Antidote: Recent Episodes
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Antidote explores alternative and complementary health modalities and challenges the assumptions of the allopathic industrial medical complex
Aisha Amira is founder of Empowered Roots Collective, a organisation for the improvement of the mental health provision for Black and Brown women. She talks to us about the success she's had with Somatic Body and Breath Work, the particular challenges that black women face and her own journey to health after anxiety and an abusive relationship. She is @aishadeeplyrooted on Instagram. The Black Neuro Bureau Podcast is a project she and Yolande of @my_doula_library_brum co-create.
Barbara Esther and I discuss physiological birth, her latest pregnancy and how and when she became disillusioned with the Canadian Maternity Care system.
Barbara shares her experiences as an older pregnant woman (she is 48 and half way through a pregnancy using reproductive technologies) and her decision to select some medical treatments and not others and to receive the care of a traditional birth attendant.
Check Barbara out at https://www.barbararecommends.com/ or https://www.instagram.com/reclaim.sovereign.birth/
Naomi and I talk about the work ofDr. James Fadamen of The Microdosing Institute, the difference between tripping and microdosing, the legalisation of plant medicines.
To participate in the mushrooms and motherhood survety go here:
The study to which Naomi refers is the Lancet's 2016, Psilocybin with psychological support for treatment-resistant depression: an open-label feasibility study
Natalie Amari is founder of Aligning Beliefs for Abundance. She and I speak about how her practice works, some success stories of her clients, the soul's journey on an individual and collective level.
She references the work of Dr. Joy De Gruy, which can be found here:
https://www.joydegruy.com/
Zarina Ayyub @zarina_the_doula has 12 years experience of doula-ing. She and I talk about the transformation she experienced after finding the right birthkeeper training for her.
We discuss the wave of women feeling dissatisfied with established maternity services and our approach to the sacred work of birth attendants.
The doula education course that Zarina so highly recommends is The Center for Doula Pathways. More information can be found here: https://centerfordoulapathways.com/
Obi of Greenflo Fitness and I discuss his childhood illnesses and the practises that aided him to overcome these challenges and transform his approach to health, the difference between fitness and wellbeing and the mental and other health challenges that have come with early fatherhood.
Leonie and I talk about the punitive approach, by children's services, to women who choose to give birth without medical professions present.
I talk to Nickita Starck, founder of When Push Comes To Shove and creator of Artemis Birth Attendant Academy.
In the week of Beverley Beech's passing we honour her legacy and remember some of the gems of her illustrious career.
The book she references is "Childbirth Wisdom from the World's Oldest Societies" by Judith Goldsmith.
If you want to find out more about her doula training course go here: https://www.artemisbirthattendantacademy.com/about
If you're interested in joining Association of Radical Midwives go here: https://www.midwifery.org.uk/
Nicola trains birth attendants and is the author of "10 Essential Oils for the Childbearing Year" She makes remedies and tinctures from the herbs and plants local to her. We talk about the beginnings of the industrial birth complex and how it has shaped the current landscape of the birthworld.
Lori Parker of @loriparkerwombwisdom and I talk about the wisdom of the cycle, fertility awareness contraception methods, the "inner seasons" and the ongoing revolution in women's health.
I talk to Genelva of @empressdoula about her experience of mainstream and holistic miscarriage care and her psychic connection to the babies she held.
I chat about mental wellbeing, mums putting themselves first and pregnancy and postpartum fitness with Charl of @charl_themumscoachThe book and guru recommendations that Charl makes are as follows:Jen Sincero: You're A Badass...Eckhart TolleAbraham HicksJay ShettyGabrielle BernsteinDeepak Chopra
I talk to tarot reader, Amwu about how astrology, moonwork and tarot can support our wellbeing.
I have the absolute pleasure of talking to Krishinda, @barcelona midwife and "The Dangerous Midwife" podcast host about her journey through official midwifery training and into holistic midwifery. We explore the definition of midwife, the legality around practicing in England and Europe and the failings of the maternity services' governing body, The Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC).
Jo Dunn of Kindred Birth and Kensal Birth Collective and I talk about the art of birth-keeping and the decline of traditional midwifery in the system. She treats us to one of her poems on the power and majesty of undisturbed birth.
Homeopath, placenta encapsulation specialist and Gut and Psychology Practitioner Caroline Spear and I talk diet, ancestry and healing through nutrition.
Yogi, movement coach and babywearing consultant @zenwithchan / @zenthroughmotherhood and I talk about her first experience at the hands of the industrial birth complex and the phases of healing and recovery that she has moved through to make peace with the events of her birth.