#278 A Free and Fluid Life After Three Births with Jess McKenzie

from Walnut Wednesday · host Lara Gieseke

This week we speak with Jess, a mid-thirties, rural living, homeschooling mama of three wild boys aged six and under who is learning to balance being a coordinator of chaos while doing healing work and parenting.Jess has had two birthing centre births (one with interventions) and a homebirth. Jess says that "lots of my journey over the past ten years has been around addressing my trauma and mental health and creating a life for myself and my children that feels right for us." Jess is currently in the process of setting up a second Instagram page to share her thoughts on motherhood publicly.Check out Jess's Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/MotherofChaos/

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