55 | Make a Splash! Want more breast milk or wanna feel extra nourished?

09/06/20 • 24 min

I see some of the struggles that folks face as new parents and specifically noticing what new mamas are dealing with. Today’s episode is focused on breast milk and postpartum nutrition which could also be applicable to any human who wants to feel more nourished and vibrant. New mamas need extra nutrient density. The experience of growing and giving birth to a babe is a stressor on the body and a mom may be depleted. I’m going to talk about some of the top 15 foods, 15 herbs, and top 10 supplements a person could take to boost vitality and may help with milk production.

Disclosure-I’m not a doctor- do your own research and consult a licensed professional with the knowledge that you get to be the ultimate authority of your own body. Do what feels right for you. I’m not here to diagnose or prescribe. I am here to educate and entertain.

Oh another disclaimer. This episode might make you hungry.

Writing these show notes had me running to the kitchen for more snacks. So just as you don’t want to go to the grocery store hungry, you may not want to listen to this episode hungry.

Grab your trail mix and lets hop to it.

Breastfeeding info handout and Hot Mama Muffin recipe available a

https://www.patreon.com/thymeinthestudio

Links mentioned:

https://www.kirajoie.com/

https://thematrona.com/

https://www.innatetraditions.com/your-free-gift-reproductive-mental-health/

https://www.divinebirthwisdom.com/

https://www.medicinemaiden.com/online-store

https://www.divinebirthwisdom.com/

Thyme in the Studio links:

https://www.patreon.com/thymeinthestudio

https://www.instagram.com/thymeinthestudiopodcast/

https://www.instagram.com/aida.zea.arts/

https://www.facebook.com/groups/403582056803336/

www.thymeinthestudio.com

https://www.aidazea.com

Contact me: [email protected]

Music by komiku

Oh another disclaimer. This episode might make you hungry.

Writing these show notes had me running to the kitchen for more snacks. So just as you don’t want to go to the grocery store hungry, you may not want to listen to this episode hungry.

Grab your trail mix and lets hop to it.

Breastfeeding info handout and Hot Mama Muffin recipe available a

https://www.patreon.com/thymeinthestudio

Links mentioned:

https://www.kirajoie.com/

https://thematrona.com/

https://www.innatetraditions.com/your-free-gift-reproductive-mental-health/

https://www.divinebirthwisdom.com/

https://www.medicinemaiden.com/online-store

https://www.divinebirthwisdom.com/

Thyme in the Studio links:

https://www.patreon.com/thymeinthestudio

https://www.instagram.com/thymeinthestudiopodcast/

https://www.instagram.com/aida.zea.arts/

https://www.facebook.com/groups/403582056803336/

www.thymeinthestudio.com

https://www.aidazea.com

Contact me: [email protected]

Music by komiku

Previous Episode

54: How to burn a painting and write an artist statement in Iceland with Michele Kishita

Michele Kishita is a Philadelphia-based artist who uses colors found in

nature that are not typically associated with “natural” colors and focuses

on landscape as her primary subject. Her paintings are strongly influenced

by the graphic stylizations and compressed spaces of Japanese ukiyo-e.

Kishita’s paintings are in a number of private/corporate collections,

including Toyota, Capital One, and Kaiser Permanente, and her work is

featured in Create Magazine, on the Poetry Foundation blog, and Studio

Break podcast, as well as in several literary journals. She exhibited at the

Sharjah Art Museum in the United Arab Emirates and the Museum of

Non-Conformist Art in St. Petersburg, Russia. Kishita received both her

BFA and MFA in painting from the University of the Arts.

Was so great chatting with Michele Kishita, artist, writer and teacher about living in Japan and how that time has influenced her art, how her view of artist residencies has shifted and some of her resident highlights. She also discusses her experiences working with gallerist Bridgette Mayer and synchronicities that occurred that made it feel like the right choice to work with an art coach. She teaches writing and gives some great tips for cleaning up your artist statement and she has some great book recommendations and unconventional tips for gowing tomatoes.

About her recent body of work: Absent Futures

Absent Futures is a new body of work on shou sugi-ban (burnt timber)

panels that addresses the current state of deforestation and the

opposing concepts of resilience and devastation. While our forests and

natural spaces continue receding due to industry and suburban sprawl,

the more catastrophic losses are occurring in the rainforest where

swaths the size of forty football fields disappear each minute.

Suggestions of landscape painted onto the burnt surfaces depict a

memory of what was while at the same time highlighting what remains

and can still be salvaged. It is a reminder of the persistence and

vitality of nature and our role in choosing its success or failure, which

ultimately determines our own.

Her work in general:

“My current work investigates the dialogue between the wooden surfaces on which I paint and the trees from which those panels were built. I highlight the interconnectedness of humans and nature, while addressing life’s impermanence and transience. Industry's straight lines and angles try to control nature, transforming a tree’s rounded mass into flat rectangular sheets; yet, the wood grain’s undulations, marking the tree’s growth and annual water intake, emerge despite its new, boxy confines. A tree's experiences are indelibly written on its interior and at the same time are a historical account of the landscape itself. In my paintings, I strive to conjure the landscape that no longer exists but is inherently contained in each panel while expressing the visual contrast and harmony where human-made structures and nature intersect.” from www.michelekishita.com

I also want to speak the name of Jacob Blake and send prayers to his family and loved ones. Yes we still need to disarm the police and restructure the law enforcement and justice system in this country. Oh and the medical and education systems could use an overhaul too. We have work to do. Please register to vote and please do whatever is in your power to vote.

https://www.vote.org/

So excited to share with you the conversation I had with Michele Kishita

Links:

www.michelekishita.com

https://www.instagram.com/michelekishita/

Thymelights:

NES Artist Residency, Skagaströnd, Iceland

https://neslist.is/

SPAR, St. Petersburg, Russia

https://artresidency.ru/

virtual residency at SPAR right now

https://virtualresidency.p-10.ru/author/michele-kishita/

Pasha Meskhiev aka Norkus - @norkusupdates

: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HO-0eJH9DMM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EfhQJVegyGY

Sueyeun Juliette Lee -

https://silentbroadcast.com/

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/sueyeun-juliette-lee

Links mentioned:

The Hidden Life of Trees

https://www.amazon.com/Hidden-Life-Trees-Communicate_Discoveries-Secret<...

Next Episode

56 | Novel Sonics with Dez'Mon Omega Fair | Listening to Complexity Beneath the Surface

Dez Mon Omega Fair is an interdisciplinary artist and poet living in Long Beach, California. Their work explores storytelling and self-reflection, delineating the cathartic opening of joyance availed by the art making process. They achieve this expressive art through painting with water, brushless watercolor, and ink on washi; collaborative documentary film projects as well as experimental forms of poetry. Pioneering novel sonics which explores the use of long-form soundscape and audio recordings of riddles, prose, poems and chants.

Public performances are set within large-scale immersive installations consisting of figurative watercolor paintings and poetry

sourced from abstractions of the heart and emotional histories of the body.

So many beautiful takeaways form this interview and I love this reflection,

“There is no me without you and no you without me.”

So excited to share with you a conversation I had with Dez Mon Omega Fair. We met years ago and I was immediately enchanted by Dez’ graceful way of being in the world. They showed me their paintings, which at that time were colorful abstracted figurative work on thin japanese papers. We ended up living together for a few years and It was so wonderful to catch up with them and hear about how Dez art continues to evolve year after year, The residencies he has attended, finding the love of his life and continuing to make work and always experimenting and discovering new ways to share his vision.

I also loved listening to some of his latest Novel sonics, which Dez graciously allowed me to share at both the beginning and end of this episode! and I love what Dez had to say about the Black Madonna!

Intro and outro Novel Sonics by Dez’Mon Omega Fair

Intro: “At the Cross” by Dez’Mon Omega Fair

Outro: “Poems Post Vogue” by Dez’Mon Omega Fair

Links:

https://www.instagram.com/dezmonomegafair/

https://dezmonomegafair.com/

Film and Video Poetry Society

https://www.fvpsociety.com/

http://www.thetonypatrick.com/

Black Madonna:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCcDgyP-SIKd6qf9vYDOi5gQ

Thyme in the Studio links: