Healing Birth

Healing the Trauma in our Tissues | Dr. Beebe Dericks

Dr. Beebe Dericks is a Naturopathic Doctor, Acupuncturist, Holistic Pelvic Care© Practitioner, Birth Healing Provider, and Chinese Herbal Medicine Specialist.   She’s obviously brilliant, but I wanted her on the show not merely to share her vast body of knowledge about healing, but her passion for serving women. We go DEEP into the science of why trauma, of any kind, is literally stored in our tissues, and how to heal it. Beebe also shares the powerful story of her own births, the first ...

Meet Jennie | A Dragon Mother is Born

My guest this week shares the story of the births of all three of her babies, with an emphasis on the birth of her twins one year ago. Her story is of the clearest examples of coercive, abusive, obstetric violence I have ever heard. We also talk about the importance of telling your story, as many times as you can, the importance of sisterhood, and how we can begin to hold physicians and hospitals accountable for experiences like hers.  Please note that this episode contains a description...

BONUS EPISODE: A raw audio diary

I took a poll on instagram and you have spoken! Tune in to hear me speaking about what it's like to parent a child with special needs during this very interesting year. I speak about why it's taken me so long to talk about parenting an autistic child, major compromises I have had to make, masks, surprises, and most of all, solidarity with all of you who are going through the same thing.  This kind of content is only something I create for Patreon. If you like it, please consider supporting...

Early Birth | With Wild Luna Raven

Birth work is also death work. Meet Wild Luna Raven, a radical birth keeper, and death keeper, who does not shy away from the death work. She offers beautiful support for women who experience an early birth (a term we use intentionally, and you’ll learn why). We talk about her own experiences of early births, and the different ways that early births can unfold. We also talk about the birth of her son within the medical system, which (as so often happens!) led her on a path to offer women...

Radical Responsibility

What does it mean to take responsibility for our birth experiences? How do we learn from it, digest it, and, in the case of a traumatic birth, heal from it, without staying in a place of victimhood or self blame? This is extremely tricky work! Join us this week as explore this topic with sensitivity and loads of compassion, for all of us. If we can get to the point of owning our stories, we can be the ones to heal it. If you love us, support us on Patreon! Patreon.com/healingbirth

Meet Tessa | Most Importantly, I Trusted Myself

You know I love a VBAC story! Tessa shares her victorious, home birth, VBAC story, after having experienced a coerced cesarean due to breech positioning with her first child. Her story is such powerful testament to listening to your own instincts, self-education, and the importance of leaving behind a system that consistently fails birthing women.  Join me for our August Group Call - Healing Your Birth Story in Community 8/12 1pm HST / 4pm PST / 6pm CST. Book online at www.healingbirth...

Meet Natalie | I Could Feel Everything

Natalie shares her story of giving birth via a cesarean that she could feel.  We talk about her healing process, and the total lack of accountability from anyone at the hospital where her birth occurred. Please be advised, this episode contains a graphic description of a traumatic surgical birth. Skip this one of you are pregnant, and need to protect your space. Follow Natalie @mermaidnat1 Support us on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/healingbirth

Induced Disconnection with Lynnea Laessig

Why is the practice of inducing labor so ubiquitous? What does it mean to have someone else decide when your baby should be born? What are the long term ramifications of giving a synthetic form of oxytocin, the bonding and love hormone, to so many women during birth? Join Lynnea Laessig (@mamatukibirth) and I for a philosophical discussion about labor induction. Please note, nothing we say in this episode should be considered medical advice. Support us on Patreon! https://www.patreon...

Meet Olivia | Miscarriage, Precipitous labor, and Taking Your Power Back

Most people probably wish for a fast labor. But the experience can hold a different type of trauma than you might imagine. Join Olivia and I as we discuss her experience with miscarrying her first pregnancy, laboring so fast with her second that she describes it as an out of body experience, and how she went from delegating all decision making, to taking her power back in subsequent deliveries. Be sure to stick around for the end, when we get into the woo stuff - manifesting a longer lab...

The Medical System is Not a Good Place for Women of Color

Join Jonea and I this week as we talk about the massive maternal healthcare crisis facing black women and their babies in America today. The information contained in this conversation is absolutely vital for us all to grasp in order to, quite literally, help saves lives. Anti-Racist Resources: So You Want to Talk about Race White Fragility Rachel Cargle Discussed in this episode: History of the African American Midwife Dr. J. Marion Sims Experimented On Black Women & His New ...

Transmuting Trauma into Power with Emilee Saldaya

Emilee Saldaya is the trail blazing leader and founder of Free Birth Society. She was a doula for over ten years, until the reality of her complicity with the obstetric system and the harms that it does to women and babies prompted her to find a better way. In aligning with freebirth, Emilee's dharmic path became clear. She quickly evolved into a "Radical Birth Keeper" who serves women birthing outside the system. Join us this week as we discuss freebirth, intuition vs. fear, taking radica...

Meet Clancey | A Reclamation of Power Through Miscarriage

Clancey share the stories of her two births. The first, a traumatic forceps delivery, and the second, a free miscarriage.  Connect with Clancey -  https://www.clancyallen.com/healing-from-birth/ Instagram https://www.instagram.com/clancy_allen_doula/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/clancyallendoula/ Website https://www.clancyallen.com/ Support the podcast! https://www.patreon.com/healingbirth

Shift The Power Back to Them: A Conversation with Radical Birthkeeper Isabella Malbin

Join us this week for another conversation about giving birth in the time of coronavirus. We discuss what authentically supporting birthing women looks like now, how we can show up for our sisters, and near the end of the show, Isabella has a beautiful message for anyone who is pregnant and facing uncertainty about her birth. Follow Isabella - @whosebodyisit www.whosebodyisit.com Support the podcast! https://www.patreon.com/healingbirth

Shift The Power Back to Them: A Conversation with Radical Birthkeeper Isabella

Join us this week for another conversation about giving birth in the time of coronavirus. We discuss what authentically supporting birthing women looks like now, how we can show up for our sisters, and near the end of the show, Isabella has a beautiful message for anyone who is pregnant and facing uncertainty about her birth. Follow Isabella - @whosebodyisit www.whosebodyisit.com Support the podcast! https://www.patreon.com/healingbirth

Birthing in the Time of Coronavirus: An Invitation to Step Into Sovereignty

Lynnea Laessig (@mamtukibirth) returns to the show to discuss the topic that’s on all of our minds. We explore the rapidly changing recommendations and regulations affecting birthing women during the perceived pandemic. Spoiler: they’re not good for women and they’re not good for birth. Lynnea sums it up best when she says: “ this isn’t a new issue, it’s just being amplified.” Can it be that, at the highest level, what we are experiencing right now is a wake up call to examine societal...

Meet Britney | You Are Not Your Trauma

Can childhood trauma affect how we experience giving birth? This week, my guest Britney shares how trauma showed up for her in her first two birth experiences, and how she as able to totally shift it for a healing third birth. She invites a surprise guest to that birth, a story you will not want to miss. Article link: https://birthboobsandbabies.com/2020/02/17/how-my-third-birth-began-healing-a-lifetimes-worth-of-trauma/ Follow Britney @birthboobsandbabies Support the podcast! https...

BONUS EPISODE: Corona Virus Message

BONUS EPISODE: Corona Virus Message

Diana has a message for you about the pandemic. https://www.patreon.com/healingbirth

I'm Terrified to Birth Again. Now What?

FEAR. Most of us experience some fear when approaching a birth. It’s practically taught to us. It’s in the cultural ether, passed down in the stories we hear, and the media depictions of birth. But maybe your fear comes from a place of having had a previous traumatic birth experience. How do you cope with that? Is it possible - maybe even necessary- to be completely over your fear? Will being afraid of birthing again mean you will manifest a bad birth experience? In this episode, Diana t...

Meet Carey | These Are My Hours

Carey Chapman Glenn is a mother, midwife, and producer of the gorgeous birth film These Are My Hours. In addition to a discussion about the film, Carey shares her own birth stories on the show today. She experienced two cesarean births, the last one being one she describes as a healing experience. Intriguing, right? This is one of those interviews where I teared up a few times. Be sure to stick around to the very end for that. Follow Carey @thesearemyhours thesearemyhours.com rootedb...

Meet Carla | "Time doesn't heal wounds. It's us."

When Carla found out her baby was going to be born with a cleft palate, and her immediate life outside the womb filled with surgeries and hospitals, she knew she wanted to give her child the most peaceful birth experience possible. Sometimes it’s not the birth itself that’s traumatic, but the intensity of the postpartum time. We also talk about cultural beliefs in the Dominican Republic (where she is from) around birth, and how the experience of being sexually harassed as a child came u...

Doulas, Midwives, and False Security

Tune in for a RADICALLY HONEST conversation between Diana & Lynnea on the transparency (or lack of) around the cultural expectations of these roles. Women serving women in birth is not a new concept, and it's crucial for the preservation of birth and the well-being of women and babies to acknowledge the appropriation of traditional wise-woman practices into the modern day "band-aid" we market to women today. Hiring a doula or midwife alone is not enough to save you from the system, or ...

Meet Sarah | What do I have to do, deliver this baby myself?!

Dr. Sarah is a chiropractic physician, birth educator, and mother of two. She became entrenched in the birth world after a traumatic, unnecessary cesarean led her to have a subsequent, healing freebirth. In this episode, she shares the stories of both of those births. Sarah is an advocate for bodily autonomy and human rights in childbirth, and believes that you deserve to be in charge and have a birth that transforms you. You will hear us talk quite a lot about that.  Follow Sarah @birth...

Meet Lynnea | I Didn't Have Much of a Voice

Lynnea shares her two birth experiences, both of which included non-consented procedures, medication, and unnecessary episiotomies. She bravely explores how what happened to her body during her births affected her into her postpartum and beyond. We talk about what her healing has looked like, on the other side of trauma. And how patriarchal systems, embedded into medical culture, are at the root of how women's bodies and the process of birth are pathologized.   Follow Lynnea @mamatuki ...

Meet Lynnea | I Didn't Have Much of a Voice

Lynnea shares her two birth experiences, both of which included non-consented procedures, medication, and unnecessary episiotomies. She bravely explores how what happened to her body during her births affected her into her post-partum and beyond. We talk about what her healing has looked like, on the other side of trauma. And how patriarchal systems, embedded into medical culture, are at the root of how women's bodies and the process of birth are pathologized.   Follow Lynnea @mamatuki ...

Meet Diana | The Healing Journey from C-section to Homebirth

Meet the host of the Healing Birth Podcast, Diana Forsell Tayan. In this episode, Diana shares her two birth stories. She shares about the healing journey from a traumatic cesarean with her first, to a beautiful, powerful home birth with her second. Follow us @healingbirth www.healingbirth.net Follow Diana @aninstrumentofthypeace www.dianaforsell.com Support the podcast! https://www.patreon.com/healingbirth