Evening Tea

Trigger warning: This episode includes medical coercion, birth trauma, and surgical birth. In this conversation, my friend Shira shares the two births that shaped her - an overdue induction where she was told she couldn’t leave the hospital, a C-section that left her feeling defeated, and a second birth that unfolded in a completely different emotional landscape. We talk about the pressure she fel...

This is a quiet, personal conversation about being the 1% - the outcome you don’t expect, don’t plan for, and hope won’t be yours. Shaina shares her experience moving through an unexpected C-section, a postpartum infection that became life-threatening, and a second birth where everything pointed toward one outcome… until it didn’t. We talk about what it feels like to try so hard for a certain kind...

Trigger warning: This episode includes discussion of prenatal suicidal thoughts, birth trauma, and addiction within a family. Please take care while listening. In this episode, I sit with Chana Leah Bleznik for a real and layered conversation about her VBAC journey and everything that surrounded it: the fear, the pressure, the unexpected turns, and the experiences that stayed with her long after b...

In this episode, we open C-Section Awareness Month with a real and needed conversation about the truth that two things can be true at once. A birth can be beautiful and hard. A mother can feel grateful and still hold pain. You can learn from an experience without forcing yourself to be “fine” about it. Chani joins me to share her birth story. The fear, the loss of control, the trust she had in her...

Feeding a baby is never just feeding a baby. It’s pressure, hope, instinct, confusion, grief, and connection often all at once. In this episode, Chaya sits with lactation consultant Tamari Jacobs of One With the Pump for a grounded, honest conversation about what mothers are really navigating when it comes to breastfeeding, pumping, supplementing, or stopping. Together, they talk about the myth th...

In this episode of Evening Tea , Chaya sits down with Chinese medicine practitioner Miriam Pineles for a slow, curious conversation about acupuncture, healing, and the ways women’s bodies ask us to move at a different pace. This conversation begins with a simple curiosity. Many of us have heard of acupuncture, maybe even tried it once or twice, but rarely do we hear about the deeper philosophy beh...

In this episode of Evening Tea , we open a gentle, honest conversation about the emotional undercurrents of pregnancy, postpartum, and womanhood, and one of the many ways women seek support when big feelings stay put. Together with Fruma Weiss, we explore Emotion Code and Body Code as practices that some mothers turn to when the physical and emotional overlap in ways that are hard to name but impo...

Tonight I’m sitting down with my own two-time homebirth midwife, Tania Zirulnik. This conversation is about what safety really means in birth. About autonomy. About being guided without being pushed. About holding both trust in your body and clinical responsibility in the same room. We talk through common fears around homebirth, the difference between support and control, and what it looks like fo...

When I think about my first birth, the word that comes up is surrender. In this episode of Evening Tea , I share my full positive home birth story, an unmedicated, midwife-assisted, water-supported birth at 40+6 weeks gestation. From acupuncture on my due date to consciously releasing control, from waking up with my water broken with meconium to walking through early labor, from using the Bradley...

This episode is a slow, honest conversation about inner communication and self-care as lived experience. I’m joined by Yita for a nighttime conversation about listening to the body, trusting yourself without having all the answers, and staying present through hesitation, uncertainty, and emotional intensity. We talk about movement, stillness, creativity, spirituality, and what it looks like to com...

So much of postpartum is endured quietly. The exhaustion, the overwhelm, the unmet needs that many mothers never expected or were never told to prepare for. In this episode of Evening Tea , I’m sitting down with postpartum doula Ruta Cohen of Whole Postpartum for an honest, grounded conversation about what postpartum really asks of a woman. We talk about why postpartum support is so often missing,...

Pour yourself a cup of tea and settle in: this is Evening Tea. In our very first episode, I introduce myself, share my journey into holistic living, and explain why this space exists. From movement and nutrition to postpartum, natural medicine, and the power of community, we’ll explore what it means to live intentionally and listen to your intuition. Whether you’re a mother, hoping to become one,...

This is a solo Evening Tea - no guest, no agenda, no pressure to land anywhere. In this episode, I share my personal journey growing up in a holistic home, how my relationship with food and care has changed over time, and what it’s looked like to redefine “holistic living” as an adult, partner, and mother. We talk about listening to the body, navigating differences without abandoning yourself, sit...