Softening into Self: Amy's Freebirth Transformation Watch this episode HERE This week on the show I have the radiant Amy, who is an RBK grad, a Matriarch Rising contributor, and now, a freebirther! Amy tells us how she went from a bible thumping young bride to plant medicine hippy, meeting her new man and opening up to motherhood. Amy weaves her three birth stories around the deep learnings of how to accept herself, love herself and really know herself, all coalescing in a full on transformation...
Dec 01, 2023•1 hr 30 min
Healing Prolapse, Diastasis Recti, and Tearing with Rebecca Cohen Watch this episode HERE I’ve got Dr. Rebecca Cohen back on the show this week in celebration of our newest collaboration. One of the most common requests I’ve gotten from you all is to create a pelvic health course, that covers all the problems, so to speak, of the postpartum pelvis and pelvic floor, or bowl, as Rebecca calls it. Well, we did it, we’ve been working hard all fall behind the scenes to create the most info packed, he...
Nov 24, 2023•56 min
The Sovereign Sparrow: Flying Free After Wrongful Surgery Watch this episode HERE This week I have my sweet sister, Sparrow, back on the show to tell her redemption story. You may remember her from an earlier season, when she told us about her first birth, in which she transferred herself. She had felt confident in the transfer, thinking she could just go into the hospital as a seasoned birth-worker and get a catheter to empty her bladder. Instead, she was wrongfully diagnosed with HIV and force...
Nov 17, 2023•1 hr 22 min
Episode #239 When Your Husband Doesn’t Support Freebirth: Mikiah’s Lessons Mikiah admits she betrayed herself in letting her husband lead on where she should birth her first child. She brilliantly and painfully articulates the horrors of the birth center and the medical midwifery practices that she endured. She learned what she needed to learn to choose differently when she became pregnant again. Mikiah shares the perfect birth story of her second, attended by her darling husband and toddler. He...
Nov 10, 2023•1 hr 28 min
Episode #238 Leaving the System as a Medical Midwife to Experience the Ecstasy of Freebirthing Twins with Bibi Watch this episode HERE Bibi became a licensed medical midwife at 19 years old. She had never heard of freebirth, but when she became pregnant with her first child it was an obvious no that she’d expose herself and her baby to ...well, where she worked. This is an important episode, enjoy. Here’s what you’ll hear: -How Bibi freebirthed her first baby super fast with no pain or pushing, ...
Nov 03, 2023•58 min
Episode # 237 From Anxious People Pleaser to Embodied Powerhouse: Heather’s Freebirth Journey Watch this episode HERE Heather discovered her unplanned pregnancy amidst a hectic trade show circuit, and she realized her life was about to take an unexpected twist. She navigated debilitating pregnancy sickness as she worked in corporate America. She had her first birth in a hospital, supported by a doula. But Heather wanted more, she wanted better. The gaslighting she encountered from her medical mi...
Oct 27, 2023•1 hr 18 min
Episode #236 Honoring the First Mother - The Power & Mystery of the Placenta with Sister MorningStar Watch this episode HERE Have you ever considered the importance and sacred journey of the placenta, our first mother, in the birthing process? This often overlooked yet crucial part of childbirth takes center stage in our conversation with the wise and insightful Sister Morningstar. We venture deep into the mysterious and powerful process of childbirth, exploring not only the birth of the bab...
Oct 20, 2023•1 hr 48 min
Episode #235 Choosing a Drama-Free Birth with Nya Watch this episode HERE In this episode Nya and I cover navigating a journey of spontaneity, vulnerability, and primal strength, Nya's path to motherhood reveals the profound challenges and beauty of embracing one's instincts in the face of societal pressures. Here’s what you’ll hear: Nya’s spontaneous choice to get pregnant the first time (& the absurd thing the doctor said to her when she confirmed her pregnancy). The deep shadow work she a...
Oct 13, 2023•1 hr 28 min
Episode #234 Into the Portal with Yoga Girl's Rachel Brathen Watch this episode HERE We’re starting the season on a high note with a soulful conversation with Rachel Brathen, lovingly known to many of us as YogaGirl. Here’s what you’ll hear: Rachel’s story of having no role models for a healthy marriage or healthy birth, yet her first birth dreams were of unassisted birth. The adorable story of how she and her husband met (Hint: imagine a surf shop, a short getaway, and a small island). Both of ...
Oct 06, 2023•2 hr 24 min
Welcome back to Part 2 of my recent birth story. This week’s episode is all about my postpartum. We’ll pick up right where we left off and carry through the first 40 days. I cover topics ranging from beginning elimination communication on day 1, co-sleeping, our first outing, traveling internationally, free-bleeding, sibling integration, birth certificates, body image, and boundaries. I’ll also share a bit about my closing of the bones and placenta burial ceremony, how I accidentally closed the ...
May 26, 2023•58 min
This week on the show I am finally bringing you the birth story of my son, Sawyer. I share the psychedelic journey that quite honestly, kicked my ass. This episode takes you from the start of my labor, which began with the pulsing of gorgeous mandalas in my third eye and takes you through the rather funny and oh-so-intense six hours of my mind-bending excruciating birth that left me flopped over some pillows like a dead fish begging god to just take me. The story ends with us happily snuggled in...
May 19, 2023•41 min
Meg's story starts with a traumatic early birth in the system at 17 weeks with her first son, Shiloh. The dehumanizing experience proved to her that the hospital was the last place she wanted to be, so she planned a homebirth outside the system with an authentic midwife - me! Meg shares how she learned to accept the intermingling of joy and grief in navigating her pregnancy and upcoming birth. Meg vulnerably tells us how shell shocked she was from her baby's fast birth (spoiler, I missed it!)- a...
May 05, 2023•1 hr 28 min
My friend Amy joins me on the show this week sharing her 5 birth stories. Amy is full of rich insights about her journey through motherhood as a radical feminist. Amy speaks honestly about the victim consciousness she lived in and how she gave away her power time and time again. It was in learning to fully trust women and therefore herself that Amy was finally able to shed the last layers of doubt and internal misogyny, which made way for her to claim her deepest desire; to give birth and catch ...
Apr 28, 2023•1 hr 34 min
After being backed into a corner, fear mongered, and without options in her first birth, Dominique was bullied into a c-section. When she became pregnant again, she was determined to write a new story. She thought she could make it work with her medical midwives by speaking up, saying no, and taking the reins, but it turned out, as it so often does, that resulted in her midwives abandoning her care at 37 weeks pregnant. Facing the paths ahead of her, Dominique knew it was either a repeat c-secti...
Apr 21, 2023•48 min
My co-creator, bestie and big sis, Yolande Norris-Clark joins me on the show - for the who's even counting by now - time, sharing her most recent birth of her 9th precious baby, Helio. Yolande shares the story of consciously conceiving her son, her mind-bending painful pregnancy; culminating in her first ever completely pain-free, totally ecstatic, blissful, even orgasmic birth. In true Yolande fashion there are countless pieces of wisdom and grace, as she eloquently articulates the choices she ...
Apr 14, 2023•1 hr 14 min
Alison from Australia shares her wild ride, from birthing in the system, choosing IVF, then later learning she was in fact entirely fertile. After getting dropped from her medical midwives, Alison stepped into the big work of birthing outside the system. Alison shares how she invited her previous doula into her twin homebirth, and the birth itself was undisturbed and rooted in total power and bliss. Unfortunately, her birth keeper then made calls that weren’t hers to make, and Alison shares how ...
Apr 07, 2023•1 hr 36 min
Nicole joins me on the show today sharing her 3 birth stories, ending with the redemptive story of her FBAC, (a freebirth after c-section). After Nicole’s midwives sabotaged her homebirth and coerced her into a traumatic c-section, Nicole was left heartbroken and feeling entirely inadequate to enter motherhood. For her second birth she turned to the same midwives and while she did have her baby at home, she was once again violated by the very women who she hired to support her. Through her own d...
Mar 31, 2023•1 hr 19 min
This week we have Noriko from Japan. Noriko's spirit babies communicated with her from a young age and she always knew her part of her soul's path was to create a family. Her journey through her pregnancies and two births asked her to travel to dark places, shedding old patterns and beliefs, and finding her the way through to happiness and wholeness; rebirthing her spirit again and again. This week, Noriko tells us about the sweetness of a fully supported postpartum and having the crucial piece ...
Mar 24, 2023•54 min
Laceinne found herself quickly turning her back on medical midwifery in her pregnancy and deciding to go it alone, despite having never heard the term freebirth. Her simple motto of “you got this” got her through her debilitating pregnancy and kept her mind clean and clear as she prepared for her birth. Laceinne reminds us all that you can do anything for a few minutes at a time and all you have to do to find your inner resources, is to simply claim them. @laceinne Watch this episode here: https...
Mar 17, 2023•1 hr 20 min
Dr. Melissa Sell joins me on the show for the second time, diving deeper into German New Medicine. She touches on everything from tracks and resolutions, to allergies, terrain theory, misconceptions, and more. We chat about her own personal evolution from rigidity and dogma, to adaptation and flexibility, the intersection of personal responsibility and GNM, our shared pursuit of truth, and the freedom it creates. I am thrilled to have Melissa joining us at Matriarch Rising Festival once again an...
Mar 10, 2023•59 min
This week I have artist and first time mom Kallen telling the easy going story of the birth of her son. She recalls her life long love and obsession with babies, mothers, and all things birth, and the exciting revelation that she was ready to start having her own babies and could just do it on her own. One sunny day, with rainbows cast about the room, she gave birth. We speak on the incredible power of women telling their stories of autonomous birth and how quickly we can upgrade and evolve thro...
Mar 03, 2023•50 min
On the show today I have Simone, from Australia, sharing her heart wrenching story of losing her 2.5 year old daughter and just 12 days later free birthing her second daughter. She tells us of the gutting journey of going through her wild pregnancy while navigating the allopathic system for Evie - trying to maintain autonomy and dignity for her family amongst providers who were left astounded at her daughter's quickly diminishing condition. She vulnerably shares of her daughter's death, the rede...
Feb 24, 2023•1 hr 50 min
Today on the show I invite back (for the 5th time!) the brilliant Kristin Hauser. Kristin, the co leader of the Blood Mysteries School, a womb and sexual health educator, an experienced freebirthing mom and good friend of mine, brings the story of her third birth, at home, surrounded by family. She tells of the joyful emergence of her son, her daughter's excited response, and the healing power of being witnessed by her own mother. Kristin recalls the ease she felt through postpartum, crediting i...
Feb 17, 2023•1 hr 14 min
This week on the show I talk with the sweet and courageous Kelsey who shares her big stories of sexual abuse, teen motherhood, and becoming wheelchair bound with MS. In her most recent pregnancy, she experienced a true 12 month pregnancy which she contributed to being, at the time, a fruitarian. Kelsey tells us the wild story of fleeing from Taiwan in labor and barely getting off the plane in time to freebirth her 3rd daughter in a hostel in the Philippines! She shares openly about the abuse she...
Feb 10, 2023•1 hr 37 min
This week we have my friend Karlin on the show, sharing her journey into sovereignty. Karlin’s first experience of pregnancy ended in an abortion in the medical system, which came with it many lessons for her to digest. When her second pregnancy ended in a first trimester early birth, she turned to her partner, the land, and the wisdom of her own body to find her way forward. Her third pregnancy resulted in her sweet daughter being free birthed, supported by her husband and well.…yours truly, on...
Feb 03, 2023•1 hr 10 min
Today I bring you Dr. Rebecca Cohen’s wild journey from indoctrination into the obstetrics system, to serving as a radical, holistically-hearted birthkeeper. After almost dropping out of medical school several times during her training and residency, Rebecca finally got through the “hazing process” and became known as the “natural OB”. After having her own children, Rebecca decided to step away from her career, and when she was ready to serve women again years later in a different way, she found...
Jan 27, 2023•1 hr 10 min
Today I am bringing you a very special episode with my dear friend and one of my mentors, Elder Midwife Sister Morningstar. Sister Morningstar played a big part in last year’s Matriarch Rising Festival, and this conversation was actually recorded for the Virtual Matriarch Rising Festival Bundle that we offered in the fall of 2022! In this episode, Sister brings us a much-needed, mother-centered perspective on the sacred first moments of a newborns life. We get into the do’s and don’ts of neonata...
Jan 20, 2023•1 hr 16 min
Roxane, a Radical Birth Keeper School graduate from Belgium, had her first baby via c-section after finding out she was positioned breech. Roxane suffered a horrible, life-threatening complication from the surgery 6 days postpartum, and decided shortly after there was no way she would go back to birth in the hospital ever again. Roxane stayed steadfast to her vision and birthed her second daughter in her own home, away from the harms of the hospital. Watch this episode on YouTube! https://youtu....
Jan 13, 2023•59 min
To kick off 2023, I'm bringing you a mind-blowing wild pregnancy story with quite the plot twist! At a supposed 44 weeks gestation with no signs of labor, Rachel began to backtrack on her conception timeline and realized that she actually conceived this baby shortly after an early pregnancy loss at around 9 weeks. Since she hadn't tracked the bleeding as a miscarriage, she went on with her pregnancy, believing that she was three months further along than she actually was! Her "year long" pregnan...
Jan 06, 2023•54 min
I'm excited to share with you all today Janessa's beautiful freebirth story, which is truly a reclamation of so many parts of her first birth, a hospital birth. After she consistently gave her power away in her first pregnancy and birth, by the time she got pregnant again, she knew she was going to do things very differently. With her second daughter, Janessa chose a peaceful pregnancy over a pregnancy in the system, and a freebirth over a hospitalized experience. Through taking responsibility f...
Dec 16, 2022•1 hr 15 min
