Sacred Window Podcast: Nurturing Awareness in Postpartum Care

What if preparing for birth meant more than packing a hospital bag or creating the perfect birth plan? In this heartfelt episode of the Sacred Window Podcast , Christine Devlin Eck welcomes postpartum doula, childbirth educator, prenatal yoga teacher, and infant loss doula Marissa Mignone for a conversation about the deeper dimensions of birth preparation. After supporting families for over a deca...

Many postpartum professionals complete their training feeling excited and equipped with practical skills, only to discover that some of the most challenging aspects of the work emerge once they begin supporting families in real-life situations. In this solo episode, Christine Devlin Eck explores five important areas that many postpartum trainings don't fully prepare caregivers for: holding emo...

What if discipline didn't have to feel hard? In this episode of the Sacred Window Podcast, Christine Devlin Eck sits down with Clementina Consens, founder of Earth to Clemi, to explore the practice of soft self-discipline and the profound wisdom available when we begin listening to the rhythms of the natural world. Together, they discuss how small, consistent acts of self-care can create lasti...

In this nourishing conversation, Christine Eck sits down with nutrition expert, bestselling author, and "Juice Lady" Cherie Calbom to explore one of the most important questions of the postpartum journey: What should we eat after birth? Together, they bridge Ayurvedic postpartum wisdom and whole-food nutrition, discovering that while their traditions may use different language, they shar...

In this heartfelt solo episode of the Sacred Window Podcast, Christine reflects on a teaching that has guided her work in postpartum care for nearly two decades: 42 Days for 42 Years . As her oldest child prepares to graduate from high school, Christine looks back on her own postpartum journey and explores how the care she received during those first sacred weeks after birth continues to shape her...

In this episode of the Sacred Window Podcast, Christine Eck sits down with writer and speaker Lauren Tobey for a deeply honest conversation about nervous system healing, trauma responses, identity shifts, and the spiral nature of transformation. Together, they explore what happens when life dismantles the roles and identities we once relied upon — through divorce, burnout, postpartum, grief, caree...

There comes a moment on the path of caregiving when we begin to loosen our grip on striving and remember that true support does not emerge from performance — it emerges from presence. In this deeply honest conversation, the Sacred Window Studies Founders Circle reflects on the realities of conscious postpartum caregiving, sustainable service, community, boundaries, self-worth, and the wisdom of be...

There are seasons in life when we feel deeply prepared—rooted in knowledge, connected to lineage, and trusting in the path ahead. And then there are the moments that ask us to live it. In this intimate conversation, we sit with Vivi—a mother, Ayurvedic student, and emerging postpartum caregiver—whose story gently reveals the space between what we know… and what we come to understand through experi...

There is a quiet reorganization that happens when a new baby enters a home. In this episode, we open a conversation that many families are navigating—but few are truly supported in: how to integrate a newborn when an older sibling is on the spectrum. Joined by Catherine Mapa, a school social worker and therapist with deep experience in neurodiverse communities, we explore what it means to care for...

There is a quiet shift happening beneath the surface of how we live and care. In this episode, we explore what it means to return to a more conscious, grounded way of tending—to ourselves, to our families, and to the transitions that shape our lives. Beginning with the postpartum window, we widen into a deeper conversation about nourishment, community, and the small, everyday moments that carry th...

In the postpartum window, healing is often centered around rest and support—but one of the most essential foundations is often overlooked: digestion. In this episode, we sit with Ayurvedic practitioner and postpartum doula Ashlee Sakaishi Wilkin to explore the role of agni —the digestive fire—and why it is central to postpartum recovery. After birth, the body enters a delicate state. Digestion wea...

There’s a moment many caregivers arrive at quietly—the moment where the passion is still there, but the way we’re working no longer feels sustainable. In this episode, we sit together in an honest conversation about what it really means to grow a postpartum caregiving practice without losing yourself in the process. We explore the tension so many women feel between service and self-preservation… t...

There is a moment after birth that often goes unseen. The visitors leave. The appointments slow. The world moves on. And a mother is left in the quiet—tending, giving, adjusting—while something within her is still wide open. In this episode, we explore what it means to truly care for a mother in the postpartum window. Not just to ensure her safety, but to honor her experience. Not just to support...

In this episode of the Sacred Window Podcast, we explore the gentle yet powerful practice of marmatherapy —an ancient Ayurvedic modality that supports healing through intentional touch, energetic awareness, and deep presence. Joined by Ayurvedic practitioner and educator Seva Van Wai , this conversation opens a doorway into how marma points—subtle energy centers within the body—can be activated to...

In this episode of the Sacred Window Podcast, Christine Eck sits down with postpartum doula and lactation consultant Daisi Kuuse from Estonia to explore the identity of the “strong woman” and how this role can shape the postpartum experience. Many women are raised to be independent, capable, and resilient. They hold families together, solve problems, and carry responsibilities without asking for h...

There are seasons when life stretches us beyond what we thought we could hold. In this conversation, Christine shares openly about mothering four sons, discovering Ayurveda, and answering the quiet but persistent call to restore reverence to the postpartum window. What began as her own search for healing after early motherhood slowly unfolded into a vocation—one rooted in ancient wisdom, embodied...

There are moments in a woman’s life that shape her quietly, permanently. Birth is one of them. In this episode, we explore the truth that how we birth matters — not just in outcome, but in experience. Not just in safety, but in imprint. Birth is more than a clinical event. It is a rite of passage. It is an initiation that touches the nervous system, identity, embodiment, and the bond between mothe...

At six weeks postpartum, many mothers are told they are “cleared.” Cleared to exercise. Cleared to return to work. Cleared to resume life as it was before. But what if postpartum isn’t something that ends at six weeks? In this episode, we explore what Western medicine often overlooks — and why the Ayurvedic understanding of the sacred postpartum window offers a deeper, more complete view of healin...

In this deeply resonant episode of the Sacred Window Podcast , host Christine Eck sits down with birth and postpartum doula Chloe Charbonneau to explore the quieter, often unseen experiences of crisis that many families face during the postpartum period. Together, they discuss the unique ways postpartum crisis manifests—often slowly, silently, and unexpectedly—as well as the importance of groundin...

In this episode of the Sacred Window Podcast , Christine is joined by birth and postpartum doula Angela Vargas for a heartfelt conversation about generational postpartum care and the profound impact of being deeply held after birth. Angela shares her experience of giving birth in Colombia and receiving postpartum care from her mother, grandmother, and family—a form of care rooted in culture, warmt...

We speak often about rest in the postpartum period. But rarely do we ask who is holding that rest—and at what cost. In this episode, I reflect on the deeper layers of postpartum care and caregiving through the lens of Ayurveda and lived experience. We explore why so many caregivers, doulas, and mothers find themselves depleted even as they are offering support, and what it might mean to rethink th...

What if the way we care for a mother after birth is the same way we are meant to care for ourselves and one another through every transition in life? In this episode, Christine Eck reflects on how conscious postpartum care extends far beyond the early weeks after birth and into the fabric of daily living — parenting, partnership, caregiving, work, and personal transformation. Drawing from lived ex...

There is a quiet longing many of us carry—a knowing that something essential has been lost in the way we support families after birth. In this episode of the Sacred Window Podcast, Christine Eck reflects on how that longing can become lived purpose. Drawing from years of postpartum caregiving, Ayurvedic wisdom, and lived experience, this conversation explores why postpartum care has been diminishe...

In this solo episode of the Sacred Window Podcast, Christine Eck offers a quiet, steady reflection for caregivers who are holding more than most people can see. Recorded during the season of darkness and light, this conversation emerges from an awareness that burnout has become almost synonymous with caregiving—especially in postpartum care, birth work, and family support. We name it, we expect it...

Some callings arrive quietly, long before we have language for them. In this episode of the Sacred Window Podcast, Christine Eck sits in conversation with Nicole Stratis, whose path into postpartum and nervous system care began not in a classroom, but in the soil—working organic farms, listening to plants, and learning through the intelligence of the hands. Nicole shares how farming and herbalism...