Free Birth Society

Watch this episode HERE We are closing out 2023 by turning the tables and bringing you an episode where I’m the one that was interviewed, on the Terrain Theory Podcast!  I am really proud of this conversation and the depth of information we cover. It’s one of my best interviews yet! I share my own origin story of birth-work and my journey to discovering sovereign birth, which I haven’t public...

From Medwives, ECV, and GBS to Family Births with Rachel Kirk  Watch this episode HERE Longtime Free Birth Society Member, Rachel Kirk, is finally on the show today sharing her 3 birth stories, culminating in a true family birth that was attended by her sister, mother, father, and sons. How cute is that!? When Rachel’s chosen birth center medwives threatened to drop her care, coerced her...

Claiming the Creative Power of Sovereign Motherhood with Winona  Watch this episode HERE Today on the show I have Winona, a young and radiant mother from Australia. Winona speaks to how she transformed from a selfish maiden to a confident mother, sure of herself and her choices.  She walks us through the work and presence it took to move through fears, and prepare herself for the work of...

Choosing Nourishment Over Restrictive Diets with Jessica Ash Watch this episode HERE In this week’s episode of the podcast, we are shaking it up from our normal birth story rotation… I’m chatting with Jessica Ash, who candidly details her journey through various restrictive diets as she attempted to heal chronic hormonal and fertility problems, only to realize that her fixation on restriction was...

Softening into Self:  Amy's Freebirth Transformation Watch this episode HERE This week on the show I have the radiant Amy, who is an RBK grad, a Matriarch Rising contributor, and now, a freebirther!  Amy tells us how she went from a bible thumping young bride to plant medicine hippy, meeting her new man and opening up to motherhood. Amy weaves her three birth stories around the deep lear...

Healing Prolapse, Diastasis Recti, and Tearing with Rebecca Cohen Watch this episode HERE I’ve got Dr. Rebecca Cohen back on the show this week in celebration of our newest collaboration. One of the most common requests I’ve gotten from you all is to create a pelvic health course, that covers all the problems, so to speak, of the postpartum pelvis and pelvic floor, or bowl, as Rebecca calls it. We...

The Sovereign Sparrow: Flying Free After Wrongful Surgery  Watch this episode HERE This week I have my sweet sister, Sparrow, back on the show to tell her redemption story. You may remember her from an earlier season, when she told us about her first birth, in which she transferred herself. She had felt confident in the transfer, thinking she could just go into the hospital as a seasoned birt...

Episode #239 When Your Husband Doesn’t Support Freebirth: Mikiah’s Lessons Mikiah admits she betrayed herself in letting her husband lead on where she should birth her first child. She brilliantly and painfully articulates the horrors of the birth center and the medical midwifery practices that she endured. She learned what she needed to learn to choose differently when she became pregnant again....

Episode #238 Leaving the System as a Medical Midwife to Experience the Ecstasy of Freebirthing Twins with Bibi Watch this episode HERE Bibi became a licensed medical midwife at 19 years old. She had never heard of freebirth, but when she became pregnant with her first child it was an obvious no that she’d expose herself and her baby to ...well, where she worked.  This is an important episode,...

Episode # 237 From Anxious People Pleaser to Embodied Powerhouse: Heather’s Freebirth Journey Watch this episode HERE Heather discovered her unplanned pregnancy amidst a hectic trade show circuit, and she realized her life was about to take an unexpected twist. She navigated debilitating pregnancy sickness as she worked in corporate America. She had her first birth in a hospital, supported by a do...

Episode #236 Honoring the First Mother - The Power & Mystery of the Placenta with Sister MorningStar Watch this episode HERE Have you ever considered the importance and sacred journey of the placenta, our first mother, in the birthing process?  This often overlooked yet crucial part of childbirth takes center stage in our conversation with the wise and insightful Sister Morningstar. We ve...

Episode #235 Choosing a Drama-Free Birth with Nya Watch this episode HERE   In this episode Nya and I cover navigating a journey of spontaneity, vulnerability, and primal strength, Nya's path to motherhood reveals the profound challenges and beauty of embracing one's instincts in the face of societal pressures. Here’s what you’ll hear:   Nya's website     Our newest p...

Episode #234 Into the Portal with Yoga Girl's Rachel Brathen Watch this episode HERE   We’re starting the season on a high note with a soulful conversation with Rachel Brathen, lovingly known to many of us as YogaGirl. Here’s what you’ll hear:        Join us, on a transformative journey, an immersion into the heart and soul of independent midwifery. The Midwife Within: Our...

Welcome back to Part 2 of my recent birth story. This week’s episode is all about my postpartum. We’ll pick up right where we left off and carry through the first 40 days. I cover topics ranging from beginning elimination communication on day 1, co-sleeping, our first outing, traveling internationally, free-bleeding, sibling integration, birth certificates, body image, and boundaries. I’ll also sh...

This week on the show I am finally bringing you the birth story of my son, Sawyer. I share the psychedelic journey that quite honestly, kicked my ass. This episode takes you from the start of my labor, which began with the pulsing of gorgeous mandalas in my third eye and takes you through the rather funny and oh-so-intense six hours of my mind-bending excruciating birth that left me flopped over s...

Meg's story starts with a traumatic early birth in the system at 17 weeks with her first son, Shiloh.  The dehumanizing experience proved to her that the hospital was the last place she wanted to be, so she planned a homebirth outside the system with an authentic midwife - me!   Meg shares how she learned to accept the intermingling of joy and grief in navigating her pregnancy and u...

My friend Amy joins me on the show this week sharing her 5 birth stories. Amy is full of rich insights about her journey through motherhood as a radical feminist.  Amy speaks honestly about the victim consciousness she lived in and how she gave away her power time and time again.  It was in learning to fully trust women and therefore herself that Amy was finally able to shed the last lay...

After being backed into a corner, fear mongered, and without options in her first birth, Dominique was bullied into a c-section. When she became pregnant again, she was determined to write a new story. She thought she could make it work with her medical midwives by speaking up, saying no, and taking the reins, but it turned out, as it so often does, that resulted in her midwives abandoning her car...

My co-creator, bestie and big sis, Yolande Norris-Clark joins me on the show - for the who's even counting by now - time, sharing her most recent birth of her 9th precious baby, Helio. Yolande shares the story of consciously conceiving her son, her mind-bending painful pregnancy; culminating in her first ever completely pain-free, totally ecstatic, blissful, even orgasmic birth. In true Yolande fa...

Alison from Australia shares her wild ride, from birthing in the system, choosing IVF, then later learning she was in fact entirely fertile. After getting dropped from her medical midwives, Alison stepped into the big work of birthing outside the system. Alison shares how she invited her previous doula into her twin homebirth, and the birth itself was undisturbed and rooted in total power and blis...

Nicole joins me on the show today sharing her 3 birth stories, ending with the redemptive story of her FBAC, (a freebirth after c-section). After Nicole’s midwives sabotaged her homebirth and coerced her into a traumatic c-section, Nicole was left heartbroken and feeling entirely inadequate to enter motherhood. For her second birth she turned to the same midwives and while she did have her baby at...

This week we have Noriko from Japan. Noriko's spirit babies communicated with her from a young age and she always knew her part of her soul's path was to create a family.  Her journey through her pregnancies and two births asked her to travel to dark places, shedding old patterns and beliefs, and finding her the way through to happiness and wholeness; rebirthing her spirit again and again.&nb...

Laceinne found herself quickly turning her back on medical midwifery in her pregnancy and deciding to go it alone, despite having never heard the term freebirth.  Her simple motto of “you got this” got her through her debilitating pregnancy and kept her mind clean and clear as she prepared for her birth.  Laceinne reminds us all that you can do anything for a few minutes at a time and al...

Dr. Melissa Sell joins me on the show for the second time, diving deeper into German New Medicine.  She touches on everything from tracks and resolutions, to allergies, terrain theory, misconceptions, and more.  We chat about her own personal evolution from rigidity and dogma, to adaptation and flexibility, the intersection of personal responsibility and GNM, our shared pursuit of truth,...

This week I have artist and first time mom Kallen telling the easy going story of the birth of her son. She recalls her life long love and obsession with babies, mothers, and all things birth, and the exciting revelation that she was ready to start having her own babies and could just do it on her own. One sunny day, with rainbows cast about the room, she gave birth. We speak on the incredible pow...