Parris

The Women Who Guided Me

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The Women Who Guided Me is an Australian podcast bringing together wise, experienced women in the birth and postpartum space, in one place, so more women can find them. From doulas and midwives to somatic therapists, bodyworkers and birth educators, women who don't just inform but help you trust yourself. This podcast isn’t just about adding more information but empowering you to own your birth journey. Each episode is a warm, honest conversation with a practitioner whose work genuinely makes a difference, covering everything from birth values and self-advocacy to postpartum healing and recov...

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Episode 5: Birth, the Nervous System and Somatic Healing with Psychotherapist Anna Siebert 05.07.2026 52:21

Anna Siebert (somawomenswellbeing.com.au) is a somatic psychotherapist, former doula and childbirth educator, and the founder of Soma Women’s Wellbeing in Canberra. She has spent decades working at the intersection of trauma, the nervous system and women’s health. Anna is a woman who has sat inside the system, been failed by it in ways that should not happen, and built something extraordinary in r...

Episode 4: Breech Baby, Understand Your Options with Midwife Sasha Hopkins 28.06.2026 56:00

Sasha Hopkins (barefootvibes.com.au) is an endorsed midwife, birth educator and host of The Breech Birth Podcast, based in south east Queensland. She is one of a small but growing number of practitioners in Australia actively working to bring vaginal breech birth back into the conversation. When I found out my son was breech at 38 weeks, Sasha was the first person my doula Kylie told me to call. I...

Episode 1: Where Do We Begin? With My Doula Kylie Coad 10.06.2026 48:27

Kylie Coad (heartfelthealingtherapies.com.au) is a birth and postnatal doula, hypnobirthing practitioner and the first wise woman in my own birth story. Kylie supported both my wife Ellen and I through our pregnancies, and most of the women you will hear from in this podcast came to me through her. I have wanted to record this conversation since I started this podcast. Kylie was with me at the ver...

Episode 2: Emotional Preparation and the Birth Debrief with Birth Educator Tracey Anderson Askew 10.06.2026 1:17:09

Tracey Anderson Askew (transformparenting.com.au) is a birth educator, coach and parenting specialist with nearly thirty years of experience guiding women through pregnancy, birth and early parenthood. Tracey runs Transform Parenting, a program that takes you all the way from pregnancy through to the first years of raising your child. I first met Tracey about four weeks postpartum, introduced thro...

Episode 3: Preparing Your Body For Birth - Pelvic Health with Bodyworker Lo Mathias 10.06.2026 53:57

Lo Mathias (talltreespelviccare.com.au) is an endorsed midwife based in Canberra specialising in internal pelvic release work — a deeply embodied approach to preparing the body for birth and healing postpartum. Lo also offers scar work and closing the bones ceremonies to women preparing for birth and recovering postpartum. A few days before recording this conversation I had my first session with L...