Preeclampsia and Freebirth with Minerals Expert Margaret Barry Watch this episode HERE Today on the show I have the radiant mineral expert, and freebirther of course, Margaret Barry, who shares her birth stories and her vast knowledge of minerals, including how that links to pre-eclampsia. After being diagnosed with “pre” pre-eclampsia, yes I said pre-pre, Margaret goes on to have a 4 day hospital induction with her first baby. Margaret dove into self study to understand what happened, and now has a self appointed PHD in pre-eclampsia. She lays out practical and simple advice on what to eat and how far off it is from mainstream advice. What you’ll hear: ✨️At 37 weeks pregnant, after one blood pressure reading, Margaret was diagnosed with pre-preeclampsia and spent 4 days in the hospital ✨️How she was completely numb and immobile from the epidural when her baby was born, and how her primal need to be with her baby was fractured ✨️How this experience woke her up to the lies and evil of obstetrics, and set her onto a path of discovery and healing ✨️How she found freebirth and immediately knew a sovereign birth was what she would do with her next baby ✨️How easy and peaceful her 2nd pregnancy was because she focused on nutrition and stress reduction ✨️The prevalence and inaccuracy of the preeclampsia diagnosis and how to avoid it ✨️How integral sodium is for pregnant women, and how often we’re told to eat a low sodium diet from doctors and media ✨️Animal foods are packed with bioavailable minerals and are the most nutrient dense and nourishing foods for pregnant and postpartum women Enjoy the show! Enrollment is open NOW for the Blood Mysteries School  - Learn how to properly initiate women and girls into their sacred blood mysteries through ceremony and sovereign well women's care. We're *so close* to hitting our goal of videos for our Sovereign Birth collection on Youtube!  Help us get there by submitting your video here. Connect with Free Birth Society 👇 -Matriarch Rising Festival: Tickets are on sale NOW!  Apply here to be a work trade volunteer at this year's women-only festival in the Blue ridge Mountains. -The Podcast: Leave us a review on Apple Podcasts and let us know your biggest takeaway – whether it’s inspired you to freebirth or to dive deeper into sovereign living. Submit your own sovereign birth story here! Want your product or brand featured on a podcast with 5M+ downloads? Request to become a podcast sponsor by emailing us at podcast@freebirthsociety.com -COMPASS: a groundbreaking self-study program to help you anchor yourself firmly in the realm of sovereign birth, and to gain the confidence you need to leave the system.  -The Complete Guide to Freebirth: a self-guided online intensive course that will teach you everything you need to know about how to birth freely and in your power.-The Midwife Within: Our 5-Day Intensive Retreat in May 2024 led by Elder Midwife Sister MorningStar and Emilee Saldaya for budding birthworkers to learn the skills of village midwifery from real experts. -Follow us on Instagram @freebirthsociety for more daily inspiration on freebirth, the sovereign birth paradigm, authentic midwifery and so much more. -The Lighthouse: our exclusive membership for radical, curious, wild women. We only welcome new women to our private sanctuary a few times per year. -The Radical Birth Keeper School: the school that’s leading the transformation of birth and midwifery across the planet, for women who know that birthwork is their calling, and want to do it with integrity. -Feature Emilee: If you want Emilee Saldaya, the trailblazer of the free birth movement with 20+ years of experience, on your podcast, send an invite to podcast@freebirthsociety.com -And, of course, we couldn’t do what we do without your support, so if you feel called to make a donation to the podcast, it would be greatly appreciated. Click here to donate.  

I’m joined today by Kristin and Nancy and we get into it. We have a very candid conversation all about our blood mystery initiations as girls and women, and how the majority of us were conditioned with shame, and mistrust during these rights of passage, and how that then grooms us for medicalized pregnancy, highly managed traumatic birth, and a pharmaceutically dependant menopause. Honoring your Blood Mysteries School acts as a way to disrupt this cycle and reorient yourself to the path of true embodiment by relearning the foundational wisdom of our bodies. Both Kristin and Nancy speak about what being a modern day priestess looks like, including all the unique places they put their menstrual blood.  They both beautifully articulate the critical knowledge of the blood mysteries for women to truly thrive, and come back to our essence of self love, where all is possible. Let’s break those toxic cycles women, enjoy this episode, get inspired, and then go grab your spot in the blood mysteries school!  Watch this episode HERE Here’s what you’ll hear: What the Blood Mysteries are and the mainstream narratives around them  How this programming sets us up for the pipeline of drugs, surgery, and violence from gynecology and obstetrics Why and how to reorient yourself to a more natural path, regardless of age How this work is full of simple, yet foundational shifts around your relationship to time, rest, and productivity How Nancy and Kristin use their menstrual blood for face masks, watering plants, paint, and even a mouthwash, because it’s loaded with stem cells! Our own natural design of self love and abundance, and how we continually spiral towards that essence with each cycle, and year of life More details about the school’s format and all the incredible offerings women have created for themselves and their communities after the school   Enrollment is open NOW for the Blood Mysteries School  - Learn how to properly initiate women and girls into their sacred blood mysteries through ceremony and sovereign well women's care.   We're *so close* to hitting our goal of videos for our Sovereign Birth collection on Youtube!  Help us get there by submitting your video here.   Connect with Free Birth Society 👇 -Matriarch Rising Festival: Tickets are on sale NOW!  Apply here to be a work trade volunteer at this year's women-only festival in the Blue ridge Mountains. -The Podcast: Leave us a review on Apple Podcasts and let us know your biggest takeaway – whether it’s inspired you to freebirth or to dive deeper into sovereign living. Submit your own sovereign birth story here! Want your product or brand featured on a podcast with 5M+ downloads? Request to become a podcast sponsor by emailing us at podcast@freebirthsociety.com -COMPASS: a groundbreaking self-study program to help you anchor yourself firmly in the realm of sovereign birth, and to gain the confidence you need to leave the system.  -The Complete Guide to Freebirth: a self-guided online intensive course that will teach you everything you need to know about how to birth freely and in your power.-The Midwife Within: Our 5-Day Intensive Retreat in May 2024 led by Elder Midwife Sister MorningStar and Emilee Saldaya for budding birthworkers to learn the skills of village midwifery from real experts. -Follow us on Instagram @freebirthsociety for more daily inspiration on freebirth, the sovereign birth paradigm, authentic midwifery and so much more. -The Lighthouse: our exclusive membership for radical, curious, wild women. We only welcome new women to our private sanctuary a few times per year. -The Radical Birth Keeper School: the school that’s leading the transformation of birth and midwifery across the planet, for women who know that birthwork is their calling, and want to do it with integrity. -Feature Emilee: If you want Emilee Saldaya, the trailblazer of the free birth movement with 20+ years of experience, on your podcast, send an invite to podcast@freebirthsociety.com -And, of course, we couldn’t do what we do without your support, so if you feel called to make a donation to the podcast, it would be greatly appreciated. Click here to donate.  

Stella’s Sovereign Birth Within a Family of Nigerian Doctors You can watch this episode HERE Today on the show I have my friend, Stella. Stella comes from a large family of Nigerian doctors, and after she gave up the idea of med school, she found herself in The Radical Birth Keeper School. Stella experienced huge paradigm shifts and deconditioned herself from her medical upbringing to become the woman and mother she wanted to be. While navigating the grief of losing her mother, and the joy of meeting her spirit daughter prior to pregnancy, Stella chooses a wild pregnancy and a birth outside the medical system.  Here’s what you’ll hear in this episode: • How Stella grew up in the waiting room of her mother’s doctor’s office • How she assumed that in order to work with mothers and babies, she would have to go down the medical path like everyone else • How meeting her spirit daughter in a plant ceremony changed her orientation to motherhood  • Just before Stella joins RBK School her mother passes away, and simultaneously Stella opens the conscious conception portal with her partner • How she navigated a wild pregnancy and her birth plans within a tight knit, medically mainstream family  • What she learned from her pregnancy and birth and what she will do different next time • How Stella leaned into her intuition and made each of her choices from an embodied and informed perspective • How she can be triggering and inspiring to her family and community and hopes more women can see that they have a choice ENJOY! Connect with Free Birth Society -Matriarch Rising Festival: Tickets are on sale NOW!  Apply here to be a work trade volunteer at next year's women-only festival in the Blue ridge Mountains. -The Blood Mysteries School: Learn how to properly initiate women and girls into their sacred blood mysteries through ceremony and sovereign well women's care. -The Podcast: Leave us a review on Apple Podcasts and let us know your biggest takeaway – whether it’s inspired you to freebirth or to dive deeper into sovereign living. Submit your own sovereign birth story here! Want your product or brand featured on a podcast with 5M+ downloads? Request to become a podcast sponsor by emailing us at podcast@freebirthsociety.com -COMPASS: a groundbreaking self-study program to help you anchor yourself firmly in the realm of sovereign birth, and to gain the confidence you need to leave the system.  -The Complete Guide to Freebirth: a self-guided online intensive course that will teach you everything you need to know about how to birth freely and in your power.-The Midwife Within: Our 5-Day Intensive Retreat in May 2024 led by Elder Midwife Sister MorningStar and Emilee Saldaya for budding birthworkers to learn the skills of village midwifery from real experts. -Follow us on Instagram @freebirthsociety for more daily inspiration on freebirth, the sovereign birth paradigm, authentic midwifery and so much more. -The Lighthouse: our exclusive membership for radical, curious, wild women. We only welcome new women to our private sanctuary a few times per year. -The Radical Birth Keeper School: the school that’s leading the transformation of birth and midwifery across the planet, for women who know that birthwork is their calling, and want to do it with integrity. -Feature Emilee: If you want Emilee Saldaya, the trailblazer of the free birth movement with 20+ years of experience, on your podcast, send an invite to podcast@freebirthsociety.com -And, of course, we couldn’t do what we do without your support, so if you feel called to make a donation to the podcast, it would be greatly appreciated. Click here to donate.

Watch this episode HERE I’m joined on the show today by the gorgeously brilliant and oh so bright, Noelle. I had originally had her on to talk about nutrition, and to my sheer delight I found out that Noelle in fact freebirthed both of her children! She speaks about moving out of depletion and disease by putting herself first and listening to her body, giving it what it needed. By cultivating inner strength through nourishment and true health, she was able to fully trust her body and freebirth her babies, which were both born in their amniotic sacs, at home, in peace. We go over the radical shifts that take place when mothers move out of martyrdom and into centering themselves, what that looks like, and the harmony that can be found in your relationships when you’re grounded and calm. And how it's really as simple as eating breakfast! Enjoy. Here’s what you’ll hear: ✨️How she knew she would birth at home and after interviewing a midwife and knowing more about birth than her, she decided she would just do it on her own ✨️How after she made the decision to freebirth it was like a weight was lifted and she was able to fully lean into trust ✨️How both of her children were born in their amniotic sacks, and how she’s never experienced the sensation of her waters breaking ✨️How birthing her son was a totally normal and simple, yet extraordinary life event ✨️How Noelle had to really face herself, her relationships, and her resistance in order to birth her daughter ✨️How catching her daughter was the most incredible experience of her life and she can’t wait to tell her that story ✨️How Noelle healed herself from PCOS, Hashimoto’s, and cancer, by learning Ayurveda and taking charge of her health ✨️How much our mood and hormones are impacted by our nutrition and the ripple effects this has on our relationships with our partners, and children ✨️How grounded we can feel when we’re properly fed, and how important it is to be supported by like minded women when we start to walk the path of sovereign living follow @noellekovary Connect with Free Birth Society 👇 -Matriarch Rising Festival '24: TICKETS ARE NOW LIVE!!  Apply here to be a work trade volunteer at next year's women-only festival in the Blue ridge Mountains  -The Podcast: Leave us a review on Apple Podcasts and let us know your biggest takeaway – whether it’s inspired you to freebirth or to dive deeper into sovereign living. Submit your own sovereign birth story here! Want your product or brand featured on a podcast with 5M+ downloads? Request to become a podcast sponsor by emailing us at podcast@freebirthsociety.com -COMPASS: a groundbreaking self-study program to help you anchor yourself firmly in the realm of sovereign birth, and to gain the confidence you need to leave the system.  -The Complete Guide to Freebirth: a self-guided online intensive course that will teach you everything you need to know about how to birth freely and in your power.-The Midwife Within: Our 5-Day Intensive Retreat in May 2024 led by Elder Midwife Sister MorningStar and Emilee Saldaya  -Follow us on Instagram @freebirthsociety for more daily inspiration on freebirth and so much more. -The Lighthouse: our exclusive membership.  We only welcome new women to our private sanctuary a few times per year. -The Radical Birth Keeper School: the school that’s leading the transformation of birth and midwifery across the planet. -The Blood Mysteries School: Learn how to properly initiate women and girls into their sacred blood mysteries through ceremony and sovereign well women's care. -And, of course, we couldn’t do what we do without your support, so if you feel called to make a donation to the podcast, it would be greatly appreciated. Click here to donate.

The RH Negative Freebirthing Sisters from New Zealand: Sophie & Julia Watch this episode HERE Sophie and Julia, adorable freebirthing sisters and musicians from NZ join me on the show today, sharing their birth stories and journeys into motherhood.  I received an email from them expressing their gratitude for the podcast and how it had changed their lives, so of course I had to bring them on the show.  Both sisters are RH negative and without the rhogam shot, they freebirthed two healthy babies into the world.  Together they share their stories full of wisdom, laughs, and insights of shedding fears, the power of words, and how freebirth has influenced their music.  Be sure and listen all the way to the end, as they bless us with their sweet voices in a beautiful song, inspired by the transformation of freebirth and the profound impact it had on their lives.  This is such a fun episode, enjoy! Here’s what you’ll hear: ✨️How Julia got pregnant first and wanted to freebirth, but to appease others she chose to birth with a homebirth midwife ✨️How both sisters are RH negative and how after an abortion, a doctor told Julia she was an alien and would need to get the rhogam shot in order for her body to not kill her next baby ✨️How they both declined the shot for their freebirths, trusting deeply in themselves, knowing the medical system couldn’t keep them safe ✨️How Sophie’s life changed when she met her nephew and she immediately knew that freebirth was the way ✨️How Sophie was supported by her sister and partner during her birth and how welcoming her daughter into the world was a complete dimensional shift for her family  ✨️How her baby’s emergence was the most fun moment of her life  ✨️How Julia conceives again and embarks on a healing journey by understanding the power of her words ✨️How she chose replace the word “labor” with “sacred birth ceremony” in order to envision and actualize a pain free and totally orgasmic birth ✨️How the sisters music was intertwined with their journey into motherhood and how their music and births influenced each other ✨️A live impromptu performance of their song “In my mind” off their latest EP “Portal” Follow @dr.reknaw  CONNECT WITH FREE BIRTH SOCIETY -The Midwife Within: Our 5-Day Intensive Retreat in May 2024 led by Elder Midwife Sister MorningStar and Emilee Saldaya for budding birthworkers to learn the skills of village midwifery from real experts. -The Podcast: Leave us a review on Apple Podcasts and let us know your biggest takeaway – whether it’s inspired you to freebirth or to dive deeper into sovereign living. Submit your own sovereign birth story here! Want your product or brand featured on a podcast with 5M+ downloads? Request to become a podcast sponsor by emailing us at podcast@freebirthsociety.com -COMPASS: a groundbreaking self-study program to help you anchor yourself firmly in the realm of sovereign birth, and to gain the confidence you need to leave the system.  -The Complete Guide to Freebirth: a self-guided online intensive course that will teach you everything you need to know about how to birth freely and in your power. -Matriarch Rising Festival: Apply here to be a work trade volunteer at next year's women-only festival in the Blue ridge Mountains. -Follow us on Instagram @freebirthsociety for more daily inspiration on freebirth, the sovereign birth paradigm, authentic midwifery and so much more. -The Lighthouse: our exclusive membership for radical, curious, wild women. We only welcome new women to our private sanctuary a few times per year. -The Radical Birth Keeper School: the school that’s leading the transformation of birth and midwifery across the planet, for women who know that birthwork is their calling, and want to do it with integrity. -The Blood Mysteries School: Learn how to properly initiate women and girls into their sacred blood mysteries through ceremony and sovereign well women's care. -Feature Emilee: If you want Emilee Saldaya, the trailblazer of the free birth movement on your podcast, send an invite to podcast@freebirthsociety.com -And, of course, we couldn’t do what we do without your support, so if you feel called to make a donation to the podcast, it would be greatly appreciated. Click here to donate.

Watch this episode HERE We are closing out 2023 by turning the tables and bringing you an episode where I’m the one that was interviewed, on the Terrain Theory Podcast!  I am really proud of this conversation and the depth of information we cover. It’s one of my best interviews yet! I share my own origin story of birth-work and my journey to discovering sovereign birth, which I haven’t publicly shared in this way before. I unpack the common mistruths and misunderstandings about sovereign birth beyond the system, we go over the host’s own experience with the birth of his son, and let’s be real - I kind of blow these men’s minds.  They, like most others, were totally unaware of the trauma, abuse, and lies that modern obstetrics are steeped in and how a medwife-attended homebirth is *totally* inviting the system into your home, despite being sold as the best choice for “freedom fighters”. We touch on instinct injury, why I don’t use the word empowerment, and how important women-only gatherings are.  Here’s what you’ll hear: ✨️My own story of dropping out of high school, moving to LA, diving headfirst into infant massage, and bereavement support for parents whose babies were terminally ill ✨️How I thought I could reform birth-work in the system, and the gaslighting and deep programming I was up against that kept me in the system for 10 years ✨️How a particularly traumatic set of births led me to understanding there was no way to ethically continue birth-work in the system  ✨️The nuance and importance of language and what is a midwife, a medwife, a freebirth, and what it isn't. ✨️I unpack a bit of Ben’s son’s birth and the unnecessary drama their medwife created by her own fear and allegiances to the state  ✨️How engaging in the system is entirely voluntary and we explore women’s healing potential without it  CONNECT WITH FREE BIRTH SOCIETY: -The Podcast: Leave us a review on Apple Podcasts and let us know your biggest takeaway – whether it’s inspired you to freebirth or to dive deeper into sovereign living. Submit your own sovereign birth story here! Want your product or brand featured on a podcast with 5M+ downloads? Request to become a podcast sponsor by emailing us at podcast@freebirthsociety.com -COMPASS: a groundbreaking self-study program to help you anchor yourself firmly in the realm of sovereign birth, and to gain the confidence you need to leave the system.  -The Complete Guide to Freebirth: a self-guided online intensive course that will teach you everything you need to know about how to birth freely and in your power.-The Midwife Within: Our 5-Day Intensive Retreat in May 2024 led by Elder Midwife Sister MorningStar and Emilee Saldaya for budding birthworkers to learn the skills of village midwifery from real experts. -Matriarch Rising Festival: Apply here to be a work trade volunteer at next year's women-only festival in the Blue ridge Mountains. -Follow us on Instagram @freebirthsociety for more daily inspiration on freebirth, the sovereign birth paradigm, authentic midwifery and so much more. -The Lighthouse: our exclusive membership for radical, curious, wild women. We only welcome new women to our private sanctuary a few times per year. -The Radical Birth Keeper School: the school that’s leading the transformation of birth and midwifery across the planet, for women who know that birthwork is their calling, and want to do it with integrity. -The Blood Mysteries School: Learn how to properly initiate women and girls into their sacred blood mysteries through ceremony and sovereign well women's care. -Feature Emilee: If you want Emilee Saldaya, the trailblazer of the free birth movement on your podcast, send an invite to podcast@freebirthsociety.com -And, of course, we couldn’t do what we do without your support, so if you feel called to make a donation to the podcast, it would be greatly appreciated. Click here to donate.

From Medwives, ECV, and GBS to Family Births with Rachel Kirk  Watch this episode HERE Longtime Free Birth Society Member, Rachel Kirk, is finally on the show today sharing her 3 birth stories, culminating in a true family birth that was attended by her sister, mother, father, and sons. How cute is that!? When Rachel’s chosen birth center medwives threatened to drop her care, coerced her into an ECV for her breech baby, and then never answered her calls during labor, she decided for her next birth she would just do it on her own. Fully supported by her family, she went on to freebirth her second and third sons at home. With her mother supporting her, and her father as photographer, she gave birth to her perfect baby boys. Here’s what you’ll hear: How Rachel wanted to be a compliant patient in order to have a “natural” birth center birth How she found out at 37 weeks that her baby was breech and was coerced into an ECV to maintain her care with the birth center How she went into labor and called the birth center for hours, and after them never answering she reluctantly went to the hospital to give birth How when she got pregnant with her 2nd she knew she couldn't trust the birth center, so she decided she would just do it herself How her decision was supported by her whole family, including her sister who later went on to freebirth How easy and incredible giving birth to her 2nd son was when she was left alone to do whatever she wanted  How different this labor was to her first two and  the pain she endured to birth her baby How special, and unique it is to have birth be a normal family event, that even her little brother called into work to have the day free   The Freebirth Starter Kit is HERE!  This is a completely free, highly-curated collection of educational and inspiring resources from Emilee Saldaya, that is sure to change your life. THE INITIATED WOMAN Welcoming You Into the Sacred Secrets of Womanhood Our FREE 3-part live event with Nancy Lucina & Kristin Hauser  Join us on a transformative journey, an immersion into the heart and soul of independent midwifery. The Midwife Within: Our 5-Day Intensive Retreat Led by Elder Midwife Sister MorningStar and Emilee Saldaya. Get your tickets now! Our newest program COMPASS is a groundbreaking self-study program for women embarking on the path of sovereign birth reclamation and authentic midwifery. It’s everything you need to anchor yourself firmly in the realm of sovereign birth, and to gain the confidence you need to leave the system.  If this episode inspires you somehow, leave us a review on Apple Podcasts and let us know your biggest takeaway–whether it’s inspired you to freebirth or dive deeper into the sovereign birth paradigm. And while you’re here, follow us on Instagram @freebirthsociety for more daily inspiration on freebirth, the sovereign birth paradigm, authentic midwifery and so much more. Ready to share your freebirth story with us? We’d love to hear it! Click here to submit it. The Complete Guide to Freebirth is a self-guided online intensive course that will teach you everything you need to know about how to birth freely and in your power. Click here to get instant access now.  

Claiming the Creative Power of Sovereign Motherhood with Winona  Watch this episode HERE Today on the show I have Winona, a young and radiant mother from Australia. Winona speaks to how she transformed from a selfish maiden to a confident mother, sure of herself and her choices.  She walks us through the work and presence it took to move through fears, and prepare herself for the work of birth. With the support of a radical birth keeper, a friend, and her partner, she gave birth to her baby girl and a new powerhouse of confidence within herself was formed as a mother. Winona’s story is a perfect example of the creative spark that is ignited through an intact, physiological birth and the true potential all women have when they are respected and honored during these sacred passages. .  Here’s what you’ll hear: How before motherhood Winona always felt like something was lacking or missing within herself How the serendipitous choice to join a sovereign birth session in her first trimester led to meeting her radical birth keeper and learning about unassisted birth How she honed in on her “why” and how this fortified her decision and helped build her confidence to birth at home How the lesson in her labor was to surrender and not try to escape the intensity How her baby was born with a very short cord, how she thought for a moment it was a boy and the relief when she found out it was in fact the baby girl she had been connecting with all along Her fond memories of postpartum, the wild ride of hormones, and cultivating deep trust that her baby was perfect and no one else needed to validate that  The creativity that was sparked through giving birth and the endless ideas and abundance that’s come to her and her partner The realization that she can truly do anything, now that she's given birth and claimed her power as a mother  THE INITIATED WOMAN - Welcoming You Into the Sacred Secrets of Womanhood: Our FREE 3-part live event with Nancy Lucina & Kristin Hauser Join us on a transformative journey, an immersion into the heart and soul of independent midwifery. The Midwife Within: Our 5-Day Intensive Retreat Led by Elder Midwife Sister MorningStar and Emilee Saldaya. Get your tickets now! Our newest program COMPASS is a groundbreaking self-study program for women embarking on the path of sovereign birth reclamation and authentic midwifery. It’s everything you need to anchor yourself firmly in the realm of sovereign birth, and to gain the confidence you need to leave the system.  If this episode inspires you somehow, leave us a review on Apple Podcasts and let us know your biggest takeaway–whether it’s inspired you to freebirth or dive deeper into the sovereign birth paradigm. And while you’re here, follow us on Instagram @freebirthsociety for more daily inspiration on freebirth, the sovereign birth paradigm, authentic midwifery and so much more.   Ready to share your freebirth story with us? We’d love to hear it! Click here to submit it. The Complete Guide to Freebirth is a self-guided online intensive course that will teach you everything you need to know about how to birth freely and in your power. Click here to get instant access now. Seeking a community of like-hearted women? Join Free Birth Society’s exclusive membership for sovereign women. Here, you'll find everything you need on your path of radical responsibility and conscious womanhood. We welcome new women to our private sanctuary just a handful of times each year. Click here to join the waitlist. Know that birth work is your calling? With over 500 graduates from over 30 countries, the Radical Birth Keeper School is leading the transformation of birth and midwifery across the planet. Join the waitlist to be first in line when we open the doors for enrollment. Learn how to initiate women and girls into our sacred blood mysteries through ceremony and sovereign well women's care. Join the waitlist for the Blood Mysteries School. If you want Emilee Saldaya, the leader of the free birth movement, on your podcast, send an invite to podcast@freebirthsociety.com And, of course, we couldn’t do what we do without your support, so if you feel called to make a donation to the podcast, it would be greatly appreciated. Click here to donate.

Choosing Nourishment Over Restrictive Diets with Jessica Ash Watch this episode HERE In this week’s episode of the podcast, we are shaking it up from our normal birth story rotation… I’m chatting with Jessica Ash, who candidly details her journey through various restrictive diets as she attempted to heal chronic hormonal and fertility problems, only to realize that her fixation on restriction was hindering her path to true, vibrant health.  Jessica is a wealth of wisdom when it comes to food, real nourishment, and rising above the mainstream norms of nutritional deprivation. Here’s what you’ll hear in her episode:  Jessica’s journey through the trials of PCOS and multiple autoimmune disease diagnoses, and how she tried restrictive diets like veganism, paleo, keto, and carnivore in order to find a solution to her symptoms, yet only found herself in a toxic cycle. Jessica discusses the “undernourished state”, the scarcity mindset it breeds, and how nutritional wealth can be transferred across generations, particularly when you experience a well-nourished and nutrient-dense pregnancy. How nourishing our bodies on a cellular level is the gateway to our full-being wellness, and how it can help us to explore health as a soul-journey. The cultural push to self-harm through extreme dieting and severance from our intuitive and biological indicators trying to tell us how to eat. The importance of progesterone in women's health, specifically metabolic functioning, and how to foster a healthy flow of progesterone through radical self-nourishment. The reason why women have become so disconnected from their intuition when it comes to food and the importance of intuitive eating (yes, women can enjoy carbs, meat, and dairy!) 💗     Join us on a transformative journey, an immersion into the heart and soul of independent midwifery. The Midwife Within: Our 5-Day Intensive Retreat Led by Elder Midwife Sister MorningStar and Emilee Saldaya. Get your tickets now! Our newest program COMPASS is a groundbreaking self-study program for women embarking on the path of sovereign birth reclamation and authentic midwifery. It’s everything you need to anchor yourself firmly in the realm of sovereign birth, and to gain the confidence you need to leave the system.  If this episode inspires you somehow, leave us a review on Apple Podcasts and let us know your biggest takeaway–whether it’s inspired you to freebirth or dive deeper into the sovereign birth paradigm. And while you’re here, follow us on Instagram @freebirthsociety for more daily inspiration on freebirth, the sovereign birth paradigm, authentic midwifery and so much more. Want your product or brand featured on a podcast with 5M+ downloads? Request to become a podcast sponsor.  Ready to share your freebirth story with us? We’d love to hear it! Click here to submit it. The Complete Guide to Freebirth is a self-guided online intensive course that will teach you everything you need to know about how to birth freely and in your power. Click here to get instant access now. Seeking a community of like-hearted women? Join Free Birth Society’s exclusive membership for sovereign women. Here, you'll find everything you need on your path of radical responsibility and conscious womanhood. We welcome new women to our private sanctuary just a handful of times each year. Click here to join the waitlist. Know that birth work is your calling? With over 500 graduates from over 30 countries, the Radical Birth Keeper School is leading the transformation of birth and midwifery across the planet. Join the waitlist to be first in line when we open the doors for enrollment. Learn how to initiate women and girls into our sacred blood mysteries through ceremony and sovereign well women's care. Join the waitlist for the Blood Mysteries School. If you want Emilee Saldaya, the leader of the free birth movement, on your podcast, send an invite here. And, of course, we couldn’t do what we do without your support, so if you feel called to make a donation to the podcast, it would be greatly appreciated. Click here to donate.

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.  Here’s what you’ll hear:  How Amy realized her first husband was not going to be the father of her children and how this woke her up to her true desires of motherhood How meeting her real life partner felt so in alignment that they conceived their first baby super fast The horrific and totally common abuse Amy experienced from her medwives and the trauma she disassociated from in order to cope How she even played with the idea of becoming a midwife but something always felt off How everything clicked when she found the freebirth society podcast and realized that she could make a different choice if she were to get pregnant again How it took a friend to validate her rage and anger about how her first two births went for her healing to truly start How her most recent pregnancy was a fully conscious conception and was the full circle healing she needed to accept and forgive herself    The Midwife Within: Our 5-Day Intensive Retreat Led by Elder Midwife Sister MorningStar and Emilee Saldaya. Get your tickets now! Join the waitlist for the Blood Mysteries School here. Get the Guide to Infant Massage here. Join our newsletter here. Apple for a work trade position at the next Matriarch Rising Festival here. The COMPASS is a groundbreaking self-study program for women embarking on the path of sovereign birth reclamation and authentic midwifery.  Leave us a review on Apple Podcasts and let us know your biggest takeaway–whether it’s inspired you to freebirth or dive deeper into the sovereign birth paradigm. Follow us on Instagram @freebirthsociety for more daily inspiration on freebirth, the sovereign birth paradigm, authentic midwifery and so much more. Want your product or brand featured on a podcast with 5M+ downloads? Request to become a podcast sponsor by contacting podcast@freebirthsociety.com Share your freebirth story with us, Click here to submit it. The Complete Guide to Freebirth is a self-guided online intensive course that will teach you everything you need to know about how to birth freely and in your power. Click here to get instant access now. Join Free Birth Society’s exclusive membership for sovereign women. Here, you'll find everything you need on your path of radical responsibility and conscious womanhood. We welcome women just a handful of times each year. Click here to join the waitlist. Know that birth work is your calling? With over 500 graduates from over 30 countries, the Radical Birth Keeper School is leading the transformation of birth and midwifery across the planet. Join the waitlist to be first in line when we open the doors for enrollment.

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, helpful, comprehensive course on the postpartum pelvis. It’s called, Your Postpartum Pelvis, and it is FOR YOU to have aid you in your healing, to keep you healing at home, outside of the medical system.  This episode and our newest course YOUR POSTPARTUM PELVIS is crafted for you. Rebecca has now supported thousands of women over decades helping them come back into embodiment after childbirth, with the very wisdom within this course.  You deserve to feel whole again, and I am just so proud to finally have this kind of resource on the free birth society platform. Go to freebirthsociety.com/yourpostpartumpelvis and start healing today.  Here’s what you’ll hear:  How Rebecca returned back to her medical residency, 4 weeks to the day after having her first baby, to work 100 plus hours per week. By Rebecca’s third pregnancy, her cervix popped out, and she was told to just tuck it back in. At 36, her doctors recommended having a full hysterectomy, and 2 weeks before she was scheduled for surgery, she took the holistic pelvic care course that resulted in her canceling the surgery. Just because a woman gets sutures doesn’t mean she needs them, and as an OBGYN, Rebecca was trained just to give them all the time, even if women didn’t need them. How psychological tearing is okay and designed to heal an important part of the postpartum process. After learning about holistic pelvic care, Rebecca feels it’s a delightful coming home and a continuing decision to honor ourselves and our bodies. How when people have prolapse, they feel broken and how they screwed up somehow. It’s never too late to heal because Rebecca started this journey 10 years after having her first baby. And how you’re capable of healing. Listen to Rebecca's first time on the podcast HERE Get Rebecca's new course and all our courses at HALF OFF with the code FBSHALFOFF at check out.  The COMPASS is a groundbreaking self-study program for women embarking on the path of sovereign birth reclamation and authentic midwifery.  The Midwife Within Our 5-Day Intensive Retreat Led by Elder Midwife Sister MorningStar and Emilee Saldaya. Get your tickets now! Leave us a review on Apple Podcasts and let us know your biggest takeaway–whether it’s inspired you to freebirth or dive deeper into the sovereign birth paradigm. Follow us on Instagram @freebirthsociety for more daily inspiration on freebirth, the sovereign birth paradigm, authentic midwifery and so much more. Share your freebirth story with us, Click here to submit it. The Complete Guide to Freebirth is a self-guided online intensive course that will teach you everything you need to know about how to birth freely and in your power. Click here to get instant access now. Join Free Birth Society’s exclusive membership for sovereign women. Here, you'll find everything you need on your path of radical responsibility and conscious womanhood. We welcome women just a handful of times each year. Click here to join the waitlist. Know that birth work is your calling? With over 500 graduates from over 30 countries, the Radical Birth Keeper School is leading the transformation of birth and midwifery across the planet. Join the waitlist to be first in line when we open the doors for enrollment. Learn how to initiate women and girls into our sacred blood mysteries through ceremony and sovereign well women's care. Join the waitlist for the Blood Mysteries School. If you want Emilee Saldaya, the leader of the free birth movement, on your podcast, send an invite to podcast@freebirthsociety.com And, of course, we couldn’t do what we do without your support, so if you feel called to make a donation to the podcast, it would be greatly appreciated. Click here to donate.

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 forced into a c-section. It’s a brutal story, and so I’m especially thrilled to have her back on today, sharing this new story. Sparrow tells us all about her new love, her beautiful family, her sovereign birth, and her much deserved blissful postpartum. Listen to her first time on the podcast HERE Here’s what you’ll hear: Sparrow’s wild story about being wrongfully diagnosed with HIV during the labour of her first baby, after going into the hospital because she couldn’t release her bladder. How the HIV misdiagnosis resulted in an emergency C-section, and why she chose to have a vaginal birth after this experience. How she was abandoned by her ex-husband at 11 weeks pregnant during her first pregnancy and the physical manifestation it created in her body. How her second pregnancy and birth allowed her to reflect on her first birth and truly heal from it. How our births unfold truly shape us as women and how Sparrow would have loved to rewrite her first birth story. How different her second birth was and how deeply seen, safe and loved that it almost felt enough for the current pregnancy and past pregnancy felt. How she was open to freebirthing but also having wise women attend the birth (& what she ultimately decided to do). Join Free Birth Society’s exclusive membership for sovereign women. Here, you'll find everything you need on your path of radical responsibility and conscious womanhood. We welcome women just a handful of times each year, and doors are currently open at 40% off! Apply here. The COMPASS is a groundbreaking self-study program for women embarking on the path of sovereign birth reclamation and authentic midwifery.  The Midwife Within: Our 5-Day Intensive Retreat Led by Elder Midwife Sister MorningStar and Emilee Saldaya. Get your tickets now! Leave us a review on Apple Podcasts and let us know your biggest takeaway–whether it’s inspired you to freebirth or dive deeper into the sovereign birth paradigm. Follow us on Instagram @freebirthsociety for more daily inspiration on freebirth, the sovereign birth paradigm, authentic midwifery and so much more. Share your freebirth story with us, Click here to submit it. The Complete Guide to Freebirth is a self-guided online intensive course that will teach you everything you need to know about how to birth freely and in your power. Click here to get instant access now. Know that birth work is your calling? With over 500 graduates from over 30 countries, the Radical Birth Keeper School is leading the transformation of birth and midwifery across the planet. Join the waitlist to be first in line when we open the doors for enrollment. Learn how to initiate women and girls into our sacred blood mysteries through ceremony and sovereign well women's care. Join the waitlist for the Blood Mysteries School. If you want Emilee Saldaya, the leader of the free birth movement, on your podcast, send an invite here. And, of course, we couldn’t do what we do without your support, so if you feel called to make a donation to the podcast, it would be greatly appreciated. Click here to donate.

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.  Here’s what you’ll hear:  The domination strategies that nurses and doctors use and the horrible things that were said to Mikiah to get her to be subordinate. Her choice not to have an ultrasound and how her doctor's tone changed from “ this could be nothing” to now “your baby could have down syndrome.” Traumatic medwifery practices like nipple stimulation, pushing without contractions and a midwife holding her placenta How her second pregnancy was filled with intentional conscious decisions  How to get your partner on board with freebirth (the short answer is don't, it's not their decision), the importance of making decisions independently, and the role of codependency in relationships. The emotional and physical impact of birth trauma  The importance of trusting and choosing yourself     Watch this episode HERE   Our newest program COMPASS is a groundbreaking self-study program for women embarking on the path of sovereign birth reclamation and authentic midwifery. It’s everything you need to anchor yourself firmly in the realm of sovereign birth, and to gain the confidence you need to leave the system.  Join us on a transformative journey, an immersion into the heart and soul of independent midwifery. The Midwife Within: Our 5-Day Intensive Retreat Led by Elder Midwife Sister MorningStar and Emilee Saldaya. Get your tickets now! If this episode inspires you somehow, leave us a review on Apple Podcasts and let us know your biggest takeaway–whether it’s inspired you to freebirth or dive deeper into the sovereign birth paradigm. And while you’re here, follow us on Instagram @freebirthsociety for more daily inspiration on freebirth, the sovereign birth paradigm, authentic midwifery and so much more. Want your product or brand featured on a podcast with 5M+ downloads? Request to become a podcast sponsor.  Ready to share your freebirth story with us? We’d love to hear it! Click here to submit it. The Complete Guide to Freebirth is a self-guided online intensive course that will teach you everything you need to know about how to birth freely and in your power. Click here to get instant access now. Seeking a community of like-hearted women? Join Free Birth Society’s exclusive membership for sovereign women. Here, you'll find everything you need on your path of radical responsibility and conscious womanhood. We welcome new women to our private sanctuary just a handful of times each year. Click here to join the waitlist. Know that birth work is your calling? With over 500 graduates from over 30 countries, the Radical Birth Keeper School is leading the transformation of birth and midwifery across the planet. Join the waitlist to be first in line when we open the doors for enrollment.

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, and the realization that babies could be born peacefully without crying, just looking at you.  -How she hired (& fired) her private midwife during her first pregnancy after a scan came back with fibroids and she was told she can’t birth at home because she’d surely die  -The negativity she experience after sharing with her 300,000 followers on TikTok that she planned to freebirth her twins.  -The brief sense of fear that she could be having a third baby when she was birthing her twin placentas (it was that huge).  -How after the birth of her twins she felt she was reborn as a mother, as a woman, as and as a midwife. -How birthing her children outside the system radically transformed her midwifery  Follow @your_holisticmidwife   Our newest program COMPASS is a groundbreaking self-study program for women embarking on the path of sovereign birth reclamation and authentic midwifery. It’s everything you need to anchor yourself firmly in the realm of sovereign birth, and to gain the confidence you need to leave the system.  Join us on a transformative journey, an immersion into the heart and soul of independent midwifery. The Midwife Within: Our 5-Day Intensive Retreat Led by Elder Midwife Sister MorningStar and Emilee Saldaya. Get your tickets now! Apply to be a work trade volunteer at next year's Matriarch Rising Festival! If this episode inspires you somehow, leave us a review on Apple Podcasts and let us know your biggest takeaway–whether it’s inspired you to freebirth or dive deeper into the sovereign birth paradigm. And while you’re here, follow us on Instagram @freebirthsociety for more daily inspiration on freebirth, the sovereign birth paradigm, authentic midwifery and so much more. Want your product or brand featured on a podcast with 5M+ downloads? Request to become a podcast sponsor by emailing us at podcast@freebirthsociety.com Ready to share your freebirth story with us? We’d love to hear it! Click here to submit it. The Complete Guide to Freebirth is a self-guided online intensive course that will teach you everything you need to know about how to birth freely and in your power. Click here to get instant access now. Seeking a community of like-hearted women? Join Free Birth Society’s exclusive membership for sovereign women. Here, you'll find everything you need on your path of radical responsibility and conscious womanhood. We welcome new women to our private sanctuary just a handful of times each year. Click here to join the waitlist. Know that birth work is your calling? With over 500 graduates from over 30 countries, the Radical Birth Keeper School is leading the transformation of birth and midwifery across the planet. Join the waitlist to be first in line when we open the doors for enrollment. Learn how to initiate women and girls into our sacred blood mysteries through ceremony and sovereign well women's care. Join the waitlist for the Blood Mysteries School. If you want Emilee Saldaya, the leader of the free birth movement, on your podcast, send an invite to podcast@freebirthsociety.com And, of course, we couldn’t do what we do without your support, so if you feel called to make a donation to the podcast, it would be greatly appreciated. Click here to donate.

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 midwife during her labor proved to be a pivotal moment in her journey, enabling her to find her voice and claim her life. Here’s what you’ll hear:  ∙How to navigate intense mental states, anxiety, home birth fears, and gaslighting to find your voice and strength. ∙How Heather faced her people-pleasing tendencies, took responsibility, found a homeopath, and tuned into her body to regain health. ∙How she transitioned from corporate life to pregnancy, joined a prenatal circle, and discussed medicalization and nature's role in motherhood. ∙How her husband had been calling in the baby while she was working in corporate marketing, and running a three-acre homestead, tending to goats in her off hours, going and picking up new goats, adding more farm animals, and tending to a big garden. ∙How her connection with Sister MorningStar helped her to trust her intuition and birth her daughter (and her trailing membranes!) without fear. Follow: @happinesssahomestead     Join us on a transformative journey, an immersion into the heart and soul of independent midwifery. The Midwife Within: Our 5-Day Intensive Retreat Led by Elder Midwife Sister MorningStar and Emilee Saldaya. Get your tickets now!     Our newest program COMPASS is a groundbreaking self-study program for women embarking on the path of sovereign birth reclamation and authentic midwifery. It’s everything you need to anchor yourself firmly in the realm of sovereign birth, and to gain the confidence you need to leave the system.     Apply to be a work trade volunteer at next year's Matriarch Rising Festival!   If this episode inspires you somehow, leave us a review on Apple Podcasts and let us know your biggest takeaway–whether it’s inspired you to freebirth or dive deeper into the sovereign birth paradigm. And while you’re here, follow us on Instagram @freebirthsociety for more daily inspiration on freebirth, the sovereign birth paradigm, authentic midwifery and so much more. Want your product or brand featured on a podcast with 5M+ downloads? Request to become a podcast sponsor by reaching out to podcast@freebirthsociety.com   Ready to share your freebirth story with us? We’d love to hear it! Click here to submit it.   The Complete Guide to Freebirth is a self-guided online intensive course that will teach you everything you need to know about how to birth freely and in your power. Click here to get instant access now. Seeking a community of like-hearted women? Join Free Birth Society’s exclusive membership for sovereign women. Here, you'll find everything you need on your path of radical responsibility and conscious womanhood. We welcome new women to our private sanctuary just a handful of times each year. Click here to join the waitlist.   Know that birth work is your calling? With over 500 graduates from over 30 countries, the Radical Birth Keeper School is leading the transformation of birth and midwifery across the planet. Join the waitlist to be first in line when we open the doors for enrollment. Learn how to initiate women and girls into our sacred blood mysteries through ceremony and sovereign well women's care. Join the waitlist for the Blood Mysteries School.   If you want Emilee Saldaya, the leader of the freebirth movement, on your podcast, send an invite to podcast@freebirthsociety.com   And, of course, we couldn’t do what we do without your support, so if you feel called to make a donation to the podcast, it would be greatly appreciated. Click here to donate.

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 baby but also the birth of the placenta.  From understanding the signs of readiness for the placenta's birth to the emotions involved with its release, Sister MorningStar guides us through this extraordinary journey.  Here’s what you’ll hear:  How the placenta is a fetal organ and often overlooked in the birthing process. The sacred journey of the placenta through two portal doors, aided by gravity and upright position, with mother guiding the cord using only the wrist. How to reduce fear and anxiety around blood loss during birth (& remind women that birth is bloody, it's messy, it's wet, and it's got mucus). The power of childbirth and how it is a powerful story that deserves to be celebrated (& how our past lineage play a factor in what we believe about birth).  How wise women can help counter the fear in birth with their power and experience. Why the uterus must contract to birth the placenta and mention ways to encourage this such as nipple stimulation, massage, and letting the mother rest. The significance of an undisturbed birthing environment and the powerful experience of women using their strength to guide the baby and placenta out.    Join us on a transformative journey, an immersion into the heart and soul of independent midwifery. The Midwife Within: Our 5-Day Intensive Retreat Led by Elder Midwife Sister MorningStar and Emilee Saldaya. Get your tickets now!    Our newest program COMPASS is a groundbreaking self-study program for women embarking on the path of sovereign birth reclamation and authentic midwifery. It’s everything you need to anchor yourself firmly in the realm of sovereign birth, and to gain the confidence you need to leave the system.    If this episode inspires you somehow, leave us a review on Apple Podcasts and let us know your biggest takeaway–whether it’s inspired you to freebirth or dive deeper into the sovereign birth paradigm. And while you’re here, follow us on Instagram @freebirthsociety for more daily inspiration on freebirth, the sovereign birth paradigm, authentic midwifery and so much more. Want your product or brand featured on a podcast with 5M+ downloads? Request to become a podcast sponsor.  Ready to share your Freebirth story with us? We’d love to hear it! Click here to submit it. The Complete Guide to Freebirth is a self-guided online intensive course that will teach you everything you need to know about how to birth freely and in your power. Click here to get instant access now. Seeking a community of like-hearted women? Join Free Birth Society’s exclusive membership for sovereign women. Here, you'll find everything you need on your path of radical responsibility and conscious womanhood. We welcome new women to our private sanctuary just a handful of times each year. Click here to join the waitlist. Know that birth work is your calling? With over 500 graduates from over 30 countries, The Radical Birth Keeper School is leading the transformation of birth and midwifery across the planet. Join the waitlist to be first in line when we open the doors for enrollment. Learn how to initiate women and girls into our sacred blood mysteries through ceremony and sovereign well women's care. Join the waitlist for the Blood Mysteries School. If you want Emilee Saldaya, the leader of the free birth movement, on your podcast, send an invite here. And, of course, we couldn’t do what we do without your support, so if you feel called to make a donation to the podcast, it would be greatly appreciated. Click here to donate.