A Crown Of Lavender

"Join me as I sit down with Susanne Reseinbichler, mother of 7 and featured in the 2015 documentary The Wolfpack , to talk about her journey through domestic violence. We honor my late aunt, Tynese Sears Pratt, who lost her life escaping abuse, and explore stories of resilience, survival, and the importance of raising awareness."

Welcome to A Crown of Lavender, My name is Lark, Today’s episode centers on Happness Kapinga, an African housemaid working in Oman, and her story opens the door to a much larger and often ignored crisis facing African women in domestic labor across the Middle East. As we talk about exploitation, isolation, and survival, I’m also reintroducing A Crown of Lavender as a virtual women’s circle a space...

Marqueta is a herbalist, Forager, homesteaders, Homebirther, and Mother of 7

This episode we discuss homelessness in America the author and activist Denise Martin.

In this episode, we talk to Christina Hildebrand founder of A Voice for choice advocacy.

Today on the podcast we have Natasha Maile, Mother to 3 sons and expecting her 4th baby, She's an advocate for Natural term breastfeeding, and she's a Freebirther and Vegetarian, we discuss homebirth, the Ringing Cedars/Anastasia books, and much more!

Laura Kaplan Shanley is an author, freelance writer, speaker, and childbirth consultant widely recognized as one of the leading voices in the natural-birth and unassisted birth movement. We discuss Unassisted Birth, Grantly Dick-Read, and Patricia Cloyd Carter.

We discuss Baby Fever and Infertility with Filmmaker Victoria Foyt and Tanika Mckelvy of Youtube channel Simply Tanika who is 51 and pregnant.

In the second chapter we passed the Talking Stick to our first guest of this podcast, talks about the origin of her birth work and her own birth. I hope you enjoy.

Narvaez was the design leader of the Minnesota Community Voices and Character Education project funded with $1 million by the US Department of Education during 1998–2002. She is co-author with James Rest, Steve Thomas and Muriel Bebeau of the book Postconventional Moral Thinking (1999). Narvaez was one of five psychologists to be invited to speak at the White House's Conference on Character in Com...

(Part 2 of 2)Today we pass the Talking Stick to Hawaii CPM Darby Partner We hear 2 beautiful unassisted Birth stories and 2 empowering Midwife attended Homebirth stories, we talk breech births, connection to sacred water, midwifery and the power of women

(Part 1 of 2)  I'm honored to share the sacred conversation I had with Sushama Gokhale. We discuss Food as Medicine, Homeopathy, Indian culture and health, Vaccine industry, nutrition, my struggle with food addiction and more

This week we passed the Talking Stick to Dayna Martin, midwife, doula childbirth educator, and radical unschooler.

Jeanice Barcelo discusses the dark side of hospital birth, as well as circumcision and how to heal from the trauma it causes.

Passing the Talking Stick to Whistleblower/ Truth howling Wombyn Silvia Saenz she shares with us herself healing journey, the conscious conception of her son, we talk protecting our health holistically during the times of covid, earthing, grounding and much more she practices shaman healing with love light energy and oils. I hope you enjoy.

Today during our wombman's Circle we speak with Krystal and Keturah, we dive deep into a discussion about birth registration. Krystal shares her story of having a natural birth in the hospital and amazingly escaping the grasp of medical professionals with a sovereign unregistered baby and we also speak with Keturah lamb 4th generation unregistered American. Thank you for listening sister's hope yo...

For Our first wombmans circle here at A Crown of lavender we pass the Talking Stick to Matriarch,Midwife and Daughter of the Cherokee people Sister Morningstar. We speak of Wombmans gatherings, the True vs False Queen, Blood mysteries, Moon flows and much more.