EP37: Molly Caro May on Female Rage, Writing, Somatics and Motherhood
What You’ll Hear: The inspiration for Molly’s memoir Her exploration of postpartum rage The connection between storytelling and healing Anger in our culture today, how it connects to the postpartum period and what it can teach us about ourselves What Molly Shares: The provocative title of Molly’s book and why she chose it (2:00) How […]
EP36: Christiane Pelmas on Menopause, Sexuality, and an Emerging Archetype of Womanhood
What Christiane Shares: – her personal experiences with her cycle, abortion, perimenopause and menopause—and the intelligence of these initiations – how her experience with menopause informed major decisions in her life including her living arrangement with her partner, her pace, her work in the world – the potential for whole listening, erotic sex, generative power […]
EP35: Dr. Katherine Zagone on Fertility is Health and Life
What You’ll Hear: The relationship between holistic health and optimal fertility What’s missing from the current medical approach Dr. Zagone’s unique, holistic work combining environmental, physical and emotional components How the fertility journey can be a process of internal growth and maturity Success stories from her practice What Dr. Zagone Shares: Her definition of fertility […]
EP 34: Jaguar Round Table- 5 Women Share Their Experience of Activate Their Inner Jaguar
Jaguar Round Table- Five women share what changed for them from Activate your Inner Jaguar – Sex is better – Stopped picking skin on their hands (a longtime habit that had been addressed many different ways) – Learning to how to stay present with what feels good during sex (instead of what doesn’t) – How […]
EP33: Nikki Coffelt on Addiction, Somatic Recovery, and Soul Work
Nicole Coffelt, PhD is a Licensed Psychologist, a Somatic Experiencing Practitioner, provocateur and shamanic artist. Nikki has had the opportunity to travel and experience many diverse cultures including her own ancestral American Indian roots and brings this experience and wisdom to her healing work. Nikki has extensively worked through her own addictions and trauma and […]
EP32: Ale Duarte Tunes In To Children from a Somatic Approach
Ale Duarte is a somatic educator who travels around the world offering training to professionals who work in the fields of psychology, education and body-oriented therapy. What Ale Shares: How he came to work with children combining his experience teaching physical education, Rolfing, and Somatic Experiencing Trauma Therapy. Examples of Ale’s work with children and […]
EP31: Eileen Rosete on Motherhood, Miscarriage, and Loss
“People don’t know they have the permission to mourn [a miscarriage] the same way they would for someone who had lived longer.” Eileen Rosete is the founder of Our Sacred Women and a Marriage and Family Therapist. She is the mother of one daughter and has experienced two losses, which I was honored to be […]
EP30: Ellen Heed on Hormones, Pheromones and Postpartum Sex
Ellen Heed and Kimberly Johnson, co-founders of STREAM School for Postpartum Care talk about what’s missing in the dialogue about sex postpartum, the biological realities of the postpartum time, and how these affect libido. “Postpartum can be an initiation into deeper sexual potential.” What Ellen Shares What she is hearing from postpartum women in her […]
EP29: Emilee Saldaya on Free Birth and Waking Up from the Amnesia of Birth
“Birth is normal and it is biologically meant to work, it can feel incredible and you can have an incredible postpartum; but it takes a level of curiosity, courage and willingness to take responsibility for yourself that we have been hypnotized not to do.” Emilee Saldaya founder of the Free Birth Society boldly challenges the […]
EP28: Uma Dinsmore-Tuli on Yoga, Feminism and the Postpartum Period
“If you actually understood what a woman has been through: the conception journey, pregnancy, birth, the whole process—what’s happening demands full respect and a deep care. To imagine that people would just snap back into their size 0 jeans and walk out, it begs disbelief. There’s no respect for what’s arisen. And in the yoga […]