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Goddess in Training Podcast
Reclaiming Womb Sovereignty with Claire Wao•Rē Yaseed
Guest: Claire Wao•Rē Yaseed — writer, womb wisdom keeper, apprentice to Indigenous elders of the Putumayo jungle (Cofán lineage), and student of traditional midwifery.What we cover:* Claire’s decade-long healing journey from medicalization to “womb sovereignty.”* Ceremony, plant allies, and the reality of integration after peak experiences.* How biology (not dogma) illuminates the feminine/masculine dance.* Why hormonal birth control alters attraction, libido, and cycle intelligence.* Repairing trust with our bodies through fertility awareness and herbal allies.Featured offering: Natural Birth Control Series (3-part worksh...
2025-10-01
58 min
Sober Magic
Where Science, Magic and God Meet - In Your Body
Join us in Becoming the Medicine for $22! 3 weeks to retire the "fix it" girl and become the medicine you & your community are waiting for. Learn the hidden ingredients to bodymind transformation, get lit by the science of magic, and turn hang-ups into holy work- so you can hone what your soul came here for.Apply to the Institute of Liberation Medicine (enrollment open until October 29)DM me on IG at @theholy.wellDISCLAIMER: This podcast is for educational and informational purposes only. It does not...
2025-09-25
43 min
Sober Magic
Welcome to SOBER MAGIC
DISCLAIMER: This podcast is for educational and informational purposes only. It does not substitute for professional medical, psychological, or mental health advice, diagnosis, or treatment, and does not create a doctor–patient, therapist–client, or coach–client relationship. Always seek the advice of your physician, therapist, or other qualified provider regarding questions or changes to your health care.
2025-09-18
01 min
The Serpentine Path
Midwifing Liberation with Qiddist Ashé
In this week's episode I am honored to share my conversation with one of my teachers, Qiddist Ashé. Qiddist is a traditional midwife, alchemy educator, teacher of inside-out liberation, and co-founder of The Holy Well (previously known as The Womb Room). With a decade of experience in the world of female health and spiritual formation, she takes a deeply relational approach to facilitating transformation in bodymind, spirit, and the world. Her work is in service to the knowing that women in their aliveness create more liberation in the world.In this episode we get i...
2025-04-08
1h 22
Freedom From Fear: A German New Medicine Podcast
Ep 21 - Understanding and Reclaiming Your Cervical Health with Qiddist Ashé
In this powerful episode, we’re joined by special guest Qiddist Ashé, midwife and women's health educator, to dive deep into cervical adaptations - specifically cervical cancer - and what it means to truly take ownership of your health. We explore the role of hormonal birth control, understanding the significance of pap smear results, and how to navigate your health choices outside of the industrial gynecological complex. If you’re ready to reclaim your body and health from fear-based systems, this episode is for you! *SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT* Pleas...
2024-09-27
1h 09
Sober Magic
How I resolved the suffering of my "ADHD" by Understanding Biological Adaptation
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 act...
2024-04-18
1h 03
Sober Magic
The earth doesn’t cancel, she eats: unpacking misogyny in women’s communities, hyper-independent sovereignty and destructive collectivism, and a "yin" approach to liberation
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...
2024-03-29
49 min
Sober Magic
The Prayer is in the Pause: Discerning Reaction from Right Action in Our Liberation Movements with Alexandria Saleem
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...
2024-02-08
01 min
Sober Magic
Rectal Bleeding as a Reckoning of Jewish Priestess work amidst Palestinian Genocide
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 w...
2024-01-30
01 min
Sober Magic
Resolving Anaphylaxis with Elemental Magic: Solstice Story Medicine with Qiddist, Maura and Ellie
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...
2023-12-28
01 min
Sober Magic
Chronic Fatigue, Anorgasmia, Tailbone Pain and More: Resolving Biological Conflicts with Freya Kellet
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...
2023-12-20
01 min
Human Awareness
The Fertile Void (with Jaclyn Vouthouris)
They say that there are only two things that are certain in life: Death and taxes. It turns out, you can dodge your taxes, but the other one is harder to avoid. In this episode, we get into a beautiful conversation with our guest Jaclyn Vouthouris, talking about finding solace in the setting of the sun, the changing of the seasons, and all things that die, change, and continue on the cycle once again. Jaclyn Vouthouris is a modern medicine woman with an MBA from MIT, bridging the sacred and the secular. After working...
2023-11-28
38 min
Sober Magic
Why I'm Not An Abortion Activist: My Origin Story in Reproductive Sovereignty Work
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 i...
2023-08-10
59 min
Sober Magic
Telling Our Bodies’ Story: Fascial Intelligence with Lindsay Courcelle
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 te...
2023-04-26
01 min
Sober Magic
Unlearning "Good Girl Programming" and Shifting Patterns Through Nervous System Mobilization With Lindsey Lockett
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 “fre...
2023-03-15
01 min
Sober Magic
Your Quantum Biology with Dr. Catherine Clinton
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 ou...
2023-03-01
01 min
Sober Magic
From Scam to Sacrament: What I learned from Losing Money, and How I'm Building Financial Resilience
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 t...
2023-02-16
56 min
Sober Magic
The Poetry of Perimenopause: Honoring Our Metal Years with Kris González
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 an...
2023-01-18
01 min
Sober Magic
The Womb is An Extraordinary Organ: The Wisdom of Chinese Medicine with Kristin Hauser
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 b...
2022-12-21
01 min
Sober Magic
The Wisdom of Womb Steaming with Chantal Blake
If you've been curious about womb steaming but haven't been sure where to start or how it works, today's episode is for you. I'm sharing a conversation with Chantal Blake, Womb Wellness Educator and Womb Steaming Therapist. She helps women "break cycles of painful periods and hormonal chaos, prepare for healthy conception, recover after birth, and raise daughters who love their periods through the tools of body literacy, cycle syncing, and traditional self-care." We talk about: Chantal's journey as mother and how steaming supported her from preconception, to miscarriage, to birth postpartum Pregnancy loss outside of th...
2022-11-23
01 min
Sober Magic
"The Men Are Not Alright": Tending to the Energetics of Men, with Maura Sternberg
Maura (@call_me_a_witch) is back with us today with a conversation that has been coming up in our community lately: what is happening with the men, and how can an understanding of energetics support our relationships with them? Whether it's romantic, familial, friendship or otherwise, we've come to the conclusion that we can no longer claim that the wellbeing of men is "not our problem". As we think about where we have mistaken men's societal position of power for their freedom, we orient to the spiritual and practical necessity of orienting to men's energetics, and w...
2022-10-05
01 min
Womb-Led Woman Podcast
19. Making the Most of Your Saturn Return with Maura of Call Me a Witch
If you're between the ages of 28-31, you're likely in your "Saturn Return"; when Saturn returns back to the position in the sky that it was in when you were born. Why is this important? Maura calls your Saturn Return an initiation into Spiritual Adulthood; a chance to end karmic cycles, heal ancestral trauma, and discover your destiny. This portal only comes around every 29.5 years, so it's important not to miss it! In this episode, we both share about our wild Saturn Return experiences (divorce, break ups, spiritual awakenings, career changes, moving to new countries..there's a lot!) and...
2022-10-05
59 min
Taking Back Birth
Womb Medicine Stories with Qiddist Ashe
I loved having this chat and story time with Qiddist, who is a beautiful and radical woman doing amazing work in the world. “Womb stories”, to us, are really ALL women’s stories, and I appreciate the myriad of topics we touched on together in this time and space. You can find Qiddist at: https://thewombroom.co Click the icon below to listen.
2022-10-02
58 min
Taking Back Birth
Womb Medicine Stories with Qiddist Ashe
I loved having this chat and story time with Qiddist, who is a beautiful and radical woman doing amazing work in the world. “Womb stories”, to us, are really ALL women’s stories, and I appreciate the myriad of topics we touched on together in this time and space. You can find Qiddist at: https://thewombroom.co
2022-10-02
58 min
Taking Back Birth
Womb Medicine Stories with Qiddist Ashe
I loved having this chat and story time with Qiddist, who is a beautiful and radical woman doing amazing work in the world. “Womb stories”, to us, are really ALL women’s stories, and I appreciate the myriad of topics we touched on together in this time and space. You can find Qiddist at: https://thewombroom.co Click the icon below to listen.
2022-10-02
58 min
Sober Magic
Pregnancy Release Outside the Medical System: Nicole's Journey
Today we have a special and tender episode with my friend, Nicole Granati. Nicole is a spiritual counselor, minister, and teacher -- as well as a long time member of The Womb Room! Nicole shares the story of her abortion outside the medical system, the lessons it brought, and how it changed her life. It was especially beautiful to have this conversation with Nicole after being with her in the Sovereign Womban container for the past year, where we get to play with these practices of orienting to the medicine of our experiences, and what i...
2022-09-21
01 min
Sober Magic
German New Medicine and the Adaptive Wisdom of the Cervix with Dr. Melissa Sell
Whether we turn to herbs, pharmaceuticals or panic, most of us are conditioned to believe something is “wrong” when we experience uncomfortable symptoms in our body. What if, instead of orienting to what needs to be “fixed”, we saw our symptoms as brilliant, adaptive, and part of the healing process? Today I’m talking with Dr. Melissa Sell, a chiropractor who specializes in mindset and health coaching based upon the 5 Biological Laws of Germanic New Medicine -- a paradigm of understanding the body that orients to our symptoms not as a problem, but rather as an adaptation t...
2022-08-10
01 min
Body Grieves, Spirit Calls
Our Grief Can Feed us Too with Qiddist Ashé
Qiddist Ashé is a medicine woman and female health educator who holds space for transformation as we cultivate the inner and outer resources we need to live fully in our power. She is the founder and creatrix of The Womb Room, an online community for female health & spiritual sovereignty. Informed by her maternal lineage of Ethiopian midwives and her own work in authentic midwifery, functional health, herbalism, somatics, and spiritual sovereignty, Qiddist merges the science and the spirit of female health, orienting to all the ways we can reclaim agency and responsibility for our bodies and our lives. Qiddist’s w...
2022-07-27
1h 04
Sober Magic
You are Meant to Pour From Your Overflow: Healing Our Relationship with Money with Katya Nova
What is your relationship like with resources, receiving, and money? How might we transform our money stories so that we can be open to our fullest abundance -- and pour back into our communities from our overflow? I've never talked about money publicly befpre, and honestly, it still makes me cringe a little! But, it's time. What if we could create a loving, reciprocal, matriarchal system of wealth creation? It's happening. I'm so honored to share my conversation with matriarch and creatrix Katya Nova, where we share the journeys of our relationships with money, receiving...
2022-07-12
01 min
Sober Magic
Your Healing Can Be Gentle: Somatics, Sisterhood, and Meeting Your Inner Child with Hannah Grace
What if healing trauma didn't have to be drastic or dramatic -- what if your healing could be slow and gentle? In our first episode for this season, I'm talking with Hannah Grace, a somatic therapist, dance teacher, and if I may say so, an incredibly genuine soul. Her body of work, Web of Grace, walks with women as they discover who they are through somatic trauma healing, embodiment, and deep relationship. In our conversation we explore: Why big cathartic experiences plant medicine ceremonies aren’t always a sustainable pathway for healing Your nervous sy...
2022-07-06
01 min
Womb-Led Woman Podcast
7. Using Herbs for Pregnancy Release with Qiddist Ashe
When it comes to preventing pregnancy and releasing undesired pregnancies, we have more options than we've been led to believe. Options that have been erased by the patriarchy but that our matriarchal ancestors knew well. In this conversation, we offer these other options of how you can have agency over your own body regardless of what the government decides, or what your doctor tells you is the only way. We're talking about radical body literacy, and employing herbal allies to aid in the prevention and release of pregnancy. Qiddist Ashe is a medicine woman and female health...
2022-06-15
59 min
Sober Magic
My (Unpopular) Thoughts on the Abortion Bans
With the legality of abortion access in question across the country, I wanted to take the time to share some of my personal (and maybe unpopular) thoughts on the threatened abortion bans and possible overturning of Roe v. Wade. It's my deep desire that we all feel resourced internally and externally to self-govern our wombs and support our communities in doing so as well. May this be received in the spirit it is shared in. I talk about: - why I don't believe abortion is a "right" - how the fight for legal r...
2022-05-08
48 min
Sober Magic
Everything You Need to Know about Cervical Mucus with Chloe Skerlak
Do you know how to read your cervical mucus, track your ovulation, and understand what your cervical fluids mean about your health? 💦 Today, I’m talking with someone who loves talking about cervix just as much as I do— and that’s Chloe Skerlak! Chloe is a holistic reproductive health practitioner and full spectrum fertility awareness educator. Her mission is to break the taboo around the menstrual cycle, guide people on their journey to body literacy, and teach comprehensive and accurate fertility awareness to support people in their sexual and reproductive decision-making. In our conver...
2022-04-20
01 min
Sober Magic
Re-Mothering and the Bio-Intelligence of PSOAS with Liz Koch
At the core of our being is the psoas — sometimes known as a muscle, or as my guest Liz Koch calls it, a “fluid messenger” that has so much to teach us about what it means to walk rooted on the earth. Liz Koch is an international educator the creator of Core Awareness,™ a somatic approach to deepening the experience of the human core, and the author of beautiful books including The Psoas Book and Stalking Wild Psoas. In our conversation, we explore: the primal brain and the animal body — the sense of knowing we have in...
2022-04-13
01 min
The Fifth Element Podcast
70. Celebrating Your Cervix: The Power of Witnessing Your Womb ft. Qiddist Ashe
How often do you celebrate your cervix? Throw parties for your pussy?? Yeehaw with your yoni??? Qiddist Ashe of The Womb Room joins us in Episode 70 to share about her work helping women release their addiction to victimization from the medical system, how embodied expression is a practice of presence, and the healing work of simply witnessing our bodies. Listen in if you want to shift from indecision to intuition, learn what they aren’t teaching med students about women’s health, and discover the real cause of ovarian cysts. WATCH US ON YOUTUBE SUPPORT THE...
2022-04-06
1h 01
Sober Magic
Rethinking Iron and Anemia with Loren de la Cruz
What if everything you've been told about anemia is a scam? Chances are, if you're a bleeding woman, you've likely either been told you have "anemia," or that you need to be concerned about getting enough iron in your diet. But if we're all so concerned about getting enough iron, why is everyone still anemic? In today's episode, we're busting some major myths about iron and anemia in female health, with my guest Loren De La Cruz, functional nutritional therapy practitioner, preconception specialist and owner of Innate Functional Nutrition. We dive i...
2022-04-06
01 min
The Mama Psychedelia Podcast
3. Mushwomb Medicine -Mikaela de la Myco
Send us a textIn this episode of The Mama Psychedelia Podcast, with Mikaela de la Myco, we touch on a vast array of juicy topics that I hold dear to my heart, it is a pleasure to soak in Mikaela’s genius in all it’s forms. She walks us through her family line, and gives us an in depth look into her Afro-Indigenous, Mexican, and Italian roots, and her strong ancestral connections that continue to guide the way she leads her life. Mikaela is a committed mother, educator, herbal medicine women, entheogenic facilitator, and community care...
2022-03-17
1h 33
The Well Woman Podcast
152 - Discover Your Cervix 101 with Qiddist Ashé
In this episode: - What is the cervix - Why is the cervix so important? - Pin pointing Ovulation - Igniting your relationship with your cervix - The nervous system and your cervix - How to support and open your cervix - The cervix, Kegels and Yoni Egg - How to explore and look at your own cervix - How to reconnect with your Cervix Get the full complete show notes, here: https://www.wellsome.com/podcast/ FREE LOVE YOUR CYCLE DOWNLOAD: https://www.subscribepage.com/love-your-cycle MENSTRUAL CYCLE MEMBERSHIP - WELL WOMAN ACADEMY: https://www.wellsome.com/academy/ LOVE...
2022-02-23
1h 10
Sober Magic
Decolonizing the Menstrual Cycle and Reclaiming Our Blood as Root Ritual with Clarissa Gonzalez
This week we have Clarissa Gonzalez, an herbalist and cultural worker specializing in fertility, womb health, sleep & mental health at Blood Moon Healing where she is continuing the lineage of Traditional Mexican Medicine inherited grandmother wisdom & where she lifts up ethical, spiritual herbalism & learning from our herbal relatives. In our conversation, we explore the spiraling, internal ritual that is the menstrual cycle, and get into: Indigenous perspectives on the menstrual cycle, dreaming and intuition The significance of the dark moon and working with our subconscious Ways to explore our cycle as the roo...
2022-02-09
01 min
Sober Magic
Pelvic Embodiment as Nervous System Regulation
Today on the podcast we have womb healing and pelvic embodiment guide, birthworker and yoga teacher, Veronica Constance. In our conversation we dive into one of both of our favorite topics: pelvic embodiment, what it has to do with our nervous system, and how it can support our lives. We get into: what pelvic embodiment means and feels like the role of pleasure in embodiment work why moving through stressful experiences needs to happen in the body what pelvic mapping is and why it's a powerful tool for our healing and regulation If yo...
2022-01-19
1h 05
Sober Magic
Working with Triggers as Teachers: A Peek inside The Womb Room
When you get "triggered," what do you do? In our culture, it's common to move into blame, shame, or shutdown -- but what might these activating feelings have to teach us, and what does it have to do with our womb sovereignty? In this episode, I'm sharing a recording from inside The Womb Room, my year-long container for cultivating womb sovereignty and matriarchal healing. I get into: The difference between experiencing victimization, and taking on the identity of victim How we can hold the truth of systems of oppression, while still centering our sovereignty Why the i...
2022-01-05
41 min
Sober Magic
3 Steps to Preventing Pregnancy Without Hormones
Have you been wanting to learn how to prevent pregnancy naturally? Maybe you've heard of Fertility Awareness methods, or have been wishing you could ditch hormonal contraceptives, but you keep thinking, "I just can't afford to get pregnant." In this episode, I'm walking you through the 3 crucial steps to successfully preventing pregnancy naturally, using the sympto-thermal method of fertility awareness, and plant allies as back-up! There's so much misinformation about our cycles (like the myth that we're fertile every day), and you can absolutely learn how to confidently prevent pregnancy on your terms. Th...
2021-10-27
53 min
Sober Magic
How You Stand is a Feminist Issue with Adelaide Meadow
Have you ever considered that how you stand, sit, breathe and move is a feminist issue? Today we have Adelaide Meadow of Small Magic Birth -- she's a physiologist, yoga teacher, traditional midwife and body worker who shares a radical feminist approach to our pelvic health. We discuss the brilliance of the female pelvis, and how much of what we're taught in movement practice is not designed for our bodies. And, Adelaide shares practical, tangible tips for supporting your physiology and health! Check out everything Adelaide has to offer on her website, and m...
2021-10-13
01 min
Sober Magic
How and Why We Build Matriarchy with Maura Sternberg
What is matriarchy, why do we need it, and how do we create it? Today we dive into the skills we need to cultivate matriarchy in our communities, with guest Maura Sternberg. We explore how we orient to personal and collective apocalypse, why mothers and children need to be at the center of our social structures, and how we can begin to create the worlds we want to see. Maura is a kitchen witch, herbalist, spirit medicine holder, and sister. She sits at the feet of her teachers Rachelle Garcia Seliga, Susun Weed, Ever...
2021-10-06
01 min
Be Real with Eliza Reynolds: Conversations About Mental Health, Friendship, Body Image & More for Big-Hearted Preteen & Teen Girls
how to get ready for your first trip to a gynecologist with qiddist ashé
Hey loves -- have you ever wondered if you should go to the ‘gynecologist’? Or wondered who to see if you’ve got period issues or something else up with your reproductive health? Today’s episode is such an amazing one because Qiddist (the Badass Academy’s resident faculty for all things anatomy and wellness) and I are taking you through a lot of details about what kind of provider you might want to see, what happens during a routine visit, what questions to ask to see if your provider is a good fit, and how to advocate for yourself l...
2021-05-11
1h 02
Free Birth Society
Surviving to Thriving with Qiddist Ashé
Qiddist Ashé is a birth doula-turned-radical birth keeper who, after years of witnessing hospital birth, made the switch to supporting women outside of the system. It was in following the lead of her womb intuition, that she was able to go from surviving to thriving both in birth work and the world. From a Black feminist lens, Qiddist centers the experiences of the women of her community, knowing that liberation is ours, and our wombs are home to our deepest power. Connect with Ashé: @asheservices/ https://www.asheservices.com
2021-02-19
55 min