2. Carving Your Own Path & Redefining Success with Michelle Williams

04/20/23 • 64 min

The Well-Nourished Mother: Helping You Thrive in Pregnancy, Birth & Motherhood

Following your heart, carving your own path, and redefining success can be HARD. But for those that listen to the call, the rewards are endless.
Michelle Williams shares her story of discovering her purpose early on in life and the winding road she followed through nursing school, to eventually trust the call of her heart, leave the medical system behind, and create her own heart centred business as a traditional birthkeeper.
Michelle shares more on:
- connecting to your true desire and purpose outside of cultural and societal pressures and conditioning
- what's missing from the medicalized treatment of birthing women in hospital
- using your voice to connect to your womb (listen to the end for a beautiful vocal practice to try for yourself, especially if you’re pregnant or calling in your future babies)
and so much more...
Michelle is a Traditional Birthkeeper and Educator at ISLA MAMA, a space devoted to inviting women into deeper reverence and trust in themselves. Michelle is in service to the continuum of life - moving in flow between birth, death, and all that is present in between. Transitioning from clinical Nursing, she is now serving women in her community on Vancouver Island. Attending births, providing family support, and offering womb and birth education. Michelle, the ISLA MAMA is here because of her unwavering faith in Women.

Connect with Michelle on Instagram: @Isla__mama

Visit the ISLA MAMA website: www.islamama.com

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Connect with Michelle on Instagram: @Isla__mama

Visit the ISLA MAMA website: www.islamama.com

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1. Developing Self-Trust & Coming Home to Yourself with Briana Faust

How do you develop self-trust as a mother, and why does it even matter?

In this episode, Briana Faust shares her stories of becoming a mother and the beautiful insights and realizations that have led her to the creation of Hohmcoming- a community and digital studio for women who desire to go back to basics and experience pregnancy with more ease, intuition, and trust. The way it was designed to be experienced.

We chat about intuition, trust, and what it means to come home to yourself as a mother.

Briana Faust is a woman who was totally rocked by the primal experiences of pregnancy, birth and motherhood. Her course changed completely when she became a mom and she was reminded of what being a woman is truly supposed to be, and began the journey to reconnect to her primal essence to mother from a more natural, grounded place. She had given away so much of her experience in her first pregnancy and was looking for all the answers outside of herself, so she was determined to do it differently for her next. Fast forward 3 years, and she’s now a free birthing, intuition-led "son of a B" who can’t help but want a more intuitive experience for ALL women.

Get comfy and tune in, so you can be inspired by Briana’s story and heartfelt insights, and learn how to start creating the space needed to hear the call of your own intuition.

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3. Motherhood as Medicine: Healing Good Girl Conditioning with Nicole Pasveer

Motherhood has a way of illuminating all of the areas of life that need reconciliation and attention. This is Motherhood as Medicine.

In this episode, Nicole Pasveer and I dive into all things Good Girl Conditioning.

Nicole shares openly and honestly about her personal experience healing her inner “good girl” while diving into some of the many other related layers: life pausing perfectionism, lack of boundaries, low self-worth, codependency, and fear of abandonment.

Nicole shares:

How good girl conditioning shows up in pregnancy, birth, and the tender postpartum period, with raw and relatable examples from her own postpartum experience
Her strategy of “catching the shoulds” for discerning between a true desire/need and a conditioned response
The difference between internal boundaries vs. external boundaries
The importance of storytelling, community, and a village of support to help make meaning from our experiences
And we discuss the #1 most important first step to begin healing the inner good girl, plus a couple super simple practices to begin to reconnect to your body

Nicole Pasveer is a former RN, current birth educator and motherhood coach. She’s also a mom on a mission to rewrite the narrative and help mother’s unlearn and heal from deep societal conditioning so that they can reclaim their instincts and smash generational cycles!

Follow Nicole on Instagram @nicolepasveer

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