The Womb Room Podcast

What if there is medicine to be found in our jealousies and insecurities with other women? Or our challenges with our mothers? The phrase "sisterhood wound" seems to have burst into the collective consciousness recently, and today, I talk with my friend Chelsea Leone explore what this wound is, and how we can work with it for deeper relationships and freedom.

Chelsea is a sister, herbalist, teacher, and a self proclaimed "sex and shadow mentor, witch and artist". Her work encompasses sexuality, embodied expression, and sisterhood, with the intention of leading women to remember their primal nature and be fully expressed.

We discuss:

• Why our motherline is our “OG sisterhood,” and how it informs our sisterhood wounds
• Allowing chaos as an important part of sisterhood
• What to do when we find ourselves in friendships that are not nourishing
• How we can cultivate authentic relationships, and why womb work may be the center
• How being in relationship with the womb causes the parts of us that are not true to fall away
• Why there’s healing in being honest in our judgments and jealousies about others

Check out Chelsea's instagram, website, and especially her self guided course on the sisterhood wound!

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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 system and our capacity for holding safety and ease (rather than chaos)
• The medicine of subtle and body-based healing
• Why it’s important to “close loops” in our nervous system, and not demonize our fight/flight responses
• How somatics can support us when we can talk through and explain our trauma, but still feel stuck
• How sisterhood and relationship wounds show up in our lives, and how we can tend to our inner child in these moments
• The reparative nature of play as adults

Follow Hannah Grace’s beautiful work on instagram at @webofgrace , check out her website, and be sure not to miss Reclamation, her upcoming 3-month program for reclaiming your full self through somatic, sisterhood and inner-child healing. It starts in just a couple weeks!

How can we grow our ability to hear our body speak -- and what might the ancient wisdom of Ayurveda have to offer us in supporting this relationship?

These are questions we bring to today's conversations with my dear friend, Bryn Hlava.

Bryn is an Ayurvedic Wellness Counselor, Marma Therapist and 300hr Certified Yoga Teacher through the lineage of Bhakti Yoga. Through practical applications of Ayurvedic wisdoms, foods & herbs, lifestyle, somatic movement, meditation and more, Bryn brings a curiosity and trust in the infinite wisdom of the body, mind and soul, and weaves it with ancient teachings of the material and spiritual worlds to bring us closer to our optimal state of being.

We get into:

• The difference between knowing through the mind, and knowing in the body
• Shifting from a goal-oriented relationship with the body to one of growing our capacity to hear the body.
• The problem with over-identifying with our imbalances
• Making sense of the doshas, our true nature, and moving out of pathologizing our seasonal shifts
• How we can weave Ayurvedic principles into our experience of cyclical living

Check out Bryn's upcoming in-person training & retreat, Touch and Receive, in the beautiful hills of North Carolina (Oct 3-13)

Explore Bryn's website and learn from her beautiful Instagram

Join Qiddist & Bryn inside The Womb Room Community Membership -- Bryn will be guiding an upcoming full-body self oil massage practice (Abhyanga) there on August 13!

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 rights often keeps us out of our power, and what we can do instead of asking for permission

-my qualms with the liberal "self-managed abortion" language

-taking responsibility for our innate ability to govern life and death in our wombs

-practical ways we can return reproductive sovereignty to our own hands

I am teaching an imprompty upcoming FREE class on an Introduction to Herbs for Reproductive Sovereignty on Wednesday, May 11 at 10am PST. Save your spot here.

If you want to learn how to hold wisdom and care in your communities around pregnancy prevention, herbal allies, early release, and abortion healing, join me for my LIVE 10 week group program, Sovereign Cycles. Earlybird pricing available here! BIPOC partial scholarships available via email.

Other resources:

Learn fertility awareness for just $22 per month in our Womb Room Community Membership

Other practitioners to know: Molly Dutton Kenny, Samantha Zipporah, Bonnie McIntosh

• The ancient wisdom of evolutionary adaptation
• How the conflicts we experience in life impact our physiology — beyond the explanation of “stress”
• How we might shift our orientation to our symptoms from being a “problem” to being adaptive and an element of healing
• The science of embryology and how different organs correspond to different parts of our brain
• Why it matters that our primal brain is wired to reproduce, regardless of our conscious desire
• How we can reframe cervical dysplasia as an adaptive process, and the connection to conflicts around sex
• Forgiveness and release for the sake of our organs and tissues
• The role of self responsibility in agency in shifting our relationship with our body and health