Birth has been systemically taken from us by the powers that be, but each birthing body holds deep knowledge of how to bring forth life. This conversation is part of a much larger cultural remembering of what our ancestors instinctively knew about giving birth and nurturing our babies.
IN THE INTRO:
If we're not changing our minds, we're not growing
Mammalian birth [mama & mammal & mammary are etymologically related, and there's a reason for that]
How the Taoist medicine perspective of how energy moves through the female body explains why everyone wants to be around women
IN THE INTERVIEW:
How Emilee’s radical teenage years led to her work now.
Supporting mother’s instincts so that the mother-baby conversation can happen.
Birth story: Dolphins(!), their potent medicine, and telepathic connection to birth (I cry).
The spectrum of birth experience from beautiful and respectful, to dark and scary.
How Emilee’s first hospital birth helped align her with her dharma.
Our special likeness to all mammals through hormonal sequencing and our need to birth in a safe, familiar space (the choice of birth location changes the hormones flowing through the body during birth).
Ultrasound technology safety and what affects our choices to use it.
We are culturally trained to fear birth, and be terrified of death.
How Patriarchy & Christianity disempowered birthing women.
Fear- allying ourselves with it, rather than struggling to “overcome” it.
Holding space for all individual birth experiences while still rejecting The System.
Surrogacy, the primal wound, the commodification of bodies, and our bodily sovereignty as women.
Staying open and nuanced in complex conversations.
Meeting your divinity through birth, and the sacred spirituality of pregnancy.
We birth the way we live.
We are all descendants of women who birthed at home (like 99.999999999% of our female ancestors). Birth is in our bones.
Creating a matriarchal household/family.
A freebirth is a birth unhindered, undisturbed, in the support of loved ones, and outside the system that oppresses women and especially women of color.
When we align with truth, in our power, we are unshakable.
LINKS:
Emilee’s websites: Free Birth Society, Free Birth Podcast, my interview Matrilineal Love
Medicine Stories Patreon (podcast bonuses!)
Episode 30, The Innate Intelligence of the Immune System with Cilla Whatcott
My website MythicMedicine.love
Take my fun Which Healing Herb is Your Spirit Medicine? quiz
Medicine Stories Facebook group
Mythic Medicine on Instagram
Music by Mariee Sioux (from her beautiful song Wild Eyes)
31. Word Witchery, the Ancestors, & Tarot - Sanyu Estelle
30. The Innate Intelligence of the Immune System - Cilla Whatcott
29. Otherworld Openings: When the Ancestors Call
28. Seaweed: Deep Medicine for Earth, Ocean, & Humans - Angela Willard
27. Anti-Racist Genealogical Research (for Everyone) - Darla Antoine
26. Ancestral Reverence as Devotion to the Earth - Daniel Foor
25. Self Attunement & the New Myths We're Making - Maia Toll
24. Plant Spirits & Deep Remembering that Speaks to the Bones - Fay Johnstone
23. The Profound Medicine of Herbal Body Oils
22. You Are Magic & Fear is Never the Truth - Yaya Erin Rivera Merriman
21. The Medicine We Carry - Lola Venado
20. Herbalism, Menstruation, & Innate Knowing - Kami McBride
19. Reclaiming Kitchen Wisdom & Ancestral Healing - Darla Antoine
18. Land Based Living, Mothering, & Eating - Suuzi Hazen
17. True Holistic Healing: Bridging Plant & Human Consciousness - Sajah Popham
15. Intuitive Whispers: Deep Memory & Woven Fate
14. Reclaiming Yourself Through Nature & the Ancestors - Vicky Salcido-Cobbe
13. Psychedelic Healing: From Microdosing to Transcendence - Jim Fadiman
12. Folk Herbalism & the Wild Self - Jesse Wolf Hardin
11. Without a Village: Isolation, Honesty, and the Paradoxes of Modern Motherhood
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