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Struggling with overwhelm, overstimulation, circular thoughts, distraction and restless seemed to take over my every day...these patterns are often labeled as "ADHD". When I oriented to the paradigm of biological adaptation through the lens of Germanic Healing, I had a big "aha" about these patterns, that shifted their expression for good.
In this solo episode I share about:
my thoughts on ADHD and "neurodivergence" culture my personal experience with ADHD and how my relationship with it was contributing to suffering and feeling at the effect of my own brain The biological conflicts that actually cause the behavior patterns of forgetfulness and distraction, as well as restless and constant motion What "constellations" are in GNM and how they create behavioral changes The core memories that unlocked the "why" behind my ADHD patterns The role of re-mothering, earth safety, and embodied expression in repatterning my brain Adaptive patterns as a divine gift, and why we might not want to resolve some of our adaptations Moving out of the good/bad paradigm and into spaciousness, curiosity and agency Attachment to our identities and labels and how they keep us small (and protected)Want to play and explore in a space with others orienting to our sacred biology and liberatory evolution?
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How many women do you know that have a fear (or an experience) of being kicked out of, ostracized from, or canceled by a community they're a part of? Whether it's part of a social justice movement or in an online spiritual community, we live in a time where people are easily disposable, and where we have little capacity for conflict, mess, or nuance. In this conversation, Maura and Qiddist talk about the energetics of what we're seeing in our in person and online communities, and pathways that move us out of the "either/or" paradigm of "sovereignty" vs the collective. We explore:
the disposability of people in our movements, cancel culture, and in women’s communities How misogyny isn't just about women, it's about YIN energy, -- and what "yin reverence" means Our cultural commitment to preference over truth What our intolerance for conflict has to do with misogyny The connection between how we regard mess, and how we regard the earth Why we don’t want people to come to The Womb Room for belonging how the "sovereignty" movement and our collectivest culture seem different, but are often doing the same thing what sovereignty and interdependence can look like, together.SAVE YOUR SPOT IN THE FREE CLASS: WATERING OUR ROOTS - REWRITING SOVEREIGNTY AND INTERDEPENDENCE
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Alexandria Rema Saleem is a first generation Palestinian-American creatrix. (She's also a dear friend, Womb Room member, and mother of twins!) Her creative work activates from a place of multidimensional healing, to serve as a conduit of ancestral knowledge, collective consciousness, and communal desire. She works between the land, as a regenerative flower farmer, with sacred activism as the foundation of her artistic practice the interweaves through all of the seeds she plants. In this conversation, we explore:
How we access the internal spaciousness to discern right action when there is threat in our nervous systems The language of “war,” “genocide,” and how we navigate our activations around language to find connection and relationship Alexandria’s experience of being able to feel family members in Palestine she has never met, through her bodily experience of grief Our quantum capacity to feel (grief, suffering, pain, joy, liberation), beyond the confines of time space How grief connects us to our lineages What it means to hold paradox in the body, and the ways that we use self-punishment, blame, or hopelessness as ways to get out of feeling Letting our yin (emotional expression) resource our yang (discernment, direction, action) Connection to land, food, family and the intergenerational alchemy as the lighthouses of liberationAlexandria is a multimedia performance artist, art director, and set designer whose practice is hybrid, incorporating dance, performance art, film, installation, happenings, and environment design.
Her practice holds space for the intimate to become a window into the universal & cosmic; Inviting the collective experience to eclipse individual subjectivity and allow for an evolved empathetic process. She works with individuals, communities, and other creatives to reclaim our human right to have sacred spaces, through world building, dance, ritual, risk, and tenderness.
She is co-director of the Center for study and preservation of Palestine, Founding member of the Black Oregon Land Trust, and Co-founder of SWANA Rose Culture and community center.
Some of her selected resources to share include:
PFC Palestinian femminist Collective
US Campagin for Palestinian Rights
Palestinian Youth Movement
Alexandria's IG
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How do our bodies experience, metabolize and alchemize the energetics of war? We share a conversation with Rachel Leibovich, community member in The Womb Room, and founder of Esperanza's Acres where she practices as a jewish priestess, ritualist and dream weaver in service to community healing and justice.
Rachel came to us in our "matriarchal health care" section of The Womb Room with curiosity about an acute expression of symptoms. She shares the story of how the phsyical healing has been a piece of her alchemical process of navigating identity, community, expression and work as a Jewish woman, amdist the ongoing genocide in Palestine.
We share this as an example of how by working our internal landscape, by honoring the expression of the body, we shift the world around us, through accessing our true expression. Deep gratitude.
Notes on rectal bleeding:
In the GHK paradigm, rectal bleeding can arise in the healing phase of a couple different conflicts. In an identity conflict where on feels they do not have place,community, belonging, the body will attempt to establish "territory" as mammals do, through defecation. During the conflict active phase, the lining of the rectum ulcerates, so as to make more space to mark the territory. In the resolution of the conflict, there is swelling, cell proliferation, and there can be hemorrhoids and rectal bleeding
Alternatively, a feces or "shit conflict" is an expression of a "shitty situation," where cells in the colon and/or rectum proliferate in the conflict active phase, in order to better "digest" the situation. Rectal bleeding can occur in the resolution phase.
*I am a lay woman on the internet. These are stories, and not intended as medical information nor advice. Proceed in your sovereignty!*
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What is magic, really -- and how can it be used to support our physical healing? Listen in on a segment of the audio from our recent free class, "Awakening Elemental Magic," where we tell a solstice story of our sister who developed an acute full-body rashed that turned to anaphylaxis...and how we walked with her through a resolve, using our understanding and practice of MAGIC.
We touch on:
germanic healing knowledge and how recognizing our conflicts will often lead to a worsening of symptoms known as a "healing crisis" how we worked across distance and across multiple bodies to pull an energetic arrow out of our sister's chest why we orient to magic and healing from an interdependent view, and how we can decrease severity of symptoms by spreading out the charge across bodies details for SHAMANI: our upcoming 12-week energetic skills intensive for you to awaken your innate elemental magic, and learn to weave change with the unseen.If this lights you up, join us inside The Womb Room for our inagural cohort of SHAMANI! Enrollment closes on January 2.
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What does it practically take to resolve our chronic symptoms, through the lens of Germanic Healing Knowledge? My friend and colleage Freya Kellet and I go back-and-forth sharing our personal stories of instantaneous relief from issues like chronic fatigue, tailbone pain, anorgasmia and more. If you've been exploring GNM but want the real-life look at what it takes to heal, this is for you!
We share stories about:
How understanding that consciousness preceding matter allows us to heal instantaneously Qiddist’s spontaneous and permanent resolution of her chronic tailbone pain via memory recall How to look for our conflicts with softness, rather than grasping and drilling down Freya’s first love “freeze” (motor conflict) that caused the chronic tension in her side, butt and leg Why you can’t trick your brain into a conflict, and how perceptual alchemy only works if it’s fully coherent A bit on Qiddist’s first love ovarian / loss conflict and why stabbing ovarian pain was a welcome resolution Anorgasmia and motor conflicts, and how Freya was able to clear the conflict that was preventing clitoral orgasm with her man Freya's “chronic fatigue” and the adrenal / decision making conflicts that drive it Qiddist’s “food intolerances” and resolving her inability to eat American breakfast foodsFREE CLASS: Shamani: Awaken Your Elemental Magic
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Follow Freya on IG @freyakellet and listen to Freya's German New Medicine Stories podcast
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Is there space for nuance in a time of war? How do we orient when we hold both colonizer & colonized? What's being missed energetically in the cultural and historical context of this war?
These are questions we (Qiddist and Maura) have been pondering as we metabolize the genocide(s) we are witnessing globally, and in particular of Palestine.
We aren't experts, but we are observers -- in response to the yearning for deeper conversation in our community, we share this conversation with humility and curiosity. We explore topics including:
the primal desire to be "good and right," and why we must contend with being "bad and wrong" making sense of our own complicity unearthing the war(s) inside ourselves how we might move from reaction to right action why we're pausing for nuance, even (especially?) in times of war some of the historical pieces that we see missing from public conversation what are the options if the "master's tools won't dismantle the master's house" what it might look like to move from liberation, not just towards it why the internal investigation of the war inside of us is a necessary step to external changeBEYOND BOUNDARIES: An interactive skill-share for a new paradigm of embodied boundaries, in service to inner union. This Friday, replay available.
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Last year I shared an episode on "my unpopular thoughts on the abortion bans". Since then, I've supported over 70 women in navigating the decision and process of bringing on their bleed. Today, I'm sharing my reflections and takeaways.
I share about:
my origin story in reproductive sovereignty work, and my personal potential pregnancy scare what my mother's experience has to do with my path the balance between rejecting credentialism, while honoring education and lineage why I am NOT an abortion activist My three takeaways from the last year of case studies what I believe is needed in stepping onto this medicine path what led me to start Sovereign Cycles, a mentorship learning program for pregnancy prevention & release work how you can learn with me this year and cultivate your skills!Save your spot in the free live class! Plant Allies for Pregnancy Prevention, Tuesday 8/15 (yes, there will be a replay)
Stay tuned for next week's enrollment opening of this year's cohort of Sovereign Cycles, a 6-month mentorship & learning container
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Other resources & names mentioned:
Robin Rose Bennett Karen Kulpepper Ashley Elenbaas (Skyhouse Herb School) Samantha Zipporah Molly Dutton Kenny Gilbert Renaud (recall healing) poet: Sonia Sanchez -
I'm coming back to the podcast! I'm sharing some updates and a nourishing conversation with my friend Jeevan Singh on embodied business and earth-paced entrepreneurship.
Listen in on our conversation about:
Counter-culture mothering as an opportunity for spaciousness and creativity Our body as microcosm of the earth Stepping out of extractive and exploiting practices in our entrepreneurial work Tending others with integrity through tending ourselves How stress can feel good, and how we can observe our addictions to hustle and work, and why rest can feel so uncomfortable Is it possible to run a business and be in our integrity? Pleasure-forward work and inviting ease into our business through the moment to moment pause Healing our relationship with worthiness and the willingness to be seen Being in our “true size” even when it activates others A somatic practice for pricing your offersCheck out Jeevan's embodied business group program, Sacred Fire. (Update, it's now 6 months, not 4!) Applications open now!
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And stay tuned for next week for the opening of Sovereign Cycles: plants, practices and presence for pregnancy prevention and release
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When we loosen our grip on the "goal" of healing, we can experience the play and potential of the present -- and embodied internal relation that re-parents our inner child. In this conversation I talk with Tejal Patel, a somatic educator, yoga teacher, and facilitator of embodied liberation, who supports women in trusting their life force and vision. We explore:
Tejal's background in Eastern Mysticism and Taoism and how it relates to her orientation to healing and liberation our inner mother and father and the practice of reparenting ourselves Stepping into the "mature feminine" the womb-throat connection of the feminine-masculine, feeling-communicating roles within us how trauma resolution happens through play tension as the experience of living outside the present moment putting down the endless tools for healing and growing our capacity for being sovereignty as a practice of embodiment, not hyper-independenceFollow Tejal on Instagram at @tejal _p
Check out her community, Temple of Remothering
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Our connective tissue is a conduit for quantum information, emotional patterns, and powerful stories -- and unearthing them can hold the keys to our healing. I talk with Lindsay Courcelle, a Myofascial Release therapist and Holistic Pelvic CareTM practitioner, who is passionate about helping women to transmute their traumas and liberate their bodies through myofascial and energetic bodywork.
We explore:
How our connective tissue holds physical and emotional trauma The solidifying of our tissues as emotional protection The wisdom and signficance of our injuries and how they can lead us to deeper healing The importance of tending our womb and pelvic fascia The unseen impact of scar tissue across the body How myofascial release differs from other modalities Bodily wisdom stories from both of us, our bodies, and our work with other women How myofascial allows us to drop into our intuitive brain, where healing and change happens Breast care and relationship, and the power of myofascial release to alter cellsLindsay has just launched an Internal Myofascial Pelvic Care Masterclass for women to learn how to tend to the fluidity of their pelvic bowl through guided hands-in touch!
For Womb Room listeners, the Internal Myofascial workshop will be offered at a significant discount--$33 instead of $99. Coupon code: wombroom
Lindsay's Website
Lindsay on Instagram
Resources Mentioned:
Dr. Catherine Clinton - Quantum Biology
Ellen Heed - Scar Tissue Remediation
Martin Beaudoin - pelvic bodywork and training
John Barnes Myofascial Release
Amber Magnolia Hill’s Medicine Stories Podcast with Lindsay (more fascia info here!)
The Resonance Effect: How Frequency Specific Microcurrent is Changing Medicine by Carolyn McMakin (Book)
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A woman tending the kitchen has become an image of oppression, rather than pride and power -- but what if this return is not only a pathway to health, but also to liberation and cultural change?
I talk with Cervical Wellness founder and Integrative Health Coach, Denell Barbara Randall, about the role of kitchen medicine as nourishment as devotion and the journey into softness in our healing. We share about:
How we now both are orienting to our lives through play and flexibility rather than through a rigid prescription of healing Full nourishment, our journeys to incorporating more animal products, and the difference between what our mind and bodies want. The return of women to the hearth (the kitchen) and how we create cultural change here Returning to cooking as lineage work and the remembering of ancient wisdom Turning being in the kitchen from an oppressive chore to a liberating devotion Food as our root and our relationship with receiving nourishment and belonging Denell’s perspectives on business, online marketing, “boss babe” obsession, and shifting how she offers her work The energetics of money in our work and recovering from comparisonFind Denell on Instagram
Check out Denell's live upcoming course, Kitchen Hearth Heart Heal: The Way of the Devotional Cook, to build your kitchen medicine skills (course runs April 18- May 23!)
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If you find yourself afraid of disappointing others, stuck in spirals of shame or judgement, or attaching your worth to your goodness, you might have a case of "good girl programming". I chat with Lindsey Lockett, nervous system and trauma educator, about how through tending our nervous system, we can bring awareness to old patterns, and learn how to mobilize into our fullest expression.
We explore:
“Good girl programming” and how it shows up in our nervous system response, and our relationship with other women Lindsey’s evangelical upbringing and its impact on her default responses The “freeze” response versus immobilization, and how it shows up in women Reflective questions for when we get activated Our collective attachment to identifying with dis-ease How our culture is driven by “good girl programming” of not wanting to be “bad” or “wrong” How we can shift patterns through building awareness of our inner voicesJoin Lindsey’s Unlearning the Good Girl Role half-day Immersion
Check out her nervous system workshop, resources, and 1-1 work here, and her Instagram @iamlindseylockett.
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What even is the "quantum" realm, and how might it fundamentally change how we think about health, healing, and the possibilities of our bodies? There are few practitioners who translate the vast world of quantum biology into simple, intuitive medicine -- and Dr. Catherine Clinton is one of them. A naturopathic physician, she focuses on the quantum nature of our biology and how this understanding can support us in tending our terrain. In our conversaiton, we explore:
what quantum biology is, and how it changes how we think about health sunlight, water, and frequency information for our healing how quantum physics is different from the Newtonian physics we all learned in school psycho neuro immunology and breaking down the barrier between "body" and "mind" quantum entanglement and healing beyond time and space biofield medicine and how we are hardwired to be in coherence with each other the potent power of our electromagnetic field the importance of structured water and its function as a liquid crystal Why aligning with circadian rhythms is the foundation of our quantum biology how cultivating relationship with (our) nature is what creates sustainable changeIf you'd like to learn more about Dr. Catherine's work, follow her amazing Instagram, and check out her course Unlocking Your Quantum Biology closes this week! Check it out here.
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During mercury retrograde, I went through a bank scam that left me with $0. This is the story of what happened, how I'm alchemizing, and why I'm grateful for it -- and the clarity it's given me to cultivate financial resilience, and speak more openly about wealth generation.
If this lands for you, I invite you to join me in a free live offering with me on February 23: OVERFLOW: Rewiring Our Relationship With Resource.
Together, we'll be exploring :
somatic practice inner child tending and unwinding of beliefs exploring the energetics of receiving, holding, and creating a transmission of my own journey with money, receptivity, – and what I learned from recently losing a LOT of money what quantum physics has to do with our ability to createTo learn more about Healy, visit here. (The resonance and above models are currently 40% off -- and the professional model is 60% off until February 21!)
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What does the moon and your astrology have to do with your fertility, and your fertile window?
Perhaps you've heard the folklore that your natal moon phase has an impact on your fertility. Or, maybe you've dipped into the world of medical astrology. Or, you might have that friend who conceived despite diligently charting her cycle, and being certain she confirmed ovulation. What could explain this?
In this episode, I chat with mother, sovereign womban and fertility astrologer, Athena Fotula. She is the woman behind Wild Willing Wisdom, a place through which she channels her knowledge in fertility astrology, wild birth, and true natural medicine.
We explore:
what medical astrology is, and what it has to do with your fertility your natal moon phase and the possibility of a second fertile window the scientific theories behind the impact of the moon on your ovulation the meeting place of science and surrender to mystery lunar astrology and the sex of your baby working with astrology to prepare for or avoid pregnancy sovereign mothering and trusting in your family's healing symptomsYou can check out Athena's work at Wild Willing Wisdom, and on Instagram, and see her offerings -- including fertility astrology counseling for conscious conception and contraception!
To learn the art and science of medicine keeping pregnancy prevention and release outside the medical model, check out SOVEREIGN CYCLES, 6-month apprenticeship container
For more radical body literacy and energetic alchemy work in community, join us in The Womb Room Community Membership
This information is not meant to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease. No information shared should be considered medical advice. You are the sole authority over your body and health.
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How might we orient to perimenopause, the period of years of hormonal shifts leading up to menopause, in a way that holds reverence, opportunity, and poetry? In my conversation with Kris Gonzalez, educator, acupuncturist and Chinese Medicine pracitioner of The Way of Yin, we have a paradigm-shifting conversation that breathes gentleness and beauty into this often-pathologized time of life. We explore: The 3 "Golden Opportunities" in the womb continuum, and the practice of turning inward How Chinese Medicine approaches the perimenopause time Hormonal shifts in this season, and why it's not just about estrogen Simple ways to support our bodies in and for this phase Why your 20s and 30s matter for perimenopause and menopause
Kris's Instagram
The Way of Yin e-courses, including a self-guided Perimenopause course For more on liver and gut care for hormonal support in this time, check out the episode on Estrogen Dominance Join the Womb Room Community Membership to explore radical female health and energetic sovereignty, and access a full library of video resources and live calls Spend a year with Qiddist & an intimate circle of women to unwind your patterns, know your body, and orient to Truth in SOVEREIGN WOMBAN -
In Chinese Medicine, the womb is known as an "extraordinary organ", and offers us wisdom about the energetics of our bodies, and how we can best tend to balance throughout our life cycles. In this conversation with acupuncturist, herbalist and womb tender, Kristin Hauser.
Yin and yang energetics in the body, and the practice of surrender Kristin's postpartum lessons and honoring the desire to become a mother What it means to live in a time of "yin depletion" and the importance of preconception nourishment How a Chinese medicine lens can help us break free from orienting to our bodies through a medical paradigm The heart-womb meridian, and the brilliance of why our womb holds so much emotionAs a licensed acupuncturist, herbalist, somatic sex educator and mama, Kristin runs Womb Medicine: an online platform for empowering womb and sexual health education. You can check out her courses and yoni steam blends at wombmedicine.com, and her virtual and in-person 1-1 care here She also co-teaches The Blood Mysteries School, which opens in February.
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From bloating to brain fog, menstrual pain and even dementia…could mold be an invisible factor?
This week we have my friend, Womb Room member, artist and wellness guide Ciera Tavana sharing her personal story of mold exposure, and her autonomous process of investigation that led her down the path of healing and integration.
In our conversation:
Ciera’s personal health journey and how she became curious about mold as a cause Navigating bloating, fatigue, brain fog and other symptoms How she went through a healing process, even without ever doing testing The histamine process that is related to mold reactions, and the function of mast cells Aan ancestral and spiritual orientation to tending and preventing mold Why tending the nervous system is important in healing histamine responses Ciera’s work MUSE, and her upcoming programConnect with Ciera and MUSE on Instagram, and check out her small-group, personalized support in the winter Ancestral Wellness program -- enrolling now!
It seems that mold toxicity has become far more common in recent years, and as I navigate the effects with my own family, I’m so grateful to find great resources. A couple of them are:
Book - Toxic: Heal Your Body from Mold Toxicity, Lyme Disease, Multiple Chemical Sensitivities, and Chronic Environmental Illness Instagram: Dr. Angela Lucterhand has good mold resources in her highlights section I used Great Plains Lab for a home mycotoxin test (a bit pricey but it was worth it because my dad didn't believe me until he got the results!) A cheap way to test if mycotoxins are impacting your brain with an online visual test -- I'm still understanding how this works, but so far it has been accurate in my experienceJoin The Womb Room Community Membership for a deeper dive into body literacy and womb-centered living
SOVEREIGN WOMBAN is my year-long foundational program for radical female health and energetic sovereignty.
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I was sure that I would absolutely never try the Healy, the frequency medicine device that has swept the online "wellness" world.
And yet, inspired by the stories of women I trust, I decided to explore it for my own chronic pain, scar tissue healing and more -- because I know first hand the power of energetic healing.
What has happened so far has been beyond physical changes, openness and a new spaciousness in my tissues: it is supporting me in reorienting to how I relate to pain, possibility, and even the nature of our reality.
So much of my skepticsm about Healy wasn't about the potency of the device, but rather about the ways I've seen it marketed. After sitting with it for some time, I'm finally ready to share my experience with you, in hopes that there is possibility for you, too.
If you're curious, skeptical, eye-rolling, or have no idea what the Healy is...may this episode be of service.
I've created a page with all my Healy resources and links here, so you can do your own exploration.
I'd love to hear your questions, reactions, curiosities and critiques -- the best way is to DM me on Instagram at @thewombroom.co. I'll voice note you back!
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