WISE WOMEN DIARIES

Natalie shares her personal experiences with pregnancy, birth, postpartum, bedsharing, and breastfeeding. Her first birth was a hospital induction that went miraculously well, but for her second birth she knew she wanted to homebirth, so she hired a midwife.... but freebirthed! She explains how bedsharing was an obvious choice after struggling with sleep with her first child, her struggles with me...

Audrey Ross, (@ajoyfulbirth) a mother of five, birthkeeper, birth prep coach, and a freebirthing woman, shares a condensed version of her life trials that led her to true freedom. She overcame an eating disorder, detoxed off of ~11 Big Pharma medications, healed constant panic attacks, and learned the true power of her mind to finally become her authentic, true self! Audrey had "infertility" for a...

Stefanie (@stop_playing_small) is a Magdalene Womb alchemist and spirit baby guide. Stefanie shares her journey through fertility clinics, abortion, and pregnancy. She experienced a truly pain-free, blissful hospital birth that transformed her entire world, but then... her second birth experience was the exact opposite, but transformed her yet again. Stefanie reflects on the lessons she learned fr...

Ellen Haines (@healwithellen on instagram), a hypnotherapist, discusses many topics concerning the subconscious mind: how our mind is programmed between the ages of 0-7 which creates most of our auto-pilot reactions in motherhood and marriage, how children's emotions and behavior can trigger rage and judgements within parents, the deep patterns of the man-child husband and the resentful wife, and...

Adelaide Meadow (@adelaidemeadow_) is a traditional birth attendant, female physiology academic, and she owns a well woman care practice, addressing a wide variety of pelvic health concerns. In this conversation, we hear Adelaide's personal story of being in a coma and breaking her pelvis (and many other bones) from a bike accident in her 20's. She also discusses her latest course Born Through Mov...

Priscilla, a Christian and homeschooling mother of five, shares how her unstable childhood allowed her to intentionally create a home life with stability for her five children. She explains how the shame she felt getting pregnant before marriage at 19 years old, stayed within her body, feeling the deep shame with every pregnancy, years later. Priscilla also speaks about the joy of the teenage year...

Jules (@jules_alma) a holistic doula and yoni mapping guide, shares her story of body disconnection to reconnection after engaging with the medical system when she was 17 years old for a microperforated hymen. She quickly felt jaded about the System, but everything changed when she had her IUD removed at 20 years old: she realized that she was on a pharmaceutical induced dream-state on birth contr...

Athena Wilder (@wildwillingwisdom) is a fertility astrologer and astroherbalist, a mother, and host of the Cosmic Conceptions podcast. She shares the journey of "unconsciously conceiving" her daughter while living in New York City, working in the fashion world which led her to reorient her life in drastically new ways. The year 2020 triggered a few years of intense fire walks... that led her to de...

Sara shares her journey of becoming "awake" from the tragic loss of her boyfriend at 24 and her two birth experiences that did not go the way she planned. Then when her second child was 'colic,' that furthered Sara's awakening. In this conversation, Sara discusses her journey of conscious parenting and the lessons she has learned along the way, including how to embrace grandparents that do not liv...

Kate shares her journey of self-discovery and motherhood through navigating complex family dynamics. She had four mothers in childhood, her biological mother was an abusive narcissist and Katie was donor conceived, which adds another layer of complexity to a child. Keeping the concept of nature vs nurture in mind, this story shows the power of choice and co-creation despite upbringing!   Follow th...

Karolina (@moonlightmotherhood) shares her contrasting experiences of two pregnancies and births: a hospital for her first birth and a freebirth with her second birth. She discusses how disconnected she felt from her body in her first pregnancy compared to her second birth, where she centered body connection, intuition, nature, and pleasure!  https://www.moonlightmotherhood.com/ Karolina has beaut...

Lindsey Lockett (@iamlindseylockett) shares her journey to self awareness, nervous system regulation, and healing from parental emotional abandonment, physical abuse, and spiritual abuse from religion. Her life experiences led her to become a guide to others to help heal their trauma, holistically, through nervous system regulation, breathwork, somatic work, and becoming aware of unconscious patte...

Saying Yes to a new experience, like podcasting, can reveal layers of fears and  limiting beliefs.... for healing and liberation. Do you want to sit in your comfort zone, afraid, letting Fear run your life? Or do you want to learn more about yourself from being brave and courageous and saying Yes even IF you're afraid? Also for mothers, podcasting for the first time is a perfect opportunity to mod...

Autumn (@autumnklender) a mom of 4 under 4 and a birthkeeper, shares her journey from being medicated as a teen to finding her authentic self, health issues that started to wake her up to western medicine, then meeting her husband and becoming a mother. Her four births perfectly reflect Autumn's journey to finding her voice and trusting her voice.... a C-section, a hospital VBAC, homebirth with mi...

Carly Rae Beaudry (@carlyraebeaudry) shares, for the first time, her story from drug and sex addiction to self-reclamation, radical responsibility, and finding her passionate purpose, with women and their amazing bodies. She dedicates her life to helping women reclaim the connection with their bodies and most importantly, their female physiology. Carly Rae discusses the difference between fast foo...

Haileigh shares her self-transformation journey through mothering four sons. We discuss the impact of choosing to have a child to fulfill low self-worth, the concept of soul contracts between parents and children, how every hard situation and trigger present in parenthood can reveal a lesson, how most parent's issues can melt away by joining their children in the present moment, and how deeply we...

Adults have a conscious mind (fully programmed on how to act in our society), that is a "gatekeeper" that prevents us from punching strangers that make us angry or from telling our friend our honest (negative) thoughts about the dress she loves, but children do not have this brain gatekeeper YET. This is why children have no filter and they express emotion in the second they feel it! I discuss how...

Britta (@soul_midwife) a mother, doula, and somatic therapist, shares her experience of birth being the portal that led her to childhood and generational healing. She recounts her childhood, how her first homebirth awoke her to healing, and the story of her second baby's birth, a preemie that she advocated to stay out of the NICU. We discuss the mother wound and the impact of one woman's healing,...

Emily (@mama_wilder) is a mother of three and founder of the non-profit for under-resourced women, The Mama Wilder Foundation . She shares her personal story of her first marriage, how the abusive dynamics mimicked aspects of her childhood, the importance of being aware of resources available for single mothers, signs of financial abuse, shedding the lineage shame of being a single mother, how man...

Alysa (@youcan_birth) a mother and doula, shares her experience of getting pregnant at 17 and assuming she would have a hospital birth.... only to then freebirth!!! But unfortunately, her postpartum was sabotaged by professionals in the system. Alysa shares her full story in hopes that other women will learn from her horrific experience.    Follow the host @trusting_birth instagram

Terra (@terraperanteaux) shares her journey of discovering freebirth before she became a mom, using the preconception time to learn, research, and step into greater trust for her first birth and motherhood experience. She tells the tale of her first freebirth but we also discuss many topics like treating babies with respect (because they are human beings not objects), resolving a tongue tie with j...

Krystle (@milkandwellness) shares her experience of struggling to conceive, how her intuition said "no" to fertility meds, and the big lessons learned from her first birth and breastfeeding journey. She took the lessons from her first child and was able to have a beautiful natural birth and breastfeeding journey with her second child, which ignited her passion for advocating for breastfeeding educ...

Kristina (@crunchymamakristina) shares her life experiences that led to her distrust in the medical system from birth control and being prescribed Accutane. Kristina explores the impact of family dynamics and how "daddy issues" can manifest into promiscuity and seeking validation from men.  She shares the magical story from plant medicine before she unexpectedly gets pregnant and how she and her p...

Anna (@annainauthority) shares the experience of abuse and sabotage of her homebirth, but afterwards, she recognized that she unconsciously gave the midwives her authority and thus, her healing journey began. Through breastfeeding, she began to reconnect with her self-worth and realized the impact of generational trauma and religious cult programming. This conversation discusses the importance of...

McKenna shares her empowering story of starting the healing journey at age 16 because of porn addiction. Her family's generational trauma and patterns were then revealed and she radically committed to healing herself for herself, her marriage, and future children. She discusses how the culmination of her childhood trauma and porn addiction effected her brain programming in regards to being a woman...