In this deeply nourishing conversation, Laura welcomes her mentor and friend Adrianna Zaccardi—a feminine embodiment guide and postpartum educator—for a heart-led exploration of the energetic rite of passage from maiden to mother. Adrianna shares her lived experience of descent, chronic pain, and healing, and the initiations that prepared her for motherhood.

They speak candidly about:

• ​Archetypal transformation and the journey through the underworld
• ​Patriarchy, pain, and feminine reclamation
• ​The importance of slowness, rest, and soul-led timing in a mother’s evolution
• ​The spiritual potency of pregnancy and conscious conception
• ​Why the “embodied mother” is the mother the world is starving for

This is a poetic, honest, and multi-layered offering for women navigating the thresholds of identity, spirituality, and self-mothering.

Adrianna Zaccardi, mother, midwife of the soul, a somatic guide of the Feminine, and a postpartum doula and educator.

Through connection to the body, with embodied movement, dance, archetypal rites of passage, her  written transmissions and more recently as a postpartum doula and educator, Adrianna acts as a grounded and loving bridge, serving the feminine essence within women; she nurtures a generation of sovereign women, mothers and children.

Adrianna is known for her wisdom when it comes to grief, the underworld and the darkness. She supports you on your journey - in the greeting, acceptance and integration of all aspects of self - guiding women as they alchemise bodily wisdom and step deeply into truth as embodied, mature women.

After nearly a decade of living in London, United Kingdom, Adrianna returned to her hometown Melbourne, Australia in late 2022. 

At the time of this episode release, Adrianna is months away from the birth portal. She eagerly awaits this experience, and who she will become on the other side of this rite of passage. 

https://adriannazaccardi.substack.com/

https://www.instagram.com/themotherservice/ 

https://www.instagram.com/adriannazaccardi/ 

📚 Books and teachers mentioned:

• ​The Way Out by Alan Gordon – healing chronic pain through somatic tracking
• ​Mother Hunger by Kelly McDaniel – exploring unmet maternal needs
• ​The Heroine’s Journey by Maureen Murdock – feminine myth and psychological wholeness
• ​Maiden to Mother by Sarah Durham Wilson – archetypal initiation for women
• ​Wild Feminine and Mothering From Your Center by Tami Lynn Kent – pelvic wisdom and body-based mothering
• ​Teachings from Marion Woodman, Jane Hardwicke Collings, and Maya Luna

Work with Me: Join The Embodied Mother 1:1 container to deepen your connection to cyclical living, embodied wisdom, and feminine archetypes.

You can reach out for a discovery call to feel into whether this is aligned for you right now. It’s a co-creation, a remembering, and a rooting into your body’s wisdom.

https://calendly.com/lauraguinnane/free-discovery-call

✨ I’d love to hear from you—how are these episodes landing with you? Would you like to share your story on the podcast? Contact me ⁠⁠lauraguinnane@gmail.com⁠⁠

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If you’ve experienced a caesarean birth, I offer 1:1 online support to guide you in your healing journey. Through birth story listening, scar tissue remediation, and somatic reconnection, we work together to support your return to wholeness and embodied presence. You can email me at ⁠⁠⁠⁠lauraguinnane@gmail.com⁠⁠⁠⁠

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