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Mothermouth9 - Mothermouth Musings 3: Who shouts the loudest - wisdom and 'abundance' in the age of capitalism and social mediaIn this episode I will ponder about my worries and concerns about how wisdom is viewed these days and how the concept of abundance is experienced by people in the modern world. I am still trying to unpack this myself, and I would like to get to the bottom of it.Wisdom and abundance - Two seemingly very different subjects. I feel they are interlinked though and I wonder how.Who is seen as wise these days in our modern secular world? Who do people ‘follow’? Who do people chose for advice in spiri...
2024-02-0817 min
Mothermouth8 - Mothermouth Musings 2: Pilgrimages & New Year's GreetingsAfter having taken a long break over the winter solstice and Xmas holidays, I am slowly weaving my way back into the world with some ruminations and reflections that I have pondered about during that time.One subject that has been especially occupying my thoughts are the planning of a new 'pilgrimage' - I have already done two and they were both along the courses of rivers, one was the Thames which I walked with a friend and then my birth river called the Trave along which I canoed.As there are a lot of...
2024-01-1318 min
Mothermouth7 - Mothermouth Musings 1: The power of language - coaches, guides and the old hierarchical structures The first instalment of Mothermouth Musings! :)I have decided to intersperse Mothermouth's interviews with maybe to be considered more 'philosophical' musings and ponderings of mine, that have recently come up. These will be short recordings around topics that have recently caught my attention.Maybe I will publish these musings under a written blog, but for now time constraints are keeping them to audio recordings which I think works quite well.With the recent explosion of offerings in coaching and mentoring and online courses in knowledge sharing I ponder about how typical word usage...
2023-11-1815 min
Mothermouth6 - The origins of Mothermouth - Muttermund and cervical awakeningHi everyone,I realised I haven't really introduced the podcast series and aim of the platform or talked about the origins of the name.So in this episode I will give an introduction to me and how the name Mothermouth came into being from a direct translation of the German word Muttermund which means cervix.I will also talk about my own journey around cervical and spiritual awakening.There will be quite a few personal details in here which I haven't shared widely and it feels rather vulnerable to do so.
2023-11-0716 min
Mothermouth5 - Postnatal care & baby language in integrative baby therapy - Joy Horner as The Wise Woman On The HillIn this episode I have the great pleasure of talking to Joy Horner, the Wise Woman on the Hill, who is based in Glastonbury, UK.Joy is a remarkable woman who has gone through the most challenging and difficult situations and tests on her journey from being a midwife to sacred birth keeper, and finally artist.We hear about her journey from working in very medicalised and active interventionist way to becoming a sacred birth keeper who mainly holds safe space for the birthing woman to do what she needs to do, sleeping a lot...
2023-10-091h 07
Mothermouth4 - My own home birth experienceIn this episode I talk about my own and only home birth experience birthing my daughter about 7.5 years ago in our little flat in Hackney at the time.I didn't have a free birth but had a home birth with two NHS midwives from the Homerton homebirth team attached to Homerton present. I didn't have any interventions, drugs or pain relief.I am keen to share this experience not only because so far we have talked a lot in this series about freebirthing and the socialisation and medicalisation of birth but what is the reality...
2023-09-0640 min
Mothermouth3 - Can humanity survive socialised birth? & the science of birth physiology - Michel OdentIn our 3rd episode I have the great pleasure of talking to Michel Odent, a remarkable writer and pioneer in the field of childbirth who at 93 years old is still challenging current cultural beliefs and the structures of the medical system. He is the author of 16 books including ‘Birth Reborn: What Childbirth Should Be’, ‘Childbirth & the Future of Homo Sapiens’, ‘Do We Need Midwives?’, ‘Birth and Breastfeeding: Rediscovering the Needs of Women During Pregnancy and Childbirth’. His latest book is ‘Can humanity survive socialized birth?’ was published a month ago shortly after the recording of this interview. Michel has been...
2023-08-0155 min
Mothermouth2 - The medicalisation of birth - epilogue with Gauri Algar from the Yoni TreeThis is a little epilogue to our first episode and conversation with Gauri about free birthing.Here we talk about the medicalisation of birth and unravel the often complex political and social structures that surround protocols, pressures on care stuff as well as birthing mothers.I published this part of the conversation separately because it contains our opinions and musings about how the systems works and what is conducive and unsupportive for the actual physiological process of birth.And I would like to stress that these are our opinions only, amongst many that...
2023-07-0410 min
Mothermouth1 - Freebirthing, breech birth & birth story integration - Gauri Algar from the Yoni TreeIn this first episode, I have the pleasure of conversing with Gauri, a remarkable individual who serves as a freebirthing doula and facilitates a birth story circle right here in Frome, a town nestled in the west country of the UK.Gauri shares insights from her background in psychology and trauma-focused healing, revealing how her spiritual journey and tantric healing work intertwined with her experiences giving birth to her two sons, ultimately guiding her towards becoming a freebirthing doula. Her stories illuminate the transformative power of birth, including a vaginal breech birth.We talk about...
2023-05-151h 02