MotherTongue: Removing the patriarchy from motherhood one conversation at a time.

My guest is Jean Chung, co-founder of FAM , a member-owned health and wellness cooperative that focuses on community-based experiential learning through the arts. Jean learned from a young age that honesty and authenticity are valuable in building relationships. Her parents moved to the U.S. from Korea in the late 70s, and started a community in Virginia. They successfully led that community for o...

My guest today is Heather Drozdowski. Heather is a mother to two girls under two and a stepmother to a 7-year-old boy.  She is married to her best friend and is raising her family in North Florida.  Heather has experienced deep transformation and awakening from her birth experiences. Her first was a homebirth in California and her second was a vaginal breech birth on The Farm.  Since her last birt...

In this episode, I speak with Kerry Ingram about the critical importance of having a village.  Kerry is the founder of Community Supported Postpartum whose mission is to build ecosystems of care one community at a time. She contributes to this vision by teaching folks all over the world how to create local parent and baby groups that get parents out of isolation and into a web of support and care....

Akilah S. Richards is passionate about mindful partnerships and conscious parenting. She uses audio and written mediums to amplify the ways that unschooling in particular, is serving as healing grounds and liberation work for Black, non-Black Indigenous, and People of Color communities earthwide. Her celebrated unschooling podcast, Fare of the Free Child, and the numerous workshops and gatherings...

In this episode, I share my experience at The Revitalist, a ketamine clinic located in Knoxville, Tennessee.  Ketamine is a disassociative anesthetic with psychedelic properties that is being used for treatment-resistant depression, anxiety, and PTSD with incredible results.   While still not covered by many insurances and so therefore not easily accessible for low-income folks, it...

It's been a while.  So long, in fact, that I am calling this the beginning of Season 2.  My first season got cut short abruptly and this episode is about what happened, why I dropped off, and where I've been.  I explore ideas around what it is to move at a sustainable pace, how we navigate the challenges of motherhood, including struggles with our mental health, including mindfulnes...

In this episode, we discuss various aspects of motherhood including self-care, traditional postpartum womb steaming, sacred sexuality, and other programs offered by Chantal Blake.  Chantal Blake is a Womb Steaming Facilitator, Educator, and Project Manager.  Her combined training in Practical Nursing, Environmental Engineering, and Peristeam Hydrotherapy guides her holistic approach to w...

Today I am speaking with Karen Brody has taught the art of deep rest to thousands of women around the world and trained women to teach others in the art of rest primarily through a life-changing and life-saving yogic sleep tool: Yoga Nidra meditation.  She has taught at the Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health, 1440 Multiversity, and many locations around the world.  You can learn more abo...

In this episode, I feature an interview with Maureen Fura, producer and director of the revolutionary film, "Dark Side of the Full Moon", which was intended to increase awareness among providers about the epidemic of depression, anxiety, and other mental health disorders during the childbearing year.  Maureen suffered from perinatal OCD, which impassioned her to learn more and spread the...

Welcome to Mothertonue!  In today's inaugural episode, I discuss the foundations and vision for this podcast, which is ultimately about changing our cultural norms around motherhood.  Our current maternal care crisis and the epidemic of perinatal mood disorders are explored as well as the big 'M' word, matrescence--what it is and why it's important.  I also share my personal story...