WISE WOMEN DIARIES

Stepping into Mature, Mother Energy as a Maiden with Emily Bruce

This episode is for the young women, the maidens, seeking maturity. Emily (@leorisingbirthkeeping on instagram) and I talk about how we are stepping into mother energy before having children. Emily and I surround ourselves with mothers that are aligned with our values and trust us to help mother their children. Maidens having deep relationships with mothers is a sacred step on the path to feminine maturation / motherhood. We discuss how birth control is stunting women from having an intimate relationship with their own body and is also effecting women’s lack of desire to have children. Emily hosts a monthly Maiden to Mother virtual circle for maidens, pregnant women, and mothers to all learn from each other.

Healing Postpartum Anxiety & Recurrent Miscarriages | Samantha’s Story

Samantha (@hellomama.nutrition on instagram) shares her first conventional hospital birth story, with postpartum anxiety that followed and lasted for two years. Doctors weren’t interested in helping her so she took her health into her own hands, healing her anxiety, igniting a new passion for nutrition, health, and helping educate mothers about true nourishment. Then after multiple miscarriages, she looked even deeper into her health again, healing her body on her own, without the help of western medicine. Her next birth was a home birth, but she had complex emotions that surfaced when the birth was so much harder and darker than she expected. Lastly, she speaks on not being a parent on auto-pilot. Years into parenting her first daughter, she realized she was parenting in fear, using intimidation and discipline, and it didn't feel good for herself or her daughter, so she changed her ways. 

Not Your Average Homebirther | Jordan’s Homebirth Story

Jordan had a common first birth: an induction in the medical system. She desired a natural birth but with the induction, all her plans and dreams went out the window. She still walked away from it thinking she had a good first birth.... until she learned the REAL truth about birth on podcasts and the magic of homebirth. Coming from a medical family and knowing no one in her life that homebirthed, she forged ahead and knew she had to experience a homebirth with her second baby.... and it was everything she could have dreamed and more! So easy and simple. Right after her daughter was born in the water, Jordan exclaimed, "Thats it? That was easy! I want another baby, I have to do this again!" 

Part 2: I Don’t Want My ’Old Self’ Back | Tay’s Mother Wisdom

The presence and intention Tay brings to her mothering is unlike anything I have ever witnessed. We discuss her mothering journey with her son, which includes, elimination communication (offering the toilet to her son in infancy), breastfeeding, waiting a year to leave her son for the first time, and why she doesn’t own any baby accessories (no bottles, pacifiers, breast pumps, crib, etc.). We talk deeply about many topics surrounding motherhood, like when mother's betray themselves or their babies, their body tells them through heartbreak, anxiety, or depression. There is so much wisdom from Tay in this episode I highly recommend re-listening a second or third time.

Part 1: Shedding Maidenhood Before Pregnancy | Tay’s Freebirth Story

Tay is one of the most unique humans I have ever met. Her story encapsulates what is possible for all women in birth and postpartum. She stepped into Mother energy before conception, releasing her Maidenhood and the maiden's need for external validation and an authority figure. Tay was her own authority throughout each step: pregnancy, birth, and motherhood. She had a simple, wild pregnancy, without any prenatal care or appointments or tests, a freebirth in her home with just her husband and parents, and an unbelievable, "psychedelic" postpartum where she describes falling in love with her husband again, and her new son, and receiving spiritual downloads from God. Her story is incredibly unique and perhaps unrelatable to many, but the ease and bliss she experienced in pregnancy, birth, and postpartum, is indeed available to all women, not just her.

Lessons from Miscarriage and a ’Sensitive Child’ | Taylor’s Motherhood Journey

Taylor, a mother of three, discusses her journey as a young, naive mother, to an embodied, mature mother who fully trusts herself. As a professional athlete's wife, she explains how hard her first postpartum was while her husband's career was taking off, then struggling with eczema with her middle 'sensitive child' and feeling deeply victim to the eczema. But then her life changed dramatically after experiencing a twin miscarriage... It broke her open and changed her mothering journey. She learned that her sensitive child is her biggest gift and she is not a victim. And, after two c-sections, she learned how to speak up for herself and have the VBAC she yearned for. 

Trusting My Baby | Sue Ellen’s Freebirth at 43 Weeks

The *first ever* Wise Women Diaries interview is with, Sue Ellen, a first time mom. She details the journey of having no medical prenatal care throughout her 'wild pregnancy' and how she was able to relax into Trust within her own body, without receiving tests or ultrasounds to externally validate any fears that surfaced. She explains some of the anxieties that presented when she reached 43 weeks in pregnancy, but ultimately how it stretched and deepened her Trust for her baby and God to surrender and have a blissful, primal freebirth.

My Insights from a Persistent Body Symptom

My body is leading me to true Trust of my body, something Western Medicine AND Holistic Medicine does not embody or teach. Our body doesn't start healing when we start taking a pill or supplement or see a chiropractor. It's always healing, but it doesn't always heal in a way that is pleasing to our mind! 

Doctors mentioned that inspire me: Dr Cassie Huckaby, Dr Melissa Sell, and Dr Kelly Brogan

The Voice of the Short-Term Self vs Long-Term Self Within Us

We have two selves within us: the short term self (ego) AND the long term self (soul). The short term self always wants us to do the fast, easy, lazy, instant gratification choice! We never FEEL like working out, or eating healthy, or forgiving someone. It takes wisdom to know whether what we FEEL is our short term self or our long term self.

What if a Miracle is Just a Shift of Perspective?

Do we try to control God with our prayers- praying for specific outcomes, specific miracles? What if our view of miracles is so extremely limited? What if a miracle is a change of perspective? What if a miracle is a change from anger to peace? What if "bad" events like infertility IS the miracle that can allow someone to fully become an ally with their body and learn to fully trust it?