The Sacred Womb: Recent Episodes
Melanie Swan
Come home to your true nature; Embody The Wisdom Of Your Menstrual Cycle, Heal Across Your Soul’s Journey & Unify Your Divine Masculine and Feminine.
There's a shift in consciousness that slowly creeps in at midlife. It doesn't announce itself dramatically. It arrives as a background whisper — a gradual sense that the life we've been living, perhaps quite happily, no longer quite fits. Not because anything is wrong with it. But because something within us is fundamentally changing.
That feeling — of being slightly unattached, energetically out of sorts, like wearing someone else's itchy jumper — is often the very first psychological sign that perimenopause has begun.
In this episode, Melanie shares her own experience of this disorientation, what's actually happening beneath it, what makes it harder, and what genuinely helps.
In this episode:
— Why the first sign of perimenopause is often psychological, not physical
— What's really happening when we feel detached, distant and out of sorts
— Why this shift is slow by design, and why that matters
— How early attachment trauma mixes with the genuine unknown of perimenopause — and why it matters to unblend them
— What acceptance really means in perimenopause (and what it definitely doesn't)
— Why trying to fix, skip, or medicate this process makes it much harder
— How to stay present with the discomfort without collapsing into it
Melanie also reads aloud, for the first time since writing it, a poem from her forthcoming book Poems for Perimenopause — written at the very beginning of her own perimenopause journey, at the edge of the lake, just before acceptance arrived.
A note if this is where you are right now
If you're reading this with one toe in the old and one in the new — energetically out of step, quietly wondering if something is wrong — you're not broken. You're not in crisis. You're at the beginning of one of the most significant transitions of your life, and your whole system is doing exactly what it should.
Stay with the process. Keep breathing. The emergence will come.
But first — the detachment, the composting, and the completion.
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🎧 Free 10-minute perimenopause guided practice — create more capacity and internal space during this transition.
Navigating Perimenopause as an Initiation — Live Online Workshop
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If you want the depth of connection of one-to-one support, Melanie works with women individually online worldwide. The entry point is a Soul-Deep Clarity Session — one hour, trauma-specialised, womb-centred. Melanie will see what's happening in your system and make a bespoke recommendation for the work ahead.
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Melanie Swan is a Trauma Resolution Specialist, Womb Medicine Woman, Perimenopause Guide, and host of The Sacred Womb Podcast.
With over 24 years of clinical and metaphysical experience, she supports women to resolve repeating patterns at the root, heal the womb, and navigate perimenopause as a profound initiation into their true nature.
She leads the Womb Medicine Woman Training® and is currently writing her first book, Sacred Womb, Sovereign Woman.
The Sacred Womb Podcast is available on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and all major platforms.
Perimenopause can feel like our whole inner world cracks open at once — even when we've done years of therapy and personal development. In this episode, I explain why that intensity is not a malfunction. It is a deliberate hormonal shift that ends suppression, opens the subconscious, and activates dormant potential simultaneously.
I cover:
- Why the hormonal shift in perimenopause is designed — not a decline or an ovarian failure
- The oestrogen veil lifting and what it opens in the subconscious
- Why unresolved feelings, abandoned parts of self, and dormant potential all surface together
- Cutting out the noise, slowing down, and creating the space this transition demands
- The old self composting — why identity can feel like a costume, and why that's right
- The 3am wake-up loop as a completion signal, and a practical way to work with it
- Isolation as one of the hardest parts of perimenopause — and why we need our sisters
- The broken transmission from wise women and why oral guidance from lived experience matters
- Circadian rhythm support and living in tune with nature — what changed my sleep in two days
- My own three years of perimenopause retreat, and what's supported me through
I also share my personal experience — including what it's actually felt like to go through this nose to the fire, and what I'm coming out the other side knowing.
I've recorded a free guided practice to help you create more capacity in perimenopause — 10 to 15 minutes >
I'm also running regular workshops on navigating perimenopause as an initiation, and I offer 1:1 perimenopause support >
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Melanie Swan is a Trauma Resolution Specialist, Womb Medicine Woman, Perimenopause Guide, and host of The Sacred Womb Podcast.
With over 24 years of clinical and metaphysical experience, she supports women to resolve repeating patterns at the root, heal the womb, and navigate perimenopause as a profound initiation into their true nature.
She leads the Womb Medicine Woman Training® and is currently writing her first book, Sacred Womb, Sovereign Woman.
The Sacred Womb Podcast is available on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and all major platforms.
The conflicting advice around reproductive health — from conventional medicine and from the wellness world — leaves most women cycling through practitioners with no real answers. I invited Michelle on because she has done what many women are told isn't possible, and she did it by going back to the root cause.
Michelle Byrt is a natural fertility educator and founder of Get Fertile. After years of endometriosis, amenorrhea, hypothyroid, chronic fatigue, and over 50 other conditions, she had five natural periods in ten years. One year after finding the right information, she was pregnant naturally.
In this episode she shares what made things worse — including two years on a high-protein, high-fat protocol that caused significant weight gain and worsening symptoms — and exactly what turned everything around: the Medical Medium morning cleanse, removing pathogen-feeding foods, and lowering fat intake.
She also covers what to expect during the healing process (it is not linear), and the four root causes of infertility she identifies in the women she now works with: pathogens, toxins and heavy metals, low reproductive battery, and a weakened adrenal connection.
If your reproductive system has been written off, or you are still moving through the loop of endless testing and no real answers — this one is for you.
Find Michelle's fertility healing resources and e-bundle at stan.store/getfertile and on Instagram, YouTube, and TikTok at @getfertile.
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Melanie Swan is a Trauma Resolution Specialist, Womb Medicine Woman, Perimenopause Guide, and host of The Sacred Womb Podcast.
With over 24 years of clinical and metaphysical experience, she supports women to resolve repeating patterns at the root, heal the womb, and navigate perimenopause as a profound initiation into their true nature.
She leads the Womb Medicine Woman Training® and is currently writing her first book, Sacred Womb, Sovereign Woman.
The Sacred Womb Podcast is available on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and all major platforms.
Ready to feel strong, steady, and unapologetically capable through perimenopause and menopause? We sit down with Charlotte, a Chiang Mai–based fitness and nutrition coach who specialises in midlife women, to unpack what actually changes as hormones shift and how to train smarter without turning your life upside down. No gimmicks, no “train by your phase” templates — just practical strategies that meet you where you are.
We dig into why strength training becomes non-negotiable as oestrogen declines, and how load helps protect muscle and bone health when sarcopenia and osteopenia start to creep in. Charlotte breaks down simple ways to pick the right weight using RIR and RPE, how to keep the training stimulus while swapping movements you hate, and why enjoyment is the secret to consistency. You’ll hear real talk on the hip thrust nemesis, unexpected confidence boosts, and the quiet “grit” that keeps you coming back, even when the music is loud and the excuses pile up.
Recovery takes centre stage. We reframe days off as recovery days, explore what active rest can look like, and explain why sleep, protein intake, and stress management drive progress more than one brutal workout ever will. Expect clear protein targets for midlife, pragmatic guidance on adapting training around fluctuating cycles without rigid rules, and a blueprint for getting started with a coach, a community, or a well-built program. By the end, you’ll have a grounded plan to build a resilient frame, better moods, and the kind of everyday strength that makes life feel easier.
If this conversation helps, follow the show, share it with a friend who needs a confidence nudge, and leave a quick review — your feedback helps more women lift well through midlife.
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Melanie Swan is a Trauma Resolution Specialist, Womb Medicine Woman, Perimenopause Guide, and host of The Sacred Womb Podcast.
With over 24 years of clinical and metaphysical experience, she supports women to resolve repeating patterns at the root, heal the womb, and navigate perimenopause as a profound initiation into their true nature.
She leads the Womb Medicine Woman Training® and is currently writing her first book, Sacred Womb, Sovereign Woman.
The Sacred Womb Podcast is available on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and all major platforms.
You were told a love story. That if you were chosen — really chosen — everything would finally feel okay. The loneliness would ease. The ache would quiet. You'd feel complete.
It doesn't work. Because it's a fantasy. And in this episode, I'm naming it directly.
I explore:
— What the Disney princess fantasy actually is and where it comes from: the real, tender, core fears underneath it — loneliness, abandonment, a fear of not existing, a perpetual lack of self-trust — and how the fantasy promises to resolve all of that through being chosen by a man
— Why the programming is so effective: it lands on genuine unmet needs, it's embedded everywhere, and our nervous system gets temporary relief from it — so we cling to it even when it hurts
— The father wound underneath: how the fantasy sticks to the gaping ache of never being met, validated, or protected in the way we needed — and how it drives who we choose to be in relationship with
— How the fantasy shows up in daily life: waiting to be chosen, putting men on a pedestal, the illusion of the ring, the wedding, the house, the children as safety and worth and identity
— How we try to uphold the fantasy through subtle control: managing his responses, overfunctioning, hoping he'll "wake up," trying to make him fit the fantasy rather than seeing who he actually is
— What happens when control fails: raging, protesting, trauma dumping, self-suppression, holding our own growth back to keep the relationship intact
— Extraction versus love: the difference between trying to get safety and worth from someone outside ourselves, and actually bringing love to a relationship
— How to dissolve the spell: acknowledging the function the fantasy served, grieving what we didn't have, reassuring our system that killing the fantasy is not killing love — and orienting to what we are creating rather than waiting for someone to rescue us
The shift I'm inviting: from will he choose me? to what am I bringing?
Relationships are where we were hurt. They're also where we get to heal. But we have to bring ourselves into them — not a fantasy.
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Melanie Swan is a Trauma Resolution Specialist, Womb Medicine Woman, Perimenopause Guide, and host of The Sacred Womb Podcast.
With over 24 years of clinical and metaphysical experience, she supports women to resolve repeating patterns at the root, heal the womb, and navigate perimenopause as a profound initiation into their true nature.
She leads the Womb Medicine Woman Training® and is currently writing her first book, Sacred Womb, Sovereign Woman.
The Sacred Womb Podcast is available on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and all major platforms.
Become the frequency of this work and guide women home to their true, sovereign nature.
I’m truly delighted to share this with you. The Womb Medicine Woman Training® is back!
This training has run in different forms for seven years. I then chose to pause—to reflect, deepen my skills, get divorced, and move to Thailand… and then peri-menopause kicked in. To say I needed time to rest and recalibrate would be an understatement.
Now, with fresh eyes, in a new chapter of life, and with a clinically rooted, trauma-specialised approach, I’m bringing back this much-needed training—clearer, deeper, and more comprehensive than ever.
The Womb Medicine Woman Training® is a 12-month Certified Professional Training in womb healing and feminine leadership, alchemising deep personal work with professional development.
In this episode—celebrating the relaunch—I walk you through why women need specialised healing and leadership, why trauma-specialised womb work matters, and how the structure of the training—CORE · FLOW · STRUCTURE · LEAD—is designed to take us from stabilising core needs to sovereignty, self-responsibility, and heart-centred leadership.
I also share how Medicine Circles, partner practice, and sisterhood support real-world integration—repatterning the nervous system and bringing this work to women in a way that lights you up.
- Why women need specialised healing & leadership
- Why trauma-specialised womb healing matters
- The structure of the training — CORE, FLOW, STRUCTURE & LEAD, and why
- CORE — Restoring Core Needs and Orienting To The Love Within
- FLOW — Menstrual Cycle Embodiment, Rites of Passage and Womb Healing
- STRUCTURE — Restoring & Unifying The Divine Masculine & Divine Feminine
- LEAD — Cultivating Aligned Action, Value, Visibility, Internal Authority, Self-Responsibility and Sovereignty
- Medicine Circles — how we work
- Community — the field you’ll be held in
- Roots & Origins of this work
- Course outcomes — what you’ll be able to offer
I’m thrilled to invite you into this expanded and upgraded training—one that will equip you with the experience, healing, transformation, and clinical skills to embody your role as a Womb Medicine Woman®.
The training starts every September.
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Melanie Swan is a Trauma Resolution Specialist, Womb Medicine Woman, Perimenopause Guide, and host of The Sacred Womb Podcast.
With over 24 years of clinical and metaphysical experience, she supports women to resolve repeating patterns at the root, heal the womb, and navigate perimenopause as a profound initiation into their true nature.
She leads the Womb Medicine Woman Training® and is currently writing her first book, Sacred Womb, Sovereign Woman.
The Sacred Womb Podcast is available on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and all major platforms.
Women and MONEY! Why are so many women struggling to earn, receive and retain money?!!
Women are conditioned—subtly and overtly—to emotionally over-give, to feel guilty for charging for their time, to equate compassionate with “low fee,” and not to have “too much.”
Add attachment patterns that mean receiving can feel existentially loaded, generational trauma that women simply can’t survive without a man (and his money), plus a split from our true masculine nature and the distortions that comes with, and we’ve got a heady concoction of lack and struggle.
So where does it come from?
From my experience, the actual root is a perceived lack of ability and a rupture of trust in oneself, leading to a subsequent attempt to fill that void with someone or something outside of us.
When it comes to money and women, we usually fill our perceived lack of ability to earn with a man (who provides money, but also has his own deficit, usually emotional intelligence, and the ability to care for himself, which women then make up for in exchange).
So the problem isn’t “out there.” It's not 'the universe's' fault - it’s the unconscious patterns within—a blend of attachment templates, generational imprints, gendered socialisation and our own outsourcing vs resourcing across our Soul’s Journey—that runs how women charge, receive, retain, manage, and relate with money.
In this episode, I talk through:
- Not working at the root, nervous-system override at the moment of charging/receiving, and the feast-and-famine cycle.
- Gendered programming (be small, be nice, be grateful, don't charge for caring) fused with attachment patterns centred around a longing to be truly cared for keeps the loop on rewind and repeat.
- Outsourcing vs resourcing through the soul’s journey – our rupture with self-trust and source, and unwillingness (for various reasons) to take self-responsibility.
- What creates real change: a direct, embodied process that restores stability and congruence so your relationship with money feels steady and safe.
I’ve created A FREE guided practice and worksheet to locate your personal glitches and core beliefs in the cycle of money. Download it here >
AND if you’re ready to stop patching symptoms, blaming ‘the universe’ and want to resolve the root, I have created a container where we can work through all of this together – the Money Patterns Rewired intensive, for women.
MONEY REWIRED FULL DETAILS
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Melanie is an experienced Soul & Shadow Worker, Womb Medicine Woman, podcast host, writer and trainer.
For over 20 years, she has supported individuals and healing professionals to restore connection with the body, repair attachment and separation wounds, and embody primordial wisdom rooted in the womb, heart and soul.
Melanie's approach blends somatic womb healing, shadow integration, shamanic healing and soul-level repatterning - offering a deep and lasting pathway back to the true self.
She hosts The Sacred Womb Podcast, leads The Unification Of The Divine Masculine & Feminine Training and is currently writing her first book: The Sacred Womb - a handbook for coming home to our true nature, along with Poems For Peri-Menopause.
Agnieszka Drabek-Prime weaves the cyclical wisdom of goddess archetypes into a rich map for navigating life’s transitions — from menstruation to motherhood, through perimenopause and beyond.
Her new book, Dancing With Goddesses: An Archetypal Journey Through The Menstrual Cycle, offers women a way to embrace their natural rhythms and seasons with reverence.
The book arrived in a single, luminous moment of inspiration while Agnieszka was camping — a fully-formed vision blending her work as a doula, womb medicine woman, and celebrant with deep archetypal goddess wisdom.
In our conversation, we explore:
• How goddess archetypes can act as mirrors for women’s lived experiences
• A five-season approach to understanding the menstrual cycle
• Why each woman’s cycle has its own unique nature and rhythm
• How life transitions can be fertile ground for growth and transformation
• The wisdom encoded in women’s bodies and experiences
• Agnieszka’s personal perimenopause journey
• The healing power of being heard without judgment
You can find Agnieszka at primetherapy.co.uk on Instagram and Substack, and her book is available at all good bookshops and Amazon.
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Melanie is an experienced Soul & Shadow Worker, Womb Medicine Woman, podcast host, writer and trainer.
For over 20 years, she has supported individuals and healing professionals to restore connection with the body, repair attachment and separation wounds, and embody primordial wisdom rooted in the womb, heart and soul.
Melanie's approach blends somatic womb healing, shadow integration, shamanic healing and soul-level repatterning - offering a deep and lasting pathway back to the true self.
She hosts The Sacred Womb Podcast, leads The Unification Of The Divine Masculine & Feminine Training and is currently writing her first book: The Sacred Womb - a handbook for coming home to our true nature, along with Poems For Peri-Menopause.
The journey through perimenopause is unique for every woman, yet the unsolicited and contrary advice remains universal.
This was the inspiration for my latest poem, which is part of a book of poetry in which I’m documenting the entire perimenopause journey from beginning to end.
What makes perimenopause so challenging isn’t just the physical symptoms – the hormonal fluctuations, the muscle mass changes – but the barrage of contradictory advice from people who often have no personal experience with it.
From well-meaning friends suggesting I drink my own piss, to fitness bros blindly prescribing calorie deficits and skipping meals, the poem highlights the absurdity of simplistic solutions to this multi-faceted physiological transition.
The journey through perimenopause, like other significant life transitions, ultimately belongs to the person experiencing it, and external perspectives – however well-intentioned – need to be filtered through our intuition.
Ugh, where do I start….?
The flurry of advice
From uninformed folk
Who all have their price
Estrogen is dropping
Your bones will crumble!
Drink loads of milk
Or take a tumble
Ingest creatine now
Or lose all your muscle
You should intermittent fast!
There’s no end to this hustle
Eat chunks of protein
At every single meal
Eventually, it’ll kill you
All that dairy, tofu and veal
“Hey” someone whispers
“You should drink your own piss“
So I squat over a glass
Gulp
Alright then, come give us a kiss!
But my all-time favourite
Is from the 30-something bro
You wanna lose weight?
His face starts to glow
Ah, he squints,
Like he’s about to shit gold
You just need to be in a calorie deficit!
Seriously, this never gets old?
Oh! I exclaim
Why didn’t I think of that?!
Thank you so much bruh
You dumb little twat
He no longer exists
That poor, sweet boy
Who made the mistake
Of thinking I was old & coy
But seriously though
This is not about bro’s
It’s the not-so-miracle advice
That you can stick it up your……nose
To give you a vague idea
Of what it’s like to be in peri
Put a blindfold on
And navigate the contrary
The vitamins, the supplements
The creams and the sprays
Can all just fk off
I don’t care what anyone says
My body is my body
My age is my age
My intuition rules
And THAT’S my primary gauge
BY MELANIE SWAN
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Melanie is an experienced Soul & Shadow Worker, Womb Medicine Woman, podcast host, writer and trainer.
For over 20 years, she has supported individuals and healing professionals to restore connection with the body, repair attachment and separation wounds, and embody primordial wisdom rooted in the womb, heart and soul.
Melanie's approach blends somatic womb healing, shadow integration, shamanic healing and soul-level repatterning - offering a deep and lasting pathway back to the true self.
She hosts The Sacred Womb Podcast, leads The Unification Of The Divine Masculine & Feminine Training and is currently writing her first book: The Sacred Womb - a handbook for coming home to our true nature, along with Poems For Peri-Menopause.
Today is my 49th birthday, and peri-menopause is in full swing. My last period lasted 26 hours. As my blood started to flow, I felt love and bliss emanating from my womb.
I lay on my bed for 4 hours, riding the waves of energy that flowed through the fibres of my body.
The last time I wrote a poem about my stage of womanhood was January 2021, at that point I was standing at the edge of the lake >
This poem captures the nothingness and everythingness of my current state of being.
The boat has set sail
I’m on the lake
Most of the tether has frayed
I hear…
Leave that world behind
It’s done
The fog starts to settle
Let them enjoy it
It’s no longer for you
You’re no longer for it
I know there’s land the other side
I don’t know what’s there
I know what’s there
It feels more like home
A familiar welcome signals me
It feels like a return
I have questions that don’t need an answer
Questions that aren’t really questions
I don’t have questions
There are no answers
There’s only a strand of rope left
Leave her behind
Make peace with her
It’s noise fades, I can hear the water
Nothing matters
Everything matters
Nothing exists
Everything exists
I am the boat
I am the lake and the land
I am here
I am everything
The final strand tenses
It stretches
I pause
Watching the strand
Wondering if my heart will break.
By Melanie Swan
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Melanie is an experienced Soul & Shadow Worker, Womb Medicine Woman, podcast host, writer and trainer.
For over 20 years, she has supported individuals and healing professionals to restore connection with the body, repair attachment and separation wounds, and embody primordial wisdom rooted in the womb, heart and soul.
Melanie's approach blends somatic womb healing, shadow integration, shamanic healing and soul-level repatterning - offering a deep and lasting pathway back to the true self.
She hosts The Sacred Womb Podcast, leads The Unification Of The Divine Masculine & Feminine Training and is currently writing her first book: The Sacred Womb - a handbook for coming home to our true nature, along with Poems For Peri-Menopause.
Have you noticed the huge rise in the diagnosis of ADHD?
It’s everywhere — in adults, in children, on social media, in therapy rooms. And while it’s often discussed through the lens of ‘neurodiversity’ or executive dysfunction, there’s something deeper going on that rarely gets named.
The Root Cause of ADHD
ADHD stands for Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, but in many cases, what’s really going on is the result of unresolved, early attachment trauma, and for the majority of people, it’s more accurate to describe it as:
ATTACHMENT DEFICIT
In a very small nutshell:
- The psyche developed without a secure attachment figure — someone who could consistently regulate, attune, and protect.
- There were multiple sustained periods of intolerable pain or stress, so the system fragmented in order to survive.
- These fragmented parts became hyper-vigilant, and being still or at rest felt unsafe.
- By adulthood, this becomes a way of life — fast-paced, scattered, always ‘on’.
As a culture, we like to give palatable names to things we don’t want to face — and mental health diagnoses have become a socially acceptable way of masking deeper truths.
Even ‘neurodiversity,’ while helpful in some contexts, can sometimes act as a palatable blanket for what is, at its core, profound and unresolved attachment trauma.
Real Healing Is Possible
Therapies that address the root — not just the symptoms — can support us to come back into the body, out of self-preservation, and into the present moment. Modalities like:
- IFS (Internal Family Systems)
- CRM (Comprehensive Resource Model)
- DBR (Deep Brain Reorienting)
- SE (Somatic Experiencing)
It does take time. But the nervous system is designed to heal.
A great resource is Gabor Mate’s Book: – Scattered Minds: The Origins and Healing of Attention Deficit Disorder
You’re Not Broken — You Adapted
I invite you to pause, take a deep breath, and notice what part of you is speaking if you say, ‘It’s my ADHD,’ as if that defines the whole of who you are.
Part of what’s affecting attention, focus, and emotional regulation is physiological
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Melanie is an experienced Soul & Shadow Worker, Womb Medicine Woman, podcast host, writer and trainer.
For over 20 years, she has supported individuals and healing professionals to restore connection with the body, repair attachment and separation wounds, and embody primordial wisdom rooted in the womb, heart and soul.
Melanie's approach blends somatic womb healing, shadow integration, shamanic healing and soul-level repatterning - offering a deep and lasting pathway back to the true self.
She hosts The Sacred Womb Podcast, leads The Unification Of The Divine Masculine & Feminine Training and is currently writing her first book: The Sacred Womb - a handbook for coming home to our true nature, along with Poems For Peri-Menopause.
In our conversation, Anthony shares the essence of Singing in the Wild, his five-day retreat that I've been on twice (17 years ago and more recently just a few weeks ago).
I had such a transformative time that I invited Anthony onto the podcast to share the genuine magic of this work!
Many of us were told, somewhere along the way, that we couldn’t sing. Maybe we were asked to stay quiet, to lip-sync or not to make too much noise; these moments can go deep and restrict us - that is, until we decide we want to go beyond those limits.
This retreat gently meets that wounding, offering a space where each person's natural, unique voice is welcomed, just as it is.
It’s not about performance or hitting the right notes. It’s about remembering what it means to express rather than perform, and reconnecting with the sacredness that lives in sound, loving presence, and connection.
What emerges is nothing short of magical.
When we step beyond judgment and self-consciousness into pure expression, something shifts fundamentally in our nervous system.
'The voice is not just a musical instrument,' Anthony explains, 'it actually IS the person.'
Through practices he calls 'radical relating', participants learn to be fully present with each other without fixing, advising, or turning away - creating moments of profound connection where the boundaries between self and other begin to dissolve.
This conversation vibrates with the truth that transformation happens not through technical improvement, but through authentic connection.
Whether you've been silenced or simply yearn for deeper relationships with yourself and others, this work offers a pathway home to our most natural and authentic expression.
CONNECT WITH ANTHONY
Find out more about Singing in the Wild Retreat or learn more about Anthony's overall work, Real Voice >
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Melanie is an experienced Soul & Shadow Worker, Womb Medicine Woman, podcast host, writer and trainer.
For over 20 years, she has supported individuals and healing professionals to restore connection with the body, repair attachment and separation wounds, and embody primordial wisdom rooted in the womb, heart and soul.
Melanie's approach blends somatic womb healing, shadow integration, shamanic healing and soul-level repatterning - offering a deep and lasting pathway back to the true self.
She hosts The Sacred Womb Podcast, leads The Unification Of The Divine Masculine & Feminine Training and is currently writing her first book: The Sacred Womb - a handbook for coming home to our true nature, along with Poems For Peri-Menopause.
have you ever tried to ‘let go’ of behaviors that no longer serve you, only to find yourself repeating the same patterns?
You're not alone.
The popular advice to ‘release what no longer serves us’ or burning our troubles away on the full moon simply doesn't work—and there's a profound psychological reason why.
What we're actually doing when we try to ‘let go’ is pushing away parts of ourselves that have been working diligently to protect us. These patterns began as vital coping strategies during times when our emotions felt overwhelming. By trying to reject these aspects of ourselves, we create further internal fragmentation and erode trust within our own psyche.
The healing begins with a simple but powerful shift: instead of pushing away, try welcoming these parts with curiosity and gratitude.
By locating where we feel these patterns in your body and extending compassion to these aspects of yourself, you create an internal atmosphere of acceptance. When we ask these parts how they've been trying to help us and what fears they hold, something remarkable happens—they begin to feel recognized, valued, and integrated rather than isolated and rejected.
This internal shift doesn't just heal fragmentation; it creates a ripple effect that extends to your external relationships. As you generate more self-acceptance, you naturally begin to vibrate at a frequency that attracts more authentic connections. When we stop seeking validation externally and instead create that environment within, others feel drawn to our genuine presence. It's the ultimate paradox—by fully welcoming ourselves, we create the connection we've been seeking all along.
Ready to experience this transformation?I've created a guided practice available in the Sacred Womb shop for just £3 to help you to dissolve old patterns with love
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Melanie is an experienced Soul & Shadow Worker, Womb Medicine Woman, podcast host, writer and trainer.
For over 20 years, she has supported individuals and healing professionals to restore connection with the body, repair attachment and separation wounds, and embody primordial wisdom rooted in the womb, heart and soul.
Melanie's approach blends somatic womb healing, shadow integration, shamanic healing and soul-level repatterning - offering a deep and lasting pathway back to the true self.
She hosts The Sacred Womb Podcast, leads The Unification Of The Divine Masculine & Feminine Training and is currently writing her first book: The Sacred Womb - a handbook for coming home to our true nature, along with Poems For Peri-Menopause.
This guided practice serves as both a foundational womb healing technique to energise your whole womb center and a diagnostic tool to understand your current relationship to your womb.
You’ll learn to direct energy to each part of your womb system – the ovaries, tubes, the womb itself, cervix, and yoni (sacred space).
As you breathe into each area, you’ll discover not just where energy may be blocked or flowing freely, but you’ll actively begin the process of re-energisation.
You can practice it indoors while sitting in a chair, though sitting directly on the earth can deepen your experience significantly.
Whether you’re exploring womb healing for the first time or are a seasoned practitioner, this foundational practice serves as the cornerstone for reconnection with your seat of power.
This practice:
- Works to energise the entire womb system, including the ovaries, tubes, womb, cervix and yoni
- Is designed as a standalone practice and is part of a 21-day womb healing journey
- Incorporates somatic resourcing through connecting to the earth and your energetic tap root
- Can be done anywhere, though sitting on earth, the beach, a tree stump or a stone enhances the energetic
- Will energise your menstrual cycle
- Acts as a diagnostic tool to discover areas of resistance, old protection, stored emotions or disconnection.
If you enjoyed this practice and want to go deeper, you can download the complete 21-day womb healing journey here >
IMPORTANT NOTE:
You may feel slightly faint or dizzy if you do too much deep breathing too soon. Don’t push yourself. Do what you can. Dynamic breathing gets your chi moving. If you feel dizzy, simply pause the practice, open your eyes and breathe gently, returning to the practice once the dizziness has passed.
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Melanie is an experienced Soul & Shadow Worker, Womb Medicine Woman, podcast host, writer and trainer.
For over 20 years, she has supported individuals and healing professionals to restore connection with the body, repair attachment and separation wounds, and embody primordial wisdom rooted in the womb, heart and soul.
Melanie's approach blends somatic womb healing, shadow integration, shamanic healing and soul-level repatterning - offering a deep and lasting pathway back to the true self.
She hosts The Sacred Womb Podcast, leads The Unification Of The Divine Masculine & Feminine Training and is currently writing her first book: The Sacred Womb - a handbook for coming home to our true nature, along with Poems For Peri-Menopause.
The phrase 'holding space' is immensely popular with those in therapeutic, healing, coaching, wellness, and women's circles, but what's really happening?
I've investigated this over the last few years with those I've worked with and colleagues, and it turns out to be mainly trauma-driven.
Holding is the opposite of what we're trying to be as we heal and become more present. The opposite of holding in this relaxed, engaged and present.
We don't want to be holding anything! It creates tension, deflects from our presence, and has our energy too focused on the other person, which either consciously or unconsciously creates a reaction in them, of either infantilisation or resistance. Neither is going to help the process of becoming more present.
So it's really useful to question what's driving it, as ALL healing arts professionals have a trauma history, which is why our personal work is essential to facilitating the process of coming home to our true selves and meeting the world from a base of increasing love.
A big caveat to this is that there is no 'healed' point. All of the markers I talk about are on a sliding scale from a more fear-based, adapted way of being to embodying more and more love, and connecting with others from a sense of security and safety within ourselves.
In this episode, I talk through the following:
WHAT TRAUMA-DRIVE SPACE HOLDING LOOKS AND FEELS LIKE
- a sense of 'holding' in our body
- perpetually pushing our own needs to one side to take care of others, have a sense of self-sacrifice and hoping to be seen a certain way in return for our 'holding'
- viewing others as less than or feeling sorry for them
- trying to hold the whole group field or person with our energy
- feeling perpetually exhausted after 'holding space'
- attached to the outcome of other people's state of being
- finding it difficult to be vulnerable with people, either 1:1 or in groups in daily life
- can't feel our own body or emotions whilst 'holding space'
- feel unappreciated for all our efforts
WHAT'S DRIVING TRAUMA-BASED 'HOLDING SPACE'?
WHAT IT FEELS LIKE TO BE ON THE RECEIVING END OF TRAUMA-DRIVEN SPACE HOLDERS
WHAT WE CAN DO IF SPACE HOLDING IS TRAUMA-DRIVEN
A Guided Practice To Reclaim Your Energy & Come Home To Your Body >
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Melanie is an experienced Soul & Shadow Worker, Womb Medicine Woman, podcast host, writer and trainer.
For over 20 years, she has supported individuals and healing professionals to restore connection with the body, repair attachment and separation wounds, and embody primordial wisdom rooted in the womb, heart and soul.
Melanie's approach blends somatic womb healing, shadow integration, shamanic healing and soul-level repatterning - offering a deep and lasting pathway back to the true self.
She hosts The Sacred Womb Podcast, leads The Unification Of The Divine Masculine & Feminine Training and is currently writing her first book: The Sacred Womb - a handbook for coming home to our true nature, along with Poems For Peri-Menopause.
In this episode I explore the concept of becoming a genuine adult,
what it means to develop emotional maturity and a grounded sense of self, what that looks like and feels like, and how we can do it in a way that increases our range of experience and expression.
Often, we equate adulthood with age, assuming that reaching a certain number automatically means we have attained emotional maturity. However, the reality is much more nuanced.
Many of us find that despite our chronological age, we may still operate from various younger emotional states—those triggered by past experiences, traumas, or disruptions during our formative years. To truly embody a genuine adult self, we must address these emotional fragments and develop our capacity to respond to the present moment with intention and clarity.
What is an Adult Self?
An adult self can be summarised as the energy within us that has little to no emotional charge from the past, and so, therefore, can be present.
This energy, or 'amount' of our consciousness that is present is available to experience situations more as they are now, and make choices as to how to respond.
What are the features of an Adult Self?
Here are some of the main features here, however, they aren't exhaustive, there are so many possibilities! This list is an example.
As a genuine Adult, we're able to:
- Be in the present moment
- Make clear choices taking into account intuition and cognition.
- Identify when triggered (distressing charge/memories are activated)
- Self-regulate
- Implement consistent self-care
- Take responsibility for our actions, behaviours, thoughts - whole self and impact on others.
- Identify and communicate our own needs
- Play! (play is to opposite of, and antidote to trauma)
- Access, embody and express a range of states of being
- Identify and implement clear boundaries
- Willing to be in love-based, mutual relationships with others
I also explore what 'Leading our System' from our Adult Self means, the relief that comes from un-fusing parts of ourselves that have been mistaken for our personality and reclaiming those qualities that were once buried beneath coping mechanisms.
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Melanie is an experienced Soul & Shadow Worker, Womb Medicine Woman, podcast host, writer and trainer.
For over 20 years, she has supported individuals and healing professionals to restore connection with the body, repair attachment and separation wounds, and embody primordial wisdom rooted in the womb, heart and soul.
Melanie's approach blends somatic womb healing, shadow integration, shamanic healing and soul-level repatterning - offering a deep and lasting pathway back to the true self.
She hosts The Sacred Womb Podcast, leads The Unification Of The Divine Masculine & Feminine Training and is currently writing her first book: The Sacred Womb - a handbook for coming home to our true nature, along with Poems For Peri-Menopause.
Our attachment template primarily determines how we relate to ourselves, others, and the world, and to recalibrate it, we need to work where it was formed: from incarnation, conception, in our Mother’s womb, to birth and our first year.
Our attachment template is formed by the time we get to about 1. Key events, memories, and ways of relating usually compound that template, meaning that patterns of relating keep repeating over time.
This leads to the development of what we might think is personality when it’s actually adaptive traits that keep repeating because they are trying to protect us from further pain. And because they were formed so early, these traits often feel like ‘that’s just who I am’.
When we identify these themes and patterns in our lives, we can also trace them into our Soul’s Journey and work with the whole root system of our consciousness. This all needs attending to to recalibrate our attachment template.
Whilst most of us won’t have a conscious memory of this very early and primal time in our lives, it is accessible once we are tuned in enough to our body and internal world. Everyone I have worked with can access this, we don’t need to be ‘spiritual’ – whatever that means!
This is also not a solely cognitive process. Deep remembering comes from the body, the mind, and the soul, which can all be accessed through the body, our six senses, and by slightly altering our state of consciousness, which we all can do.
I also find that doing this helps us to realise that babies aren’t born pure and open. By the time we are born, our sense of self has been developing for 9 months, the attachment template is formed, and we are bringing in themes from our Soul to resolve and reconcile.
My last caveat is I don’t channel anything for anyone when work – this is really important, as we do need a direct and embodied connection with what we remember, otherwise it doesn’t truly ‘land’ in our system and thus doesn’t actually recalibrate our state of being.
During the episode, I talk through the potential of remembering and recalibrating at the following key stages of coming into this life:
- Incarnation
- Conception
- Gestation
- Birth
- First Year
I want to remind and inspire those who are listening that it is possible to process pain that felt previously unbearable, once we are resourced and stable enough, we can remember, and we can unwind the adaptions in our system and come home to ourselves.
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Melanie is an experienced Soul & Shadow Worker, Womb Medicine Woman, podcast host, writer and trainer.
For over 20 years, she has supported individuals and healing professionals to restore connection with the body, repair attachment and separation wounds, and embody primordial wisdom rooted in the womb, heart and soul.
Melanie's approach blends somatic womb healing, shadow integration, shamanic healing and soul-level repatterning - offering a deep and lasting pathway back to the true self.
She hosts The Sacred Womb Podcast, leads The Unification Of The Divine Masculine & Feminine Training and is currently writing her first book: The Sacred Womb - a handbook for coming home to our true nature, along with Poems For Peri-Menopause.
Salena Walker; Herbalist, Naturapath and Nutritionist joins us to talk about what’s going on during menopause and how we can support ourselves with what we drink, eat, think and excrete!
She talks us through what’s going on with our hormones, what we need to consider to take care of ourselves, plus herbs and supplements to support the transformation.
ABOUT SALENA
Salena has over twenty years of teaching experience and offers many of her courses both in person in her woodland classroom in West Wales and online. Her course ‘Hormones and Menopause’ is now available online.
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Melanie is an experienced Soul & Shadow Worker, Womb Medicine Woman, podcast host, writer and trainer.
For over 20 years, she has supported individuals and healing professionals to restore connection with the body, repair attachment and separation wounds, and embody primordial wisdom rooted in the womb, heart and soul.
Melanie's approach blends somatic womb healing, shadow integration, shamanic healing and soul-level repatterning - offering a deep and lasting pathway back to the true self.
She hosts The Sacred Womb Podcast, leads The Unification Of The Divine Masculine & Feminine Training and is currently writing her first book: The Sacred Womb - a handbook for coming home to our true nature, along with Poems For Peri-Menopause.
I want to set up the context for this episode because it’s so important that you know I’m sharing this from a place of love, years of experience working with women, compassion, understanding and no judgment.
My perspective is non-religious, non-dogmatic, and most importantly – comes from an experience of working in an environment of respect.
Here are the main elements to consider when healing after abortion:
Identifying What’s Stuck
Themes and beliefs can get stuck when we’ve had an abortion. So that is where we need to start in our healing process because if we try and do the other steps before, it doesn’t work. Our starting point is to tune into the body and feel into what’s the belief about oneself that means we can’t come to peace with what happened.
Once we identify what’s looping around, we then take our focus off healing from the abortion and work with the theme within our psyche; in this life, through our soul’s journey, and from any generational imprints.
Communing With The Spirit That Didn’t Come Through
Every woman I have worked with to heal after abortion – the spirit is okay, they’re not harmed. Knowing that they’re okay often comes as a huge relief, and helps bring a sense of peace and completion to the experience.
Recalibrating The Body
At conception, our maternal instinct gets activated and there’s an alchemical process that prepares our body for gestation, birth and motherhood.
So it’s really helpful to do some deep, slow bodywork to allow for the completion of that somatically.
Grieving
Having space to grieve with no time limit is helpful, and if your grief feels like it’s dissipating gradually over time, then that’s the natural process of it.
However, if the grief keeps looping around, then it becomes a trauma loop in itself, and that’s when we need to get underneath it and have a look at what the stuck themes are.
Self-Compassion vs ‘Forgiveness’
Forgiveness is banded around in the new age psychology world, and my experience of it is that forgiveness doesn’t truly exist.
What I’ve discovered is that 100% of the time there is no judgment from source energy – NONE – because Source is love. Once we experience that for ourselves, the self-judgement dismantles, all the distorted beliefs about ourselves dissolve, and we can truly come to peace within.
Energising The Womb Centre
We need to help our womb centre to re-energize because we’ve often pulled away from it due to the emotional, spiritual and physical stress we’ve been through.
We need to have a good amount of energy in our womb to help our cycle clear out debris; physically or spiritually.
3 Ceremonies To Heal After Abortion
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Melanie is an experienced Soul & Shadow Worker, Womb Medicine Woman, podcast host, writer and trainer.
For over 20 years, she has supported individuals and healing professionals to restore connection with the body, repair attachment and separation wounds, and embody primordial wisdom rooted in the womb, heart and soul.
Melanie's approach blends somatic womb healing, shadow integration, shamanic healing and soul-level repatterning - offering a deep and lasting pathway back to the true self.
She hosts The Sacred Womb Podcast, leads The Unification Of The Divine Masculine & Feminine Training and is currently writing her first book: The Sacred Womb - a handbook for coming home to our true nature, along with Poems For Peri-Menopause.
To heal our womb means to dissolve all the ‘stuff’ we’ve been holding in there, restore its true purpose and reconnect the whole womb centre with the rest of our system.
To do this we need to consider six aspects:
- the physical womb
- the metaphysical womb
- gestation: time in our mothers’ womb
- the split of unified energy into masculine and feminine
- the collective womb
- detox and nutrition
This episode is an overview of these elements – and over the coming few months I’ll be releasing an episode going deeper into each aspect.
THE PHYSICAL WOMB: THE MENSTRUAL CYCLEThe menstrual cycle is a whole cycle, and its purpose is to guide us to embody our full range of states of being each month. This range differs during different chapters in our lives. So to restore the true purpose of the cycle, we need to be able to tune into the natural undercurrent of this cycle every day.
THE METAPHYSICAL WOMB: THE ENERGETIC WOMBThe blueprint upon which the physical womb forms. It contains all the information about how we feel about being a woman:
- generational imprints
- subconscious beliefs from other lifetimes and our soul’s journey
- cultural & social programming
These beliefs can have to do with what it is to be a woman, disliking the subjugated position we’ve held in society is a big one, deep down for women. It often shows up as not wanting to be a woman, and that needs unblending from not liking the position women have collectively been in.
GESTATION: THE TIME IN OUR MOTHERS’ WOMBDuring our time in our mother’s womb, we are alive, we are conscious and our attachment template, brain and nervous system are all forming in response to mum and our environment.
This process incorporates not only gestation but also:
- The place we were at before we incarnated ‘between lives’
- conception
- landing in the womb
- gestation
- landmark events
- birth
This is powerful work and I will be releasing an episode solely on this topic.
UNIFICATION OF OUR MASCULINE & FEMININE ASPECTSI have produced a full podcast on this, so I’ll just summarise it here.
So basically, as women – when we restore our true masculine nature and unify it in the body with our feminine energy, it helps to restore and embody our internal authority, internal structure and ability to bring energy into matter.
THE COLLECTIVE WOMB: RESTORING OUR CREATIVE SOVEREIGNTYOur metaphysical womb is co
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Melanie is an experienced Soul & Shadow Worker, Womb Medicine Woman, podcast host, writer and trainer.
For over 20 years, she has supported individuals and healing professionals to restore connection with the body, repair attachment and separation wounds, and embody primordial wisdom rooted in the womb, heart and soul.
Melanie's approach blends somatic womb healing, shadow integration, shamanic healing and soul-level repatterning - offering a deep and lasting pathway back to the true self.
She hosts The Sacred Womb Podcast, leads The Unification Of The Divine Masculine & Feminine Training and is currently writing her first book: The Sacred Womb - a handbook for coming home to our true nature, along with Poems For Peri-Menopause.
I explore 3 core issues that I see over and over again in my work, particularly with women. I describe how each particular aspect shows up, the root cause, and what to do about it.
Perpetually Putting Others’ Needs Before Our Own
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A hypersensitivity to what others are feeling and what they possibly need. After very quickly and automatically scanning the other person, we quickly attempt to regulate, fix, and advise them (without them asking) into a state where we have some sense of safety or security.
When we have this pattern of relating in our nervous system, people often describe themselves as empaths or highly sensitive. However, the reality is that we’re ***hypervigilant.
I should add that our current societal structure rewards women for doing this!***
Over-Functioning In Relationships
believing it’s our partner that needs to get helpTHIS LOOKS LIKE
Becoming fixated on our partner needing to change so that the relationship can work; where they can grow, what they need to do, believing that IF ONLY they would go to therapy, stop doing this or start doing that, then the relationship would be ok.
If we’re genuinely doing our healing work, then we also need to look at why we are with someone who isn’t. That IS our attachment work. Parts of us that might be waiting or hoping for connection, rather than being able to assess if we’re still a good match. The perpetual trying to make things work is part of our attachment wounding and attempts to get a parent to love us.
So if you’re persuading someone to be nice to you, to like or love you, then it’s time to look at that perpetual try. Once that is understood and mostly dissolved, we can think more clearly, assess the situation as it is, and make a clear decision from our adult selves.
Staying in love-less relationships (particularly thinking it’s for the children’s sake), getting breadcrumbs of something that looks or feels like love, over-understanding a partner (you’re not his psychologist), we’re enabling the notion that he’s a little boy, and ignoring that we are also operating from a younger wounded place.
Trying To Get Unmet Childhood Needs To Be Met By Parents – As An Adult
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It’s the perpetual hoping, waiting, trying, longing for the love we didn’t get, and trying to get that from the people who couldn’t give that when we were young.
Yes, sometimes we humans do change, we do wake up. However, if your parents weren’t in a state of growth and development when we were children, the chances are high that they won’t be for the duration of their lifetime.
Sometimes, parents do awaken and do the work needed to develop themselves and h
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Melanie is an experienced Soul & Shadow Worker, Womb Medicine Woman, podcast host, writer and trainer.
For over 20 years, she has supported individuals and healing professionals to restore connection with the body, repair attachment and separation wounds, and embody primordial wisdom rooted in the womb, heart and soul.
Melanie's approach blends somatic womb healing, shadow integration, shamanic healing and soul-level repatterning - offering a deep and lasting pathway back to the true self.
She hosts The Sacred Womb Podcast, leads The Unification Of The Divine Masculine & Feminine Training and is currently writing her first book: The Sacred Womb - a handbook for coming home to our true nature, along with Poems For Peri-Menopause.
Have you ever felt an insatiable hunger for love and validation?
In this episode, I explore ‘The Hungry Mother,’ a medicine poem that speaks to the experience of, and healing from, narcissistic parenting.
Put simply, narcissistic parenting is where the parenting is all about the parent; the two main features of which are where the parent wants to be seen as perfect, and they feel entitled to ‘get’ love and their childhood unmet needs met – from the child.
This medicine poem is written in deep devotion to our wild and humbling human nature.
The word ‘Mother’ is interchangeable with father, leader, school teacher, guru, partner, organisation, friend, foe or self. The hunger is within us all…until.
It’s going to land differently for each of us at different stages of our journey. It might sting or bring tears. It might nudge denial or ignite rage. It might also validate years of confusion.This is a medicine poem about re-parenting ourselves, about healing, and about coming home to our true nature.
The hungry mother,
A child starved of love,
Pregnant and hoping,
Fresh blood will fill the void.
Save me, sweet babe,
For that’s why you’re here,
Be grateful to me though,
Otherwise you’re out on your ear.
Grow my dear child,
But not too much,
For I will hold you as a trophy,
Then be seen as good enough.
Also be my bad,
The things I hate about me,
And I will be disgusted,
With all that I see.
Perform when I need you to,
Be quiet when I say,
Be good with no definition,
Meet my unmet needs, every day.
Don’t ever challenge me,
For if you dare do,
I will discombobulate,
And blame – yes – YOU!
The roles are reversed,
But so what? you need me,
Put up, shut up,
And get crumbs in exchange.
For I am your Mother,
Without me you’ll die,
So be what I need,
And never, ever fly.
How on earth do we stop,
This cycle of pain?
We stop needing others,
To fill us up in vain.
This impossible task,
Of trying to get love,
Leads us to remember,
Our core essence IS love.
There will be temporary pain,
And yes, it will be hard,
But what’s the alternative,
Getting constantly charred?
The antidote is to love,
Without thirst and fear,
ALL of ourselves,
And walk away clear.
Free from the clutches,
Of a contract doomed to fail,
I am now my own Mother,
And live to tell this tale!
I realised my own Soul,
Was also seeking outside,
That – which was deep within,
Yet forgotten and denied.
And now the freedom is breathtaking,
This feeling of love,
Of Being All That Is,
I AM home, I AM love
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Melanie Swan is regarded as a renowned leader in healing the physical womb, restoring the metaphysical womb, and connecting with the cosmic womb.
She’s a Womb Medicine Woman and Soul Worker with 20 year’s experience – who guides and empowers women to come home to their true nature.
She hosts The Sacred Womb Podcast and runs The Womb Healing Training, and is currently writing her first book The Sacred Womb, which is, at its core, a handbook for the empowerment of womankind; due for release in late 2025.
Welcome to another episode where Kim and I discuss the growing divine feminine movement and its pitfalls……as many women who are in this movement are struggling to turn ideas into reality, have a lack of internal authority and are using ‘the masculine’ as a dumping ground for traits that are not liked or deemed to be ‘feminine’.
In the first half, we examine why and how our masculine part is often projected outwards, and in the second, we challenge the idea of labelling certain characteristics as masculine or feminine, emphasising the need to own our shadows (that which we think we are not) to reclaim our authentic masculine energy – which naturally restores our feminine energy.
We also define and question the patriarchy, our role in its creation and sustanance, and explore what’s needed to dissolve the trauma preventing us from fully embracing and unifying both energies within.
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Melanie Swan is an internationally renowned leader in healing the physical womb, restoring the metaphysical womb, and connecting with the cosmic womb.
She’s a Womb Medicine Woman and Mulit-dimensional Womb Healer with 20 year’s experience – who guides and empowers women to come home to their true nature.
She hosts The Sacred Womb Podcast and founded The Womb Medicine Woman Training®, which she's been running for the last 7 years and is currently writing her first book The Sacred Womb, which is, at its core, a handbook for the empowerment of womankind; due for release in late 2024. Having traveled extensively she currently lives in Thailand, with her two much loved cats, Sophia and Lyra.
Ready to debunk some myths about your menstrual cycle?
I talk about 6 of the most common myths in the realm of ‘womb work’ that are limiting our experience of what the menstrual cycle truly is, and get clear on what the antidotes are.
PMS is not a foregone conclusion!
Rather, it's an access point to our subconscious, a time to listen to and align with our truth. Our pre-menstrual time can be SO powerful, and is natures way of helping us to see what’s really going on. As we start to understand and clear the what caused the underlying rage, anger, frustration - and are able to into alignment with ourselves, PMS symptoms disappear.
Chasing the ‘perfect cycle’ is a fallacy.
Our menstrual cycle is a barometer of our our spiritual, physical and emotional health. In the absence of a genuine connection with the ever changing undercurrent of our menstrual cycle, we can take on ideals that our outside of us and try to conform to them, resulting in trying to ‘fit’ our cycle with expectations, that inevitably don’t match. The way forwards is to clear the trauma that is blocking a genuine connection.
Tired of battling your inner critic?This is a wounded part of us that we don’t have to manage, put up with or work around. It’s a part of us the NEEDS our attention, connection and love. Criticism comes from fear and this needs processing and integrating so that we can see clearly. It’s totally possible to do this!
Bleeding On The New Or Full Moon Means Something Specific
Nope! Only we know how the interaction between our unique menstrual cycle and the moon cycle is both supporting and challenging us. Again, when we don’t have a genuine connection, we can take on external beliefs and structures that keep us stuck in a certain way of being. The antidote, as always is to do the work to get a genuine connection.
Blaming The Moon or Astrology On Our State Of Being
Not necessarily directly related to our menstrual cycle, but very popular in the work of cycle attunement and women’s work….Attributing our state of being solely to the moon phases or astrological climate blinds us to what is really going on within. The antidote again, is to look within, understand what’s going on and then look at how the moon phase or astrological climate is amplifying that.
The false premise that hormones are the only drivers of our health.
I discuss how factors like trauma, synthetic hormones, the pill and toxins affect our hormones, and that we need a wholistic approach to heal and take care of our menstrual cycle.
The antidote to all of this is to look within, attune to our unique cycle and listen to the information it’s giving us.
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Melanie Swan is an internationally renowned leader in healing the physical womb, restoring the metaphysical womb, and connecting with the cosmic womb.
She’s a Womb Medicine Woman and Mulit-dimensional Womb Healer with 20 year’s experience – who guides and empowers women to come home to their true nature.
She hosts The Sacred Womb Podcast and founded The Womb Medicine Woman Training®, which she's been running for the last 7 years and is currently writing her first book The Sacred Womb, which is, at its core, a handbook for the empowerment of womankind; due for release in late 2024. Having traveled extensively she currently lives in Thailand, with her two much loved cats, Sophia and Lyra.
Many women I come across talk of keeping themselves small. It's one of the core wounds that women in particular struggle with.
In this episode, Kim Barnard and I explore the 4 aspects that form the 'root system' that keep us living with tethers on our life force, and how to heal.
There are several expressions of keeping ourselves small, which are (but aren't limited to):
- Feeling not good enough, or unworthy
- Believing that somehow we don't deserve love / money / success
- Imposter syndrome (fearful that people will find out who we really are underneath)
- Feeling afraid to embody our life force and what will happen
- Scared to share an opinion
- Afraid to do what the work we want to in the world
The 4 areas of the root system and how to heal it are:
- Cultural influences
- Past life roots: exploring the 'trauma triangle' - victim, perpetrator and failed rescuer states of being within within our consciousness.
- Roots in this life that are part of our attachment template.
- Generational roots that amplify what's already running in our consciousness.
The main take away from this episode, is that it IS possible to heal this, for the tethers to come off our energy, and to embody our life force again.
We would love to hear how this lands with you, head on over to Instagram to share your experience.
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Melanie Swan is an internationally renowned leader in healing the physical womb, restoring the metaphysical womb, and connecting with the cosmic womb.
She’s a Womb Medicine Woman and Mulit-dimensional Womb Healer with 20 year’s experience – who guides and empowers women to come home to their true nature.
She hosts The Sacred Womb Podcast and founded The Womb Medicine Woman Training®, which she's been running for the last 7 years and is currently writing her first book The Sacred Womb, which is, at its core, a handbook for the empowerment of womankind; due for release in late 2024. Having traveled extensively she currently lives in Thailand, with her two much loved cats, Sophia and Lyra.
A short and sweet episode to share with you a Womb Medicine Poem to restore the beauty and wonder of the womb centre.
It starts with a brief introduction, and then there's a guided practice to listen to the poem with your womb.
I invite you to attune to the feel of the words, the energy, and the response from your womb.
It’s a chance to dip your toe into the potency of your womb, to tap into the void from which all of life is born, and to resonate with the frequency of creation.
I'd love to hear your reflections and experiences— it's your time to shine!
See The Moon shine
Regardless of phase
This is your time beauty
To shine in all ways.
No more push on regardless
No more have to’s or should’s
This is your time beauty
To be as wild as wild woods.
From the depths of your soul
Go with your flow
This is your time beauty
Let go, let go, let flow.
Your womb is the void
From which you create
This is your time beauty
To connect and activate.
Be lovingly ruthlessAs you intuit your way
This is your time beauty
Don’t waste another day.
So shine beauty, shineThis is your time
This is your time
This is our **time.
By MELANIE SWAN**
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Melanie Swan is an internationally renowned leader in healing the physical womb, restoring the metaphysical womb, and connecting with the cosmic womb.
She’s a Womb Medicine Woman and Mulit-dimensional Womb Healer with 20 year’s experience – who guides and empowers women to come home to their true nature.
She hosts The Sacred Womb Podcast and founded The Womb Medicine Woman Training®, which she's been running for the last 7 years and is currently writing her first book The Sacred Womb, which is, at its core, a handbook for the empowerment of womankind; due for release in late 2024. Having traveled extensively she currently lives in Thailand, with her two much loved cats, Sophia and Lyra.
The term 'woman' is being eroded, replaced gradually with words like 'menstruators' or 'people with wombs'. A thought-provoking question, I know, but it's one I had to ask in the wake of noticing this transition in our language.
This episode captures my earnest attempt to explore the implications of this shift, the pressures that come with it, and the potential unsafety it might be creating in women's spaces. While the intent behind this replacement may be to be more inclusive, it's essential to underscore the importance of not diluting the very essence of womanhood.
I'm bringing you this candid conversation, as a call to action to preserve the sacredness of women's only circles; to respect and amplify the unique experiences of women.
This isn't about creating a divide, but rather about honouring everyone's unique identity without erasing or diminishing others. So, let's ignite this essential dialogue, to share experiences, and contribute to a more inclusive, loving and respectful world.
Women’s only circles are Sacred. Women NEED women’s only spaces to heal, to share, to be with each other - just as men, trans men and trans women do.This isn’t exclusion, it’s an honouring of woman in her essence, so that we may come home to our true nature, and meet the world from that place.Women - let’s not give away our true essence in an attempt to be liked, to be seen or experienced as inclusive.
I know many women who think like this but are scared to actually say it in our current climate.
'WOMAN' is not up for cancellation! We can all live together, respectful of all, AND respect and celebrate each others differences.Join the conversation Instagram post, I'd love to hear your experience.
Support the showMelanie is an internationally renowned expert in the menstrual cycle and working with the consciousness of The Womb.She hosts The Sacred Womb Podcast and founded The Womb Medicine Woman Training®, which she's been running for the last 7 years.
She’s an experienced Multi-dimensional Trauma Healer, hosts the newly released CRM® podcast ‘Trauma Healing Tribe’ and is currently writing her first book The Sacred Womb, which is, at its core, a handbook for the empowerment of womankind; due for release in late 2024.
She has traveled extensively and now lives in the gorgeous city of Chiang Mai in northern Thailand, with her two much loved cats, Sophia and Lyra.
Kim Barnard @sacred.womban and I get together for a great chat about Perimenopause!
I’m in perimenopause right now (at the time of recording) and share my experience and how it can be a time of accelerated growth and change to align with our deeper truth.
Saying NO with no attachments
The ability to respond rather than react
The first signs of perimenopause – the grit! an adjustment of values, and a need for our outer world to align with those.
What is ‘sacred rage’?
Dismantling the patriarchy and owning our part
Ways to prepare and work WITH for perimenopause – emotionally / spiritually
Ways to prepare for perimenopause – physically – Anthony William ‘Cleanse To Heal’ book for the liver cleanse.
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Through oceans of time, women have been in some form of subjugated position and have looked outside of ourselves for our spiritual path and autonomy over our own bodies.
This has resulted in a collective power imbalance that helps neither men nor women.
Our collective dissociation from, general disgust with and medicalisation of the womb and menstrual cycle, has put a woman’s womb in a vulnerable position, leaving the door open for patriarchal systems based on external authority and validation, to take power over a woman’s reproductive system and cyclic nature.
However, there IS a movement of women, a movement of consciousness, that wants to redress this imbalance.
In order to actualise this shift, we as women must make the changes within and take responsibility for our own body, our own empowerment, and our own evolution.
This Ceremony gives the framework, guidance and practices to embody our seat of power, The Sacred Womb.
Or construct your own Ceremony – my message here is that we CAN redress the power imbalance by doing the inner work.
Upcoming dates of Self-Initiation Ceremonies
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Welcome back to the podcast after an 8 month break! I give an update on what’s been happening the last year, details of my move to Thailand and an update on The Sacred Womb Book.
Below is a summary of THE Book 🙂
For millennia, women have been in a subjugated position. Handing on over our power for safety, protection, and money and care. And it’s not worked. We have ended up struggling with a collective power imbalance, and in order to redress this, we must make the changes within and stand up to take responsibility for our own evolution.
Women are becoming more empowered. Yet something is missing. It’s our Womb. An organ that nurtures life, without it the human race would die out. Yet it is a part of the female body that has been attacked, pushed away and ignored for as long as HIStory dates back.
Women generally don’t like their menstrual cycle. And that’s just the first level. This disdain ripples out into not liking their womb & whole reproductive system, which holds the power to birth consciousness in the form of babies and new concepts and ideas for the evolution of the human collective.
Our collective consciousness is starting to shift though. Periods are becoming less taboo, there a few books on the shelves of mainstream book shops; periods have been addressed on screen, for instance in Sex In The City 2, and a feature length cartoon; period advice features in magazines; we have great period pants (a wonderful advancement from the old inch thick surf boards, no wonder we dreaded ‘that time of the month’!) Some secondary schools are starting to teach cycle awareness to girls; there are several podcasts out about periods, some extending to the power of the womb; and in general conversation between women, it’s much more of an open topic.
This is all a great start. Yet is it just the beginning.
Generational trauma and emotional pain from this life show up in the menstrual cycle, in many different ways, and it will be empowering for women to understand how to read these signs and symptoms, so that they know how to navigate their healing process from the inside out.
This sort of grounded information is not yet written down. These two topics are not yet written down and linked in a way that women have access to. This book does that, in a very practical, grounded way that will guide women to heal.
What is also not yet written is the true power of a woman to birth new consciousness for personal and collective evolution .
A grand concept, yes. Yet, I have been doing this for years myself, and training women how to do it. It works.
This is a handbook for the empowerment of women: through the physical womb, the energetic womb and the collective womb. It is a book that will make a place in time, where women were given the information, guidance, healing information and practices to re- embody the wisdom of their true nature.
It will redirect women from looking outside themselves for their power – to a source within that is Divinely designed.
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In this inspiring and rich episode, Lisa talks us through;
- What is Generational Healing?
- How generational healing can help symptoms (such as addictions, relationship problems, medical conditions) in THIS lifetime/timeline.
- What is the Spiritual Lineage?
- What exactly we’re looking for in generational healing – what created the split – the separation from Source, what created the need for one’s relationship with certain spiritual practice to be stopped, or changed into different spiritual practices.
- What 'Death Truths' are and an example of how they can be passed on.
- How feeling suicidal can be rooted generationally.
- Re-membering generational glories, strengths and resources – and why they might have been forgotten.
- The potential this work has for individuals, communities and our collective consciousness on a global scale.
- Lisa’s goal to bring this work to 1,000’s of people across the globe – to clear the roots and origins of trauma that keeps us fragmented and separate from self and Source.
- Training in CRM® and The CRM® Foundation, donations are now open and will be very gratefully received!
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The CRM® Foundation website – use this link to make a donation
CRM® Training and Schedule
ABOUT LISA SCHWARZ
Lisa Schwarz, M.Ed. is a licensed psychologist, consultant, and international educator working in private practice in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
She is the developer of The Comprehensive Resource Model (CRM)®, a trauma therapy model that employs brain-based physiological safety as the foundation for healing and is the primary author of The Comprehensive Resource Model®: Effective therapeutic techniques for the healing of complex trauma.
Lisa has, for the past 28 years, been dedicated to creating innovative methods for working with severe dissociative disorders (Complex PTSD, DID, DDNOS), attachment disorders, and gestational trauma.
Her work bridges neuroscience and consciousness in trauma healing through a combination of traditional psychotherapy, somatic therapy, and indigenous healing methods.
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In this introduction to dissociation, Gordon talks us through:
- What is dissociation
- How do we know if we’re dissociating
- Starting to relate to what we have pushed away
- ‘Separating to connect’ & finding ways to respond to the patterns of reaction, rather than just reacting
- Low arousal dissociation and high arousal dissociation
- Why dissociation is there for a reason
- Creating a sense of safety before connecting to what was previously too much to feel (creating a mis-match)
- When and how dissociation dismantles
- A scale of dissociation and how it can manifest in daily life
- The difference between re-membering whilst present and becoming lost in the experience
- Normalising dissociation and how we can start thinking about it in our mental health systems.
ABOUT GORDON BARCLAY
Gordon Barclay was an NHS consultant psychiatrist in Argyll on the west coast of Scotland until 2019, now works privately in Glasgow and is an active CRM® Trainer and Supervisor, and has a special interest in the treatment of psychological trauma and dissociation.
Contact Gordon on dr@gordonbconsulting.com for more information and to book:
– An Introduction To Working Relationally With Dissociation,
30th October 2021.
– CRM® Basic Training Online, 1st-5th September 2021.
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A medicine poem about the last chapter of menstruation and the myth of the peri-menopause struggle.
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This is a Medicine Poem. The words come with an energy with the intention of shifting consciousness. Become the poem and see where it takes you...
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I question if, in 2020 the ‘norm’ of taking the male line name is still relevant, and if so, what’s effect is it having on the empowerment (or not) of women?
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These are some of the key ways I support the health and vitality of my menstrual cycle with nutrition.
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Our First Period is a portal to our unique gifts, creative sovereignty and cyclical power, and how, as adults we can revisit our first blood, retrieve our Maiden self, restore our natural gifts and recalibrate our menstrual cycle!
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I discuss why tampons are so toxic to our physical and emotional health, the antidote to ‘stuff one in and get on with it’ and some amazing alternatives that promote overall health AND creativity!Support the show (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/melanieswan)
Transitioning from one state of being to another is like being between gears. It’s a natural opportunity to recalibrate and reorganise ready for the next gear and get more in touch with our natural essence.Support the show (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/melanieswan)
Together we can reveal and dismantle the foundations of abusive teaching in Yoga and and restore Yoga as a tool for personal and planetary healing and empowerment! with Uma Dinsmore-Tuli.Support the show (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/melanieswan)
Sharing our story in the presence of a skillful witness can be incredibly healing AND from a nervous system perspective, telling a story chronologically can further instill the traumatic narrative in the brain.Support the show (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/melanieswan)
The new, upgraded and expanded Sacred Womb Podcast! Womb Centered Wisdom For The Arc of Womanhood. In this episode I talk about the range of topics I'll now be covering.Support the show (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/melanieswan)
Emma of Mamma Luna joins us to talk about Yoni steaming: how to set up, herbs to use, when to steam and how she came to make her gorgeous Yoni Steaming Thrones!
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I talk to Lauren Henry on how she got her period back naturally after 6 years of amenorrhea with the support of Medical Medium information.
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Repeating acts of self-care at regular intervals produces a rhythm based on love – and a steady rhythm of love is healing - so here are 10 rituals for The Full Moon.
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Burnout is all-too common. Eventually our body reaches a tipping point and says ‘no more’. There is another way! Tracking our cycle keys us into our natural rhythm.
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For years I thought I just wasn’t very good at sticking to an exercise plan. Then when I started tracking my menstrual cycle, I noticed that I was more able to do AND enjoy certain exercises at certain times in my cycle.
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Inspiring ways we can take great care of ourselves during our period; inc. FREE guided practice to help you to relax, reset and recalibrate at Moontime.
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Dr Anne DeLessio Parson joins us to discuss how the oppression of women and people of colour is also coming with the oppression and treatment of animals.
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Uma Dinsmore-Tuli talks us through the creation of Womb Yoga & how incorporating Yoga Nidra allows us to listen to our bodies and deeply rejuvenate.
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I explain how to utilise The Sacred Womb Cycle Tracker to connect with your Womb and essence for the day – so that you can align your outer actions with your inner world.
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Western society tends to cling to patterns, expecting each cycle to be the same - as a way of neutralising or diluting The Unknown. Moontime conditioning renders us impotent to it's Creative Powers. Every woman is different. Every cycle is different. Every Moontime is different.
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Cathy Skipper, Author of The Alchemy of Menopause Workbook discusses how peri-menopause can be used to transform all our life experiences into Wisdom.
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The shift in gear during the pre-menstrual phase of our cycle means we need more time + space for ourselves - which can have our kids feeling a loss or lack of connection. Here are my top tips for creating 'me time' that both resources you and has your child feeling safe and connected.
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Bonnie joins us to talk about her book, Red Moon Passage in which she details her own reframing and transformation during Menopause that shifted her consciousness.
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Holly Grigg-Spall joins us to talk about Daysy, The Fertility Calculator. Holly talks us through; What Daysy is, how Daysy works, how to use Daysy, the fertile window & what the different colours on Daysy indicate!
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Hollly Grigg-Spall joins us to discuss her book Sweetening The Pill. She talks through side effects, why we take it and what to do if you want to come off it.
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April McMurtry from The Moon is My Calendar joins us to talk about New Moon Mandalas. Follow along with a pen and paper to create your own Mandala!
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For some, healing the mother wound is possible while staying connected to our Mother. But for others it's necessary & healthy to have no-contact.
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The Blood Tales is a one woman show that will transport you to depths of the Mystery carried inside. It’s a rewiring of the shame and disgust. It’s a reclaiming of the magic and power of woman’s body.
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Fertility Massage Therapy™ ignites our passion by re-awakening our connection to our Womb. Clare joins us to talk about this unique physical & spiritual treatment.
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Victoria De Aboitiz has written a gorgeous book called The Moon's Gift. It's an introductory book that welcomes girls into womanhood. Aimed at girls age 11+, the book offers a simple, kind and holistic approach to the Female Cycle.
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Milly takes us through her process of birthing her idea for the chocolates, what's in them and how they can help us to tune in to the difference phases of our cycle.
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Miscarriages are common and can be very tough; emotionally, physically and spiritually. Here are 9 guidelines to help you process your experience.
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3 Key questions to help you relieve period pain; How do you really feel about being a cyclical Being? What Menstrual Products are you using? What do you do during Moontime?
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Sex, or masturbation is a way to feel our Body, to connect with our Source and to feel our Power.
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Lisa Byrd joins us to talk about why and how we can use Yoni Eggs on our path of healing and personal growth.
Lisa gives us really clear guidance on:
- What Yoni Eggs are
- The benefits of using Yoni Eggs
- How to choose a Yoni Egg
- How to cleanse and clear your Yoni Eggs
- Different ways to use them for emotional and physical health
She also debunks some common yoni-egg myths!
Lisa was very generous in sharing her experience and gives us rich, down to earth and practical steps for using our eggs.
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'We Bleed together so we can Create together. Heal together. See together. Weave together. Our blood time draws us together and into an altered state, amplifying our abilities to work with The Void and open that portal. We are a bridge into this reality for The Divine Feminine, The Great Unknown.'
In this episode I share a channeled answer to a question I received...Why Do Our Menstrual Cycles Synchronise?
We Bleed together so we can Create together.Heal together.See together.Weave together.Our blood time draws us together and into an altered state, amplifying our abilities to work with the void and open that portal.
We are a bridge into this reality for The Divine Feminine, The Great Unknown.
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Alexandra Pope, Co-Founder of Red School explains the essence of Wild Power is that the Menstrual Cycle process, when consciously engaged with, is a Spiritual Practice. The Original Spiritual Practice.
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**‘There’s a lot of confusion around The Dark and New Moon phase. In this episode I talk about the difference and how we can utilise both phases for personal growth.‘
The New Moon and Dark Moon are two distinct phases in The Moon Cycle.**
However they are often confused, or thought to be the same thing.
In this episode I clarify the difference between the two and give ideas and exercises for how you can key into the energy of both to support personal growth.
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I discuss bleeding in tune with The Moon and how we can access our own answers. As we awaken to the sheer magic of our menstrual cycle, many of us wonder when the ‘right’ time to bleed is in relation to The Moon phases.
This is totally understandable, and after centuries of estrangement from our Power, we want it back, we want it now! But patience, listening and detaching ourselves from the should’s and shouldn’ts are just another aspect of the process of empowerment.
And whenever we experience a Should or Shouldn’t – we can utilise it to point us towards our Truth. Listen to the end for an exercise to help you tune into what your cycle is currently communicating.
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Jane Bennett joins us to talk about her co-authored book The Pill; Are You Sure It’s For You?
Jane talks us through;
- What the Pill actually does
- The natural alternatives we have available.
- The many myths concerning the pill, other contraceptives, fertility awareness, women’s’ bodies and cycles!
It was fantastic to talk to Jane as she explained natural contraception in such a joyful and easy to understand way!
– About Jane –
Jane’s work and contemplation are centred on three main themes: Celebrating Menarche, Menstrual Wellbeing and Holistic Contraception. While these are all part of a natural positive approach to fertility generally it’s these three aspects that have specifically grabbed hold of her.
In writing this book together with Alexandra Pope, they sought to advocate truly informed choice, contraceptive literacy and partners sharing responsibility for their fertility.
The book includes many practical tips about thinking through contraceptive needs and STD protection.
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‘One of the many manifestations of the mother wound is the pattern of the “parentified daughter.’
Bethany Webster
A simple definition of a parentified daughter is when a daughter plays the role of mother for her own mother; the roles are reversed.
Often a parentified daughter must grow up very fast and loses the chance to be a child, as she is expected to manage the emotional and/or physical needs of her mother and/or father.’
This is Part 2 of the Healing The Mother Wound series that Bethany and I recorded together.
We discuss Bethany’s article ‘Parentified Daughters as Female Leaders; Keys To Your Emergence‘ how to take steps to heal this and what it can mean for us as we emerge.
I hope it’s useful for you. I’d love to know your thoughts, reflections, insights after reading.
ABOUT BETHANY
Bethany Webster is a writer, transformational coach, international speaker and what you could call a midwife of the heart.
Her work is focused on helping women heal the “mother wound” so that they can step into their full feminine power and potential.
In addition to writing and teaching internationally, Bethany offers online courses and a private coaching program for women leaders who desire to take a quantum leap in their leadership.
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‘What many people do not realise is that the core issue at the center of women’s empowerment is the mother wound’
BETHANY WEBSTER
‘Difficulty and challenges between mothers and daughters are rampant and widespread but not openly spoken about. The taboo about speaking about the pain of the mother wound is what keeps it in place and keeps it hidden in shadow, festering and out of view.’
I found Bethany’s article Parentified Daughters as Female Leaders; Keys To Your Emergence and it immediately struck a chord.
I knew I simply had to speak to Bethany, to thank her, and find out more about her work and share it with as many women as possible.
So here it is; part 1 of a conversation I had with Bethany on Healing The Mother Wound.
Part 2 goes into the Parentified Daughter.
I hope it’s useful for you. I’d love to know your thoughts, reflections, insights after reading.
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We all know that we as women have a physical Womb. But what is our Sacred Womb, and why is it Sacred?
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