Wise Women Diaries stories are rooted in shedding victimhood and shame. We take radical responsibility for our lives. We have the power to turn pain to wisdom, choose our intuition over fear, break generational patterns, and learn how to trust ourselves. This podcast shares a wide variety of lessons from conscious women: how grief and heartbreak helped us evolve, how children are our teachers, and how we can reclaim our inner trust by stepping out of the medical paradigm in homebirth, freebirth, or ’infertility.’ Follow the host, Lea, on Instagram at @trusting_life_ Email: wisewomendiaries@gmail.com to submit your story
Episodes
Monday Apr 01, 2024
From Fertility Clinics to Discovering the Magdalene Energy | Steffi's Story
Monday Apr 01, 2024
Monday Apr 01, 2024
Stefanie (@stop_playing_small) is a Magdalene Womb alchemist and spirit baby guide. Stefanie shares her journey through fertility clinics, abortion, and pregnancy. She experienced a truly pain-free, blissful hospital birth that transformed her entire world, but then... her second birth experience was the exact opposite, but transformed her yet again. Stefanie reflects on the lessons she learned from her journey and emphasizes the significance of healing the imprints left by fertility clinics and the need for conscious awareness in the conception and birth process.
Steffi's offerings and invitations for women around the world:
Friday Mar 29, 2024
Becoming Friends With Our Own Mind | Ellen Haines
Friday Mar 29, 2024
Friday Mar 29, 2024
Ellen Haines (@healwithellen on instagram), a hypnotherapist, discusses many topics concerning the subconscious mind: how our mind is programmed between the ages of 0-7 which creates most of our auto-pilot reactions in motherhood and marriage, how children's emotions and behavior can trigger rage and judgements within parents, the deep patterns of the man-child husband and the resentful wife, and how it takes courage to face uncomfortable truths to change your life.
Ellen accepts hypnotherapy clients in person in Phoenix, Arizona and online.
Follow the Host on instagram: @trusting_birth
Friday Mar 29, 2024
A Conversation with a Female Physiologist: Adelaide Meadow
Friday Mar 29, 2024
Friday Mar 29, 2024
Adelaide Meadow (@adelaidemeadow_) is a traditional birth attendant, female physiology academic, and she owns a well woman care practice, addressing a wide variety of pelvic health concerns. In this conversation, we hear Adelaide's personal story of being in a coma and breaking her pelvis (and many other bones) from a bike accident in her 20's.
She also discusses her latest course Born Through Movement, a study of birth biomechanics, prenatal movement, and actionable ways to support the baby's pathway through the pelvis. This course helps support a woman's pelvis to create space for the baby to move in the womb and during the birth process. "A mother's tension is a baby's tension." For 10% off the course, please use the code LEA10
This conversation covers many topics including: the influence of maternal tissues on baby positioning in the womb, why epidurals help some mothers to birth vaginally, the role of fascial tissue in breastfeeding issues, and some practical advice for managing a sedentary lifestyle.
Included with the purchase of the Born Through Movement course are monthly live calls with Adelaide Meadow and Mandy Verghese, licensed midwife and prenatal bodyworker. They will lead collaborative discussions on topics such as breech, OP babies, nuchal hands, postural habits and how they impact birth patterns, licensed versus unlicensed midwifery, and how to positively impact birth outcomes through bodywork.
https://www.adelaidemeadow.com/
Follow the host on instagram at @trusting_birth
Wednesday Mar 27, 2024
Creating a Connective Culture at Home with Teens | Priscilla's Story
Wednesday Mar 27, 2024
Wednesday Mar 27, 2024
Priscilla, a Christian and homeschooling mother of five, shares how her unstable childhood allowed her to intentionally create a home life with stability for her five children. She explains how the shame she felt getting pregnant before marriage at 19 years old, stayed within her body, feeling the deep shame with every pregnancy, years later. Priscilla also speaks about the joy of the teenage years and how important it is to teach young adults about financial responsibility. We also speak about the current reality of many millennial women who went into financial debt because of college, realizing later on that they wish they could stay home with their babies, but it's not possible because of school debt.
Wednesday Mar 27, 2024
An IUD Removal at 20 Years Old Ignited a New Life Path | Jules Alma's Story
Wednesday Mar 27, 2024
Wednesday Mar 27, 2024
Jules (@jules_alma) a holistic doula and yoni mapping guide, shares her story of body disconnection to reconnection after engaging with the medical system when she was 17 years old for a microperforated hymen. She quickly felt jaded about the System, but everything changed when she had her IUD removed at 20 years old: she realized that she was on a pharmaceutical induced dream-state on birth control. This began her quest and life passion for the female body, birth and the power of our sexuality! We discuss the power of listening and connecting to our yoni, why women feel sex is a "chore," and how birth always provides the perfect "medicine" for growth.
Follow the host on instagram: @trusting_birth
Saturday Mar 23, 2024
Unconsciously Conceiving, Poverty Shadow Work & Preconception | Athena's Story
Saturday Mar 23, 2024
Saturday Mar 23, 2024
Athena Wilder (@wildwillingwisdom) is a fertility astrologer and astroherbalist, a mother, and host of the Cosmic Conceptions podcast. She shares the journey of "unconsciously conceiving" her daughter while living in New York City, working in the fashion world which led her to reorient her life in drastically new ways. The year 2020 triggered a few years of intense fire walks... that led her to deep inner healing, shadow work with poverty and wanting to conceive her second baby, including 'existential kink' work (being radically honest about how your subconscious/ego/shadow is benefitting from the pain and suffering in your present reality). Athena is passionate about talking about preconception, consciously conceiving, fertility astrology, and the dark agenda of the medical industry with "infertility."
We refer to Carolyn Elliott's book 'Existential Kink'
https://www.wildwillingwisdom.com/
Follow the host at @trusting_birth Instagram
Friday Mar 22, 2024
Friday Mar 22, 2024
Sara shares her journey of becoming "awake" from the tragic loss of her boyfriend at 24 and her two birth experiences that did not go the way she planned. Then when her second child was 'colic,' that furthered Sara's awakening. In this conversation, Sara discusses her journey of conscious parenting and the lessons she has learned along the way, including how to embrace grandparents that do not live in the same exact value system, yet love and acceptance is predominant.
Thursday Mar 21, 2024
Narcissist Lesbian Mothers and Being Donor Conceived | Kate's Story
Thursday Mar 21, 2024
Thursday Mar 21, 2024
Kate shares her journey of self-discovery and motherhood through navigating complex family dynamics. She had four mothers in childhood, her biological mother was an abusive narcissist and Katie was donor conceived, which adds another layer of complexity to a child. Keeping the concept of nature vs nurture in mind, this story shows the power of choice and co-creation despite upbringing!
Follow the host @trusting_birth instagram
Tuesday Mar 19, 2024
Tuesday Mar 19, 2024
Karolina (@moonlightmotherhood) shares her contrasting experiences of two pregnancies and births: a hospital for her first birth and a freebirth with her second birth. She discusses how disconnected she felt from her body in her first pregnancy compared to her second birth, where she centered body connection, intuition, nature, and pleasure!
https://www.moonlightmotherhood.com/
Karolina has beautiful, artistic astrology and human design chart offerings on Etsy, along with a pregnancy and postpartum journal: Etsy Shop
Monday Mar 18, 2024
We're Not Broken, We Simply Have Scars | Lindsey Lockett's Story
Monday Mar 18, 2024
Monday Mar 18, 2024
Lindsey Lockett (@iamlindseylockett) shares her journey to self awareness, nervous system regulation, and healing from parental emotional abandonment, physical abuse, and spiritual abuse from religion. Her life experiences led her to become a guide to others to help heal their trauma, holistically, through nervous system regulation, breathwork, somatic work, and becoming aware of unconscious patterns and soul fractures from the past.
In this episode, Lindsey shares her story but we also talk about the disconnect from millennials and boomers, how Lindsey reckons with her past parenting choices like spanking now that her children are adults, how to fully feel shame as a parent without projecting it unto children, the path to discovering our authentic self, rebelling against societal expectations and norms, and how social media is... the wild west!
Lindsey has many online offerings for others wanting to learn how to identify their body sensations, heal C-PTSD patterns, learn nervous system tools, and find true safety within their body. https://lindseylockett.com/
Follow the host @trusting_birth instagram