Who's Your Mother?: Recent Episodes
Carolina Sotomayor
This is the podcast for the spiritually curious woman who is trying to conceive or is already a mom. Carolina will share stories and interviews with inspiring women who discovered who they were through Reiki and different healing modalties. Healing is not linear or a one time event. This podcast hopefully invokes conversation on how to have a relationship with healing and how that can transform your self discovery journey and family life.
In the United States, we are taught birth is painful and a life event to fear. However, birth can be done without fear with being informed of your birthing options with a doula or birth support. Join me in learning from experienced birth doula Danielle Miles.
What you'll learn:
1:04 Who is Danielle Miles?
9:25 How is the relationship between a mother and a provider important?
15:05 It is okay to switch provider and Carolina sharing her experience with switching provider
17:33 Danielle's recommendation to get over the fear of speaking up
21:50 Importance of havign an understanding with your doctor
31:34 Having support in your birth outside of your partner was life changing
31:50 Choosing the type of birth
35:50 Fear of tearing
34:38 4 levels of behavior
Handling infertility with miscarriages and negative pregnancy tests is deeply disappointing. Learn how Reiki helped Guest and Reiki Master Christina Vega managed her stress with Reiki on her fertility journey.
What you'll learn:
1:40 Christina's journey to Reiki
5:24 Christina's experience in doing two healing modalities in just a year
11:00 How Christina met her husband
20:43 Christina's miscarriages stories
26:46 How Christina's friends and family supported and helped her with her miscarriages
28.00 How Reiki and being Reiki-attuned helped Christina with her healing
29.35 How Carolina and Christina's friendship rekindled
34:30 What is emotional security?
40:20 Different fertility treatments Christina tried and her next fertility plans
42:00 Christina's new milestones
56:13 Advice for women strugglin with their fertility journey
Human Design is a great method to further explore your self-discovery, whether you are postpartum with a new baby or in your fertility journey. Guest Speaker Haley Rogers of Her Simplified Life explains how healing and Human Design impacted her journey in motherhood.
What you'll learn:
1:00 Get to know more about Haley Rogers
2:39 What led Haley to Human Design
6:50 What is human design and other important details about it
9:05 Most common energy type
13:55 How Human Design affected her parenting and motherhood journey
16:20 What Carolina teach her clients
24:01 Carolina's advice for parents
28:35 As a human design expert, how did it change haley's life when it comes to motherhood
33:01 How is human design in an entrepreneur perspective
39:39 Life as a projector
Self-Exploration as a mom leads to being a better parent. The journey of that self-discovery is not easy. Using different tools like human design, Reiki, and talking it out with friends makes all the difference in getting through the journey.
Listen to my episode with Caitlynn Eldridge as we talk about Navigating Entrepreneurship, Motherhood, and Energy
What you'll learn:
1:02 Who is Caitlynn Eldridge?
5:25 Caitlynn's love story and her motherhood journey
9:30 How Carolina and Caitlynn met
11:20 Why Caitlynn decided to hire Carolina
13:32 How Reiki impacted Caitlynn
16:20 How Reiki helped Carolina's spirituality
18:55 How Carolina helped Caitlynn
19:38 Reiki levels
31:53 Why Caitlynn find Human Design helpful for her
37:18 What are reflectors?
41:40 Caitlynn's relationship with healing
Fertility has a lot of decisions and options for couples to face. Navigating those choices can be overwhelming. Kristen speaks how she navigated her fertility journey with Reiki.
What you'll learn:
1:00 Who is Kristen?
2:13 Kristen's fertility journey
8:36 How Kristen coped up with her fertility struggles
10:35 What Kristen seeked for her reset?
15:00 The things Kristen did to discover what her higher self wants her to know
22:20 How Kristen ended up using Reiki
29:13 How healing impacted Kristed
39:00 Kristen's advice for someone who had ectopic pregnancy
42:39 More advice from Kristen
In this episode, Stephanie shares how she goes from broken after a tough romantic relationship to being happily married with a with a Reiki baby. She was able to heal with Reiki. She shares her journey of motherhood, differences of her pregnancies, and how Reiki impacted her life.
What you'll learn:
00:56 Who is Stephanie and her journey
1:35 Story of Carolina and Stephanie's first session
5:17 Stephanie's favorite moment with Carolina
7:34 Carolina told Stephanie that she will have another baby
12:00 When Stephanie wanted to book a session with Carolina to work on healing
14:30 Carolina's favorite part of her job as a Reiki Master
15:00 Story about Stephanie's kids
18:32 Differences of Stephanie's pregnancies
20:15 Stephanie's struggles
20:50 Carolina's message for Stephanie
22:58 Babies and Career
27:49 Stephanie's biggest things she needed to go through
28:36 How Reiki impacted Stephanie
31:40 How Stephanie was able to influence her kids and how Reiki transformed them
41:20 Helpful things to know as a mother
There is fear in every fertility journey. The question is how to do your overcome fear? How to manage it? How do you keep trying when it is so hard. That is what we dive deep into with Jackie today and learn how she does just that in her fertility journey.
What you'll learn:
0:59 Background of Jackie
2:31 What helped Jackie overcome her fear in her fertility journey
4:10 What is Reiki
5:22 How Jackie managed her needs
12:11 What kept Jackie push through with her fertility journey
14:28 How Jackie reconnected with her husband after losing a baby
23:14 Jackie’s advice on how to support your partner during the process of trying to conceive
00:30 Carolina introducing LeAnna Brown
00:52 They will talk about LeAnna’s fertility, pregnancy and birth journey.
01:32 Remembering how they two get connected.
03:38 Carolina asked about what explored in her spiritual journey.
06:30 Carolina talking about her experience.
08:45 LeAnna tells something about trusting her intuitions and signs
12:28 “Is there any point in you having felt that the season of motherhood has one impacted the
other in any way? -Carolina
13:12 Leanna's learning about meditations.
13:47 Leanna’s pregnancy
15:07 Leanna’s feeling about morning sickness.
17:16 People ask Carolina about her life, about her business, parenting, breastfeeding and
marriage.
19:15 Leanna’s generation trauma.
21:58 Leanna’s natural birth
24:00 Leannea's hypno-birthing and process of birthing
27:10 Carolina’sbirth plan and breastfeeding
28:54 Leanna's C-Section
32:55 Talks about doctors if they are tolerating or supportive.
36:07 Birth is not medical event - Carolina
36:14 We don’t birth by numbers - Leanna
36:33 Leanna talks about hypnosis
40:30 They talk about the pain of birthing
45:05 Leanna’s affirmation that she is capable of birthing a baby.
45:56 She saw the transformation of birthing on her 2nd baby.
48:46 Leanna giving advice about having hypno-babies.
50:10 Carolina’s postpartum
50:36 Leanna shares about Ana Mae’s books
On today's podcast I have Alexis East, who is a mother to be and professional medium. She is also are certified Reiki Master. We are going to dive deep into how she discovered her truth and started living her life on her own terms.
What you'll learn:
1:56 - Who is Alexis?
3:06 - How Alexis discovered her truth
7:20 - "The inner knowing doesn't necessarily have to be an audible voice." -Carolina Sotomayor
9:48 - When Carolina realized that she need to quit her job
11:09 - How Alexis inspired Carolina
11:42 - Alexis' journey on finding her truth
13:05 - Carolina's corporate experience and her realizations
20:30 - Discovering your truth
25:35 - How Carolina made drastic changes in her business
25:56 - All thing in life is cyclical - Alexis East
33:50 - Creation of Alexis' shadow work journal
44:08 - Men and women both have energetic wombs
51:25 - Caroliona's biggest takeaway from her birth
51:55 - Alexis's emotions after finding out she's pregnant
1:02:00 - Carolina's mother-in-law's advice
Learn how Belkys went from PCOS to conceiving her son. Truly a unique story of healing and persevering.
What you'll learn:
00:53 Who is Belkys and how did she and Carolina meet
1:34 How they reconnected after they lost touch for years
02:51 Belkys' PCOS journey and how long she was trying to conceive
05:25 Carolina's most favorite trait of Belkys
08:31 How Belkys started here Reiki journey with Carolina
10:15 How Belkys found out that she was pregnant and what happened next
16:01 What did Reiki do for Belkys's life and how it changed her life
18:34 The way Carolina conceived Ollie
20:05 Belkys's postpartum journey
24:53 "Breastfeeding is such a personal thing" - Carolina
26:21 Belky's advice for women who are trying to conceive
Connect with me!
Instagram: @thecarolinasotomayor
Facebook: Carolina Sotomayor Reiki
Youtube: Carolina Sotomayor Reiki
Let's dive in with Positive Parenting Expert and Postpartum Doula Rachel Tran. We talk all things fertility, parenting styles, postpartum, and how to cope through it all.
What you'll learn:
00:30 Introducing Rachel Tran and telling about their relationship and how they met.
02:30 Carolina tells something about how she transformed her marriage and relationship with his son.
04:00 Carolina struggles exclusively breastfeeding and how Rachel helps her in this journey.
07:00 How Rachel influenced Carolina in baby wearing and how she influenced her life
07:15 Talking about the feeling of parenting
08:33 Rachel tells about intentional parenting by making a choice.
10:55 Rachel talks about how you don’t have to be perfect or how organized a parent you are but have a peaceful environment.
11:25 The studies tell about the effect and the sound of nature
15:25 Bringing back to the parenting topic
16:20 talking about generation trauma
17:04 Carolina talks about her relationship with her mother.
20:27 Carolina says something that her boss named Rosy tells her “You will never be a good mother if you don't resolve things with your parents.”
23:00 Fertility trauma there is a tendency to have a spike in postpartum anxiety
23:45 Carolina asks a heavy question about, how can moms move through that postpartum anxiety.
25:05 Rachel gives advice to all moms that have been postpartum.
28:07 Rachel tells about the postpartum duo.
28:50 Carolina talks about an organization that is giving support to all moms.
30:28 Carolina started sharing about postpartum fears.
32:55 Carolina recommended to new pregnant moms how to get support from postpartum agencies.
34:30 Carolina talks about parenting beauty.
35:12 How to break the gap between the marriage and parenting issue.
35:30 Rachel gives advice on how to handle the issue in marriage and parenting.
39:40 How Reiki imparted Rachel.
41:05 Carolina tells about her giving birth.
42:54 Carolina asked about what sensation she felt when she had Reiki.
44:00 Rachel talks about personal trauma.
46:07 Carolina asked about feelings affecting her whole family tree.
51:50 What parenting style can do or a postpartum plan for some women?
52:33 Rachel talks about parenting style.
56:00 Carolina talks about her breastfeeding journey.
59:15 Where can people find or contact Rachel
Connect with me!
Instagram: @thecarolinasotomayor
Facebook: Carolina Sotomayor Reiki
Youtube: Carolina Sotomayor Reiki
Learn how your emotions, physical body, and energy are connected in this episode with Reiki Master Carolina and Chiropractor Ashton Popple.
00:41 Who is Ashton Popple?
02: 16 Ashton's journey and relationship with healing
05:26 2nd child postpartum story - struggles and anxiety, how she's able to cope
06:45 How Ashton met Carolina and learned about Reiki
10:23 Ashton felt lost - her struggles and trying to fill that void
11:57 Lessons from Carolina's Reiki mMaster
13:35 What is Human design and how it can help you
15:34 What drew Ashton to human design and how it helped her in her healing
18:40 Carolina's recommendation for women trying to conceive
21:35 Carolina's breastfeeding story
22:55 Chiropractor care
24:30 Ashton as a generator
26:40 Ashton's burnout struggles
28:23 The importance of boundaries
31:10 "It's okay to say no"
32:05 "You have to create space for things to come into your life"
33:10 What Human Design taught Ashton
35:36 Carolina being a projector
37:10 2 things that must exist if you're a projector
39:37 Manifestors vs. Projectors
Connect with me!
Instagram: @thecarolinasotomayor
Facebook: Carolina Sotomayor Reiki
Youtube: Carolina Sotomayor Reiki
Every woman who struggles with infertility wants to know how they can boost their fertility. Join respected Womb Healer Carolina Sotomayor, on how Reiki impacted her fertility and healing journeys. She shares her unique perspective on healing and how it can impact your journey.
In this episode, you'll learn:
00:36 - My Reiki Journey
02:30 - I got pregnant after a month of Reiki
03:29 - How Reiki changed my life
03:40 - How we told my in-laws that we're pregnant
04:42 - My postpartum recovery
07:09 - My realizations during pospartum
09:15 - My breastfeeding and babywearing story
11:50 - "If we can heal these unhealed traumas that happened when we're children, in our adolescence, in our adulthood before we had children, it will make fertility, pregnancy, birth, and postpartum so much easier"
12:10 - "The more you heal upfront, the less complications you're gonna have later."
12:19 - My past traumas and how I coped up
16:46 - My greatest lesson from Reiki: to hold space
18:46 - Healing is a relationship
20:00 - Reiki has allowed me to see myself for who I am
24:00 - Why I wanted to do this podcast
Connect with me!
Instagram: @thecarolinasotomayor
Facebook: Carolina Sotomayor Reiki
Youtube: Carolina Sotomayor Reiki
Are you a mom on the self-discovery journey and curious about spirituality and healing? This podcast is for you. Carolina is an experienced Reiki Master and Womb Healer. She started this podcast to share stories of self-discovery through healing with different modalities and how to discover your sacred self.