Embracing our innate birthing wisdom can lead to profound healing and empowerment for both mothers and babies.

Today, I have Catalina Clark with me, and she shares her journey from traditional midwifery to supporting women who are interested in free birth, challenging conventional notions about childbirth along the way.

So, whether you're expecting, curious about alternative birth practices, or interested in women's health, this conversation will offer you fresh perspectives on one of life's most fundamental experiences: childbirth.

In this podcast episode, Catalina takes us through:

- Who she is as a midwife of healing.

- What is Freebirthing?

- Exploration of birth as a somatic experience.

- Distinction between a "midwife of healing" and traditional licensed midwifery

- Her personal birth experiences and somatic journey.

- Physiological aspects of birth.

- The importance of completing healing cycles.

- The changing landscape of birth practices.

- The legal aspects of midwifery and birth support in different states.

And so much more!

Did you know that our thoughts, beliefs, and physical practices can literally shift our reality and health outcomes?

In this enlightening episode, I engage in a profound conversation with Christina Kantzavelos, a psychotherapist dedicated to helping clients navigate the complexities of chronic illness.

Christina's unique approach intertwines elements of timeline hopping, interdimensional reality, body morphine, and epigenetics to address chronic illness and pain.

In this episode, Christina takes us through:

- The concept of "timeline hopping" and “interdimensional reality.”

- How changing our mindset can alter our life trajectory.

- Role of body morphine and epigenetics in managing chronic illness and pain.

- Connecting with like-minded people to facilitate a transition from pain to power.

- Her personal experience of challenging timeline shifts.

- Transforming life trajectories.

And so much more!

Christina Kantzavelos is a California-based psychotherapist, writer, advocate and artist. She received her Bachelor’s and Master's of Social Welfare (MSW) from the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) and her Masters of Library and Information Sciences from San Jose California State University (SJSU). She has visited over 30 different countries and documented most of it on social media.

However, it was in completing the Camino de Santiago (500-mile pilgrimage across Spain) at the end of 2015, where she realized her strong affinity with writing. She decided to start BuenQamino, an award-winning, gluten-free and health-conscious lifestyle travel publication.

In clinical practice (Begin Within Today), she treats those with chronic illness, including Lyme disease, and physical, developmental, and age-related disabilities. She also published the Begin Within Daily Health Wellness Journals for chronic illness and mental wellness that she is now turning into an app, called WithinMe.

Connect with Christina on socials!

Website:

www.beginwithintoday.com

www.buenqamino.com

Instagram:

www.instagram.com/beginwithintoday

www.instagram.com/buenqamino

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Did you know you can explore your own creative processes as pathways to healing and self-discovery?

Creative practices can be powerful tools for processing trauma, moving through somatic programming, and fostering resilience.

Today, I’m excited to have Jai Knight, who offers a unique perspective on the healing power of art and embodiment practices.

In this podcast episode, Jai takes us through:

- Their journey as an artist and their discovery of ancestral artistic connections

- The role of art in processing trauma and personal transformation

- The transition from recreating trauma through art to healing and presence

- The practice of ritual tattooing and its healing potential

- Somatic awareness in artistic practices and daily life

- The importance of grounding and embodiment in creative and spiritual work

- The integration of Hanna Somatics in Jai's tattoo practice and personal life

And so much more!

Jai knight is an interdisciplinary artist and ritual hand poke tattooist. Their work integrates metaphor and symbol as a tool for communicating deep messages that expand beyond the verbal, the subjective, and into the collective narrative. The work they create is an intimate processing with an individual or group, slowing down time into the kairos.

Through Jai’s own investigation of slowing down through intensive wilderness emersion, 9-year meditation practice, lifelong art practice, crafting their own artistic material including paper, paint, ink, and fibers, and training as a regenerative land and social systems designer, emotional cpr practitioner, and somatic movement junkie informs the work and experiences they share with the world. Their work has always dealt with transforming trauma into creative action.

Their most recent project as channel, creator, illustrator, and author of House Oracle Project weaves together intimate and shared experiences of processing how to be at home in a changing world. This resulted in hundreds of collaborative meaning-making sessions, transformative paper-making workshops, a collaborative publishing project, and more.

Their projects have recently been supported by Arcosanti foundation, CA Artsconnection, and the public arts advisory council of 29palms.

Jai’s work was also invited into several residencies including High Desert Test Sites, Lookout Arts Quarry and Ute mountain studios. Jai currently resides in Joshua Tree, CA where they regularly offer ritualistic tattoos and live simply comnected with land.

Connect with Aimee Takaya on:

Instagram: @aimeetakaya

Facebook: Aimee Takaya

And watch the podcast on Youtube @aimeetakaya

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