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All Episodes

Healing Birth — 264 episodes

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1

Where Empty Arms Meet Light

2

An Off-Grid, Blissful Freebirth in Maine (Part Two)

3

An Off-Grid, Blissful Freebirth in Maine (Part One)

4

A Routine Epidural, An Unexpected Reaction

5

Just Us: A Fifth Baby, Born at Home

6

When Intuition Leads You to Transfer: A Planned Freebirth, Twin Cesarean, and Healing the Trauma

7

The Surprise Breech Homebirth of Joli's First Baby

8

A Boss Babe Softens: Homebirth, Loss, and Healing

9

Why Birth Can Feel So Overwhelming, and What Actually Helps

10

The Birth Was Beautiful. Postpartum Was Hard.

11

Rejecting Fear: Celine's Homebirth After Cesarean (HBAC)

12

High Risk, Held by Grace: Part Two of Natalie's Story

13

Finding God in the Midst of Tragedy: Part One of Natalie's Story

14

Freebirth Beyond the Dogma

15

Homebirth, and Healing, After a Second Trimester Loss

16

A Surprise Birth in her Parent's Bathtub

17

Giving Birth at Sixteen

18

Maddison's Journey to Postpartum Bliss

19

When Birth Isn't Healing

20

Restored By Grace: From Medicalized Birth, to Trusting the Body

21

Rethinking Freebirth: Keelee's Story

22

Healing at Home: Part Two of Kristin's Story

23

Miscarriages, IVF, and a Natural Conception: Part One of Kristin's Story

24

A No-Comprises Birth

25

Jenna Found Healing Through Birth Photography

26

She Worked in Obstetrics, But Chose Homebirth

27

From Surgical Birth, to Catching Her Own Baby

28

Miscarriage, Medical Trauma, and a Fearless Freebirth

29

How a Hospital Transfer Helped Hannah Find her Voice

30

Freebirths and Soul Whispers: Part Two of Rose's Story

31

Wild and Rooted Homebirth in Australia: Part One of Rose's Story

32

Freebirth, Boundaries, and Holistic Healing

33

A Twin Loss, a VBAC, and a Homebirth: Alexandra's Story

34

Five Births, Five Lessons

35

Climbing the Mountain: Emily's Twin Transfer and HBAC (Homebirth After Cesarean) Journey

36

A First Time Mom Chooses Homebirth

37

How One Midwife's Own Birth Experiences Turned Her Into a Passionate Advocate for Informed Consent

38

A Healing, Accidental, Unassisted Birth after Infertility and Birth Trauma

39

From Pitocin to Peace

40

A First Time Mom Chooses Freebirth

41

A Positive Hospital Transfer Experience After Freebirth

42

Into the Underworld and Back: Healing the Wound of Motherbaby Separation

43

When a Midwife Gives Birth

44

Secondary Infertility, a Healing Homebirth, and Spirit Baby Communication

45

Homebirth After Hospital Trauma: Megan's Story

46

Alchemizing the Homebirth Transfer Experience

47

Holding on to What is Sacred (Part 2)

48

Holding on to What is Sacred (Part 1)

49

Homebirth as a Family Affair

50

Birth Wisdom From A Mom of Six

51

Trusting Again: Jackie's Homebirth After a Placental Abruption

52

An Ecstatic, Unassisted Breech Birth in Mexico

53

Freebirth at 44: Love, Intuition, and a Dream Realized

54

Rewriting the Story of a 'Broken' Body: Caroline's Healing Second Birth

55

Chronically Ill, Not Chronically Broken: Birth with Type 1 Diabetes

56

Jesse's Wild Pregnancy and 68-Hour Homebirth

57

A Freebirth That Didn't Go as Planned

58

Induced, Transferred, and Healed: Alyssa's Path to a VBAC

59

The Courage to Leave: Pregnancy and Birth with an Abusive Partner

60

A (Breech!) Homebirth After Cesarean Without Fear

61

Against The Odds: Birthing Twins Naturally in the Hospital

62

Birth is an Opportunity to Fully Trust Yourself

63

From Deeply Indoctrinated, to Free: Kelly's Journey of Six Births

64

Homebirth After Cesarean (HBAC) With a Radical Birthkeeper

65

Becoming a Birthworker with Leisa Masters

66

Pregnant and Didn't Know it: A Rainbow Gathering Birth

67

Precipitous and Powerful: Tiffany's Third Birth

68

Giving Birth with Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome

69

Healing Through Homebirth, and Grieving the Past

70

Fleeing Paris: A Family's Fight for Birth Autonomy

71

Trauma Informed Birth: Breaking the Cycle, Building Trust

72

A Triumphant Homebirth After Cesarean at nearly 43 weeks

73

Born in the Doorway of the Birth Center

74

A Traumatic Induction, and a Pain-Free Birth with Hypnobabies

75

A Traumatic Induction, and a Pain-Free Birth with Hypnobabies

76

A Traumatic Induction, and a Pain-Free Birth with Hypnobabies

77

A Traumatic Induction, and a Pain-Free Birth with Hypnobabies

78

Bringing Consciousness to Birth and Life with Lea from @trusting_life_

79

Hospital to Home | Two Birth Experiences with the NHS

80

A Third Birth With a Twist

81

Natural Birth is the Hero's Journey

82

Divinely Aligned | Freebirthing Twins on Halloween

83

Finding Freebirth

84

A Homebirth in Norway

85

After the Devastating Loss of Twins, Tia got her Healing Birth

86

Giving Birth at Fifteen

87

A Homebirth after Cesarean on Kauai

88

True Redemption | Carey's Freebirth After a Traumatic Birth

89

A Natural Hospital Birth Against All Odds

90

A 34-Week Freebirth Deep in the Costa Rican Jungle

91

Despite a Breech Baby and IUGR Diagnosis, Hope Trusted her Instincts And Chose Homebirth

92

Navigating Pregnancy with Kidney Issues, Homebirth, and a Postpartum Transfer

93

Fertility, Pregnancy, and Birth After a Severe Eating Disorder

94

How to Birth Like a Mammal

95

Birth is a Gateway to Maternal Power

96

A First Time Mom Has an Orgasmic Birth

97

Born at 27 Weeks

98

The Right Support Makes All the Difference

99

Born Before the Midwife Could Arrive

100

Freebirth Through a Father's Eyes

101

Life is a Precious Gift

102

From Anxiety to Joy | Two Very Different Homebirths

103

A Seven Minute Labor (Yes, Really!)

104

You Are Not Uniquely Broken | Heather's Homebirth After Two Cesareans

105

Healing After Midwife Abandonment | Mindy's Story

106

A Journey to Radical Responsibility | From Hospital Induction + C-section, to a Passionate Homebirther

107

Journey Home: Birthing on Indigenous Soil

108

Rethinking Shoulder Dystocia, and A Healing Second Birth at Home

109

Finding Love, and Choosing Homebirth, After 40

110

Healing After Outsourcing Your Power

111

Giving the Fears to the Trees | An RV Freebirth During Montana Winter

112

Arati's Story | A Daughter in the Stars

113

A Homebirth Transfer, C-Section, and Alchemizing the Experience

114

A (Surprise!) Breech Freebirth

115

Finding Peace in a Cesarean Birth

116

Ali Manifested her Dream Birth

117

A Healing Birth After Being Widowed During Pregnancy

118

Born in the Car at 24 Weeks

119

From Numbed out, to Deep Trust: Ashley's Off-Grid Yurt Freebirth

120

Maggie's Redemptive, Natural Birth After Two Cesareans (VBA2C)

121

Healing From a Homebirth Transfer

122

When Time Stands Still: Resolving Shoulder Dystocia at Home, and the Initiatory Aftermath

123

Amber's Easeful and Healing Homebirth After Trauma

124

How Core Traumas Can Show up in Birth

125

Bringing In The Light: Anisa's Homebirth and Freebirth

126

You Can Choose to Have a Pain-free Birth with Yolande Norris Clark

127

A Good Girl Takes Back Her Power (Part 2 of 2)

128

A Good Girl Takes Back Her Power (Part 1 of 2)

129

How Kelly Learned to Trust Her Body

130

Freebirth in the Peruvian Jungle

131

The Art and Science of Fertility Astrology

132

A Midwife's Daughter Chooses Freebirth

133

Giving Birth in a Midwife-Run Hospital

134

Reframing High Blood Pressure, and Re-Writing Her Story

135

How Plant Medicine Prepared Kelli for Birth

136

When You Walk Through the Fire, You Will not be Burned

137

Vision Quest Baby

138

Planting The Homebirth Seed

139

A Former NICU Nurse Chooses Homebirth

140

You Are the Key | Part Two of Neena's Birth Stories

141

You Are the Key | Part One of Neena's Birth Stories

142

Ada's Off-Grid Family Birth

143

A Freebirth Led by Faith

144

Choosing Sovereign Birth after the NICU

145

Kaylee's Outdoor, Off Grid, 6 Day Long Freebirth

146

I Knew There Was a Better Way | Part Two of Danielle's Story

147

I Knew There Was a Better Way | Part One of Danielle's Story

148

It Was Just Another Day, But I Gave Birth | Part Two of Rebecca's Birth Stories

149

In the Belly of the Beast | Part One of Rebecca's Birth Stories

150

Finding Homebirth | Leah's Journey Through Birth Trauma, and Loss, to Birth Bliss

151

A Journey to Full Autonomy | Audrey's Wild and Powerful Births

152

Chaya's Simple Freebirth

153

How Birth Trauma Can Affect our Children, and How We Can Support Them to Heal

154

The Spiritual Battleground for Birth (Rebroadcast)

155

Seeking Justice After Obstetric Violence (Rebroadcast)

156

Leaning into Exactly the Right Support | Part Two of Carla's Story

157

Magic, Meaning, and Medicine in a Homebirth Transfer | Part one of Carla's Story

158

Connecting with Our Babies in Spirit

159

From Pain to Purpose | Sharna's Mission to Heal the Trauma of Pregnancy Loss

160

Unraveling Birth Trauma and Transforming Lives

161

From Empowered to PowerFULL | Sarah's Journey to Homebirth her (nearly) 12LB Baby After Two Cesareans (Part 2)

162

From Empowered to PowerFULL | Sarah's Journey to Homebirth her (nearly) 12LB Baby After Two Cesareans (Part 1)

163

A Birth Center + NICU Experience

164

Nelson and Alison are Empowering Others to Have the Birth of Their Dreams

165

Retrieving Your Soul | A Journey Through, and out of, Postpartum Depression

166

The Same Scar That I Have

167

Christina's Redemptive Homebirth + Giving Birth in Germany

168

From my Heart to Yours

169

Saphron Just Stayed Home and Had Her Baby

170

An Unplanned Cesarean at 35 Weeks and Its Aftermath

171

Healing Our Relationship to Sex After a Traumatic Birth | A Raw Conversation

172

Anahel's Wild and Free 50-Minute (!) Birth

173

The Whistleblower Midwife

174

An Empowering Birth at 34 Weeks

175

Finding Peace In a Hurricane

176

Your Body Isn't Broken | Mandy's Healing Homebirth After Cesareans

177

These Are My Power Stories | Leah's Freebirths

178

Giving Birth Again After the Unthinkable - An Unanesthetized Cesarean

179

This Baby Healed Me

180

REBROADCAST: What Do I have to Do, Deliver This Baby Myself?!

181

The Magic of Story Medicine | A Conversation Between Amana and Diana, Part Two

182

The Magic of Story Medicine | A Conversation Between Amana and Diana, Part One

183

The Gift of Surrender

184

IVF, Multiple Losses, and a Rainbow

185

Channeling The Cosmos | Nicole's Three Birth Stories

186

I Wanted a Redo So Badly

187

Giving Birth During Covid (Part 3) | Sian's Story

188

Giving Birth During Covid (Part Two) | Ali's Story

189

Giving Birth During Covid (Part One) | Sondra's Story

190

The Spiritual Battleground for Birth

191

There's No Such Thing as a "Natural" Induction | Lauren's Story

192

We Need a New Postpartum Paradigm

193

Giving Birth With High Blood Pressure | In the System, and Out.

194

I Genuinely Thought I Was Going to Die

195

A Cesarean in Bali, A Freebirth in California

196

Samantha's Psychic Pregnancy and Homebirth

197

What Ten Years of Working for Health Insurance Companies Taught Me

198

Healing Birth Trauma is Easy

199

The Only Positive Thing Was You

200

An Initiation into Trust: Ally's Three Day Freebirth

201

When Survivors of Sexual Assault Give Birth, Part Two: Rebecca's Story

202

When Survivors of Sexual Assault Give Birth, Part One: Gemma's Story

203

The Wisdom of Breech Birth

204

Women's Healthcare is a Gateway Drug

205

It's Okay to Feel it All | Ariana's Homebirth Cesarean

206

The Sacred Pause | Christine's Life-changing, Out of Body Freebirth

207

I Trusted Myself to Know What I Needed | Victoria's Birth Stories

208

You are Perfect, Whole, and Worthy | Jenna Walenga

209

I Will Never Birth in a Hospital Again | Ashley's Story

210

A Series of Magical Synchronicities | Healing After a Traumatic Induction

211

"I Want Women to Know What's Possible" | with Dr. Elizabeth Wade

212

The Only Way Out is Through | Charlotte's 11lb HBAC + The Importance of Listening to Your Body

213

Healing Ourselves, Healing the Ancestors | Andrea's Freebirth After a C-section

214

Why I am so passionate about sharing traumatic birth stories (but will never normalize them)

215

The Incredible Power of a Mother's Intuition | Spirit Baby Communication, Freebirth, and Resolving a Retained Placenta Naturally at Home

216

From The Underworld, To Bliss

217

Fighting Back Against Obstetric Violence

218

A loss, a cesarean, an awakening

219

Chaya's Freebirth After Three Cesareans

220

Why Medical Freedom Matters to Mothers (Part 3 of 3: Roxanne's Story)

221

Why Medical Freedom Matters to Mothers (Part 2 of 3: Najma's Story)

222

Why Medical Freedom Matters to Mothers (Part 1 of 3)

223

Feeling God's Presence in Birth | Miranda's Story

224

Rejecting Pharmacological Birth Control, and Reclaiming Physical Sovereignty with Serendipidi Day

225

Happy #internationalhomebirthday!

226

Trusting Birth at 35 Weeks | Hannah Tovar

227

Spiritual Healing After Birth | Katie Sutherland

228

Re-connecting to Our Wombspace | Bethany Wilde

229

Healing with Plant Allies | Arielle's Birth Story

230

I Had to Push Through | Chaya's Three Birth Stories

231

How do I know if I Have Experienced Birth Trauma?

232

Finding the Joy | Gemma's Freebirth after Cesarean

233

BONUS EPISODE: Lessons From VBAC Mothers, Coercion, and Medical Freedom

234

The Role of Faith | Megan's HBAC

235

Divinely Guided | Ellie's HBAC on the Farm, Part Two

236

Divinely Guided: Ellie's HBAC at the Farm, Part 1

237

Meet Kristyn | Raising Awareness Through Craftivism

238

Fertility Freedom | Tarina Mosley

239

10 Questions You Must Ask Your Midwife | Freya Kellet

240

Meet Jasmine | Giving Birth While Grieving

241

Birth is a Holy Experience | Maha Al Musa

242

Meet Erica | Coping with the "Why"

243

Healing the Trauma in our Tissues | Dr. Beebe Dericks

244

Meet Jennie | A Dragon Mother is Born

245

BONUS EPISODE: A raw audio diary

246

Early Birth | With Wild Luna Raven

247

Radical Responsibility

248

Meet Tessa | Most Importantly, I Trusted Myself

249

Meet Natalie | I Could Feel Everything

250

Induced Disconnection with Lynnea Laessig

251

Meet Olivia | Miscarriage, Precipitous labor, and Taking Your Power Back

252

The Medical System is Not a Good Place for Women of Color

253

Transmuting Trauma into Power with Emilee Saldaya

254

Meet Clancey | A Reclamation of Power Through Miscarriage

255

Shift The Power Back to Them: A Conversation with Radical Birthkeeper Isabella

256

Birthing in the Time of Coronavirus: An Invitation to Step Into Sovereignty

257

Meet Britney | You Are Not Your Trauma

258

I'm Terrified to Birth Again. Now What?

259

Meet Carey | These Are My Hours

260

Meet Carla | "Time doesn't heal wounds. It's us."

261

Doulas, Midwives, and False Security

262

Meet Sarah | What do I have to do, deliver this baby myself?!

263

Meet Lynnea | I Didn't Have Much of a Voice

264

Meet Diana | The Healing Journey from C-section to Homebirth