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)
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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
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18. Land Based Living, Mothering, & Eating - Suuzi Hazen
17. True Holistic Healing: Bridging Plant & Human Consciousness - Sajah Popham
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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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