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Ep.41/ Dad Staying Home is Not a Postpartum Plan
When asked about their postpartum plan, so many women say "Well, my husband is taking 3 weeks off work...". While thats great, that alone should not be your postpartum support in an ideal situation.
Ep.40/ Boundary Medicine, Body Image, + Big Kids - Sara’s Fourth Postpartum
Sara and I had a lovely walk and talk about her fourth postpartum after the birth of her son, Akiva. Postpartum care provider and educator, mother to 4, this postpartum was probably perfect, right?
Ep.30/ Manifesting Your Ideal Postpartum Time
Learning about what optimal postpartum support looks and feels like can often leave women feeling overwhelmed and like it may be an unreachable goal. We are here today to break it down.
Ep.25/ Your Motherhood is for You - Creating Ease and Pleasure in Postpartum and Beyond with Nicole
This was such a rich conversation on all the ways she knows this life can be FOR US. We talked about becoming more boundaried as a mother, how to create structure for a deeply restful, healing, and (dare we say) blissful postpartum time (this goes far beyond "freeze some soup, ask your sister in law to help with laundry"), and how to soften and open to receive every beautiful thing life is offering you.
Ep.20/ Birth is a (part of but not complete) Rite of Passage
Not having a cultural or personal understanding of this process is what leaves so many women today feeing lost in motherhood. ‘You lose yourself in motherhood’ is only a true statement if you haven’t consciously left your old self behind in pregnancy, journeyed outside of yourself in birth, and rediscovered your new self in the postpartum time.
Ep.18/ Basic Principles of Postpartum Cooking
There are some basic tenants across the world to help women ground and heal in this time, and food can be such a beautiful medicine for this period. It can set the tone for the start of a nourished motherhood, and give the body all the nutrients it needs to heal.
EP/17 The Wise Woman Tradition and the Universal Mother Principles
I wanted to talk a bit today about some of the philosophical underpinnings of our work and philosophy here.
Ep.16/ The Best Laid Plans - How My Postpartum Looked as a First Time Mom and Student of Postpartum Care
We recorded this episode back in late summer of 2022, when I was around 8 months postpartum. It took me a loooong time to get to editing, but here it is! It was so yummy and juicy to listen through this again! I loved my postpartum time, and I love teaching women about how healing and blissful it can be. In this episode we talk through what my support looked like, what I ate (it was a lot!), and just talking though the story of this transition to motherhood. We go over some helpful tips and suggestions for your own postpartum, and some of the deeper currents running though this sacred period.
Ep.14/ The Vital Energies of Receiving in the Postpartum Time
Reflecting today as I walk about the energies and practice of receiving, particularly in the postpartum. We have seen it come up again and again with women we have worked with 1:1 and classes or workshops we have taught on the postpartum time: women feel reluctant to ask for help. Creating a nourishing, expansive, blissful, supported postpartum is totally possible, AND it requires asking for help! Laundry, dishes, childcare, cooking, healing touch, or just a sister to sit with you are not luxuries! Creating a magical postpartum time is completely attainable, and for most women it requires working through their internal blockages around receiving, particularly around receiving from other women.