Womb Stories Project

Healing the Father Wound: Minerals, Yoni Steaming and Nervous System Regulation with Yasmine Minnifield

In this powerful transmission, Yasmine Minnifield, founder of Womb of Peace, joins Kit Maloney for a profound exploration of the Father Wound and how healing our inner masculine is a path to feminine restoration. Yasmine shares how wounding to our inner masculine affects our sense of safety, openness to intimacy, and feeling worthy of provision and protection - often showing up as overfunctioning, burnout, or a hard, protective shell.  She maps the energetics of the wound onto the body through mineral imbalances, offering a tangible, multidimensional pathway to healing through herbal medicine, remineralization, and inner work.  Yasmine describes how Yoni Steaming supports every level of this process, from the physical release of old blood, tissue, and emotions to remineralization through the herbs in the steam. She invites us to use our steam practice to develop deeper intimacy with self and the ancestral line to create lasting mental and emotional repatterning. Healing the inner masculine allows the mature feminine to rise, the Queen, who knows how to live and lead in a deeply nourishing, empowered way.     Yasmine Minnifield blends functional mineral science and somatic healing to help women decode their body's messages, with hair mineral testing as the doorway into deep restoration. Order a Hair Mineral Test with Yasmine  Connect with Yasmine on Facebook and Instagram   🌸www.kitaralove.com🌸 Kitara provides beautifully designed, expertly crafted tools for safe and easy in-home yoni steaming.    Beautiful Yoni Steam Seats, Organic Herbs, Consultations & More... Connect with Kitara on IG @bykitara   Timestamps  00:00 Healing the Father Wound to Access Feminine Power 00:57 The Father Wound, Minerals, & Cellular Level Healing 05:58 Wounding of the Inner Masculine or Animus, and Yasmine's Experience of Trauma, PTSD, PCOS 10:29 Linking the Effects of the Father Wound to Mineral Imbalances in the Body 13:13 Healing through Yoni Steaming and Herbalism 15:43 Archetypal Medicine, Energetic and Ancestral Healing Reclaiming Power and Sensitivity 18:13 Deep Physical and Ancestral Release and Repatterning through Yoni Steaming 21:12 The Transformative Power of Minerals 22:42 Yoni Steaming: More Than Just Hydrotherapy 26:48 Final Thoughts  

Fibroids, Refusing Hysterectomy, and the Healing Power of Yoni Steaming with Miara Pack

Far too often we hear the same story, a woman gets diagnosed with fibroids and is told her only option is a full hysterectomy. In this interview, Kit Maloney and Rachel Rose talk with Miara Pack, who shares her journey of saying no to the white coat and bravely charting her own course. Miara opens up about her experience with painful cycles and dismissive doctors and her choice to pursue natural healing: yoni steaming, breathwork, and lifestyle changes alongside western medical care. A cornerstone of her healing was her connection with Kit, the founder of Kitara, whose compassionate presence was a consistent source of strength, wisdom, and love. We're honored to share this conversation of healing, self-empowerment, and the sacred bond between women supporting each other to reconnect to their wombs and inner wisdom. Visit www.kitaralove.com for intentionally designed and expertly crafted products for safe and easy yoni steaming at home.  Learn more about yoni steaming and fibroids. Connect with Kitara on IG @bykitara. Timestamps 01:26 – Miara's first steam and meeting Kit 07:00 – Steaming at home without a seat 11:00 – Lifelong painful cycles and dismissive medical care 13:00 – Fibroid diagnosis and pressure to undergo full hysterectomy 17:30 – Daily steaming, tracking progress, and signs of improvement 18:30 – Making the emotional decision to have a myomectomy 26:50 – Post-surgery cycles, red blood, and no more pain meds 30:00 – Slowing down: movement, food, and nervous system support 35:00 – Reframing surgery as a reboot, not a failure 38:30 – Breaking the cycle for the next generation 42:00 – Sisterhood, journaling, and the power of being witnessed

Meet Our Midwife

Welcome to another episode of Season 2 of Womb Stories Project, a series of conversations with people involved in the home birth of our son. This is a really important conversation as part of this series because it is with the incredibly wise and amazingly wonderful Tiffany Skillings, who is a midwife and was my midwife through our fertility journey, throughout my pregnancy, and the primary midwife in the delivery of our son at our home.  I can't say enough about Tiffany. She is an incredible gift to the birthing community here in Maine, to me and my family, and we really consider her part of our family now. I imagine that after listening to this conversation, you will understand why.  Visit www.kitaralove.com for intentionally designed and expertly crafted products for safe and easy yoni steaming at home.  Connect with Kit on IG @bykitara. Connect with Tiffany Skillings on IG @tworiverslactation and at www.tworiverslactation.com.    Timestamps 1:38 Tiffany's Journey to Midwifery 13:59 Midwifery as Holistic Well-Bodied Care 25:07 Expertise in Clinical Midwifery Training 31:20 Midwifery Challenges and Misconceptions 45:47 Elevating Midwifery and Public Education 49:32 Healthcare Costs and Transparency 55:49 Collaboration in Emergency Situations 57:22 Home to Hospital Transfers and C-Section Rates 1:17:11 Importance of Trauma-Informed Care and Debriefing 1:22:28 Intentionality in Client Care and Privacy 1:24:49 Special Moments in Mark's Birth  

What is a Postpartum Doula? And why everyone needs one.

We live in an era of women over-giving and under-receiving. Data shows it is not working for us. Postpartum depression/anxiety is at unprecedented rates and we currently are offering new parents too few options for support. Listen in to hear an expanded perspective on what it means to receive in the earliest days of motherhood. Season 2 of Womb Stories Project is a collection of interviews with the people who were involved in my conception, pregnancy, birth, and postpartum journey. It is for the listener curious about holistic and non-hormonal fertility treatments, the ins and outs of home birth, and how to thrive in postpartum. Timestamps 3:21 - Connection through Vaginal Steam Certification 6:27 - Integration of Steaming Practices 12:50 - Magical Pregnancy Experience with Midwife 15:12 - Value of Community Support in Birth Care 17:32 - Journey into Postpartum Care 27:15 - Description of Postpartum Care Services 30:56 - Processing Birth Experiences with Doula 46:24 - Embracing Empowerment and Boundary Setting 1:00:32 - Nurturing Connection to the Womb Visit www.kitaralove.com for intentionally designed and expertly crafted products for safe and easy yoni steaming at home. Connect with Kit on IG @bykitara Connect with Muriel on IG @heldpostpartum or at www.heldpostpartum.com

Fear, Faith, and Fertility: My Conception Journey

Season 2 of Womb Stories Project will be a collection of interviews with the people who were involved in my conception, pregnancy, birth, and postpartum journey. And it all kicks off on the one-year anniversary of the birth of my son. The first episode features an interview with Rachel, an incredible healer who held me in her heart as I navigated a humbling conception journey. Please be advised miscarriage is discussed in this interview, so please take care of your heart and listen only if you feel the discussion will be healing. Timestamps 5:14 - The desire to have a baby and the beginning of the conception journey 9:22 - Clearing the obstacles to discover the desire for motherhood 13:45 - Intimacy struggles during the conception journey 18:13 - Lessons learned about steaming processes during conception 21:26 - Navigating pregnancy loss 38:13 - Returning to the conception journey after pregnancy loss 1:01:04 - Highlights of the healing process in Mexico 1:08:07 - Stepping into another fertility journey