Moon Baby Magic (Natalie Elliott)

Today on the podcast, we have a nourishing and powerful conversation with Paula Simons, a woman who truly embodies the divine feminine. Paula and I have an incredibly rich conversation full of stories of learning to nourish yourself, honor your womb and blood, and truly live in right relationship with womanhood. Paula is an inspiring woman who has dedicated her life to serving women by capturing their divine essence through photoshoots (or ceremony… as you will learn when listening!) 

Dive in for…

• The magical story of Paula and I’s alchemical photoshoot with both of our moon blood
• How you can be in the Mother phase of life without having children
• Serving the world from a place of deep nourishment
• How a head injury initiated Paula into learning to listen to her own body
• The story of Paula’s Menarche and how she internalized the message that your period is not anything special
• Speaking about menstruation to men and transmuting shame
• Cultural narratives regarding menstruation in Sweden
• How Paula went from debilitating cramps to womb awakening
• Menstruation is psychedelic
• Resting on your bleed, and giving yourself grace when you don’t
• Reclaiming time and not letting your cycle be a prison you live in
• The moon cycle and your moon cycle, tracking based on your connection to nature
• Menstruation as a spiritual practice and what Paula does on her bleed
• Playing between spirituality and humanness
• Giving yourself permission to listen to your body

A new woman’s story is released every Wednesday, so go ahead and subscribe for your new favorite ritual. And make sure to rate and review this podcast so that more women get their eyes and ears on it.

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Today, on the podcast, we have Joslyn’s inspirational story of how she has come to truly trust herself. You’ll hear about how Joslyn has wanted to “seduce life” from a very young age, as well as how her Seductress archetype (who she’s named Emily) both served her liberation, and how Joslyn knew it was time for her to get out of the driver’s seat and step into her High Priestess self. This episode is packed with raw truth, deep dives, and so much sweetness and wisdom. You’re going to love it.

In this episode…

• How Joslyn tracks her cycle by only the moon and the ways we can track beyond FAM
• The time Joslyn pretended to have her period for years before she actually got it as a way to garner attention and learn more about something nobody was talking about in her latino family
• Joslyn’s insatiable curiosity about sex as a young girl, being exposed to p*rn in 3rd grade, and the development of her seductress archetype
• How working at a strip club gave Joslyn her power back and liberated her from a dangerously abusive relationship. And when she knew it was time to leave that chapter behind.
• Joslyn’s spiritual awakening: detoxing, womb healing, clearing, the Underworld, and becoming the High Priestess (AKA maiden to mother, Saturn return vibes)

A new woman’s story is released every Wednesday, so go ahead and subscribe for your new favorite ritual. And make sure to rate and review this podcast so that more women get their eyes and ears on it.

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Today, on the podcast, I have my dear sister Sydni Sands, a powerfully rooted woman who went from bartending and birth control to birth keeping and herbal medicine. Sydni has a big and beautiful story of how she has let the challenging experiences in her life, like losing her mother, debilitating period pain and long-term birth control use, change her into the woman she is today. Sydni is a woman who speaks honestly, openly, and deeply about the things that *truly* matter in life. You’ll want to hear this one.

In this episode…

• Being in between the Maiden and Mother phases of life
• Remaining rooted in Feminine Chaos
• Sydni’s first imprints of bleeding as extreme pain
• A sweet moontime imprint from Sydni’s dad
• Sydni’s warped rite-of-passage of birth control and how it lasted for 10 years
• How the death of her mom woke her up and brought her back to her body
• Breaking ancestral patterns and how Sydni decided not to hold onto traumas that were never hers to carry
• Sydni’s liberating decision to choose not to suffer anymore
• Sydni’s story of rebirth and how she decided to let grief transform her
• The time Sydni did a yoga training, circled with women,  found home in her body and decided to quit birth control once and for all
• The realness of what getting off long-term birth control actually entails- patience and determination
• The insane things OBGYN’s told Sydni about her cycle
• How a doula training expanded Sydni’s body awareness and she got to finally meet herself for the first time
• Slowing down and finally hearing the voice of her womb (screaming at her)
• Living cyclically and taking care of yourself in a world that doesn’t do that
• The gifts Sydni has found in her period pain
• “Milking life”
• The vital importance of centering mothers
• I sing a song :)

A new woman’s story is released every Wednesday, so go ahead and subscribe for your new favorite ritual. And make sure to rate and review this podcast so that more women get their eyes and ears on it.

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Today, on the podcast, we have my inspiring friend Laura. Laura is a shining example of what it means to live a radically authentic life, to take full ownership over your choices, and and to actually choose yourself. Laura’s story takes us from the her European upbringing and learning to navigate body-image in a family culture that was open-minded, but a Christian schooling system that was not, to the messiness and grief of the maiden to mother transformation, and finally to Laura’s fully outside of the system wild pregnancy, free birth and early motherhood years, with many interesting and transformational twists and turns in between. Laura’s energy and storytelling is absolutely magnetic, and her zest for life is infectious. I can’t wait for you to hear her story!

In this episode…

• Being in a totally different kind of cycle (neither 24 hour or 28 day) as a new mother
• The inherent grief of letting go of maidenhood
• The importance of honoring birth as a sacred rite-of-passage
• How the cascade of interventions to disconnect women from their bodies starts when we are born
• Laura shares that  grew up in an “out there” family, and how she became even more “out there.”
• The story of Laura’s first bleed after a 3 day road trip and how it left her feeling disconnected from her parents
• The disconnect between parents and kids who spend all day separated
• Laura’s story of tension between her open European parents and her Christian schooling that instilled body shame in her
• Laura’s journey to love, feel comfortable in and listen to her body and how she is teaching her daughter to do the same
• Letting go of Christianity, owning her sexuality, and rediscovering who she is and how this is still an ongoing process
• How Laura’s ungrounded Maiden confidence crashed and burned in 2020 and how this actually allowed her to love herself for real
• How pregnancy is an opportunity to trust yourself if you allow it to be and how Laura consciously made this choice by having a wild pregnancy and a free birth
• Why you may want to rethink getting that one ultrasound
• How Laura’s birth was the coolest day of her life, and not just because her baby was born
• Laura’s birth story of pain-free labor, deep trust of the process, intense fetal ejection reflex, fully surrendering, and bliss
• Interruptions in Laura’s immediate postpartum and a challenging start to her breastfeeding relationship
• Laura’s prolapse and her desire to rest for longer in her next postpartum
• Mother instincts: Why its biologically normal to honor not wanting anyone else to hold your baby, among other things
• Laura’s invitation to women to go within and find your own answers

A new woman’s story is released every Wednesday, so go ahead and subscribe for your new favorite ritual. And make sure to rate and review this podcast so that more women get their eyes and ears on it.

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Today, on the podcast, we have Emily Sims! Emily is a Menstruality Mystic whose story is characterized by doing things a little differently and learning to be okay with that. You’ll hear her stories of reclaiming her menstrual cycle, remembering God as both feminine and masculine, having a pain-free birth, and more. In each turn of the wheel, Emily has courageously chosen to question the narrative and step into her own truth, while holding space for others to do the same. Tune into this one for a deep, nourishing, and playful conversation between two devoted women of the womb.

In this episode…

• Emily shares how she embodies each phase of her cycle and how it is all just happening naturally
• Working with the luteal phase and the inner critic
• The difference in “alone time” in the maiden and mother life phases
• How Emily remembered her first bleed and found resolution in a Menarche Reclamation Ceremony 
• Working with the fear of tampons and how we can support young bleeding girls
• The experience of “having” to be on birth control to take the medication Acutane
• How Emily fell in love with tracking her cycle and realizing her sovereignty, but felt a bit lonely in the process
• Tribal visioning, the Red Tent, rituals to the Goddess and why women may want to bleed together
• From evangelical to heretic: Emily’s reclaiming of her God as both feminine and masculine
• Emily’s beautiful story of her easeful pregnancy and pain-free birth
• The difference between fitting in and belonging
• How Emily received her “intense initiation” in her postpartum, rather than her birth
• Emily’s experience of becoming who her son has called her to be
• Learning to be in “the void”

A new woman’s story is released every Wednesday, so go ahead and subscribe for your new favorite ritual. And make sure to rate and review this podcast so that more women get their eyes and ears on it.

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Today, I have my sister Rebecca, of @blumewomb, on the podcast! Rebecca is someone who reminds me of just how absolutely amazing and innately tapped in women are. Rebecca and I chat about the beauty of the maiden phase, “trial and erroring” your life and how we can learn so much about ourselves through our cycles. Rebecca shares her potent story of healing her wounded maiden and how getting off birth control and a year of celibacy ushered her into a reconnection with herself. Her willingness to both listen to and trust her body and intuition is inspiring and relatable. You’ll feel like you’re sitting in circle with your besties with this episode!

In this episode…

• Rebecca’s process of healing her wounded maiden
• Qualities of the healthy maiden and moving into mother from this place
• Why we should not reject the maiden
• Practicing life transitions through tracking your cycle
• How Rebecca rejected the gift her mother gave her at Menarche
• Receiving our lessons through love versus pain
• How birth control kept Rebecca safe but totally disconnected
• The time Rebecca got off birth control, went to a Kambo ceremony and saw what it was actually doing to her body
• How a misdiagnosed herpes infection ushered Rebecca into a year of celibacy and reconnection to self
• Being intentional about who and what enters your body
• Practical ways Rebecca has learned to listen to her body
• How Rebecca “Trial and errored” life
• Rebecca and I bond over the medicine of storytelling
• Feminine and masculine as a way to understand yourself
• Birth control makes life gray and changes who you are
• Rebecca’s journey with building her own business, burnout in her early 20s and a season of feeling “lost”
• Finding womb work as an awakening to her calling
• Death and rebirth cycles being inherent to womanhood
• I share the myth of Inanna as the heroines journey
• Using the courage of the healed maiden to claim your life
• Rebecca’s new focus on serving the world versus looking for how the world can serve her
• How the simple act of tracking your cycle can change your life

A new woman’s story is released every Wednesday, so go ahead and subscribe for your new favorite ritual. And make sure to rate and review this podcast so that more women get their eyes and ears on it.

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We have a real treat on the podcast today with Dayna Mondello. Dayna is an artist, a writer, a teacher, a vision quester, and a woman who walks a spiritual path deeply rooted in the power of her yoni. She’s in the Sorceress phase of life, meaning she is in the process of BECOMING her power. She has a lot of wisdom to drop about how life has initiated her into the sacred portal of Menopause, which is one she characterizes by immense creativity, life changes to be more in her truth, and a deep well of intuition. Dayna takes us through her stories of learning to feel safe in her body, to trust life, and to even trust death as she walks confidently into her Sorceress season and prepares for the Crone. From tantra to shamanism and healing childhood trauma and hormones, this episode really has it all. The way Dayna speaks is pure medicine story weaving, so you’ll be hanging on to her every intentional word. 

In this episode…

• Dayna’s experience of being in the Sorceress phase of life (also known as Menopause) as fine tuning, creation and psychic abilities
• Dayna’s pure hearted excitement about her first bleed and the following “rush to the hospital” levels of pain
• The link between trauma and period pain
• How Dayna’s health challenges commanded her to listen and heal- and to stop outsourcing to doctors and take responsibility for herself
• Dayna’s healing from adrenaline dominance, the Standard American Diet, and more
• Balancing lab testing and intuition- how taking hormones for a time helped Dayna to get back on her feet (literally)
• Dayna’s disconnection from her body and how it led her to being rushed to the hospital at age 35 for constipation
• Getting sober and growing up: Dayna’s journey through breathwork, art, traveling and her desires
• When Dayna moved to LA and came down from the ethers and into her sexuality
• What it actually means to study Tantra
• Reconnecting the heart and the womb and coming back alive
• Dayna’s experience of children initiating her into shadow work, even not having had her own
• Dayna’s magical experience with bees, art school and the beginnings of her shamanic path
• How Dayna rooted her spirituality in her body and her grief that women in our society don’t have an initiation into their bodies
• The vital importance of putting you hands on your body
• “I want to have a relationship with the dark” Dayna’s vision quest to heal childhood sexual abuse
• The full medicine story of Dayna’s last vision quest and how it took her across the threshold into sorceress/elder
• “I get to do this” healing ancestral trauma
• Ritual death, rebirth and inner teenager healing
• The life changes, creation and healing available in the Sorceress phase
• Dayna shares a story from Clarissa Pinkola Estes about elderhood

A new woman’s story is released every Wednesday, so go ahead and subscribe for your new favorite ritual. And make sure to rate and review this podcast so that more women get their eyes and ears on it.

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Dayna has provided the following resources

www.daynamondello.com

www.animas.org

www.schooloflostborders.org

https://sharonblackie.net

https://carlyrae.ca

https://www.kulayogini.com/about

https://www.charumorgan.com

https://healthygutgirl.com/gut-hormone-rehab-program/

Also kitty’s podcast:

Stuff Your Doctor Should Know

https://www.clarissapinkolaestes.com/works.htm

 Especially the. ”Dangerous Old Woman”. Series

https://www.philadelphiarebirthing.com

Today, on the podcast, we have my sweet sister Emma! Emma has an inspiring story of fully claiming her life at each turn. In this episode, we hear how Emma’s full-time nomadic life, raw veganism and city living led to chronic pelvic pain and finding out she had a cyst. Emma’s story is one of learning to slow down and heal her body from the roots up by living outside, eating for her primal female body, and truly nourishing herself on all levels. She has a beautiful way of articulating life’s paradox of challenge and beauty, and she also has a very magical and sweet story of her first bleed that I know you’ll absolutely love. 

In this episode….

• Being fully in the Maiden phase of life and figuring out who you are
• The connection of women’s wombs
• Emma’s lens on life during the Follicular phase of her cycle
• The story of Emma’s first bleed in Appalachia and how it led her home
• Imprints of sisterhood support from a young age
• Why Emma doesn’t use tampons anymore and embraces everything just being stained
• How hormonal birth control took Emma out of her raw experience
• The epic year Emma awakened to her desire to live closer to nature and her body’s natural rhythms (and how this is actually a big responsibility)
• When Emma went raw vegan, lost all her body fat and lost her cycle
• The consequences of this diet and Emma’s new knowledge of the importance of  fats, proteins, meat and warmth for the womb
• Learning deep nourishment and Emma’s favorite nourishing meals (hint: you may want a burger after this)
• Over identifying with prey on a vegan diet
• Emma and I share sustainable, sacred and ethical ways to eat more meat
• Emma’s advice for women who want to start eating meat again
• Honoring the animal by honoring yourself
• The importance of keeping the womb warm and Emma’s story of how coldness created chronic pelvic pain for her
• Emma’s story of healing from cysts outside of the medical paradigm because doctors had nothing to offer her but birth control
• The fear that comes from not knowing who to turn to and how Emma is learning to slow down and listen to her womb
• Balancing womb care with the realities of life and letting of of control
• How Emma walked through the fear that her life was on the line in her 20s and learning to trust her body’s resilience
• Emma’s experience with living outside
• Creating safety and stability and letting that be her foundation
• Letting our human experience free us from perfectionism, and instead, learn about ourselves
• Emma’s perfect description of all the archetypal energies of the cycle
• The importance of tapping into the wild feminine

A new woman’s story is released every Wednesday, so go ahead and subscribe for your new favorite ritual. And make sure to rate and review this podcast so that more women get their eyes and ears on it.

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Today, on the podcast, we have my sweet friend Sarah. Sarah’s story takes us on a journey from deep shame around her bleed and not telling anyone she got her period for the first three years of her womanhood, to her womb awakening at a ceremony in Costa Rica and living in a community where she felt honored as a bleeding woman (and wanted to tell everyone she knew about the menstrual cycle). You’ll hear more stories of how Sarah has deepened into her own womanhood, shared the wisdom she’s has gleaned with others and created a life in which she honors her cycle above all. This episode is imbued with Sarah’s grounded spiritual orientation to life, and you won’t want to miss it!

In this episode…

• Sarah shares the ways she has evolved from the dreamy 20 year old girl to the more grounded and responsible 31 woman she is today
• The story of how Sarah hid her first bleed from everyone in her life for three years and breaking down where this early shame even comes from
• How being on birth control made Sarah an atheist
• When Sarah quit her job, got off birth control, and moved to Costa Rica and the story of her magical, ceremonial womb awakening there
• How to integrate women’s cycles into community-care as well as self-advocacy for your bleeding needs
• Sarah’s full circle moment of returning to teach at the schools she attended as a more embodied woman, and the flack she got for teaching senior high school girls about their menstrual cycles
• The ceremony Sarah led for women in Guatemala and the ritual that has helped women get their missing bleeds back
• Sarah’s time living on a wooden tall ship, and how she learned to advocate for her cyclical needs and taught the younger girls to do it too
• What happens when your inner seasons don’t match the outer seasons
• How Sarah prioritizes her cycle as the center of her life now

A new woman’s story is released every Wednesday, so go ahead and subscribe for your new favorite ritual. And make sure to rate and review this podcast so that more women get their eyes and ears on it.

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Today, on the podcast, we have Briana Girard, a woman who has chosen massive transformation for herself and her family. Briana shares her stories of being a young girl, not knowing her bodily anatomy, going on birth control because she thought she could get pregnant on any day, working as a nurse and having a csection to learning the Fertility Awareness Method and giving up birth control for good, speaking to her baby in the womb and intuitively knowing he was okay, honoring her womb and her cycles and free birthing her second boy in total peace and power. Her story has a true, beautiful arc of growth and personal responsibility, and you’ll love the way Briana passionately, openly, and honestly, tells her story.

In this episode…

• The postpartum period without a cycle as being in a tideless ocean and how Briana is prepping for her period to return
• How Briana doesn’t remember her Menarche despite having an incredibly strong memory, but she does remember trying to (unsuccessfully) put a tampon in for the first time
• Growing up without knowledge of female anatomy and thinking you can get pregnant any day of the cycle
• Briana’s 10 years on birth control and how it kept her from becoming herself
• Her journey from birth control pills to a copper IUD to finally learning the Fertility Awareness Method and developing a relationship with her womb for this first time
• Briana’s time as an RN, having an overly medicalized first pregnancy
• How Briana learned to talk to her baby in the womb and began to “wake up” 
• The story of Briana’s C-section and the criminal mistakes and lack of consent on the part of her medical providers in her initiation into motherhood
• When Briana fully woke up and began choosing what she actually wanted for herself and her children (after an abusive pediatrician visit)
• Briana’s second pregnancy, skipping all her OB appointments, hiring and then firing her midwife, and enjoying the last few weeks of her pregnancy as a retreat
• Briana’s free birth story and how it was the catalyst that changed her family’s lives for the better

A new woman’s story is released every Wednesday, so go ahead and subscribe for your new favorite ritual. And make sure to rate and review this podcast so that more women get their eyes and ears on it.

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Today, on the podcast, we have a beautiful episode with Karlie Koval. Karlie is a mother of two living on a Mediterranean island with her Polish husband who has an important journey to share about claiming the right to birth on her own terms after initially giving her power away. You’ll hear Karlie’s stories of always being a little bit ahead of the curve, starting with her first bleed at age 10 to getting pregnant at 21 despite having a copper IUD in, and the radically beautiful choices she has made to live in alignment with exactly who she is and center herself as the energetic anchor of her family. This episode is so sweet, so powerful, and I know you’re going to absolutely love it.

In this episode…

• Mother as the energetic anchor of the home
• Karlie’s “early” Menarche at 10 years old and the imprint it left her of always being one step ahead of her peers
• The awkwardness of being a preteen who is (for the first time) smelly, hairy, and bleeding in a society that demands girls and women are none of these things
• The story of Karlie’s 21-year old adventure to find herself in Southeast Asia (as one does) where she met a sweet European man, got unexpectedly pregnant with a Copper IUD and then moved to Poland
• How Karlie gave away her power in her first birth (with *22* people in attendance) and was left saying “I’ll never do that again” right after her son was born
• Conscious conception, womb healing, nourishment and embodied intuition that led to Karlie’s second pregnancy
• The difference in capacity for healing and ritual between Maiden and Mother and giving yourself what you truly need
• When Karlie reclaimed her power, moved to a Mediterranean island and free birthed her daughter on her own terms (despite her husband not being on board at all)

A new woman’s story is released every Wednesday, so go ahead and subscribe for your new favorite ritual. And make sure to rate and review this podcast so that more women get their eyes and ears on it.

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Today, on the podcast, we have Houyem! Houyem is a mother who is changing up the cultural narrative of how we move through rites of passage and modeling the same for her children. Through Houyem’s stories of her first bleed, her time on birth control and learning to own her fertility to her pregnancies and sacred postpartums, and now as a mother to a coming of age girl looking towards perimenopause, she shares how she has come to normalize and sacred-ize each turn of the wheel (within her cycle and her larger life cycle). This is a sweet and deeply inspirational episode.

In this episode…

• Houyem shares why the Luteal/Sorceress phase is her favorite one despite its “bad rep”
• Why you shouldn’t be working out your “issues” during menstruation
• Houyem’s early menarche (first bleed) and how she pretended it was not real
• The lack of honoring and understanding menstruation that is so common with girls and how Houyem is changing this narrative with her daughter and her daughters friends
• Her journey from birth control to the mixed emotions she felt when finally learning about her fertility
• How it is a conscious outside effort to disconnect women from their bodies and how we must reclaim it
• Why you might not meet the right person while on birth control
• The importance of healing your relationship with your menstrual cycle before giving birth- how menstrual shame impacts birth outcomes
• Houyem’s first home birth, a beautiful initiation into motherhood
• How Houyem’s mother and mother-in-law cared for Houyem in her postpartum in the traditional Tunisian manner
• The importance of postpartum support
• Houyem’s path as a doula, seeing medical sabotage in the hospitals and her free birth story
• Her excitement when her menstrual cycle has come back after each of her babies, and for her impending perimenopause
• The importance of taking care of yourself before menopause
• Reclaiming ALL of your rites of passages from the medical system

A new woman’s story is released every Wednesday, so go ahead and subscribe for your new favorite ritual. And make sure to rate and review this podcast so that more women get their eyes and ears on it.

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Today, on the podcast, we have my friend Kasia. Kasia is a women’s holistic fertility specialist whose life has not led a very typical trajectory. Kasia shares her story about going from birth control induced thrush to anti-fungal medication that required she get her liver tested on a monthly basis to finally reclaiming her power by tracking her cycle and easily getting pregnant because she knew her body so well. Kasia goes on to have a transformative experience in birthing her son and the losingher father in the same day that shatters her ego and ushers her into her new era, where she is hearing the whispers of the sorceress and perimenopause.

In this episode…

• Relating to our world and our relationships in the Luteal phase from the lens of the Sorceress
• Having one foot in Mother while the other steps towards Perimenopause (and why you might feel crazy if you don’t know what’s going on)
• How Kasia entered into her Menarche without knowledge and the imprint of having done something wrong
• Debunking the crazy idea that women should get on birth control because we’re having “too many periods” 
• Kasia’s experiences of how birth control harmed her and her “delayed puberty” in her 20s when she finally got off and began tracking her cycle
• The importance of knowing your body and healing your hormones before you get pregnant: Kasia’s simple conception story 
• How  Kasia’s challenging pregnancy, as well as her dad passing moments after her traumatic birth experience was a complete ego death for her and initiated her into surrender
• How Kasia has found her way back home to herself now that her son is 8 and she is launching her business

A new woman’s story is released every Wednesday, so go ahead and subscribe for your new favorite ritual. And make sure to rate and review this podcast so that more women get their eyes and ears on it.

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Today, on the podcast, we have a powerful episode with Tatiana Berindei, author of Path to Puberty, the ultimate resource guide to moms of daughters. This is a rich and dynamic episode full of Tatiana’s experiences in the counter culture, her initiations into the womb mysteries, death, and birth, and her own birth stories. Tatiana seriously has the best stories. You’ll also hear some of the magical moments Tatiana has witnessed within her daughter as she has been initiated into womanhood in an intact and reverent way. This episode will make you both laugh and cry, which I think is the sign of any good story, really.

In this episode…

• “Post 40 is f-ing awesome”- Tatiana’s experience of moving closer to the Sorceress phase of life and loving yourself
• Knowing her first bleed was potent and powerful, but having nobody to join her in that space as a girl (despite having been sent to a moon lodge in the woods)
• The story of generational healing with Tatiana’s daughters first bleed and how important it is to model healthy self-image to girls (plus the incredibly healing moment of what Tatiana’s daughter wrote on her inner thigh that will bring you to tears)
• The scary birth control experience that was the beginning of Tatiana’s womb journey
• Chronicles of Tatiana’s experiences with the counter culture and the importance of seeking out new experiences in Maidenhood (even naive ones)
• When Tatiana left an abusive teacher/partner relationship, and was powerfully initiated into the womb mysteries by Pele on the Big Island of Hawaii
• Being responsible with your magnetism as women and not taking advantage of men
• Different ways we bring the feminine into our spirituality: womb wisdom, goddess initiations, yoni steaming, blood magic and more
• Our lives are not Disney movies: how healing is not what it was sold to us as, embracing life’s ups and downs and choosing your path
• When Tatiana returned home to Massachusetts, went into deep healing around her father wound, and met her husband who treats her like a Goddess
• Life is hard without elders, and why we should not be expected to know everything
• How the death of Tatiana’s father and brother within 3 months initiated her into birth, ceremony, and her life’s work
• Death does not equal failure
• Tatiana’s first pregnancy alongside her midwifery apprenticeship, and the interference that created a traumatic first birth experience for her
• Deciding that she would be the one to take responsibility for her choices in birth, and why the midwifery model does not allow for that
• The redemptive freebirth of Tatiana’s second daughter (as well as the one moment she ignored her intuition and the impact of that)
• What postpartum during peak lockdown was like and how Tatiana is “re-doing” those early years with her now 4 year old now
• Our rites of passage build on each other- from menarche to postpartum to menopause
• How Tatiana is feeling the transition into her 40s: everything is up for renegotiation, moving energy through her body, and normalizing lower energy

A new woman’s story is released every Wednesday, so go ahead and subscribe for your new favorite ritual. And make sure to rate and review this podcast so that more women get their eyes and ears on it.

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Today, on the podcast, we have the inspiring Amy Mackey! Amy has an incredibly interesting life-path that includes both an intellectual path of higher education and mythology and an embodied path of womb work, tantra, and motherhood. Amy takes us on a journey from her traumatic first bleed, and her first marriage at 21 to owning her sexuality, and becoming a living embodiment of each Wisdom Goddess (the Mahavidyas) that she has had the honor to pass through. Amy also graces us with her knowledge on each of the 10 Mahavidyas that characterize each phase of womanhood and our menstrual cycles (yes, you heard that right- 10 archetypes, not 4!). This conversation is incredibly dynamic, interesting and will make you laugh, cry, gasp, and smile from your heart.

In this episode…

• How Amy is turning to sisterhood to balance out raising three boys
• Amy speaks to her sister wound that was triggered by a deep ancestral mother wound
• Amy and I deep dive about women’s circles
• Amy’s experience of feeling safe with men, always honoring her body as a temple, and having intact, sacred sexual experiences
• How Amy went from a christian marriage at age 21 to goddess spirituality and tantra
• Amy and I laugh about our cervical mucous around ovulation (and the importance of sharing our cycles with the men in our lives)
• Amy speaks to the 10 Mahavidyas (wisdom goddesses) and how they correlate to each phase of womanhood and each phase of the menstrual cycle
• How Amy was never taught about menstruation, and so she thought she was dying when she got her first bleed
• Amy shares the two sides of the coin of maidenhood: the sensual lover and the raw creative force, and how women who are in between maiden and mother can find home here
• How Amy had to face her codependent tendencies in her first pregnancy by trusting herself even when an ultrasound told her that her baby had severe genetic abnormalities
• How the drama and interference of Amy’s second birth convinced her to freebirth her third
• The story of Amy’s conscious conception, her early miscarriage and the grief and healing it brought her
• Amy’s third birth that happened just as she wanted it to
• If you don’t become a mother- the Goddess of Sovereignty and holding her own
• Amy shares the last archetypes on the wheel of womanhood that characterize our later years of life (and how we meet them in our cycles each month)
• How the Goddess Kali (who is time itself and the center of the wheel) shows up when you are not honoring yourself and Tara (the outer wheel) reminds us that everything is sacred

A new woman’s story is released every Wednesday, so go ahead and subscribe for your new favorite ritual. And make sure to rate and review this podcast so that more women get their eyes and ears on it.

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Today, on the podcast, we have a true treasure of a woman, my dear sister, Jeanelle. Jeanelle has a beautiful, deep story full of her initiations into both light, pleasure, and sensuality, and into the dark, the void, and life’s mystery. She shares her wisdom on living within all your different seasons and how every single woman has access to this through her own womb. You’ll also hear her incredibly sweet Menarche story that will leave you feeling inspired to initiate all the girls you know with love and care!

In this episode…

• How to negotiate when earth’s seasons do not match out inner seasons- the different lenses we can view and understand ourselves through
• The story of Jeanelle’s Menarche and how her mom greeted her with love, celebration, and a care package of chocolates, flowers and a bubble bath (and how Jeanelle did the same for her little sister when she got her first bleed)
• The importance of creating a safe home environment for young maidens to counteract the shame present in the overculture 
• What happens when the womb wakes up and why it may initially create more “pain” in your body as she demands your attention
• How a yoga practice brought Jeanelle from being an observer of her life to being fully in her body, and her womb began to wake up just enough for her to realize there was more to life and being a woman
• How the womb carries things that may not belong to us: Jeanelle’s initiation into the darkness, experiencing the full spectrum of life and how her blood was her constant reminder of how life keeps going
• The magic of “allowance” and living with an open heart

A new woman’s story is released every Wednesday, so go ahead and subscribe for your new favorite ritual. And make sure to rate and review this podcast so that more women get their eyes and ears on it.

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Today, on the podcast, we have Linda Ma sharing her transformative journey through life's twists and turns. Linda shares her early initiations, including her menarche and first sexual experience. You’ll hear about her profound ayahuasca journey in the Amazon, meeting her ex in Hawaii, and the courage it took to leave that abusive relationship with two young daughters. Linda reflects on her two hospital births, uncovering truths about medical consent, and her evolution from licensed midwife to sovereign practitioner. As she cares for her elderly mother, she shares a magical vision of familial spirits and the comforting wisdom she’s gained about death as a gift. Linda is a woman walking her life path with a lot of trust and an open heart. Join us for this episode steeped in reverence for the sacred dance of womanhood.

In this episode…

• How Linda has always felt compelled to rest on her period, even as a young girl
• Linda’s life phase and is perimenopause real?
• Two initiations within one year: Linda’s menarche and first sexual experience stories
• From the Amazon to the Hawaiian Islands: Linda’s ayahuasca initiation, and how she met her ex, the father of her children, on his way to anger management class
• The path to finally leaving her abusive relationship when her children were 3 and 1, and what that actually takes for women
• Linda’s two hospital births, and how she found out years later when she got her medical records that they gave her all sorts of medications and procedures without her consent
• How Linda became a midwife and then resigned her license and left the system to be a sovereign midwife
• The role reversal initiation Linda is experiencing while caring for her elderly mother and the magical vision Linda got of her grandmother telling her that her mother’s spirit is free
• Linda shares her wisdom on death as a gift and how she has always felt comfortable with it
• How Linda has normalized bleeding in a house with three teenagers and the sweet ritual they all participate in

A new woman’s story is released every Wednesday, so go ahead and subscribe for your new favorite ritual. And make sure to rate and review this podcast so that more women get their eyes and ears on it.

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Cheers to the first solo episode! Have you ever felt like your personality and needs change like…. 4 times a month? Well, I’m here to tell you that’s because they do. I’ve been getting a lot of requests lately for an overview of the phases of the menstrual cycle. Now, you could dig through my old Instagram posts for this (and I do have a deeper dive course coming out soon), but I know you women want this information now, so here it is. Tune in for an overview of the four seasons of your cycle, how to be in right relationship with them, and what is happening on a hormonal level in each. You’ll also hear my archetypal breakdown for each one so you can begin to tune into the energetics of this time and feel how these women show up within you. 

In this episode…

• What gifts you receive from learning your cycle
• How men and women are different
• The magical number of 4
• Inner Winter Landscape
• Inner Spring Phase Landscape
• Inner Summer Phase Landscape
• Inner Autumn Phase Landscape
• How to begin to deepen your Cyclical Living Practice

A new woman’s story is released every Wednesday, so go ahead and subscribe for your new favorite ritual. And make sure to rate and review this podcast so that more women get their eyes and ears on it.

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Today, on the podcast, we have my sweet sister, Alex Dall. Alex is a fellow Blood Mysteries School graduate, woman of the womb, and a talented herbalist. One thing I love about Alex (there are many) is her big, open heart that is committed to vulnerability and truth. In this episode, Alex and I dive deep into the challenges AND magic of the Luteal phase, realm of the inner Sorceress, and Alex’s story, which is one of learning to choose herself and claim her own timing after years of just following along. You’re going to both laugh and cry with this one. 

In this episode…

• Alex’s shift from Maiden to Mother characterized by her willingness to receive and security in herself
• How Alex works with the intense energy of inner Autumn 
• Using the Sorceress energy to hone in on your truth
• Self-care practices for the Luteal phase
• How the timing of Alex’s first bleed left her feeling confused and a bit shameful for being “behind”
• “Is this what we should be doing?,” who we learn from in the lack of wise women to hold space for us as girls
• Going back and giving your inner little girl love
• How Alex began shaving as a way to feel more like her mom, and like a “woman”
• The shame wrapped up in our body hair and how Alex got curious about her natural body and letting her big toe hair thrive
• Arbitrary timelines- Alex’s tender imprints of getting on birth control and having sex because it’s what everyone else was doing
• Fitting in as survival and a rite of passage
• Alex’s abortion that paved her way out of an abusive relationship and into herbalism and her womb
• Spirit baby connection, full body yes’s and no’s
• Alex’s input on herbal emergency contraception
• My Queen Anne’s Lace story
• How Alex birthed a new life for herself
• Alex’s Motherhood journey, choosing her own timeline

A new woman’s story is released every Wednesday, so go ahead and subscribe for your new favorite ritual. And make sure to rate and review this podcast so that more women get their eyes and ears on it.

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Today, on the podcast, we have Jennifer Bopp, a woman who has lived many lives. Jennifer’s story is one of rediscovering herself after having her womb removed, getting divorced, and shedding her Christian identity when she realized that God is actually everywhere. Jennifer’s way of storytelling weaves vulnerability ancestral and indigenous wisdom, and taking ownership over her life. Jennifer’s story is a big one and an important one with a deep theme around reweaving the sacred womb-throat connection to say yes to her power, rather than hiding in fear. This is an episode to take you to the depths, and I know you’ll feel incredibly grounded and inspired after listening. Jennifer has that effect.

In this episode…

• Jennifer’s incoming transition into the Sorceress phase of life
• How Jennifer tried to hide her first period because she wasn’t “daddy’s little girl” anymore
• Having heavy periods and heavy embarrassment 
• Jennifer shares the Native American Menarche tradition she would have loved to receive on her first bleed to alchemize intense emotions into power
• Jennifer and I bond over how strange shaving is
• How not shaving is an initiation into being seen and accepting yourself
• How Jennifer didn’t get to express herself in a strict religious household
• The story of Jennifer’s first marriage at 18 to a man 10 years older than her who had already had a vasectomy
• Jennifer’s endometriosis diagnosis, how her doctor recommended birth control and it got worse, and how she ultimately wound up with a hysterectomy at age 29
• Why birth control and hysterectomies are dangerous solutions for women’s health
• How Jennifer went from disconnected to her own power and inner knowing to making sovereign choices for herself
• When Jennifer started learning about the power of the womb 7 years and a divorce later and the grief it brought about for her
• How women can still connect to their womb space even if they have had a hysterectomy 
• How pelvic floor exercises healed Jennifer’s severe constipation (and why this is important for women who have had hysterectomies)
• Jennifer’s realization that beginning to use her voice is also healing her womb ~ the womb throat connection
• How Jennifer’s first wound around her voice (a family member putting tape on her mouth) happened at the same time as her first bleed
• What the recovery after hysterectomy felt like, and how it took Jennifer years to feel like herself again
• How Jennifer’s identity was shook when two core labels were no longer hers: Christian and Wife
• Learning that God is everywhere
• Jennifer’s practice of re-visiting what she is doing out of fear and moving away from those things
• Looking to elderhood for inspiration and aspiring to be an elder
• The amazing story of how two old women in Europe inspired Jennifer to go topless on the beach and get one inch closer to being her own crone archetype who’s not afraid of anything
• Jennifer reads a poem by Rumi

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Welcome, women!

This is the Moon Baby Magic podcast, where we share women's Rites of Passage stories. From the imprints of our Menarche (first period), to the transition from Maiden to Mother (birth/postpartum, to Becoming our Power (menopause), this is the space for slow and sacred storytelling.

Natalie Elliott is the host of the Moon Baby Magic Podcast. She is a birthkeeper and women’s health coach specializing in womb wellness and hormonal healing. She is committed to walking alongside women as they reclaim their feminine rites of passage and learn to truly read and heal their own bodies. 

I believe that every single woman has a precious story to tell, and medicine can be found in each one of them. Women often feel alone in their experiences, and the truth is we are not. Whatever flavor it may take, we are all walking the same internal medicine wheel. This is a space to honor that. 

A new women's story will be dropping every Wednesday, so go ahead and subscribe and mark your calendar for your new favorite ritual.

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Today, on the podcast, we have Olivia Dzundza, who takes us on a powerful journey along her spiral path, from maiden to mother, exploring the profound shifts she's experienced in her life. She shares how her first trimester of pregnancy mirrored the phases of her own birth and menarche, and how the wisdom of her maiden self—courage, curiosity, and self-discovery—guided her through challenges, including the painful moment at 19 when she was told she might never conceive. Olivia reflects on her journey through the medical system, from birth control to being offered a hysterectomy, and how these experiences ignited her desire to break the cycle of defaulting to the system. Olivia shares how she now embraces a life she loves, feeling complete and whole, as she enters her second trimester of pregnancy. This episode is a celebration of Olivia's courage to reclaim her innate wholeness and trust in her body's wisdom.

In this episode…

• Olivia’s pregnancy and her journey from maiden to mother, differences between maiden and mother
• The parallels between Olivia’s Menarche (first bleed, her first trimester of pregnancy and even when she, herself, was born
• Olivia’s experience on birth control and how the aftermath of her experience woke her up to her reliance on the medical system and wanting to choose something different for herself
• We chat about some of the gifts of the maiden phase of life, including courage and self-discovery
• When Olivia was told, at 19, that she would not be able to conceive, was offered a hysterectomy and told she should lose some weight
• Olivia’s path through alternative medicine, playing “whack a mole” with symptoms, and how she finally found wholeness by creating a life she actually loves (and is now in her second trimester of pregnancy, despite not ever feeling fully “healed”)
• Olivia’s musings at 25 weeks pregnant

A new woman’s story is released every Wednesday, so go ahead and subscribe for your new favorite ritual. And make sure to rate and review this podcast so that more women get their eyes and ears on it.

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Today, on the podcast, we have Meghan Persephone Taylor. Meghan is a textile artist, specifically a weaver, and you will hear this in the way she weaves the threads of her story together into a tapestry of art. As a Mother of 2 who hasn’t bled since becoming a mother, Meghan shares the stories of her 2.5 year conscious conception of her first, her “subconscious” conception of her second (and not realizing she was pregnant until she started showing at 4 months!), and the creative projects birthed in between. Meghan’s story is a mythic one of going to the underworld to transmute trauma into art, and following the spiral threads of her life with deep trust.

In this episode…

• Meghan’s experience of being deep in the fullness of Motherhood and not having bled since early 2020
• Conscious conception and subconscious conception- how Meghan conceived her second in a dark time and didn’t realize she was pregnant until she was 4 months along
• How Meghan never even considered hiring medical support for her birth, her beautiful free birth and its invitation into her greatest art project yet
• The synchronistic timing of Meghan’s creative project coming to completion in the same month as her daughter being born
• Being pregnant with either children or projects for four years and how that has been expansive and she’s also “hanging on for dear life”
• How the creative force is so uniquely us and also beyond us
• Meghan’s story of reclaiming her life in the underworld and taking on the name Persephone
• Watching herself be born in an industrialized hospital setting and how Meghan chose to unweave each thread to heal and transmute the trauma into creativity and choice
• Meghan shares the story of Persephone as it relates to her own life and how we can all use myths to metabolize our personal experiences
• How we can find wisdom in the underworld as women and how that actually happens in the real world
• The magical story of Meghan’s conscious conception that began when she met her partner and has been the catalyst for everything that has conspired in her life since
• Cycles of fire and earth: changing and integration over and over again
• The threads that led Meghan to move to Costa Rica at 7 months pregnant, and why this is the perfect place for her right now
• Meghan shares about the places she’s lived in relation to astrocartography
• Following the threads of your life all the way through

A new woman’s story is released every Wednesday, so go ahead and subscribe for your new favorite ritual. And make sure to rate and review this podcast so that more women get their eyes and ears on it.

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3. Instagram profile for "a conception": https://www.instagram.com/a.conception_fieldnotes/?hl=en

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5. Insta: https://www.instagram.com/thematriarchsreturn/?next=%2F&hl=en

Today, on the podcast, we have my incredible mentor, Kristin Hauser. Kristin is a powerhouse of a woman, supporting both the women she works with towards hormonal resiliency as more, and her family of (soon to be) 6. Kristin shares how her own menstrual challenges led her to the work she is doing now, and how she views motherhood as a path to spiritual maturity. One of my favorite parts of this episode is how Kristin goes about her pregnancies and birth as she does the rest of her life- without medical interference, and in a totally normal, no fanfare type of way. This episode is steeped in Kristin’s wisdom and her stories that many women will be able to relate to and find common ground in.

In this episode…

• Kristin shares how she experiences the cyclical archetypes within her pregnancy trimesters
• How pregnancy is just a normal part of Kristin’s life 
• Kristin’s excitement about menarche, and how intuitively she taught herself to track her cycle along with the moon
• Her parents divorce and the connection between the fracture between her and her mother and her period pain
• Kristin shares her wisdom on the Heart Womb channel (and how our traumas affect our wombs)
• The many things that led Kristin from not wanting kids to wanting to become a mother
• Kristin’s magical maiden to mother nude photoshoot
• Kristin’s first homebirth story and her warrior-like attitude towards it despite the birth being pretty easy
• Kristin’s intense and unexpected breastfeeding challenges and how being around other breastfeeding women is what she wished she’d had
• Wild pregnancy and freebirth as “the next step” on Kristin’s journey
• Kristin’s second birth that was just another day for her family
• The financial struggles that Kristin’s family experienced in her second postpartum, and how this became an opportunity to uplevel her relationship with money
• Kristin’s third pregnancy, her move across the country in her third trimester, and her first “land birth”
• Motherhood as a path to spiritual maturity
• Kristin’s wisdom on developing the capacity for self-trust

A new woman’s story is released every Wednesday, so go ahead and subscribe for your new favorite ritual. And make sure to rate and review this podcast so that more women get their eyes and ears on it.

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On the first episode of the Moon Baby Magic podcast, I have the great pleasure of dropping into the medicine stories of Kate Oakley. Kate is a wonderfully wise woman who, at 25 years old, has already lived many lives. In her community, Kate is a leader, hosting Women’s circles, attending sovereign birth, and caring for the Postpartum mamas. Her own journey to healing her womb, becoming a wise woman, and birthing in power is nothing short of inspiring and oh so interesting. You won’t be able to stop listening!

Listen for…

-How Kate and I met in the height of her Maiden phase of life at MRF

-Kate’s longing for Cyclical life when she was pregnant and how she found solace in the moon

-Having a big sister who bled first and Kate’s adorable and hilarious excitement to get her first bleed. 

-Kate’s initial curiosity in her blood followed by cultural narratives of being a “pad baby” and periods being an inconvenience.

-Kate’s journey through experimenting with just about every form of birth control and how sitting with Ayahuasca at age 19 finally woke her up to the voice of her womb and repaired her relationship with her mother

-How she met her husband and shifted from long-term vegetarianism and cleansing to eating nourishing meats and fats

-The time Kate sold all of her belongings, left San Francisco, and moved into a van with her friend to travel the country

-A witchy ritual from Kate’s older sister. You’ll wanna hear this one!

-Kate’s surprise pregnancy and sovereign, at-home pregnancy release

-How Kate decided this would never happen to her again, so she looked it right in the eyes and thus began her path of Wise Woman Education.

-The epic beginning of Kate’s conscious conception journey during a ceremony at an all women’s festival

-Kate and her man’s  journey of intimacy healing, farm-fresh nourishing foods, living outdoors, and how that led to the conception of their daughter, Margo

-The beautiful, mythic story of Kate’s last bleed as a maiden

-The numerology of Kate’s pregnancy and how she spent her 40 weeks camping and jumping into waterfalls

-Kate’s 3 1/2 hour psychedelic and sweet freebirth supported by her partner and close sister

-How seeing her blood in birth reminded her of her power minutes before her baby was born en-caul

-The divine and ancestral timing and naming of Kate’s daughter

-Slowing down and infinite expansion in Postpartum and Motherhood

-Kate sings us a song

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