woman."                           - Clare Spink

This week I'm speaking with Dr. Sophie Brock, a Motherhood Studies Sociologist and single mother to her 3yo daughter, about what it means to be a "good enough mother" and what the societal expectations are around being a good mother. Sophie works with both mothers and practitioners who support mothers, to understand the ways mothers' experiences are socially and culturally shaped. It's so powerful to explore and understand what motherhood means to us, because it's different for every single person and each version of that is perfect for that person. In this episode, we discuss how social and cultural conditioning leaves us feeling guilty or ashamed in motherhood when we feel we aren't doing the best we can be doing, along with the shifts we can make to overcome that. Sophie explains how marketing and advertising, as well as so many other forms of messaging, have impacted the way women view motherhood, even long before they become mothers. We then share steps you can take and questions you can ask yourself to reframe your image of motherhood and heal from the guilt and shame you may feel or have felt as a mother.

This week I'm speaking with Manolee Yadave, a psychosexual therapist who is keen to understand the impacts of sexual experiences on couples and individuals. She believes that couples and individuals are entitled to have a sexually fulfilling life. I'm sure you can resonate with that, right? In this episode, we discuss the biggest challenges her clients face in approaching sex and intimacy after having kids, touching on the many ways sex can feel different and the many ways you can reignite your sex life after childbirth. Manolee speaks on reconnecting with your body, your sensuality, and your sexuality after having kids, emphasizing the importance of exploration, communication, and playfulness. When delving into this area of exploration and newness, what you may find can be surprising or intimidating, but remember to take it slow and start simply.

This week I'm speaking with Adele Wimsett, a women's health practitioner and cyclical living coach, about how essential oils can support us in our day to day lives. Smell is one of the five senses, which means it has a powerful effect on our lives and our wellness. We all know how lovely essential oils can smell, but do you know the vast plethora of benefits essential oils can have for mothers, children, babies, and everyone else in between? Essential oils aren't just great for smelling and diffusing, they have countless other uses that we'll be passionately exploring with Adele. In this episode, we delve into the history of essential oils, the many ways they can be used, and how safe they are to use, especially with children and babies. We discuss how to choose the best essential oils for you, along with why the quality and purity of your oils matters, touching on the potential dangers of using products with synthetic perfumes and fragrances. Adele then shares with us the specific ways in which oils can be used to support you in your cycle and in times of lethargy, overwhelm, anxiety, postpartum healing, and much more.