WISE WOMEN DIARIES

Every week I get obsessed with certain topics, then talk about it on my Instagram stories, in my journal, and with friends. This week I am talking about: Do you believe you need to make your child Good? What is agency? As an adult are you acting like you don't have agency, which perpetuates your victimhood? Dr Shefali Tsabary talks about how the parent-child relationship is transactional, so why i...

Taylor Cole (@taylorcole) is a mother of three and a root cause nutritionist, passionate about helping mothers nourish themselves and feel better. Taylor and I discuss her personal growth as a mother, how she nourishes herself amongst the busyness of three children, why she chose to cut alcohol out of her life for a full year so far, and the shifts that occur in marriage when we drastically change...

Kassie is now an authentic midwife but reflects on her four births, beginning at the age of 19. Throughout her 20's, she discovered her passion of homebirth, becoming a doula, then a midwife, and she even got fired from a midwife practice for "trusting birth too much." Hence, she now practices as a traditional midwife, attracting clients that do not want an authority figure in birth, just the simp...

Niecia Nelson (@iamaltar on instagram) shares her beautiful, radical homebirth on a little island in Canada..... from 17 years ago. It is an incredible story that brought me to tears and left me speechless in so many moments.   Niecia is a mother, teacher + steward of the feminine frequency that rests in the female physiology. She chaperones women back to their true nature using a psycho-biologica...

When we don't trust, we want to control. This is the crux of what Katelyn had to learn through a hard miscarriage, a traumatic hospital birth, and a homebirth with her second daughter. Katelyn tells her story from the place of the most power: radical responsibility. 

German New Medicine | I have shed the belief that body symptoms are wrong or stupid, or that you can eat perfect and have no body symptoms. I have learned the basics of German New Medicine, which has freed my mind and body from the fear of gluten, sugar, seed oils, germs, and cancer! I discovered how my "seasonal allergies" were an intelligent adaptation of my body, reversing my victim mentality t...

The two big topics I am talking about this month: Are a difference of values the cause of friction in relationships?  Do we only show up and love people when its convenient for us? 

I was introduced to the concept of Existential Kink by Carolyn Elliott and it blew my mind. The truth is, most of us secretly benefit from the pain and suffering in our life, we're just not aware and not willing to be honesty about it. For example: if we are chronically sick, we are probably filling the emotional need of love, attention, and being cared for, so in all honesty, being sick, brings u...

The successes of IVF are common stories, but no one talks about the possibility of  constant heartbreak in the journey of IVF, the consequences of the hormone drugs, and the dark side of the fertility business. Andrea shares with us her fertility journey- how she faced her victimhood and blossomed into a more trusting, heart-centered woman through it all.  She credits working with Patty Markham Pe...

Holly is a pharmacist in the System but has so much awareness and wisdom. She shares her story of a repressed childhood memory of a doctor touching her without consent, her two unmedicated hospital birth stories and an unassisted birth at home. After her homebirth, she chose to bring her baby to the hospital because of a medical need and details the harrowing experience of fighting for the respect...

Cynthia shares her story of the postpartum underworld after the birth of her first child, which includes a unique experience with postpartum psychosis... her spiritual awakening. A "bipolar diagnosis" in her 20's set her on a quest of becoming a student to health and fitness with the goal of not taking medication, but then the surprise pregnancy with her daughter was the catalyst for her accelerat...

Sarah is my hilarious, dear friend, who is a doctor (veterinarian) and a first time mom. She shares with us her story of homebirth with her first daughter, contemplating freebirth, lessons in the first year as a new mom, miscarrying at home, and the hard mental complexities of pregnancy after a loss. I love Sarah's raw honesty so so so much. 

Natasha (@empoweredmamamovement on instagram) and I discuss many topics surrounding parenting: respectful parenting is not about compliance, feeling guilt as a parent serves a very important purpose for growth, chemicals in food and technology can hijack children (and adults) brains inhibiting natural instincts and intuition, how to talk to children about nutrition, and asking yourself the very im...

Natasha (@empoweredmamamovement on instagram) shares her personal journey through fertility issues, multiple miscarriages, a straight-forward, drug-free hospital birth, then most recently, a homebirth with her second son that rocked her and created a lot of emotional turmoil from mind expectations. We discuss how an important aspect to hospital birth outcomes (good and bad) is the hospital staff w...

Part 2 of Rebecca's story (@theradiantmission on instagram) covers her unique journey with addressing tongue ties with her children, then her experience of miscarrying at home without medical intervention. She is now pregnant for the fourth time and we discuss her mental state with being pregnant after a miscarriage and how trying to control a baby's positioning in the womb stems from our need for...

Rebecca (@theradiantmission on instagram) shares the detrimental effects birth control had on her body and the injuries and trauma she sustained from her unnecessary c-section with her first birth. This led her to wake up and start learning the truth about the medical system and the truth about how birth is suppose to be, the way God designed, which led her to freebirth her son at home! Part 2 of...

A fresh perspective on why it seems like everyone is healing trauma and their inner child and why conscious/ respectful parenting is popular right now too. 

This episode is for the young women, the maidens, seeking maturity. Emily (@leorisingbirthkeeping on instagram) and I talk about how we are stepping into mother energy before having children. Emily and I surround ourselves with mothers that are aligned with our values and trust us to help mother their children. Maidens having deep relationships with mothers is a sacred step on the path to feminine...

Samantha (@hellomama.nutrition on instagram) shares her first conventional hospital birth story, with postpartum anxiety that followed and lasted for two years. Doctors weren’t interested in helping her so she took her health into her own hands, healing her anxiety, igniting a new passion for nutrition, health, and helping educate mothers about true nourishment. Then after multiple miscarriages, s...

Jordan had a common first birth: an induction in the medical system. She desired a natural birth but with the induction, all her plans and dreams went out the window. She still walked away from it thinking she had a good first birth.... until she learned the REAL truth about birth on podcasts and the magic of homebirth. Coming from a medical family and knowing no one in her life that homebirthed,...

The presence and intention Tay brings to her mothering is unlike anything I have ever witnessed. We discuss her mothering journey with her son, which includes, elimination communication (offering the toilet to her son in infancy), breastfeeding, waiting a year to leave her son for the first time, and why she doesn’t own any baby accessories (no bottles, pacifiers, breast pumps, crib, etc.). We tal...

Tay is one of the most unique humans I have ever met. Her story encapsulates what is possible for all women in birth and postpartum. She stepped into Mother energy before conception, releasing her Maidenhood and the maiden's need for external validation and an authority figure. Tay was her own authority throughout each step: pregnancy, birth, and motherhood. She had a simple, wild pregnancy, witho...

Taylor, a mother of three, discusses her journey as a young, naive mother, to an embodied, mature mother who fully trusts herself. As a professional athlete's wife, she explains how hard her first postpartum was while her husband's career was taking off, then struggling with eczema with her middle 'sensitive child' and feeling deeply victim to the eczema. But then her life changed dramatically aft...

The *first ever* Wise Women Diaries interview is with, Sue Ellen, a first time mom. She details the journey of having no medical prenatal care throughout her 'wild pregnancy' and how she was able to relax into Trust within her own body, without receiving tests or ultrasounds to externally validate any fears that surfaced. She explains some of the anxieties that presented when she reached 43 weeks...

My body is leading me to true Trust of my body, something Western Medicine AND Holistic Medicine does not embody or teach. Our body doesn't start healing when we start taking a pill or supplement or see a chiropractor. It's always healing, but it doesn't always heal in a way that is pleasing to our mind!  Doctors mentioned that inspire me: Dr Cassie Huckaby, Dr Melissa Sell, and Dr Kelly Brogan