Pure Nurture Pregnancy and Birth: Recent Episodes
Kristy Rodriguez - Parents On Demand Network
New, expectant or aspiring mama? You’ve come to the right place. Learn from holistic health experts—and moms like you—about the importance and how-tos of self-care in a mind-body approach to pregnancy, birth and motherhood.
Dr. McCullough is the creator of the online program "GO WILD: How I Reverse Chronic & Autoimmune Disease," which teaches people how to reverse chronic and autoimmune diseases in a step-by-step manner.
Dr. McCullough is an expert in Nutrition, Disease Reversal, Functional Medicine, Exercise Physiology, and Energy Medicine, as well as a certified Natural Healer™, Master Herbalist, and Gluten Free Society Practitioner.
She is the author of two books: HANDS OFF MY FOOD and BEYOND LABELS, which was co-authored with Joel Salatin from Polyface Farm.
Dr. McCullough is also the co-host and co-producer of the Beyond Labels Podcast, alongside Joel Salatin.
In this conversation, you will hear about:
- Dr. McCullough's health crisis
- Hands Off My Food book by Dr. Sina McCullough
- Beyond Labels book by Dr. Sina McCullough & Joel Salatin
- Intuitive Cooking video series
- A message from God to help reverse autoimmune disease
- Dr. McCullough's #1 tip to reverse autoimmunity
- How to enhance the human biofield
- Teaching children the power of their words & emotions
- Play improves perception & joy
- You can heal your microbiome right away with this one thing
Connect with Dr. Sina McCullough:
- Website: drsinamccullough.com
- Healing Course: GO WILD: How I Reverse Chronic Autoimmune Diseases
- Podcast: Beyond Labels
Lisa Hendrickson-Jack is a certified Fertility Awareness Educator and Holistic Reproductive Health Practitioner who teaches women to chart their menstrual cycles for natural birth control, conception, and monitoring overall health. She is the author of three bestselling books The Fifth Vital Sign, the Fertility Awareness Mastery Charting Workbook, and her most recent book Real Food For Fertility, which she co-authored with Lily Nichols RDN. Lisa works tirelessly to debunk the myth that regular ovulation is only important when you want children by recognizing the menstrual cycle as a vital sign. Drawing heavily from the current scientific literature, Lisa presents an evidence-based approach to help women connect to their fifth vital sign by uncovering the connection between the menstrual cycle, fertility, and overall health. With well over 4 million downloads, her podcast, Fertility Friday, is the #1 source for information about fertility awareness and menstrual cycle health.
In this conversation, you will hear about:
- Real Food For Fertility book: realfoodforfertility.com
- "Unexplained infertility"
- Fertility awareness to optimize your chances to conceive
- Menstrual cycle = your 5th vital sign
- Sperm quality guidelines
- How to improve egg quality
- Omnivore vs. vegan or vegetarian diet for fertility
- The Fifth Vital Sign book: thefifthvitalsignbook.com
Connect with Lisa:
- Instagram: @FertilityFriday
- Podcast: Fertility Friday
- Facebook: @FertilityFridays
- LinkedIn: Lisa Hendrickson-Jack
- Website: fertilityfriday.com
Brett Larkin is the founder of Uplifted Yoga® and the author of Yoga Life: Habits, Poses, and Breathwork to Channel Joy Amidst the Chaos. Her Online Yoga Teacher Training have set the standard for quality online certification since 2015 and matriculated thousands of yoga teachers. Brett’s award-winning YouTube channel with over half a million subscribers and Uplifted Yoga Podcast empowers you to actively design your life using yoga’s ancient wisdom. Yoga enthusiasts love her courses on Kundalini Yoga, Prenatal Yoga, and the Uplifted Yoga® Academy. Learn more at BrettLarkin.com.
In this episode, you will hear about:
- Brett's rock bottom story
- Fitting yoga into your busy life
- Custom yoga practice for each trimester
- Find your soulmate postures
- Pregnant & Powerful Yoga Series
- Why do we get disconnected from our self-care rituals & how to get back to it
- Yoga Nidra for new Moms
- Yoga Habits (make it a game - how many times can I fit yoga into my life?)
- Prenatal Yoga Hub (it's free)
- Manage stress with breathwork
- Yoga Life book by Brett Larkin
Connect with Brett:
- Website: brettlarkin.com
- Instagram: @larkinyogatv
- Twitter: @larkinyogatv
- YouTube: @brettlarkinyoga
Bianca Sprague is a passionate educator and advocate in the doula community, focusing her expertise on supporting women and queer individuals in the fields of fertility, birth, and postpartum care. As a self-identified 'super lesbian' and a dedicated mother, Bianca brings a unique perspective to her work, emphasizing the importance of balancing professional doula responsibilities with personal life, especially for mothers. She is deeply committed to addressing issues like queer care, combating fatphobia in medicine, and exploring women's rage and its implications.
In this episode, you will hear about:
- Bianca's birth in an unsafe home
- Undiagnosed postpartum depression
- How doula care makes you a better parent
- Stop giving a hoot in your parenting
- Releasing anxiety vs. controlling life
- The role of a doula in your birth experience
- You want to feel strong and empowered with your birth team
- To be a doula or not? Take the quiz!
- How to Become a Doula? Free workshop!
- Learn about doula training at bebomia.com/Pure and save 15% off. Use discount code: PURE15
Connect with Bianca:
- Website: bebomia.com
- Facebook: @bebomiainc
- YouTube: @bebomia
- Twitter/X: @bebomiainc
- Instagram: @bebomiainc
- Pinterest: @bebomia
- TikTok: @bebomiainc
Susan Bratton, "Intimacy Expert to Millions " is a champion and advocate for all those who desire intimacy and passion their whole life long. She’s created hundreds of techniques that transform “having sex” into making love and is the world’s most well-respected sexual biohacker.
Susan is co-founder and CEO of two companies: Personal Life Media, Inc., a publisher of the Better Lover brand of heart-connected lovemaking techniques and bedroom communication skills and sexual regenerative therapies. And The20, LLC., a manufacturer of organic and botanical supplements that enhance sexual vitality. FLOW is a Nitric Oxide booster for better blood flow. The DESIRE multivitamin multi-mineral supplements have high quality methylated B vitamins and libido botanicals built in.
In this episode, you will hear about:
- Fear and shame around talking about sex
- Libido, desire ladder, and arousal
- Vulva, labia, clitoris, vagina
- Pornography
- Sex after birth
- Yoni massage
- Penis
- Ask your partner for what you need
- Yoni massage videos
- Vaginal orgasms become easier with yoni massage
- G-spot orgasms & female ejaculation
- Awakening Arousal Oil
- Intimacy Melts
- Pleasure Protocol
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Connect with Susan:
- Website: betterlover.com
- Instagram: @susanbratton
- Website: susanbratton.com
- Website: gainswave.com
- Website: femiwave.com
Katherine, actress turned accountant, has capitalized on her artistic background to create Money Storytelling - a mindset and accounting tool that helps business owners find creative fulfillment and sustainable wealth. She firmly believes that every creative idea has the ability to change the world if given the right financial support and opportunity. She leads a virtual accounting firm at The Bookkeeping Artist (BKA) and her expertise has been featured by VICE Media, Discover Card, The Penny Hoarder, and the Stacking Benjamins Podcast. She loves yoga, walking dogs, and throwing rad birthday parties.
In this episode, you will hear about:
- Katherine's journey from actress to accountant
- Money Storytelling Method
- How can I afford it?
- Making wise buying decisions
- Baby savings fund
- Sinking fund
- Tackling Money Issues as a Team: A Mini-Course for Couples
Connect with Katherine:
- Website: katherinepomerantz.com
- LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/katherinepomerantz
Aimee Raupp, MS, LAc, is a renowned women’s health & fertility detective, celebrity acupuncturist & coach, and the best-selling author of the books Chill Out & Get Healthy (2009), Yes, You Can Get Pregnant (2014), Body Belief (2018), and The Egg Quality Diet: A clinically proven 100-day fertility diet to balance hormones, reduce inflammation, improve egg quality & optimize your ability to get & stay pregnant (June 2021). As a fertility detective with two decades of experience, Aimee works virtually with clients all over the world.
As well, she is a licensed acupuncturist and herbalist in private practice in New York and Connecticut for the past two decades, seeing thousands of clients in the clinic. Aimee holds a Master of Science degree in Traditional Oriental Medicine from the Pacific College of Oriental Medicine (2004) and a Bachelor’s degree in biology from Rutgers University (1998) plus Masters level education in neuroscience, biochemistry and both western & eastern nutritional science. Aimee has completed graduate level work in Chinese medicine and herbology with Sharon Weizenbaum as a repeat student of her Graduate Mentorship Program. As well, she has been a speaker at Pacific Symposium on the topic of women's health & fertility multiple times.
She is also the founder of the Aimee Raupp Beauty line of hand-crafted, organic skincare products that are optimized for hormone harmony. Over the years Aimee has grown and mentored her team of fertility coaches and acupuncturists to serve more women on their path to motherhood. She has appeared on The View, and has been featured in Glamour, Allure, Well + Good, Mind Body Green, GOOP, Shape, and many podcasts including Wellness Mama, The Melissa Ambrosini Show, The Dr. Axe Show, and Tune into Wellness with Dr. Frank Lipman. Aimee has received endorsements from Deepak Chopra, Hannah Bronfman, Arianna Huffington, and Gabrielle Bernstein for her work in helping thousands of women to improve their fertility, celebrate their beauty, and reconnect to the presence of their optimal health. Aimee is also on the Scientific Advisory Board for THE WELL in NYC, and is a frequent speaker at women’s health & wellness conferences across the nation. She engages her large community worldwide through her social media presence, online programs, and her website, www.aimeeraupp.com
In this episode, you will hear about:
- Aimee's path to becoming a fertility detective
- Acupuncture for fertility
- Why soulful nourishment matters for optimal health & fertility
- Women's Bodies, Women's Wisdom book by Dr. Christiane Northrup
- Why menstruation is a luxury
- Trusting the timing in your life
- Body Belief book by Aimee Raupp
- Speak kindly to your body
- Emotional inflammation
- The Egg Quality Diet book by Aimee Raupp
- Yes, You Can Get Pregnant book by Aimee Raupp
- Chill Out & Get Healthy book by Aimee Raupp
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Founder of Luminous Birth, Pre- and Perinatal Psychology and Health Educator, Holistic Fertility Practitioner, Birth Memory & Re-Imprinting Facilitator, Reiki Master for Fertility, Pregnancy, Birth & Postpartum, Traditional Birth Witness, Pre-Conception Guide, Ceremonialist, Contemporary Vegetalista, Speaker.
In this episode, you will hear about:
- Victoria's near-death experience & her passion for birth
- Enhancing fertility on all levels
- Memories are stored in our bodies
- Family constellation therapy
- Healing children with traumatic birth experiences
- Remembering our own birth stories illuminates fertility
- Association of Pre- and Perinatal Psychology and Health (APPA)
- Sacred Birthing: Birthing a New Humanity by Sunni Karl
- More books Victoria recommends on the bottom of her Resources page
- It's Never Too Late by Mia Kalef
- The Secret Life of Babies by Mia Kalef
- Free online gathering every Sunday with Victoria Rose
- Shop items mentioned in this episode
Connect with Victoria:
- Website: luminousbirth.earth
- Instagram: @luminousbirth
- Facebook: @birthingluminousbeings
- Signature offerings: - Transcribing Living Memory - Transform Into Birth - Luminescence Fertility and Pre-Procreation Program
- Luminescence is delivered online and taught LIVE by pioneers in various fields, including pre- and perinatal psychology, epigenetics, homeopathy, the ancient mysteries of fertility, love and relationships, functional and naturopathic medicine, autobiographical consciousness, medical herbalism, sacred birth, and more. Many of our esteemed facilitators carry over half a century of experience and tens of thousands of hours in their respective fields. They’ve dedicated their entire lives to welcoming consciousness and supporting parents from preconception onwards. They’re true luminaries who have pioneered and continue to pioneer, a new frontier of human and societal health. This program focuses on optimizing trimester zero, recognizing its profound impact on all subsequent trimesters (1,2,3 and 4). What makes Luminescence unlike any other pre- conception program that exists are the 4 foundational dimensions of awareness that Luminescence profoundly embodies: 1) We include the consciousness of the incoming soul(s) as participants in the unfolding journey and the #1 experts in conception, pregnancy, and birth. 2) We acknowledge and honor how the quality of the parental relationship is the bedrock and the ultimate sanctuary from where family life gets born and thrives (or not) lifelong. 3) We guide our participants towards healing their own birth, pre-birth, conception, and pre-conception imprints in preparation to conceive and give birth to re-script a new story for their future lineages. 4) We dedicate a whole section to the men’s role in birth and family creation. Luminescence is designed to support those consciously choosing the path of parenthood, now or in the future, to create a pristine home in their bodies, relationships, and lives, as well as those struggling to conceive or facing fertility challenges. It’s likewise, for therapists, holistic practitioners, and health providers.
Stephanie Rosenfield is a former speech pathologist turned life coach for overwhelmed moms who helps her clients navigate the internal and external chaos that often creeps up during motherhood without losing their -ish. Using first-hand experience, training as a certified life coach, and an honest, judgment-free approach, Stephanie helps moms shift their habits and mindset to become the calm AF mom they’ve always hoped they could be.
In this episode, you'll hear about:
- How Stephanie became a Mom Coach
- Staying in control during stressful moments
- 3 buckets of emotional management
- Outsourcing our decisions
- 4 nervous system regulation tools
Connect with Stephanie:
- Website: stephaniercoaching.com/consult
- Podcast: The 5-Minute Shift for Moms
- Instagram: @stephanie.rosenfield
Sober mom advocate Celeste Yvonne is a writer and certified recovery coach (IAPRC) with over 20 years of experience as a communications professional in corporate America. Her essays on parenting, the mental load of motherhood, mommy wine culture, and sobriety resonates with mothers everywhere and has been featured in the Washington Post, Good Morning America, Today Show, and Refinery 29, among others. Over five years sober and a founding host of the Sober Mom Squad, Celeste advocates for mothers who struggle with addiction and mental health.
In this episode, you will hear about:
- Celeste's relationship to alcohol
- Justifying Mommy wine culture
- How Celeste quit drinking in secret
- Internal dialogue before social events, "do I drink? Do I not drink?"
- Resources for information and community
- Sober Mom Squad
- Top 25 Sober Communities other than AA
- Quite Like a Woman by Holly Whitaker
- This Naked Mind by Annie Grace
- We Are the Luckiest by Laura McKowen
- Sober Powered Podcast with Gillian Tietz (15-20-min episodes)
- Better coping methods for new Moms
- It's Not About the Wine by Celeste Yvonne
Connect with Celeste:
- Website: celesteyvonne.com
- Instagram: @theultimatemomchallenge
- Sober support on Substack: celesteyvonne.substack.com
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Do you need a pediatrician? Dr. Lenz can care for your newborn through college to help navigate the challenges and joys of raising children.
Are you an adult in need of a doctor? Dr. Lenz also can care for you and your children, often in back-to-back visits, allowing significant time-saving.
Do you or your child need help with fibromyalgia or other invisible illnesses like migraines, irritable bowel syndrome, chronic fatigue syndrome, and other conditions often coexisting, like ADHD and Restless Leg Syndrome? He is an author, podcast host, producer, and blogger for Conquering Your Fibromyalgia.
Are you interested in a holistic doctor using an evidence-based lifestyle medicine approach to preventing and treating chronic illnesses like diabetes, heart disease, and high blood pressure? Are you struggling to lose and maintain weight?
Do you want the expertise of a lipid specialist who has training in the understanding of complex cholesterol problems leading to heart disease and the expertise in the use of advanced diagnostic tools to detect this silent killer and then offer comprehensive treatment options with the goal of preventing heart attacks, strokes, and bypass surgery?
Michael helps care for those living with these diseases along with caring for common conditions affecting children and adults. Dr. Lenz is an internist, pediatrician, lifestyle medicine physician, and clinical lipidologist.
In this episode, you will hear about:
- Dr. Michael Lenz's work in medical management & lifestyle medicine
- Conquering Your Fibromyalgia book by Dr. Lenz
- Why fibromyalgia is misunderstood
- Widespread Pain Index (WPI)
- Symptoms Severity Scale
- What causes fibromyalgia?
- First signs of fibromyalgia in infants
- Narrative medicine
- Testing (Revised Fibromyalgia Score)
- Top lifestyle medicine solutions
Connect with Dr. Lenz:
- Website: conqueringyourfibromyalgia.com
- Podcast: Conquering Your Fibromyalgia
- Book: Conquering Your Fibromyalgia by Dr. Lenz
- Email: doctormichaellenz@gmail.com - Ask Dr. Lenz a question and it just may be answered on his podcast!
Dr. Andrea Niles is a clinical psychologist and founder of Prospera Mental Health and Wellness. She has studied anxiety and depression treatments and maternal mental health for 17 years and is passionate about making high-quality mental health care widely accessible and affordable to everyone. Prospera is a mental health platform designed specifically for moms. Prospera provides weekly 1-on-1 sessions with perinatal certified mental health coaches and a library of digital tools specifically designed to support moms' mental health.
In this episode, you will hear about:
- Timeframe for postpartum depression & anxiety
- Managing postpartum depression & anxiety
- The gift of hiring a postpartum doula
- Cognitive behavioral therapy
- Setting up a support team
- Asking for help without guilt
- 2 ways to prevent postpartum depression & anxiety
- Rage & birth trauma
Connect with Dr. Andrea:
- Website: prosperamhw.com
- Instagram: @drandreaniles & @prosperamhw
Emily Greene, known professionally as Emily the Medium, is a highly acclaimed psychic medium, who specializes in supporting families to connect to the energies of their children, or their ‘spirit babies’, at all phases of their journey: whether they’re struggling with fertility challenges, in the preconception phase, or while they’re pregnant. In addition, Emily also supports families in raising their sensitive children and helping them to acclimate to Earth, as well as helping individuals understand and master their innate intuitive abilities.
In this episode, you will hear about:
- How Emily was drawn to mediumship
- When a soul comes into the body
- Are past lives real?
- At what age kids can recall their own past lives
- How to consciously connect with your spirit baby
- Fertility challenges
- Emily's book: A Cosmic Bond
Connect with Emily:
- Website: emilythemedium.com + emilytheauthor.com
- Instagram: @emilythemedium
- Meditations: Spirit Baby Meditation & Pre-Incarnation Planning
Rachel Yellin has been an alternative therapist, coach, and birth expert for over 20 years. She has two companies... YestoBirth.com and TheFeelGoodLifeNow.com. She's helped thousands of people have confident, prepared, and relaxed birth experiences in addition to taking people through a process to rewire their nervous system, heal trauma, and retrain their pleasure centers. She's funny, down-to-earth, fiercely compassionate, and super grounded with an appropriate sprinkle of woo-woo.
In this episode, you will hear about:
- Yes to Birth! program
- Showing up confident to birth
- How to regulate the nervous system
- Embodiment practices
- Relaxing into the surges
- Preparing for birth
- Free Audio: Relaxing into Pregnancy Audio & 10 Techniques for More Wow & Less Ow
- Rewiring the pleasure circuits & healing trauma with thefeelgoodlifenow.com
Connect with Rachel:
- Website: yestobirth.com
- Free Audio: Relaxing into Pregnancy Audio & 10 Techniques for More Wow & Less Ow
- Coupon: Save 15% on the birth class package or relaxation audio program - use discount code: PURE
- More resources: thefeelgoodlifenow.com
Jodie Meschuk is a warrior, author, activist, coach, and companion. She partners with parents to demand more, be it from their doctor, the school district, or local government. Autism-turnaround expert, Master Herbalist, Aromatherapist and Quantum Medicine specialist, Jodie leads her membership group of Warriors to advocate for children and link arms to effect change. She has published two books and a new one on the way to help you reclaim your motherhood.
She has created a line of provocative merchandise, and will never wear a mask. You can find her on a mountain hike, teaching an online class on alternative medicine, baking with her kids, or traveling to speaking engagements. She is a freedom-fighter and a change-maker, and has an army of parents right behind her.
In this episode, you will hear about:
- Why Jodie helps women reclaim motherhood
- Reclaim Motherhood book by Jodie
- Autism Reimagined book by Jodie
- Infertility epidemic
- Joe Dispenza's retreats for rapid healing
- Tips for pre-conception
- Where did you lose your voice and how do you reclaim it?
- How to stop being controlled
Connect with Jodie:
- Website: tribe.thewarriorcenter.com
- Instagram: @thewarriorcenter
- Facebook: @jodiemeschuk
- Membership: The Warrior Center
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Sara Chana is a Master herbalist and classical homeopath. She does TV shows across the US teaching people how to safely integrate botanical medicine into their lives. Her book MOODTOPIA has been #1 on Amazon. She also guest lectures at medical schools and is a mom of 5 boys and 2 girls!
In this episode, you will hear about:
- Who is Sara, mother of 7?
- The easiest and least expensive herb for birth
- Her book, MOODTOPIA about using herbs for emotional health
- Tea infuser bottle
- Great herbs for postpartum depression & nervousness
- Why homeopathy is misunderstood
- Future of medicine
- Helpful herbs for breastfeeding
- The science of faking a smile & laughter
- The edible herb
- Free handouts from Sara
- Herb brand's Sara recommends:
- Herb Pharm
- Herbalist & Alchemist
- Birch Boys
- Wish Garden Herbs for tinctures
- Frontier Herbs for bulk herbs
- Mountain Rose Herbs for herbs, teas, & more
- Amazon store for this episode
- Thank you to Toups & Co, our sponsor! Save 10% off Toups & Co., a clean skincare & makeup brand I love. Use discount code PURE10 to save 10% off!
Connect with Sara Chana:
- Website: sarachana.com
- Instagram: @sarachanas
- Facebook: @moodtopiaacademy
Herbal products discount codes:
- 20% off on Birch Boys Medicinal Mushrooms. Use code: SARA20
- 10% off (minimum of $65) on essential oils at Aytz Chayim with code: Scs10
- 15% off at Herbalist and Alchemist when you use this code: sarachanawelcome15
- 20% off at Oshala Farm with code: Mood20
Discounted Moodtopia Academy Membership: $10 off the first month
Sandy is a holistic occupational therapist and intuitive energy healer with over 26 years of experience. As a pediatric OT, she specializes in sensory processing and creating sensory smart environments in the home and in the classroom. After noticing for many years that there was something missing in the OT work she was doing, she organically began incorporating different forms of energy work into her practice. Several years ago, she took her lifelong study in the spiritual and energetic to a new level to become a Reiki Master and Advanced Crystal Master. This felt like coming home, and only deepened her commitment to bringing these perspectives and tools into her everyday practice both personally and professionally. She has since expanded her practice to now working with women who are seeking transformational shifts for themselves.
In this episode, you will hear about:
- Sandy's role as a holistic occupational therapist and intuitive energy healer
- Hearthmath Institute
- The Celestine Prophecy book
- Our electromagnetic field
- Setting boundaries
- Protecting Mom's energy & the family's too
- How a teacher's energy can command the whole classroom
- Sensory processing
- A New Earth book
- Self-regulation practices that work
- How the energy of a mother impacts the baby
- More self-regulation tools
- Amazon store
Connect with Sandy:
- Email: sandra@sandrabigelow.com
Thank you to our sponsor!
- Save 10% off Toups & Co., a clean skincare & makeup brand I love (and I’ve tried them all). Use discount code PURE10 to save 10% off!
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Arielle is a doctor of physical therapy, yoga teacher, and certified pre and postnatal coach turned postpartum wellness coach after having her 2 children. Arielle supports new moms through their postpartum journey so they can have more energy, and feel strong and confident.
In this episode, you will hear about:
- Arielle's path to wellness
- How unhealthy bounce-back culture IS
- Arielle's biggest postpartum challenges
- Pelvic floor therapy
- Am I doing enough?
- Planning postpartum support (physical, mental, emotional, spiritual)
- Five-Minute Journal
- Breathwork
Connect with Arielle:
- Website: findyourwaymama.com
- Instagram: @ariellemartone
- Free Course: Exhausted to Energized without Sleep Training
- Free eGuide: Take Care Down There: Pelvic Recovery 101
Full disclosure: I may earn a small commission from items recommended in my Amazon store. It costs you nothing extra!
In this episode, you will hear about:
- Dr. Warsh's passion for natural medicine
- Dr. Gator's Courses
- Integrative vs. conventional pediatrician
- Optimizing the pre-conception phase
- Top 3 habits for improving your health
- EWG Cord Blood Study
- EWG Skin Deep Databse
- WIFI Router Cover
- The rise of children's auto-immune diseases
- Book: Holistic Pediatrics
- Book: Cribsheet
Connect with Dr. Warsh:
- Website: raisingamazingplus.com
- Instagram: @drjoelgator
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Tiffany is a Certified Functional Diagnostic Nutrition Practitioner, Board Certified Holistic Health Practitioner, and Yoga Teacher. She is an experienced executive leader and transformational coach who has a passion for helping others thrive by guiding them to shift their mindset, take action toward goals, and embrace self-care. An explorer at heart, with a never-ending curiosity for learning new things, she is constantly expanding her education and has received additional training in Nutrigenomics (DNA Testing), Hair Tissue Mineral Analysis (HTMA), Bioenergetics, Hypnotherapy (Board Certified), Quantum Biology and Biophysics. In this episode, you will learn about: * How yoga slowed down Tiffany's go, go, go lifestyle * Healing autoimmune disease naturally * Best practices for more energy * LMNT electrolytes * Earth Runner Sandals for grounding * Structured Water with Veda Austin water * STOP these detrimental habits * Shortcuts to manage blue light * What's up with technology and baby's developing brains * Gelatin for Gummies
Connect with Tiffany: * Website * Facebook * Instagram * LinkedIn * Are you ready to manage your stress, reduce pain and increase your success inside? Book a free Beat Pain & Be At Your Best call with Tiffany. * For working moms - 5 must-dos for busy professionals who want to bring their A-game every day and stop feeling run-down. Download "From Fatigued to Fired Up!" and take the next steps towards living a healthier life.
Welcome to the Pure Nurture Book Club! Grab a cup of tea and soak up chapter 4 entitled, Yoga and Movement from my book, Pure Nurture—A Holistic Guide to a Healthy Baby. (It's only 31 minutes.)
I wrote this book to pass on self-care tips I wish my friends would've shared with me while I was pregnant because the development of our babies is closely related to how we take care of ourselves.
I hope it inspires you to find new ways to feel your best because self-care is NOT a luxury. It's vital.
Each chapter of my book will relate to another book or guest I've had on the podcast so you can dive deeper on whatever intrigues you. As always, take in what feels right for you and forget the rest!
In this episode, you will hear about:
- Benefits of prenatal yoga
- Slowing down
- Breathwork
- Breath Awareness for Pranayama
- 3-Part Breath
- Alternate Nostril Breathing
- Yoga poses
- Mountain Pose (see page 44 of my book)
- Cat Cow
- Toddler's Pose
- Hip Circles
- Warrior 2
- Tree Pose
- Shavasana
- Resources for Prenatal Yoga at the end of my book
- Pure Nurture: A Holistic Guide to a Healthy Baby book by me
- Thank you to our sponsor! Save 10% off Toups & Co., a clean skincare & makeup brand I love (and I’ve tried them all). Use discount code PURE10 to save 10% off!
I'm curious. What motherhood books do you recommend? DM me on Instagram — I'd LOVE to hear from you!
Next week, a brand NEW season of The Pure Nurture Podcast goes LIVE — and — it's a whole new vibe! Bye for now.
Welcome to the Pure Nurture Book Club! Grab a cup of tea and soak up chapter 3 entitled, Mindfulness and Meditation from my book, Pure Nurture—A Holistic Guide to a Healthy Baby. (It's only 25 minutes.)
I wrote this book to pass on self-care tips I wish my friends would've shared with me while I was pregnant because the development of our babies is closely related to how we take care of ourselves.
I hope it inspires you to find new ways to feel your best because self-care is NOT a luxury. It's vital.
Each chapter of my book will relate to another book or guest I've had on the podcast so you can dive deeper on whatever intrigues you. As always, take in what feels right for you and forget the rest!
In this episode, you will hear about:
- Mindful eating
- When You Eat at the Refrigerator, Pull Up a Chair: 50 Ways to Feel Thin, Gorgeous, and Happy (When You Feel Anything But) book by Geneen Roth
- The Chocolate Meditation inspired by Psychology Today
- Primary food
- Wheel of Life Activity
- Attitude of gratitude
- Positive affirmations for you & your baby
- Louise Hay's affirmations
- Guided meditation with Kristy
- Meditation resources (see page 94 of my book)
- Birth Without Fear: The Judgment-Free Guide to Taking Charge of Your Pregnancy, Birth, and Postpartum book by January Harshe
- Episode 032: Birth Without Fear with January Harshe
- Pure Nurture—A Holistic Guide to a Healthy Baby book by Kristy Rodriguez
I'm curious. What motherhood books do you recommend? DM me on Instagram — I'd LOVE to hear from you!
Next week, we'll dive into chapter 4 of my book - Yoga and Movement. Bye for now.
Welcome to the Pure Nurture Book Club! Grab a cup of tea and soak up chapter 2 entitled, Nutrition and Nourishment from my book, Pure Nurture—A Holistic Guide to a Healthy Baby. (It's only 18 minutes.)
I wrote this book to pass on self-care tips I wish my friends would've shared with me while I was pregnant because the development of our babies is closely related to how we take care of ourselves.
I hope it inspires you to find new ways to feel your best because self-care is NOT a luxury. It's vital.
Each chapter of my book will relate to another book or guest I've had on the podcast so you can dive deeper into whatever intrigues you. As always, take in what feels right for you and forget the rest!
In this episode, you will hear:
- Primary foods
- Nutrient density
- EWG's Dirty Dozen List of Foods that are Best to Buy Organic
- EWG's Clean 15 List of Foods that are Okay to Buy Conventional
- Kristy's journey with low-fat foods to binge eating sweets
- Kristy's struggle with nausea during both pregnancies
- A list of foods that are easy to keep down (see pages 12 + 13 of my book)
- Snacks & healthy recipes by Elise Museeles from my book
- Kale & Chocolate
- Real Food for Pregnancy: The Science & Wisdom of Optimal Prenatal Nutrition book by Lily Nichols
- Episode 049: Real Food for Pregnancy with Lily Nichols
- Thank you to our sponsor! Save 10% off Toups & Co., a clean skincare & makeup brand I love (and I’ve tried them all). Use discount code PURE10 to save 10%!
I'm curious. What motherhood books do you recommend? DM me on Instagram — I'd LOVE to hear from you!
Next week, we'll dive into chapter 3 of my book - Mindfulness and Meditation. Bye for now.
Welcome to the Pure Nurture Book Club! Grab a cup of tea and soak up chapter 1 entitled, Why Self-Care is Important from my book, Pure Nurture—A Holistic Guide to a Healthy Baby. (It's only 13 minutes.)
I wrote this book to pass on self-care tips I wish my friends would've shared with me while I was pregnant because the development of our babies is closely related to how we take care of ourselves.
I hope you find new ways to feel your best because self-care is NOT a luxury. It's vital.
Each chapter of my book will relate to another book or guest I've had on the podcast so you can dive deeper on whatever intrigues you. As always, take in what feels right for you and forget the rest!
In this episode, you will hear:
- Magical Beginnings, Enchanted Lives: A Holistic Guide to Pregnancy and Childbirth book by Deepak Chopra
- You don't need to apologize for saying no
- The Natural Pregnancy: Your Complete Guide to a Safe, Organic Pregnancy and Childbirth with Herbs, Nutrition, and Other Holistic Choices book by Dr. Aviva Romm
- Episode 076: C*\/id-19, Pregnancy, Birth, and Breastfeeding with Dr. Aviva Romm
I'm curious. What motherhood books do you recommend? DM me on Instagram — I'd LOVE to hear from you!
Next week, we'll dive into chapter 2 of my book - Nutrition and Nourishment. Bye for now.
Welcome to the Pure Nurture Book Club! Grab a cup of tea and soak up the introduction of my book, Pure Nurture—A Holistic Guide to a Healthy Baby. (It's less than 13 minutes.)
I wrote this book to pass on self-care tips I wish my friends would've shared with me while I was pregnant because our well-being is connected to the development of our babies.
I hope you find new ways to feel your best because self-care is NOT a luxury. It's vital.
Each chapter of my book will relate to another book or guest I've had on the podcast so you can dive deeper on whatever intrigues you. As always, take in what feels right for you and forget the rest!
In this episode, you will hear:
- The introduction to my book, Pure Nurture—A Holistic Guide to a Healthy Baby
- Do more of what brings you JOY!
- Self-Care Support Sheet
- Be Fruitful: The Essential Guide to Maximizing Fertility and Giving Birth to a Healthy Child book by Dr. Victoria Maizes
- Thank you to our sponsor! Save 10% off Toups & Co., a clean skincare & makeup brand I love (and I’ve tried them all). Use discount code PURE10 to save 10% off!
Michele Santo is an inspired energy healer and writer. Behind the scenes, Michele has actually helped me birth the podcast and keep it going for the past five years. It's fun to have her on the other side of the podcast! She helps women create more fulfilling relationships by asking for what they want without hurting a soul. Michele's unique method of emotional freedom technique can break patterns of anxiety, people-pleasing, and low self-worth so you can find peace.
In this episode, you will hear about:
- How Michele owned her power with emotional freedom technique (EFT)
- Kristy's introduction to EFT
- The Tapping Solution App
- What is EFT and how does it work?
- How 10-minutes of tapping helped Kristy get over a panic attack
- Tapping for anxiety video
- How EFT can make trying to conceive easier
- Subtle tapping on the hand points
- Where the tapping points are on the body
- How often you should tap
- Children's books on tapping:
- Gorilla Thumps and Bear Hugs by Alex Ortner
- The Big Book of Hugs: A Barkley the Bear Story by Nick Ortner & Alison Taylor
- My Magic Breath: Finding Calm Through Mindful Breathing by Nick Ortner
- The Tapping Solution for Parents, Children, and Teenagers by Nick Ortner
- The Tapping Solution for Teenage Girls by Christine Wheeler
- The power of feeling your feelings
Connect with Michele:
- Complimentary Tapping Video: >>> You Can Feel Calm While Trying to Conceive <<<
- Blog: michelesanto.com/blog
- YouTube: youtube.com/@xomichelesanto
- Instagram: @xomichelesanto
- Facebook: @xomichelesanto
With an extensive medical background in Laboratory Science, Fertility, and Blood Banking, Jennie is well equipped to understand your illness and symptoms. Utilizing the system of Homeopathic Medicine allows Jennie to help clients find a deeper and longer lasting healing than is often possible with conventional medicine, because Homeopathy is able to address the root cause of illness and stimulate a healing response in the individual.
Jennie is a graduate of the 4-year Classical Homeopathy training program at Northwestern Academy of Homeopathy in Minneapolis, MN, and serves as clinic supervisor at NAH for many years. She is also an Integrative Provider with Pregnancy and Postpartum Support MN, and has a special interest in clients with postpartum mood disorders. Additionally, Jennie holds the CCH credential (Certified Classical Homeopath) through the Council for Homeopathic Certification, a national organization.
Jennie is pleased to offer services to individuals and families suffering from acute or chronic ailments. To Jennie, there is nothing as rewarding as seeing a client find freedom and happiness through homeopathy. It really works!
On this episode, learn more about:
- What is homeopathy?
- How does it work?
- Who can it help?
- Business coaching
- Law of attraction and healing
Connect with Jennie:
- Website: hoglundhomeopathy.com
- Instagram: @enlightened.homeopath
- Facebook: @jhoglundhomeopathy
Kelly Brogan, M.D., is a holistic health psychiatrist, author of the New York Times bestselling book, A Mind of Your Own, Own Your Self, the children’s book, A Time for Rain, and co-editor of the landmark textbook, Integrative Therapies for Depression. She completed her psychiatric training and fellowship at NYU Medical Center after graduating from Cornell University Medical College and has a B.S. from M.I.T. in Systems Neuroscience. She is board-certified in psychiatry, psychosomatic medicine, and integrative holistic medicine and is specialized in a root-cause resolution approach to psychiatric syndromes and symptoms. She is a certified KRI Kundalini Yoga teacher and a mother of two.
In this episode, you'll hear about:
- How Kelly started her career
- Depression isn't caused by a chemical imbalance in the brain
- Psychiatric medication — is there another way?
- Evolution of motherhood
- Chronic illness & modern-day diseases
- Symptoms are a gift
- Your body is a compass
- Kelly's notorious blog: Homebirth: The Opportunity of a Lifetime
- Emotional alchemy during birth
- Own Yourself book by Kelly Brogan
- Step into your own power
Begin your journey home to yourself at KellyBroganMD.com. Get to know Kelly more on Instagram, YouTube. Facebook, and Twitter.\
Dr. Jen Forristal, BSc ND, is a Naturopathic Doctor with a primary focus in pediatric mental health and the founder and CEO of The Umbrella Project, a positive coping curriculum used internationally by thousands of parents, students, and educators. She has worked extensively with schools, researchers, and organizations in protecting the long-term health and performance of children facing unique challenges.
Her work has been published in the Canadian Journal of School Psychology, and she was awarded the Health Promotion Canada Award for her contribution to child mental health. Dr. Jen lives in Ontario, Canada, with her husband, two teens, a toddler, and a sweet dog named Mango.
In this episode, learn about:
- Early emotional intelligence development
- A baby's experience in utero
- How to refocus on NOW
- Self-leadership
- Be the person you want your child to be
- Umbrella Project
- Coping skills assessment
- The Umbrella Effect book
- Check out Toups & Co., a clean skincare & makeup brand I love (and I’ve tried them all). Use discount code PURE10 to save 10% off!
Connect with Jennifer:
- Website: umbrellaproject.co
- Instagram: @umbrellapjct
Greer Kirshenbaum, PhD, is a neuroscientist, doula, and educator who empowers nurtured parenting, and disrupts modern parenting practices to begin new cycles of intergenerational wellness. She is on a mission to revolutionize the future of health and it all begins at the beginning of life.
Greer spent many years studying the brain in a lab and many years using her knowledge while supporting families as a doula. She wants families and perinatal practitioners to understand how caregivers can boost success, thrive and flourish, and diminish depression, anxiety, and addiction in adulthood by shaping babies’ brains through simple intuitive enriching experiences in pregnancy, birth, and infancy.
In this episode, you will hear about:
- The Nurture Revolution book
- Greer's journey to becoming a neuroscientist, doula, and educator
- Let the baby cry vs. nurturing the baby
- Stop trying to be a fixer
- How to support our own nervous system
- Check out Toups & Co., a clean skincare & makeup brand I love (and I’ve tried them all). Use discount code PURE10 to save 10%!
- HPA Axis
- How to co-regulate our babies
- Sontakey Oath Bracelets
- How to speak kindly to your children
- Making a repair with our kids (even if it's years later)
Connect with Greer:
- Website: nurture-neuroscience.com
- Instagram: @nurture_neuroscience_parenting
Gigi Vincent is a postpartum doula and host of the Ready for Baby podcast; she is committed to shifting the disparity between the amount of focus most families place on birth versus preparing for the fourth trimester. A strong advocate of preparing for postpartum by investing in maternal support instead of fancy baby equipment, Gigi empowers families to focus on resting and bonding instead of researching or stressing. Knowing there isn’t one right way to have and raise a tiny human, Gigi works with parents as they find their way to thrive in the fourth trimester and beyond.
- what is a postpartum doula, and what do they do - using your baby registry to set yourself up for success (choosing services and /or minimalism) - using herbs and oil for warmth in the fourth trimester Gigi Vera Vincent
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Your baby's birth day is right around the corner and you want to be prepared. There are so many birth education methods out there. How do you know which one will be the best fit for you? I've taken the uncertainty and guesswork out of it all and created a quick and easy guide leading you through a high-level overview of the 5 most popular courses out there (including a few other ones that are gaining popularity). You'll find helpful resources at the end of each section to point you in the right direction so that you can dive deeper into any specific method.
Wishing you a confidently calm birthing day!
Learn more about the childbirth education method/courses highlighted in this episode:
- Learn more at the official Bradley Method website
- Learn more at the Hypnobabies website
- Learn more at the HypnoBirthing website
- Learn more at the Lamaze website
Grab your Free PDF listing ten popular childbirth classes/courses here if you'd like to find more class/course options.
Or
Take the 2-minute childbirth personality quiz to find out which one of the five courses covered in today's episode might be right for you.
Over nine years ago, Jodi and her family started the adventure of homeschooling. Towards the beginning, she wrestled with various methods and philosophies, curriculums, and checklists to find the correct fit for her family. She was in search of a method that embodied the beautiful use of art and natural materials in Waldorf education yet encompassed the pedagogy of Charlotte Mason, all while being simple enough to educate five children efficiently.
Since she was unsuccessful in finding such a method or curriculum, she had no choice but to develop her own techniques that would meet the spiritual, educational, emotional, and physical needs of her children all while fitting into their family rhythm. Since implementing those techniques has been such a rewarding experience for all of them, she's decided to share them with you!
Join our conversation to learn more about Jodi and all that she's created!
In this episode, you will hear about:
- Learning each child's personality and individual needs
- How Jodi takes care of herself (even through grieving the loss her father)
- Creating an aesthetically pleasing home for children who have sensory issues
- Incorporating faith and spirituality in your life
- The Whole & Healthy Family book
- Homeschooling resources for sale
- The seasons of social media
Connect with Jodi:
- Website: jodimockabee.com
- Instagram: @jodimockabee
Ana G. Herrera suffered from stage IV endometriosis for years and went through excruciating PMS pain, infertility and five surgeries, the last one ending in a full hysterectomy and a colon resection, which led to surgical menopause.
Ana’s painful experience inspired her to help others struggling with hormonal imbalances avoid suffering in silence as she did. Knowing there’s a lot to be done and learned in order to make the right health choices, she started Hormone University to educate, support, and empower women to achieve better hormone health and lead a happy life.
In this episode, you’ll hear about:
- Ana's struggle with endometriosis, fibroids, PMS, intense pain, and surgical menopause
- Common symptoms of endometriosis
- An inflammatory diet & hormonal interventions have consequences
- Increase sexual appetite by using PMS Transdermal Relief Cream
- Improve stress and sleep with Magnesium Lotion
- Symptoms of hormonal imbalance
- Check your hormonal symptoms (at no cost!)
- Hormone directory
- How to avoid endocrine disrupters
- The fate of natural conception
- Save 15% on Ana's Glow Botanica products - use discount code at checkout: PURE15
Connect with Ana:
- Website: hormoneuniversity.com
- Instagram: @hormoneuniversity
- LinkedIn: @hormone-university
Paige Cornetet is the bestselling author of the Spend-Then series, a collection of children’s books teaching financial literacy by simplifying traditionally complicated concepts. A forward-thinking entrepreneur, Paige founded Millennial Guru at the age of twenty-six to provide companies like Kroger and Capital One with business coaching and strength-based team-building workshops. Paige, the eldest of four, is passionate about helping parents teach children imperative life skills and financial management techniques. She lives in Grand Rapids, Michigan, with her husband.
In this episode, you’ll hear about:
- My Dad's Class: An Intentional Structure for Teaching Kids About Money and Life—a children's book written by Paige
- How to teach financial literacy to toddlers
- What money topics to avoid sharing with kids
- How to explain affordability to children
- Teaching kids about earning money vs spending money
- Are we becoming a cashless society?
- Creating a financial family economy
- The Family Bank (chapter 5 from the book, My Dad's Class)
Connect with Paige:
Website: mydadsclass.com
Instagram: @spendthen
There are about 172 different pet names for a pacifier. No matter what you call it, it can be hard on the entire family when it's time to break the binky habit. In this podcast episode, I'm sharing how our family said, “Chao chupito!" Depending on what you call it, you can be saying "Bye-Bye, Binky" in just a short time too.
Listen to our story here and find a step-by-step guide to breaking the binky habit below:
How to successfully send all of your pacifiers off to new babies that don’t have any (and that really need them.)
- Begin two weeks or more before you actually plan to send the pacifiers off to… the trash, tell your little one that he or she is a big girl, boy, or kid now. Let them know that only tiny babies use [pacifiers]. Insert whatever pet name you have for it. Share with them in an enthusiastic way and confident way that they won’t need it for much longer. (We used G’s second birthday as a time marker for her.)
- After talking about this story multiple times, you may find your child telling you the story as well, even though they will continue to use the pacifier. When they’re tired or cranky, they may even say, “Pacifier, yes! No new babies!” However, don’t give up or give in. Stay positive and affirmative.
- When the day comes that you are ready to make the leap, don’t talk about the pacifier at all that day. Around 4 or 5 pm or after dinner, begin the pacifier scavenger hunt.
- When your child is distracted, place all of the pacifiers around the house in any place that is eye-level and easy for your child to see.
- Tell your child it’s time to send the pacifiers to the new babies. In our case, to new baby cousin. Explain the process. “It’s time to send the pacifiers to the new babies; let’s get a bag and collect them all.” Ask in an excited voice, “Will you help me?”
- Give them a bag or box and have them collect all of the pacifiers.
- Tell them, “Now it’s time to put the bag on the front porch for the mailman/mailwoman. He or she is going to take the pacifier to the new babies. Have your child physically place the bag on the front porch and close the door.
- After you come inside, say in a very excited way, “You did it! You sent your pacifiers to the new babies! That was very helpful.”
- When your child probably realizes they didn’t want to give the pacifiers away, they will most likely ask for it at bedtime. In a calm and gentle voice, reassure them by explaining that they put the pacifiers on the porch and the delivery person already took them. They’re all gone. Now the new babies have them. Reassure your little one by saying, “You can do it. You can handle it.”
- You may have to cuddle more, give more milk, sing, or read a bit longer, but it’s worth it.
- Over the next few days and nights, repeat to them as many times as you need to that they are big now, and they gave their pacifiers to the new babies that didn’t have any. Constantly reassure them that they can do it and that they can handle it.
- Stay strong! “You can do it!”
Good luck!!
Dr. Stephanie Dueger is a psychotherapist, parent coach, and educator, who works with expectant and new parents and their little ones. She facilitates parent workshops and is currently the Editor-in-Chief of the academic Journal of Prenatal and Perinatal Psychology and Health. Dr. Dueger lives in Boulder, Colorado, with her husband and two daughters. Preparing for Parenthood: 55 Essential Conversations for Couples Becoming Families is her first book—the book she wishes she’d had for herself when first becoming a parent. Learn more about Dr. Dueger at drduegertherapy.com.
In this episode, you'll hear about:
- New book: Preparing for Parenthood: 55 Essential Conversations for Couples Becoming Families
- Concrete steps you can take right now to feel more prepared in becoming a parent
- Important conversation topics to discuss with your partner before having a baby
- Association of Pre and Perinatal Psychology and Health (APPPAH): birthpsychology.com
- How to connect with your unborn baby
- Episode 23: The Importance of Prenatal Bonding with Kate White
- Episode 33: Kiersten Markham episode of Pure Nurture Podcast
- Pure Nurture—A Holistic Guide to a Healthy Baby (my book)
Connect with Stephanie: Website: drduegertherapy.com Facebook: @theattachmentdoctor Instagram: @theattachmentdoctor
Leah Boden is wife to Dave, mother to four children, and a longtime home educator. With over two decades of experience in church leadership, Leah’s background also features many years in youth, children’s, and family work within the church and for the local education authority. Leah speaks, hosts podcasts and coaching sessions, and runs workshops sharing the beauty of a Charlotte Mason approach to childhood, motherhood, and education. She and her family live in the West Midlands, England.
In this episode, you'll learn about:
- What the Charlotte Mason Method is
- The rise of home education (home schooling)
- Book: For the Children's Sake: Foundations of Education for Home and School
- Myths about the Charlotte Mason Method to home schooling
- Explore Toups & Co. organic skincare and makeup - save 10% using code: PURE10
- Frankincense Face Balm
- Mineral Makeup Foundation
- Mineral Makeup Sample Kit
- How to avoid burnout and weeks of exhaustion
- Protecting your "me time" and setting boundaries with your family
- Books: The Original Home Schooling Series
- Book: The Call of the Wild + Free
- Read-Aloud Revival
- Stories of Color
Connect with Leah Boden:
- Website: leahboden.com
- Instagram: @modernmissmason
Dr. Melissa Sonners is the host of the Be Inspired Mama Podcast, a community for women who want to transform struggles into victories by taking action.
She has extensive training in prenatal, postpartum, and pediatric care. Melissa shares the latest research with parents and children who are pursuing healthy lifestyles and navigating the complex demands of balancing it all. She completed the functional neurology childhood developmental course through the Carrick Institute and is one of only 52 professionals who earned her diplomate in chiropractic pediatrics from the Academy of Family Practice in North America.
Self-care took on new importance for her when she became a parent and then again when she experienced health challenges. Melissa was diagnosed in 2017 with a neurological form of lyme disease with meningitis and encephalitis. She considers lyme disease one of her greatest gifts, since it forced her to put herself closer to the top of her daily to-do list. She enjoys speaking and teaching about self-care to inspire other women to prioritize their needs.
Melissa is the co-founder of Core Therapies Family Wellness Center in Northern New Jersey, a holistic practice with chiropractors whose specialties include functional neurology, functional medicine, hyperbaric oxygen, prenatal/postpartum, pediatric and sports injuries. Core Therapies also offers acupuncture, massage, spinal decompression, yoga, and laser therapies. She is also the co-founder of HBOT USA, an International company dedicated to giving people access to the best equipment, education, and implementation of Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy. She is also the co-founder of NJ HBOT, as well as HFM: Hyperbaric & Functional Medicine in Newtown Square, PA.
In this episode, you will hear about:
- Dr. Melissa's passions
- Where she birthed her children
- Your buckets of stress
- How to create space for yourself
- Cleaning up your lifestyle (& stress buckets)
- Her pivotal journey through scoliosis
- Her scare with neurological issues
- Self-care is family care and has a great impact on your kids
- Join the Magical Mornings Challenge! (at no charge)
Get to know Dr. Melissa Sonners:
- Website: BeInspiredmMma.com
- Company: HBOTUSA.com
- Instagram: @beinspiredmama
- Facebook: @BeInspiredMama
WELCOME TO THE BLOG SERIES! I’m doing something NEW.
On the podcast, I will sprinkle in solo episodes where I read the most popular blogs to you – just pretend it’s our next audio book!
In this episode, you will learn about:
- Where I found the concept of Mamma Bear Wisdom
- Conflicted? Use the power of your breath to find the answer!
- Trusting yourself more
- Fitting moments of stillness into your day
- Get up and move
- Put pen to paper
If you prefer to read the blog, How to Channel Your Mama Bear Wisdom, click here.
WELCOME TO THE BLOG SERIES! I’m doing something NEW.
On the podcast, I will sprinkle in solo episodes where I read the most popular blogs to you – just pretend it’s our next audio book!
In this episode, you will learn about:
- How the doctor handled Kristy's postpartum depression
- Emotional signs
- Mental signals
- Physical alarm bells
- Helpful resources
- Ways to mother and care for new Moms
If you prefer to read the blog, Recognizing the Signs of Postpartum Depression, click here.
WELCOME TO THE BLOG SERIES! I’m doing something NEW.
On the podcast, I will sprinkle in solo episodes where I read the most popular blogs to you – just pretend it’s our next audio book!
In this episode, you will learn about:
- Pranayama
- Mantra Meditation
- Water reset
- Being with nature
- Other ways to unwind
If you prefer to read the blog, 5 Ways to Relax When You're Expecting, click here.
I'm doing something NEW.
On the podcast, I will sprinkle in solo episodes where I read the most popular blogs to you - just pretend it's our next audio book! If you prefer to read the blog, 5 Surprising Things You Can Do During Pregnancy to Rock your Postpartum, click here.
Annie Kerchief is a 2x home birth mom who is passionate about natural healing, real food nutrition, plus following her intuition and encouraging mothers to do the same. She switched to a home birth plan at 32 weeks pregnant with her first. She is 28 and lives with my husband and 2 babies in southern Indiana. Annie left her office job to be a stay at home mom when her first was born and would not want to be doing anything else.
In this conversation, you will learn about:
- Breaking up with the OB in the 3rd trimester
- How to own your out-of-the-box choices
- Choosing who belongs in your birth space
- Prepare for postpartum before you are pregnant
- Unlearn what you think you know about birth
Connect with Annie:
- Instagram: @mom.mindfully
Isabel Jones shares guidebooks, resources, and personal insights to help women reclaim birth and motherhood.
In this episode, you will learn:
- What Free Birth means
- Why Isabel didn't choose to give birth in a hospital
- Isabel's personal birth story
- Lotus birth
- Agreeing on a free birth with her partner
- Isabel managed prenatal care all by herself
- Drama-free birth experience
- Setting boundaries with family and friends
- Free Guides for Pregnancy, Birth, and Postpartum
Connect with Isabel:
- Website: yourwildbirth.com
- Instagram: @yourwildbirth
Lisa Druxman is the Chief Founding mom of FIT4MOM, the country's largest fitness program for moms. She is an author, speaker and thought leader for moms.
In this episode, you will hear about:
- Stroller Strides
- Adjusting to exercise after birth
- Pelvic floor practices
- Episode 46: Preparing Your Pelvic Floor and Core for Birth with Anita Lambert
- Episode 47: Healing Your Core and Pelvic Floor After Birth with Jessica Pumple
- Episode 95: Think Beyond Birth with Stephanie Stamas and Jessica Babich
- How Moms can reclaim their self and their health
- Asking for help
- Change your routine
Connect with Lisa:
- Website: fit4mom.com
- Facebook: @FIT4MOMHQ
- Instagram: @fit4momhq
Megan MacCutcheon is a Licensed Professional Counselor and Certified Perinatal Mental Health practitioner who helps overwhelmed moms find a sense of balance while raising young children. As a busy mom of three, Megan knows that motherhood is a juggling act. She loves teaching tools and strategies to help moms de-stress and embrace self-care so they can better navigate challenges associated with parenting.
She is passionate about spreading awareness regarding perinatal mood and anxiety disorders, and enjoys supporting moms through healing and finding fulfillment in their journeys. She is the co-founder of Perinatal Place, a resource to help women in her community get access to all the resources they may need during pregnancy and postpartum.
In this episode, you will learn:
- Postpartum anxiety and depression
- Post-breastfeeding anxiety and depression
- What are boundaries?
- How to protect your energy and time
- Holding boundaries with your healthcare providers
- Boundary scripts for new Moms who don't know what to say
- Top issues new parents face (Megan can help with these!)
Connect with Megan:
- Website: meganmaccutcheon.com
- Facebook: @mmaccutcheonlpc
- Instagram: @meganmaccutcheonlpc
- TikTok: @meganmaccutcheon
Dr. Aumatma is a double board-certified Naturopathic Doctor & Endocrinologist, in practice for 15 years. Dr Aumatma supports badass power couples to create the family of their dreams, and also trains doctors who want to specialize in fertility. She is the best-selling author of "Fertility Secrets: What Your Doctor Didn't Tell You About Baby-Making.” She is on a mission to help bring healthier babies into the world by creating healthier parents and the planet. Dr. Aumatma has been featured on ABC, FOX, CBS, KTLA, MindBodyGreen, and The Bump as the Holistic Fertility Doctor.
In this episode, you'll learn:
- Listen to Dr. Aumatma's first episode - Steps to Take for a Healthy Baby & Easeful Pregnancy (our #1 most listened to episode!)
- Are you seeing more fertility issues or pregnancy loss?
- Issues with carrying a baby to term
- Men's role in conception and two major issues that are overlooked
- Testing for gene abnormalities
- 3 top tips to boost pre-conception wellness
- Popular pre-conception or pregnancy issues Dr. Aumatma treats
Connect with Dr. Aumatma:
- Website: holisticfertilityinstitute.com
- Instagram: @holisticfertilitydoctor
Learn 5 key facts that our culture gets wrong, so that you can stop the sleep struggle and “Am I doing it wrong?” anxiety.
Kim Hawley, MA, MPH is a Holistic Sleep Consultant and Lactation Counselor, as well as, the owner of Intuitive Parenting. Kim's passionate about helping parents confidently navigate nighttime parenting and family sleep using evidenced-based information and parental intuition. Her specialty is gentle, attachment-based sleep support for breastfeeding families.
Kim lives in Capitol Hill, Washington DC with her husband, her two children, and a few animals, including her guide dog. She loves to run, read a good book, eat delicious food, and enjoy a glass of wine or cup of coffee.
In this episode, you'll hear about:
- Kim's story
- A holistic approach to sleep
- 5 Sleep Facts
- Guilt and pride over your baby's sleep
- Sleep is genetic
- Safe co-sleeping and room-sharing
- S L O W D O W N & see if sleep advice feels right to you
See how you can be responsive to your baby’s needs and still take care of yourself. It's a delicate line. Don't over-commit yourself, so you can have a nice balance of work and play. With your intuition and as you try new things, you'll eventually sing a lullaby that soothes the whole family.
Learn more about Kim and possibly working with her at IntuitiveparentingDC.com. Take care and sleep well.
Jessica is a pre and postnatal fitness instructor (as well as a dietitian, diabetes & bariatric educator). She healed her 4-finger diastasis recti gap after her pregnancy and now helps moms heal and restore their core in 30 days. You'll learn so much from our conversation and the bonus material included below in the show notes.
In this episode, you’ll hear about:
- Jessica Pumple, Host of Pregnancy and Postpartum TV (2:20)
- Diastasis recti (2:30)
- At-home diastasis recti test (4:39)
- Does everyone have diastasis recti? (6:04)
- Treatment for diastasis recti (6:37)
- Diastasis Recti Healing Core Workouts Playlists
- How you can prevent diastasis recti during pregnancy (9:17)
- Belly Bandit Bamboo Wrap
- How to improve your posture to heal diastasis recti (10:43)
- Core healing exercises for diastasis recti playlist (11:36)
- How the muscles of the core and pelvic floor are connected (13:18)
- Diet recommendations to repair your muscles (people usually get this wrong) (14:00)
- Other methods to consider for healing your pelvic floor and core after birth (17:13)
- Jessica’s program to heal diastasis recti (19:06)
Roll out your yoga mat, then play Jessica’s videos and try to healing exercises. Stop by her site for more info on protecting your pelvic floor.
Jessica made a special guide for Pure Nurture on healing your core and pelvic floor after birth.
More from Jessica:
Pelvic Floor Foods to limit:
- Caffeinated beverages (coffee and tea) are diuretic and bladder irritant, which means they cause the kidneys to make more urine than normal. This causes overuse and sensitivity in the bladder.
- Carbonated beverages (soda – yes, even diet soda) can trigger overactive bladder symptoms because bubbly drinks tend to tickle and irritate the bladder. They also typically contain caffeine and artificial sweeteners, which are bladder irritation triggers on their own.
- Highly acidic fruits and veggies (tomato, cranberry, orange) can irritate the bladder lining due to their high acidity.
- Spicy foods can cause your bladder to burn for the same reason that they cause your mouth to burn. This can cause irritation to the bladder lining.
- Artificial sugars and sweeteners (Splenda) worsen symptoms of overactive bladder for similar reasons as do carbonated beverages.
- Alcohol is a diuretic and bladder irritant. Also, when a person consumes alcohol, that liquid accelerates the rate that kidneys gather water and causes the bladder to empty more often. Not a good combination.
Foods to include for pelvic floor healing:
- Pure water
- Apricot, banana melon (low acidic fruits)
- Herbal teas (non-caffeine)
- Omega 3 fatty acids (fish, walnuts, hemp or chia seeds)
What to look for in a belly band: (Belly band is for support, but not a replacement for strengthening exercise)
- Works - one that is recommended by doctors and HCPs
- Comfortable/lightweight especially if going to be exercising in it
- Discrete under clothes
- Price
- Material (Jessica recommends bamboo.)
What Jessica's program is all about:
Heal your core and pelvic floor in 30 days with her online program. It's a step-by-step guided video program to heal your core and pelvic floor. It's best for a mom that is first cleared to do exercise or just starting after not exercising no matter how long post-partum needs different exercises than someone who has been consistently exercising for a few weeks. The program has been carefully designed to progress with you to heal and restore the diastasis as well and flatten and tone and also to prevent leaking or peeing a little when you sneeze or jump. Learn more here!
Devon Berrier founded Layton, a clothing line offering chic and modern clothing for nursing moms. Following the birth of her first child, Devon wanted to create fashionable and comfortable breastfeeding-friendly options, something she found was missing as a new mom herself. In our conversation, Devon shares her experiences as a business owner and mom and how she manages that delicate "balancing" act. She opens up about her experience with postpartum anxiety and how she moved through it. And a BIG congratulations to Devon and her family, as they just welcomed baby number three to their family last week! (April 2019) In this episode, you’ll hear about:
- Devon’s story (2:30)
- How Devon’s company Layton was born (3:20)
- The working Mom dance (6:38)
- Book: You Are a Badass by Jen Sincero
- Book: You Are a Badass at Making Money by Jen Sincero
- Book: You Are a Badass Everyday by Jen Sincero
- Devon’s postpartum experience (13:52)
- Partners and caregivers need to be aware of how to support women going through postpartum (18:54)
- The Dadhood Journey with Dr. Jay Warren Episode 6 of the Pure Nurture Podcast
- A documentary about the seriousness of postpartum depression: When the Bough Breaks
Devon has generously offered a 25% off coupon on all Layton styles for you!
Visit https://www.laytonshop.com/ and enter PURE25 at checkout.
"The power lies within to give birth and to heal. You are the expert of your experience." -J.S.
Jennifer Summerfeldt, Master of Arts in Counselling Psychology (MACP), has nearly two decades of experience in maternal health and psychology. In addition to being a counselor, Jennifer has also been a childbirth advocate, maternal educator, doula, midwifery apprentice, and published writer. She is the founder and creator of the Healing After Birth program, where she uses her expertise and voice to help advance the dialogue on motherhood, mental health, and healing.
In this episode, you’ll hear about:
- What inspired Jennifer to do postpartum coaching (1:39)
- Spiritual Midwifery
- Immaculate Deception
- How Jen heals women who’ve had a stressful postpartum period (14:50)
- If you don’t feel safe, your body won’t heal (15:55)
- Be informed to have better birth and postpartum cycles (17:56)
- Biologically, we have an innate wisdom that always wants to thrive (23:47)
- Neuroscience with Pankseep
- Polyvagal Theory
- Healing After Birth Program
- SacredAcoustics.com
You can reach out to Jennifer at JenniferSummerfeldt.com and at Instagram.com/healingafterbirth. Here's more from Jennifer: Healing After Birth Guidebook - Navigating Your Emotions After A Difficult Childbirth CLICK HERE
FREE 4 part video series - What Your Doctor Is Likely NOT Telling You About PPD/A CLICK HERE
Are you a soulfully inspired woman looking for next level counseling and coaching programs? CLICK HERE
Diane Boden is the host of the Minimalist Moms Podcast. In this episode, Diane shares how we can take a more simplified and minimalist approach to pregnancy and postpartum.
A minimalistic lifestyle means different things to different people. When you have a family and children, it changes the definition even more. Diane shares how to prepare for your baby's arrival. Set up your baby registry with only the essentials and maybe add in the “next up” items and “take it or leave it” items. You'll learn how to be more mindful as you prepare for your baby's arrival and how to clear out all the "noise" when you're pregnant.
In this episode, you’ll hear about: * Meet Diane Boden and how the Minimalist Mom’s Podcast was born over drinks (2:39) * What minimalism means for Moms (5:00) * You really don’t need a lot on your baby registry (8:56) * Take it or leave it baby gifts (14:02) * Great ways to save money while raising your kids (16:32) * Good things to invest in for your kids (18:28) * Leveraging your community to save money (20:18)
Connect with Diane: minimalistmomspodcast.com
Instagram: @MinimalistMomsPodcast
Facebook: @TheMinimalistMoms
Sarah Blunkosky, M.A., R-PYT, R-CYT is an integrative education consultant, certified peer-breastfeeding counselor, and registered Accessible yoga instructor specializing in family, children’s, special needs, and prenatal/postpartum movement/embodiment. She serves clients in Northern Virginia and travels for service appointments, conferences, and workshops with local studios and her company, Learning Heroine LLC.
You can find her on Instagram and Facebook sharing her mission: Set learning free. When she isn’t homeschooling her kids or teaching yoga, you can find her writing articles and working on a book to assist people in freeing obstacles in learning during their prenatal/postpartum, parenting, and life journeys. Check out Sarah's guest blog post on Pure Nurture, POSTPARTUM MINIMALISM, AND RECOVERY after you take a listen to our conversation below.
In this episode, you’ll hear about:
- Sarah Blunkowskyi’s story (1:50)
- Flexi-Schooling (2:50)
- Integrative Education Consultant (4:45)
- How you can PLAN to have a more positive postpartum experience (9:00)
- Healthy boundaries for visitors who are meeting your newborn (14:44)
- Yoga and self-care to promote healing after your baby arrives (24:22)
Connect with Sarah on her website and other social media pages:
Learning Heroine LLC
Facebook, Linked In, Instagram, Yoga
If you're looking for more resources related to postpartum care and recovery, check out episode 30 of the Pure Nurture podcast with guest, Jennifer Summerfeldt, it's all about healing after birth. And, head over to an article that I wrote for Pregnancy Magazine where I share five essential tips for postpartum care.
Courtney Hasseman is a Certified Nurse-Midwife, Nurse Practitioner, and Functional Nutritionist who provides integrative healthcare and uses nutrition to support women’s hormonal and menstrual health. She sees women for care in her Leesburg office and offers online nutritional therapy for women everywhere.
In this episode, Courtney shares all about the best nutrition during breastfeeding, how your periods change during the season of breastfeeding, choices for contraception while breastfeeding, and more!
In this episode, you’ll hear about:
- Courtney & Kristy reconnecting after high school 25 years later (2:00)
- Courtney’s in-person and online Midwifery and Integrative Nutrition practice (2:58)
- Nutritional Therapy online course
- Try eating these foods while you breastfeed (5:40)
- Getting back to pre-pregnancy weight won’t happen overnight (7:43)
- Best foods to eat while breastfeeding (9:17)
- Foods to avoid while you’re breastfeeding (10:56)
- Best fish to eat a few times a week while breastfeeding (11:40)
- Hormonal changes while breastfeeding your baby (12:28)
- Sexual changes while breastfeeding (15:25)
- How to ease back into spending time with your partner (16:20)
- Normal changes in your breasts while breastfeeding (17:50)
You can learn more about Courtney’s services in the D.C. Metro area or online at CourtneyHasseman.com. If you believe women deserve unhurried and personalized healthcare, follow her on Instagram and Facebook.
This is something I’ve NEVER talked about on the podcast before … SEX! Heather Bartos, MD, OB-GYN talks about five-sense-sex, the best position to try if you’re 39 weeks pregnant, bringing sex back after baby, prioritizing sex when you're a busy parent, and so much more. Put your headphones on for this one!
Heather Bartos, MD, OB-GYN, is a leading voice in the field of women’s health and wellness, the fierce founder of Badass Woman, Badass Health, and a proud creator of MindSHIFT medicine (the integration of mental, physical, and emotional health to care for the whole woman).
Fascinated the way what we think about impacts how we feel, Dr. Bartos teaches women and their families how to thrive, no matter what their stage of life. She is a board-certified OB-GYN, US Navy Veteran, former Associate Professor at USUHS and former Chief of Obstetrics & Gynecology at Texas Health Hospital in Denton, TX. She is currently the owner/medical director of her “village for women’s health,” Be. Women’s Health & Wellness.
Featured in publications from Glamour and Huffington Post to Reader’s Digest, Women’s Health and ABC News, Dr. Bartos is a frequent speaker and writer on all areas of women’s health and her practice of MindSHIFT Medicine.
In this episode, you’ll hear about:
- Who is Heather Bartos? (2:45)
- Sex will change as a woman changes (4:44)
- Having sex on your moon cycle (6:07)
- How to have sex while pregnant (7:12)
- How to boost your libido (12:30)
- Five sense sex (16:50)
- The sex position to try during week 38 or 39 of pregnancy (17:26)
- Your sex life will change after birth, especially when breastfeeding (21:40)
- You CAN get pregnant while you’re breastfeeding (24:10)
- How to have a healthy sex life when your kids are age one (25:10)
Tap into Heather’s world at HeatherBartosmMD.com and check out her Facebook LIVE Series: Is this Normal? on her Facebook page, and say “Hayyy!” on Instagram @DrHeatherBartos.
Greer Kirshenbaum Ph.D. is super excited to be the first Neuroscientist Doula and the first Neuroscientist Infant Sleep Educator. Greer’s company, Nurture Neuroscience, is on a mission to revolutionize the future of health. She wants families and perinatal practitioners to understand how early caregiving experience can boost mental wellness and diminish depression, anxiety, and addiction in adulthood by shaping babies’ brains through simple, intuitive, enriching experiences in pregnancy, birth and infancy.
Greer teaches courses, provides consultations for pregnancy and infancy, and is a birth and postpartum doula. She is currently creating an Infant Sleep Educator course with Bebo Mia.
When you understand that how you respond to your baby's cries affects their long-term mental health, you may pick up your baby more. This episode explores how early caregiver and child bonding influences brain development. The science behind parenting is FASCINATING.
In this episode, you’ll hear about:
- Greer's attraction to neuroscience
- How your early life experience impacts your mental health
- 3 ways you can support your baby’s lifelong mental health
- Prenatal bonding
- How the caregiver and child relationship benefits lifelong mental health
- Serve and Return communication method
- Conscious Discipline
- Sleep
- Keep doing your best
You're a BIG influence in the development of your baby's brain and nervous system. Ditch the fear of, "Am I parenting right?" Instead, do great things for the sake of being a positive force. Absorb as much of Greer's Instagram posts as you can. Find her at:
Instagram - @nurture_neuroscience_parenting
Facebook - @NurtureNeuroscience
Website - www.nurtureneuro.com
Deb Flashenberg is the founder and director of the Prenatal Yoga Center in NYC. She is a yoga teacher, labor support doula, Lamaze childbirth educator and has completed a midwifery assistant program at The Farm in Tennessee with Ina May Gaskin and The Farm midwives. On this episode of the Pure Nurture Podcast, Deb is sharing all about five essential questions to ask your care provider before birth. When you’re in labor, it’s not a good time to start negotiating your delivery wishes. You need to feel heard, respected, and supported BEFORE your big day and be sure you and your support team are all on the same page.
In this episode, you’ll hear about:
- Who is Deb Flashenberg & how she got into supporting pregnant women before she became a Mom (2:35)
- Prenatal Yoga Center in NYC
- Yoga | Birth | Babies Podcast
- Who’s Afraid of the Pregnant Yogi? online program
- When you meet your doctor for the first time, ask these 5 key questions to make sure you’re on the same page (5:36)
- Is it too late to switch care providers in your 3rd trimester? (25:00)
"As a doula, Deb has heard this lament time and time again: “I received the name of my doctor from a friend, and if I had known what to ask, I probably would have switched doctors a long time ago. Now I feel it’s too late to change!” Ideally, it’s best to have a very important conversation with your doctor at the beginning of your pregnancy to make sure that the way he or she practices medicine matches up with the way you want to birth. If you’re already into your pregnancy and a relationship with your doctor, be sure to ask these key questions at your next appointment! When you’re in labor, it isn’t a good time to start negotiating your labor and delivery wishes. It’s essential that you feel heard, supported and respected long before the big day!" - Via www.prenatalyogacenter.com
Click here to read more about the 5 questions Deb recommends you ask your doctor.
If you found this podcast helpful and want more, visit Deb at her Prenatal Yoga Center, on Instagram, and Facebook. Check out her prenatal yoga teacher training (if you’re ready to dive deeper) and when you’re in New York City, pop in for a yoga class!
Best part? You can practice yoga wherever you are with Deb’s free yoga videos.
Deb Flashenberg is the founder and director of the Prenatal Yoga Center in NYC. She is a yoga teacher, labor support doula, Lamaze childbirth educator and has completed a midwifery assistant program at The Farm in Tennessee with Ina May Gaskin and The Farm midwives. On this episode of the Pure Nurture Podcast, Deb is sharing all about five essential questions to ask your care provider before birth. When you’re in labor, it’s not a good time to start negotiating your delivery wishes. You need to feel heard, respected, and supported BEFORE your big day and be sure you and your support team are all on the same page.
In this episode, you’ll hear about:
- Who is Deb Flashenberg & how she got into supporting pregnant women before she became a Mom (2:35)
- Prenatal Yoga Center in NYC
- Yoga | Birth | Babies Podcast
- Who’s Afraid of the Pregnant Yogi? online program
- When you meet your doctor for the first time, ask these 5 key questions to make sure you’re on the same page (5:36)
- Is it too late to switch care providers in your 3rd trimester? (25:00)
"As a doula, Deb has heard this lament time and time again: “I received the name of my doctor from a friend, and if I had known what to ask, I probably would have switched doctors a long time ago. Now I feel it’s too late to change!” Ideally, it’s best to have a very important conversation with your doctor at the beginning of your pregnancy to make sure that the way he or she practices medicine matches up with the way you want to birth. If you’re already into your pregnancy and a relationship with your doctor, be sure to ask these key questions at your next appointment! When you’re in labor, it isn’t a good time to start negotiating your labor and delivery wishes. It’s essential that you feel heard, supported and respected long before the big day!" - Via www.prenatalyogacenter.com
Click here to read more about the 5 questions Deb recommends you ask your doctor.
If you found this podcast helpful and want more, visit Deb at her Prenatal Yoga Center, on Instagram, and Facebook. Check out her prenatal yoga teacher training (if you’re ready to dive deeper) and when you’re in New York City, pop in for a yoga class!
Best part? You can practice yoga wherever you are with Deb’s free yoga videos.
Meet, Karly and Ali. Hosts of the Birth Kweens Podcast, a wildly honest conversation on all things natural pregnancy, birth, postpartum, and women's health. Together, they've attended 1,000+ births and have A LOT to say on this. They help women explore their pregnancy options with a funny, lighthearted approach. Our conversation is one of my faves. (I think I can officially call myself a "birth nerd.")
In this episode, you'll hear about:
- What Ali & Karly are up to
- Vaginal Steam Therapy (or Yoni Steaming)
- Cervical exams- What they are, when they're done, how they're done, etc.
- Speeding up the birth process (or NOT speeding up the birth process)
- Birth Kweens Podcast
They are a powerful combo! Between a Doula and a Midwife, they're definitely ones to watch! Catch them online and anywhere you listen to podcasts. Also, here:
Instagram - @birthkweens
Website - www.birthkweens.com
Birth Without Fear began with a simple passion to let women know they have choices in childbirth. It evolved into a corner of inspiration and support for women and their families through their trying to conceive, pregnancy, birth, and postpartum journeys.
January Harshe is a wife and a mother of six children. Each of her birth experiences was so different. She started the Birth Without Fear Facebook page as an outlet for this passion in May 2010 and the Birth Without Fear Blog was born in October 2010.
In March 2019, January launched her book: Birth without Fear: The Judgment-Free Guide to Taking Charge of Your Pregnancy, Birth, and Postpartum.
She now supports women through Instagram, Pinterest, and Twitter. However, she also wanted to inspire, support, and unify women in their communities. She launched Birth Without Fear events to see the amazing connections and healing taking place among attendees. Along with her husband, Brandon, she hosts the Harshē Podcast where they discuss everything from birth and parenting to coffee and marriage! January’s passion is to support women on their journeys of womanhood, pregnancy, birth, and motherhood with peace, love, and healing. She’s definitely one to watch!
In this episode, you’ll hear about:
- January’s story & how she looked forward to turning 40 (0:45)
- Birth without Fear Facebook Group
- Birth without Fear book (3:24)
- Women wanting an empowered birth (6:00)
- Moving through medical interventions with self-love (8:58)
- January has three vaginal births after two cesareans (9:48)
- There is a provider who wants to support you, in the way that you need (12:06)
- How to FEEL more empowered about your birth (ask the right questions) (12:35)
Anita Lambert is the owner of Holistic Health Physiotherapy and a Registered Pelvic Health and Orthopaedic Physiotherapist with a focus on women's health, specifically prenatal and postpartum care. She’s one of the select few physiotherapists in Canada to receive advanced training in labor support, which blends orthopedic physiotherapy expertise with birth doula support.
Anita is always looking to share and learn up-to-date information about pregnancy, birth, and beyond which led her to co-host the To Birth & Beyond Podcast.
You can usually find Anita on the move - whether playing with her kids or exercising with strength training, spin, yoga, or Pilates. Anita lives in Peterborough, Ontario with her husband Andy, daughter Pippa and the newest addition to the family - baby Jack.
In this episode, you’ll hear about:
- Anita’s work with prenatal and postpartum care (1:27)
- To Birth and Beyond Podcast
- Where your Pelvic Floor is (5:53)
- Preparing Your Pelvic Floor for Birth Podcast
- Kegel exercises (8:27)
- Best time to do Kegel exercises (most women do it wrong) (9:00)
- In-Depth Birth Prep Podcast
- Flower Bloom Breathe to expedite labor — How to video (10:40)
- Perineal Massage — How to video (12:30)
- Massage oil recommendations (15:50)
- Exercises to prepare for birth (16:30)
- Spinning Babies Daily Essentials Video
- Ways to ease your birth (17:50)
If you feel drawn to Anita, you can find her on Instagram here, Facebook, her site HolisticHealthPhysio.com, and her amazing podcast To Birth and Beyond.
If thinking about birth gives you the jitters, Anita shares solid advice to help you prepare here. If I was pregnant, I would’ve downloaded this.
Eyla Cuenca is a holistic birth guide, Childbirth Educator, Lactation Counselor, health freedom advocate, and mother. She holds a BA in Anthropology from Bennington College and trained under Robert A. Bradley, MD where she became specialized as a Birth Educator. Her years of work as a Guardian Ad Litem for the 11th Judicial Circuit and attending births as a Doula in both hospital and home settings brought her into human rights and advocacy work. She stands behind the idea that it is everyone’s right to have access to empowering education from conception to parenting. Her practice is dedicated to offering guidance that supports women and men in the process that is a return to their deepest knowing about birth, individual sovereignty, and the body’s innate intelligence.
She offers 1-1 guidance sessions to assist women and couples at any point in their journey, from conscious conception to processing births years later. She also offers her signature childbirth education program, as well as Doula training, and Placentophagy training (how to prepare the placenta for consumption).
In this episode, you’ll hear about:
- The importance of taking a class about pregnancy and birth
- Nutrition to improve your birthing experience
- Navigating surprises during birth
- Eyla’s course: Uncovering Birth Masterclass
What students get from the Uncovering Birth Immersion: * Deep knowledge of how labor and birth work * Fears transmuted into desires and courage * Nutrition to avoid birth complications & support postpartum health * Effective, non-chemical relaxation techniques * A clear understanding of breastfeeding, newborn care, postpartum healing * Tools for clear communication with medical providers & birth team * A comprehensive unique birth & postpartum plan * How to navigate variables & unexpected scenarios * Deeper connection and communication with your birth partner * PDFs, videos, and actions steps to support you in continued learning & conscious parenting
“Maybe you want a natural birth but everyone says it’s painful, and maybe even impossible. This 8-week deep dive into an empowered birth will crush your limiting beliefs holding you back from having the experience you want and are worthy of.”
I get it, there is a lot telling us we can’t do it. Telling us that birth is something we should want to get through as quickly as possible. I’m here to tell you, that birth can be transformative, pleasurable, and the best experience of your life. It’s just a matter of getting fully informed.
Are you ready to break through limiting beliefs and have a peaceful & empowering experience? Results of Taking this Course As a mother, after this course you will: * Know how to prepare your body and mind for easeful and connected birthing * Feel confident about your birth choices & making informed decisions * Be able to plan and accomplish the natural birth of your dreams * Understand how to welcome, nurture and care for your new baby * Breakthrough any fear or apprehensions about the “pain” or mysteries of birth
As a father, after this course you will: * Know exactly how to support the mother through her journey * Feel confident in creating a masculine container within the birth context * Be able to advocate more easily for your family * Have the practical tools to read labor and assist with newborn care and postpartum support * Dispel limiting beliefs about birth
Connect with Eyla:
- Elya's online course: Uncovering Birth Masterclass
- Website: eylacuenca.com
- Instagram: @eyla_cuenca_birth
- Telegram: https://t.me/eylacuenca
A lot of women hit dead ends with their doctors during pregnancy. They don’t feel heard or taken seriously. They feel like they can’t stand up to a doctor and say, “That’s not what I want for my birth. What are some other options?”
It’s not about getting aggressive. It’s about being curious!
Lauren Dunaway, PhD in Public Health, got up the courage to leave her doctor for a midwife midway through her pregnancy. When she saw how much they cared, she knew that she was in good hands.
If you’re a rule follower who’s scared to make a change, you’ll walk away from the conversation with courage!
In this episode, you’ll hear about:
- Lauren, her three daughters, and her mission in public health (2:00)
- How she got into natural remedies for her family (4:00)
- How essential oils helped Lauren get off some medication (6:47)
- Emotional support with essential oils (8:17)
- Wellness in the home with essential oils (8:50)
- Why it’s so important to be your own wellness advocate (12:15)
- Lauren left her doctor for a midwife midway through her pregnancy (15:23)
- 5 questions you must ask your care provider BEFORE birth
Cultivate wellness in your life with LaurenEFDunaway.com. You can connect personally with Lauren on TWO Instagram feeds:
@EssentialSimplicity or @LaurenEFDunaway. After this conversation, we sincerely hope you’ll feel more comfortable speaking up to your doctor and asking questions.
What if you could be excited about your upcoming birth? Rachel Yellin talks about this feeling on this episode of the Pure Nurture Podcast. She believes you do NOT have to take negative feelings from your past birth into your next.
With over 15 years as a birth professional, Depth Hypnosis Practitioner, and yoga teacher, Rachel currently owns and is the primary teacher/coach of Yes To Birth! If you want to have a less painful, more manageable pregnancy and birth, where you feel excited, calm and prepared for labor, and your baby is born on their terms, Rachel is for you! Rachel will inspire you with facts, opinions, and birth stories, while saying totally inappropriate things, and providing life and relationship skills that go far beyond birth.
Rachel will support you to make conscious choices about where, how and with whom to give birth, create the most loving, peaceful pregnancy and birth environment, and see the baby as a wise person whose preferences matter. Rachel has been doing birthwork since 2002. For years she was a very successful doula, and has been teaching childbirth classes, prenatal yoga, and depth hypnosis therapy for a decade. Her audio program has been sold internationally since 2014.
In this episode, you’ll hear about:
- Yes! to Birth (3:48)
- Conscious Parenting & Conscious Birth (13:16)
- Natural Birth (17:06)
- How to heal from a difficult or traumatic birth experience (23:04)
- How to not take a bad birth experience into your next one (28:12)
Don’t you feel more empowered after that conversation? I hope you’re saying, “Yes! My body can do this. Yes! I can do this.” Learn more about this fantastic woman here: RachelYellin.com.
As you lower your anxiety about birth, let’s lower your anxiety about nursing wear options. My next guest, Devon Berrier created a line of fashionable breastfeeding fashion options for the working mom. The best part? It doesn’t look like nursing wear, at all! She also opens up about her postpartum experience and the challenges that she faced.
Dr. Aumatma is a Naturopathic Doctor & Nutritionist, in practice for close to 15 years. She specializes in women's health, is the best-selling author of "Fertility Secrets: What Your Doctor Didn't Tell You About Baby-Making," and is a sought out speaker on topics related to Women’s Health and Empowerment.
Dr. Aumatma was awarded the “Best Alternative Medicine Practitioner″ award locally in 2015, and as a top “Women In Medicine” Doctor in 2020. In addition to supporting couples through private 1 on 1 care and online group programs, and she also trains practitioners who want to specialize in fertility
In this episode, you'll hear about:
- Dr. Aumatma's road to fertility and postpartum support
- Pre-conception testing
- What ridges on your nails mean
- What a Naturopathic Doctor is
- Mind Body Spirit Approach
- Body Talk
- Prenatal Supplements
- Folic Acid vs Folate
- Nutrition for Pregnancy
- Emotional and Mental Support
Website: HolisticFertilityCenter.com
Facebook: @DrAumatmaNd
Instagram: @holsitic_fertility_doctor
"You breathe. You blink. You digest. You don’t tell your body to do those things... Your body will know how to give birth. The mind-body connection is SO STRONG. The mind can influence the body..." A.L.
Adriana Lozada’s background is multi-layered and multi-cultural. A former print and online editor from Venezuela, the birth of her daughter sparked her passion for being a birth advocate, leading her to open Birthful: a company that helps new and expectant parents take on whatever maternity sends their way.
She is a certified Advanced Birth Doula (DONA International), a postpartum educator, and a healthy sleep consultant, as well as a bestselling author and international speaker. Adriana is also the host of the Birthful Podcast, where she talks to amazing, knowledgeable, and passionate birth professionals every week, to help new and expectant parents inform their intuition, so they can have more rewarding pregnancy, birth, and postpartum experiences.
"After giving birth, Adriana became passionate about helping others on their maternity journeys. The fire to make a difference started from a place of outrage (have you noticed the broken state of maternity care? the non-existence of paid family leave in the US?), which she has since focused into a torch that lights her way towards supporting new parents to have joyful and satisfying birth and postpartum experiences.
Adriana is an advanced birth doula, an eco-maternity consultant, a postpartum educator, and a child sleep consultant. She’s a bestselling author, speaker, and host of the acclaimed Birthful podcast. All part of her quest to help people have a smoother transition into parenthood." (from birthful.com)
In this episode, you’ll hear about:
- The Birthful Podcast (0:11)
- Intuition vs fear (0:55)
- How to tune into our intuition (5:30)
- Supporting your physiology during labor (7:07)
- Labor Land (7:30)
- Birthing a 12-pound baby (9:40)
- Reducing anxiety about your upcoming birth (14:35)
- Pregnancy Brain book
- Delivering Miracles Podcast (High-risk pregnancy expert)
- Calming your nervous system (20:22)
- Why an OB Chose to Have a Home Birth with Amali Lokugamage podcast episode
- Childbirth education classes (Which class is best for your personality? Take this quiz.) (20:22)
- Michel Odant
Sail into Adriana’s world at Birthful.com. She’ll help you navigate the unexpected seas of birth with her wisdom in your ear. Add her The Birthful Podcast to your list. What excites her? Hearing from you. Feel free to email her
No pregnancy is the same. We all have our own unique needs and this is also true from a nutritional standpoint. Not many people support pregnancy from a nutritional health perspective. Melissa Mor bridges that gap by supporting women during preconception, pregnancy, and after baby arrives.
After having two pregnancies with previas and having successful outcomes with fast recoveries, Melissa felt compelled to start a coaching business to support other women. Today, she helps moms and soon-to-be moms create healthier lifestyles by showing them how to easily implement natural solutions in their daily life or routines. According to Melissa, "No matter what the issue is, there is always a more natural solution."
In this episode, you’ll hear about:
- Melissa’s career path from Fashion to Family Wellness Coach (1:08)
- What was missing around pregnancy support? (2:00)
- Homeopathy (Dive deeper in episode 15) (5:41)
- What issues a Family Wellness Coach can help you with (6:14)
- Not detoxing while you’re pregnant (7:50)
- How Melissa helps her clients (10:05)
- The difference between prescription vs plant based vitamins and supplements (10:41)
- What to eat while pregnant if you can’t stomach healthy food (15:40)
- Top 3 supplements to take if you’re nauseous during pregnancy (18:00)
- How to connect with Melissa at CaratsandKale.com (19:36)
Get the support you need during the wild ride of Motherhood. Whether you’re trying to conceive, are pregnant, or just gave birth to a beautiful baby, CaratsandKale.com is the place for holistic friends, like you! Follow Melissa on Instagram to say, “Hi!” or send a love note to CaratsandKale@gmail.com.
Lily Nichols is a Registered Dietitian/Nutritionist, Certified Diabetes Educator, researcher, and author with a passion for evidence-based prenatal nutrition and exercise. Her work is known for being research-focused, thorough, and unapologetically critical of outdated dietary guidelines. She is the author of two bestselling books, Real Food for Pregnancy and Real Food for Gestational Diabetes.
In this episode, you’ll hear about:
- Who is Lily Nichols (2:15)
- Real Food For Pregnancy book by Lily Nichols
- What prompted Lily to do prenatal nutrition for women (3:20)
- Common misconceptions about prenatal nutrition (5:42)
- Best vegetarian protein sources for pregnancy (10:06)
- You were fed wrong information on prenatal nutrition (14:22)
- Vital nutrients for Mom and baby (17:12)
- Folate versus folic acid (22:25)
- What needs to be improved in conventional prenatal nutrition (27:15)
Read the first two chapters of Lily’s Real Food for Pregnancy book for free on her site. Her blog will keep you well-fed and if you’re curious to see what she eats, find her on Instagram.
More great podcast episodes with a prenatal + postpartum nutrition focus:
Your Body During Breastfeeding with Courtney Hasseman (nutrition during breastfeeding)
The Whole30 and Whole30 Mamas Club (nutrition for moms) with Stephanie Greunke
Prenatal Nutrition with Melissa Mor
Preconception Nutrition with Ryann Kipping
Functional Nutrition for Fertility, Pregnancy, and Motherhood with Andrea White
"There’re a lot of things you can do to make pregnancy comfortable via natural remedies." -S.G.
Stephanie Greunke, MS, RDN, PMH-C, CPT, is a registered dietitian, pre & postnatal corrective exercise specialist, certified in perinatal mental health, military wife, and mama of two boys. Currently residing in San Diego, Stephanie helps mamas navigate the entire journey to motherhood.
After battling postpartum anxiety, Stephanie is passionate about maternal/paternal mental health, helping families set themselves up for success before the baby comes and navigating the transition to parenthood. She’s the program director for Whole30’s Whole Mamas Club and co-hosts the Whole Mamas Podcast. Stephanie is committed to building a community of moms who encourage each other and share their own experiences so moms know they’re not alone and have resources to feel empowered.
In this episode, you’ll hear about:
- Whole Mamas Club (0:05)
- Whole Mamas Podcast
- How postpartum health found Stephanie (2:40)
- Creating simple and nourishing meals (5:45)
- Start with breakfast (8:57)
- How to navigate your mental health (10:46)
- Order Comprehensive Lab Panels from Direct Labs
- How the Whole Mamas Club can help you during preconception through Motherhood (20:15)
- Whole30 Way of Eating (20:50)
Looking for your girl and guy gang? Sync up with Wholemamasclub.com, stop by on Instagram, and Facebook. Check out their Whole Mamas Podcast, too. I like that they recap each episode, so you can learn, then take action!
You can reach out to Stephanie personally on Instagram or her site at Stephgreunke.com.
Andrea Laine White is a Functional Nutrition Therapist practicing at Colorado Natural Medicine and the Chief Marketing Officer and Nutritionist for Baby Fresh Organics (Fresh Start). In her clinical practice, Andrea has developed therapeutic nutritional protocols for a variety of different conditions including, but not limited to: hormonal weight gain related to menopause, acne, endometriosis, infertility and conception, disorders of the thyroid including Hashimoto’s, autoimmune disorders including Celiac / Rheumatoid Arthritis / Primary Sclerosing Cholangitis (PSC), sleep disorders, migraine headaches, digestive disorders, HPA axis maladaptation/adrenal fatigue, hypertension, food sensitivities/ intolerances, depression/anxiety, gaining weight/increasing lean muscle mass, and cardiovascular disease/elevated cholesterol levels. Andrea attained her certification as a Master Nutrition Therapist from the Nutrition Therapy Institute in Denver, Colorado. Her education was primarily administered by practitioners of functional medicine. Functional medicine addresses the underlying or root causes of dysfunction in the body and seeks to restore balance from within.
In this episode, you’ll learn:
- Andrea’s story (0:45)
- Your Next Big Thing Book helped her find her purpose(1:25)
- Andrea’s approach to nutrition (3:29)
- Two factors that determine a healthy gut (4:55)
- What glyphosate is and how it affects the digestive system (10:16)
- Fun fact: learn about microbiome and epigenetics in episode 14 with Toni Harmon (11:10)
- Solocast: About Genetically Modified Organisms (GMO’s) (12:30)
- Read the Dirty Dozen List and Clean 15 List from Environmental Working Group (EWG) (12:45)
- The first steps to feeding our little ones (13:12)
- Forming your child’s taste buds in utero (21:10)
- Andrea’s philosophy on supplements (22:29)
- Functional lab testing for micronutrients (24:05)
- Difference between folate and folic acid (31:26)
- Andrea sees clients all over the world (32:22)
You can connect with Andrea at ColoradoNaturalMed.com, Instagram, or info@coloradonaturalmed.com.
Andrea shares the number one gift a mom can give to her baby is a healthy gut. 75% of the immune system is housed in the gut (microbiome). Join us next week for episode 14 and learn even more about the microbiome and how it impacts overall health. I'll be talking with Toni Harman, producer of the documentary Microbirth. Toni will share more about the microbiome and the impact on your baby and ways that you can create a healthy foundation that can impact your child's health for the rest of his or her life!
Dr. Aly Cohen is a board-certified rheumatologist and integrative medicine specialist, as well as an environmental health expert in Princeton, New Jersey. She has collaborated with the Environmental Working Group, Cancer Schmancer, and other disease-prevention organizations, and is co-editor of the textbook, Integrative Environmental Medicine, part of the Oxford University Press Weil Integrative Medicine Library. In 2015, she created TheSmartHuman.com to share environmental health, disease prevention, and wellness information with the public. She lectures nationally on environmental health topics for el¬ementary/ high schools, colleges/ universities, medical schools, and physician-training programs, and she is a regular expert guest for television, print, and podcasts. In 2015 she received the NJ Healthcare Heroes Award in Education for The Smart Human educational platform and she was awarded the 2016 Burton L. Eichler Award for humanitarianism.
Dr. Cohen is working to educate and empower the next generation to make safer, smarter lifestyle choices through the creation of environmental health and prevention curricula for schools nationally. Her TEDx talk, “How to Protect Your Kids from Toxic Chemicals” can be found on YouTube, and you can follow her health and wellness tips and recommendations on Facebook at The Smart Human, Twitter, and Instagram: @thesmarthuman. Sign up for The Smart Human newsletter, read her latest posts at TheSmartHuman.com, and listen to her podcast The Smart Human.
Some highlights from this episode:
- Drinking water: what every mom and mom-to-be should know
- How to clean safely, especially with Covid-19
- How and why to choose baby products and personal care carefully
- How to live a cleaner, more chemical-free life
Learn more about Aly's work here:
The SmartHuman.com AlyCohenMD.com Tedx Talk: How to Protect Your Kids from Toxic Chemicals New Book Link- Non-Toxic: Guide to Living Healthy in a Chemical World
Welcome to the very first episode of the Pure Nurture Podcast! I’m so glad that you’re here.
I’m your host and the founder of PureNurture.com, Kristy Rodriguez. I’m excited to have you join me on this inaugural episode. In future episodes, we’ll be speaking with educators, experts, advocates, and moms in the field/ who have dedicated their lives and work to supporting women on their journey through Pregnancy, birth and the precious postpartum phase of motherhood.
Before we dive into these conversations and learn more from and about our upcoming guests, I first wanted to introduce you to Pure Nurture and give you the background story and share what Pure Nurture is all about, how it got started, and where it’s headed.
Pure Nurture is all about a Holistic approach to creating a healthy new life for mom and baby. It is a community where we fully believe that self-care is baby-care. It encompasses a mind-body approach to pregnancy, birth, and motherhood.
Pure Nurture is about connection, community, learning, inspiration, empowerment, self-care, self-love and most importantly, it’s a place where you can take all of this in, and ONLY keep what feels best for you and your family and leave the rest.
I created Pure Nurture after suffering from postpartum depression. The various challenges of pregnancy and motherhood left me feeling alone and I knew I needed so much more connection and support. My hope is that this community will help you to feel more connected, to find the support you need and to ultimately feel your best.
We are all in this together, this motherhood journey. And it’s full of love, laughter, crying, whining, excitement, contradictions, judgments, and so much more. Just like life, it is full of ups and downs.
My hope is that this podcast supports you on your journey and leaves you feeling inspired, empowered, and supported as a woman, a mom-to-be, and as a mom.
For our very first episode, we are joining Molly Mills, RN, and IBCLC. Molly is on the lactation team at the mama ‘hood where she runs a weekly Breastfeeding Group as well as an Infant Sleep Group. Molly is passionate about building a strong community for mamas and families so everyone has access to support. There is so much advice and information out there, Molly’s passion is in helping parents discover what feels right for them in their parenting journey, which is exactly what you will hear during our conversation. When she’s not at the ‘hood, she’s out on a run, learning to meditate or playing outdoors with her husband and three daughters. Molly will leave you feeling supported, empowered, and connected as a mama, especially related to birth and breastfeeding.
In this Episode, You Will Learn:
- How Pure Nurture was born (1:23)
- Meet Molly Mills, a Mom, RN, and Lactation Consultant (6:06)
- What the Mama’Hood is in Denver, Colorado (8:11)
- How Moms can set themselves up for success expect after the baby arrives (10:50)
- How to tune into your intuition (17:33)
- How to prepare for birth (24:33)
- Asking women to please not share their birth stories until after you’ve given birth (29:15)
- How Moms can set up a good breastfeeding relationship with their baby (30:35)
- The Breast Crawl Video (34:08)
Learn more about Molly Mills at the MamaHood.com.
Thank you so much for listening. And remember, self-care is baby-care. The better we support ourselves, and each other, as mamas, the more we’ll have to give back to our little ones.
Please help this podcast reach more mamas and mamas-to-be by leaving a review on iTunes and subscribing to the show.
Tranquility by HeHe is a Maternity Concierge, Doula, and Birthing Service in the Boston area. Their mission is to provide high quality, holistic, individualized doula services to Boston families in an empowering and nurturing environment. They take their doula services above and beyond prenatal, birth, and postpartum support by managing all of the "time-sucking" things such as creating your baby registry, planning your baby shower, and researching top-quality baby essentials.
HeHe's Motto: "Choose what's right for your body, your baby, and your family. I'll support you in that choice." In this episode, you'll hear about:
- Tranquility by He He Stuart Concierge Services
- The Birth Lounge Podcast
- Birth Lounge
- Birth trauma
- Communicate openly with your healthcare provider
- Induction methods
- Birth stories
- Guide to Childbirth book
- Birth plan
If you're outside the Boston area, The Birth Lounge is a great option to work with HeHe virtually. It's designed for women who want to make educated decisions along the journey of pregnancy and birth. Save $5/month to your membership to The Birth Lounge with code: nurture5
HeHe LOVES Instagram, so if you have an account, she spends all day in her stories and DM's! Find her here.
Meet your Fertility Friend, Dr. Patti Haebe. She’s on a mission to optimize your fertility as a results-obsessed naturopathic doctor. Patti’s committed to root-cause healing through therapeutic supplementation, as well as, targeted diet and lifestyle modifications. Her practice, Ocotillo Integrative Medicine, provides integrative consultations worldwide via webcam for those looking to incorporate natural, proactive approaches to their healthcare.
On the Pure Nurture Podcast, she talks about the best prenatal vitamins to look for, how a liver detox can enhance fertility, and why pooping and sweating should be top on your to do list.
In this episode, you’ll hear about:
- Dr. Patti Haebe’s work as a licensed naturopathic who specializes in hormonal optimization
- Biggest fertility issues
- Properly preparing for pregnancy
- Partnering with a functional medicine doctor to improve your fertility
- Tuning into your own cycle
- Nutrition you need to enhance your fertility
- Detoxing for fertility
- Take more time thank you think to plan for pregnancy
One of the biggest issues with fertility is the misconception that the first month you’ll try to conceive, boom, you’ll get pregnant. That’s not necessarily true. People plan one year for a wedding, so take your time setting up a fertile home and body for your baby. Her courses will guide you:
- Baby Making Basics – A mini course on everything you need to know to get pregnant
- Fertility Foundations – 4-month plan for effective and integrative pregnancy prep
Explore Dr. Patti’s in depth advice on her website, OcotilloIntegrative.com, and Instagram.
Josephine Atluri is an expert in meditation and in overcoming adversity to find joy. Through her unique journey on her path to becoming a mom of five, Josephine weathered many ups and downs with IVF, international adoption, and surrogacy. Channeling her experience to find calm and courage and to focus on perseverance, she now helps others navigate life’s curveballs, through group and individual online meditation training and her “Responding to Life” podcast.
On August 1st, Josephine will be hosting an online workshop to cultivate a fertility mindfulness practice called “Empowering Your Fertility Journey.” In this special workshop, participants will learn the basics of incorporating meditation and mindfulness to support and empower themselves in their fertility journey. The workshop will include meditation, journaling, and tools to reduce stress, boost your emotional and mental health, and increase calm.
In addition, Josephine does group meditation training for staff of such prestigious entities as Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. She also offers fertility Ave parenting workshops and meditation sessions.
Get 50% off her "Empowering Your Fertility Journey” Workshop for with code: PODCAST www.jatluri.com/workshops
When Sarah Clark was 28 years old, she was diagnosed with premature ovarian failure. She accepted it and had both her children through in vitro fertilization. Years later, she realized the root cause of her infertility was a food sensitivity, and later a gut infection.
Now, she helps couples get pregnant naturally, so they can fast track the process. She's a certified life coach with accreditation from the International Coaches Federation and a health coach through the Institute for Integrative Nutrition. She's the author of Fabulously Fertile - Supercharge Your Fertility Naturally. Her fertility coaching program, which includes functional lab testing, supports couples to make diet and lifestyle changes that dramatically improve the chances of a healthy pregnancy and baby! On her Get Pregnant Naturally Podcast, she shares that with functional medicine and natural fertility solutions, we can eventually reverse infertility.
In this episode, you’ll hear about:
- Sarah's story of premature ovarian failure
- Food sensitivities she had no clue she had
- What led Sarah to an integrative approach to fertility
- Don't focus on an infertility diagnosis. Dig deeper.
- Try food sensitivities tests like IGE Test, Leap MRT Test, and Elimination Diet
- Three MUST DO things to enhance your fertility
- Use a water filter (Sarah likes the Berkey Water Filter)
- Set up your Healing Round Table
- Mind-Body Fertility Group
- Get Pregnant Naturally Podcast
- FertilityDietFreebie.com - Free Fertility Diet Challenge for Couples
Hearing a "diagnosis" like ovarian failure or infertility is devastating to someone who wants a baby so badly. My guest, Sarah Clark, Integrative Health Coach, invites you to dig deeper than the diagnosis. Look at your whole body. Your gut health, stress level, self-care, and home-care products, plus food sensitivities play a HUGE PART in your fertility chances.
Learn more about Sarah's work at FabFertile.com and look her up on Instagram.
Kristy Goodman is the Co-Founder and CEO of PreConception Inc., an online service that provides direct-to-consumer preconception testing. Kristy is a women’s health, physician assistant (PA) with an M.S. in PA Studies and an MPH in Health Education and Behavioral Science from Rutgers University. Kristy completed a postgraduate fellowship in Ob/Gyn and has worked in a variety of settings providing preconception and prenatal care, labor and delivery services, and infertility treatment. Kristy is an advocate for evidence-based, patient-centered care and shares educational resources on her Instagram @theobgynpa. Kristy lives in Los Angeles, California with her partner and breast-cancer survivor dog, Kira.
This week, we talk about preconception care and what women can do to improve their health before pregnancy in order to improve their chances of having a healthy pregnancy. In this episode, Kristy offers an overview of pregnancy planning and what questions to ask your healthcare provider, when to start planning, which tests to get done, etc.
On the podcast, you'll hear more about:
- Kristy and her company, PreConception Inc.
- Improving your health pre-pregnancy
- Episode 22: Preconception Nutrition with Ryann Kipping
- Diet and exercise
- Prenatal vitamins
- Preconception Testing
- Immunity Testing
- Genetic Testing
- Talk to your family & friends about preconception care
No doubt that Kristy will either coin the term "Trimester Zero" or make it part of our everyday dialogue. Cheer her on! While you're at it, join the conversation!
Instagram: @theobgynpa
Facebook: www.facebook.com/theobgynpa
Websites: www.theobgynpa.com & www.preconceptiontest.com
Kiersten Markham is a Pre- & Perinatal Educator, birth doula, and practices Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy. She truly believes that if we want to make a positive change for our future we must start with how we conceive, connect to and birth our children. Kiersten works with individuals, couples, and families at every age and every stage. She also leads Conscious Conception Series for Couples online and monthly Conscious Women Circles in San Diego.
In this episode, you’ll hear about: * Kiersten’s personal life (0:11) * How Kiersten became a Doula and Cranial Sacral Therapist (0:50) * Conscious Conception Circles (3:20) * Conscious Conception for Couples (4:40) * What to expect at a Conscious Conception Circle (5:00) * When the soul enters the body (7:26) * Instagram post related to when the soul enters the body * Cosmic Cradle Book (8:30) * Watercolor painting of the soul coming into the body (9:30) * Connect to your baby prior to conception (10:15) * Some children remember being in utero (14:20) * How cranial-sacral therapy supports couples who want to conceive (18:12)
Tap into Kiersten’s wisdom and support at KeirstanMarkham.com, Craniosacral Therapy Practice, and follow her events on Instagram. If you’re not in San Diego, learn about her online courses: Conscious Conception Series for Couples Online Conscious Conception Circle Coming up on episode 34: A lot of the advice about pregnancy and motherhood out there is confusing and overwhelming. Don’t believe everything you read and don't feel like you have to take on or implement everything that you hear.
But how do you know what's BEST for you and your family and when to leave the rest?!
In the next episode, Adriana Lozada, host of the Birthful Podcast shares how to tune into your intuition in order to know what you need in each moment and what will be best for you and your baby. She also shares ways to prepare for birth and how to be less anxious about pregnancy, birth, and motherhood. Don't miss this one!
Lisa Hendrickson-Jack is a Certified Fertility Awareness Educator, Holistic Reproductive Health Practitioner, and author of The Fifth Vital Sign: Master Your Cycles & Optimize Your Fertility.
I help health-conscious women discover the connection between their menstrual cycles and their overall health, so they can ditch hormonal birth control forever. Our education system has failed to teach us about our fertility, so I’m here to empower you to take control of your fertility and your life.
In this episode, you'll hear about:
- Lisa's passion about fertility awareness
- What a vital sign is
- What your menstrual cycle has to do with your health
- Your Fifth Vital Sign book
- How contraceptives affect fertility
- Postpartum charting
- Healthy menstrual cycle length
If you're interested in becoming the Queen of your fertility, Lisa's Fertility Friday podcast is for you. Lisa's mission is to help you take control of your fertility (and your life), so dive into her world at FertilityFriday.com
Oh, and if you're trying to conceive, Lisa has a free resource for you! Click here --> FertilityFriday.com/TTC
Ryann Kipping is a Registered Dietitian Nutritionist and Certified Lactation Educator Counselor. She helps clients who are planning a pregnancy, currently pregnant, or recently postpartum reach optimum health during these extremely important and emotional periods of life. Aside from one on one nutrition consulting, Ryann is a nutrition writer and menu developer; she works with the supplemental nutrition program for women, infants, and children, and is currently attending San Diego State University to get her Masters in Public Health. You can connect with her via email or social media!
In this episode, you’ll hear about:
- Ryann’s story (0:23)
- Preconception nutrition (1:01)
- What to eat while pregnant when you’re craving fast food (5:00)
- When to take prenatal vitamins and the best ones to take (6:00)
- Can you take vitamins one year before conception? (8:13)
- Preconception nutrition for Dads (8:35)
- When you’re pregnant, these little shifts will boost your nutrition (10:05)
- Healthy snack ideas (11:45)
- Sneak veggies in these foods (12:30)
- Kristy’s Power Pancake Recipe
- Ryann’s Sunrise Smoothie Recipe
- Nutrition tips for breastfeeding (16:45)
- Ryann’s virtual nutrition services (18:43)
Connect with Ryann:
- Website: theprenatalnutritionist.com
- Instagram/Facebook: @prenatalnutritionist
- Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/nutritionbyryann/
Did you know that babies have experience and cellular memory from preconception to birth? If you just said, “WOW!” in your head, listen to episode 23. You'll learn that and so much more from Kate White from APPPAH (The Association for Prenatal and Perinatal Psychology and Health).
Alisa made history on the Dr. Oz Show when she discussed menstruation on national TV. She showed them how to ‘read’ your menstrual blood (using mashed fruit as props) to determine if you have hormonal imbalances. You can see the video here.
She also spoke about hormones, neurochemistry, feminine energy, entrepreneurship, and success at TEDx, Talks@Google, Summit Series Outside, Hay House, WIE Symposium, and SHE Summit.
While she’s super science-minded, Alisa has been known to drop F-bombs on stage. You’ll find her doing rituals on the new and full moon, and she wears tight, black dresses with colorful aprons in her kitchen — all with her baby girl on her hip and her Italian grandmother’s olive-wood spoon in hand.
Alisa built FLO Living as a virtual online health center to help women solve their hormonal symptoms from anywhere in the world. I published a book called WomanCode, which has been in the Top 50 bestselling women’s health books of all time since it was published.
Here’s a breakdown of our chat:
- WomanCode book
- Alisa’s hormonal breakdown
- FloLiving.com – Modern Menstrual Healthcare
- How to optimize your fertility
- Your period is your 5th vital sign (What is it trying to tell you?)
- In the Flow book
Alisa invites you to get support for your hormones and fertility at FloLiving.com. Once you read her new book, In the Flo, you won’t be able to put it down. See what bonuses you can get with the book at IntheFloBook.com. Sync with Alisa’s IG flow here.
The Mommy Lifecycle™ was developed by Dr. Cleopatra Abdou Kamperveen, a mom, psychologist, author, and professor. She is best known for her innovative research and work on reproductive health, human flourishing, and the intergenerational transmission of health. Her multi-million-dollar research program has been funded by multiple arms of the National Institutes of Health and numerous other funding agencies. After losing her mother at birth, it became her life’s work to walk beside women through some of the hardest, most important, and beautiful parts of their lives—their baby and Motherhood journeys. She has formally studied and supported thousands of women over the past 21 years. She is also a head-over-heels in love Wifey and Mommy of 3 and has personally used the system that she developed for her Clients. She gave birth to her children just before her 35th, 37th, and 40th birthdays. All three children were conceived on the first try!
Dr. Cleopatra is the author of Get Pregnant in No Time!, The Mommy Success Toolkit, and For Every Body: The 5 Essential Fertility, Pregnancy, & Postpartum Supplements. She teaches women all over the world how to create the families and the lives of their dreams. She provides a science-based + big-hearted space for fertility, pregnancy, and Motherhood support and education for women in their 20s, 30s, 40s, and 50s that doesn’t exist anywhere else in the world.
In this episode, you’ll learn:
- How Dr. Cleopatra found her purpose through losing her Mom (3:16)
- What the Mommy Life Cycle is (10:58)
- Do you ever feel ready to have a baby? (17:19)
- Motherhood is a sacrifice vs joyful (24:15)
- Preparing for postpartum (33:10)
- How Dr. Cleopatra supports Moms with the In Bloom program (34:40)
If you have any questions or would like to connect with Cleopatra, you can email her at info@drcleopatra.com and learn more at DrCleopatra.com.
Eyla Cuenca is a holistic birth guide, Childbirth Educator, Lactation Counselor, health freedom advocate, and mother. She holds a BA in Anthropology from Bennington College and trained under Robert A. Bradley, MD where she became specialized as a Birth Educator. Her years of work as a Guardian Ad Litem for the 11th Judicial Circuit and attending births as a Doula in both hospital and home settings brought her into human rights and advocacy work. She stands behind the idea that it is everyone’s right to have access to empowering education from conception to parenting. Her practice is dedicated to offering guidance that supports women and men in the process that is a return to their deepest knowing about birth, individual sovereignty, and the body’s innate intelligence.
She offers 1-1 guidance sessions to assist women and couples at any point in their journey, from conscious conception to processing births years later. She also offers her signature childbirth education program, as well as Doula training, and Placentophagy training (how to prepare the placenta for consumption).
What students get from the Uncovering Birth Immersion: * Deep knowledge of how labor and birth work * Fears transmuted into desires and courage * Nutrition to avoid birth complications & support postpartum health * Effective, non-chemical relaxation techniques * A clear understanding of breastfeeding, newborn care, postpartum healing * Tools for clear communication with medical providers & birth team * A comprehensive unique birth & postpartum plan * How to navigate variables & unexpected scenarios * Deeper connection and communication with your birth partner * PDFs, videos, and actions steps to support you in continued learning & conscious parenting
“Maybe you want a natural birth but everyone says it’s painful, and maybe even impossible. This 8-week deep dive into an empowered birth will crush your limiting beliefs holding you back from having the experience you want and are worthy of.” I get it, there is a lot telling us we can’t do it. Telling us that birth is something we should want to get through as quickly as possible. I’m here to tell you, that birth can be transformative, pleasurable, and the best experience of your life. It’s just a matter of getting fully informed. Are you ready to break through limiting beliefs and have a peaceful & empowering experience? Results of Taking this Course As a mother, after this course you will: * Know how to prepare your body and mind for easeful and connected birthing * Feel confident about your birth choices & making informed decisions * Be able to plan and accomplish the natural birth of your dreams * Understand how to welcome, nurture and care for your new baby * Breakthrough any fear or apprehensions about the “pain” or mysteries of birth
As a father, after this course you will: * Know exactly how to support the mother through her journey * Feel confident in creating a masculine container within the birth context * Be able to advocate more easily for your family * Have the practical tools to read labor and assist with newborn care and postpartum support * Dispel limiting beliefs about birth
Connect with Eyla:
- Website: eylacuenca.com
- Instagram: @eyla_cuenca_birth
- Telegram: https://t.me/eylacuenca
Sarah Thompson is a Maternity Functional Medicine specialist and Acupuncturist. She is also the author of the book, Functional Maternity - Using Functional Medicine and Nutrition to Improve Pregnancy and Childbirth Outcomes.
In this episode, you will learn:
- What is functional medicine?
- Foods that have the biggest positive impact on your pregnancy
- Physiological changes that occur during pregnancy
- Epigenetics
- Sarah's book: Using Functional Medicine and Nutrition to Improve Pregnancy and Childbirth Outcomes
Connect with Sarah:
- Website: FunctionalMaternity.com
- Instagram: @functional.maternity
- Facebook: @functional.maternity
August Brice’s passion is finding solutions for mindful living in our digital world. Her online platform, TechWellness.com is the only comprehensive online source that addresses all the challenges of our modern digital world - from EMF Radiation and the effects of blue light to Cyber security and mental wellbeing with tech. On top of her ongoing research, August has built an Advisory Team consisting of world-renown experts in each area, who consult with Tech Wellness and review all major content on the site. All solutions are purchased and tested, never supplied by or sponsored by manufacturers to avoid any influence.
In this episode, you will hear about:
- How August got into tech wellness
- Electromagnetic hypersensitivity
- EMF meters
- EMF-sensitivity studies (or lack of)
- Infertility studies
- Studies on pregnant mice
- The precautionary principle
- Turn WiFi off when you're not using it
- Faraday box
- Disable this on your phone when not in use
- Smart appliances
- Your phone camera is watching you
- Apps August recommends
- What Airplane Mode means
- Internet addiction
- Don't expose children to tech until this age
- Create device-free time as a family
- Where to best charge your phone
Connect with August:
- Website: techwellness.com
- Instagram: @techwellness
- Facebook: @techwellness
- Twitter: @techwellness1
- LinkedIn: @august-brice
Next week, we will prepare for better pregnancies through the lens of Functional Medicine. Sarah Thompson will be guiding us!
Producer and executive director of the Real Immunity film series, Cilla Whatcott brings a rich and varied background of personal and professional experiences to her healing practice. She holds a B.A. degree from Arizona State University, a diploma from the four-year professional program at Northwestern Academy of Homeopathy, Minneapolis, MN, and a Ph.D. in clinical homeopathy from Kingdom College. She was an instructor at Normandale Community College in Minnesota for eight years, teaching classes about homeopathy, vaccines, and autism. She is the co-founder of a non-profit 501c3 for the education of homeopathic practitioners in homeoprophylaxis.
Cilla was a forerunner in opening the conversation regarding the need for safe immunizations as early as 2008 while teaching at Normandale Community College and a pioneer in bringing homeoprophylaxis to American families. Her interviews with luminaries such as Andy Wakefield, Del Bigtree, Paul Thomas, and others preceded their meteoric rise to popularity. She continues to bring her films and HP program into the public eye as a means of engaging experts and promoting safe, natural, real immunity.
In this episode, you will hear about:
- An intro to homeopathy (the white pellets that dissolve in your mouth)
- Becoming a Mom begins long before you get pregnant
- Miasms & healing them before conception
- Using homeopathy to address the emotional trauma that your grandparents had
- Using homeopathy for morning sickness
- Homeopathy Kits
- Using a dose of Aconite to address fear or feelings of "I'm done!" during labor
- Gelsemium to address performance anxiety
- Ignatia to address grief over labor that didn't go well (or a miscarriage)
- Arsenicum to address anxiety or terror of being alone
- Using homeopathy to support fertility
- Cell Salt Kit
- Cell Salts Virtual Class
- Phytolacca or Bryonia or Belladonna to address the pain of mastitis from nursing
- Sepia to address postpartum depression (plus losing the sense of taste and smell from COVID)
- Virtual Classes with Cilla
- Episode 015: Homeopathy for Mom and Baby with Cilla Whatcott
- Intro to Homeoprophylaxis Video & FAQs
- HomeoMamma Pregnancy Kit
Connect with Cilla:
- Website: realimmunity.org
- Instagram: @realimmunity
- Facebook: @realimmunitymovie
Next week, August Brice joins us on The Pure Nurture Podcast to talk about the importance of doing digital detoxes on a regular basis!
Beth Berry has a revolution in her bones. It began when she was seventeen, pumping milk in the high school bathroom for her now-grown eldest daughter, and has gradually evolved into a tender, fiery conviction to reclaim motherhood from every disempowering personal and cultural story she can wrap her head and heart around.
As an author, life coach, group facilitator, teacher, and mother of four daughters (ages 14, 17, 20, and 27), she has spent thousands of hours mentoring and supporting mothers throughout their process of self-discovery, self-reclamation, and dream realization.
In this episode, you will hear about:
- Beth's book: Motherwhelmed
- Self-sacrifice in order to be a good mother
- Being a multi-passionate person
- The idea of soul fire
- The system is not set up to keep your soul fire burning brightly
- Creating a community for moms to lean on
- A painful couple of years with the pandemic
- Take your self-awareness & personal growth seriously
- Let healing from hyper-independence be an experiment
- Let life be messy!
- Moon cycle gatherings
- Repairing sister wounds
- Belonging book
- If Women Rose Rooted book
- Women who Run with the Wolves book
- The Hold Wild book
- The Call of the Wild book
- Matricentric Feminism book
- You don't have to "be more woke" to make sister bonds
- Beth Berry's blog
Connect with Beth:
- Website: revolutionfromhome.com
- Instagram: @revolutionfromhome
- Facebook: @revolutionfromhome
Up next, Cilla Whatcott returns to the podcast to dive even deeper into the world of homeopathy for pregnancy and birth. Listen to our first conversation here!
Kerry Tuschhoff, HCHI, CHt, CI, is the Founder and Director of Hypnobabies Childbirth Hypnosis. Kerry is a nationally renowned speaker and writer on a wide range of women’s pregnancy and childbirth concerns. Her subjects include prenatal and childbirth choices, informed consent issues, health, and low-risk status concerns, comfort in childbirth, the power of birth language, and midwifery advocacy. As a childbirth educator for 30 years, a doula, and a hypnotherapist, Kerry has developed many educational programs for birthing families, medical and childbirth professionals, and hypnotherapists.
In this episode, you will hear about:
- What hypnosis really is about
- The Bradley Method
- Why Kerry created Hypnobabies (hypnosis for childbirth)
- Kerry’s posterior birth experiences
- Upgrades to the Hypnobabies program
- Who would choose Hypnobabies as their childbirth education method?
- Hypnobabies tracks for different kinds of birth (c-section, vaginal, home, etc.)
- How fear can impact birthing
- How hypnosis can help Moms during the postpartum phase such as:
- Discomfort after birth
- Breastfeeding success
- Nipple soreness
- Relaxing after the baby is here
- Sleeping in sync with your baby
- Confidence as new parents
- Weight loss
- Smoking cessation
- Hypnobabies for fertility
- Hypnosis & affirmation tracks for each week of a woman’s cycle
- Releasing an egg
- Conception
- Carrying a successful pregnancy
- Healthy sperm for the Father-to-be
- Learn more about what Hypnobabies is
- Find a Hypnobabies class near you
- Find an online Hypnobabies class
- Listen for free: Track # 1 – What is Hypnobabies Hypnosis for Childbirth?
- Listen for free: Track # 2 – Instantly Calm!
- Find a Hypno-Doula near you
- Become a certified Hypnobabies instructor
- Check out the various hypnosis tracks available such as:
- Cesarean Birth Preparation
- VBAC Success
- Birthing My Twins Naturally
Connect with Kerry:
- Website: Hypnobabies.com
- Instagram: @hypnobabiesofficial_
- YouTube: @Hypnobabies
- Facebook: @Hypnobabies
- Twitter: @Hypnobabies
Kelly Jernigan is a Holistic Doula & Childbirth Educator since 2017 with a focus on helping women reclaim their power and unravel what society has taught us about pregnancy, birth, and motherhood. I teach group and one on one classes virtually and in person, and also offer 1:1 support virtually and in person throughout pregnancy, birth, and postpartum.
You will learn about:
- Kelly's journey to doula work
- Talking about your fears around birth
- Allowing birth to be an initiation
- Unhelpful comments about your birth choices
- Setting boundaries
- The art of trusting yourself
- How assisting a home birth rocked her world
- Focus on a mom's mindset in the prenatal stage
- Creating a birth plan is empowering
- You can say NO to things
- Evidence Based Birth resources
Connect with Kelly:
- Website: BrightenBirth.com
- Instagram: @brighten.birth
Next week, Kerry Tuschhoff dives into using hypnosis to prepare your mindset for what else, childbirth!
Milli Hill is a writer, feminist, and freelance journalist with a passion for reframing the narrative around women’s bodies. She is the author of The Positive Birth Book, Give Birth like a Feminist, and My Period (for preteen girls). From 2012 to 2021, she founded and ran the Positive Birth Movement, a global network of antenatal discussion groups aimed at improving birth and giving women better access to support and information.
As a journalist since 2013, she has written for many publications including the Telegraph, Mail, and Guardian, along with appearing on the BBC, talk radio, LBC, and many leading podcasts. She lives in Somerset with her partner and three children.
In this episode, you will hear about:
- Milli’s feminist viewpoint of women’s traumatic birth experiences
- Positive Birth Movement
- The cycles of being female
- Jane Hardwicke Collings (a shamanic menstruation educator)
- Reframing the birth and menstruation conversations for our daughters
- Losing touch with nature
- Kristy witnessed a dog giving birth
- Relating 5 Rhythms dance to being in labor
- The value of a birth doula
- Changing the language around birth
- A serious Internet attack on Milli’s thoughts
- Is our biological sex now on a spectrum?
- Being more inclusive
- To mask our children at school or not?
- Reconnect with nature for healing
Connect with Milli:
- Website: MilliHill.co.uk
- Twitter: @millihill
- Instagram: @milli.hill
- Facebook: @millihillwriter
- Global Network: Positive Birth Movement
Books by Milli Hill:
- The Positive Birth Book
- Give Birth Like A Feminist
- My Period: Find your flow and feel proud of your period!
Next week, we will unravel what society says is "true" about motherhood so you can reclaim your power around pregnancy and birth with Kelly Jernigan! This is the perfect segway from talking with Milli.
Jodie Meschuk is a fierce mama bear and freedom advocate. After her son was diagnosed with Autism, she took matters into her own hands. She found her voice, gained strength, and took power back for her family. She now helps empower others to choose their own path rather than being told what to do.
In this episode, you will hear about:
- When Jodie found her voice to speak up for her family
- Her son received nine injections in one visit
- His vaccine injuries
- How she brought back her son from a diagnosis of autism
- The courage to become a health freedom advocate
- Being gaslighted by the healthcare system
- The impact of being slimed by fear
- How to grow your Mama Bear Power
- Recognizing manipulative behavior
- Watch The Truth About Vaccines documentary
- Notice the people you are surrounding yourself with
- Autism Reimagined book by Jodie Meschuk
- There is NO greater gift than your protection of your children
Connect with Jodie:
- Website: jodiemeschuk.com
- Instagram: @thewarriorcenter
- Facebook: @JodieHowardMeschuk
Kylee Zeck is a Certified Holistic Health Coach that empowers people to reclaim their health— specifically focusing on the reversal of autoimmune conditions. Kylee was previously diagnosed with lupus and rheumatoid arthritis and reversed both conditions via holistic means. She also successfully completed a natural VBAC despite allopathic doctor’s advice that it wouldn’t be possible and would be “detrimental.”
In this episode, you will hear about:
- Kylee's journey with autoimmunity
- Her traumatic birth experience
- Boundaries
- Hypno Babies and The Bubble of Peace
- Her VBAC in a bathtub
- Finding the right birth support team
- Gentle C-section
Connect with Kylee:
- Website: creatingthecure.coach
- Instagram: @kylee.zeck
Up next, Jodie Meschuck bravely opens up about where to draw a line in the sand as a mother!
Robin Shirley is creating a new and unique learning environment for our children in response to the collapse in health, family, and community values seen over recent years. The Compass Center for Learning and Exploration will become a biodynamic farm offering enrichment programs for children ages 3 to 18. She currently offers a Little Sprouts Program for ages 3 to 5 and respects your health freedom! They are also fundraising to purchase their permanent location. They not only want to improve the outlook of our children’s lives here in Charlottesville, Virginia, but they hope to create a living, working template that others can recreate in their own communities around the world.
In this episode, you will learn:
- Choosing something different for my child's school during the pandemic
- Unschooling & rewilding for kid's learning
- Starting The Compass Center
- A mother's intuition
- You can make a change at any age
- Traditional education vs a model that Robin is creating
Connect with Robin:
- Website: compasscenterlearning.com
- Instagram for The Compass Center: @thecompassctr
- Instagram for Take Back You Health: @tbyhguide
- Facebook for Take Back Your Health: @TBYHConference
Next week, you'll hear from Kylee Zeck on finding autonomy during birth!
Mikayla Wright and Cassandra Stockwell of Mamas Maternal Health help women with Type 1 Diabetes &/or Autoimmune Diagnoses have a complication-free maternal journey. These ladies have walked similar paths as Registered Dietitian Nutritionists and Certified Lactation Counselors.
With a burning passion to set mamas and their babies up for long-term health, they co-founded the Healthy Autoimmune Pregnancy Protocol because they've seen firsthand, the lack of support mamas with autoimmune diagnoses have, and wanted to create a solution. Also when breastfeeding seemed impossible, they found an organic way to get it pumping again.
In this episode, you'll hear about:
- What women with autoimmune diagnoses need to worry about on their maternal journey
- Thyroid dysfunction and testing
- Failing at breastfeeding
- Focusing on what you DO want & what you DON'T want
- Misconceptions about autoimmune pregnancy, birth, and postpartum
- Finding the confidence to advocate for your birth needs and desires
- Why prioritizing your health in the autoimmune maternal journey is SO important
- Not feeling guilty about getting extra support
Connect with Mikayla & Cassandra:
- Website: mamasmaternalhealth.com
- Instagram: @mamas_maternal_health
- Facebook: @mamasmaternalhealth
- Facebook Group: @MamasMaternalHealthCommunity
- Peanut App: peanut-app.io
- Online Course: Birth and Breastfeeding Blueprint
- Online Program: Concierge Maternal Healthcare for T1D and Autoimmune
- Coaching Program: 90-Day T1D Fertility Framework
Set your alarm for next Tuesday so you don't miss finding your autonomy in birth with Kylee Zeck.
Meet my guest, Austen Lincoln. She is a licensed pediatric occupational therapist and child development nerd who owns a small therapy and parent coaching business called Steps 2 Grow. She lives in rural North Carolina with her husband Colin and their Bouvier Des Flandres Abraham. When Austen isn't encouraging little movers or empowering their caregivers, she is watching the sunrise from a rocker on her barn deck, simmering bone broth, baking paleo bread, learning to garden, or making some other attempt at homesteading.
In this episode, you'll hear about:
- What are some research-proven practices that positively impact sensory-motor development?
- What are some easy ways parents can incorporate these concepts into their daily routines?
- How the pandemic may be influencing baby/child development
- Caution signs: what to look for that may indicate seeing a specialist
- If there were one or two things you would want a parent to remind themselves or think about daily as it relates to their child’s development, what would it be?
- Online course: Mindful Steps to Motor Milestones
Connect with Austen:
- Website: steps2grow.com
- Instagram: @steps2grow
Next week, Mikayla & Cassandra of Mamas Maternal Health are opening up about what women with autoimmune diagnoses need to worry about on their maternal journey
This week's podcast guest is Amanda Gorman, a wife, mother of two, host of the Finding Your Village podcast, and a certified Birthing From Within childbirth educator. (We have a lot in common.) In addition to her family, Amanda is passionate about: writing, speaking, addiction and trauma recovery, music, social justice, and birth work. Her podcast focuses on birth, postpartum, and parent mental health. She teaches online childbirth classes that not only inform parents about the physiological aspects of birth but also train parents to build a toolkit to cope with pain, become confident facing the unknown, and find their parenting village.
In this episode, you’ll hear about:
- The importance of patient advocacy while pregnant
- Non-outcome based childbirth classes
- Creating a Postpartum Plan Cheat Sheet
- Utilizing internal & external resources to create your parenting village
- My unmedicated and epidural birth stories
Connect with Amanda:
- Website: findingyourvillage.com
- Instagram: @findingyourvillage
- TikTok: @findingyourvillage
Coming up next is Austen Lincoln who shares typical and atypical sensory-motor development, one step at a time. Stay tuned!
Author, educator, and former healthcare consultant, Beth Lambert has documented the escalating rates of childhood chronic conditions for well over a decade. Her first book, A Compromised Generation, provides a thorough analysis of the origins of this modern health crisis and documents how modifications to environmental and lifestyle factors can profoundly influence health outcomes, including full disease reversal. Beth is also the co-author of Brain Under Attack: A Resource for Parents and Caregivers of Children with PANS, PANDAS, and Autoimmune Encephalitis.
Beth is the founder and Executive Director of Epidemic Answers, a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization dedicated to reestablishing vibrant health in our children. She is also the creator and Executive Producer of The Documenting Hope Project, a multi-year prospective research study and media project that examines the cumulative impact of environmental stressors on health and their mitigation through personalized and systems-based treatment approaches.
You'll hear about:
- The uprise of babies with chronic health conditions
- Total Load Model
- The CHIRPTM Study
- The FLIGHTTM Study (open to northern Virginia applicants)
- Supplement healthy food with a multivitamin (no sugar & hypoallergenic)
- Douglas Labs multi
- Pure Encapsulations multi
- Branch Basics cleaning supplies
- Made Safe — safe products for families
- Brain Under Attack: A Resource for Parents and Caregivers of Children with PANS, PANDAS, and Autoimmune Encephalitis book
- A Compromised Generation: The Epidemic of Chronic Illness in America's Children book
Follow Beth Lambert:
- Resources Website: epidemicanswers.org
- Research Project Website: documentinghope.com
- Facebook: @documentinghope
- Instagram: @documentinghope
- Twitter: @documentinghope
Next on the show, Amanda Gorman talks all about making informed decisions that matter to you for pregnancy and birth. This is an empowering one, so get ready!
WELCOME BACK TO THE PURE NURTURE PODCAST! We are birthing Season Four with new guests to help you reclaim your pursuit of pregnancy, orgasmic birth, and parenting with more ease.
Eyla Cuenca is our first guest after a nine-month hiatus. She is a holistic birth guide, Childbirth Educator, Lactation Counselor, health freedom advocate, and mother. She holds a BA in Anthropology from Bennington College and trained under Robert A. Bradley, MD where she became specialized as a Birth Educator.
Her years of work as a Guardian Ad Litem for the 11th Judicial Circuit and attending births as a Doula in both hospital and home settings brought her into human rights and advocacy work. She stands behind the idea that it is everyone’s right to have access to empowering education from conception to parenting. Her practice is dedicated to offering guidance that supports women and men in the process that is a return to their deepest knowing about birth, individual sovereignty, and the body’s innate intelligence.
She offers 1-1 guidance sessions to assist women and couples at any point in their journey, from conscious conception to processing births years later. She also offers her signature childbirth education program, Uncovering Birth, as well as Doula training, and Placentophagy training (how to prepare the placenta for consumption).
In this episode, you’ll hear about:
- Evaluating your relationship with your midwife or doctor
- Speaking up for your birth preferences (even when it's SO hard)
- Dispelling myths about birth and postpartum
- Why women have such a tough time after birth
Connect with Eyla:
- Website: eylacuenca.com
- Instagram: @eyla_cuenca_birth
- Telegram: https://t.me/eylacuenca
Andrea Laine White is a Functional Nutrition Therapist practicing at Colorado Natural Medicine and the Chief Marketing Officer and Nutritionist for Baby Fresh Organics (Fresh Start). In her clinical practice, Andrea has developed therapeutic nutritional protocols for a variety of different conditions including, but not limited to: hormonal weight gain related to menopause, acne, endometriosis, infertility and conception, disorders of the thyroid including Hashimoto’s, autoimmune disorders including Celiac / Rheumatoid Arthritis / Primary Sclerosing Cholangitis (PSC), sleep disorders, migraine headaches, digestive disorders, HPA axis maladaptation/adrenal fatigue, hypertension, food sensitivities/ intolerances, depression/anxiety, gaining weight/increasing lean muscle mass, and cardiovascular disease/elevated cholesterol levels. Andrea attained her certification as a Master Nutrition Therapist from the Nutrition Therapy Institute in Denver, Colorado. Her education was primarily administered by practitioners of functional medicine. Functional medicine addresses the underlying or root causes of dysfunction in the body and seeks to restore balance from within. Andrea shares the number one gift a mom can give to her baby is a healthy gut. 75% of the immune system is housed in the gut (microbiome). Join us next week for episode 14 and learn even more about the microbiome and how it impacts overall health. I'll be talking with Toni Harman, producer of the documentary Microbirth. Toni will share more about the microbiome and the impact on your baby and ways that you can create a healthy foundation that can impact your child's health for the rest of his or her life!
In this episode, you’ll learn: * Andrea’s story (0:45)
* Your Next Big Thing Book helped her find her purpose(1:25)
* Andrea’s approach to nutrition (3:29)
* Two factors that determine a healthy gut (4:55)
* What glyphosate is and how it affects the digestive system (10:16)
* Fun fact: learn about microbiome and epigenetics in episode 14 with Toni Harmon (11:10)
* Solocast: About Genetically Modified Organisms (GMO’s) (12:30)
* Read the Dirty Dozen List and Clean 15 List from Environmental Working Group (EWG) (12:45)
* The first steps to feeding our little ones (13:12)
* Forming your child’s taste buds in utero (21:10)
* Andrea’s philosophy on supplements (22:29)
* Functional lab testing for micronutrients (24:05)
* Difference between folate and folic acid (31:26)
* Andrea sees clients all over the world (32:22)
You can connect with Andrea at ColoradoNaturalMed.com, Instagram, or info@coloradonaturalmed.com. Join us for episode 14 of The Pure Nurture Podcast when we talk all about the microbiome and the impact on your baby's health with Toni Harman, producer of the documentary Microbirth.
Anuka Gazara-Anthony is an accredited Mongan Method Hypnobirthing teacher currently based in Bethesda, Maryland. She was inspired to leave her career and train as a Hypnobirthing Practioner after having her daughter in 2013.
Anuka's first pregnancy and delivery were extremely difficult, she had many complications and was unprepared for her delivery. This led to many complications to her body after birth. She was determined to learn a new approach that could help her understand her body better during pregnancy and delivery. Anuka was determined to have a peaceful and calm birth with her second child. Hypnobirthing has changed her life in so many ways, but more importantly, it empowered her with the tools and techniques she needed to have a calm and confident birth – the way she wanted!
Anuka trained in Transpersonal Hypnotherapy through the National Association of Transpersonal Hypnotherapists. She also has a postgraduate diploma in business from Oxford University. Her passion is to promote meditation, mindfulness programs, holistic practices, hypnotherapy, and hypnobirthing services which encourage best practices of self-care.
What you'll hear in this episode: * Hypnobirthing * Mindfulness * Body Scan * Mindful Pregnancy * Breathwork to Relax the Uterus = Shorter Labor
Connect with Anuka: * Website: JanuJoyfulServices.com * Instagram: @anuka86
More about Anuka:
Anuka Gazara-Anthony is a Mindfulness teacher and Leadership & Wellness, Coach who combines her unique expertise and skills in organizational leadership, program management and hypnobirthing to her work as a mindfulness-based leadership coach. She mentors and leads training for executives, entrepreneurs and individuals in becoming confident mindful and effective leaders.
For over 10 years Anuka has worked in areas of human resources and program management as well as in an executive officer role supporting and advising executives in government and international organizations which include the United Nations and the International Labour Organization.
Across these roles, she has worked in different countries in Europe and Africa. These experiences have shown her how strategy, culture and the human connection can influence and impact how leaders can work with their employees with more effective leadership. Furthermore, it highlighted the positive influence of effective leadership can have on the lives of so many people from their conference tables to their dining tables.
Anuka has over 20 years of experience of mindfulness meditation practice of various forms of meditation. Anuka is committed to strengthening the inner resilience and wisdom of individuals, executive teams, business groups and boards of directors using mindfulness-based leadership and emotional intelligence leadership coaching.
She holds a BA from the University of Queen Mary ( University of London) a Master’s degree (MA) from the School of Oriental and African Studies (University of London) and a Postgraduate Diploma in Business Organizational Leadership, Said Business School, from the University of Oxford.
Preparing for birth (even if this is your 5th pregnancy) can be stressful and overwhelming. You might be feeling anxious and even a little scared about your upcoming birth. You’re not alone. This is quite common.
You might be searching for childbirth classes and feel overwhelmed by all the options, or have no clue where to start looking for a class. If this sounds like you, you’re in the right place!
Believe me, I know how you’re feeling right now. Been there! With my first baby, I didn’t have a clue where to begin, so I just took a couple of hospital childbirth education classes to get my feet wet. A big part of me just wanted a nurse or doctor to tell me what to do.
With my second child, I learned about HypnoBirthing® and thought, “Oh, that sounds kinda like what I’m learning in yoga, I’ll try that.” I ended up loving it, but looking back, I was completely unaware of my options and which course might have been best for me, at the time.
To help you get clear on your birthing method, I created a free quiz with the five most popular birthing methods to have an empowered birth. Check out the quiz and discover which course best fits your wants, needs, and desires for your upcoming birth.
There isn’t ONE right way or method, there are so many great options. It’s fantastic and can be overwhelming. I’m here to take away some of the stress and help you gain some clarity on which one is best for you. (Not your sister, not your mom, not your BFF.)
Click here and take the 5-minute quiz.
Dr. Stephanie Dueger is a psychotherapist, parent coach, and educator, who works with expectant and new parents and their little ones. She facilitates parent workshops and is currently the Editor-in-Chief of the academic Journal of Prenatal and Perinatal Psychology and Health. Dr. Dueger lives in Boulder, Colorado, with her husband and two daughters. Preparing for Parenthood: 55 Essential Conversations for Couples Becoming Families is her first book—the book she wishes she’d had for herself when first becoming a parent. Learn more about Dr. Dueger at drduegertherapy.com.
In this episode, you'll hear about:
- New book: Preparing for Parenthood: 55 Essential Conversations for Couples Becoming Families
- Concrete steps you can take right now to feel more prepared in becoming a parent
- Important conversation topics to discuss with your partner before having a baby
- Association of Pre and Perinatal Psychology and Health (APPPAH): birthpsychology.com
- How to connect with your unborn baby
- Episode 23: The Importance of Prenatal Bonding with Kate White
- Episode 33: Kiersten Markham episode of Pure Nurture Podcast
- Pure Nurture—A Holistic Guide to a Healthy Baby (my book)
Connect with Stephanie: Website: drduegertherapy.com Facebook: @theattachmentdoctor Instagram: @theattachmentdoctor
Lily Nichols is a Registered Dietitian/Nutritionist, Certified Diabetes Educator, researcher, and author with a passion for evidence-based prenatal nutrition and exercise. Her work is known for being research-focused, thorough, and unapologetically critical of outdated dietary guidelines. She is the author of two bestselling books, Real Food for Pregnancy and Real Food for Gestational Diabetes.
In this episode, you’ll hear about:
- Who is Lily Nichols (2:15)
- Real Food For Pregnancy book by Lily Nichols
- What prompted Lily to do prenatal nutrition for women (3:20)
- Common misconceptions about prenatal nutrition (5:42)
- Best vegetarian protein sources for pregnancy (10:06)
- You were fed wrong information on prenatal nutrition (14:22)
- Vital nutrients for Mom and baby (17:12)
- Folate versus folic acid (22:25)
- What needs to be improved in conventional prenatal nutrition (27:15)
Read the first two chapters of Lily’s Real Food for Pregnancy book for free on her site. Her blog will keep you well-fed and if you’re curious to see what she eats, find her on Instagram.
More great podcast episodes with a prenatal + postpartum nutrition focus:
- Your Body During Breastfeeding with Courtney Hasseman (nutrition during breastfeeding)
- The Whole30 and Whole30 Mamas Club (nutrition for moms) with Stephanie Greunke
- Prenatal Nutrition with Melissa Mor
- Preconception Nutrition with Ryann Kipping
- Functional Nutrition for Fertility, Pregnancy, and Motherhood with Andrea White
Dr. Britta Bushnell (she/her) is a wife and mother, author of Transformed by Birth, host of the podcast Transformed, veteran childbirth educator, celebrated speaker, mythologist, and specialist in childbirth, relationship, and parenting. For over 20 years, Dr. Bushnell has worked with individuals and couples as they prepare for the life-changing experience of giving birth. Her work with parents has been enriched by her doctoral work in mythology and psychology, her years spent as a co-owner of Birthing From Within, as well as her dedicated study of solution-focused brief therapy, storytelling, sustaining sexual vibrancy, and helping romantic partnerships thrive even during parenthood.
What you'll hear in this episode: * Britta's yoga career * Episode 97: Birth Story Medicine with Pam England * Transformed by Birth book by Dr. Britta Bushnell * E X P A N D your birth expectations * Global postpartum period * The transformation brought on by birth and becoming a parent * Dealing with isolation in 2020 * The highs and lows of parenting * The illusion of perfectionism * Rites of passage and what they have to do with this moment in time
Connect with Britta: Website: BrittaBushnell.com Instagram: @brittabushnellphd Facebook: @brittabushnellphd Book: Transformed by Birth Podcast: Transformed
Anita Lambert is the owner of Holistic Health Physiotherapy and a Registered Pelvic Health and Orthopaedic Physiotherapist with a focus on women's health, specifically prenatal and postpartum care. She’s one of the select few physiotherapists in Canada to receive advanced training in labor support, which blends orthopedic physiotherapy expertise with birth doula support.
Anita is always looking to share and learn up-to-date information about pregnancy, birth and beyond which led her to co-host the To Birth & Beyond Podcast.
You can usually find Anita on the move - whether playing with her kids or exercising with strength training, spin, yoga or Pilates. Anita lives in Peterborough, Ontario with her husband Andy, daughter Pippa and the newest addition to the family - baby Jack.
In this episode, you’ll hear about:
- Anita’s work with prenatal and postpartum care (1:27)
- To Birth and Beyond Podcast
- Where your Pelvic Floor is (5:53)
- Preparing Your Pelvic Floor for Birth Podcast
- Kegel exercises (8:27)
- Best time to do Kegel exercises (most women do it wrong) (9:00)
- In-Depth Birth Prep Podcast
- Flower Bloom Breathe to expedite labor — How to video (10:40)
- Perineal Massage — How to video (12:30)
- Massage oil recommendations (15:50)
- Exercises to prepare for birth (16:30)
- Spinning Babies Daily Essentials Video
- Ways to ease your birth (17:50)
If you feel drawn to Anita, you can find her on Instagram here, Facebook, her site HolisticHealthPhysio.com, and her amazing podcast To Birth and Beyond.
If thinking about birth gives you the jitters, Anita’s shares solid advice to help you prepare here. If I was pregnant, I would’ve downloaded this.
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Dr. Aumatma is a Naturopathic Doctor & Nutritionist, in practice for close to 15 years. She specializes in women's health, is the best-selling author of "Fertility Secrets: What Your Doctor Didn't Tell You About Baby-Making," and is a sought out speaker on topics related to Women’s Health and Empowerment. Dr. Aumatma was awarded the “Best Alternative Medicine Practitioner″ award locally in 2015, and as a top “Women In Medicine” Doctor in 2020. In addition to supporting couples through private 1 on 1 care and online group programs, and she also trains practitioners who want to specialize in fertility
In this episode, you'll hear about:
- Dr. Aumatma's road to fertility and postpartum support
- Pre-conception testing
- What ridges on your nails mean
- What a Naturopathic Doctor is
- Mind Body Spirit Approach
- Body Talk
- Prenatal Supplements
- Folic Acid vs Folate
- Nutrition for Pregnancy
- Emotional and Mental Support
Website: HolisticFertilityCenter.com
Facebook: @DrAumatmaNd
Instagram: @holsitic_fertility_doctor
Hannah & Kelty are twins, coaches + speakers at the parenting resource, Upbringing. Certified in Simplicity Parenting, Positive Discipline + trained in Foundations of the respectful parenting approach, RIE, Hannah & Kelty empower parents to grow up alongside their babies and kids for sanity + social change, elevating their discipline practices one conversation at a time! They are co-parenting in captivity on a farm outside Portland, Oregon that they share with their partners and kids, ages 4, 5, 6, and 7. Learn more about their new baby course, Right From The Start and their discipline-related guides on their website, and catch their LIVE weekly Dismantling Discipline Q&As on their thriving Instagram community or their top-rated parenting podcast of the same name. In this episode, you'll hear about: * Simplicity Parenting * Independent play * Episode 105: Radical Unschooling * How to can prepare toddlers/kids for your new baby * Understand your child's stress language * Mommy Daughter or Daddy Daughter Dates * Boundaries * Supporting your partner through the new baby * Right From The Start Online Course
CONNECT WITH HANNAH & KELTY:
- Website: Upbringing.co
- Instagram: @upbringing.co
- Right From The Start Online Course: yourparentingmojo.com/rightfromthestart
Hannah & Kelty are twins, coaches + speakers at the parenting resource, Upbringing. Certified in Simplicity Parenting, Positive Discipline + trained in Foundations of the respectful parenting approach, RIE, Hannah & Kelty empower parents to grow up alongside their babies and kids for sanity + social change, elevating their discipline practices one conversation at a time! They are co-parenting in captivity on a farm outside Portland, Oregon that they share with their partners and kids, ages 4, 5, 6, and 7. Learn more about their new baby course, Right From The Start and their discipline-related guides on their website, and catch their LIVE weekly Dismantling Discipline Q&As on their thriving Instagram community or their top-rated parenting podcast of the same name. In this episode, you'll hear about: * Simplicity Parenting * Independent play * Episode 105: Radical Unschooling * How to can prepare toddlers/kids for your new baby * Understand your child's stress language * Mommy Daughter or Daddy Daughter Dates * Boundaries * Supporting your partner through the new baby * Right From The Start Online Course
CONNECT WITH HANNAH & KELTY: * Website: Upbringing.co * Instagram: @upbringing.co * Right From The Start Online Course: yourparentingmojo.com/rightfromthestart
Nikki Bostwick is the Founder and Editor-in-Chief of THE FULLEST and host of THE FULLEST podcast. She helps formulate THE FULLEST product line, alongside her amazing team. She is a mom of two, nestled in Newport Beach with her high school sweetheart and their Siberian Husky. In this episode, you'll hear about: * How THE FULLEST podcast was born * Trusting your intuition * Advocating what's best for your family * Honoring people's choice about the shot * Believing in your body's ability to heal naturally
CONNECT WITH NIKKI: * Website: thefullest.com * Instagram: @nikkibostwick * Instagram: @thefullestco
Betsy and Sofia are co-founders and co-CEOs of Tiny Organics. Named Forbes 30 under 30 and BBC's 100 Most Inspiring Women, Betsy has a decade of experience as an inventor, product founder, and CEO. Sofia is a PR and marketing veteran with vast experience, most recently at Ascend Foundation helping elevate women and minorities onto U.S. corporate boards and creating a pipeline of women and minorities to achieve the highest levels of leadership at Fortune 500 corporations. In this episode, you'll hear about: * What inspired the creation of Tiny Organics * Lactation Bites * The importance of childhood nutrition from an early age * Low-sugar feeding * Reducing the risk of toxins in baby food * Baby Led Weaning
CONNECT WITH BETSY & SOFIA: * Website: tinyorganics.com * Instagram: @tinyorganics * LinkedIn - Betsy: linkedin.com/in/betsyfore * LinkedIn - Sofia: linkedin.com/in/sofialaurell
Hilda Labrada Gore, also known as Holistic Hilda is a voice for healthy living, and she is convinced that we need to look at how our ancestors lived in the past to create good health today. She wants everyone to live their best life at any age and stage. It's not hard—enjoy the sunlight, get your feet on the Earth, and eat real, whole foods. As the host of the Wise Traditions Podcast, you will learn a lot from her.
In this episode, you'll hear about:
- The power of mindset
- Affirmations for Hilda's natural childbirth (The Bradley Method®)
- Your perception of your kids can change them
- Serendipity list
- Gratitude list
- Do affirmations with your family
- Unplug from TV and social media
- Plug into what lifts your spirit
- Feel peaceful through breathing (Box Breathing blog)
Connect with Hilda:
- Website: holistichilda.com
- Instagram: @holistichilda
- Podcast: Wise Traditions
Dr. Marie truly believes in the body’s innate healing wisdom and is passionate about helping others gain access to their inner power. She has been in naturopathic medicine practice since 2002 and has over 20 years of experience as a craniosacral practitioner. As a fervent seeker and forever student, Dr. Marie’s own personal healing journey led her to experience and study a myriad of energy healing modalities. Dr. Marie recognizes that the physical, emotional, energetic, and spiritual aspects of our human experience are all highly intertwined. She skillfully weaves the contents of her eclectic medicine bag to support people wherever they are on their own healing journey. What you'll hear in this conversation: * Becoming empowered to trust your body's innate healing ability. * Taking the fear out of the equation when it comes to your health and the health of your family. * Turn off the TV and tune into yourself - the power of the mind-body connection. * Our connection to nature is therapeutic and healing. * Germ phobia is misguided
Connect with Dr. Marie here: www.drmarierodriguez.com Children's Health Video Series:
Katie Sutherland is an energy medicine healer, teacher, and holistic wellness practitioner who has been building her sacred basket of modalities for almost 20 years. She supports mothers to thrive and reclaim their empowerment and vibrancy while navigating the journey of motherhood and childbirth. In this episode, you will hear about: * How healing your birth trauma is a huge gift to yourself & your family * Breath work is * How to resource and ground yourself even with your kids around - aka in the moment self-care * Reclaim Your Birth Circle * How ceremony works as a healing modality
CONNECT WITH KATIE: * Website: innerwisdommotherhood.com * Instagram: @innerwisdommotherhood
Author, educator, and licensed marriage and family therapist, Jennifer Strube spent four decades assisting other people’s children before braving to have her own. Her most recent book Momlandia: An Imperfect Guide to Organic Mothering grew out of a year-long text message rant with her best girlfriend as they embarked into motherhood together. Her work champions all the postpartum feels—addressing topics of mom shame, mom-paring, and embracing one’s self as a good enough mother. When not soaking in the healing power of nature, she is an educational therapist at a private school in Santa Barbara, CA.
In this episode, you'll hear about:
- The myth of the perfect mom (and why this unicorn keeps haunting us)
- Mom shame
- Tech Wise Littles
- Where's the support for after our milestones?
- Facing the Lion, Being the Lion by Mark Nepo
- Organic mothering
- Orthorexia
- Why “all the mom feels” are okay
CONNECT WITH JENNIFER:
- Instagram: @JenniferStrube
- Instagram: @TechWiseLittles
- Website: jenniferstrube.com
Hayley Bukhamsin is the founder of The Gentle Mama, creator of Happy, Healthy Sleep: the online baby sleep course with NO sleep training and a certified infant sleep educator. She focuses on a truly gentle, evidence-based, attachment-supporting, empowering, and intuition nurturing approach to baby sleep. Hayley is mama to two girls and lives in Dubai. She earned a BA Hons degree from The University of Nottingham, UK, before starting a career in advertising. It wasn’t until the birth of her first daughter that she discovered her true passion: Attachment Parenting, Gentle Parenting and above all, healthy infant sleep. For the last 6 years, Hayley has pursued this passion actively, building an Attachment Parenting community within the UAE, blogging about her parenting experiences via The Gentle Mama, certifying as an Infant Sleep Educator, and now launching Happy Healthy Sleep.
Hayley now works internationally, helping parents with gentle, respectful sleep coaching. She helps tired families, often at the edge of desperation, find ways to improve their wellbeing in these tough times, without needing to ‘sleep train’ their babies.
In this episode, you’ll hear about:
- Gentle sleep training
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Sleep training vs sleep education: The dawn of a new era
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What is the difference between your approach and traditional sleep coaches? 2. What are your top tips for new parents? 3. What do new parents need to know about the common sleep advice out there? Connect with Hayley:
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Website: TheGentleMama.com
- Facebook: @thegentlemama
- Instagram: @thegentlemama
When Michelle, an attorney in Atlanta, became pregnant at the age of 40, she immediately scoured the internet for pregnancy information for women her age, only to be inundated with daunting statistics and risks from medical professionals, individuals, and articles.
Not succumbing to all of the negative information, Michelle began a private Facebook Group to both give and receive encouragement to other women in the same situation. The “Pregnancy After Forty Private Group” now has over 5,000 members and has been the catalyst to creating a website and the “Pregnancy After 40” Podcast, which she now hosts.
Michelle is also a Speaker who shares her “Pregnancy After 40” story and encourages other women that it’s possible to have a healthy baby or babies after 40 years despite having pregnancy issues.
You'll hear about:
- The differences of pregnancies at age 25, 41, and 43 years old
- Early induction
- Fertility tips
- 50 Fertility Tips for Women After 40
Connect with Michelle:
- Website: PregnancyAfterForty.com
- Instagram: @pregnancyafterforty
- Private Facebook Group: facebook.com/groups/pregnancyafterforty
- Facebook Page: facebook.com/pregnancyafterforty
- Podcast: Pregnancy After 40
In this episode, you’ll hear about: * The Canary in the Design Mines * Sustainability & wellness in the home * Lyme disease * Impact of our home on our health * Detox your cleaning products * Detox Guide: dwellingwelldesignacademy.com/detox-guide * Off-gassing from carpet * GOTS certified organic wool or cotton for carpets or rugs * Progress over perfection * Start with a bedroom makeover * Dwelling Well: Healthy Bedroom Design Course
Connect with Sarah: * Website:dwellingwelldesignacademy.com * Instagram: @thecuratedhouse
Christine Bullock has been teaching fitness and working in the beauty business around the world for over two decades. Christine is the creator of Evolution 20®, a 60-day fitness and nutritional program, Super Shred, and Body Reborn Post-Natal DVD Series. In addition to her Evolution20® Program Christine has developed the 30X30 Total Transformation program for Mindvalley as well as 10 Minute Solutions: Butt Lift which was rated one of the top Pilates DVDS for 2013 by Pilates Style Magazine and she was voted the hottest trainer in Los Angeles by Racked LA. Additionally, Christine used her background in total health to co-create the award-winning body care brand, KAYO Better Body Care. Christine can be seen as a judge and trainer on Season 1 and 2 of “Fit For Fashion TV.”
Christine holds certifications in Yoga, Pilates, General Fitness, Pre & Post Natal Fitness, and Nutritional Counseling as well as has a B.A. in Psychology and Education. She was a finalist in Women’s Health “Next Fitness Star” competition for 2015. She is an Ambassador for popular fitness fashion clothing lines such as Lorna Jane, Carbon38, Michi, Koral Activewear, and Vie Active. Christine is a go-to wellness expert and can be seen on NBC, E!, VH-1, Star TV, California Life, and PopSugar, as well as a contributor for many magazines and websites including Oxygen Magazine, Yahoo Health, Style.com, InStyle Magazine, Women’s Health Magazine, Woman’s Day, Men’s Health, Glamour.com, Well + Good, Mind Body Green, Bustle, In Touch Magazine, Life & Style, Fitness RX, The Bump, Fit Pregnancy, and many more. She is recognized as a top fitness model representing the world’s elite brands such as P-90X, Insanity, Equinox, American Gladiators, Metaball, and Sports Authority to name a few. Christine has been featured on the cover of Women’s Health Magazine, Europe’s biggest fitness magazine Sport & Fitness, as well as featured in Men’s Health with a full page interview. Christine is also the spokesperson for Champion Naturals™ which is an innovative line of clean sports nutrition with uniquely designed protein blends to support four different kinds of training: Strength, Fitness, Endurance and Sports.
In this episode, you'll hear about:
- Ballet class with Kristy & Christine
- Christine's health and beauty career
- Adoption
- Christine's motherhood journey
- PCOS & thyroid imbalance
- Miscarriages
- Fluid movements
- Diets & supplements
- Christine's birth story
- Find self-care moments
- Adoption Story Video Series
- FitOn App
Connect with Christine:
- Website: christinebullock.com
- Instagram: @christinebullock
- YouTube: @christinebullock
- Facebook: @christinebullock
Dayna Martin is an advocate, speaker, educator, and author of three books including Raising Rebels, Radically Unschooling, and Sexy Birth. Dayna been featured on The Dr. Phil Show, CNN, Nightline, The Jeff Probst Show, ABC’s hit show, Wife Swap, Fox News, 60 Minutes, and the Bethenny Show.
She was used as an informational resource for Homeschooling stories on the Discovery Channel, The Today Show and Our America on the OWN Network and the Oprah Winfrey Show.
She travels the world helping families change their lives by changing their parenting paradigm to bring more peace and connection to their lives with their children. Dayna is a featured speaker at the major parenting and education conferences worldwide.
Shared in this episode:
- Attachment parenting
- Unschooling
- Disciplining kids
- Radically Unschooling Facebook Group
- Life Rocks Radically Unschooling Conference - Miami Sept 2021
- Becoming an Unschooling Coach - Professional Advocacy & Coaching Program
- Filling your cup
- Parenting the highly sensitive child
Connect with Danya (and tell her I said, "Hi!"):
- Website: daynamartin.com
Let me ask you a question: can you relate to any of these birth challenges?
- Doctors "diagnosed" you as infertile
- You're a cancer survivor and worry about birth complications
- You planned a birth at a midwife center and hope for an unmedicated experience
If there's one speed bump that most of us Moms-to-be experience it's dealing with birth expectations. Ali Shapiro is back on the podcast to tell her birth story and remind you that you have the power to choose how you want your birth to go and accept it (whether it goes to plan or not). You do have rights and it's important to be aware. Click here to listen to Ali's episode #52: How to Use Stress to Up-Level Your Fertility.
Shared in this episode:
- A Truce with Food
- Ali's birth story
- Body, Soul, and Baby Book
- Evidence-Based Birth Blog
- Be informed and choose what's best for you
Connect with Ali (and tell her I said, "Hi!"):
- Website: alishapiro.com
- Instagram: @alimshapiro
- Facebook: @alimarieshapiro
Dr. Stephanie Dueger is a psychotherapist, parent coach, and educator, who works with expectant and new parents and their little ones. She facilitates parent workshops and is currently the Editor-in-Chief of the academic Journal of Prenatal and Perinatal Psychology and Health. Dr. Dueger lives in Boulder, Colorado, with her husband and two daughters. Preparing for Parenthood: 55 Essential Conversations for Couples Becoming Families is her first book—the book she wishes she’d had for herself when first becoming a parent. Learn more about Dr. Dueger at drduegertherapy.com.
In this episode, you'll hear about:
- New book: Preparing for Parenthood: 55 Essential Conversations for Couples Becoming Families
- Concrete steps you can take right now to feel more prepared in becoming a parent
- Important conversation topics to discuss with your partner before having a baby
- Association of Pre and Perinatal Psychology and Health (APPPAH): birthpsychology.com
- How to connect with your unborn baby
- Episode 23: The Importance of Prenatal Bonding with Kate White
- Episode 33: Kiersten Markham episode of Pure Nurture Podcast
- Pure Nurture—A Holistic Guide to a Healthy Baby (my book)
Connect with Stephanie: Website: drduegertherapy.com Facebook: @theattachmentdoctor Instagram: @theattachmentdoctor
Jaren Soloff is a Registered Dietitian and International Board Certified Lactation Consultant (IBCLC) who serves as an expert in women’s health. While continuing to practice in the field of eating disorder treatment, Jaren gained additional experience as an IBCLC to fuse her love of nutrition and women’s health.
Now working solely in private practice, Jaren combines her expertise as a skilled nutrition therapist and lactation consultant to support individuals looking to heal their relationship with food and body. Her brand, FULL CRCL provides evidence-based practices to support women at all stages of the reproductive cycle, from preconception to postpartum. Informed by her own journey and hundreds of women she has counseled, Jaren's experience comes full circle to support women in navigating pregnancy, birth, and postpartum from a simple and intuitive framework.
- Why postpartum nutrition is just as important as prenatal nutrition (& intro to The Postnatal Cookbook) - How to meet nutrition needs without engaging in restricting, structured eating (intuitive eating) - The risk of disordered eating and eating disorders during postpartum - Navigating body image - Supporting mood with nutrition While you're here... Find out which childbirth education course is right for you in less than 2 minutes. Take this fun quiz to reveal your birth education personality and the course that will be the best match.**
Take the quiz here!
Evie Steinhart is a Registered Nurse and mother of 6 children, 3 of whom were born in the hospital and 3 who were born at a planned home birth. She just wrote a book “Is a Home Birth Right For You?” that helps moms weigh the pros and cons of having a hospital birth versus a home birth. The book draws on interviews the author had with home birth moms and birth professionals, and it cites an array of data and research studies to help women make an informed choice. * Why women would choose to have a home birth * Why it’s important for you to educate yourself about your birth options (even if you want a hospital birth) * How you can make your home birth or hospital birth as safe as possible * How to plan a home birth during a pandemic
Click here to learn more and to connect with Evie.
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When it comes to birth preparation, there is an overabundance of options out there.
From having no idea of where to begin looking for classes to being overwhelmed by all of the amazing classes out there – it can leave you feeling lost and confused.
This quiz will help! It’s a quick, fun, and easy way to find out which birth education style will best fit your personality. Take the quiz here!
Preparing for birth (even if this is your 5th pregnancy) can be stressful and overwhelming. You might be feeling anxious and even a little scared about your upcoming birth. You’re not alone. This is quite common.
You might be searching for childbirth classes and feel overwhelmed by all the options, or have no clue where to start looking for a class. If this sounds like you, you’re in the right place!
Believe me, I know how you’re feeling right now. Been there! With my first baby, I didn’t have a clue where to begin, so I just took a couple of hospital childbirth education classes to get my feet wet. A big part of me just wanted a nurse or doctor to tell me what to do.
With my second child, I learned about HypnoBirthing® and thought, “Oh, that sounds kinda like what I’m learning in yoga, I’ll try that.” I ended up loving it, but looking back, I was completely unaware of my options and which course might have been best for me, at the time.
To help you get clear on your birthing method, I created a free quiz with the five most popular birthing methods to have an empowered birth. Check out the quiz and discover which course best fits your wants, needs, and desires for your upcoming birth.
There isn’t ONE right way or method, there are so many great options. It’s fantastic and can be overwhelming. I’m here to take away some of the stress and help you gain some clarity on which one is best for you. (Not your sister, not your mom, not your BFF.)
Click here and take the 5-minute quiz.
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Giving birth is an amazing, miraculous experience. Obviously, when you have a baby, there are a lot of adjustments taking place, including the adjustments your body goes through during and after pregnancy.
While you prepare for your little one, make sure you are also preparing for your own recovery, momma. These postpartum recovery tips can help ensure your after-birth experience is as smooth and comfortable as possible.
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Calm Your Fear of Postpartum Anxiety
Postpartum Depression gets a lot of attention these days (which is great! Awareness is important), but did you know that Postpartum Anxiety can be just as disruptive? “Great,” I hear you say. “Another thing to worry about.” But pregnancy is a time of joy. Or at least it should be. It can be hard to really feel that joy if you are worried about what’s coming. But the best offense is a great defense! Ease your mind—and help make sure that you are not caught off-guard—with four easy steps:
Step 1—Educate Yourself: Learn about the signs and symptoms of postpartum anxiety, and how it is similar to (and different from) postpartum depression. Talk to your doctor, your midwife, your doula, and your mom friends. Then take matters into your own hands by seeking out information from multiple, reputable sources, in print or online. Do not just consume endless horror stories—there is nothing productive in that. Look instead for sources that focus on prevention and treatment.
Step 2—Make A Plan: Discuss your concerns with those around you. Get your partner, your care providers, and any friends or family that will be helping you in the early weeks and months on board. Make sure they know what to look for and have a plan for checking in on your mental wellbeing after delivery. You need the people who know you well on the lookout, just in case you yourself are not in a state to identify what is going on. And if things get bad, they may need to push you a bit to get help.
Step 3—Ask For Help: Compile a list of potential mental health treatment providers in your area, and know what your insurance does or does not cover. That way, if you need professional intervention, you can get the help you need faster, and you won’t need to scramble to find this information while under the influence of postpartum anxiety or depression, while learning how to care for your new arrival to boot. Think of it as your Worst-Case-Scenario toolkit.
Step 4—Relax: When it comes to Postpartum Anxiety (or depression, or any number of physical or mental difficulties) the best prevention is to be as healthy as possible. So, take care of yourself the way you would anyway. Being kind to yourself, saying no to stress, eating a healthy diet, staying hydrated, getting quality sleep, making sure that you have at least some (doctor approved) movement in your days—all of these things will help you to be as physically and mentally healthy as possible.
In other words, now that you are prepared for the worst, take the focus off of possible future problems and put your focus on meeting your needs in the here and now. If you need any help with these things, consider picking up a copy of Pure Nurture: A Holistic Guide to a Healthy Baby, your guide to self-care during pregnancy.
If you are already struggling with postpartum anxiety, skip straight to steps 3 and 4. Getting help as soon as possible will help you get back on track faster. There is a way out, and there is no shame in needing a little help to find it.
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Kristy S. Rodriguez, pre- and postnatal wellness expert and advocate, is the owner and founder of Pure Nurture, LLC, a business devoted to educating and inspiring women to nurture and nourish themselves through pregnancy, birth, and postpartum. As a Holistic Health Coach and Registered Yoga Teacher specializing in pre- and postnatal wellness, Kristy works with individual clients, as well as teaching classes and workshops, both in person and online.
“What we can expect from the newly released book–—Kristy Rodriguez, author of Pure Nurture: A Holistic Guide to a Healthy Baby.” Kristy Rodriguez, Prenatal Health Coach and Yoga Teacher, shares what we can expect from her upcoming book—Pure Nurture: A Holistic Guide to a Healthy Baby.
Pure Nurture: A Holistic Guide to a Healthy Baby was very much a labor of love. It’s a gift, with my blessings, to pregnant women everywhere and to all mothers. And it is brimming with simple, actionable tips and strategies that any mother or mother-to-be can use to nurture both herself and her baby.
Self-care is incredibly important for all of us, but it far too often is the very last thing that we prioritize amid hectic schedules and busy lives—parents especially, which is so backwards: parents need to practice self-care more than anyone, because our children depend on us, on our physical and mental wellbeing, to thrive. And at no time during motherhood is the direct relationship between a mother’s wellbeing and her child’s health quite so evident as during pregnancy. As such, the first, and perhaps greatest, act of love a mother can show toward her growing baby is to nurture herself.
Sometimes people, women especially, feel guilty about putting time and other resources toward self-care. They might feel it is selfish. But I’m here to change that narrative. My journey, and my motivation to study at the Institute of Integrative Nutrition and become a Holistic Health Coach, has its roots in my disordered relationship with food as a young woman. Without embracing the need for self-care, without slowly letting go of the guilt and learning to be kinder to myself, I would not have been able to rise above those self-limiting tendencies, and I would not be where I am today.
When I became a mother myself, I was inspired to dedicate my work to supporting women who are pregnant or trying to get pregnant, as well as mothers of newborns. In my career (I am also a certified yoga instructor), I see the practice of self-care positively impacting women every day, sometimes in amazing and transformative ways. This book is the culmination of my experiences in this field. It is a gentle, non-judgmental guide to help you find and implement the self-care practices that will work for you and your unique needs during pregnancy (and beyond!), and to inspire you to treat yourself with the care and respect you deserve.
Pure Nurture: A Holistic Guide to a Healthy Baby will be available for purchase on February 25th, 2017 in paperback or e-book on Amazon.com and BarnesandNoble.com.
Kristy S. Rodriguez, pre- and postnatal wellness expert and advocate, teaches prenatal yoga classes and workshops at East Meets West Center. She is also the owner and founder of Pure Nurture, LLC, a business devoted to educating and inspiring women to nurture and nourish themselves through pregnancy, birth, and postpartum. As a Holistic Health Coach and Registered Yoga Teacher specializing in pre- and postnatal wellness, Kristy works with individual clients, as well as teaching classes and workshops, both in person and online.
Connect with Kristy and learn about her current offerings at purenurture.com.
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Take the childbirth personality quiz here and find out which course might be best for you!
Learn more about the book and purchase your copy at purenurture.com/book
Dr. Britta Bushnell (she/her) is a wife and mother, author of Transformed by Birth, host of the podcast Transformed, veteran childbirth educator, celebrated speaker, mythologist, and specialist in childbirth, relationship, and parenting. For over 20 years, Dr. Bushnell has worked with individuals and couples as they prepare for the life-changing experience of giving birth. Her work with parents has been enriched by her doctoral work in mythology and psychology, her years spent as a co-owner of Birthing From Within, as well as her dedicated study of solution-focused brief therapy, storytelling, sustaining sexual vibrancy, and helping romantic partnerships thrive even during parenthood.
What you’ll hear in this episode: * Britta’s yoga career * Episode 97: Birth Story Medicine with Pam England * Transformed by Birth book by Dr. Britta Bushnell * E X P A N D your birth expectations * Global postpartum period * The transformation brought on by birth and becoming a parent * Dealing with isolation in 2020 * The highs and lows of parenting * The illusion of perfectionism * Rites of passage and what they have to do with this moment in time
Connect with Britta: Website: BrittaBushnell.com Instagram: @brittabushnellphd Facebook: @brittabushnellphd Book: Transformed by Birth Podcast: Transformed
Tina Cassidy writes about women and culture. In addition to Mr. President, How Long Must We Wait?: Alice Paul, Woodrow Wilson and the Fight for the Right to Vote, she is the author of Birth: The Surprising History of How We Are Born; and Jackie After O: One Remarkable Year When Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis Defied Expectations and Rediscovered Her Dreams. A former journalist who spent most of her career at the Boston Globe covering business, fashion, and politics, she is the Chief Marketing Officer of WGBH. Cassidy serves on the board of The Conversation US. She lives in the Boston area with her husband, the author Anthony Flint, their three sons, and a Norfolk Terrier named Dusty.
What you'll hear in this episode: * Birth: The Surprising History of How We Are Born book by Tina Cassidy * Jackie After O book by Tina Cassidy * Mr. President, How Long Must We Wait?: Alice Paul, Woodrow Wilson, and the Fight for the Right to Vote book by Tina Cassidy * Issues with birth * Cultural influences on birth * Why birth is worse for women of color * Women's rights
Connect with Tina: Website: TinaCassidy.info Twitter: @historyofbirth Instagram: @TinaCassidy1 Facebook: @TinaCassidyAuthorPage
Brett Russo was born and raised in New Jersey. She graduated with a degree in business management from Bucknell University, where she also met her future husband. After graduation, Brett found her passion working beside her twin brother and father for her family’s printing company, of which she is now the chief executive officer. She married her husband in 2015, and together they fought the hardest battle of their lives with their journey through IVF. Brett lives in new jersey with her husband and their one-year-old son, who enjoys meatloaf and responding with “Nah” every time his mom asks for a kiss.
What you'll hear in this episode: * The Underwear in My Shoe: My Journey Through IVF, Unfiltered by Brett Russo * Creative expression is so healing * The emotional rollercoaster of IVF * It's not your fault
Connect with Brett: Website: brett-russo.com
Pam England is the Founder and Director of Birth Story Medicine. When I was a young nurse-midwife, certified but not yet initiated by the power of birth itself, I used to teach 'fantasy birth' classes. In labor, I had a profound awakening and vowed to tell the truth and to bring change to how women are prepared for birth. While on the cesarean operating table, I realized that the naive positivity and promises I believed (and taught) were the seed for my own rapidly manifesting emotional birth shock, trauma, and postpartum depression. I sought counseling from a midwife, cesarean support group, and therapist, but found only superficial listening. This prompted me to earn a Masters in Psychology /Counseling from Antioch University, with an emphasis on perinatal issues and group dynamics.
Eight years of searching for answers and self-acceptance had passed since my initiation through birth; after meeting many teachers and authors and participating in conferences and ceremonies, I had a second epiphany which made me laugh out loud: 'All this time I thought I had to heal my birth, but now I see my birth healed me.' Perhaps this was the pivotal moment I morphed from the seek to a wounded healer.
Thus began Pam's now three-decade-long devotion to the study of emotional birth trauma and the development of the Birth Story Medicine philosophy and process that has helped many find their way "home" to self-acceptance and self-compassion following their initiation through childbirth or birth work.
Following the publication of her best-selling book, Birthing From Within, Pam created a profound movement in multi-sensory, holistic, and mindful childbirth preparation and developed the concept of childbirth mentoring (versus teaching).
What you'll hear in this episode: * The message "I'll never lie to another pregnant woman again." * Stories we believe before birth * Children recalling their birth * Hypnobirthing * The judgment of your birth story * The surprise * The seven gates * Trauma comes from self-judgment * Free birth story sessions available through Oct. 31, 2020
Connect with Pam: * birthstorymedicine.com * pam@birthstorymedicine.com * YouTube * Facebook * Instagram
Debra Pascali-Bonaro is a world-renowned inspirational speaker, filmmaker, doula trainer, childbirth educator, and author. Debra’s latest book, an Amazon #1 New Release, The Ultimate Guide to Sex After Baby: Secrets to Love and Intimacy brings together her passion for pleasure in every aspect of life with her Jersey-Girl attitude of talking about what no one is talking about! Debra is a mother, grandmother, and featured expert in parenting journals and media around the world. Debra Pascali-Bonaro is also Co-Chair of the International Childbirth Initiative and Chair of the International MotherBaby Childbirth Initiative both of which promote safe, respectful childbirth maternity care. She is a Lamaze International childbirth educator, birth and postpartum doula trainer with DONA International, Director of the award-winning documentary Orgasmic Birth: The Best-Kept Secret, co-writer of “Orgasmic Birth: Your Guide to a Safe, Satisfying and Pleasurable Birth” and the Founder & President of the revolutionary online childbirth class Pain to Power, which prepares expectant mothers, fathers, and partners to be positively prepared for birth and focuses on the intimate and sacred nature of birth. Debra’s passion comes from her over 30 years of working with women, men, midwives, doulas, physicians, and nurses in over 40 countries bringing comfort, love, and pleasure to birth and life! What you'll hear in this episode: * Orgasmic birth * Honoring the body after birth * Intimacy & sleep * Nine pleasures * The Fives Love Languages book * Sex education * Goop Lab: The Pleasure is Ours * In the Flo book * Online Class: Sex After Baby launches November 2020
Connect with Debra: Website: OrgasmicBirth.com
Instagram: @orgasmicbirth
The Film: OrgasmicBirth.com
The Class: PaintoPowerChildbirth.com
Bali Retreats: EatPrayDoula.com
Workshops: DebraPascaliBonaro.com
Stephanie and Jessica are both Doctors of Physical Therapy, Pelvic Floor Specialists, and the founders of the Chelsea Method, the first fourth-trimester rehabilitation program for moms. Passionate about raising the maternal standard of care, in August they launched a campaign called Think Beyond Birth with the mission of improving education, preparation, and care for the immediate postpartum mom.
What you’ll hear in this episode: – Think Beyond Birth campaign – Postpartum care for moms in the US & how it’s lacking – 4th Trimester Guidebook – Helpful postures post-birth – Mental, emotional, & social support post-birth – How to return to intimacy – Baby blues & seeking help – Practical must-haves for recovery – Perineum care – Breastf – Why new moms need rehab prior to jumping back into fitness Connect with Stephanie or Jessica: ChelseaMethod.com Instagram: @chelseamethod
Dr. Variste’s desire for pediatrics began at a very young age. Later she fulfilled her dream and obtained her Medical Degree from the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center. She went on to complete a pediatric residency at UT Houston Health Science Center. After residency, she returned to practice in her hometown of College Station, Texas. Dr. Variste is grateful for the five years she spent treating the families there and for the relationships and connections she's made. As a board-certified pediatrician, her passion is to empower moms and dads to raise their kids to lead happy, healthy lives full of positive memories and discovery. She desires to create the same positive experiences for her patients that she had with her pediatrician as a young child. Dr. Variste is thankful to be a new member of the team at Family First Pediatrics and is excited about the new relationships to be made. What you'll hear in this episode: * The American Academy of Pediatrics' statement on the reopening of schools * Talking to your pediatrician about learning at home or in school * Emotional wellness for kids * Mental tele-health * Level of viral transmission in your community * Easing kids into wearing masks * What to do if your child is exposed to a positive case * Managing the flu season * Boosting immunity
Connect with Jennifer: * Website: FamilyFirstPediatrics.com * Facebook: Jennifer Variste MD * Instagram: @jvpediatrics
Anuka Gazara-Anthony is an accredited Mongan Method Hypnobirthing teacher currently based in Bethesda, Maryland. She was inspired to leave her career and train as a Hypnobirthing Practioner after having her daughter in 2013.
Anuka's first pregnancy and delivery were extremely difficult, she had many complications and was unprepared for her delivery. This led to many complications to her body after birth. She was determined to learn a new approach that could help her understand her body better during pregnancy and delivery. Anuka was determined to have a peaceful and calm birth with her second child. Hypnobirthing has changed her life in so many ways, but more importantly, it empowered her with the tools and techniques she needed to have a calm and confident birth – the way she wanted!
Anuka trained in Transpersonal Hypnotherapy through the National Association of Transpersonal Hypnotherapists. She also has a postgraduate diploma in business from Oxford University. Her passion is to promote meditation, mindfulness programs, holistic practices, hypnotherapy, and hypnobirthing services which encourage best practices of self-care.
What you'll hear in this episode: * Hypnobirthing * Mindfulness * Body Scan * Mindful Pregnancy * Breathwork to Relax the Uterus = Shorter Labor
Connect with Anuka: * Website: JanuJoyfulServices.com * Instagram: @anuka86
More about Anuka:
Anuka Gazara-Anthony is a Mindfulness teacher and Leadership & Wellness, Coach who combines her unique expertise and skills in organizational leadership, program management and hypnobirthing to her work as a mindfulness-based leadership coach. She mentors and leads training for executives, entrepreneurs and individuals in becoming confident mindful and effective leaders.
For over 10 years Anuka has worked in areas of human resources and program management as well as in an executive officer role supporting and advising executives in government and international organizations which include the United Nations and the International Labour Organization.
Across these roles, she has worked in different countries in Europe and Africa. These experiences have shown her how strategy, culture and the human connection can influence and impact how leaders can work with their employees with more effective leadership. Furthermore, it highlighted the positive influence of effective leadership can have on the lives of so many people from their conference tables to their dining tables.
Anuka has over 20 years of experience of mindfulness meditation practice of various forms of meditation. Anuka is committed to strengthening the inner resilience and wisdom of individuals, executive teams, business groups and boards of directors using mindfulness-based leadership and emotional intelligence leadership coaching.
She holds a BA from the University of Queen Mary ( University of London) a Master’s degree (MA) from the School of Oriental and African Studies (University of London) and a Postgraduate Diploma in Business Organizational Leadership, Said Business School, from the University of Oxford.
Mercedes Thomas, APRN, CPNP, CLC is a board-certified pediatric nurse practitioner, certified lactation counselor, maternal child health consultant, and author of What in the Baby?!?: The Modern Mama's Guide To Confidently Caring For Your Baby And Surviving The Postpartum Period, which will be released on October 30, 2020. Mercedes also is the owner of Advanced Practice Wellness & Lactation, a private practice based in the Washington, DC area where she provides virtual lactation services, parenting classes and healthcare consulting to organizations serving families. She also serves on several national committees in an effort to improve infant feeding practices, access to primary care, and maternal-infant mortality rates.
Mercedes has over 12 years of nursing experience working in both inpatient and outpatient, neonatal and pediatric settings. Her mission is to combine her nursing expertise with her experiences as a mom to support families with evidence-based education and resources. To learn more visit MercedesThomas.com.
What you'll hear in this episode: * What in the Baby?!? book * Birth and postpartum doulas * Womanly Art of Breastfeeding book * Mocha Manual book * Postpartum warning signs * Association of Women's Health Obstetric & Neonatal Nurses * Tips to survive the new normal of motherhood in the fourth trimester * Infant feeding tips (breast and bottle) * Maternal & infant mortality * How to rally for each other
Connect with Mercedes: * Website: AdvancedPracticeWellness.com * Facebook: Facebook.com/mercedesthenp * Instagram: Instagram.com/mercedesthenp * Sneak Peek of Her Book: What in the Baby?!?
Resources: * NapNap.org/families * HealthyChildren.org/English/Pages/default.aspx * LLLI.org * BlackMaternalHealthCaucus-Underwood.House.gov/Momnibus * USBreastfeeding.org/about-us
Kelly Bryant is a Yoga Alliance Experienced Registered Yoga Teacher (ERYT-200) and Registered Prenatal Yoga Teacher (RPYT), Certified Personal Trainer (NASM-CPT), and a realist. She is committed to helping women understand their bodies — specifically their core and pelvic health — and adopt a mindset around movement that addresses physical and psychological components. She is passionate about empowering women through all stages of life from prenatal to postpartum and beyond to take care of themselves so that they can show up and do their work in the world. Prior to quitting her job to travel in 2016, she worked at health & fitness startup, Noom, where she led content and community marketing efforts and soaked up everything she could learn about psychology and behavior change.
Understanding pain and how to mentally and physically address it > Breath + Core: Everything you need to know about your breath, core, and pelvic floor > Exercising after giving birth and how to avoid common postpartum issues
Dr. Aly Cohen is a board-certified rheumatologist and integrative medicine specialist, as well as an environmental health expert in Princeton, New Jersey. She has collaborated with the Environmental Working Group, Cancer Schmancer, and other disease- prevention or¬ganizations, and is co-editor of the textbook, Integrative Environmental Medicine, part of the Oxford University Press Weil Integrative Medicine Library. In 2015, she created TheSmartHuman.com to share environ¬mental health, disease prevention, and wellness information with the public. She lectures nationally on environmental health topics for el¬ementary/ high schools, colleges/ universities, medical schools, and physician- training programs, and she is a regular expert guest for tele¬vision, print, and podcasts. In 2015 she received the NJ Healthcare Heroes Award in Education for The Smart Human educational platform and she was awarded the 2016 Burton L. Eichler Award for humanitarianism.
Dr. Cohen is working to educate and empower the next generation to make safer, smarter lifestyle choices through the creation of en¬vironmental health and prevention curricula for schools nationally. Her TEDx talk, “How to Protect Your Kids from Toxic Chemicals” can be found on YouTube, and you can follow her health and wellness tips and recommendations on Facebook at The Smart Human, Twitter, and Instagram: @thesmarthuman. Sign up for The Smart Human newsletter, read her latest posts at TheSmartHuman.com, and listen to her podcast The Smart Human.
Some highlights from this episode:
- Drinking water: what every mom and mom-to-be should know
- How to clean safely especially with Covid-19
- How and why to choose baby products and personal care carefully
- How to live a cleaner, more chemical-free life
Learn more about Aly's work here:
The SmartHuman.com AlyCohenMD.com Tedx Talk: How to Protect Your Kids from Toxic Chemicals New Book Link- Non-Toxic: Guide to Living Healthy in a Chemical World
Before we dive into these conversations and learn more from and about our upcoming guests, I first wanted to introduce you to Pure Nurture and give you the background story and share what Pure Nurture is all about, how it got started, and where it’s headed.
Pure Nurture is all about a holistic approach to creating a healthy new life for mom and baby. It is a community where we fully believe that self-care is baby-care. It encompasses a mind-body approach to pregnancy, birth, and motherhood.
Pure Nurture is about connection, community, learning, inspiration, empowerment, self-care, self-love and most importantly, it’s a place where you can take all of this in, and ONLY keep what feels best for you and your family and leave the rest.
I created Pure Nurture after suffering from postpartum depression. The various challenges of pregnancy and motherhood left me feeling alone and I knew I needed so much more connection and support. My hope is that this community will help you to feel more connected, to find the support you need and to ultimately feel your best.
We are all in this together, this motherhood journey. And it’s full of love, laughter, crying, whining, excitement, contradictions, judgments, and so much more. Just like life, it is full of ups and downs.
My hope is that this podcast supports you on your journey and leaves you feeling inspired, empowered, and supported as a woman, a mom-to-be, and as a mom.
For our very first episode, we are joining Molly Mills, RN, and IBCLC. Molly is on the lactation team at the mama ‘hood where she runs a weekly Breastfeeding Group as well as an Infant Sleep Group. Molly is passionate about building a strong community for mamas and families so everyone has access to support. There is so much advice and information out there, Molly’s passion is in helping parents discover what feels right for them in their parenting journey, which is exactly what you will hear during our conversation. When she’s not at the ‘hood, she’s out on a run, learning to meditate or playing outdoors with her husband and three daughters. Molly will leave you feeling supported, empowered, and connected as a mama, especially related to birth and breastfeeding.
In this Episode, You Will Learn:
- How Pure Nurture was born (1:23)
- Meet Molly Mills, a Mom, RN, and Lactation Consultant (6:06)
- What the Mama’Hood is in Denver, Colorado (8:11)
- How Moms can set themselves up for success expect after the baby arrives (10:50)
- How to tune into your intuition (17:33)
- How to prepare for birth (24:33)
- Asking women to please not share their birth stories until after you’ve given birth (29:15)
- How Moms can set up a good breastfeeding relationship with their baby (30:35)
- The Breast Crawl Video (34:08)
Learn more about Molly Mills at the MamaHood.com.
Josephine Atluri is an expert in meditation and in overcoming adversity to find joy. Through her unique journey on her path to becoming a mom of five, Josephine weathered many ups and downs with IVF, international adoption, and surrogacy. Channeling her experience to find calm and courage and to focus on perseverance, she now helps others navigate life’s curveballs, through group and individual online meditation training and her “Responding to Life” podcast. On August 1st, Josephine will be hosting an online workshop to cultivate a fertility mindfulness practice called “Empowering Your Fertility Journey.” In this special workshop, participants will learn the basics of incorporating meditation and mindfulness to support and empower themselves in their fertility journey. The workshop will include meditation, journaling, and tools to reduce stress, boost your emotional and mental health, and increase calm. In addition, Josephine does group meditation training for staff of such prestigious entities as Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. She also offers fertility Ave parenting workshops and meditation sessions. Get 50% off of her "Empowering Your Fertility Journey" Workshop with code PODCAST. www.jatluri.com/workshops.
The New Year brings with it a lot of anticipation, hopes, dreams, aspirations, and maybe some resolutions and a vision board or two. It can all be extremely overwhelming, especially as a mom. On this episode of the Pure Nurture Podcast, Lisa Druxman, founder of Fit4Mom and author of Empowered Mama talks all about finding strength in motherhood, how to manage our time, and how to focus on ourselves and our children, especially as moms.
Where do you fit in? How can you manage it all? How can you tune into what's best for you and your family amidst the ideas and ideals of media, social media, friends, family, etc? After listing to this episode, you'll feel inspired, connected, and empowered.
In this episode, you’ll hear things like:
- What Lisa’s created at Fit for Mom (1:50)
- Empowered Mama Book and Empowered Mama Podcast
- Fit for Pregnancy or MamaWell Online Program (2:55)
- How Lisa manages her time as a Mom (4:35)
- After bringing a baby home, where do you fit in? (9:24)
- How you can find strength in Motherhood (13:03)
- How perfect social media pictures can make us feel isolated (14:26)
- When you choose something, you give up something else (15:45)
- My Year of YES Book
- How can we get in tune with what’s right for ourselves and our family (19:20)
Find out about the fitness classes at Fit4Mom.com. Learn more about Lisa at LisaDruxman.com and her Empowered Mama Book. You can also find her on Facebook and Instagram.
If you’re over corporate life and craving a deeper purpose, press play on episode 21 with Crystalee Beck, founder of The Mama Ladder. She helps Moms, like you, start a business AROUND raising a family. A lot of online business trainings were created by women without kids. Crystalee gets it. She also hosts Mama Spring Breaks -- business and adventure retreats!
Andrea Laine White is a Functional Nutrition Therapist practicing at Colorado Natural Medicine and the Chief Marketing Officer and Nutritionist for Baby Fresh Organics (Fresh Start). In her clinical practice, Andrea has developed therapeutic nutritional protocols for a variety of different conditions including, but not limited to: hormonal weight gain related to menopause, acne, endometriosis, infertility and conception, disorders of the thyroid including Hashimoto’s, autoimmune disorders including Celiac / Rheumatoid Arthritis / Primary Sclerosing Cholangitis (PSC), sleep disorders, migraine headaches, digestive disorders, HPA axis maladaptation/adrenal fatigue, hypertension, food sensitivities/ intolerances, depression/anxiety, gaining weight/increasing lean muscle mass, and cardiovascular disease/elevated cholesterol levels. Andrea attained her certification as a Master Nutrition Therapist from the Nutrition Therapy Institute in Denver, Colorado. Her education was primarily administered by practitioners of functional medicine. Functional medicine addresses the underlying or root causes of dysfunction in the body and seeks to restore balance from within.
In this episode, you’ll learn:
- Andrea’s story (0:45)
- Your Next Big Thing Book helped her find her purpose(1:25)
- Andrea’s approach to nutrition (3:29)
- Two factors that determine a healthy gut (4:55)
- What glyphosate is and how it affects the digestive system (10:16)
- Fun fact: learn about microbiome and epigenetics in episode 14 with Toni Harmon (11:10)
- Solocast: About Genetically Modified Organisms (GMO’s) (12:30)
- Read the Dirty Dozen List and Clean 15 List from Environmental Working Group (EWG) (12:45)
- The first steps to feeding our little ones (13:12)
- Forming your child’s taste buds in utero (21:10)
- Andrea’s philosophy on supplements (22:29)
- Functional lab testing for micronutrients (24:05)
- Difference between folate and folic acid (31:26)
- Andrea sees clients all over the world (32:22)
ou can connect with Andrea at ColoradoNaturalMed.com, Instagram, or info@coloradonaturalmed.com.
Andrea shares the number one gift a mom can give to her baby is a healthy gut. 75% of the immune system is housed in the gut (microbiome). Join us next week for episode 14 and learn even more about the microbiome and how it impacts overall health. I'll be talking with Toni Harman, producer of the documentary Microbirth. Toni will share more about the microbiome and the impact on your baby and ways that you can create a healthy foundation that can impact your child's health for the rest of his or her life!
When Toni Harman launched her award-winning documentary, MICROBIRTH, she wanted to shout from the rooftops about the critical microscopic events happening during pregnancy, birth, and breastfeeding.
She believes that this is critical knowledge that every healthcare professional should know about and should care about to help empower parents with full informed choice.
After all, the infant microbiome is a field of science that strongly supports vaginal birth (when possible), immediate skin-to-skin contact, and exclusive breastfeeding. This enables the optimal training of the infant immune system to benefit a child's lifelong health.
That's why she created the Microbirth School, an online course offering continuing education for healthcare professionals.
In this episode, you’ll learn:
- How Toni went from filming horror films to filming childbirth (0:35)
- What is the microbiome (4:46)
- Supporting a healthy pregnancy (12:43)
- Being obsessed with cleanliness isn’t always good (17:13)
- Benefits of living on a farm (19:20)
- How to support your baby’s microbiome if you have a c-section (25:15)
- Can a Mom request Swab Seeding? (31:07)
- Do your own research and raise your kids in the best way you can (32:25)
- Be excited about the microbiome and open your mind to new possibilities (34:49)
- Where to study the microbiome (35:55)
Get the Microbirth book here:
Your Baby's Microbiome: The Critical Role of Vaginal Birth and Breastfeeding for Lifelong Health
Check out these helpful links to learn more about the Microbirth Documentary, Microbirth.com, Microbirth School, Twitter, and Facebook.
Kelly Brogan, M.D., is a holistic health psychiatrist, author of the New York Times bestselling book, A Mind of Your Own, Own Your Self, the children’s book, A Time for Rain, and co-editor of the landmark textbook, Integrative Therapies for Depression. She completed her psychiatric training and fellowship at NYU Medical Center after graduating from Cornell University Medical College and has a B.S. from M.I.T. in Systems Neuroscience. She is board-certified in psychiatry, psychosomatic medicine, and integrative holistic medicine and is specialized in a root-cause resolution approach to psychiatric syndromes and symptoms. She is a certified KRI Kundalini Yoga teacher and a mother of two.
In this episode, you'll hear about:
- How Kelly started her career
- Depression isn't caused by a chemical imbalance in the brain
- Psychiatric medication — is there another way?
- Evolution of motherhood
- Chronic illness & modern-day diseases
- Symptoms are a gift
- Your body is a compass
- Kelly's notorious blog: Homebirth: The Opportunity of a Lifetime
- Emotional alchemy during birth
- Own Yourself book by Kelly Brogan
- Step into your own power
Begin your journey home to yourself at KellyBroganMD.com. Get to know Kelly more on Instagram, YouTube. Facebook, and Twitter.
Anita Lambert is the owner of Holistic Health Physiotherapy and a Registered Pelvic Health and Orthopaedic Physiotherapist with a focus on women's health, specifically prenatal and postpartum care. She’s one of the select few physiotherapists in Canada to receive advanced training in labor support, which blends orthopedic physiotherapy expertise with birth doula support.
Anita is always looking to share and learn up-to-date information about pregnancy, birth and beyond which led her to co-host the To Birth & Beyond Podcast.
You can usually find Anita on the move - whether playing with her kids or exercising with strength training, spin, yoga or Pilates. Anita lives in Peterborough, Ontario with her husband Andy, daughter Pippa and the newest addition to the family - baby Jack.
In this episode, you’ll hear about:
- Anita’s work with prenatal and postpartum care (1:27)
- To Birth and Beyond Podcast
- Where your Pelvic Floor is (5:53)
- Preparing Your Pelvic Floor for Birth Podcast
- Kegel exercises (8:27)
- Best time to do Kegel exercises (most women do it wrong) (9:00)
- In-Depth Birth Prep Podcast
- Flower Bloom Breathe to expedite labor — How to video (10:40)
- Perineal Massage — How to video (12:30)
- Massage oil recommendations (15:50)
- Exercises to prepare for birth (16:30)
- Spinning Babies Daily Essentials Video
- Ways to ease your birth (17:50)
If you feel drawn to Anita, you can find her on Instagram here, Facebook, her site HolisticHealthPhysio.com, and her amazing podcast To Birth and Beyond.
If thinking about birth gives you the jitters, Anita’s shares solid advice to help you prepare here. If I was pregnant, I would’ve downloaded this.
Crystalee Beck is a mama of three, cute, mess makers, writer, and cofounder of The Mama Ladder, an organization that empowers women at the intersection of motherhood and entrepreneurship. After leaving her corporate ladder job, she "created her own ladder" to fit her family in 2016. She gets her best ideas on mountain climbs and treasures daily adventures with her kids. See more at TheMamaLadder.com.
In this episode, you'll hear:
- Who is Crystalee Beck?
- How Crystalee prepared for her 3rd birth (VBAC: Vaginal Birth After Cesarean)
- Painless Childbirth Book
- Recognizing my own power
- Making a difficult decision during birth
- Experiencing a painless birth
- Mama Power Program
Website: TheMamaLadder.com
Instagram: @themamaladder
Facebook: Facebook.com/themamaladder
Dr. Aviva Romm is a midwife, herbalist, and Yale-trained MD, Board Certified in Family Medicine with Obstetrics, who has been bridging the best of traditional medicine with good science for over three decades. Her focus is on what she calls our total health ecology, utilizing medicine to identify and reverse the root causes of chronic health conditions, particularly hormonal problems in women and common children’s health problems. She is considered one of the world's leaders in botanical medicine and is the author of 7 books on natural medicine, including the textbook, Botanical Medicine for Women’s Health (Elsevier) and The Adrenal Thyroid Revolution (Harper One). Dr. Romm is the author of the integrative medicine curriculum for the Yale Internal Medicine and Pediatric Residencies, is on numerous scientific advisory and editorial boards, and is a widely sought after and highly engaging speaker. Her online programs for women are wildly popular and successful, helping women take back their health, affordably, and innovative professional programs are educating the next generation of health practitioners. Her non-profit organization, DharmaMoms, provides funding for midwifery education and salaries in high risk obstetric, low resource communities. Dr. Romm lives and practices medicine in the Berkshires and New York City. You can learn how to study with Aviva here: https://avivaromm.com/online-courses In this episode, you'll hear about: * Natural Pregnancy Book * Nutritional supplements & botanical remedies * Natural Healthy Babies & Children Book * Natural Health After Birth Book * The resurgence of midwifery & home births * How coronavirus impacts pregnancy * Emotional support for anxiety about COVID-19 * John Hopkin's Map for COVID-19 * Informed consent & the power of being informed
Learn more about Aviva's great books and online courses on her website here. Find her on Instagram and Facebook for her day-to-day updates.
Meet Lindsay Meisel, Chief Science Editor at Ava Fertility Tracker, a bracelet using new technology to detect a woman’s fertile window in real time. She loves breaking down science, tech, and health to improve women’s health and their menstrual cycles. With over a decade of experience educating and writing about reproductive health, Lindsay is a sought-after speaker and presenter. Her work has been featured on The Fertility Hour, The Birth Hour, The Breakthrough Journal, and The Rumpus.
In this episode, you'll hear about:
- Ava World Blog
- Myths of Fertility
- Your menstrual cycle matters (beyond fertility)
- The Kate & Mike Show: How to Use Your Hormones as a Superpower with Kate Northrup and Alisa Vitti
- WomanCode book by Alisa Vitti
- NHI Study: Prolonged PMS can be a sign of future ailments (Source: Alisa Vitti's work)
- CemCor
- No Period: Now What? book by Dr. Nicola J Rinaldi
- Ovulation
- More fertility myths
- Progesterone
- Getting off the pill
- Myths of miscarriages
You can find out more about Lindsay through the AvaWorld Blog.
Lily Nichols is a Registered Dietitian/Nutritionist, Certified Diabetes Educator, researcher, and author with a passion for evidence-based prenatal nutrition and exercise. Her work is known for being research-focused, thorough, and unapologetically critical of outdated dietary guidelines. She is the author of two bestselling books, Real Food for Pregnancy and Real Food for Gestational Diabetes.
In this episode you'll hear all about:
- What are some of the most common misconceptions about prenatal nutrition?
- What are a few foods that provide vital nutrients for mama and baby?
- How could conventional prenatal nutrition guidelines be improved?
- And more!
Visit her here: https://lilynicholsrdn.com/
Book websites: realfoodforGD.com (includes free video series on gestational diabetes + a comprehensive online course) and realfoodforpregnancy.com (Grab the first chapter of the book for free!)
Insta and Twitter: @lilynicholsRDN
More great podcast episodes with a prenatal + postpartum nutrition focus:
Your Body During Breastfeeding with Courtney Hasseman (nutrition during breastfeeding)
The Whole30 and Whole30 Mamas Club (nutrition for moms) with Stephanie Greunke
Prenatal Nutrition with Melissa Mor
Preconception Nutrition with Ryann Kipping
Functional Nutrition for Fertility, Pregnancy, and Motherhood with Andrea White
Sarah is the founder of Empowering Fearless Birth (a non-profit organization). EFB was founded in 2013 and is Utah's largest and longest-running pregnancy and birth expo. Sarah is passionate about helping women find their ideal resources to have a safe, healthy, and beautiful pregnancy, birth, and postpartum experience. As a professional filmmaker, she is able to bring unique and high-quality resources to the world. Sarah is also a trained doula and is a powerful connector in the birth community.
In this episode, you'll hear about:
- Sarah filming an at-home water birth
- Empowering Fearless Birth Event
- BirthCircle.com - Birth Professionals Directory
- Informed consent
- Birth team
- Home births
- Choosing your birth support person/people
- TheTouchofLife.com - Birth & Adoption Films
- *Find a Healthcare Provider that you Feel IN LOVE WITH***
Website: BirthCircle.com Instagram: @birth_circle
This is a special episode. Imagine the song, We Are the World, and a Ted Talk had a baby. If you're pregnant during the pandemic, we sing this one for you. It's good for those I-can't-do-this-anymore moments.
A few guests share words of wisdom to help you navigate a whole new world. I hope their messages lift your soul. Help you find the power within to keep going (even when things are bad). Make you exhale deeper. I can't wait for you to hear this.
So much love,
Kristy
In this episode, you'll hear about:
- Episode 006: The Dadhood Journey with Dr. Jay Warren
- What Can You Look Forward to? — Dr. Jay Warren
- Episode 039: The Five Questions You Must Ask Before Birth with Deb Flashenberg
- This Too Shall Pass — Deb Flashenberg
- 034: Using Your Intuition to Imporove Your Birth & Pregnancy Experience with Adriana Lozada
- You are RESILIENT — Adriana Lozada
- 075: How to Have a Luxurious Pregnancy with HeHe Stuart
- Staying in Control of Your Birth: You Can Do This — HeHe Stuart
- 010: The Mommy Lifecycle with Dr. Cleopatra
- We Have HOPE Even When Things Feel Terrible — Dr. Cleopatra
Molly Caro May is a writer whose work explores body, place, and the foreign/familiar. Her latest book, Body Full of Stars: Female Rage and My Passage Into Motherhood, was named a “searingly eloquent memoir” by Kirkus and excerpted in TIME and Lenny Letter. Her first book, The Map of Enough: One Woman's Search for Place was called “addictive” by Elle Magazine. She teaches personal narrative and story workshops online and across the country and gave a TEDx talk called “Female Rage and Resilience in the Modern Era.” Her mission is to work with story as a healing tool. In this episode, you'll hear about: * Her experience of the pandemic * Body Full of Stars: Female Rage and My Passage Into Motherhood book * The Map of Enough: One Woman's Search for Place book * Postpartum story * How to prioritize yourself * Boundaries with your kids * Be the change * Mom guilt * Metabolize your postpartum stories * Writing workshops with Molly * Morning Pages * 31 Days of Writing Prompts: Learn More + Sign Up * Birth Yourself Writing Workshop * Transform Your Old Story Writing Workshop
Website: MollyCaroMay.com Instagram: @mollycaromay
William Sears, MD, has been advising busy parents on how to raise healthier families for over 40 years. Together with this wife, Martha, he has written more than 40 books and countless articles on parenting, nutrition, and healthy aging. He serves as a consultant for TV, magazines, and other media. Visit him at AskDrSears.com.
In this episode, you'll hear about:
- Dr. Sears' 50 year MD career
- The brain is now sicker than the heart
- The Healthy Brain Book
- Preloading
- Pregnancy
- Microbiome
- Meditation
- Depression & Anxiety
- Make your own medicines
- Outdoor movement
- Inflammation in the brain
- Gratitude
- Sipping Solution
- Floatation Therapy - Swim with a Mantra
- Sleep Smart
Websites: AskDrSears.com | DrSearsWellnessInstitute.org
Instagram: @askdrsears
Facebook: Facebook.com/askdrsears
Twitter: Twitter.com/AskDoctorSears
Dr. Aumatma is a Naturopathic Doctor & Nutritionist, in practice for close to 15 years. She specializes in women's health, is the best-selling author of "Fertility Secrets: What Your Doctor Didn't Tell You About Baby-Making," and is a sought out speaker on topics related to Women’s Health and Empowerment. Dr. Aumatma was awarded the “Best Alternative Medicine Practitioner″ award locally in 2015, and as a top “Women In Medicine” Doctor in 2020. In addition to supporting couples through private 1 on 1 care and online group programs, and she also trains practitioners who want to specialize in fertility
In this episode, you'll hear about:
- Dr. Aumatma's road to fertility and postpartum support
- Pre-conception testing
- What ridges on your nails mean
- What a Naturopathic Doctor is
- Mind Body Spirit Approach
- Body Talk
- Prenatal Supplements
- Folic Acid vs Folate
- Nutrition for Pregnancy
- Emotional and Mental Support
Website: HolisticFertilityCenter.com
Facebook: @DrAumatmaNd
Instagram: @holsitic_fertility_doctor
Laurel Wilson is a TEDx and internationally known speaker who specializes in Epigenome and Breastmilk, Prenatal Bonding and Brain Development, as well as, Cannabis and Human Milk. Her business, MotherJourney.com, offers BabyFriendly Hospital support; offering kick off staff education, CEO and CFO education programs, Grand Rounds, staff audits, and intensive staff training. See LaurelAWilson.com for more. MotherJourney is a safe and inclusive space welcoming all families, all genders, and all identifications of parenthood.
With over 26 years of experience, Laurel takes a creative approach to working with the pregnant family and perinatal professionals. She's co-author of best-selling books, The Greatest Pregnancy Ever: The Keys to the MotherBaby Bond and The Attachment Pregnancy: The Ultimate Guide to Bonding with Your Baby. She is also a contributing author to Round the Circle: Experienced Doulas Share What They Learned the Hard Way and is the original editor of the CAPPA Lactation Educator Manual. Laurel currently travels the world presenting on hot topics as Social Media and the Pregnant Family, Epigenetics and the Microbiome and First Foods, plus Cannabis and Perinatal Health.
She believes that the journey towards and into parenthood is a life changing rite of passage that should be deeply honored and celebrated. In this episode:
- Laurel's work
- Critical 1,000 days of human development
- How Laurel got into perinatal work
- Attachment Pregnancy book
- Stress and human milk
- Microbiome
- Barriers & Tips for Breast or Chestfeeding
- Impact of cannabis on babies who breastfeed
Thirsty for more? See what Laura is up to at:
Website: MotherJourney.com
Instagram: MotherJourneyLaurelWilson
Facebook: MotherJourneyLaurelWilson
Lisa Hendrickson-Jack is a Certified Fertility Awareness Educator, Holistic Reproductive Health Practitioner, and author of The Fifth Vital Sign: Master Your Cycles & Optimize Your Fertility.
I help health conscious women discover the connection between their menstrual cycles and their overall health, so they can ditch hormonal birth control forever. Our education system has failed to teach us about our fertility, so I’m here to empower you to take control of your fertility and your life.
In this episode, you'll hear about:
- Lisa's passion about fertility awareness
- What a vital sign is
- What your menstrual cycle has to do with your health
- Your Fifth Vital Sign book
- How contraceptives affect fertility
- Postpartum charting
- Healthy menstrual cycle length
If you're interested in becoming the Queen of your fertility, Lisa's Fertility Friday podcast is for you. Lisa's mission is to help you take control of your fertility (and your life), so dive into her world at FertilityFriday.com
Oh, and if you're trying to conceive, Lisa has a free resource for you! Click here --> FertilityFriday.com/TTC
Loretta J. Ross is a nationally-recognized trainer on using the transformative power of Reproductive Justice to build a Human Rights movement that includes everyone. Ms. Ross is an expert on women’s issues, hate groups, racism and intolerance, human rights, and violence against women. Her work focuses on the intersectionality of social justice issues and how this affects social change and service delivery in all movements.
Ross has appeared on CNN, BET, "Lead Story," "Good Morning America," "The Donahue Show," "Democracy Now," "Oprah Winfrey Radio Network," and "The Charlie Rose Show." She is a member of the Women's Media Center's Progressive Women's Voices. More information is available on the Makers: Women Who Make America video at http://www.makers.com/loretta-ross.
Ms. Loretta is a rape survivor, was forced to raise a child born of incest, and she is also a survivor of sterilization abuse. She is a model of how to survive and thrive despite the traumas that disproportionately affect low-income women of color. She serves as a consultant for Smith College, collecting oral histories of feminists of color for the Sophia Smith Collection which also contains her personal archives (see https://www.smith.edu/library/libs/ssc/pwv/pwv-ross.html). She is a mother, grandmother and a great-grandmother. She is a graduate of Agnes Scott College and holds an honorary Doctorate of Civil Law degree awarded in 2003 from Arcadia University and a second honorary doctorate degree awarded from Smith College in 2013. In this episode, you'll hear about:
- Loretta's work as a Reproductive Justice Activist
- White Supremacy in the Age of Trump Class
- Birth justice
- SisterSong.net
- Social media
- Her upcoming book: Calling in the Calling Our Culture
- Building a united rights movement
- Undivided Rights: Women of Color Organizing for Reproductive Rights book
- Reproductive Justice: An Introduction book
- Radical Reproductive Justice book
- Activism
The best way to reach this wonderful woman is by visiting LorettaRoss.com.
Gina Giordano is a doula and a creator. Originally from Miami Florida, she grew up in a close family unit. As the oldest of five children, she was taught how to support and nurture at a very young age. After studying fine arts in college, she moved to New York City where she was introduced to the idea of doula work. Just after one training her passion for working in pregnancy, childbirth and beyond was ignited. In 2005 she started a business, offering birth and postpartum doula services and education to families. Through her work she learned how to offer compassionate, dignified care for ALL families during childbirth and the postpartum time, no matter their choices. She also saw a need for more doulas. Driven to serve that need she co-founded DTI with her long time friend and business partner Tara Brooke. By working as the creative director of DTI, Gina’s mission is to bring awareness to all birth and reproductive options through innovative and curated design. She is the mother to two wild girls, married to her lifelong sweetheart and lives in Austin, TX.
- Doula Trainings International
- Gina's path to become birth doula & postpartum doula
- Tara Brook
- Gender neutral births
- Reproductive health
- Fertility
- Born into This Non-Profit
Instagram: @doulatrainingsint
Website: DoulaTrainingsInternational.com
Instagram: @BornintoThis.co
Website: WeAreBornintoThis.com
Instagram: @GinaGiordano
Amanda Thomas is a certified Elimination Communication (EC) coach and consultant for Go Diaper Free. She teaches parents how to potty train their kids without using diapers. Or, at least using fewer diapers!
In this episode, you'll hear about:
- Natural infant pottying
- Go Diaper Free
- Elimination Communication (EC)
- Potty Training without diapers
- Bamboo - Eco-friendly diapers
- Top Hat Potty
- Environmental factors of going diaper-free
- Saving money
- EC Classes in DC
- One-on-one EC Classes
Amanda's giving away a Top Hat Potty & free 30-minute consultation! Head over to Instagram for details. While you're at it, follow Amanda on Instagram here: @diaperfreedc.
Sometimes big, life-changing events happen. They leave you feeling bruised and a lot less like the person you know you are in your soul. You divide your life into the before and after. You wonder how to make sense of it and how to move on as a new version of yourself. At 18 weeks pregnant with her second child, she was thrust unwillingly into the dizzying world of pediatric cardiology. She was faced with enormous life or death decisions about the tiny being inside of me, his heart the size of a grape.
Crafting and sharing that story of survival (listen to it here!) planted the seed for what has become her creative business, Orchid Story.
Trained as a genetic counselor, Rachel Nusbaum looks for places in the world where science, writing, and healing meet together in a pretty Venn diagram.
In this episode, you'll hear about:
- How Rachel started Orchid Story
- Her son was diagnosed with congenital heart disease
- Story Corps Podcast
- Narrative identity
- Birth story
- Sanctuary online program
- 1:1 VIP Coaching
- Workshops with Rachel
- The Orchid Story Podcast: Healing Through Personal Narrative
The best place to dive into Rachel's story (and how you can write your own) is on her site. Follow her for more writing therapy on Instagram and Facebook. She says, "Your story is your strength."
Dr. Aviva Romm is a midwife, herbalist, and Yale-trained MD, Board Certified in Family Medicine with Obstetrics, who has been bridging the best of traditional medicine with good science for over three decades. Her focus is on what she calls our total health ecology, utilizing medicine to identify and reverse the root causes of chronic health conditions, particularly hormonal problems in women and common children’s health problems. She is considered one of the world's leaders in botanical medicine and is the author of 7 books on natural medicine, including the textbook, Botanical Medicine for Women’s Health (Elsevier) and The Adrenal Thyroid Revolution (Harper One). Dr. Romm is the author of the integrative medicine curriculum for the Yale Internal Medicine and Pediatric Residencies, is on numerous scientific advisory and editorial boards, and is a widely sought after and highly engaging speaker. Her online programs for women are wildly popular and successful, helping women take back their health, affordably, and innovative professional programs are educating the next generation of health practitioners. Her non-profit organization, DharmaMoms, provides funding for midwifery education and salaries in high risk obstetric, low resource communities. Dr. Romm lives and practices medicine in the Berkshires and New York City. You can learn how to study with Aviva here: https://avivaromm.com/online-courses In this episode, you'll hear about: * Natural Pregnancy Book * Nutritional supplements & botanical remedies * Natural Healthy Babies & Children Book * Natural Health After Birth Book * The resurgence of midwifery & home births * How coronavirus impacts pregnancy * Emotional support for anxiety about COVID-19 * John Hopkin's Map for COVID-19 * Informed consent & the power of being informed
Learn more about Aviva's great books and online courses on her website here. Find her on Instagram and Facebook for her day-to-day updates.
Tranquility by HeHe is a Maternity Concierge, Doula, and Birthing Service in the Boston area. Their mission is to provide high quality, holistic, individualized doula services to Boston families in an empowering and nurturing environment. They take their doula services above and beyond prenatal, birth, and postpartum support by managing all of the "time-sucking" things such as creating your baby registry, planning your baby shower, and researching top-quality baby essentials.
HeHe's Motto: "Choose what's right for your body, your baby, and your family. I'll support you in that choice."
In this episode, you'll hear about:
- Tranquility by He He Stewart Concierge Services
- The Birth Lounge Podcast
- Birth Lounge
- Birth trauma
- Communicate openly with your healthcare provider
- Induction methods
- Birth stories
- Guide to Childbirth book
- Birth plan
HeHe's got your back and your birth plan wishes at heart. Learn more about doula work at TranquilitybyHehe.com.
If you're outside the Boston area, The Birth Lounge is a great option to work with HeHe virtually. It's designed for women who want to make educated decisions along the journey of pregnancy and birth. Save $5/month to your membership to The Birth Lounge with code: nurture5
HeHe LOVES Instagram, so if you have an account, she spends all day in her stories and DM's! Find her here.
Robin Shirley, CHHC, is the Founding President of Take Back Your Health Int’l, a company that hosts internationally attended health conferences and retreats across the U.S. She speaks, consults, and writes about The Take Back Your Health Lifestyle and how to reduce the symptoms of chronic illness.
She has spoken for the University of Virginia Cardiovascular Center, The Arthritis Foundation, Arthritis Introspective, Match.com, The Take Back Your Health Conference and Yogasmoga.
Robin grew up with out-of-control systemic inflammation, which her doctors labeled as Systemic Juvenile Rheumatoid Arthritis and Chronic Lyme Disease. At 23 years old, Robin was on track to file for disability and give up on her dream to run her own hospitality company.
After 17 years of experimentation, research and education, she has personally experienced the power of a therapeutic healthy lifestyle on reducing pain and inflammation. Robin is finally free from pharmaceuticals and running the company of her dreams.
Robin is a Certified Integrative Nutrition Health Coach through the Institute for Integrative Nutrition and a member of the American Board of Drugless Practitioners.
After coaching hundreds of patients with Chronic Lyme Disease, Autoimmune Disease, and Depression through her nutrition protocol, Robin launched Chronic Lyme Nutrition, a therapeutic nutrition protocol that teaches Chronic Lyme patients how to eat to reduce inflammation and depression, increase energy and strengthen the immune system.
She writes and posts about the Take Back Your Health Lifestyle on www.ClubTBYH.com
In this episode, you'll hear about:
- Lyme Disease
- Elimination Diet
- Take Back Your Health Event in D.C.
- Pregnancy
- Probiotic foods
- Sweet treats (without refined sugar)
- Join Robin's newsletter
- Pregnancy hormones
- Be clear when asking for what you want
Robin said you're welcome to email her directly at info [at] clubtbyh [dot] com. I look forward to reading her newsletters. You're always welcome at the Take Back Your Health community.
Alisa made history on the Dr. Oz Show when she discussed menstruation on national TV. She showed them how to ‘read’ your menstrual blood (using mashed fruit as props) to determine if you have hormonal imbalances. **You can see the video here**. She also spoke about hormones, neurochemistry, feminine energy, entrepreneurship, and success at TEDx, Talks@Google, Summit Series Outside, Hay House, WIE Symposium, and SHE Summit.
While she's super science-minded, Alisa has been known to drop F-bombs on stage. You'll find her doing rituals on the new and full moon, and she wears tight, black dresses with colorful aprons in her kitchen — all with her baby girl on her hip and her Italian grandmother’s olive-wood spoon in hand.
Alisa built FLO Living as a virtual online health center to help women solve their hormonal symptoms from anywhere in the world. I published a book called WomanCode, which has been in the Top 50 bestselling women’s health books of all time since it was published.
Here's a breakdown of our chat:
- WomanCode book
- Alisa's hormonal breakdown
- FloLiving.com - Modern Menstrual Healthcare
- How to optimize your fertility
- Your period is your 5th vital sign (What is it trying to tell you?)
- In the Flow book
Alissa invites you to get support for your hormones and fertility at FloLiving.com. Once you read her new book, In the Flo, you won't be able to put it down. See what bonuses you can get with the book at IntheFloBook.com. Sync with Alissa's IG flow here.
Meet Leslie Huddart. Although she didn't recognize it as a child, she's been on a healer’s path her whole life. She's an acupuncturist who studied reiki, Thai massage, shiatsu, and Asian medicine. Now she teaches women (and men who "get it" ) skills of self-mastery in her Subtle Body Certification TM program, The Body Wisdom Academy, so they can win in life, stay grounded in tough times, nurture awesome relationships, and feel great about being who they actually are. In this episode, you'll hear about:
- The Path of Motherhood is a Path of Spiritual Growth
- Subtle Body Expert
- Body Wisdom
- Mind Shifts
- HypnoBirthing
- Mind-Body Connection
- Postpartum Depression
- Soul Pancake YouTube Channel
If you could talk to Leslie all day, continue the conversation at TheBodyWisdomAcademy.com and LeslieHuddart.com. Consider doing her 21-Minute Free Training to deepen your body wisdom. Your body really does have a mind of its own and you can talk to your body like a friend!
For fun, Leslie is giving our listeners a gift, so head over to Instagram.com/Pure_Nurture to enter to win!
What is Astrology and how can it help you become the kind of mom you want to be? How understanding your child’s birth chart can help you to embrace and support the unfolding of your child’s authentic self. How understanding your birth chart can help you stay grounded in your own soul work as you navigate the very demanding, life-changing, (and sometimes overwhelming) experience of mothering. How to use the monthly Moon cycles to support you in your daily job of mothering.
In this episode, you'll hear about:
- Tara, the Astrologer and Coach for mindful moms
- How astrology can help you parent your kids
- Natal Chart
- Your North Star or purpose in life
- Where Mercury is on your chart shows how you learn
- Where Saturn is on your chart shows your life lessons
- Daily cosmic weather Instagram posts
- CafeAstrology.com
If you want to read Tara's daily posts on what's going on in the cosmos, stop by Instagram. You can go deeper in coaching sessions with how to relate to your family best based on their astrology.
If you're obsessed with astrology and want to learn more, Debra Silverman has an online course.
Win a mini astrology session with Tara. Click here!
Important question: Are you living from your head or your heart? A lot of us are stuck in our heads, working a job we hate without considering what our heart wants.
Angela Barbieri Usas, mom of three, guides us back to our hearts, so we can hear the truth of what we want. She believes we're meant to live a life beaming from our heart centers. With the everyday demands of life, pulled in a million directions, it can be hard. Her passion is to empower women back to their wholeness, their hearts.
In this episode, you'll hear about: * Radiant Heart Center in Virginia * What is a Heart Guide? * Heart-to-Heart Support * Where are you stuck right now? * Radiating from your heart * Virtual, phone, or in person coaching * Crystal Grid Workshop * Intentional Jewelry * Kundalini Yoga * Pure Nurture Podcast Gratitude Group
Join the Pure Nurture Gratitude group for 30-days of gratitude beginning Friday, February 7th, 2020. Click here to join for free.
Meet this power couple, Sarah Bivens: coach, podcaster, & amazing mama — AND — Matthew Bivens: coach, podcaster, & purpose activator.
They individually and collectively help people prepare for parenthood in an orgasmic way.
Sarah's mission is: To be the Badass Goddess in exquisite execution of balanced lifestyle; acknowledging and honoring my divine feminine source and owning my power to co-create, while intimately connecting to others through love, service, nurturing, and healing; exploring and being what’s possible, attuned to the abundance of the Universe and answering its call with a joyful and faithful heart that generates orgasmic and sustainable health and wealth.
Matthew's mission is: To help you transform fear to love and scarcity to abundance, and I’m so committed to creating and holding the space for your greatness!
In this episode, you'll hear about:
- Doing it at Home Podcast with Sarah & Matthew Bivens
- Home Birth stories & resources
- Having it A.L.L Podcast with Matthew Bivens
- Balanced Lifestyle Coaching
- Fasting
- Empowered Birth Community
- Kids magnify everything
- Communication in marriage
- Breakdown to breakthrough
- Pre-children counseling
- Scheduling sex
- Kids are our teachers
- Resolving conflict with kids
- Book Recommendation: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen Covey
- Documentary: E-MOTION by Gaia
- Healthy relationships vs codependency
Thank you, Sarah & Matthew, for giving us a lot to think about for our own personal & familial fulfillment! Be open to what they've co-created:
DIAHPodcast.com
SarahBivens.com + Sarah's Instagram
MatthewBivens.com + Matthew's Instagram
Welcome Shveta Sontakey back on the podcast! On episode 19, she said how hypnobirthing was the most empowering thing she did for herself, and her family.
Today she invites us to see what our brains look like for the first time.
In her new business, Nurtured Brain, she helps families optimize their brain power through neuroscience and tech. I WISH I lived in LA to try this service out with her! It sounds AMAZING and LIFE CHANGING for parents. When you see your brain for the first time (just like looking in the mirror), you'll automatically make adjustments. Things like resolve trauma, rewire your brain to be more mindful, and calm your nervous system. Powerful stuff!
In this episode, you'll hear about:
- A magical birth experience through the power of your brain
- Mental fatigue
- Nurtured Brain - All about healing our brains
- Neurofeedback sessions
- Bio Strap - A tech bracelet that tracks sleep, recovery, and performance
- Neurofeedback Practitioners
- Benefits of neurofeedback
- Sontakey affirmation bracelets
- Neurofeedback paired with Singlet Oxygen Therapy
Sheveta LOVES creating stronger neural pathways in your brain. What she LOVES MORE is connecting with you! Say "HI!" to her on Instagram, see how to optimize your brain at Nurtured Brain, and check out her affirmation bracelets. To your brilliant brain!
Tracey L. Rogers is an Activist, professional Astrologer, and certified Life Coach serving clients throughout the DMV, nationally, and abroad. With extensive knowledge of Western astrological thought and traditions, Tracey has been studying the stars for over 20 years. As a Leo who understands the importance of self-awareness, self-acceptance, and being completely authentic, Tracey’s practice of Astrology is interwoven with Life Coaching techniques that provide clients with a fully encompassing approach to empowered living. Tracey’s work has been featured in Alexandria Living Magazine, Black America Web, Martha Stewart Weddings, O – The Oprah Winfrey Magazine, Other Words DC, Rebelle Society, Sasstrology, Sesi Magazine, and The Horoscope Junkie. She is also a featured guest on nationally syndicated radio, including the Russ Parr Morning Show (MAJIC 102.3) based in Washington, DC, and Dee Dee In The Morning (K104) based in Dallas, TX.
In this episode, you’ll hear about: * Tracey’s family of mediums and astrologers * What is astrology? * Birth Map * How Birth Maps make you a better parent * Baby Astrology Books
For a chance to win a personalized baby astrology book, click here. Giveaway ends Friday 1/17/20 at 4 pm est.
Baby’s First Astrology book tells the story of how the universe aligned itself at the moment of child’s birth. They describe your son’s or daughter’s personality based on their full astrological make-up. Find out more on BabyAstrologyBooks.com and TraceyLRogers.com.
Alex is the creator of Nurture. She lives with her husband on a little farm in California where they raise their three little ones. Alex is a homeschooler, certified postpartum doula, and keeper of the precious seasons of motherhood for herself and others through honest photographs and words. Inspired by the innate connections and organic rhythms of everyday life with her children; the magic moments present in the mundane, motherhood is her muse, and love is her platform.
Alex talks all about being present and letting the small everyday moments speak volumes of gratitude in our lives.
In this episode, you'll hear about:
- Alexandria Smith
- Nurture's monthly offer
- Gentle discipline (without anger)
- Postpartum doula life
- Homeschooling
- Nature
- Tough Mom moments
- Conscious Discipline
Sow seeds of JOY at NurtureMotherhood.com where mundane tasks are magical. Find her on Instagram, too.
Meet Lindsay Meisel, Chief Science Editor at Ava Fertility Tracker, a bracelet using new technology to detect a woman’s fertile window in real time. She loves breaking down science, tech, and health to improve women’s health and their menstrual cycles. With over a decade of experience educating and writing about reproductive health, Lindsay is a sought-after speaker and presenter. Her work has been featured on The Fertility Hour, The Birth Hour, The Breakthrough Journal, and The Rumpus.
In this episode, you'll hear about:
- Ava World Blog
- Myths of Fertility
- Your menstrual cycle matters (beyond fertility)
- The Kate & Mike Show: How to Use Your Hormones as a Superpower with Kate Northrup and Alisa Vitti
- WomanCode book by Alisa Vitti
- NHI Study: Prolonged PMS can be a sign of future ailments (Source: Alisa Vitti's work)
- CemCor
- No Period: Now What? book by Dr. Nicola J Rinaldi
- Ovulation
- More fertility myths
- Progesterone
- Getting off the pill
- Myths of miscarriages
You can find out more about Lindsay through the AvaWorld Blog.
Mindfully Loved founded by Chloe and Michael exists to empower new and expectant parents to find the art of self-love and slow living. About Chloe Chloe is a certified hypnotherapist and psychologist working with adults, children, and parents for almost 10 years. She has worked at her own private practice overseas, worked in youth organizations, various school settings, and private clinics.
She has two master’s degrees in Educational Psychology and School Psychology having completed her studies at Columbia University – Teachers College in New York City. During that time she also developed a passion for Hypnotherapy and completed her certificate in hypnotherapy through the National Guild of Hypnotists Inc.
Chloe is a dreamer, who wants to be part of the change to our future generation. She loves the outdoors, traveling, volunteering, the beach, and essential oils.
About Michael Michael is an Allied Health Professional with over 11 years of hands-on and case management experience with people recovering from soft tissue injuries to severe brain and spinal injuries.
Michael studied Health Sciences at La Trobe University before finding his calling, completing an Advanced Diploma in Myotherapy. Battling with his own Mental Health for 8 years, he discovered the power of self-worth and acceptance. Since then he's been able to support and help lots of others through his own learning’s, writing and poetry. Michael has a passion for personal, spiritual, and collective growth. He enjoys writing, being immersed in music and sports.
In this episode, you'll hear about:
- Mindfully Loved's mission
- Self-Love
- Slow Living
- Fully accepting all of yourself (even trauma) & letting it go
- Shveta's mantra bracelets
- Mindfully Loved: An eCourse for Expectant Parents
- Preparing for parenthood
- HypnoBirthing & hypnotherapy
We need to clean out our own garage in order to create a safe space of love for our children, partner, and others. Chloe and Michael empower expecting and new parents to heal themselves through the art of self-love and slow living. Learn more at:
Website: www.mindfullyloved.com (Feel free to join their list)
Download their free ebook entitled, Mindfully Growing: A Holistic and Mindful Approach to Preparing for Parenthood. (no opt-in is required)
Instagram: @mindfullyloved
Facebook: @Mindfully Loved
Kristy Goodman is the Co-Founder and CEO of PreConception Inc., an online service that provides direct-to-consumer preconception testing. Kristy is a women’s health, physician assistant (PA) with an M.S. in PA Studies and an MPH in Health Education and Behavioral Science from Rutgers University. Kristy completed a postgraduate fellowship in Ob/Gyn and has worked in a variety of settings providing preconception and prenatal care, labor and delivery services, and infertility treatment. Kristy is an advocate for evidence-based, patient-centered care and shares educational resources on her Instagram @theobgynpa. Kristy lives in Los Angeles, California with her partner and breast-cancer survivor dog, Kira.
This week, we talk about preconception care. and what women can do to improve their health before pregnancy in order to improve their chances of having a healthy pregnancy as this is my recent area of expertise! We could do a general overview of pregnancy planning or a more focused discussion on what questions to ask your healthcare provider, when to start planning, which tests to get done, etc.
On the podcast, you'll hear about:
- Kristy and her company, PreConception
- Improving your health pre-pregnancy
- Episode 22: Preconception Nutrition with Ryann Kipping
- Diet and exercise
- Prenatal vitamins
- Preconception Testing
- Immunity Testing
- Genetic Testing
- Talk to your family & friends about preconception care
No doubt that Kristy will either coin the term "Trimester Zero" or make it part of our everyday dialogue. Cheer her on! While you're at it, join the conversation
Instagram: @theobgynpa
Facebook: www.facebook.com/theobgynpa
Websites: www.theobgynpa.com & www.preconceptiontest.com
Kelly Brogan, M.D., is a holistic health psychiatrist, author of the New York Times bestselling book, A Mind of Your Own, Own Your Self, the children’s book, A Time for Rain, and co-editor of the landmark textbook, Integrative Therapies for Depression. She completed her psychiatric training and fellowship at NYU Medical Center after graduating from Cornell University Medical College and has a B.S. from M.I.T. in Systems Neuroscience. She is board-certified in psychiatry, psychosomatic medicine, and integrative holistic medicine and is specialized in a root-cause resolution approach to psychiatric syndromes and symptoms. She is a certified KRI Kundalini Yoga teacher and a mother of two.
In this episode, you'll hear about:
- How Kelly started her career
- Depression isn't caused by a chemical imbalance in the brain
- Psychiatric medication — is there another way?
- Evolution of motherhood
- Chronic illness & modern-day diseases
- Symptoms are a gift
- Your body is a compass
- Kelly's notorious blog: Homebirth: The Opportunity of a Lifetime
- Emotional alchemy during birth
- Own Yourself book by Kelly Brogan
- Step into your own power
Begin your journey home to yourself at KellyBroganMD.com. Get to know Kelly more on Instagram, YouTube. Facebook, and Twitter.
Meet Sarah! She's a Registered Nurse, Mom, Certified Postpartum Doula, and Doula Certified Childbirth Educator. Sarah realized that childbirth education and doula work doesn't have to be all or nothing. Like a lot of things in life, most families (like hers) end up landing somewhere in the middle. She helps new parents find the best way to nurture their birth and postpartum phase.
In this episode, you'll hear about:
- What is a postpartum doula?
- Our society is lacking communal support for women
- Evidence-based education
- Preparing for childbirth
Here are Sarah's favorite resources:
- DoulaMatch.net - Find a postpartum doula near you who fits well with your personality
- The Birth Partner Book
- This Isn't What I Expected Book: Overcoming Postpartum Depression
Nurturingbirthrva.com
Instagram: NurturingBirthandBeyond
Facebook: Nurturing Birth and Beyond
Our society is lacking communal support for new parents. It really does take a village to raise your child and now that we live so far from family, it can be SO hard. Having a postpartum doula tips us back to where we're supposed to be—doing the best that we can, with helping hands.
Jeanne-Marie Paynel, founder and CEO of Voila Montessori, is a Parenting Mentor and Home Consultant. Her mission is to help parents appreciate the true importance of their role - not as servants or teachers, but as guides for their children's natural development. She believes that a supportive and peaceful atmosphere at home will allow every child to grow up as an independent and confident learner. Jeanne-Marie speaks locally and internationally about her three passions: Montessori, Conscious Parenting, and Positive Discipline.
In this episode, you'll hear about:
- Jeanne-Marie's passion for the Montessori Method
- The Art of Parenting Podcast with Jeanne-Marie
- What is a Montessori School?
- Four Montessori areas to create in your home
- Parent with more joy and ease
- Parents are guides for their children (not servants)
- Nursery Checklist << please insert link :)
For more about Jeanne-Marie, visit: VoilaMontessori.com/jeanne-marie-paynel
- Montessori's Website: Voilamontessori.com
- Montessori's Facebook: Facebook.com/jeannemariepaynel.yourparentingmentor
- Montessori's Instagram: Instagram.com/jeannemariepaynel
- Montessori's Vimeo: Vimeo.com/voilamontessori
- Jeanne-Marie's Pinterest: Pinterest.com/jmpaynel
- Jeanne-Marie's YouTube Channel: Youtube.com/user/VoilaMontessori/videos
Vered is a musician, music therapist, psychotherapist, and mom of 3. Her albums Good Morning My Love and Hello My Baby received GOLD awards from both the Parents Choice Association and the National Parenting Publications. She's the creator of Baby in Tune, a workshop that teaches parents how to use music to bond with and understand their baby. Vered has done staff trainings for Sanctuary for Families, the San Francisco Public Library, and was invited to present her work at Zero to Three, the largest conference for professionals working with ages 0-3 years old. She lives with her husband and kids in Brooklyn.
In this episode, you'll hear about:
- How Vered got into music
- Grieving her dream career of being a rockstar
- Music and pregnancy: fetal auditory learning
- Music and less colicky babies
- Kristy's daughter remembered her favorite Marc Anthony song (first heard in utero)
- How you can use music to connect with your baby
- Why music is so important to play for babies
- How you can use music during pregnancy to connect with your baby
Learn how to soothe your baby with Vered's NY and online classes. Find more here:
Website - BabyinTune.com
Instagram - @babyintune
Facebook - Facebook.com/babyintune
Crystalee Beck is a mama of three, cute, mess makers, writer, and cofounder of The Mama Ladder, an organization that empowers women at the intersection of motherhood and entrepreneurship. After leaving her corporate ladder job, she "created her own ladder" to fit her family in 2016. She gets her best ideas on mountain climbs and treasures daily adventures with her kids. See more at TheMamaLadder.com.
In this episode, you'll hear:
- Who is Crystalee Beck?
- How Crystalee prepared for her 3rd birth (VBAC: Vaginal Birth After Cesarean)
- Painless Childbirth Book
- Recognizing my own power
- Making a difficult decision during birth
- Experiencing a painless birth
- Mama Power Program
Website: TheMamaLadder.com
Instagram: @themamaladder
Facebook: Facebook.com/themamaladder
Learn 5 key facts that our culture gets wrong, so that you can stop the sleep struggle and “Am I doing it wrong?” anxiety.
Kim Hawley, MA, MPH is a Holistic Sleep Consultant and Lactation Counselor, as well as, the owner of Intuitive Parenting. Kim's passionate about helping parents confidently navigate nighttime parenting and family sleep using evidenced-based information and parental intuition. Her specialty is gentle, attachment-based sleep support for breastfeeding families.
Kim lives in Capitol Hill, Washington DC with her husband, her two children, and a few animals, including her guide dog. She loves to run, read a good book, eat delicious food, and enjoy a glass of wine or cup of coffee.
In this episode, you'll hear about:
- Kim's story
- A holistic approach to sleep
- 5 Sleep Facts
- Guilt and pride over your baby's sleep
- Sleep is genetic
- Safe co-sleeping and room-sharing
- S L O W D O W N & see if sleep advice feels right to you
See how you can be responsive to your baby’s needs and still take care of yourself. It's a delicate line. Don't over-commit yourself, so you can have a nice balance of work and play. With your intuition and as you try new things, you'll eventually sing a lullaby that soothes the whole family.
Learn more about Kim and possibly working with her at IntuitiveparentingDC.com. Take care and sleep well.
Meet, Karly and Ali. Hosts of the Birth Kweens Podcast, a wildly honest conversation on all things natural pregnancy, birth, postpartum, and women's health. Together, they've attended 1,000+ births and have A LOT to say on this. They help women explore their pregnancy options with a funny, lighthearted approach. Our conversation is one of my faves. (I think I can officially call myself a "birth nerd.")
In this episode, you'll hear about:
- What Ali & Karly are up to
- Vaginal Steam Therapy (or Yoni Steaming)
- Cervical exams- What they are, when they're done, how they're done, etc.
- Speeding up the birth process (or NOT speeding up the birth process)
- Birth Kweens Podcast
They are a powerful combo! Between a Doula and a Midwife, they're definitely ones to watch! Catch them online and anywhere you listen to podcasts. Also, here:
Instagram - @birthkweens
Website - www.birthkweens.com
When Khyati Desai-Seltzer gave birth, her Mom came to live with her for six months to help out and would frequently massage her baby. Khyati took infant massage for granted and saw it as something her culture does for babies. The more she learned from her Mom, the more she became fascinated.
Now, she's certified by the International Association of Infant Massage to provide instruction to parents on massaging their babies for short term and long term benefits. She received a Bachelor's degree in Sociology and International Studies from LSU and a Master's in Public Administration in Nonprofit Management from GMU. She's the mother of a three-year-old girl and enjoys yoga, meditation, travel, and dancing in her free time. Khyati believes if every baby had a chance to experience loving, physical touch on a regular basis, our world would look very different. She's passionate about holistic living and wants to share the power of infant massage with as many parents as possible.
In this episode, you'll learn:
- Khyati’s Mom taught her infant massage
- Benefits of infant massage
- Massage techniques & tools
- What is epigenetics?
- Conscious conception
- Massage helps calm postpartum depression
- VyanaInfantMassage.com
- Online classes to learn all about infant massage
- IAIM: International Association of Infant Massage - Find in-person instruction for infant massage
It’s time to stop feeling like a stressed-out parent (or worse - guilty over it)! When you massage your infant, you’ll start to relax and bond with your baby. Maybe you'll even hear a coo.
Reach out and touch Khyati's world at:
Website - VyanaInfantMassage.com
Instagram - @vyana.infantmassage
Kate Turza is a mom of 3, co-host of the Mom Deconstructed Podcast, and postpartum Doula. She’s passionate about normalizing the emotions that new (and seasoned) moms feel and creating a community in motherhood. It's so important to share personal stories with other Moms, so you know you're not alone.
In this episode, you’ll hear about:
- Who's Kate Turza?
- Mom Deconstructed Podcast
- Hiring a Postpartum Doula (AKA Mothering the Mother)
- Increasing your confidence as a Mom
- How Kate became a Postpartum Doula
- Importance of community
- Mommy and Me Groups
- Breastfeeding Support Groups
- Postpartum Support International
- Pittsburgh Postpartum Center for Women
- Why it's important to share your story
- Mother's intuition or trial and error?
If you're not getting postpartum support you need, do your research. The Pure Nurture Podcast is a great resource to find Mom support systems. It does feel awkward to be vulnerable about your first-time-Mom-experience, at first. There's this myth that we're supposed to "just know everything" about being a good Mom, but you're not really sure about this or that.
Guess what? No one knows what they're doing. Having a sounding board to get things off your chest is so liberating! Free your mind with Kate in these safe places:
Instagram – @momdeconstructed Facebook – @momdeconstructed Website – MomDeconstructed.com
Greer Kirshenbaum Ph.D. is super excited to be the first Neuroscientist Doula and the first Neuroscientist Infant Sleep Educator. Greer’s company, Nurture Neuroscience, is on a mission to revolutionize the future of health. She wants families and perinatal practitioners to understand how early caregiving experience can boost mental wellness and diminish depression, anxiety, and addiction in adulthood by shaping babies’ brains through simple, intuitive, enriching experiences in pregnancy, birth and infancy. Greer teaches courses, provides consultations for pregnancy and infancy and is a birth and postpartum doula. She is currently creating an Infant Sleep Educator course with Bebo Mia.
When you understand that how you respond to your baby's cries affects their longterm mental health, you may pick up your baby more. This episode explores how early caregiver and child bonding influences brain development. The science behind parenting is FASCINATING.
In this episode, you’ll hear about:
- Greer's attraction to neuroscience
- How your early life experience impacts your mental health
- 3 ways you can support your baby’s lifelong mental health
- Prenatal bonding
- How the caregiver and child relationship benefits lifelong mental health
- Serve and Return communication method
- Conscious Discipline
- Sleep
- Keep doing your best
You're a BIG influence in the development of your baby's brain and nervous system. Ditch the fear of, "Am I parenting right?" Instead do great things for the sake of being a positive force. Absorb as much of Greer's Instagram posts as you can. Find her at:
Instagram - @nurture_neuroscience_parenting Facebook - @NurtureNeuroscience Website - www.nurtureneuro.com
When Sarah Clark was 28 years old, she was diagnosed with premature ovarian failure. She accepted it and had both her children through in vitro fertilization. Years later, she realized the root cause of her infertility was a food sensitivity, and later a gut infection.
Now, she helps couples get pregnant naturally, so they can fast track the process. She's a certified life coach with accreditation from the International Coaches Federation and a health coach through the Institute for Integrative Nutrition. She's the author of Fabulously Fertile - Supercharge Your Fertility Naturally. Her fertility coaching program, which includes functional lab testing, supports couples to make diet and lifestyle changes that dramatically improve the chances of a healthy pregnancy and baby! On her Get Pregnant Naturally Podcast, she shares that with functional medicine and natural fertility solutions, we can eventually reverse infertility.
In this episode, you’ll hear about:
- Sarah's story of premature ovarian failure
- Food sensitivities she had no clue she had
- What led Sarah to an integrative approach to fertility
- Don't focus on an infertility diagnosis. Dig deeper.
- Try food sensitivities tests like IGE Test, Leap MRT Test, and Elimination Diet
- Three MUST DO things to enhance your fertility
- Use a water filer (Sarah likes the Berkey Water Filter)
- Set up your Healing Round Table
- Mind Body Fertility Group
- Get Pregnant Naturally Podcast
- FertilityDietFreebie.com - Free Fertility Diet Challenge for Couples
Hearing a "diagnosis" like ovarian failure or infertility is devastating to someone who wants a baby so baldy. My guest, Sarah Clark, Integrative Health Coach, invites you to dig deeper than the diagnosis. Look at your whole body. Your gut health, stress level, self-care and home-care products, plus food sensitivities play a HUGE PART in your fertility chances.
Learn more about Sarah's work at FabFertile.com and look her up on Instagram.
Ali Shapiro is an integrated health expert, host of the top-rated Insatiable podcast, creator of Truce with Food (R) and rebel with a serious cause. She created her Truce with Food process while in graduate school at the University of Pennsylvania and is a 27-year cancer survivor. Her work has been featured on NBC and in Redbook, Prevention, Women's Health, Cosmo, Forbes, Philadelphia Inquirer, Wall Street Journal and many more.
In this episode, you’ll hear about:
- How Ali Shapiro cleared her depression
- “Optimal Conflict” - If it’s something you care enough about, you’re willing to step outside your comfort zone
- Getting your fertility checked
- Infertility diagnosis
- Acupuncture & herbs for fertility
- Try this first to improve your fertility
- See infertility as a symptom (NOT a diagnosis)
- 3 patterns that cause you more stress than you need
- Being an empowered patient
- CHOOSING your path is very potent medicine
- HypnoBirthing & what led Ali to it
- How HypnoBirthing helps your partner know what to expect during birth
Ali believes when you have more information about what’s happening to your body during pregnancy, you feel safer. Cuddle up to the world of food, psychology, and behavioral change at AliShapiro.com
Meet your Fertility Friend, Dr. Patti Haebe. She's on a mission to optimize your fertility as a results-obsessed naturopathic doctor. Patti's committed to root-cause healing through therapeutic supplementation, as well as, targeted diet and lifestyle modifications. Her practice, Ocotillo Integrative Medicine, provides integrative consultations worldwide via webcam for those looking to incorporate natural, proactive approaches to their healthcare.
On the Pure Nurture Podcast, she talks about the best prenatal vitamins to look for, how a liver detox can enhance fertility, and why pooping and sweating should be top on your to do list.
In this episode, you’ll hear about:
- Dr. Patti Haebe's work as a licensed naturopathic who specializes in hormonal optimization
- Biggest fertility issues
- Properly preparing for pregnancy
- Partnering with a functional medicine doctor to improve your fertility
- Tuning into your own cycle
- Nutrition you need to enhance your fertility
- Detoxing for fertility
- Take more time thank you think to plan for pregnancy
One of the biggest issues with fertility is the misconception that the first month you'll try to conceive, boom, you'll get pregnant. That's not necessarily true. People plan one year for a wedding, so take your time setting up a fertile home and body for your baby. Her courses will guide you:
- Baby Making Basics - A mini course on everything you need to know to get pregnant
- Fertility Foundations - 4-month plan for effective and integrative pregnancy prep
Explore Dr. Patti's in depth advice on her website, OcotilloIntegrative.com, and Instagram.
Welcome to the Summer Encore Series of the Pure Nurture Podcast where you’ll find a themed mashup of our most listened to episodes.
The fifth encore episode is all about prenatal nutrition with Lily Nichols, author of Real Food for Pregnancy (episode #49) and Andrea White, Nutritionist and CMO of Baby Fresh Organics (episode #13). We talk a lot about functional nutrition for pregnancy and motherhood. Gut health is intimately connected to your brain.
Welcome to the Summer Encore Series of the Pure Nurture Podcast where you’ll find a themed mashup of our most listened to episodes.
The fourth encore episode is all about sex and orgasmic birth with Heather Bartos (episode #38) and Debra Pascali-Bonaro (episode #41).
Heads up! Put your headphones on for this one, because we use adult language.
Welcome to the Summer Encore Series of the Pure Nurture Podcast where you’ll find a themed mashup of our most listened to episodes.
The third encore episode is all about pelvic floor health with Anita Lambert (episode #46) and Jessica Pumple (episode #47). When you prepare your pelvic floor BEFORE and AFTER birth, you’ll avoid a lot of pain and frustration that comes with abdominal separation.
Even if you’re a Mom of toddlers, you can still tighten up your midsection. It’s not too late. This replay is a MUST LISTEN! Grab your headphones to listen and please share.
Welcome the Summer Encore Series of the Pure Nurture Podcast where you’ll find a themed mashup of our most listened to episodes.
The second encore episode is all about having an empowered and intuitively guided birth. I’ve brought together two powerhouse leaders, January Harshe, author of Birth Without Fear (episode #32) and Adriana Lozada, host of the popular Birthful Podcast (episode #34) to remind you that your body was born to give birth. Listen in and find trust in your body’s ability to give life, without fear. Enjoy and please share.
Welcome to the summer encore series of the Pure Nurture Podcast! I have 5 encore episodes to share with you, bringing you a replay of some of the most popular episodes of season 1. Each one will be a combo-conversation with a common theme or topic.
For our first encore of the series, I've brought, Kiersten Markham (episode #33) and Kate White (episode #23) together, both sharing about the importance of conscious conception, preparing for pregnancy, and prenatal bonding. Learn more at purenurture.com/podcast
A lot of women hit dead ends with their doctors during pregnancy. They don’t feel heard or taken seriously. They feel like they can’t stand up to do a doctor and say, “That’s not what I want for my birth. What are some other options?”
It’s not about getting aggressive. It’s about being curious! Lauren Dunaway, PhD in Public Health, got up the courage to leave her doctor for a midwife midway through her pregnancy. When she saw how much they cared, she knew that she was in good hands. If you’re a rule follower who’s scared to make a change, you’ll walk away from the conversation with courage! In this episode, you’ll hear about: * Lauren, her three daughters, and her mission in public health (2:00) * How she got into natural remedies for her family (4:00) * How essential oils helped Lauren get off some medication (6:47) * Emotional support with essential oils (8:17) * Wellness in the home with essential oils (8:50) * Why it’s so important to be your own wellness advocate (12:15) * Lauren left her doctor for a midwife midway through her pregnancy (15:23) * 5 questions you must ask your care provider BEFORE birth
Cultivate wellness in your life with LaurenEFDunaway.com. You can connect personally with Lauren on TWO Instagram feeds: @EssentialSimplicity or @LaurenEFDunaway. After this conversation, we sincerely hope you’ll feel more comfortable to speak up to your doctor and ask questions.
Lily Nichols is a Registered Dietitian/Nutritionist, Certified Diabetes Educator, researcher, and author with a passion for evidence-based prenatal nutrition and exercise. Her work is known for being research-focused, thorough, and unapologetically critical of outdated dietary guidelines. She is the author of two bestselling books, Real Food for Pregnancy and Real Food for Gestational Diabetes.
In this episode you'll hear all about:
- What are some of the most common misconceptions about prenatal nutrition?
- What are a few foods that provide vital nutrients for mama and baby?
- How could conventional prenatal nutrition guidelines be improved?
- And more!
Visit her here: https://lilynicholsrdn.com/ Book websites: realfoodforGD.com (includes free video series on gestational diabetes + a comprehensive online course) and realfoodforpregnancy.com (Grab the first chapter of the book for free!) Insta and Twitter: @lilynicholsRDN
More great podcast episodes with a prenatal + postpartum nutrition focus:
Your Body During Breastfeeding with Courtney Hasseman (nutrition during breastfeeding)
The Whole30 and Whole30 Mamas Club (nutrition for moms) with Stephanie Greunke
Prenatal Nutrition with Melissa Mor
Preconception Nutrition with Ryann Kipping
Functional Nutrition for Fertility, Pregnancy, and Motherhood with Andrea White
We are 2 episodes away from the end of Season 1 of the Pure Nurture Podcast! We'll celebrate the 1 year anniversary of the podcast in September 2019 with the kick-off to season 2. As we head toward the finish line, I thought it'd be fun to go through a TOP 10 recap of the ten most downloaded episodes of the podcast. 1. The most downloaded episode of season 1 is Episode 33, Conscious Conception and Pregnancy with Kiersten Markham 2. Episode 23, The Importance of Prenatal Bonding with Kate White 3. Episode 32, Birth Without Fear with January Harshe 4. Episode 34, Using Your Intuition to Improve your Pregnancy and Birth Experience with Adriana Lozada 5. Episode 01, Preparing for Birth and Breastfeeding with Molly Mills 6. Episode 39, Five Questions You Must Ask Your Care Provider Before Birth with Deb Flashenberg 7. Episode 13, Functional Nutrition for Fertility, Pregnancy, and Motherhood with Andrea White 8. Episode 35, Say Yes to Birth with Rachel Yellin 9. Episode 41, Orgasmic Birth with Debra Pascali-Bonoro 10. Episode 25, Prenatal Nutrition with Melissa Mor
Browse the archives and find more informative and inspiring conversations with incredible guests.
Jessica is a pre and postnatal fitness instructor (as well as a dietitian, diabetes & bariatric educator). She healed her 4-finger diastasis recti gap after her pregnancy and now helps moms heal and restore their core in 30 days. You'll learn so much from our conversation and the bonus material included below in the show notes. In this episode, you’ll hear about: * Jessica Pumple, Host of Pregnancy and Postpartum TV (2:20) * Diastasis recti (2:30) * At-home diastasis recti test (4:39) * Does everyone have diastasis recti? (6:04) * Treatment for diastasis recti (6:37) * Diastasis Recti Healing Core Workouts Playlists * How you can prevent diastasis recti during pregnancy (9:17) * Belly Bandit Bamboo Wrap * How to improve your posture to heal diastasis recti (10:43) * Core healing exercises for diastasis recti (11:36) * How the muscles of the core and pelvic floor are connected (13:18) * Diet recommendations to repair your muscles (people usually get this wrong) (14:00) * Other methods to consider for healing your pelvic floor and core after birth (17:13) * Jessica’s program to heal diastasis recti (19:06)
Roll out your yoga mat, then play Jessica’s videos and try to healing exercises. Stop by her site for more info on protecting your pelvic floor. Jessica made a special guide for Pure Nurture on healing your core and pelvic floor after birth.
Anita Lambert is the owner of Holistic Health Physiotherapy and a Registered Pelvic Health and Orthopaedic Physiotherapist with a focus on women's health, specifically prenatal and postpartum care. She’s one of the select few physiotherapists in Canada to receive advanced training in labor support, which blends orthopedic physiotherapy expertise with birth doula support. Anita is always looking to share and learn up-to-date information about pregnancy, birth and beyond which led her to co-host the To Birth & Beyond Podcast. You can usually find Anita on the move - whether playing with her kids or exercising with strength training, spin, yoga or Pilates. Anita lives in Peterborough, Ontario with her husband Andy, daughter Pippa and the newest addition to the family - baby Jack. In this episode, you’ll hear about: * Anita’s work with prenatal and postpartum care (1:27) * To Birth and Beyond Podcast * Where your Pelvic Floor is (5:53) * Preparing Your Pelvic Floor for Birth Podcast * Kegel exercises (8:27) * Best time to do Kegel exercises (most women do it wrong) (9:00) * In-Depth Birth Prep Podcast * Flower Bloom Breathe to expedite labor — How to video (10:40) * Perineal Massage — How to video (12:30) * Massage oil recommendations (15:50) * Exercises to prepare for birth (16:30) * Spinning Babies Daily Essentials Video * Ways to ease your birth (17:50)
If you feel drawn to Anita, you can find her on Instagram here, Facebook, her site HolisticHealthPhysio.com, and her amazing podcast To Birth and Beyond. If thinking about birth gives you the jitters, Anita’s shares solid advice to help you prepare here. If I was pregnant, I would’ve downloaded this.