77. Matrescence: The Women's Rites of Fertility, Pregnancy, Birth & Postpartum | With Christina Louise McBoyle

There are thresholds in a woman's life that cannot be rushed, intellectualized, or controlled. Thresholds that leave us no choice but surrender to the death of our old identity. And yet so many women expect to move through the journey of matrescence – the initiation of conception, pregnancy, birth, postpartum – as if they were simply physiological events to manage, get through, and bounce back from as quickly as possible. And yet, these are some of the most transformational rites of a passage a woman can go through. They're meant to initiate the mother through her psychic death and rebirth. Because she does not only birth a baby, she also births a new version of herself.  In this episode, Christina McBoyle Louise and I go deep into the sacred rites of passage embedded into the very design of every woman's body, exploring what it truly means to descend and become initiated women. We also explore Sacred Union as yet another major rite of passage that burns away our masks, preferences, and unconscious patterns–and opens our hearts to Love and Truth. You'll love this episode if you're curious to better understand and embrace the great feminine thresholds, from motherhood to Sacred Union. In this episode, we explore: Matresence: the spiritual, psychological, and identity-level transformation through motherhood  Why the feminine rites of passage happen through the body How birth is the most opening, most psychedelic experience a woman will ever move through What feminine descent means for us practically  What are the real roots of postpartum depression  How to prepare your heart, womb, and soul to receive life What Sacred Union truly asks of us and how it shatters every fantasy we carried into it Why Christina believes that true Sacred Union is only possible within  marriage Learning to receive support as one of the greatest initiations of motherhood