6 | Birthing Books & Babies that Heal the Ancestral Line with Victoria Coster

This week my guest, poet, mother, entrepreneur, and author Victoria Coster and I dive deep into the creative and the physical birthing processes—twin portals for our deepest transformation and becoming as medial women. We talk about the braided journey of the birthing of her two boys and the writing of her book—her recently published memoir in poems, We Make Diamonds: On Motherhood & the Ghost Kingdom–which explores the generational trauma and grief that's reawakened in her family line with the birth of her first son.  This episode is for the mamas, the mystics, and the writers and memoirists.  What you'll hear:    ✨ the mystical, mysterious, and often psychedelic initiations of book writing and child birthing   ✨ how the cycles of the female body facilitate (and for our generation seem to necessitate) ancestral healing   ✨ and how this heroine's journey to healing makes for the ultimate memoir — that's medicine for you in the making of it — and becomes a map for your readers once it's published 💫   Connect + next steps • Read a poem from Victoria's book on our blog • Buy her book here • Follow WHOLE HOUSE on Instagram and send me a DM! • Apply to work with me in HEROINE   About Our Guest Victoria Coster writes for the woman caught between holding it together and letting it fall apart. Poet, mother, and real estate agent, she lives in a house named Finistère — “the end of the land” — with her husband and two boys, where memory grows wild and truth shows up barefoot. Her debut poetry collection, We Make Diamonds, is a luminous excavation of motherhood, identity, and the echoes of grief that follow us home. It’s the kind of book you finish and immediately text to a friend: You need this. Take your time. She believes in writing like you mean it — raw, rhythmic, unafraid. The poems aren’t gentle, but they hold you like someone who’s been there.