In this episode, I am joined by my incredibly smart and poetic friend Carly as she shares her journey from experiencing a medically-controlled first birth to reclaiming her power in a transformative free birth with her second. Carly discusses how learning to track her cycle after years of birth control taught her how powerful women are and how she came to love her blood. We also delve into the generational healing of women’s rites of passage, like birth, and how worthy we are as women of these experiences being pleasurable. This episode is rich in Carly’s sweet wisdom-filled stories and offers a heartfelt perspective on the beauty (and mystery) of womanhood and birth.
07:00 Introduction and Greetings
07:36 Discussing Seasonal Living
08:42 Phases of Life and Pregnancy Announcement
10:06 First Trimester As “The Reckoning”
14:43 Reflections on First Menstruation and Shame/Hiding
26:28 Teenage Years and Birth Control
37:01 Men and Women, Masculine and Feminine
49:11 Cycle Awareness as Powerful and A Responsibility
57:08 Embracing the Mother Archetype and Conception
01:04:09 Carly’s Hospital Birth Experience
01:26:59 Postpartum Realizations and Healing Through Story
01:33:20 Conscious Conception and Wild Pregnancy
01:34:39 Carly’s Otherworldly Free Birth
01:54:56 Womb Is An Eternal Spring
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