The Sacred Space Storytelling Podcast

Christie-Lee is a multifaceted woman's facilitator who works in many realms of community support, She runs a youth work and disability business named Wild Sol as well as a self development and energy healing soul passion called Well and Balanced. She has delved into the depths of herself through grief and listening/understanding and is here to share her purpose with the world through leadership an...

Amy is a mama of three beautiful humans, a birth keeper, unschooled, artist and content creator. She is working a lot at the intersection of Free Birth and unschooling at the moment. She is dedicated to supporting families claim the life they truly desire through deschooling and connecting to their authentic self expression. In this episode we dive into Amy's three birth experiences and how birthi...

Romi is a daughter, sister, wife and mother to three beautiful children aged: 7, 3 and 3 months old. She is a crafts woman by trade and an advocate for beauty as a form of self love and in all aspects of life. The birth of her third baby at home in water with her family and midwives as witnesses only, after 2 caesareans, has been one of herbiest revolutions and has given her more than she could ha...

In this episode we had the absolute privilege of speaking with Maha Al Musa. Maha is first and foremost a mother to three beautiful children (now 27, 24 and 15) a doula, birth mentor, international educator and the founder of EmbodyBirth and Bellydance For Birth® since 1997. She has released two award-winning resources—a world first book on Bellydance for birth, entitled Dance of the Womb, endorse...

In today's episode we hear Amanda's story.. Amanda is a mother of 3, a wife, a healer, a psychic mentor, therapist and soul guide. She works with women all over the world supporting them to deeply heal and transform their lives. In this episode she shares the lessons she has learnt from walking through the shadow that is path of life's journey. From these experiences she has been able t0 alchemise...

In this episode we hear Jem's story..... Jem is a Mother of three, creative director, student of metaphysical healing. She has been on a life long journey of what it means to be here, to be present, to be human, to be in connection with others. Why do we connect? Why are we here? Since she was very young she always witnessed and observed, she soothed situations and was able to tune into and connec...

In this episode we hear Anni's Story. Anni is a Mother of 2, based in Victoria, Australia. Since childhood she had been fascinated by birth. She began formal midwifery training in 2014 only to find the system to be unsupportive of women, babies and midwives and so made the decision to leave university. After unexpectedly falling pregnant at a young age she engaged privately practicing midwives and...

In this episode we have a conversation about 'holding space' and unpack what this truly is. This term gets thrown around a lot these days, but what does holding space really entail and how can we ensure we are consciously creating safe spaces for people to heal and grow.

In this episode we hear the birth story of Lucy's fourth baby. In the years leading up to Finn's birth she had gone through massive transformations and initiations in her life. Diving deep into her belief systems, the conditioning and stories she held around birth, womanhood and herself... this all led her to leave a career that she had always believed was her dream. After walking away from her em...

In Episode 14 we hear Athena's Story. Athena Maroulis is an RTT clinical hypnotherapist and coach with a background in business and advertising. She changed careers a few few times but knows her work is about lifting humanity one person at a time from within. She was born in Australia but lived in Denmark and Guatemala where she fell in love with studying the spiritual practices of shamanism, indi...

In episode 13 we hear Sarah's story... Sarah is a qualified Naturopath trained in Herbal Medicine, Nutrition and Homeopathy. She found her way to Anthroposophic Medicine through her Steiner school community, and completed post graduate training in Germany and Switzerland. This deepened her understanding of growth, healing, illness, and the healing plants a thousand fold. Her work has always led he...

In episode 12 we hear Denya's Birth Story, a homebirth in water, of her first baby Sunny. She tells us of the generational healing that occurred during her daughter's pregnancy and birth and how her little girl divinely led the way from the moment she was conceived. Denya followed in her Mother's footsteps choosing to birth at home and stood in all her power as she walked this sacred path of initi...

In this episode we hear Karuna's story. She dives deep into the moment that first cracked her open and awoke an innate power within her, the birth of her first daughter, Moana. She takes us through her experience of postpartum and the first early months, as she walked over this sacred threshold of Maiden to Mother. She shares how a few significant and heartbreaking moments in her life allowed her...

Welcome to episode ten! Today we hear Kristy's birth story of her third baby Primrose. Leading up to this conception Kristy had embarked on deep inner work whilst attending Jane Hardwicke Collings Four Seasons Training. It was during this time that she felt a baby calling out to her, a daughter. As her pregnancy unfolded she continued to dive deep within herself following her intuition and connect...

On today's episode we hear Tessa's story. Tessa is an Indigenous Women Entrepreneur who thrives in heart-led spaces. Her works encompasses supportive healing work as a Doula for Mother’s, providing emotional, wisdom and education on birth and motherhood. As a mother herself, this work is close to her heart in providing the foundation of love, security and informed empowering knowledge for families...

In this episode Kristy and Lucy have a raw and candid conversation about 'Postpartum Being Forever' and what this actually means! Our conversation then dove into being human, being woman, being Mother in this modern world. Rites of Passage lost and the impact this has on society, death, embodiment practices and so many more topics unpacked! This conversation really did go into alllll the realms! Y...

Today we hear Juliet's Story...Juliet grew up in an off-grid home along the Meroo River outside of Mudgee. In her mid 20’s to early 30’s, she backpacked solo, with her best friends and also her mum around Europe and England, walked as a pilgrim along the Camino de Santiago and lived in England, where she would teach in primary schools. Juliet is a nature lover, down to earth wild child at heart wh...

In today's episode we speak to Sarah. Sarah qualified as a Registered Nurse and Midwife in 2014. She worked in a tertiary hospital from then on. When she was on maternity leave after her second baby, she decided to become a Hypnobirthing Australia practitioner and teach parents about birth and how to connect with their bodies. Whilst teaching, along with her personal and spiritual growth, she beco...

In today's episode we hear Lizzie's two beautiful birth stories. Her first, a land birth, at a free standing Birth House in Melbourne. And her second, a wild Pregnancy, Free Birth and Lotus Birth in Northern QLD. Lizzie followed her deep inner wisdom that called her to birth in the way that she did, drowning out any outside noise and following her bliss. Lizzie is a solo Mama to her two wild daugh...

In this episode we hear Sarah's story. Sarah is a midwife who has worked across many settings and countries. Pursuing a passion of connecting with and learning from women, midwives and traditional cultures. She has never been one to take the road most travelled and her midwifery career and how she supports women reflects that. She works with plants, nutrition and body work to provide women holisti...

In episode 3 we unravel Kristy's raw, deep and emotional story of how she became the woman she needed when she was younger. Kristy's journey is one of deep and intense initiations and hard lessons as she found herself coming full circle in a beautiful healing way to be able to guide and help others see their inner light and true essence. She unpacks her experiences working on the ground in communi...

On today's episode we hear Carla's story working in the birth realm, providing holistic and traditional pregnancy, birth and postpartum care. We speak about our current birth culture and dive deep into how we can better support the Birth Space, Women and their families. Carla is mother of 2 young children, Birthkeeper and Postpartum Care giver. She supports mothers in her community through the ful...

In our first episode we discuss Lucy's journey of becoming a Midwife in the modern day Maternity System of Australia. She unpacks some of her personal experiences as she battled to find her footing as a young Midwife in a very broken system, and then went on to struggle to be able to juggle the demands and unrealistic expectations of workplaces once she became a Mother herself. After years of batt...