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What's your pile of rocks?
A parent’s love is endless — devotional. Not something that can be scientifically quantified. Today, I decided to hit record as I began to process a pound of local cherries we got the other day. There are a few tangents followed here — all of them rooted in one thing: a mother’s love, a father’s...
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Grief as Medicine with Amber Wolf Moon
Suicide, illness, and miscarriage — all variations of how death can greet us, initiating a pilgrimage of grief. Death arrives without a knock, claiming life whether we are ready or not… Today, I am joined by a dear friend who has walked alongside death for most of her life with profound intimacy....
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The Sacred "I Don't Know": An honest Reflection on our experiences with Freebirth
Here sit two women, two mothers — who have both walked the path of freebirth, each with vastly different outcomes. One, cradling her daughter in her arms; the other, with her son’s ashes on upon her altar. — Welcome to an honest afternoon conversation with my dear friend Eden as she offers...
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The Space Between Our Stories
Walking the path of pregnancy together as friends then coming out of the birth portal as mothers; we would continue our walk as sisters, one nursing her daughter while the other mourned her son with empty arms. This brought a challenge: how could we show up for one another through such contrast…
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Remembering Anarcha Westcott
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit ahummingbirdprayer.substack.com I don’t do trigger warnings for what I share in this space because life doesn’t come with a trigger warning. Nature doesn’t wrap things in a digestive bubble and honestly, it doesn’t feel correct for me…
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Grief is a portal
Today, we're talking about grief, not just as an emotion or a season of life, but as a portal — a gateway to profound transformation. Join me for an intimate chat where we not only discuss how grief impacts us, but we explore how we can choose to actively engage with our grief. portal /pôr′tl/…
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How can I hold both life & death in wholeness with reverence?
How can I learn to hold both life and death in my heart in a good yet grounded way? This is a question I’ve been asking myself since my son passed away in childbirth March 2024. — In this audio file you will find my ponderings surrounding birth and death in relationship to the time of The Spring...
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Do I advocate against freebirth?
Since loosing my son in childbirth a year ago I have been asked so many questions — the most common being:“Do you advocate against freebirth?” After 3 days of labouring at home we transferred to the hospital where I continued to labour for 8 more hours. I spent the next two days on life support…
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A walk with Darkness & Death as the most holy Medicine Woman
Welcome to this recording that I’ve entitled: The Winter Solstice: A walk with darkness & death as the most holy Medicine WomanIntimate shares, musings, poetry, reflections from the past year on darkness and light as a mother in mourning. This year has been the ceremony I never wanted to sit in,...
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Women and our medicine; a podcast to remember the wisdom we carry in birth, death, and the sacred mysteries.
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