Melanie has a lot of story medicine to share with you today. In her own words:

"Through my birth story, I hope to help others see the sacred medicine even in the most difficult experiences."

"If you have a deep scar, that is a door." - Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estes, "The wound is the place where the Light enters you." Rumi

Melanie is dedicated to helping individuals cultivate unconditional self-love through wellness, spiritual, and psychological practices, including archetypal psychology, divine feminine ceremony, and energy healing.

She trains and certifies Self-Love Coaches, offers Ritual Facilitator and Spiritual Leader Initiations, and provides a variety of programs, retreats, and workshops.

Melanie has worked with thousands worldwide, guiding them to embrace both their shadow and light to create a more magical life.

@ theselflovelifestyle

https://live.theselflovelifestyle.com/melaniemonaco

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In this episode you will hear Alexxis tell the free birth story of her first born son, Noah.

Alexxis is a radical birth keeper, herbalist, and artist in Sedona, Arizona. During the freebirth of her son, the lack of feminine presence lead to her realizing that women supporting women isn’t just important, it is crucial to the healing of this world.

When labor started she found herself feeling shocked and it took some time to finally lean in to the sensations.

She tells how when she was in transition she found such relief from the women in her online community reflecting to her that everything sounded normal, that she was doing it and likely close to emergence.

The last three hours of her birth actualy felt enjoyable and medatative as she met the sensations full on.

We also chat about the sisterhood wound, the power of womb work, and the importance of postpartum preparation.

@amara.earth.birth

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In this episode Amanda will share about her embodied wisdom as a Pelvic Floor OT, Craniosacral Therapist (CST) & Mother.

We touch on several very important topics including:

Getting to the root cause of the dis-ease in our bodies, what a NO looks and feels like in our bodies and why its crucial to honor that.

We deep dive into what CST is and why it is a benefical modality for processing trauma stored in the body including the polyvagal therory.

We talk about what it means to be an embodied practioner of helaing arts and how doing our own inner work comes first.

Amanda shares about her maternal line and her own birth imprint. She shares about her two very fast unmedicated births in the hospital.

Again we discuss the importance of birth imprints for the coming generations.

Lastly, we talk about Motherhood and the gifts and lessons that come with it. Such as, unlearning the "Martyr Mother" and how to balance our soul callings in the early years of motherhood. Simply put- we need our village.

Amanda is a mother to two children ages 5 and 8.

It was the birth of her children that opened her to this sacred path of serving women. She feels the portal of birth was the opening to the journey she continues on today.

While not a home birth, Amanda birthed her two children in the hospital alongside her family and midwives naturally and unmedicated. They were fast and furious births that has left her heart wide open ever since.

Amanda is an Occupational Therapist specializing in women's pelvic health. After working as a traditional pelvic floor therapist and treating pelvic health conditions from a biomechanical approach she saw how some women just weren't getting better.

She began to treat pelvic health differently and saw amazing results! She started to address the "stuff" that was stored in women's bodies.

Through a somatic (body) based approach, Amanda helps women process stored emotions, stories, and unprocessed experiences that have been influencing and likely contributing to their physical health.

Through the gentle modality of craniosacral therapy and the use of somato-emotional release techniques Amanda offers her clients a safe and sacred space to heal from the inside out.

Amanda's private practice, Pearl Holistic Health, is located in Biddeford, Maine. She works with women through pregnancy, postpartum, and beyond.

@pearlholistichealth

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To join the FREE educational and supportive Virtual Village Circle for families seeking a natural, physiological, and deeply spiritual conception, pregnancy, labor or postpartum click HERE .

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Buckle up as you are about to embark on the hero's journey with my soul-sister Danika's soon to be husband, Rudy.

We cover so much ground in this episode. I brought Rudy on because in the short amount of time that I've known him we have been able to drop into my favorite kind of conversations, those about soul evolution.

More specifically: what it means to be a conscious man in today's world, men's rites of passage, death and rebirth, emotional intelligence, and self-responsibility.

We touch on Rudy's family lineage, the different archetypal roles that play out in our lives and how to meet them with curiosity.

He takes us through his own hero's journey of going into the Marines, falling into self-sabotage and victim consciousness, through his own Dark Night of the soul and his spiritual awakening and reclamation of all of his parts.

We talk about the three key elements needed to cross the threshold of initiation: death and rebirth, Sacred Space, & a guide.

Lastly, the reason for initiations, the horizon line view of life and how it is a circle and we are all one.

Rudy shares the map and I look forward to seeing how he leads the coming generation into conscious masculinity.

Find me on instagram @⁠⁠birth.advocate⁠⁠ and all of my offerings on my website⁠ ⁠www.birthadvocate.me⁠⁠

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Devin King Jones is an International Coach, speaker and village tender. She is the creator of the award-winning program, Sacred: 7 Pillars of Self-Love.

She is also an advocate for maternal and family rights and shares her personal experience of multi-generational living as a way to “bring back the village.”

She lives in a multi-family “village” in southern california with her husband, 2 children and 8 other family members—sharing in co-parenting, land stewardship and business.

After experiencing preeclampsia and an induction in her first birth, Devin was determined to have a healthy pregnancy and redemptive birth in her next child.

She went on to have a healthy and empowering, mother-led home birth with her daughter in 2023.

You can find Devin online at

@devinkingjones and @modernfamilyvillage

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I am honored to bring you this week's guest, my mentor, Anna the spiritual midwich. This episode is to encourage first-time moms to lean into a natural birth experience.

Beginning at time stamp 22 min:

We dispel myths propagated within our culture by exploring Herstory, the origins of the medicalization of birth, the truth about mortality rates, c-sections, healthy stress for your baby during labor, biomechanics and the positioning of your baby, how to bridge the gap and reprogram your subconscious mind, the importance of birth imprints and the impeccable truth that peace on Earth starts at birth.

We talk about purposeful pain in labor and how to cope, postpartum depression and how to avoid it.

Last but not least: choosing a birth team that will cultivate and hold Sacred Space and why this is absolutely crucial.

I graduated from Anna's year long mentorship where she taught me exactly how to do this.

I support women locally in Southern Maine and virtually worldwide.

If you are curious about becoming a sacred birth worker you can save 10% off the early bird special for Anna's next cohort with code EMILY.

This early bird special ends August 1st!

Share this episode with all the moms to be that you know and anyone curious about working in the birth realm! Enjoy!

Learn more about the Mentorship below

https://www.sacredbirthinternational.com/thesacredbirthworkermentorship

“If all women truly understood the power they hold, through claiming their rite of birth, the world would dramatically change."

Anna is a Former Midwife, Woman's Work Facilitator, Yoga Teacher and Coach who's spent over a decade holding sacred space for women in Circle, One on One Sessions and walking alongside women and their families through the Transformational Rite of Passage that is Birth.

Anna has a depth of embodied wisdom when it comes to both the physiology of birth and the spiritual aspects of birth and combines her knowledge in her own birth work as a spiritual midwife as well as a mentor for others through her courses and coaching.

In her Sacred Birth Worker Mentorship Program Anna teaches about natural, physiological birth and how to hold a safe, sacred and spiritual birth space.

Find out more about Anna https://www.sacredbirthinternational.com/about-anna

Find her on instagram @thespiritualmidwitch

Listen to Herstory Womanifesto by Jane Hardwicke Collings Here.

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I am super excited to bring you the 4th "Dad's Version" of a birth story. Happy Father's Day!! Ben's words below say all that needs to be said for an intro:

"The epiphanies I received after witnessing the unassisted birth of my son run deep. To birth a life free from malpractices, or even observation is subversive to the system.

The implications of unassisted birth are practical, profound, and my wife is an anointed Goddess for doing it all on her own. She says birth is no big deal.

At the same time, this portal & rite of passage for woman, and for man is the ultimate raw experience. Having climbed Myticas, the highest, most precarious peak of Mount Olympus, sailed the Bermuda Triangle with one other crewman, traveled overland at unspeakably high speeds on superbikes with visions of my own mortality, etc., I can tell you that all of the beauty and tragedy I’ve experienced and witnessed pales in comparison to watching my Beloved birth our baby into my arms. It’s both mundane and majestic.

And it has set up generations for lifetimes of liberty. I look forward to speaking in greater depth about the topics elicited by natural, pure, free, wild, unassisted childbirth, and I look forward to learning our way out of enslavement back to personal autonomy, sovereignty, and liberty starting day one.

I am a husband, father, singer, songwriter, saxophonist, Director, entrepreneur, homesteader."

Leader of the band, Red Tail Hawk (www.theredtailhawk.com).

Founder of Boocha Kombucha (www.boochakombucha.com).

Co-owner of Uprise Hot Yoga + Dance (www.hotyogamaine.com).

Director of U.S. Sales for Cambridge Commodities, an importer of premium organic ingredients (⁠us.cambridgecommodities.com/⁠).

Find me on instagram @⁠⁠birth.advocate⁠⁠ and all of my offerings on my website⁠ ⁠www.birthadvocate.me⁠⁠

To join the FREE educational and supportive Virtual Village Circle for families seeking a natural, physiological, and deeply spiritual conception, pregnancy, labor or postpartum click HERE .

For all of your FREE resources click ⁠HERE⁠.

To book a FREE discovery call, to interview on the show, or to join my Women’s Circle click⁠ ⁠here⁠⁠.

To find out more about The Sacred Birth Worker Mentorship by Anna, The Spiritual Midwitch and for a special discount on her offerings use code EMILY⁠ ⁠here⁠⁠.

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Sami shares with us her two totally different birth experiences: Her first a 72 hour long home birth surrounded by her partner, dear friend, photographer, and two midwives and her second that was barely witnessed by even her partner after just a few hours of fast labor.

Sami references Yolande Norris-Clark's book Portal. (Highly recommended reading) She was gifted the opportunity to choose the path or fear or trust and she chose trust. The ripple effect of this is evident now in the way she leads her life.

Sami is a mother and a wife. She is a yoga teacher, studio owner, and former doula, with a Master's degree in Alternative Medicine, and the host of the podcast Mother Medicine, where she breaks down cultural myths around health.

She hopes other mothers will take from her two completely different birth stories the weight of this truth: That observation really is the first intervention.

@mothermedicinepodcast

@uprisehotyoga

Find me on instagram @⁠⁠birth.advocate⁠⁠ and all of my offerings on my website⁠ ⁠www.birthadvocate.me⁠⁠

To join the FREE educational and supportive Virtual Village Circle for families seeking a natural, physiological, and deeply spiritual conception, pregnancy, labor or postpartum click HERE .

For all of your FREE resources click ⁠HERE⁠.

To book a FREE discovery call, to interview on the show, or to join my Women’s Circle click⁠ ⁠here⁠⁠.

To find out more about The Sacred Birth Worker Mentorship by Anna, The Spiritual Midwitch and for a special discount on her offerings use code EMILY⁠ ⁠here⁠⁠.

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