Your ancestors are with you every time the portal of the womb opens; our blood connects us to our lineage, to the mythic archetypes that hold meaning for us, and to our deepest inner selves. Whatever sort of womb release you experience, it lies on a continuum of commonality with all releases. Let us explore these interconnections so that we can be deeply rooted in our own bodies.
TOPICS:
How Samantha got into this work
The womb as a source of pleasure and power, instead of pain
There is cellular alchemy no matter how a pregnancy ends (birth, miscarriage, abortion) and commonalities between all the different kinds of pregnancy release
Abortion is a nexus of sex and death and birth
The Dark Goddess and the Underworld Journey- seeing the release of a pregnancy through a mythic lens
Modern medicine is an industry, not a healing modality
The psychospiritual process of menstruation: when the cervix is open we can more easily access other states of consciousness
The Sacred Yes- what we are saying yes to when we say no to a pregnancy
Honoring death as a healing need in our culture
Function and access to Misoprostol
Understanding the two categories of abortion: mechanical and chemical
Demystifying the idea of a "natural abortion"
Herbs: emmenagogues and abortifacients
Sitting at the feet of the plant elders
Systems of false authority, persecution, and the witch wound
How shame and secrecy around abortion can prolong bleeding
Conscious contraception
Giving yourself a 40 day postpartum healing period after any pregnancy release
LINKS (if listening on an app that doesn’t support embedded links, find these at https://mythicmedicine.love/podcast):
Samantha’s website
Medicine Stories Patreon (podcast bonuses!)
Medicine Stories Episode #73
Mysteries of the Dark Moon: The Healing Power of the Dark Goddess by Demetra George
Herbal Healing for Women by Rosemary Gladstar
Women's Bodies, Women's Wisdom by Dr. Christiane Northup
The Womb Sovereignty Song performance (can also find on Soundcloud)
Self-Managed Abortion, the Law, and CODIV-19 Fact Sheet
The Self-Managed Abortion podcast
Red School
Guttmacher Institute Stats on Induced Abortion in the United States
BBC reporting on abortion rates
Wild Power by Alexandra Pope and Sjanie Hugo Wurlitzer
PlanCPills.org
If/When/How
Women on Waves film
Women on Web
A New View of a Woman's Body by Carol Downer
Samantha Zipporah's Patreon
Take our fun Which Healing Herb is Your Spirit Medicine? Quiz
My website MythicMedicine.love
Medicine Stories Facebook group
Mythic Medicine on Instagram
Music by Mariee Sioux (from her beautiful song Wild Eyes)
110. Women's Bodies are Metabolically Expensive (Why Things Break So Easily) - Dr. Suuzi Hazen
109. Loving Ourselves Home: Finding Sanctuary in Herbal Medicine - Kami McBride
108. The Mythic Hive & How Bees Heal Us - Ariella Daly
107. Death is the Great Healing: Reclaiming Ancestral Relationship w/ the Dead - Perdita Finn
106. Chronic Illness: Telling Honest Stories, Navigating the Underworld, and Tending the Roots - Sarah Ramey
105. Synchronicity Reveals Our Ecological Niche - Sophie Strand
104. Your Body is Not a Closed System: The Sun, Cell Signaling, & Metabolic Wellness - Sarah Kleiner
103. Midlife Burnout for Women & Why Healing Work Can Make Us Worse - Dr. Suuzi Hazen
102. The Living Matrix of Fascia & the Resonance of the Heart - Lindsay Courcelle
101. Rooting With the Ancient Mothers: Healing Wounded Lineages by Reclaiming Physiologic Birth & Radical Togetherness - Aimee Aroha
100. Returning the Mother to Herself: Our Nourishment Shapes How We Receive Life - Niecia Nelson
99. Holistic Health & Earth Connected Living in Technological Times - Carly Rose
98. Parenting Sensitive/Spirited/Neurodivergent Children, Leaving Schools, and Proudly Engaging in Wrongthink - Teva Johnstone
97. Five Years of Medicine Stories (& more)
96. Apprentice Yourself to the Earth: Plant Wisdom & Embodied Knowing - Kami McBride
95. Exiting the Overculture: Herbalism, Homesteading, & Unschooling My Mind
94. Our Trip to Britain: Ancestral Pilgrimage to Sacred Sites
93. Mirrors in the Earth: Self Remembrance & the Non-Stop Nurturance of the Natural World - Asia Suler
92. Expansion is Our Nature: a Matriarchal Reframe for Money & How I Went From Broke to Flow
91. The Mineral Matrix & the Motherline That Made You - Hamid Jabbar
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