The Soul Midwife: Recent Episodes
Julie Hughes
Welcome to the Soul Midwife Podcast. In this podcast I offer guidance, healings and wisdom for women who are feeling out of alignment, disconnected and are longing to find out or rediscover who they truly are from a deep place of wholeness. Women who are ready to step out of the culture of busy, overwhelm, disconnection and fragmentation AND to lead lives that feel SOUL FUL and aligned from the inside out. I am an energy healer, a guide, a mama of 4 and yes a soul midwife (former birth midwife)
What does it mean to self source and how do you do it?
What does it feel like to be FULL and whole inside, rather than constantly filling a void?
Why do we turn to numbing and filling in the first place?
How can we step into deeper FULL and Whole?
In this podcast I go into what self sourcing feels like and how your ReWilding journey can be key to this knowing how to do this.
Enjoy
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This podcast offers new possibilities!
New ways of thinking about and relating to whole; mind, body, spirit health.
I draw upon the idea of ReWilding, living in deeper alignment with the natural laws as a way to "optimize" our whole health and begin to heal our body, mind, spirt and our relationship with and nature itself.
This podcast covers biology, chemistry, physics of hormones of aligning with the natural world, as well as the possibilities that come from pauses in life.
A perfect podcast for women who are feeling a lack of vitality, a hormonal imbalance, adrenal fatigue and/or simply a reconnection with the soul of life. Connecting to the rhythm and truth of our inner and outer worlds!
Enjoy!
To learn more about The Shift a 10 Day Epic Journey to Explore, Integrate and Shift into deeper vitality and whole health head to soulmidwifejulie.com/happy-hormones
How we have gotten so far away from our humanness that it seems truly revolutionary, counter culture and “crunchy, new agey, witchy, weird and whatever other labor you want to put on it, in our society to actually live in alignment with our natural cycles; to simply pause throughout the day and to tap into the “laws of nature” and live in alignment with them rather than biohacking our way or controlling them.
Women share with me all the time how they wish they could simply rest when they are on their cycle or how emotional they are that they have to hide at their jobs for fear of being emotional or “bitchy”. The story of our society and therefor it’s very structure is that we don’t honor the total and complete natural design of the female rhythm or even the Earth’s rhythm.
So what if we changed the narrative, we didn’t feel bad or wrong about it. We didn’t push through?
What if we didn’t label it as “hippy”, “new age”, “crunchy organic people” to simply live in our innate rhythm? What if it totally shifted our culture to claim it and slowly move into more alignment? What does that even look like?
This week’s podcast recounts a story from a class I recently taught with a group of women where we explored Perimenopause and also the labels there were around totally natural things like breathing, cycles and simply how would it change life to live in deeper alignment, to rewild!
Enjoy and let me know your thought!
To learn more about ReWilding and the offerings of Soul Midwife Julie head to soulmidwifejulie.com
This podcast is both a story time to connect you to the inner FEELING of grace as well as a “how to” met and access this state of being!
So...how Gracious are you with your self?
We are all messy, we all make mistakes, we all have shadows and some level of trauma. We are all humans! So what if we stop being so hard on ourselves and step into grace?
What does that FEEL like inside our body and how does it allow us to shift into softness AND radical responsibility.
In this podcast I cover how grace is found in the shadow and how we can begin to reclaim aspects of ourselves.
How we can step out of overwhelm and a life that feels spiny and into grace through the natural pauses in life.
Enjoy this podcast
If you would like to find out more about the work Julie is doing head to soul midwife.com
A podcast all about the wisdom of feminine rage, the dark feminine and owning your life and feeling more whole.
A podcast to explore the value of the shadow and the dark feminine?
What are aspects of ourselves and the collective that we keep “in the basement”. The parts that we stuff down and label as “bad”, unworthy, unacceptable, unloveable?
The podcast invites you into a conversation about what you keep in your "basement", how this takes your energy and keeps you fragmented and where this comes from.
I cover the wild feminine; the wisdom of rage, intuition, vulnerability, weakness and the warrior within.
How we you can shine a light on and begin to invite parts of yourself back in.
How can you claim the vulnerable, warrior queen and utilitze rage in a wise way?
Enjoy!
To learn more about Julie's offerings head to soulmidwifejulie.com
The Solstice is an astrological event that spans time and space where we are able to measure the alignment of the light.
Our ancestors, advanced and ancient civilizations all around the globe knew this. The constructed incredible structures to celebrate, demonstrate and honor this "portal of alignment"
It is an incredible time to sit and get really clear about what want to align/shift into.
This week I recorded a special podcast outlining a Solstice Ritual for you to step into deeper alignment.
Who are you choosing to be? It is a ritual not about "trading up" to you for a more "improved" and better version of yourself. It isn't about fixing your mind, body or spirit! In reality you don't need fixing!
Instead it is all about aligning to the truth of who you already are and what you are ready to uncover and commit to stepping into.
The energy of this beautiful day is inviting you into this contemplation, into this alignment....are you willing to take the invitation?
If so listen in to be guided in on tapping into your own alignment.
Enjoy
To learn more about working with The Soul Midwife head over to soulmidwifejulie.com
What does it mean to live life from a new center of gravity?
So many of us live life from our heads. We make decisions based on pro's and con's We create our lives from maps that are created often by others expectations and versions of what is best for us. We try to control and plan and feel exhausted because well the nature of life is change!
What if we lived life from a new place? From a new center of Gravity? What would that look and feel like?
A place that is more true, more you and more aligned. A place that relies on your internal GPS and thrives in the mystery of each and every moment. That allows change to be.
In this podcast I explore what it means to live life from a new center of gravity and how we can begin to step into alignment with that.
If you are interested in the Soul Print Journey head over to soulmidwifejulie.com/soul-print to register.
Death and rebirth
Catterpillar butterfly
Dissipative Structure
Expansion and Contraction
These are all ways we have described the universal occurrence of going into the underworld and coming out new.
This is a natural part of the human experience and is medicine for our soul!
When we fight that call into the contraction, into the underworld well we sink. It’s like being pulled under the water and fighting for dear life. Your body gets stressed and you try and survive.
When we sink in we allow the shed to occur. We trust in the process knowing that this discomfort, the fear, the big emotions are all a part of the process. That there is so much wisdom on this journey and when we step into it willingly we give it space and allow the alchemy to take place.
When we tap into the wisdom of the contraction, we shed light on the darkness. We reclaim parts of us that were banned, shunned, boxed away, we release the shame and uncover hidden parts of us that can be invited back in to our wholeness.
There are natural phases of this shedding. Parts of the growth journey of our life. Points like puberty, pregnancy, peri menopause. There are also a lot of places in between that we are beckoned down.
In fact part of the menstruating women’s cycle is this monthly shed and rebirth.
So what helps you move into Shedding rather than Sinking?
Know your signs! Know the signs that you are going in and then following them (tendency to want to be alone, urge to numb, big feelings come up..deep and wide)
Don’t resist…what you resist persists and will eventually hit you over a head with a two by four. Go in. Go into that void. The darkness. The big emotions. They will not kill you…they will rebirth you and help you become stronger.
Know the deeper purpose. We are not just human beings controlling our lives. There is a deeper purpose, a deeper wisdom to our existence. It is our Soul Print. When we connect with our soul, with the voice and the wisdom that we have access to then the deeper meaning becomes clear. We are still humans…we do still feel all of it in our grounded human dense bodies it is both. We need to slow down and let what gets in the way be the way.
To hear more about knowing if you are sinking or shedding.
Rites of passage journeys and how to navigate the underworld listen to the podcast!
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A grounded conversation about the expanding the container of the known and stepping deeper into the unknown.
Connecting with your True self and Soul Print.
Do you ever feel like you are STUCK in a box that just doesn’t fit!
Your inner world feels disconnected, fragmented and kinda empty and your outer world feels, well robotic and like there is something missing!
Do you find yourself looking for your purpose or just knowing that there is SOMETHING MORE, SOME GREATER PURPOSE to this life?
Your purpose here on Earth is super simple. It is to LIVE your life as YOU!
You are the only you in this entire world and each and every one of us is needed for the collective whole in our unique way. You are a beautiful drop of water in an expansive ocean.
When we live a life that is out of alignment with that unique self, we experience a sense of disconnection and always trying to push life and stuff it into a box. We begin to feel STUCK, DEPRESSED, ANXIOUS, FRAGMENTED AND YUCK IN LIFE.
When we live life from our deepest connection to our unique soul print we are able to experience the same life VERY differently. We flow with life. We are no longer stuck, disconnected, overwhelmed and living life how we were “programmed” and how we think others want us to be seen, we live our life on purpose!
We all have our unquie soul prints, just like our body has a finger print. We are all so very special just by BEING us.
Enjoy the podcast!
xo- Julie
To check out the 10 Day Soul Print Journey head over to soulmidwifejulie.com/soulprint
This podcast talks all about how to move through being stuck and into curiosity and invite in microrituals that connect and SHIFT you into deeper vitality in your life.
I focus on the micro ritual of Sunrise and share how it has expanded, connected and healed me in ways that I couldn’t imagine.
I share about the biological, hormonal and life changing affects something as simple as bringing more light to your life and your eyes can be.
Enjoy!
If you want to learning MORE about sunlight, sun codes, hormones, quantum physics and bringing micorituals into your life to SHIFT you into deeper alignment and hormonal health then check out the SHIFT; a 10 Day Journey to deeper vitality. We start 5/10. soulmidwifejulie.com
We have all felt stuck in life!
Feeling stuck often is experienced in the body through big emotions and feelings.
We often stay stuck because well...we see no possibility and/or we are afraid of what we think it will mean get unstuck. Will we lose the relationship? Will we have to lose our job?
We stay stuck because we are afraid of what life may look like after we shift. Our current reality may feel misaligned but at least it feels familiar and "safe".
SO...HOW do we open that door to possibility?
This podcast goes into the steps that it takes to open up to SHIFT and HOW we do that.
Enjoy!
If you are desiring a shift. A greater alignment in your mind, body, spirit whole health. Then check out The Shift- A 10 Day Journey to greater vitality and whole health for women. Early pricing now through 5/2 soulmidwifejulie.com/happy-hormones
Alignment...one of those buzz words that we often hear but rarely FEEL.
What does it mean and better yet FEEL like to you to be aligned and why should it be one of the most important focal points for your life; this podcast answers that and so much more.
I go into the WHOLE of the mind, body, spirit and how even something as simple as our hormones (one of the building blocks of life) is in alignment or not by all the things; stuck stress, light waves, ability to move emotions, our diet, stored trauma, our connection and intimacy with our selves and others and SO MUCH MORE.
I hope you enjoy this episode.
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We all find ourselves in spaces of feeling fear, confusion and even stuck in life.
This is a guided meditation to help you step into and experience the "River of Life". A journey to flowing through the fear and "stuckness".
Enjoy!
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Presence is a passport to fuller life!
“It is our connection to that greater Being to which we belong, but which is often buried beneath mundane concerns, bodily desires, emotional disturbances and mental distraction." - Kabir Helminski
This podcast explores how we tap into presence, why we need presence and how to make space and value it as a passport to a greater, fuller life.
In a world that is so FOCUSED up with things externally.
In a world that can be stressful, fear inducing and where we can get lost in the mundane concerns, we can tune to presence as an anchor and a guide to stay connected.
It is time to awaken to the presence of us.
Presence is our way through. Presence is the way to a live a life that is in deeper peace.
Presence can be found in every body, in every religion in everything there is presence.
What would diving in deeper do for you?
To learn more about working with Julie head over to soulmidwifejulie.com
We all can get stuck feeling really heavy and dense inside.
Sometimes we have a "bad" day and other times a season where we just struggle.
Inside our bodies and very muscles can feel tight, restrictive and uncomfortable.
This Deep Drink Episode helps shift you from a state of density to one of lightness.
This guided meditation helps create a physical and literal perspective shift on a mind, body and energetic level.
Enjoy!
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40 Day SoulFULL Journey- 40 Days of Guided meditations and inner experiencing to anchor you deeper in the connect to your inner world. Offered in the gift economy model. soulmidwifejulie.com/40dayjourney
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Are you feeling stuck in life?
Do you feel a longing to rebirth and become a new version of yourself that aligns deeper with who you are on the inside?
Have you spent a lot of life living in a personality or in a way that has been molded by what we think others around us want?
In reality pretty much all of us can say yes at one point in our lives to all of these questions!
We grow up and are molded and shaped by our families, friends and the larger culture. We pick up personalities traits, habits and even trauma that informs how we show up in life but we don’t have to stay stuck in this.
In this podcast I speak to this reclamation of our self and how natural it is for us to shed layers throughout our lives and to get closer and closer to our true selves, to reclaim ourselves and to come home!
Enjoy!
"I want to be useful"- So many of us under neath and deep inside feel the desire to simply be useful.
We are all born with unique gifts, superpowers that when we align with we are able to express our usefulness into this world. This doesn't mean that we have to make a career or even money out of it, although for some it may. It just means deep down we want express our usefulness out into the world as a service.
In this podcast I explore the profound realization these words brought me to as well as how I am bringing some of my service into the gift economy model.
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40 Day SoulFULL Journey- 40 Days of Guided meditations and inner experiencing to anchor you deeper in the connect to your inner world. Offered in the gift economy model. soulmidwifejulie.com/40dayjourney
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Our bodies contain so much literal and figurative space inside that is filled with so much possibility, nourishment, expansion, peace and magic and yet we get carried away and spend the vast majority of our days in the sea of thoughts, planning and controlling.
I invite you into an experience of exploring the Space Within. This meditation is a dive deeper into the nourishing, expansive and grounding experience of being an explorer in your inner world.
If you would like to learn more about working with me head over to soulmidwifejulie.com
Presence- Free webinar to explore different aspects of the mind/body/spirit and how to anchor into the presence of soul to drive your human experience. Must register here- https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZAlcOCgrDMrEtBaG0jL-0R_nXl6fQxyWYGM
40 Day SoulFULL Journey- 40 Days of Guided meditations and inner experiencing to anchor you deeper in the connect to your inner world. Offered in the gift economy model. soulmidwifejulie.com/40dayjourney
Soul Sessions-Guidance to living a life that is Embodied, Connected and Soul Led. soulmidwifejulie.com/one-on-one
We all experience fear at one time or another.
It can really take us mentally down, make us agitated, reactive and cause up to show up in ways that we normally wouldn't.
There is an evolutionary reason for fear and what most of us experience on the regular isn't it.
This podcast is a bit of a personal story time as well as a how to move through fear.
I hope that you find it helpful.
Please reach out to julie@julieannesoulmidwife.com and send any emails.
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Welcome to this Deep Drink, Guided Meditation to Gratitude.
This podcast is a guided meditation allow you to arrive into deeper presence, to nourish you and to connect you to and expand the feeling of gratitude.
“Gratitude is like a flashlight. If you go out into your yard at night and turn on a flashlight, you suddenly can see what’s there. It was always there, but you couldn’t see it in the dark.” Dawn Markova
It is the perfect practice for those wishing to expand this energy and for anyone out there that is going through a hard time and looking for a little light in the darkness.
Head over to soulmidwifejulie.com to find out more about my work.
Welcome!
This podcast episode is all about The Medicine of the Winter Season.
How can we embrace the cold, the dark and the underworld and let it do it's magic?
What happens if you like so many find this season to bring you down, depressed and you feel resistance to it? How can it look different for you?
I explore the medicine that this season offers with some personal stories as well as some helpful suggestions for you to sink into the energy of the coming winter and shift your relationship with it.
You can find out more about my work at soulmidwifejulie.com and email me at julie@julieannesoulmidwife.com
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There are so many signposts on the path of rewilding and returning home as we strip layers off and connect more with the soul of us.
We often see many of the sign posts as “danger, bad, you are going the wrong way”..... THIS ISN’T THE TRUTH! When many of us are in the thick of it we aren’t able to always see the sign posts clearly. Our nervous system may be highly activated and we think run, when really we are exactly where we are meant to be.
One of the biggest sign posts is confusion. Confusion is a beautiful place to be in. It is a place that brings the possibilities of deeper questioning. A place where we can throw up our hands and just sit and be. If we let it, it can be a place of deep surrender.
Confusion doesn’t mean we won't ever know, it simply means we don’t know right now.
It is a sign post of pause; an invitation to dive in deeper and listen. So many of us look at this sign post and think, “Oh man I have done it wrong, I am in the wrong place, I am not good enough, I will never get there and all the rest”
So many of us also see this sign post and try to THINK our way out of it. We can make the lists and will the answers but at the end of the day this isn’t really the medicine that is being presented. You may be missing the medicine of the pause, the inner connection and deep knowing that is possible in the pause the confusion is asking of you.
When confusion sets it to me it means that a big shift is coming. It is that moment of deeper surrender and stillness...NOT a time to spin and spin and spin.
In this podcast I lead you into the FEELING of confusion inside of you as an experience of energy.
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What does a life that is full of magic feel like...possibility, creation, being present to actually see things, following the natural flow of life and all of the magic and nature that is here guiding us if we just stop resisting it and actually step into it.
It is releasing the control, not conjuring up spells to control but to create rather than control. To create and then to let go of the outcome...whew that is a lesson to learn over and over again.
So what happens when you step into that magic, that flow, that divine feminine energy?
Life is lived and in much deeper presence and connection. Simple and sweet.
It gets less complicated, there is less thinking, there is less planning, there is more ease, appreciation and opening for all that is. There is also more presence in the feeling of what it is to be a human and all that comes up.
To create more we need to Be more. To be in our heart space to be in our cauldron or our womb space. A past self of me, 10 years ago would have thought the person writing this was crazy...truly. But I have experienced this inner world. I have been drawn deeper and deeper into the energy that we actually are and experienced that. I have said yes to letting go of the planning of the control that I am really good at but also made me sick. I have said yes to reconnecting with my own divine feminine part of me and valuing it because it is just as beautiful and valuable as the masculine. We are both and not always in equal parts but I am sure we all know that some where along the line the collective we decided that the feminine aspects were to be controlled to be devalued and put in one place. It is super prevalent right now to blame the patriarchy for all the things. In my college years I was all about that and I think for many this is part of the process. I am now in the space of personal responsibility for my own life and how I show up in it and create it. To show up to my own value and to show up to the world in that value. Same world out there but different me inside equals different experience of this world. Massive shift!
Enjoy this podcast and let me know what possibilities you are creating.
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"If we boil it down we keep fixing ourselves in the hopes that we can finally, just be as we actually are"
In this podcast I cover the art of fixing and how it keeps us "othering" and disconnected from ourselves and others, so that we always are striving to be someone else and hoping for the day when we arrive and can just be.
How can we simply be us and what is the true experience of self love.
How can we be more HUMAN and allow ourselves to BE with our “warts” to be WHOLE?
The podcast starts with a discussion around fear, anger, anxiety and confusion and how these "bad" emotions swirl inside us and act as fuel for disconnection, hopelessness and hate. When we show up to these feelings that are so prevalent inside us and in the larger collective we can use the emotions for what they are; information for our own awareness and healing. We can start gaining more personal power and connection through the wisdom of our emotions.
If you enjoy this podcast or have questions please reach out to Julie at soulmidwifejulie.com
If you are interested in the 40 Day SoulFULL Journey operated in the Gift Economy model please head over to the website and apply.
Otherwise check out Soul Sessions specifically for women who: A stronger relationship with and value for your sacred feminine (flow, intuition, ease) * A deeper CONNECTION and VALUE and way to live in greater alignment with your cyclical nature A more embodied experience of your Wild and Whole self An easier time move out of flight and fight and into presence * A Stronger relationship with your Soul Self Living life from a more embodied place of FULLNESS and feeling more ALIVE
This is a great podcast episode for those looking not be perfect but rather to show up and experience life as a transformational experience .
In this episode Julie explores the Personal Power and opportunity for true transformation and mastery that comes from taking personal responsibility. She also speaks to the how and why so many of us don't do this and how it impacts our lives.
The evolution that occurs when you show up and step into your own personal responsibility for how you show up in your life and the actions that you do and don't take are so incredibly powerful.
Often times we can sit in relationships, jobs or interactions with the outside world where we have some bitterness, some anger, some blame, some shame etc. We point the finger at how the world out there is causing all of the pain in here. Or we may try and "control" how we show up to others so that we will be loved, liked, accepted. We may not even be aware of these patterns.
Once we become aware we are able to see how powerful we are when we take the personal responsibility for our own actions or inaction in a relationship, in creating our life and we are able to step into that deeper sense of personal power.
The path isn't always easy, sometimes it is in fact full of big intense emotions that need to be felt as we evolve and let ourselves step into the person we are becoming. Transformation is full of twists and turns and "growing pains" as we expand and become more able to step into greater capacity to love ourselves and others, to step into our wholeness and to actually feel alive.
When we step into our power we are able to transform and evolve ourselves and naturally the things around us begin to align with that. Our relationships become more meaningful as our needs are said. Our place in the world becomes more aligned as we truly show up to what is alignment with our heart space.
To learn more about Julie and the work she does with women head over to soulmidwifejulie.com
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Back for Deep Drink #4 - A Meditation for the Fall Season.
This meditation is to experience the sensation of balance and peace inside the body. To connect with the nourishment of the breath and step into the energy of the fall season.
This meditation guides you into balance and nourishment within. As we reflect upon and begin to let go what no longer serve and vision in what we are stepping into.
Head to soulmidwifejulie.com to find out more about working with Julie.
It's time to tune inside and create a REVOLUTION of our Inner World!
Our experiences and realities only evolve when we do.
It's time to stop looking outside ourselves for some magic pill, something out there to help us evolve what is inside.
It's time to align to what our actual values are, to show up to our inner space and often, to create space and to create external realities that match.
You don’t need permission to evolve to change and show up for a revolution of your inner world; you just need to actually show up to it!
I give some good sign posts and ideas in this podcast including cultivating curiosity, getting embodied, downregulating your nervous system, rewilding, cyclical living and more.
Enjoy!
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Stop Working on Yourself and Start Showing Up
You don’t need to be fixed. You don’t need to be worked on.
What if instead of working on ourselves we simply... show up?
For sometime I have wanted to shift this language around, Im working on myself or that aspect of myself as it just didn’t fit, the language didn’t resonate.
One day I realized oh...it’s show up. The language is show up.
When we work on ourselves there is this idea of "fixing myself" as if you am broken, that something is wrong with you. You begin to fragment and "other" parts of yourself. You feel disconnected and not whole. Working on yourself seems like something you do rather than a space that you occupy.
When you show up you get curious, unattached, witness, FEEL and surrender to what it is. We get to dig deeper, to experience more, to show up. Eventually there comes a point to express this either via dialogue with a partner, art work, a walk and talk with a friend, moaning, yelling, dancing etc. Things naturally begin to shift when this happens.
Showing up to seems like a very natural thing to do where as working on seems like a very structured and another way of really controlling the situation. Like we don’t like this part of us so we must make it better.
Showing up doesn't require us to do much and yet requires us to be so much with. To truly shift that from the inside out. To truly embrace that rage, to truly embrace your jealousy or even something like always being late or “lazy”. When we show up to this we hear the natural voice of wisdom, our soul begins to speak it’s whys, when we show up we feel that feeling and allow it to be exactly as it is... this allows us to recognize our wholeness.
So slow down and show up.
Create the space outside for your inside and connect within.
This leads to your whole.
This leads to your peace.
This is your anchor no matter what is occurring outside keep coming back in over and over.
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Rewild, Reconnect, Remember and Return Home
It's time to shed the skin! The part of you that really doesn't fit anymore, and maybe never did.
It's time to step deeper into yourself.
To head the 3 am wake up calls, the inner niggles and release what doesn't fit any more.
This podcast talks about the skin of our personalities that aren't often reflective of our inner world and why we fear stepping into and breaking down what we are to become something that fits!
To find out more about the work Julie is up to head over to soulmidwifejulie.com
This is a meditation for those who are feeling heavy and perhaps trapped or stuck in some emotion or space in their body.
A meditation NOT to FIX or CHANGE but to be with/embody, experience and shine a light these feelings.
Enjoy.
If you would like to learn more about working with Julie head over to soulmidwifejulie.com
Now offering 40 Day SoulFULL Journey- Awakening to a Soul FULL you and reclaiming space from the inside out; in the spirit of the gift economy model.
After a bit of a break the podcast is back!
I discuss everyone's favorite topic, Pain and Discomfort...okay maybe not everyone's favorite topic but one that NEEDS to be talked about WAY more!
PAIN (Pay Attention Inside Now!)
This podcast explores how pain and discomfort are catalysts for GROWTH, EXPANSION and EVOLUTION. They are a part of our natural and innate humanness and can be used to grow.
No shit, no roses.
This podcast also goes through HOW to be with pain in a way that alchemizes it and helps you become more whole.
Enjoy!
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Check out the 40 Day Soul FULL journey on my website, now being offered in the gift economy.
This podcast is both a "chat" on priorities of the heart as well as an experience "Deep Drink" heart activation, guided meditation.
So often we get caught up in the priorities of the material outer world, in what we think we should be and do and forget to listen into the wisdom of the heart.
We get disconnected with what the dance of our life feels life if we stopped trying to control it and let our hair get messy and our bodies begin to move to the figuartive rhythm of our lives.
What happens when we step into this heart space and get out of our head?
How much more space is created by being more connected?
How much more love can we generate inside ourself and for others and how can one small thing like going inside and meeting our heart space lead to such epic space and soul connection.
Enjoy this chat and experiential podcast episode.
If you would like to learn more about the 40 day Soul FULL journey A journey to:
Slow down your nervous system
Get reacquainted with your inner world
Activate different parts of yourself (womb, heart, throat) Head to soulmidwifejulie.com Wisdom on the priorities of the heart
Activation of the Discussing the priorities of the heart
On Midlife and Stepping into Your Soul Self
As we naturally go through the growth and change that is necessary in mid life we can feel things come up like:
Fear (of change, of growth, of death and rebirth) Wondering if we are “crazy” or just hormonal *Have people say to us that we aren’t the person they thought we were.
We can get stuck in the idea of what everyone thinks of us
We can get stuck in the fear of change
We can get stuck in the flight and fight of our fast paced world and not allow ourselves to sink into and discover who we are becoming
This is where the idea of mid life crisis enters...we stay stuck.
What if:
Midlife is the BECOMING
Midlife is the Stepping DEEPER into connection with our soul self.
Then we experience it as an AWAKENING.
We may have to shed some old skin.
We need to get quiet and connect with the person we are, deep down and allow ourselves to be courageous enough to let this person be seen and heard.
This podcast talks about all this and more.
I also give you some “steps” to begin this exploration of steeping deeper into your soul self!
If you are interested in learning more about the 40 Day Soul FULL Journey- the art of slowing down, stepping inside and reconnecting with your deepest self head over to soulmidwifejulie.com
A quick “tutorial” on what the heck grounding is and no it’s not something for spiritual and woo woo people.
We all live on the Earth and are made of energy.
This is a simple process to Ground and balance the energy.
Listen in for the tutorial and the practice!
Let me know your experience in the comments!
To experience more spaciousness inside and soul FULL living check out the 40 Day Soul FULL Journey. soulmidwifejulie.com
This podcast is about growth and presence.
How to get out of your head and actually embody presence.
The podcast weaves the story of my own experience with some deep and profound growth that occurred over the past week from an illness accompanied by a migraine.
My own experience with dropping into the deepest presence that I have so far experienced out side of the realm of birth and what I discovered, uncovered and seeded in this space and how this isn’t just my story but our story. This is not a story or a space that I found that is unique to me. It is available to all of us.
After the story I offer HOW TO DROP INTO DEEPER OR EMBODY PRESENCE!
Enjoy.
To find out more about the work Julie is up to check out soulmidwifejulie.com
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Make sure to register for the 40 Day Soul FULL Journey that begins on 5/11 www.soulmidwifejulie.com/40-day-soul-full-journey
This is the first of many; Deep Drinks!
This podcast is an experiential offering, a guided meditation for you to Slow the FUNK out, to step into deeper connection and nourishment.
For this specific meditation I take you on a journey into the void.
Enjoy!
For more information on how to work with Julie visit soulmidwifejulie.com
What I see happen in women is that we often end up in this box. We didn’t plan to be in this box and we don’t often even see that we are there, it just happens as life unfolds and we sort of “lose ourselves” in service of showing up for others and how we think we are suppose to be.
We end up living a life that feels, well… “FINE”. We live a life that feels FULL as in BUSY or going through the motions but not SOUL FULL.
At some point along the way normally in the mid life part of life (40’s) we see that is no longer going to work for us and things begin to wake up inside. Normally it’s big emotions and possibly physical “female complaints’. We no longer fit in this box any more and our soul really begins to start stirring inside us, it isn’t always recognized as that though...it is often pushed off as a mid life crisis.
To me it is that mid life awakening that moment, that time period to really AWAKEN to your inner self, to align your life from the inside out. Sometimes this process is messy. We often want something to jump to a new identity or version of us already there, a new job waiting, a new relationship that fits better and we don’t want to “do the work”, go through the break down to reclaim and rebuild.
This podcast talks about what this feels/looks like for us to step deeper into this journey of adventure!
To connect with Julie you can find her at soulmidwifejulie.com
What could it possibly feel like to have a deeper relationship with your body?
One where you aren't trying to control it but actually occupying it?
What if you let your body be your guide?
What does this actually mean to you?
What does being embodied actually feel like and how do you access it?
This podcast answers all these questions and more.
This podcast takes the listener on a tour of: How the heck we have become so disconnected from our bodies (ever wondered how you got from point a to b while driving or just felt on autopilot) How this creates a space within of disconnection & disease *Some "how to's" that you can try today
It’s one thing to hear the term embodiment and get it with your head and quite another thing to actually be “embodied”!
If you would like to learn more about the work Julie is doing please visit soulmidwifejulie.com
A grounding, spacious and connecting meditation.
Is meditating “hard”, “foreign”, to woo woo or spiritual for you?
Is slowing down and turning in challenging?
Do you have judgements and/or ideas around what a guided meditation is?
I hear this often.
In fact I used to hear these judgemental thoughts it in my own head for many years.
Yet there has always been a big bright piece of me inside that has gravitated and sought out things and my innate curious and adventurous nature has pushed me to try them and
EXPERIENCE IS ALWAYS THE BEST GUIDE
My invitation to all of you is to check out this podcast and let your experience be your guide.
Tell me how it goes!
To work with me head over to my website soulmidwifejulie.com
Sometimes we have to come apart to come back together.
This is the work of the 40's and early 50's
Speaking and living from your heart and soul is scary at first. For the vast majority of us, it means that we have to let go of or let a part of us die. We have to sift through and have a real awakening of what was us, what we picked up unconsciously were programmed with along the way and who we actually are at the soul level. Then we have to be brave to step up into that space and actually live from there.
I see this happening all around me and frankly all inside of me.
I have resistance too.
Will I be labeled/othered
Will I be liked
Will I be loved by my family of origin
Will I be understood
Will I be burned.
This week the stories that have weaved themselves through in my life have been all about this.
This reckoning this longing for and connection to something deeper.
What does the longing feel like….like there is a part of you that you want to touch, that you want to give space to grow, that aches for attention and yet there is also a knowing somewhere deep inside you of what it will bring about. The chaos and death so to speak that will ensue.
When we don’t entertain and listen to this longing we often get a crisis moment.
This week’s podcast weaves the stories of women that I have come across as well as my own that are traversing this space and allowing this soul piece to grow inside.
You can find out more about my work at soulmidwifejulie.com
Change Happens!
It may be one of the only things that all humans actually agree upon nowadays.
We are all faced with change inside and out in our lives. Some of this change is small and we don’t think much about it and some of it causes us to resist, run, hide and ignore.
Whatever you are resisting; it is not going to go away until you embrace it! It will just keep coming back in some way shape or another.
It will keep you awake, it will mask itself as anxiety, it will cause you outburst of emotions...it won't go away.
Resistance is ultimately fear: -A fear of change -A fear of death (a death of something...a relationship, a habit, a job, an aspect of yourself) -A fear of the unknown -A fear of how powerful you are
I want to honor that sometimes change is super uncomfortable and we hide from and resist it; I am raising my hand right here and now for you all to see!
However, resistance is just ignoring or denying the feeling of something that needs to be moved through you.
So often we aren’t really aware that we are in resistance mode.
So how can you tell if you are there? Are you in resistance? -Are you ignoring your feelings -Are you distracting yourself -Are you denying something that is directly in front of you.
So back to the fact that change is a part of life and it will happen, whether we kick, scream and drag our feet or we give in, trust, embrace and move through.
Can you stop and bring awareness to the resistance?
What does it mean and how do you embrace your resistance?
Check out this podcast to hear more.
Find me over at soulmidwifejulie.com
We need to breath, We need to poop, We need to eat, We need to drink, We need to feel emotions
Where the heck in our culture did we learn that emotions are bad?That being vulnerable is weak?
What the heck happened in culture to think that we could think our way through life and control the body (and all the other things we try and control) as if we were a walking brain disconnected from the rest?
How the heck did we get so disconnected and why don't we see how damaging this is to our bodies, minds and souls!
This episode goes through three experiences that I had this week that all weaved the lesson of vulnerability and feeling emotions and how these are scary, labeled as "bad", not to be felt and all the rest.
The three stories that I share are real life examples of how disconnected and misaligned we can feel in our body, mind and spirit when we constantly wear our "mask" so to speak. When we don't allow ourselves to be authentic, vulnerable and feel our emotions.
Do you run away from your emotions? Do you bottle them up? Do you ignore them and clench them in?
This episode posses the questions, Is being vulnerable weak?
Can we find strength and even power by being vulnerable?
Can we find wholeness by being in our body and FEELING our emotions, by slowing down and stepping within?
In the values of this culture as a whole these are pretty revolutionary ideas and actions!
If you would like to check out my work please visit soulmidwifejulie.com
One of the only things that I am totally and completely sure about in life is that it is in constant change!
The less we resist that change and begin to step into the flow of it the more full it can feel.
It requires that we get out of our way…which can be really freaking hard and that we slow down enough to listen to the change stirring within…also can be really hard.
This episode is all about my own change in of course what I am calling myself/my branding, Soul Midwife. But more importantly this is a conversation about my own shift and how I am stepping up into greater and more aligned service for those who feel called to work with me.
I share a bit about what this will look like in podcast form in this episode
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I do a little story time of my own journey. I believe that so much can be learned and gained from hearing others stories and recognizing ourselves and feeling seen.
I talk about things that are unique to my story but also not very unique at all:
Where does our value lie as women...is it in the hats you where or somewhere else?
What happens when you remove all your hats. WHO ARE YOU THEN?
Who are you as a woman without all the things that you do and when you allow yourself to be….what are you left with?
I talk about the catalyst for my growth over 7 years ago, as a women who feels WHOLE, POWERFUL and CONTENT in my body.
What does accepting and loving yourself look like?
Moving through survival, anxiety, ideas on who I was suppose to be and stepping into who I actually am.
I hope you enjoy this podcast and I am super excited to get back into recording them regularly again!
You can check out my website at soulmidwifejulie.com
How does control and judgement cut us off from our wild and whole selves?
How do these things zap us of our energy and through us out of alignment.
This episode begins to answer those questions and gives you deeper guidance on tools you can use to dig in to your wild and whole self.
To find out more or connect with me head to thelifecyclelady.com
I haven't been taking my medicine lately, have you?
Last week I had this big realization. Oh, wow I have been forgetting to take care of my WHOLE self; and everything is suffering!
I have been feeling really contracted lately. The season of fall offers that. The medicine is asking us to engage in a process of a big purge and rearranging of areas of life that aren't working. This needs to happen for inner winter nourishment.
The part of the leaves falling means things have to FALL! They have to fall down to be seen, to be looked at and to be held in some light.
This podcast uncovers the medicine of fall and how to take our medicine!
5 Million Plus Women live PCOS 1 in 10 Million Woman have Endometriosis 15% of Adolescent Girls are on the Birth Control Pill for "Period Issues" 1 in 3 Women Have Fibroids
This is what happens when our natural seasons start to fail!
Far to many of us feel ashamed to talk about puberty, perimenopause, periods or our body parts!
We think that our life cycle seasons are all based on physical symptoms that we may need to manage and control.
What if it is so much deeper than that? What if there is so much more POWER found in these different life cycle seasons and our lack of wisdom, knowledge passed down and connection with them is really harming us?
Why are are seasons failing and what are we going to do about it?
This episode explores what the natural seasons of life look like from a mind/body/spirit standpoint and how rites of passage can be catalyst for change and going through these transition periods feeling whole.
If you would like to learn more about what I am up to head over to thelifecyclelady.com
I am celebrating my 1 year of podcasting with a bit of a personal look at my own journey through adrenal fatigue, hormonal imbalance and as a recovering people pleaser, perfectionist and all around disembodied woman.
This podcast goes into my own story back to WHOLE bodied health and wellness, as well as draws on other women's stories that I have worked with, as inspiration for SO MANY women out there who are suffering from burn out, stress out, adrenal issues, anxiety and way beyond that a lack of joy and space inside and out in their lives.
I hope you enjoy this podcast!
To learn more about the work I am up to head over to thelifecyclelady.com
To learn more about The FREE Life Cycle Community a space for women to learn, grow and connect more with themselves and each other in intentional ways head over to thelifecyclelady.com/the-life-cycle-lady-community-32
Check out Cyclical Living For Women-Create a feeling of inner connection, ease and WHOLENESS by stepping deeper into your innate cyclical nature. thelifecyclelady.com/cyclical-living-for-women
Get ready to explore your multi cyclical world ladies!
In this podcast we tap into the multi cyclical nature of women from puberty to menopause and how living in greater alignment with our intrinsic nature allows us to feel more: ALIVE, WHOLE, BALANCED and FREE!
It's time for us to stop fitting ourselves into a square hole!
There is nothing wrong with our multi cyclical nature!
It's time to take that power back! To discover and uncover our intrinsic nature and power and to step into it!
We explore how knowing about and living in greater alignment with these cycles helps our WHOLE selves mind/body/spirit.
To find out more about what The Life Cycle Lady is up to head over to thelifecyclelady.com!
In this episode we dive into feelings and how they contain wisdom and opportunities for feeling WHOLE, alive and fully connected and powerful.
Most of us label feelings as good and bad. Those we want strive towards and those we want to ignore, push away, numb.
This leaves us to feeling fragmented.
Our feelings don’t need us to ignore them, they don’t need us to push them away, they aren’t crazy or a result of your hormones...they are asking to be seen and truly felt. Just like a child who is trying to get your attention they will get louder and louder until you see them!
Sometimes they are really loud, overwhelming and “too much” because they have been ignored for so long!
Those bad feelings: anger, guilt, anxiety they are there for GOOD REASONS, they are wise. When we step into awareness and let them be there they will show us a path towards transformation.
So how do we “be” with our emotions or embody our emotions to allow them to show us their wisdom?
Listen to the podcast to find out the 5 “Steps” towards embodied feelings for a WHOLE, ALIVE and POWERFUL inner and outer world.
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If you want different results you will never get them doing the same thing you are doing over and over, you have to take different actions to get different results.
Humans are creatures of habit. It is built in our very brain chemistry and make up. It can be a really positive thing when our habits are aligned and full filling. However, many of us have areas or characteristics about ourselves that we stick with because they are comfortably uncomfortable.
For many of us we crave things to be different. Maybe we don’t like our job, our relationship is not as fulllfilling as we know it can be, we don’t like the way we feel in our body or maybe we have an emotion that we really struggle with.
We have lots of stories on why things can’t be different, we have fear and real life circumstances.
So how can things instantaneously change? Is that possible?
YES! WE MUST INTERRUPT THE CYCLE!
This podcast teaches you the simple and immediate ways to do that to create greater alignment, fulfillment and joy in your life.
To learn more about The Connected Woman Community head over to thelifecyclelady.com/the-connected-woman-community
This podcast is going to be an exploratory podcast of our human bodies-focused on females. My intention for this episode is to help name why so many of us don’t have a connection to our bodies and to ask a bunch of what if questions to help us find more curiosity and deepen both our knowledge of and connection to our bodies.
It is more common than not for females to have little knowledge of or connection to their bodies.
Many feel that the femaleness of their bodies is "a curse at worse or annoying at best"
This episode questions many of the routine ways that females connect with and interact with our bodies and asks if there is another way.
Is there an evolution that needs to happen for us to become more in touch with our real humanity on a basic body level and to stop controlling everything and living in our mind.
How would this look and what could it lead to inside of you and culturally?
To find out more about Julie's work visit thelifecyclelady.com
Our natural life transitions of puberty, pregnancy and perimenopause are about so much more than just the physical changes that occur and yet very little of us are given even the most basic knowledge, let alone being gifted with the wisdom and opportunities of greater wholeness, power and connection from the “golden” passages known as puberty, pregnancy and perimenopause.
As our culture has moved on these natural life cycles have become more and more medicalized, with less and less wisdom, connection and inner deepening felt. This has become our normal. The answer to the routine medicalization of our natural life cycles may just be once again expanding the conversation; including the physical and also including the emotional, spiritual and more.
What if these stages of life were way more about the possibilities of growth and diving into deeper self awareness, unlocking our internal power and wisdom?
I hope you enjoy this conversation!
To find out more about Powerful Puberty or Powerful Perimenopause please head to thelifecyclelady.com
To find out more about Indie Birth please head to www.indiebirth.org
This podcast is about diving deep into our uncomfortable to find space for healing and action.
It is okay not to be okay!
Culturally we are taught that we should move away from the uncomfortable, that this is a "bad" space that we should not go to.
Our world is experiencing a lot of uncomfortable. It is needed, it is time!
This podcast talks about the need for us to go to uncomfortable spaces.
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Let's talk BIG PICTURE and what is really going on with our tweens and teens in puberty.
They are naturally cycling through three phases: expansion, contraction and rebirth. In each of these phases we will see different behaviors and some of these phases we may like more than others. Does anyone really like the pushing away, grunting, attitude? Not really.
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What I know is that THEY HAVE TO GO THROUGH ALL THE CYCLE PHASES to continue to grow. To form a strong foundation so that they will come out of this phase as functioning adults.
It's SO helpful for us to see the big picture, especially in the moments of suck, so that we can parent from a place of WHOLENESS and honoring of their growth.
This podcast goes into depth on what these phases look like and how to shift our perspective to the bigger picture.
You can find out more at thelifecyclelady.com
We are all aware that this summer will be different for our kids and for many of us.
In times of upheaval, imbalance, uncertainty we need to dive deep, get out of the box and create new rhythms.
We are all in our own boat right now navigating this new normal and this episode gives grounding in how to create a summer rhythm with what you have. This episode also goes into how to create and draw upon community to help create this new normal. How we can join together in out of the box ways to create this new way to exist!
I hope you enjoy!
Please comment and let me know what ideas you have and how you are creating something new right now.
You can also find me over at thelifecyclelady.com
Sharing simple ways to step deeper into your cyclical nature.
Humanity is out of balance. We see it all around us in the disease of our bodies, minds and spirits. There are many reasons for this and many cures. One major component is stepping back into our cyclical nature.
This podcast helps women connect with the value of our cyclicalness and ways that we can actually step into it in our daily lives without having to change it all; ways to invite our being to take up more space.
I hope you enjoy.
You can find more of the work that I am up to at thelifecyclelady.com or on at the free: Life Cycle Lady Community- https://the-life-cycle-lady.mn.co/share/VCb7l5JOojvgWltv?utm_source=manual
What are your pillars?
You know those things in life that fill you up, no matter when times are good or bad.
Many of us don't have pillars! That is more normal that we realize. We have excuses: time, money and not valuing ourselves are the biggest.
In this episode I explore SMALL and FREE anchoring or pillars to help us still feel alive and some sense of peace and even joy in the hardest of times. These tiny revolutions, small moments all throughout our day act as pillars to help us navigate stormy waters.
Let me know what your pillars are!
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What does the word 'Pause' bring up for you?
Do you feel like in order to tap into pause that you have to earn it?
Are you much more comfortable in the going and the doing part of life?
Do you see much more value in the go, go, go and very little in the Pause?
The point of this episode is to help move you towards valuing the go as well as the flow.
We are not talking about self care but rather HEALTH CARE!
The Pause is your health care, your balance, and needs to be brought into all of our lives in little ways all throughout our day, not as a time for "self care".
So here is my view on the state of western culture. I don’t think this is a view that to may would disagree with * We value the go. We value the do. We enjoy the feelings of accomplishment and doing. We have very little connection culturally with the pause. Our time is always filled even our weekends are spent going out somewhere, doing something fun, going, going, going. Many feel out of alignment, overwhelmed, stressed and sick.
One of the root causes of illness is a body that is out of balance.
I hope you will join me as we uncover our relationship with pause and discover some value.
Find more information at thelifecyclelady.com
All of us are greatly affected by what we are collectively experiencing right now; there is no denying that.
This episode will focus on how this change is affecting our tweens and teens. I offer some information on the Social Nervous System and how our tweens/teens are experiencing this time from the inside of their body and I offer some simple and I would say crucial things that you can do to help support them right now.
This is the PERFECT TIME to start some new and more supportive habits inside ourselves and with our kids. It is the PERFECT TIME to help them become more RESILIENT as well as sufficient. We should not be sheltering them from the world, in fact we should be having simple conversations and opening the door to their questions and emotions and offering them tools to help them through stress for NOW and for their future!
Given all that is going on in the world today I would like to offer some hope, wisdom and rhythm for this chaotic, stressful, unknown and anxiety space that many may find ourselves in.
This episode DOES NOT give you a here’s what you do to get more rhythm and experience more calm, but it does guide you to this space by offering perspective shifting questions, curiosity and possible ways to create a new way of rhythm for what ever you are currently experiencing right now.
There is no right way to do this.
However, being stuck in a chaotic inner world; stewing in stress and anxiety wont help you or anyone!
This episode covers ways to step out of that, as well as ways to be in greater joy, and create something more aligned with your own values, even amidst the chaos that swirls around. It also helps you create your own map of what rhythm can look like for your family right now.
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At the time of recording this episode the world is going through a massive state of unknown. As our regular routines being to crumble around us. Being in a state of unknown is a massive trigger for stress, anxiety and fear…we don’t feel safe!
Being in this state for prolonged periods of time harms our body! It harms our immune system, our reproductive system and our WHOLE self. Returning to our self, to our connection is where we will find new ways of being, new answers or maybe just some peace amidst it all. Being in stress, fear and anxiety will never allow us to find solutions and connection. We may all get there, I am offering you ways to not stay there and instead connect within!
In this episode I am going to offer some love for your nervous system and greater connection to your body when you may feel like you want to escape, to numb and to be anywhere but here.
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So many things in life take the form of a cycle: our moon, seasons, circadian rhythm, and of course the menstrual cycle.
Stress is another aspect to the human experience that comes in the form of a cycle!
Far to many of us rate, judge and don’t complete (or even know about) the stress cycle.
Dealing with stress is SEPARATE from dealing with the things that cause you stress! Just because you deal with a stressor doesn’t mean you are dealing with stress itself!
It is not a matter of self care it is a matter of HEALTH CARE and vitality.
This episode covers: what stress is, stressors versus stress, the stress cycle and how it uniquely impacts women, signs to know when you are stuck in the stress cycle and ways to complete the cycle.
This episode comes with tons of great and actionable information as well as an embodied visualization at the end!
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In this episode we talk vaginal steaming and oh so much more!
The conversation uses this topic as a way to address: taking control of your health, embodiment, realigning and reconnecting in tiny ways making those revolutions and evolutions, connecting to our feminine power and our collective experience.
We talk vaginal steaming basics: what it is, how it is used and what for and how it can connect women with their bodies and healing in a physical and emotional way.
1,000 and 1,000’s of women are benefitting from this ancient practice.
So why then is that the mainstream media, doctors and medical professionals are so afraid of this practice?
Do they really think we will sit to close and let the steam burn us?
Do they really think that we have no sense, no agency, no ..
Or…is that there is something else.
Sierra and I explore it all in this episode of the Life Cycle Lady Podcast
If you want to learn more about Sierra and what she is up to or to order vaginal steaming herbs
Check her out at http://www.soulvibrance.com/#_l_1hm
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Do you experience rage, emotional upheaval, crying “for no reason” and BIG overwhelming emotions around PMS?
Have you ever felt like you were just PSYCHO in your PMS phase?
I have got news for you……You aren’t PSYCHO, Your CYCLICAL.
In this podcast I dive into the deep wisdom, yes that’s right wisdom of the PMS emotions and why you shouldn’t just blame them on your hormones!
I ask the questions:
What if your body, your emotions were actually trying to tell you something and you just don’t know the language?
What if you label, push against them feel uncomfortable with them and blame your hormones?
What if PMS was shifted into PRIORITIZING MYSELF and not feeling bad or weak about it? (We feel bad or weak because we slow down, we stop doing, we are emotional. There is no space or value in that in our culture or in our minds)
This episode dives into the wisdom that is found through this BIG emotions and what they are trying to tell you.
Hope you enjoy!
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Your fertility is so much more than ovulating!
Of course you don’t get pregnant in your head and yet so many of us turn to thinking and researching to help with our fertility issues. When in fact you get pregnant in your body in particular your womb space. A space that MANY women have been disconnected from!
We are taught to control and chart our fertility but rarely are we taught to connect with it! In order to do that you have to be able to have a conversation with your womb and be in your body.
In this conversation Yoga Zahra, Registered Psychotherapist, and Women's Reproductive Health & Fertility Coach and I discuss how to establish that conversation and step into your cycle as a way of connection and healing!
Zahra draws from psychotherapy to help women heal stress, shame, trauma and a diminishing lack of sense of self that can come out of infertility while at the same time connecting them to their cyclical nature as a way to heal and establish connection in the heart womb space.
We are cyclical beings and there are needs, emotions and experiences that occur and influence our hormones and our fertility in ALL of the cycle.
If you want to learn more about about how Zahra and Yoga Goddess can help you conceive, visit www.yogagoddess.ca
Parents we have to talk about ALL THE BIG STUFF! It’s time to get comfortably uncomfortable.
So many parents are uncomfortable with the BIG topics: sex, porn, body image, masturbation, social media. I get it! I mean these are BIG topics and so much easier to just not talk about.
You see for many of us, along with not being taught about something as basic and integral as the bodies menstrual cycle, we were also not given information or conversations about sex, drugs or rock and roll. Right? If it was often it was a sit down, formal lecture on all the things we SHOULDN’T do. No conversation, no information “Just say no”. That didn’t work then and it’s not gonna work now.
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This podcast is a must listen for women!
Listen ladies there is this thing called adrenal faitgue; maybe you have heard of it maybe you “have” it or maybe you are just tired all the time, anxious, overwhelmed, foggy, have trouble sleeping, put weight around your middle, have little stress coping mechanisms and maybe are curious that this isn’t the human bodies “normal”.
This podcasts aim is to of course educate and tell you about it but MORE than that the aim is to show you HOW much of a constant stress response we all live in and how this impacts our bodies, minds and spirits.
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One of the biggest whispers/questions I am asked about is SEX!
Why don’t I have a libido?
Am I broken?
Am I just not a sexual person?
Why does it even matter?
and most often
WHAT’S WRONG WITH MY HORMONES!!!
Sexuality is such a huge area of our lives! So many of us women keep it hidden, deem it unimportant, don’t create time or space to connect to it and of course have shame and trauma around.
How many of you out there have a “fine” sex life?
How many of you are to tired, don’t find it very important, just feel like it’s a chore?
How many of you blame it on your hormones?
In this episode, The Multiorgasmic Mama, Lacey Broussard, joins me to talk about sex, intimacy, arousal and libido. We often blame our sex drive on our hormones and for 99% of us this just isn’t the case.
Lacey talks about the 4 reasons that actually stand in our way.
We need to reclaim our sexual sovereignty and reclaim our right as sexual beings in the world. Not for our relationship (although it is super helpful), not for anything other than because it is a part of you, a part of your being and feeling WHOLE and ALIVE!
Join us as we take a step on journey towards sexual embodiment.
To find out more about Lacey’s incredible work you can find her at www.themulitorgasmicmama.com
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Everything about this conversation is about getting out of our box!
I don’t know how many times I hear women or really humans say they are experiencing pain in their bodies. I too have been and sometimes am that person. Nothing wrong with it! It’s part of life.
One of the best ways to feel better in your body is simply MOVING!
Moving doesn’t have to be bossy, doesn’t have to be put in another box! Movement doesn’t have to be labeled ‘exercise’ where you go to the class, push as hard as you can, sweat as much as you can for as long as you can. (From a hormone standpoint if you are having some hormonal imbalance this type of exercise is doing WAY more harm than good!)
What if we began to change our relationship with movement?
What could that possibly look like? What if movement began to happen all day, everyday as you connect more to your body and begin to explore being in it and taking up space within and around you?
Does that spark your curiosity a bit?
This conversation is FULL of ways to explore these ideas. YES to help you feel better in your body; to help you with your aches and pains but maybe in a new way? Maybe in a way that helps you feel more curious and inspired so that you want to keep moving! Maybe in a way that helps you connect with you; your embodiment.
Tune in to find out more and don’t forget to check Zoe out at thethrivingbody.com
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In this episode I go into the history and science behind breathwork and explain why its so easy, important and NEEDED for women’s health!
FAR to many of us are literally out of balance!
We experience hormonal upset, anxiety, adrenal issues on the regular, in fact so much so that it has become “common”. Stress is one of the major underlying culprit for these experiences.
WHAT ABOUT SIMPLY CONSCIOUSLY BREATHING?
We need a re set to our internal systems. Breathing is FREE, breathing is a necessary part of our lives, breathing is vitality. Although I doubt many of us are breathing with much vitality. We stress, we constrict, our hormones flood us and we breath shallowly, our blood ph levels become acidic. Now imagine bringing in some conscious breathing, a pathway to the parasympathetic system. We relax, we are filled with oxygen, our very blood becomes alkaline. Conscious breathing is a way to create harmony between the parasympathetic and sympathetic nervous system. Is it is a way out of stress.
Breathwork is a KEY to feeling more in harmony,
Breathwork is HUGE for CONNECTION!
Breathwork is free and available at any time!
Join me for this episode to hear more about this incredible tool.
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Many parents are out there struggling on how to "deal with" media and their tween/teen. We didn't grow up with this access or these devices and we are trying to figure out what the best way is to make sure these kids are healthy.
Studies show that the more media a kid has is a direct correlation to their anxiety and stress levels.
In fact media impacts them emotionally, socially and even hormonally. This podcast explores the details on how it impacts them.
AND
Some ideas and action steps on how to disconnect and set boundaries.
Make sure to comment below on what you take away from this conversation and what you currently do or plan on changing!
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Come January I hear “My menstrual cycle is HORRIBLE this month”.
Of course it is! The extra bleeding, the heavy cramping and the much more emotional upset than normal is a direct result of the holiday hormonal hang over!
The excess of fatty and sugary foods, alcohol, stress and over filling of our time rears it’s head and shows up as a January of hormonal yuck!
What if we reimagined the holiday season and allowed it to settle into a connecting and nourishing experience?
This podcast talks about ways to help us all feel connected to the holiday season in a new way, so that the ripple affect is that our hormonal and emotional health is nourished this winter.
This episode gives a ways to support yourself during this holiday season and asks a whole lot of questions around what could be different.
Register for the Free Winter Hormonal Wellness webinar taking place on 12/11 here https://zoom.us/meeting/register/u5Yoduuhqzgtz19ei9YEh-LmToJU7bDvpg
AND Download your free recipe booklet at www.thelifecyclelady.com
I think we focus so much on the knowledge and not as much on the wisdom.
Don’t get me wrong, knowledge is important and I definitely find power in knowing about your body.
BUT
We focus so much on the knowledge that we tend to forget about the simple wisdom that is all around. We don’t see it’s importance and how much it can help aide in the healing process!!!!
We don’t tend to focus on simple things like CONNECTION: connection to ourselves, connection to our cycles, connection to the natural cycles and how tapping into these WISE ways can help us heal.
This episode talks all about the wisdom
AND
How my women’s circle is taking my hormonal healing to a new level.
You can find out more about the work I do at www.thelifecyclelady.com
In this Episode I talk about the Unsexy side of Estrogen; Estrogen Dominance.
If you are having major PMS, irregular and heavy bleeding, sore breasts, migraines, fibroids, major PMS than this episode is for you!
In fact if you are a menstruating lady than this one is for you!
I go into the basics of: what Estrogen Dominance is, what it’s caused by, and holistic ways to heal yourself!
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Perimenopause is not just a laundry list of symptoms!
It is a natural transition or pause phase of life. The wisdom that is offered during this phase is deep and connecting; as wisdom goes, it can also be rattling and disruptive!
We sometimes need the disruption to shake us into our new way of being!
In this episode Ayurvedic Practitioner, Radha Schwaller and I cover all things ayurveda, perimenopause, hormones and we even go into puberty!
If you are curious about ayurvedic’s approach to health and wellness and specifically to perimenopause and hormones that this conversation is for you!
Our conversation takes us on a journey of remembering and connecting to the health and wellness that we inherently are.
It's a hard time for ovaries all over the place!
In this episode I break down in easy to understand terms all things endocrine disruptors; what they are, why you should care, how they affect you AND how you can minimize your contact with them in simple non overwhelming ways!
This is an IMPORTANT topic and helpful podcast for ovaries everywhere.
I cover how endocrine disruptors affect us in all stages of life; especially in pregnancy and in puberty.
Are you a go, go, go person and pausing makes you feel anxious?
Are you something that values the go, the checking off of lists and being of us and PAUSE brings up feelings of not valuable?
This episode breaks down a bit of what perimenopause is and goes way deep into what the PAUSE of this phase asks of us.
I talk hormones and how they are affected by ALL THE THINGS and how we can help them during this perimenoPAUSE shift.
I talk getting comfortable and the VALUE of the PAUSE and our resistance around that.
Please leave a comment and let me know how you drop into the pause or resist it!!
I hear the word balance spoken all the time from women's lips.
Balance a straight linear form, that as you add or subtract things is prone to falling out of being in balance. Something that can cause more overwhelm in the hopes of being in this state.
Wholeness a circular form that encompasses all that is. Where we can feel filled, where we can feel messy, where we can exist in a more gentle place.
In this episode I speak about how to find wholeness in your life and how this can help shift your relationship with your mind, your body and your spirit to feel this whole state.
How we can rethink our current modern day lives to allow us to feel WHOLE.
So…How does aligning with the energy of the season have anything to do with hormones and life cycles?
IT HAS EVERYTHING TO DO WITH THEM!!!!
When we step more into the rhythm of nature, cycles of all sorts that we begin to step into alignment for our body, mind and spirit. It helps heal the hormones, deal the adrenal fatigue, heal the disconnection in a deep and meaningful way.
Sure taking pills and supplements seem like an easier option BUT it isn’t getting to the root of the WHY!
We can try and ignore all we want that we are cyclical beings, who are tiny specks of matter in this huge universe. We can ignore how much we are affected by the seasons, by the moon, by our own cycles. We can call it woo, woo or b.s.
In the end it is true and ignoring that and always living like its summer will cause the body, mind and spirit to REBEL and break down; hormones included.
This podcast will address what the Autumn season is about, how seasons and living more in alignment affect your hormones and life and how we can step into them.
As a bonus I give you a very tangible and real exercise that I do each and every season to ground myself and my focus to be more in alignment with the season!
Our lives are filled with Go..Go..Go and Do..Do..DO leaving many women feeling exhausted, depleted, overwhelmed, stressed, anxiety filled and hormonally out of whack! In this episode I address how Cyclical Living is one way out of the go, go, go and into the flow of life. A way of living that helps women feel more free, easefilled and whole.
Many break downs in communication and relationships occur during the puberty years. I come into contact with moms all the time who want to know how to have a better realtionship with their daughter than they do with their own mother. Mom’s who are scared that they will repeat the past. This episode addresses that and more.
How to Stay Connected with Your Daughter in Puberty! While allowing for the natural process of breaking away to occur. How to both let go and circle around at the same time?
JOIN ME AS I OFFER 14 TIPS/TRICKS AND IDEAS TO STAY CONNECTED DURING THIS PHASE OF LIFE!
Truth be told I am not the best with catchy headings and marketing sense. I had a hard time coming up with the title for this episode. A title that would actually say even a glimpse of what is inside. Not sure I did the best job AND I KNOW that this episode rocks!!! Tons of great tools, information and story time included.
In this Episode I break down the cultural stories on life cycle transitions of puberty, pregnancy, perimenopause and menopause AND I ask us to shift our narrative to see how this may shift our experience so that we can find the true meaning and potency of power and growth.
I draw upon the childhood story of Grasper the molting crab as it relates to our life cycle transitions where we molt. We feel vulnerable, uncomfortable, in a middle space of not being fully formed and new. When this occurs with the cultural narrative that is anything but supporting we can feel more disconnected and alone.
I am asking us to reimagine what these transitions are actually for and how they can ultimately make us wise old crabs….seriously you just have to listen to this one.
Disclaimer #1: I am NOT a big fan of 8 steps or ways to anything!
I find most of the articles boring and not very helpful; however, this fit this episode! I do indeed give 8 concrete ways to help your loved one through this time period. They may not seem like rocket science but the part that is so transformative is ACTUALLY INCORPORATING THEM INTO YOUR LIVES!!!!
Disclaimer #2: This episode isn’t just for loved ones of tweens/teens.
Ladies who went through puberty and still have some baggage this will help you too! Ladies who HATE their menstrual cycle…yep you got it, listen in!
One of the things I ask in this episode is that we reframe our thinking around this time period and honor the transition.
What the heck does that even mean? It's not that we make it seem that everything is roses and amazing, because it isn't always in puberty or any stage of life. I use the imagery of the crab when thinking about transition phases of life. Crabs go through periods where they molt; which involves cracking open and losing their shell. They are vulnerable during this time period. Predators can get them easier, they aren't protected AND it is also a time period of GROWTH. Before their shell hardens they grow bigger and stronger and become a new version of themselves. This is what is happening during puberty. Things are both vulnerable, tender and difficult and also growing and expanding. In transitions we become the next version of ourselves! To me the honoring is of ALL OF THAT.
Welcome to episode #1 of The Life Cycle Lady Podcast. This podcasts was born after years of listening to women turn their voices way down to a whisper to ask me questions about their bodies and what they were going through. Questions like - "Do you ever have an orgasm, Am I suppose to bleed for 10 days or do all perimenopuasal women turn into rage-filled crazy ladies". In my opinion these questions aren’t secretive, scary or weird and we need to start speaking out loud. I work with women of all ages and stages of life from puberty to menopause to help them feel hormonally health and embodied in their lives.