Sex Birth Trauma with Kimberly Ann Johnson (Kimberly Ann Johnson: Author, Vaginapractor, Co-founder of the School for Postpartum Care)
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| 23 Mar 2018 | EP24: Joelle Hann, the Brooklyn Book Doctor, on The Fourth Trimester and Writing Your Book | 00:57:37 | |
This episode is a whole lot of fun. I hope that those of you with book dreams still have them by the end of it, because I hysterically laugh talking about so many parts of the my book writing process, that kind of play out like a blooper roll. But Joelle is a master. She knows how to escavate the soul of a book and make you a better writer in the process. If you want to write a book, my number one piece of advice is find an incredibly editor and stay with them from start to finish. This episode is like pulling back the curtain of the whole process from idea to publication. What Joelle Shares:
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| 01 May 2022 | EP 156: Jaguar Alumni Stories - Jessika & Joanna | 00:14:39 | |
In this testimonial episode, Jaguar course alumni Jessika and Joanna share about their experiences of being part of the Jaguar community. These testimonies speak beautifully to the type of experience you might find in the upcoming 4 week course “Jaguars Uncaged – The Anatomy of Feminine Spirituality". Learn more here. | |||
| 12 May 2024 | Episode 209: The Journey to Becoming a Village Auntie and Girls Group Facilitator with Johannah Reimer | 00:50:17 | |
With fellow educator and Orphan Wisdom Scholar Johannah Reimer, Kimberly discusses Johannah’s long cultivated journey with Girl Groups that work on collective rites of passage. They explore the difference between weekend and longer form rites of passage processes for girls crossing the threshold to adolescence and womanhood, as well as ways to de-emphasize soul work that doesn't center "the self." Johannah emphasizes the impact she has seen guiding Girls Groups and their families into relationships that reflect boundaries, values, and connection. Johannah talks through her passionate approach to the Matricarchical archetype, as well as their shared thoughts on being a single parent. Johanna describes her upcoming 9-month Girl Group facilitator training “Pathways to Womanhood” where she shares her elemental curriculum, which has been honed over 10 years of work with girls of all ages. Links to a free workshop and the facilitator training below.
Bio Johannah Reimer is a soulcentric educator, ceremonialist, teen mentor, and an artist of many trades. Trained as a Waldorf teacher, Johannah has been working with children of all ages for over 20 years and holds a particular passion for tweens/teens striving to meet their developmental needs for mentorship and initiation in a culture that has forgotten how to do so. An apprentice of visionaries: Sage Hamilton and Melissa Michaels of SOMA Source, Johannah has worked for many years as a Waldorf teacher under the guidance of her elder Sage, and as an embodied leader for international youth in movement based Rites of Passage with Golden Bridge & Golden Girls Global. What She Shares
Resources Pathways to Womanhood - Girls Group Facilitator Training | |||
| 04 Mar 2020 | EP90: Jane Clapp on Moving Through Stress Cycles and Accessing Your Vitality | 00:55:26 | |
Jane Clapp’s approach is to weave her diverse training in holistic and mindful strength and movement coaching with trauma-informed mindfulness and nervous system regulation interventions, transforming emotional and physical overwhelm into embodied strength, mobility, and vitality. What Jane Shares:
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| 06 Jul 2019 | EP76: Fourth Trimester Vaginal Steaming Study Results | 01:31:04 | |
Keli Garza, Steamy Chick, and Kimberly Johnson, Magamama discuss the results of The Fourth Trimester Vaginal Steam Study results. We are defining what postpartum recovery looks like. In this podcast we will walk you through the study design- what we did, how we did it, what the results are and what we think the groundbreaking implications of those results mean for future postpartum health and future studies.
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| 04 Oct 2020 | EP104: The 2020 Election, Democracy, Supreme Court and What Our Part Is with Dwight Worden | 00:57:32 | |
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| 17 Sep 2017 | EP3: Layla Centorrino, the Artemis Woman, on Chakras and Energetics of Childbirth and Postpartum | 00:48:54 | |
Magamama interviews Layla Centorrino-- a teacher and practitioner for over thirty years including work such as transformational bodywork, counselor, yoga, colon hydrotherapy, shamanism, energy medicine, and psychic clairvoyance. She is the owner of The Artemis Woman. She is the creator of Conscious Coupling and Uncoupling process, creator and doula of conscious baby-making. Layla Centorrino is a seasoned wise-woman guide who tracks and accesses information and understanding, helps open blocked channels, heals unseen wounds, and clears or leverages epigenetic and ancestral influences. As an Artemis Woman, she honors and embraces the deeper mysteries and cycles as a natural part of her intuitive brilliance, wisdom and connection. Her work illuminates and empowers you to navigate life’s transformational transitions with ease. It cultivates lasting alignment with your internal rhythm, compass and divine callings so you can live life on your terms. In her decades of personal training, cultivation, private practice and group work she has gathered an amazing magical bag of tools and modalities on all levels: physical, mental, emotional, spiritual and energetic. She holds a sacred container for your safety and growth. She remains conscious of your and with you as you work together, whether it is within a group setting or a long-term relationship as your private mentor. The presence and support she brings serves as a reminder and reflection of your greatness. What You'll Hear:
Connect with Layla Centorrino at www.theartemiswoman.com | |||
| 31 Oct 2023 | EP 202: Death Doulas and Green Burials with Bodhi Be | 00:46:10 | |
In this episode, Kimberly and Bodhi discuss his work as a death doula at Doorway Into Light, Hawaii’s only nonprofit green funeral home and educational resource center, The Death Store. They discuss what green burials and ocean burials are and how they are more generous and sustainable to the planet than modern burial practices. They also discuss how dominant culture fears death, responds to death, and death traditions across cultures. In light of all of the ways that people, and even babies, die, Bodhi asks us to deeply reflect on the question, “What is a full life?” P.S. His nonprofit is still taking donations for those displaced by the Maui fires; find the link below to donate!
Bio Bodhi is an ordained interfaith minister and teacher in the Sufi lineage of Sufi Sam and Hazrat Inayat Khan. He is the founder and executive director of Doorway Into Light, a nonprofit organization on Maui, which provides conscious and compassionate care for the dying, their families and the grieving, and has been offering community presentations and trainings since 2006 in the fields of awakened living and dying and the care of the dying. Bodhi is a bereavement counselor and educator; a hospice volunteer; a home funeral guide; a teacher and trainer of death doulas; a speaker and workshop leader and a ceremonial guide. He hosts a weekly streaming radio show, ‘Death Tracks’, on a Maui station. Bodhi guides memorials and funerals and leads grief rituals. He facilitates grief support groups for teenagers. He has trained hundreds of doctors, nurses, hospice staff, social workers, ministers, chaplains, therapists, artists and lay people in the spiritual, psychological, emotional and logistical care of the dying and the care of the dead, and for 4 years has taken dozens through a certification program to be death doulas. Bodhi has written a column called “Ask the Death Professor” for a local Maui magazine. He is a notary public, a coffin maker and a Reiki practitioner. Bodhi and his wife Leilah lead spiritual retreats in Hawaii and around the world.For many years Bodhi collaborated with Ram Dass, a neighbor and friend, who served on Doorway Into Light’s Board of Directors. Bodhi is continuing the work Ram Dass helped birth, in the fields of conscious dying in America.
What He Shares: –Death doula work –Green burials and ocean burials –Running a nonprofit funeral home and resource center –What you do (literally) when someone dies –Legalities of keeping a body with you –Generational stories of death
What You’ll Hear: –How he was led to death work and spiritual counseling –Working with Ram Das –Starting the death doula movement and a ministry of death –Running a non-profit funeral home –Culture pushing away death –Green burials –Hazards of embalming –Biodegradable graves –Death and burial as another practice removed from traditions –Cultural differences around death and burial –Ocean body burial –Being with bodies after death –Generational stories after death –Lingering with the body to witness death –Healthy life includes its death –Mothers of stillborns fighting for baby body –Giving families time and space with death beyond laws –Outlaw moves –Medical rules around bodies and placentas –Navigating baby and child death –What is a full life? –Entitlement around death –Death doula trainings –Facing Death, Nourishing Life course –Showing up for life and death
Resources Website: https://www.doorwayintolight.org/ IG: @thedeathstoremaui
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| 26 Mar 2023 | EP 184: Cultural Crises, Radical Hope, and Strategies for Building Community and Resiliency with Jamie Wheal | 01:06:03 | |
In this episode, Kimberly and Jamie discuss his book “Recapture the Rapture: Rethinking God, Sex and Death In a World That's Lost Its Mind.” Jamie gives an anthropological perspective of human history across millennia to trace how we ended up today with economic, climate, technological, mental health, and other crises. He discusses how all of our social media and culture wars are missing the mark on the actual crises to our planet, and if we don’t address it, it will destroy us all. His solution for processing this grief is by making intentional choices toward hope, and moving from hyper-individualism of our times to supportive, intergenerational communities.
Bio Jamie Wheal is the author of “Recapture the Rapture: Rethinking God, Sex and Death In a World That's Lost Its Mind” and the global bestseller “Stealing Fire: How Silicon Valley, Navy SEALs, and Maverick Scientists Are Revolutionizing the Way We Live and Work” and the founder of the Flow Genome Project, an international organization dedicated to the research and training of human performance. His work and ideas have been covered in The New York Times, Financial Times, Wired, Entrepreneur, Harvard Business Review, Forbes, Inc., and TED. He has spoken at Stanford University, MIT, the Harvard Club, Imperial College, Singularity University, the U.S. Naval War College and Special Operations Command, Sandhurst Royal Military Academy, the Bohemian Club, and the United Nations. He lives high in the Rocky Mountains in an off-grid cabin with his partner, Julie; two children, Lucas and Emma; and their golden retrievers, Aslan and Calliope. When not writing, he can be found mountain biking, kitesurfing, and backcountry skiing. What He Shares: –Increase of fossil fuels and global population –Finding radical, authentic hope –Antidotes and strategies for building community through crises
What You’ll Hear: –Finding meaning in global crises –Rapture ideologies –”The Great Fact” of increase of human population –Environmental impact of human population increase –Crisis is population increase with eroding resources –Global impact increasing food insecurity, housing shortages, and migration –Migration increasing political tensions and culture wars –Finding authentic, radical hope during global crises –Grief as central to finding mature, radical, useful hope –Deep responsibility and service to others –Human experience of privilege and responsibility –Building resilient communities and cultures on behalf of hope –Finding transcendent courage to move forward to progress –Breaking away from hyper-individualism –Returning to rituals of initiation –Authentic resurfacing of traditions of lineage without appropriation –Ways to dispel and dispense micro-PTSD –Highest cultural unrest as release valve during quarantine –Having tools on a regular basis to help us level-set nervous systems and defrag –Addressing conflict, reparation, and restitution with elders –Accessing awe and tapping into experiences of meta-physical –Inter-generational awareness –Gratitude on behalf of ancestors and service on behalf of descendents –Deep, rooted presence –Taking risks to find community –Camp Omega for more
Resources Website: https://www.flowgenomeproject.com/ IG: @flowgenome
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| 28 Aug 2023 | EP 193: Intimacy with Plants, Aligning with Life’s Seasons, and Balancing Motherhood + Business with Marysia Miernowska | 00:38:29 | |
Summary In this episode, Kimberly and Marysia discuss the origins of School of the Sacred Wild, plants as medicine, and entrepreneurship. Marysia shares about how her family and heritage influenced her journey to plants, how plants provide somatic, restorative experiences, and how she navigates single-parenting and running a business. Registration is now open for a new course at the School of the Sacred Wild starting September 12th.
Bio Marysia Miernowska is a teacher, author, Earth activist, green witch, folk herbalist and healer rooted in the Wise Woman Tradition of Healing. Born in Poland, she carries with her a lineage of European folk herbalism. Marysia honors plants as sentient beings, elders, healers and teachers. As a Plant Spirit Communicator, Marysia channels messages from the Earth spirits and guides students to connect with plant spirits through meditation and through their bodies, to receive guidance and learn about the constituents, energetics and properties of plants. Registration is now open for the School of the Sacred Wild and can be accessed through the link below.
What She Shares: –School of the Sacred Wild –Somatic experiences with plants –Benefits of motherhood and entrepreneurship –Aligning life seasons with cycles of nature
What You’ll Hear: –Embodying love and vastness –Creating container of safety and new culture of no judgment –Inviting in ancient plants –Plants offer flavor of love –Interacting somatically with plants –Creating intimacy with the natural world –New learning experience engaging with plants –Origin of School of Sacred Wild –Grandparents in Warsaw during WWII –Grew up in Poland during 1980s –Raised with responsibility to fight for justice –Symbols of Black Madonna and Isis –Mother as cosmic fertile void –Power issues in alternative medicine communities –Finding wild weeds from childhood in Vermont –Depleted by modern living –Restored with plant medicine –Learning to do business and being self-employed –Making earth medicine accessible to all people –Working with abundant, wild, and free plants –Making courses accessible, sliding scale, and scholarships –Single-parenting and business –Having fire from mothering to channel into business –Balancing motherhood with business –Aligning with the currents of nature and our bodies –Mother archetype is time of production and hard work –Working hard in summer to have a nourishing bounty in fall –Turning to plants and earth for healing support –Prayer to change culture –Learning through body’s challenges around needs –Digging and uprooting ancestral patterns of martyrdom –Wild plants encourage wildness in ourselves –Registration now open for School of the Sacred Wild
Resources Website: https://www.schoolofthesacredwild.com/ IG: @marysia_miernowska
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| 02 Nov 2018 | EP49: Jennifer Mayer on Placenta Encapsulation, the Birth World,and What to Look for in Birth & Postpartum Support | 00:50:48 | |
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| 14 Jul 2022 | EP 163: Getting your Power Back through Managing your Personal Finances with Jennifer Mayer | 00:45:21 | |
In this episode, Kimberly and Jen discuss financial planning and making financial decisions such as investing, budgeting, managing debt, saving for emergency funds and retirement. With recent inflation and a possible upcoming recession in addition to ethics of equity, many feel overwhelmed by their personal finances moving them into a state of freeze. Jen provides practical steps towards mapping out a budget, paying off high-interest debt, and creating savings. Jen also discusses how she works with clients individually and her upcoming 12 week financial planning program for entrepreneurs.
Bio Jen Mayer is a Brooklyn-based mother of two, financial counselor, and former doula with a vast background in the wellness industry. She currently works with clients by offering non-judgemental financial counseling such as paying down debt, planning for retirement, in addition to other major life changes such as starting a business or having a child. Jen can be contacted through her Instagram and website linked below.
What She Shares: –Inflation and the current US market –Overwhelming debt –Saving, investing and emergency funds –Shame and freeze around finances –Profit Foundations 12 week financial planning course
What You’ll Hear: –Transition from doula work and agency to finance –Personal finance counselor and coach –Debt management, financial foundations, retirement, savings, and more –Non-judgemental support, shame around finance –Advocacy in finance –Offered free counseling sessions –Financial trauma and shame –Navigating ideals around money and real-world contexts –Retirement needs within the US –Anti-capitalism and individual preferences and comfort around money –Investing, owning and other decisions around money –Emergency funds for 3-6 months living expenses –Distinction between savings and hoarding –Saving with a plan instead of hoarding –Cash losing value from inflation –Stock market depreciating –Possible upcoming recession –Uncertainty around current economy –Investments waiting for financial rebound –High interest debt over 6-7% –Opportunity for investments –Paying off debt as rates go up –Ambivalence around entrepreneurship –Fixed expenses, variable expenses, debt and savings –More leeway in increasing income versus cutting spending –Managing massive amounts of debt –Nervous system responses to debt –Aggressive strategies for more financial freedom –Debt as morally neutral –Having witnessing and accountability to personal finances –Getting a personal banker and an advisor –Understanding different roles of financial professionals –Profit Foundations: 12 week financial program –Self-employment finances –Program for personal finances, business projections, tax strategy and retirement –Benefits of one-to-one sessions versus group program –Investing and saving while paying off debt –High interest and low interest debt –Investment growth and debt compounds –Invest in traditional retirement account to lower student loan debt –Women having personal accounts while married and partnered
Resources Website:www.fullyfundedx40weeks.com IG: @fullyfundedx40weeks @jennyleighmayer | |||
| 24 Mar 2020 | EP91: Astrology March 2020 Breaking Down Old Systems and Creating Something New with Shannon Aganza | 01:23:24 | |
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| 01 Feb 2022 | EP 148: Stillness Practices for Courage in Times of Change with Octavia Raheem | 00:38:03 | |
In this episode, Kimberly and Octavia discuss Octavia’s upcoming book “Pause, Rest, Be: Stillness Practices for Courage During Times of Change.” Octavia describes her relationship to rest, stillness, and restoration, and the circumstances in her life that led her to honoring the importance of rest. They discuss how many of us assume fast-paced lives and are often confronted with our own challenges around rest during early postpartum. They also discuss how meaningful rest is deeply restorative and invites us to understand our most authentic selves.
Bio Octavia Raheem is an author, yoga teacher, and proud mother and wife. She has received national attention for her work training yoga teachers and diversifying the yoga industry and has been featured in Yoga Journal, Mantra Magazine, and more. She is the author of “Gather” and her upcoming book “Pause Rest Be: Stillness Practices for Courage During Times of Change.” She is committed to being well-rested and free. What She Shares: –Importance of modeling rest for family –What meaningful rest is –How Octavia developed relationship to rest –How upcoming book discusses prioritizing rest during pandemic
What You’ll Hear: –Being mothers, authors, running businesses –Describes modeling rest practices for son and family –Rest is fuel –Restorative practices –Living with the pause –Learned importance of taking better care of self through motherhood –Finding rest during the never-ending “to do” list –Former public school teacher, Cross-Fitter, power yoga practitioner, yoga teacher –Describes experiencing condition and hospitalization from overworking, dehydration, and overworking muscles –Describes worrying in hospital over working and responsibilities –Nurse introduced her to rest, stillness, and pausing –Devotion to rest was conceived in the hospital –How postpartum experience forces us to slow down and question our relationship to rest –Rest as a lover –Discovering authentic self in a place asking nothing from me –Simple rest practice: sit for one minute, notice, and feel –Book describes rest situated during pandemic –Reading of excerpt from upcoming book –An invitation into the pause –Power of transmission through words to rest and pause –Accessing rest in a plethora of ways –Describes beginning book about “endings,” writing in June 2020 –Endings always before beginnings and becoming –Collective and communal honorings of endings
Resources Website: https://octaviaraheem.com/ IG: @octaviaraheem | |||
| 12 Oct 2018 | EP47: Kim Anami on Reprogramming for Birth, Sex and Beyond | 01:20:20 | |
Kim Anami is a sex and relationship coach, vaginal weightlifter, surfer and mom. With decades worth of experience in Tantra, Taoism, Osho and Transpersonal psychology, she has helped countless women and men heal and maximize their innate sexual nature. What Kim Shares:
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| 06 Oct 2017 | EP9: Tema Mercado on Midwifery, Xicana Cultural Legacies of Birth, and Postpartum Care | 00:54:14 | |
Tema Mercado is a Xicana mother of five children, wife and licensed midwife. I asked her to be on the Magamama podcast because I have had the privilege of watching her practice midwifery. I wanted to ask her about her dual practice in Tijuana and San Diego, to hear about how the birth center project in Tijuana is going, and also to talk about cultural appropriation in the birth community. I wanted to open dialogue for her concerns and desires for how we use the ancient technology in modern times, while being respectful.
In this episode Tema shares: The differences between doulas, homebirth midwives, and certified nurse midwives How she found creative ways to provide health care to Haitian migrants in Mexico Thoughts on using ancient technology in modern culture Tema shares what adequate postpartum care looks like
What you’ll hear: The realization of what Tema witnessed daily as a rape advocate and midwife (3:45) What midwives take on that doulas don’t (8:00) The three different types of midwives (13:00) The “Casa de La Salud” birth center (16:00) Tema’s main goals of helping the Haitian migrants (20:00) Getting creative to provide prenatal care for Haitian migrants (25:00) The paradigm shift in Mexican birth culture throughout the years (30:00) The hypocrisy of the ancient technology being used today (37:00) Tema shares how she creates her postpartum practices and courses for new moms (43:00) Casa de la Salud birth center in Tijuana and the need for midwives in Mexico (50:00)
To contribute to the Birth Center: https://www.youcaring.com/biancatemamercado-949385?fb_action_ids=10155176992783068&fb_action_types=youcaringcom%3Adonate To contribute to the Amazon wish list: | |||
| 18 Dec 2017 | EP16: Deborah Claire Bagg on Same Sex Fertility and the Vulnerability of the First Year of Motherhood | 00:57:58 | |
EP16: Deborah Claire Bagg on Same Sex Fertility and the Vulnerability of the First Year of Motherhood Today I have a guest who is going to charm you like you haven’t been charmed quite yet. She has the best accent and a very warm heart. Deborah Claire Bagg is the owner and founder of the yoga studio, LoveisJuniper in Brooklyn- which is a yoga center, flower shop and has treatment spaces. Deborah is a yoga teacher, yoga teacher trainer, doula, somatic therapist and new mom. I met her online- but we had a lot of worlds in common as she went to Naropa and I lived in Boulder for five years. She came for a session when I was working in Brooklyn and then immediately invited me to teach at her new space that opened this year. She is a wise woman, and has immersed herself in the feminine arts. We are going to talk about the journey of same sex fertility, the road to starting a non-traditional family and the vulnerability of the first year of motherhood. What Deborah Shares:
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| 17 Sep 2017 | EP5: Keli Garza, aka Steamy Chick, on Vagina Steaming and Radical Women's Health Care | 01:05:10 | |
This podcast is a steamy one. I met Keli at a vagina steaming workshop and was immediately captivated by her wealth of knowledge, background in quantitative analysis, and grassroots approach to women's health. This podcast is all about vagina steaming, and how it can treat almost every gynecological issue. I know the term “vagina steaming” is not a term many have heard so we will discuss here what it is, how it works, what “the perfect period” actually looks like and my own personal success story with steaming. About Keli Garza: Keli, aka Steamy Chick, holds a Masters degree in International Development graduating cum laude. A social science researcher by academic training, Keli has spent the past several years doing women's health research and has founded a new field of discipline called Peristeam Hydrotherapy. Having recorded over seven hundred peristeam case studies, Keli holds the only known research database of its kind. Keli has worked to develop vaginal steam treatment protocols which are now becoming the industry standard. Her approach is unique in that she tailors treatment based on different menstrual patterns and that she works with an Oriental Medicine Doctor who prescribes specific herbs in the formulas.
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| 06 Feb 2020 | EP86: Ash Robinson on the Intersection Between Motherhood, Business, and Self | 01:13:07 | |
Ash Robinson bootstrapped two of her own startups; raised over $12M in funding; sold to a public company right before the recession and consulted with hundreds of business owners and executives- most of whom were women. Ash started a company called Purpose to Profit specifically for women entrepreneurs to more effectively lead sustainable and wealth-creating businesses. Now she consults for non-profits, corporations, and entrepreneurs, especially when they are at critical junctures or need people solutions. What Ash Shares:
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| 03 May 2024 | EP 207: Finding Enjoyment and Service through Movement, Fitness, and Exercise with Ajaye of The Project PT | 00:59:02 | |
In this episode, Kimberly interviews Ajaye, the founder of The Project PT, a fitness center creating major social change in the community of Oxford, England. They discuss Kimberly’s experience at the gym, similarities of fitness culture in the U.S. and U.K. and how it is intimidating to many kinds of people interested in exercise. They also discuss the decrease of physical movement in schools and how that motivated The Project PT’s mission of supporting teen girls in health and fitness. They also discuss other community outreach programs that The Project PT runs as well as the importance and business model of ethical bonds and balancing service-related businesses with motherhood.
Bio Ajaye is the driving force behind The Project PT, a fitness center committed to ethical business standards, social justice, and community outreach. Ajaye has over 18 years of experience in the fitness industry and is a fully qualified personal trainer, crossfit coach, Olympic weightlifting coach, and a sports therapist. The Project studio runs several social work programs in the Oxford community and continues to expand.
What She Shares: –Intense gym culture and The Project PT –Diversity and inclusion in fitness spaces –Supporting youth in fitness –Community outreach –Balancing business & motherhood
What You’ll Hear: –Different physical needs after motherhood –Intense gym culture –Diversity at Project PT Gym –17% in UK attend gyms, 83% do not –Forming community for Project PT –Representation and informed professional development –Limited physical movement in schools –Working with fitness and teenage girls –Skateboarding, boxing, and weight-lifting for girls –Focusing on enjoyment in fitness –Long-term goals for Project PT –Forming a blueprint for other fitness centers –Policy change needed –Working with vulnerable young people –Providing confidence and skills for young people –Crime prevention program working with police –Run social impact reports to study findings –Importance of studies and representation –Fitness, business, and motherhood of 3 children –Struggling to find balance in business and parenting –Kimberly navigating perimenopause and physical/emotional changes –Accepting limitations and being open to change –Adopting children and business thriving –Ethical Bond –Ethical Exchange supporting business bonds and shares –Offering employee shares –Collaboration and community with other businesses –Ethics platform for housing, energy efficiency, etc.
Resources Website: https://www.theprojectpt.com/ IG: @theprojectpt
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| 17 Sep 2017 | EP2: Tobin Zivon on Relationship and Intimacy Games | 00:41:03 | |
EP2: Tobin Zivon on Relationship and Intimacy Games Tobin Zivon is a longtime friend and soul ally of mine. He is also an accomplished spiritual teacher and counselor, and a man I trust to share the masculine perspective with the Magamama community. He authored the Art of Mindful Living: You Can’t Stop the Waves, But You Can Learn To Surf, and has been teaching groups, couples and individuals for over 18 years. His brilliance shines most brightly when working with men, women and couples in the realms of love, intimacy and sacred sexuality. For over two-and-a-half decades, Tobin has been wholeheartedly dedicated to spiritual awakening and to serving others in the flowering of their highest potential. His extensive training includes 6 years in a Zen Center, 12 years in the Ridhwan School (under the direction of AH Almaas), a three-year apprenticeship one of the most transpersonal psychotherapists in America, five years with Adyashanti, and a teacher training program with the South African Tantra teacher Shakti Malan. This episode is for those of you who are in a rut, who are bored with the sex you are having, who feel like things have become boring or routine. You love your partner. It may have been great at some point, or maybe you married someone that you never had amazing chemistry with, but you are just not sure how to get things more spicy and interesting. I have to say that as deep and wise as Tobin is, these kind of intimacy hacks might be his untapped specialty. What You’ll Hear:
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| 05 Dec 2022 | EP 174: Embodied Astrology + Everyday Radiance with Heidi Rose Robbins | 00:59:17 | |
In this episode, Kimberly and Heidi discuss all things astrological. Heidi shares how she came to her work in astrology, how she incorporates astrology into her mothering, and how we can all benefit from understanding our own signs and signs’ energies. They discuss how embodiment connects to astrology, balancing motherhood with work and creative projects, as well as Heidi’s upcoming book which can be accessed through her link below. Heidi even reads some of Kimberly’s chart which connects to sex, power, and safety. Bio Heidi Rose Robbins has been a professional astrologer for 25 years, helping thousands of clients all over the globe live with more authenticity and clarity. She hosts two podcasts, THE RADIANCE PROJECT, featuring poetry, astrology, and good company, and CHART YOUR CAREER, with co-host Ellen Fondiler. Twice a year, she leads Radiant Life Retreats, for people wishing to take a deeper dive into her work. Heidi has written two books of poetry, This Beckoning Ceaseless Beauty and Wild Compassion, and has been a featured poet at two TedX events. She was also recently a guest on Glennon Doyle’s You Can Do Hard Things podcast. Last year, her 12-book series The Zodiac Love Letters, was published by One Idea Press, and her new book, Everyday Radiance--based on her daily Instagram offerings--will be published by Chronicle in January. Heidi grew up in Fargo, North Dakota, learning the zodiac with her A,B, C’s, and calls herself “a poet with a map of the heavens in her pocket.” What She Shares: –Heidi’s work with astrology + astrological embodiment Radiant Life retreats –Embracing the energies of our signs –Motherhood and astrology –New book called Everyday Radiance
What You’ll Hear: –Learning astrology from a young age –Background in theater contributes to workshops and retreats –Embodying signs and energies –Teachers including somatic backgrounds in trainings and workshops –Theater providing powerful embodied experience –Building community and holding space over time –Non-linear paths of healing and growth –Positive reparative experiences with embodiment –Ritual and embodiment –Rising sign as our gift to the world –Expanding and embracing the energies of our signs –Our charts as watercolors, messy and gorgeous –Kimberly’s chart is read –Heidi’s experience working with her father in astrology and art –Heidi’s experience with Sofia Diaz –Role of spiritual teachers versus psychologist –Finding people with your rising sign as embodied teachers –Motherhood and astrology –Mothering as a way to encourage fullness of our children –Importance of children seeing mothers in our fullness –Importance of retreat time away from mothering –Kimberly’s experiencing teaching yoga while mothering –Raising children with chosen family and community –Inner-conflicts around creating with children –Evolution of Heidi’s creative process while mothering –New book coming Everyday Radiance as a daily astrological read –Book available for pre-order –Heidi reads poem of hers on father’s death
Resources Website: heidirose.com IG: @heidiroserobbins | |||
| 22 Nov 2024 | EP 218: Thriving Postpartum - Embracing the Indigenous Wisdom of La Cuarentena with Pānquetzani | 00:48:54 | |
In this episode, Kimberly and Pānquetzani discuss her new book Thriving Postpartum: Embracing the Indigenous Wisdom of La Cuarentena and the thirteen year process of navigating that creative act. Pānquetzani reflects on the ways her relationships with partners and her four children have impacted the journey of making a business and writing a book. Pānquetzani’s writing is inextricably linked directly to the work she has done in and for her community around postpartum care, as well as the lessons she learned around mental health and partner agreements along the way. A deep meditation on personal healing and learning how to make and hold boundaries. The episode lovingly asks: how do you listen to your intuition, your womb, and your baby?
Bio Pānquetzani comes from a matriarchal family of folk healers from the valley of Mexico (Tenochtitlan, Texcoco, and Tlaxcala), La Comarca Lagunera (Durango and Coahuila), and Zacatecas. As a traditional herbalist, healer, and birthkeeper, Pānquetzani has touched over 3,000 wombs and bellies. Through her platform, Indigemama: Ancestral Healing, she has taught over 100 live, in-person intensives and trainings on womb wellness. She lives in California.
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Resources Website: https://indigemama.com/ IG: @indigemama Book: Thriving Postpartum at Sounds True
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| 12 Feb 2023 | EP 179: Radical Aliveness and Building Capacity in a Cancel Culture with Esi Wildcat | 01:12:14 | |
In this episode, Kimberly and Esi discuss how to lean into discomfort during difficult conversations. Esi explains her background growing up in a Black middle-class family in Los Angeles, how she came to her current work and offerings, and her four years of somatic experiencing school. During that program, Esi learned how to stay in her body as a Black woman with mostly white individuals, especially surrounding discussions of race and racism. Through the years, she learned the importance of non-shaming, curiosity, and having truthful conversations through difficult topics and uncomfortable experiences. She offers a nuanced perspective and radical medicine in a time when most are quick to cancel or dismiss. Her Human Slop course begins February 19th.
Bio Esi Wildcat is a Somatic Practitioner and Ceremonialist, an Ordained Priestess of Isis, a Shakta initiate and yogini in the lineage of Sri Vidya, certified holistic health practitioner, and interdisciplinary healing artist with over 20 years of expertise. As a bridge builder to the New Earth, she is making waves in the cultural somatic realm and is injecting the social justice sphere with much needed humanness and nuance. Esi seeks to highlight the extraordinary in the ordinary – and how the power of presence in our lives can transform not only how we relate to ourselves, but the world around us. Her upcoming offering, Human Slop: A Radical Aliveness Worldworking Dojo, starts February 19th. What She Shares: –Esi’s upbringing and call to her work –Somatic experiencing school and feminine chaos –Avoiding cultural scripts and bypassing –Radical aliveness and magic of being human –Human Slop circle coming February 19th
What You’ll Hear: –Cultivating awe and wonder everyday –Deep connection to unseen world –Attended Radical Aliveness Institute –Learning to be with the feminine (chaos) –Mentor’s nuanced perspective on systems of oppression –Subversive work recognizing beauty –Sanitization and carefulness of somatic experiencing programs –Decision to not be trauma-informed as a practitioner –Working towards real racial integration in community –Being in reality of tensions –Accessing and thriving from own life force and vitality –Deconditioning from being the “good girl” –Pain and tensions around race and difference –Systemic influence in personal contexts –Telling truth of socialization around race and class –Spiritual bypassing versus holding multiplicities –Addressing rage, anger, and collapse –Subversiveness in being alive and feeling instead of running away –Learning to stay and increasing capacity for conflict and disappointment –Remembering to human and holding grief –Living in a traumatized culture and a loss of soul –Ripples for culture making and the magic of being human –Human Slop: A Radical Aliveness Worldworking Dojo –Upcoming program starts February 19th
Resources Website: https://wildholyhuman.com/ IG: @wildholyhuman
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| 08 Oct 2018 | 46 *Jaguar Roundtable: Jaguars SPEAK | 01:03:15 | |
In this special episode of the Magamama podcast, my right-hand woman Lynn Wolfbrandt interviews four women who have taken my course Activate Your Inner Jaguar. They share their experiences in the course, from decreased social anxiety, increased intuition and inner knowing, a more comfortable mindset around chronic illness, more congruence between what they desire and what they experience, and a newfound ability to shift from freeze during sex to a more fulfilling intimate relationship with their partner. We also interviewed the partner of one participant, to hear from him around what changed for him during the course. He experienced a profound shift in relationship and intimacy due to his wife’s experience in Jaguar. Thank you to Alysse and Dan Doty, Susie Connerley, Stephanie Sandleben and Dorie Silverman for your intimate shares. The next round of Activate Your Inner Jaguar begins Tuesday, October 9th. Register at magamama.com/jaguar | |||
| 10 Feb 2021 | EP111: Luisa Muhr on Family Constellations, Ancestral Trauma, and Working Somatically While Online | 01:03:33 | |
Luisa Muhr joins me to talk about her work in Family Constellations Therapy, including intergenerational trauma resulting from the holocaust as well as racial trauma within the United States. We talk about the importance of community space in a therapy setting, why working within an energy field is so effective, and staying somatically engaged while online. What She Shares:
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Resources Website: www.familyconstellationsnyc.com
Luisa Muhr is a New-York-based artist and healer, specializing in Family & Systemic Constellations. As the descendant of her great-grandfather, a Holocaust survivor, Constellation work has always played an integral part in Luisa’s life. She provides group workshops and one-on-one sessions. | |||
| 28 Jun 2019 | EP75 Cece on Modern Sex Ed, Body Love, and Navigating the World as a Bi-racial Middle Schooler. | 00:59:09 | |
Cece joins us fresh out of her 6 th grade Sex Education curriculum and
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| 08 Jul 2023 | EP 190: Rethinking Ethical Sex in the Age of Consent with Christine Emba | 00:55:12 | |
In this episode, Christine and Kimberly discuss contemporary relationships to consent and ask what is ethical sex? They consider the complexities of sex positivity, navigating sexual conversations with your children, as well as coming to terms with what we want and what we owe each other.
Bio Christine Emba is the author of “Rethinking Sex: A Provocation,” as well as an opinion columnist for the Washington Post focusing on "ideas and society.”
What you’ll hear: –In a sex positive culture why are people still having bad, unwanted sex? –Where is our sexual culture in this moment? –Is consent a high enough bar? –Are your politics making your sex better? –The value of “willing the good onto the other –How has our sexual and romantic culture changed over time? –Developing trust with someone. –What do you want from a sexual encounter? –Parenting in the age of cell phones, accessible cannabis, and internet porn –The value of boundaries in parenting –The way we talk about parenting girls –The crisis of masculinity with a lack of rites and role models –The pitfalls of gentle parenting –The intersection of dating apps and corporate interests –The value of making healthy, moral judgements –The pendulum swing of normalized kink –What we want and what we owe each other
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| 20 Apr 2018 | EP26: Deej and Uma on Sexological Bodyworker- What is it? Who needs it? And who would make a great practitioner? | 00:45:06 | |
This episode breaks down: what is Sexological Bodywork? What kind of people need Sexological Bodywork? Who would be a good fit to take this training. Deej & Uma are international Sexological Bodywork teachers and teacher trainers. I traveled to Australia for them to be my guides and I cannot recommend this training, and them as teachers highly enough. This year, they’ll be teaching the program in LA, a huge opportunity for those of us in the US! Take a look at their website to learn more about the program: www.issaustralia.com
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| 11 May 2021 | EP 126: Navigating Relationship Conflict and Infidelity while Mothering, Co-Regulation, and Self-Preservation with Livia Shapiro | 01:16:13 | |
In this episode, Kimberly and Livia discuss Livia’s latest book “The Somatic Therapy Workbook” and how it came to be during a difficult marital separation. Livia shares how writing her book was an anchor in the midst of relationship chaos, all while mothering and how to co-regulate with children at developmentally appropriate ages. Livia walks us through her ultimate decision to separate from her ex-partner as healthy self-preservation, as well as the difficulties of doing so within a family unit.
Bio Livia Shapiro is a mother, long time yoga practitioner and teacher, somatic psychotherapist and author. Livia writes on the intersection of yoga, somatics, and psychology. She is the author of “The Somatic Therapy Workbook: stress-relieving exercises for strengthening the mind-body connection and sparking emotional and physical healing.” Her article “Yoga-Based Body Psychotherapy” is published in the International Journal of Body Psychotherapy and is a tool for weaving yoga and psychotherapy into a seamless psychotherapeutic model. As a Somatic Psychotherapist Livia works holistically, helping women reorient and repair their nervous systems to live more vibrantly and powerfully.
What They Share — Betrayal and infidelity in a marriage while mothering — How to co-regulate with children verbally and physically during crises — Separating and single parenting/co-parenting — Living with actual reality vs. desired reality — Preserving Oneself as ultimate act of Mothering
What You’ll Hear — Livia shares writing “The Somatic Therapy Workbook” during a life crisis — Dealing with difficult pregnancy physically and emotionally — Experiencing miscarriage as grace — Livia’s “Fully incarnate” soul into body as a woman, therapist, mother, human — Blighted ovum miscarriage — Break-up of relationship with ex-partner and daughter’s father — Family secrets and developmentally appropriate honesty with children — Boundaries, privacy, and protection with children — Betrayal and shock during marital crisis and mothering — Repairing after marital arguments in front of children — Spousal separation while parenting — Giving children language during difficult times — Single parenting — Co-regulation as acknowledging difficult emotions for children — Confirming realities instead of hiding for children — Lack of confirmation leading to cultism, narcissism, binary thinking — Growing up without honest conversations between parents and children — Teaching verbal and bodily ways to shake out a tense situation — Sharing space both individually and together with children — Needing individual and emotional space from children — Healing, repairing, and recalibrating from infidelity — Infidelity as a power struggle — Self-preservation within a family dynamic — Discovery trauma occurs when told of betrayal — Grieving future sibling loss with same parents as a result of separation — Difficulty accepting potentially new parents in child’s life after separation — Family in-tact doesn’t necessitate individual being in-tact — Kimberly’s desire for marriage and leaving relationship with child’s father and Brazil — Being first person in lineage to divorce — Evaluating relationship difficulty vs. needing to leave traumatic situation — Leaving unhealthy environments as necessity and self-preservation — Accepting what is true and not what wished was true — Claiming self as mother, wife (ex-wife), author — Need for Applied Psychology for all body-workers and somatic professionals — Yoga teachers as somatic practitioners — “The Somatic Therapy Workbook” for all practitioners (yoga, birth, therapists) — “The Somatic Therapy Workbook” complimenting and pairing with “Call of the Wild”
Resources Website: http://ecstaticunfoldment.com/ IG: @liviashapiro Email: lgsyoga@gmail.com | |||
| 06 Jul 2021 | EP 132: Arts, Activism, and Motherhood with Joanna Johnson, the Artist of The Fourth Trimester Journal | 01:04:04 | |
In this episode, Kimberly and Joanna discuss Joanna’s upbringing and personal history that ultimately birthed the artwork of The Fourth Trimester Journal. Joanna describes her experience as a Black adolescent growing up in Sweden, her identity as a mother and artist, her participation in Mother Jaguar and MotherCircle, and how she processes experience through her artwork. In addition to Joanna’s insights learned from Mother Circle, they discuss the racial politics of Sweden, performative anti-racism, and making meaningful change on individual and structural levels. They also discuss the importance of Black art, its contributions to the world, and how that influenced the creation and publishing of The Fourth Trimester Journal.
Bio Joanna Johnson is a self-taught artist and illustrator, social worker by trade and single mom from Sweden with roots from both Sweden and Sierra Leone, West Africa. She is also a beloved member of the Jaguar community and the featured artist and illustrator for the newly released The Fourth Trimester Journal. This summer, Joanna was one of only 12 students to be selected the first time she applied for the highly competitive art school, Östra Grevie. She hopes to move into freelance work and can be supported for her art school tuition in the link provided below.
What Joanna Shares: --Growing up Black in Sweden and history father’s place of origin, Sierra Leone --Brief history of recent racism in Sweden and impact on Joanna --Using art to process personal transformation through motherhood and postpartum --Birth of the art in The Fourth Trimester Journal --Support Joanna’s art school tuition
What You’ll Hear: --Joanna describes journey joining Kimberly’s MotherCircle course and community --Journaled through Images --Artistic style of drawing and upbringing --Discusses African diaspora in relation to upbringing and parents --History of Freetown in Sierra Leone, father’s hometown, and Creole heritage --Awakening process during adolescence reading Black history --Sweden’s history and participation in Slave Trade --Identifying as Black, political choice of choosing identity --Experiencing racism being Black in Sweden --Rise of Neo-Nazis in Swedens in 1990s, murders of people of color and effect on Joanna --Blackness as joy, whiteness as violence --Unique experiences of being biracial and disconnection from ancestral countries --Beginning of The Fourth Trimester Journal and Joanna’s artwork --Joanna’s birth experience and finding MotherCircle --Using artwork to process fourth trimester after actual postpartum period with child --Importance of rest and nourishment --Integration of postpartum processing --Joanna’s experience with MotherCircle that provided safety and nourishment to process difficult birth and postpartum --The Fourth Trimester Journal publishing behind the scenes and negotiations --Performativity of anti-racism while racist disceprancies in culture remain unchanged --Politics of art in relation to imperialism, colonization, and cultural values --Art as essential --Examining predominantly white spaces in “white bubbles” to interrogate racism --Examining whiteness broadly as set standard of norms, expectations, aesthetics, etc. --Tokenization of Black people in various spaces without real change and as an artist --The Fourth Trimester Journal as anti-racist work as gaze of a Black woman --Creating a new vision of motherhood as a Black woman as a political act --Crowd-sourcing Joanna’s art school tuition as recognition of Black art’s contribution to the world --Appropriation of Black art, styles as modern colonization, symbolic of actual mining from Africa
Resources Website https://www.gofundme.com/f/black-joy-resilience-send-joanna-to-design-sc
https://www.shambhala.com/the-fourth-trimester-journal.html
IG: @joannajohnson_art | |||
| 01 Mar 2019 | EP61: Brooke McNamara on the Poetry of Reality and Mothering as Activism | 00:49:38 | |
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Brooke McNamara is a professor at Naropa University, the author of “Feed Your Vow: Poems for Falling into Fullness”, and creates dance theater performances through her company Eunice Embodiment. She’s a poet, a performer, a zen monk, mother of two, a movement educator, and a mindfulness coach. | |||
| 25 Apr 2019 | EP67: Kendra Cunov on Relating Authentically, Single Motherhood, and the Sacred Masculine | 01:03:29 | |
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| 12 Dec 2022 | EP 175: Astrology, Tech, and Finding our Humanness During these Times with Virginia Rosenberg | 01:10:40 | |
In this episode, Kimberly and Virginia discuss the astrological significance of this past decade and the decade to come. They discuss how the increase of technology impacts culture, our nervous systems, and the ways in which we understand and interact relationally. They discuss what it’s like to be entrepreneurs who are creating content on social media, using discernment with social media use, and parenting during the increase of tech, AI, and social media. They also discuss how to return to our humanness, embodied practices for grounding, and finding ancestral practices that have stood the test of time.
Bio Virginia Rosenberg is an Intuitive Astrologer and Movement Artist. Her passion is natural healing of self and society. Virginia believes that we are made to heal, and that healing is a matter of becoming more conscious of and connected to ourselves, each other, and the more-than-human-Worlds. She teaches astrology, qi gong, and various forms of dance, leading retreats, classes, and workshops. Her writings on astrology, spirituality, and society have gone viral and are used as teaching tools in meditation and study groups. Virginia has been interviewed and featured on numerous publications and podcasts. She is Resident Astrologer for the global Qoya movement. Her educational background includes post-colonial and women’s/gender studies, cultural anthropology, journalism, documentary filmmaking, Taoist philosophy and internal martial arts, myriad forms of dance, spiritual alchemy, ritual, ceremony, and energy work. What She Shares: –Increase of tech –Upcoming planet shifts –Navigating humanness in social media –Astrological significance of next decade
What You’ll Hear: –Evolution of sharing on social media –Making social media less personal as an entrepreneur –Speaking to collective story through personal observations –Kimberly shares experience with social media and audience –Increase of focused technology in next decade –Pluto moving through Aquarius next year –AI and astrology –Making peace with artificial intelligence –Identifying reference points for relating with others –Existentialism and motherhood –Human connection with the increase of technology –Falling out of relevancy with culture –Changing currencies in upcoming reconfiguration of society –Our role in changing of society –Being more mindful and intentional around technology use –Our perception and relationship to what’s happening with tech –Finding our center points –Parenting with increase of tech –Commenting on social media as knee-jerk reactions –Viewpoints outside of acceptable milieu –Absence of humanity in relating –How psychology on social media disrupts –Specific identities and tension of expectations to be for all identities –Understanding and teaching discernment –Times of high stakes –Using nervous systems and intuition as guides during these times –Planets that role and correspond with the nervous system –Collective versus individual nervous systems –Using location as a center-point –Movement as centering nervous system –Using martial arts and embodied meditation for centering and anchoring –Connecting across ideologies –Offering astrology calendar for upcoming year –Teaches depth-foundations training in astrology
Resources Website: https://virginiarosenberg.com/ IG: @virginiarosenberg | |||
| 24 Apr 2021 | EP 118: Female Biohacking, Menstrual Cycles, and Reproductive Knowledge for Optimization with Alisa Vitti | 00:51:09 | |
Kimberly and Alisa discuss female biohacking as an under-researched field, leaving many women feeling that they aren’t meeting society’s demands. While culture largely operates according to the 24-hour cycle (circadian), the 28-day cycle (infradian) significantly impacts women’s energy, productivity, and overall health. Alisa demonstrates the importance of women understanding their menstrual cycles in relation to food, fitness, and time management to sustain optimal health and vitality.
Bio Alisa Vitti is a woman’s hormone and functional nutrition expert and founder of FLO Living Hormone Center in Manhattan. A graduate from Johns Hopkins and the Institute for Integrative Nutrition, she is a regular contributor to Cosmopolitan, Women’s Health, and Harper’s Bazaar. She is the author of the best-selling books WomanCode and In the Flo and the creator of MyFLO, the #1 paid period app on iTunes and the first and only period tracking and cycle syncing app. Her work helps women understand the biochemistry of their menstrual cycles in order to sustain efficiency, well-being, and overall health.
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| 22 Mar 2019 | EP62: Jenna Furnari on Ayurvedic Postpartum Care for Long Term Health | 00:54:30 | |
Jenna Furnari works as an Ayurvedic Postpartum Doula in the greater Los Angeles area. She offers phone consultations for families living elsewhere. Jenna hosts an online course to train other doulas, and also offers in-person trainings on Abhyanga, a grounding and gentle bodywork. “The first six weeks after birth really are the foundation behind the way she’s going to show up as a human being, as a mother, as a woman.” “Birth is going to take everything and beyond that out of her. I know that you want to provide this child with every opportunity in the world; and, in order to do that, you and your partner really need to be on the same page at being strong and healthy. In order to get to that really strong and healthy place, she needs to have the care and support to get her there. She’s on going to be able to do it on her own.” Resources: www.jennafurnari.com What She Shares: · How she became a postpartum-specific Ayurvedic practitioner · How her care services are structured · How mothers’ experiences differ when they receive Ayurvedic postpartum care · Details on both her online and in-person trainings
What You’ll Hear: · The importance and specificity of food provided during postpartum care · The what and why of postpartum bodywork · The timeline of maternal care · What she teaches mamas for infant massage · Understanding how much work your body is required to perform after birth · Creating vitality and resistance to illness during the postpartum · Creating mind-body awareness and strength through journaling, proper nutrition, and bodywork · The importance of maintaining a connection to Source to be an effective doula · Financially prioritizing postpartum care · Disseminating information to a mother’s partner and care team in so that she receives the best care possible · Balancing vata during the postpartum through warmth, nutrition, rest, and grounding bodywork · Building support systems and practical ways to ensure new mothers receive the physiological care they require · Prioritizing sleep, food, and proper herbs as an investment to long-term health · The power of postpartum care to heal physical and emotional birth trauma | |||
| 28 Apr 2022 | EP 154: Jaguar Alumni Story - Michelle David | 00:11:50 | |
In this testimonial episode, Jaguar course alumni Michelle speaks about how the Jaguar work and community have supported her journey of healing trauma and widening her capacity to actively and presently engage with life. As Kimberly and her team prepare for the next round of Jaguar, this testimony speaks beautifully to the type of experience you might find in the upcoming 4 week course "Jaguars Uncaged – The Anatomy of Feminine Spirituality". Learn more here. | |||
| 18 May 2018 | EP29: Emilee Saldaya on Free Birth and Waking Up from the Amnesia of Birth | 01:03:09 | |
“Birth is normal and it is biologically meant to work, it can feel incredible and you can have an incredible postpartum; but it takes a level of curiosity, courage and willingness to take responsibility for yourself that we have been hypnotized not to do.” Emilee Saldaya founder of the Free Birth Society boldly challenges the conventional birth process and refers to the ‘amnesia’ modern women embody when it comes to biological natural birth. She discusses why birth is a feminist issue, why Free Birth has become more popular, her own birth and postpartum process and the reverence it deserves and why it’s a mother’s right to forego choosing a doctor or midwife to preserve her birth experience. What You’ll Hear: -Emilee’s journey attending births, the trauma she witnessed and how it influenced her birth preparation -How abuse, trauma and lack of consent are normalized in birth setting -What does the term ‘birthing in captivity’ mean? -The difference between an unmedicated birth and natural birth -Unnecessary surgical births and doctor’s incentives -The connection between birth and feminism -Emilee’s ethical dilemma with doulas and midwives in the system and her decision to attend and have a Free Birth -How she defines her role in supporting women in a Free Birth as well as more definitions and range of Free Birthing -The connection midwifery has to government and how women worldwide are Free Birthing in secret due to lack of support ie; VBAC -The lack of awareness around the autonomy of our body and the lack of consent we’re accustomed to in medical setting -Women centered humanized birth, maturation process, forgoing the good girl way and taking responsibility for our birth experience -Emilee’s move to Maui for her birth and postpartum period and snippets of her birth story and postpartum time -Birth as a Rite of Passage, being ‘selfish’, planning and prioritizing your birth experience -Emilee challenges current midwifery, discusses licensing and regulation and the traditional birth attendant -How Emilee’s birth outcome would have looked had she been in midwifery or OB care vs what she had -Kimberly’s opinion of midwives -What Emilee wishes everyone would know about birth, resources about Free Birthing and how to advocate to family and friends -Emilee distinguishes between power and empowerment -The amnesia of birthing and working through it collectively | |||
| 25 May 2021 | EP 128: Doula Work as Spiritual, Sacred, and Community-Building with Haize Hawke | 00:46:46 | |
In this episode, Kimberly and Haize discuss Haize’s Get Rooted with Haize Doula Training, Haize’s experience as a doula and mentor, and birth work in relation to relationships, energy, and community-building. Haize describes her experience as a spiritual mentor and doula for birthing families and how her new doula training curriculum came to be. She also discusses how COVID-19 has impacted pregnant and birthing people, causing even more isolation and health risk factors. The pandemic in addition to Haize’s lifelong experiences have re-energized Haize in her trainings to focus on holding space, relationships, and community for birth workers, birthing families, and the community at large.
Bio Haize Hawk is a certified doula, student midwife, spiritual counselor and community leader, mother, and offers full-spectrum doula care. She recently created and runs doula trainings based on her decades of experience in holding birth as spiritual, a rite of passage, and initiation for families. Get Rooted the Haize Way is Haize’s doula training that began as a pregnant people’s class and has developed into a full curriculum and certification for doulas and birth workers.
What They Share --Get Rooted with Haize Doula Training philosophy --Importance of birth workers supporting one another --Importance of birth workers supporting families energetically --Impact of COVID-19 on pregnant and birthing people
What You’ll Hear --Started group coaching for pregnant mothers --Developed class as a doula training --Doulas needing certification for hospitals during COVID-19 --Creating curriculum and certification for doula training --Curriculum includes spiritual ancestry, masculine/feminine, herbology, nutrition, homeopathy and more --Cohorts building community with each other --Trainees doing inner work on themselves to prepare for birth work --Understand importance of birth workers --Importance of relationships between midwives, pediatricians, hospitals, doulas and all birth workers and support --Birth workers showing solidarity for each other --Protecting energy as birth workers --Power-with vs. power-over --Pregnant and birthing during COVID-19 increase in high risk factors --Birth as a spiritual transformation to individual and family --Maintains morning and evening routines as boundaries for time and access --Turns to community for support and nourishment --Self-replenishment as service for community --Love as foundation of everything --Recommendations to hold energy not place-holders --Doula support as mutual energetic reciprocity --Business of relationships, space-holding as energy in doula work --Returning to origins of birth with relationships and space-holding
Resources IG: @iamhaizehawkrosen | |||
| 02 Oct 2017 | EP8: Juna Mustad on Intuition, Anger, and Boundaries with Love | 01:03:25 | |
In this episode, Juna and Kimberly talk about intuition. What exactly is intuition? How do you tap into it? What is its role in therapy? As a practitioner, how do you capitalize on your intuition, and also develop accurate discernment? Juna shares some of her gems and insights from her upcoming book, A Good Girl’s Guide to Anger, and much more. Juna Mustad is a Life and Relationship coach, an Intuitive, and a Somatic Experiencing Practitioner focused on helping people create healthy relationships, expand emotional awareness, and embrace their full potential. She combines her visionary gifts with body-centered therapy to help both individuals and couples, as well as organizations around the world. What You’ll Hear:
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| 28 Sep 2020 | EP102: Astrology Update: Mars Retrograde, Generational Patterns, and WTF is happening for the rest of 2020 with Shannon Aganza | 01:10:05 | |
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Summary: Shannon Aganza re-joins the Magamama Podcast to talk about retrograde, generational behaviors, and what we can expect to see unfold astrologically over the coming months. It’s been a while since Shannon was last on the podcast, so we had plenty to discuss regarding what has happened both politically and socially this year.
Bio: Shannon Aganza is an astrologer, a pundit, and a counselor for many based out of San Diego. Shannon has spent over 20 years within the field of astrology, searching and helping others to understand how we are shaped by the universe around us. Shannon specializes in astrological readings, moon circles, and spiritual hygiene amongst many beneficial services.
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| 01 Feb 2019 | EP59: Christine Caldwell on Bodyfulness, Interconnectedness and Somatics | 00:54:56 | |
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| 20 Dec 2022 | EP 176: “Girls on the Brink” Unpacking Mental Health Issues in Girls with Donna Jackson Nakazawa | 00:56:57 | |
In this episode, Kimberly interviews Donna Jackson Nakawaza about her latest book “Girls on the Brink: Helping Our Daughters Thrive in an Era of Increased Anxiety, Depression, and Social Media.” Donna’s book explains recent research behind the increase of significant mental health issues among girls and young women. Whereas neuroscience research only ever examined male brains and bodies, this book overviews recent research on females and how feelings of unsafety, threat, high expectations, and algorithms on social media heavily contribute to this increase. They unpack the ways in which the female brain stress responses are connected to immunity and overall well-being, as well as the myriad stressors young girls in particular face today. Last, they discuss strategies for parents to create a sense of connection, attunement, and safety with their children to mitigate these environmental and cultural stressors.
Bio Donna Jackson Nakazawa is an award-winning journalist and internationally-recognized speaker whose work explores the intersection of neuroscience, immunology, and human emotion. Her mission is to translate emerging science in ways that help those with chronic conditions find healing. Her writing has been published in Wired, The Boston Globe, Stat, The Washington Post, Health Affairs, Aeon, More, Parenting, AARP Magazine, Glamour, and elsewhere. For her reporting on health-science, Donna received the AESKU lifetime achievement award and the National Health Information Award. She has appeared on The Today Show, National Public Radio, NBC News, and ABC News. Her latest book, “Girls on the Brink: Helping Our Daughters Thrive in an Era of Increased Anxiety, Depression, and Social Media” (Random House/Harmony, 2022) is available for order wherever books are sold. What She Shares: –Increasing rates of major depression in girls –Female biology as super-powers –Girls experiencing cognitive dissonance and perpetual unsafety –Social media impact on adolescence and maturity –Parenting strategies for connection, attunement, and safety
What You’ll Hear: –1 out of 3 girls exhibit major depression –Recent increasing rates of major depression in girls –Suffering from guilt, fatigue, unworthiness, hopelessness –Suicide rate rising 51% among girls –Only recently NIH requested neuroscience on female brains –Significant differences in way stress impacts female body and brain –Lack of research on trans and non-binary individuals –Need to hear and know science to galvanize change –Female sex differences used against women throughout history –Unmitigated chronic stress and sense of unsafety –X&Y chromosome differences regarding immunity –X chromosomes provide extra protection in placenta –Male babies more likely to have health issues –Vulnerability of immunity shifts with increasing estrogen during puberty –Estrogen master-regulator in body of neurons –Women 3-5x more likely to have auto-immune diseases –Estrogen evolutionary advantage but flips with stressors in environment –Social and emotional stress –Estrogen increases stress response versus testosterone –Girls born 1995 or later demonstrate major drop in mental health –Trends of social media algorithms connect to mental health decline –Social media mimicking tribes but generating negative activity and isolation –High activity and high emotion in social media –Social media activates dopamine (reward circuitry) repeatedly –High health-risk behaviors from other teens of images on social media –Big emotions overtime turns off ‘be careful’ filters for teens –Prioritizing deep connections with real world individuals vs. digital –Girls more likely to be criticized on social media for appearance –More sexualized increase of girls with social media –Over-medicating adolescents –Girls caught in a state of cognitive dissonance between gendered sexist messages –Lowering puberty ages throughout history –Removal of in-between years of maturity, growth, self-interests –Hierarchical valuative list of benchmarks for girls to achieve –How can girls develop senses of selves in this culture –Recreating connection, attachment, and bio-synchronicity with our children –Being grounded and regulated to offer sense of safety for our children –Brains rewiring before adolescence (used to happen later) –Brains remodel on sense of unsafety before puberty –Creating connection, mattering, and belonging that is bigger than the world –Children flourish in safety and connection with parents –Parents to talk less and listen more –Younger generation needs adult help more than ever to articulate feelings –Wondering aloud with our children to develop their interior selves
Resources Website: https://donnajacksonnakazawa.com/ IG: @donnajacksonnakazawa
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| 30 Jan 2018 | EP19: Sil Reynolds on Mothering and Daughtering “Better” (Not Easier) with More Connection and Support in the Digital Age | 00:52:31 | |
EP18: Sil Reynolds on Mothering and Daughtering “Better” (Not Easier) with More Connection and Support You are really in for a huge treat in meeting Sil Reynolds. She and I have connected intermittently over the years. Although our contacts have been brief, she has given me gems that have stuck with me over time. At a time when I felt deeply insecure about mothering and especially single mothering, she told me, a child needs ONE person to securely attach to. And she is a person you listen to and trust when she speaks. She is a wise elder, a former women’s health nurse practitioner, a coach and teacher of women and mothers and an author, together with her stellar daughter, Eliza Reynolds, of the book Mothering and Daughtering. What Sil Shares:
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https://motheringanddaughtering.com Video Blog on Tech Boundaries with Deborah McNamara: https://motheringanddaughtering.com/setting-real-tech-boundaries-kid/ Hold onto Your Kids: Why Parents Need to Matter More Than Peers by Gordon Neuf, Ph.D. and Gabor Mate, MD | |||
| 12 Sep 2022 | EP 168: Honoring Limits and Capacities through Life Cycles, Business, and Yoga Practice with Sara Avant Stover | 01:07:44 | |
Summary In this episode, Kimberly and Sara discuss how they met through yoga, how they approach their businesses, and how they navigate moving through biological seasons such as premenopause and menopause. While culture wants women to continue pushing towards growth, Kimberly and Sara explain the importance of honoring their own limitations and energy levels especially as entrepreneurs. They also discuss Sara’s approach to her online yoga teacher trainings for women.
Bio Sara Avant Stover is a teacher of feminine spirituality, bestselling author, and Internal Family Systems (IFS) Practitioner. After graduating Phi Beta Kappa and summa cum laude from Columbia University’s all-women’s Barnard College, she had a cancer scare, moved to Thailand, and embarked on a decade-long healing and spiritual odyssey throughout Asia. Since then, Sara’s gone on to uplift the lives of tens of thousands of women worldwide. The creator of the world’s first Women’s Yoga Teacher Training, she specializes in supporting women to navigate challenging life transitions and heal from trauma, in service of living with more ease, wholeness, and fulfillment. Sara has also been featured in Yoga Journal, the Huffington Post, Newsweek, Natural Health, and on ABC, NBC, and CBS. She lives in Boulder, CO, and online at SaraAvantStover.com What She Shares: –Kimberly and Sara’s yoga teaching experiences together –Sara’s The Way of the Happy Woman: Yoga and Meditation Teacher Training for Women –Accepting limitations and different capacities in business –Navigating biological seasons and accepting life’s paths
What You’ll Hear: –How Kimberly and Sara met –Sara’s experiences hosting yoga teacher trainings –Discovering love and capacity for leadership –Developed women’s yoga teacher training –Transitioning to online teacher trainings –Reasons for focusing on women in trainings –Having sensibility and sensitivity while working with range of people –Processing emotions in community during trainings –Sara’s experience dismantling and rebuilding business –Business practices valuing simplicity, cohesion, and sustainability –Navigating behind-the-scenes business challenges –Business expectations and assumptions for coaches –Marketing in the self-help, coaching, yoga worlds –Regret in business and entrepreneurship –Limitations and the feminine –Feminism, fertility, aging, and biology –Accepting limitations around bearing children –Childlessness and singleness in US culture –Ideology trumping biology in many circumstances –Technology and IVF not guarantees –Specific practices for pregnancy, postpartum, menstruation, perimenopause, postmenopause –Internal Family Systems therapy –IFS therapy part of teacher training –Range of experiences, ages, etc. in trainings –Intergenerational and international training –Women learning through modeling and others’ stories –Setting up life and business to prepare for menopause –Sara’s YTT starting early October –Honoring Zoom fatigue during online training
Resources Website: https://www.womensyogateachertraining.com/ https://www.saraavantstover.com/ IG: @saraaventstover | |||
| 13 Mar 2025 | EP 221: Reckon and Wonder with Stephen Jenkinson, Kimberly Ann Johnson, and Jackson Kroopf [ENCORE] | 01:15:42 | |
This is a special re-release of an episode featuring guest host Jackson Kroopf speaking with the incomparable Kimberly Ann Johnson and Stephen Jenkinson. We’re bringing this conversation back to let you know about something special happening this weekend from Stephen Jenkinson and the Orphan Wisdom School: Sanity and Soul: Die Wise 10 Years. Taking place on March 15th and 16th at 10am Pacific, this 6-part online event is a deep dive into the wisdom of death, grief, and the soul, 10 years after the publication of Stephen's transformative book Die Wise. You’ll get to experience the depth of Stephen’s work in a pretty unique way: through 4 recorded grief counsel sessions with dying people, hearing Stephen practice, in 2025, the kind of work described in Die Wise. Plus, he’ll be joined by two brilliant colleagues—a neuroscientist studying human consciousness and a filmmaker exploring the afterlife—to discuss the lasting impact of Die Wise on grief counseling, death doulas, and the way these ideas continue to shape our world. If you want to learn more and register, visit orphanwisdom.com/events. But now, enjoy this conversation from March 2023, following Reckoning at Mt. Madonna. Please do consider gifting yourself or a loved one this upcoming offering, Sanity & Soul that promises to provide some ceremony in these troubled times in ways only Stephen and the Orphan Wisdom School can. Link: https://orphanwisdom.com/event/die-wise-sanity-and-soul-ten-years-on/
What You’ll Here in this Episode: Reflections on witness from retired birth and death workers The value of disillusionment The power of loneliness The proliferation of self pathologizing The complex politics of feelings The religion of western psychology Adolescents grabbing for pop psychology labels The respect in not offering solutions The eagerness to escape from pain while grieving Is love dead? Blessing not as approval but the emergence of something new Marriage as both celebration and loss Matrimony between cultures An only child and single parent inviting in a new husband Building an escape route as you enter a union The no-go zone of contemporary western marriage 15 minute weddings, 15 minute funerals, 15 minute births The cultural casualties of uniformity Being healthy enough to tend to home and neighbor
Links ig @reckoning live Sanity & Soul Sign-Up https://orphanwisdom.com/event/die-wise-sanity-and-soul-ten-years-on/ | |||
| 30 May 2019 | EP71: Sabia Wade, the Black Doula, on Birthwork, Activism, Privilege and Full Spectrum Doula Care | 01:06:24 | |
Sabia Wade began her birth work with incarcerated people. A full spectrum doula, she is an educator, doula trainer and activist. She says there's no separating activism and birthwork and wants all people to have access to care. She is the founder of For the Village, a non-profit setting out to address disparities in birth and provide community for birthworkers. | |||
| 30 Oct 2022 | EP 171: Friendships, Desire, and Healthy Attachments with Deborah Bagg | 00:57:00 | |
In this episode, Kimberly and Deborah discuss friendships, desire, and healthy attachments. Deborah explains her experience with having a large capacity for many friendships and how her clients often discuss issues around finding and keeping lasting friendships. They discuss how our original wounds seek out repair in patterns that often appear in friendships, as well as how the pandemic changed many relationships and friendships. Deborah debunks the myth that healing, love, and growth happen individually to assert that we are wired from birth for secure attachment, love, and attention. Friendship can be an opportunity to help us acknowledge past wounds, seek out ways for resolution, and grow as more whole and healed beings.
Bio Deborah Clare Bragg is a somatic psychotherapist, yoga teacher, doula, and practitioner of feminine arts. She graduated from Naropa University with a masters in somatic psychotherapy. Alongside her therapy work, she teaches yoga at Love is Juniper and is hosting an upcoming Friendship Workshop which starts on November 17th and can be accessed through the link on the website below. In this episode, Kimberly and Deborah discuss friendships, desire, and healthy attachments. Deborah explains her experience with having a large capacity for many friendships and how her clients often discuss issues around finding and keeping lasting friendships. They discuss how our original wounds seek out repair in patterns that often appear in friendships, as well as how the pandemic changed many relationships and friendships. Deborah debunks the myth that healing, love, and growth happen individually to assert that we are wired from birth for secure attachment, love, and attention. Friendship can be an opportunity to help us acknowledge past wounds, seek out ways for resolution, and grow as more whole and healed beings.
Bio Deborah Clare Bragg is a somatic psychotherapist, yoga teacher, doula, and practitioner of feminine arts. She graduated from Naropa University with a masters in somatic psychotherapy. Alongside her therapy work, she teaches yoga at Love is Juniper and is hosting an upcoming Friendship Workshop which starts on November 17th and can be accessed through the link on the website below. What She Shares: –Why it’s hard for women to make friends –Tending to original wounds and repairs –Attachment styles in friendship –Impact of pandemic on friendship –Secure attachment and community –Deb’s upcoming Friendship Workshop
What You’ll Hear: –Hesitancy around discussing friendship –Attending to previous ruptures in friendships from adolescence –Pains leading to narratives around female friendships –Knowing our capacity for friendship –Honoring desire and vulnerability –Making bids and invitations –Tolerance for rejection –Discerning when friendship is worth conflict or not –Patterns of conflict avoidance –Including and excluding –Alchemy variations in different groups –Different attachment styles in friendship –Repetition and compulsion –Original wounds searching for repair in patterns –Impact of pandemic on friendships –Experiencing major life changes and friendships –Debunking myth of loving self before loving others –Interconnection and healthy attachment –Feeling safe as children and in friendships –Sickness individualization –Picking community that reflect love and value –Taking stock of people in our lives –Breakout rooms and flight responses –Rejection and secure attachment –Friendship Workshop starts November 17th
Resources Website: https://www.loveisjuniper.com/ IG: @loveisjuniper | |||
| 18 Apr 2019 | EP66: Alexandra Sacks on Preparing for Matrescence and Preventing Postpartum Depression | 00:38:28 | |
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| 11 May 2018 | EP28: Uma Dinsmore-Tuli on Yoga, Feminism and the Postpartum Period | 01:04:13 | |
“If you actually understood what a woman has been through: the conception journey, pregnancy, birth, the whole process—what’s happening demands full respect and a deep care. To imagine that people would just snap back into their size 0 jeans and walk out, it begs disbelief. There’s no respect for what’s arisen. And in the yoga world, we’ve fed right into that.”
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What You’ll Hear: -She needs stability nurture and a real sense of being mothered -Postpartum period is 5 years. -Deep inner work of breath and awareness to the pelvic floor and breastfeeding -Stability practices, using the closing practices of yoga in a community, grassroots environment. -When the advice “take care of yourself” is all you get when you go to a group yoga class doesn’t meet a woman’s needs -What is the yoga patriarchy? -The feelings of exclusion in the yoga sangha -The yoga can subtly welcome the whole range of our life as humans -Postpartum is messy, dirty, tiring and grumpy, and the extraordinary capacity that yoga has to help us through this. -Anchara mauna- Inner silence, tuning to the present moment, while breastfeeding and tuning in to the senses. -The Fourth Trimester- whole process of healing is being overlooked -You can’t tell how healed a woman is after having a baby — “All those ladies that look so great in bikinis, you don’t know what’s in their underwear” -Postpartum energy is present after miscarriages, stillborns, and near-death experiences -The goddess of the Fourth Trimester -Postpartum care is not a mental health issue: it’s a body issue -Even if you don’t have a traumatic birth, birth is still a heartbreaking, heart-opening experience -The yoga world hasn’t helped with judgments around birth -Birth images: to hire a photographer, or not -If you have great postpartum care, you’ll metabolize the birth experience, no matter how it went -Even the most gentle birth is a powerful experience and needs healing at a cellular level -- you are in shock during the fourth trimester -You are a new woman after birth -- you need the presence of wise women, to help you make the best choices for your healing -New mothers need everything new babies need -Learning to be okay in the not knowing, and learning to rest: menstruation, birth, postpartum, and menopause -Repair is always possible | |||
| 01 Oct 2024 | EP 215: Never Land / Sever Land - Dirt, Place, Ancestry, & The Making of Culture From the New World with Stephen Jenkinson | 01:12:48 | |
In this episode, podcast producer Jackson Kroopf interviews Kimberly Ann Johnson and Stephen Jenkinson about their upcoming live audio series Never Land / Sever Land - Dirt, Place, Ancestry, and The Making of Culture From The New World. They discuss the impact of their recent trip to Ireland on their ongoing collaboration around culture making in the wake of a global pandemic. They reveal details about Stephen's work-in-progress manuscript and how it relates to orphan wisdom. They consider the implications of the “New World” in contemporary circumstances, the sticky territory of ancestry, and how dirt fits into all of this. A glimpse into a very special offering to come, this conversation gives you a preview into what happens when these two come together to consider the topics and work they’ve devoted so much of their respective writings and teachings to: how to consider (your) place when history is never far past. Bio Stephen Jenkinson, MTS, MSW is a worker, author, storyteller, musician and culture activist. In 2010, he founded Orphan Wisdom, a house for learning skills of deep living and making human culture that are mandatory in endangered, endangering times. It is a redemptive project that comes from where he comes from. It is rooted in knowing history, being claimed by ancestry, working for a time he won’t live to see. When not on the road, he makes books, succumbs to interviews, tends to labours on a small farm, mends broken handles and fences, and bends towards lifeways dictated by the seasons of the boreal borderlands.What you’ll here wonderings about:
You can learn more and sign up for their upcoming class "Never Land / Sever Land: Dirt, Place, Ancestry, and The Makings of Culture From the New World" from October 20th-November 17th at: https://kimberlyannjohnson.com/never-land/ photo by Mattias Olsson
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| 20 Feb 2025 | EP 219: Proud Flesh - A Memoir of Motherhood, Intimate Violence, and Reclaiming Pleasure with Catherine Simone Gray | 01:00:11 | |
In this episode, Kimberly dives deep into guest author Catherine Simone Gray's book Proud Flesh: A Memoir of Motherhood, Intimate Violence, and Reclaiming Pleasure. With tenderness, Kimberly and Catherine share their mutual appreciation for each other’s writing and the deep impact Kimberly’s work has had on the journey that led to Catherine’s book. Catherine guides us through her journey of healing from a vaginal tear postpartum, which led to the discovery of proud flesh, a term for hypergranulation tissue. She describes the emotional and physical challenges she faced across two births (one hospital/C-Section, one home/natural), including silver nitrate treatments and the support of her husband; recounting the story of how the couple’s relationships to one another’s bodies changed when she invited him to draw her vulva daily. Catherine and Kimberly both emphasize the importance of language and writing in redefining sexuality and eroticism, and how this process can support women in reconnecting with their body. If you enjoyed this conversation be sure to sign up for their online gathering Writing as a Pathway to Pleasure on Sunday, February 23rd at https://kimberlyannjohnson.com/writing-pathway-to-pleasure/
Bio Catherine Simone Gray is a writer and teacher. Her writings on motherhood and healing first appeared on her blog Unsilenced Woman, where her piece about teaching her son consent reached 2.5 million around the world. Featured by Roxane Gay in The Audacity’s Emerging Writer Series, her work has also appeared in The Bitter Southerner and the Michigan Quarterly Review: Mixtape. Her blog writings have been shared by respected organizations for new mothers, such as La Leche League USA, International Cesarean Awareness Network, and ImprovingBirth. Gray is the recipient of a literary arts fellowship with the Mississippi Arts Commission and has delivered three addresses at the Mississippi Women's March and Womanist rallies. With over a decade of experience as a writing teacher to people aged eight to eighty, she holds a master of arts in curriculum and instruction. She leads writing circles for women, mothers, and caregivers, exploring how writing can be an ally in our living and loving. Her debut memoir Proud Flesh: A Memoir of Motherhood, Intimate Violence, and Reclaiming Pleasure was published in 2025 by North Atlantic Books. She lives in Jackson, Mississippi, with her husband and their two sons.
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Links IG - @unsilencedwoman Website - www.unsilencedwoman.com Book - https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/771427/proud-flesh-by-catherine-simone-gray/ Online Gathering - https://kimberlyannjohnson
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| 13 Feb 2024 | EP 203: Reflections on a Wedding Ceremony | 01:22:30 | |
In this episode, you hear reflections on Kimberly’s wedding, just weeks out from the event in Salvador, Brazil. With guest host/podcast producer/cousin, Jackson Kroopf, you will hear Kimberly sit with all of the proceedings: from spiritual preparation to rehearsal to ceremony to celebration. What does it mean to be married in the traditions of a spouse’s culture? Who is a wedding for? What role do children play in their parent’s ceremony? How do we understand the relationship between matrimony and contemporary weddings? In this open hearted conversation, you will hear family reckon, reflect, and bask, in real time, on their expanding family. | |||
| 21 Mar 2021 | EP 116: Jaguar Bite #2 - Attachment Parenting Misunderstandings | 00:08:53 | |
Welcome to Jaguar Bites: new solo episodes where I break down big nervous system concepts into bite-sized pieces. | |||
| 09 Nov 2018 | EP50: Liz Koch on the Physical and Energetics of the Wild Psoas, Core Integrity, and the Rhythm of Life | 01:06:01 | |
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| 04 Dec 2020 | EP107: Repairing Pre- and Perinatal Trauma and Listening to Babies with Kate White | 00:56:48 | |
Kate White is an advanced bodyworker, perinatal educator, and somatic trauma resolution professional. She developed much of her work following the pregnancies and births of her own two children. She is the Founding Director of Education for the Association for Prenatal and Perinatal Psychology and helps administer an online program for parents and professionals who work with parents, runs a private practice, and offers her own seminars through the Center for Prenatal and Perinatal Programs. What Kate Shares:
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| 19 Feb 2024 | EP 204: A Council on Matrimony with Stephen Jenkinson | 01:04:38 | |
With special guest host Stephen Jenkinson, Kimberly and Stephen consult with three engaged couples and an unmarried woman to wonder aloud about the institution of marriage. Stephen describes his experience, when he was asked to marry several couples, how he did his homework.
Kimberly describes what she learned from having a wedding in the working terreiros culture of Bahia, Brazil. Stephen describes why a ceremony has no audience - it only has witnesses and participants. Stephen and Kimberly contend with how contemporary couples, longing for ceremony in their matrimony, strive for integrity in their union. This episode is just the tip of iceberg. Starting February 25th, Stephen and Kimberly will start their 5-part Online Series "Forgotten Pillars: Patrimony, Matrimony, Kinship, Ancestors & Ceremony." They will dive much deeper into the lessons gleaned from working cultures of the past to inform meaningful ways for couples, families, and communities to come together for experiences that linger long past the "big day." Find out more or join us: https:// | |||
| 27 Nov 2020 | EP106: Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art with James Nestor | 01:00:57 | |
James Nestor, author of “Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art” joins me to speak on all the ways facial structure, nutrition, eating habits, and industrialization have impacted humans’ ability to breathe, why it matters, and ways we can get back to the basics. What James Shares:
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| 05 Jul 2020 | EP97: Roundtable: Jaguar in the Q | 00:59:43 | |
In this roundtable episode, Jaguar alumni Meryl Yecies speaks about her experience with Jaguar and interviews 3 women who recently participated in the most recent Jaguar offering Jaguar in the Time of Cholera a course created to provide somatic tools and support during the quarantine.. Tune in to hear from Meryl, Leilani, Alissa, and Chessa as they share their unique experiences with the jaguar work. | |||
| 04 May 2023 | EP 186: The Future of Women's Health with Keli Garza | 01:46:17 | |
In this episode, Kimberly and Keli discuss the future of women’s health. During this recorded live event from Kimberly’s living room, we learn about the extensive health benefits of vaginal steaming and how the shortcomings in gynecological training reflect contemporary cultural politics around women’s bodies. They discuss how to bridge the knowledge gaps found in western medicine’s approach to gynecological health when it comes to menstrual cycles, birth, postpartum, and menopause. They discuss their role in pushing the science forward with their collaborative vaginal steam study. They go in depth about healthy periods, uterine cleanses, the fertility industry, and the importance of new language that evolves Women's health. This conversation helps us understand how tending to gynecological care holistically is a way to tend to our own bodies, to tend to future generations, and to build mother culture.
Bio Keli Garza has a Masters degree in International Development graduating cum laude with a focus in nonprofit management and human rights. Keli is the owner of Steamy Chick and the founder of the Peristeam Hydrotherapy Institute. Through her company she raises awareness on the benefits of vaginal steaming, makes supplies accessible, conducts research and trains practitioners. Keli is the author of the Vaginal Steam World Map, Pelvic Steam Testimonial Database, Fourth Trimester Vaginal Steam Study and Steamy Chick blog. Some of her notable work includes executive producing the Hot & Steamy Podcast, creating the annual #steamyaugust Vaginal Steam Awareness Month and an upcoming documentary film with the working title STEAM. With over 20 years experience in the nonprofit field, Keli also serves as the founder and president of the Bahia Foundation, a nonprofit dedicated to artistic, cultural, physical, educational and financial community wellness as well as the founder of the Good Gynecology Project.
What She Shares: –Steaming impact on postpartum, infertility, and for all cycles –Centering cycles and uterus for overall health –Inadequate medical care for women –Creating mother culture
What You’ll Hear: –Need for physiological care postpartum –Using better language to create stronger mother culture –Vaginal Steam documentary –Gaps in women’s health –Training practitioners for vaginal steaming –History of vaginal steaming in U.S. –Significant blood pressure levels lowered after steaming –Steaming for preeclampsia, birth injuries, and postpartum care –Lack of conversations around postpartum recovery –Disconnect between possibilities of postpartum issues and medical solutions –Fertility in relation to overall health –Destigmatizing steaming –Morality and ideology versus physiology –Infertility industry –Tending to postpartum care before crisis –No structural space for cycles in work, education, and healthcare –No definition for miscarriage recovery or infertility –Women’s physiology as cyclical not just deviant men –Menstrual leave policies for workplace –Period is a uterine cleanse –Cramps are uterus contracting to clear out residue –Healthy periods begin and end with fresh red blood –Lack of consideration in health of uterus during IVF –Using periods for postpartum practice –Female brain and female nervous system –Understanding phases and cycles post menopause –Importance of endocrine system for overall health –Viewing the body as a whole not separate parts –Purposes of the uterus other than reproduction –Reproductive system as health –Centering, understanding, and defining the uterus and care –Other applications for steaming after assault and infection –Facilitator steaming training –Building mother culture - Menstrual health as a vital sign - Definition of Postpartum Recovery - Uterus is more than a Reproductive Organ - Physiological Feminism (different from choice feminism) - Female systems are more sensitive and resilient than male systems - Stop normalizing pain with s*x the first time (instead of “it’s gonna hurt” “it shouldn’t hurt.”) - Build MotherCulture
Resources Website: www.steamychick.com IG: @steamychick www.fourthtrimestervaginalsteamstudy.com
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| 01 May 2018 | EP27: Amy Jo Goddard on Sex Education, Sexual Empowerment, and #MeToo 3.0 | 01:09:01 | |
Amy Jo Goddard, author of bestseller Lesbian Secrets for Men and Woman on Fire hails from a Military Dad and Recovering-Catholic-Proudly-Sandra-Dee-Mom; she had no other choice but to become a sex educator just to sail the shaky waters of human experience and help her family survive. She is an activist and that has taken many forms, including a gynecological teaching assistant, ising her body to teach pelvic exams, taking on the medical community re: power and consent in her film, At Your Cervix, to change the practice of on-consensual pelvic exams on anesthetized women, and now with her conference, Sex, Power and Leadership.
What You’ll Hear: -Amy’s feminist awakening and her definition of feminism - How can we use our power to uplift voices and people who are marginalized - What has evolved in sex education since the 80s? - How activism has changed with the internet - How can parents do better at educating their children about sex? - How doing your own work around sex and shame can help your kids - Using sexual archetypes and rituals to understand who we are - Amy’s experience as gynecological assistant, and how she used her own body to teach pelvic and breast exams - Unethical ways that OBGYN students are taught pelvic exams - Gynecological trauma and how it occurs, and how it can affect our sexual identities - Trauma in the medical industry, and how to rehumanize patients - Amy’s Sex, Power and Leadership Online Conference 4/30-5/6 - Where does it fit in to the current cultural narrative? Who should watch? - Creating sustainable change after #metoo - The importance of including people of color and non-binary people in the conversation about sex and her conference - How do I do my personal work on myself in order to feel empowered in all things, AND what is the collective work that needs to be done to uplevel and become a space of empowerment for people? - Censorship online, and online power structures - Creating more equity and justice in what we produce and share - Taking on the medical community in her film At Your Cervix - The conference is open to everyone, and will help people figure out what’s next in the conversation around sex and power. It’s an opportunity for all of us to look at sex, power and leadership. https://cc100.isrefer.com/go/SPL18/kann/ | |||
| 21 Nov 2022 | EP 172: Wildness, Embodiment, and the Feminine Needed in Our Time, “The Wild and Sacred Feminine Deck” | 01:01:43 | |
In this episode, Kimberly talks with Elizabeth Marglin, Niki Dewart, co-authors of “The Wild and Sacred Feminine Deck,” and Jenny Kostekci-Shaw, artist of the deck. They discuss how the deck came to fruition, its roots and connection to motherhood, and the publishing process of the deck. They also discuss the rich meaning behind wildness, the sacred feminine, and embodiment, as well as their individual creating processes while mothering. At the end of their episode, they pull a card for the collective with a powerful message of traversing through these difficult times.
Bio Elizabeth Marglin, M.A. is the coauthor of The Mother's Wisdom Deck with Niki Dewart. Elizabeth is a journalist and writing coach who writes for publications such as Yoga Journal and Spirituality & Health. Marglin lives in Colorado. Niki Dewart writes books, designs sacred spaces, and leads rituals and retreats that nurture the feminine soul. Jenny Kostecki-Shaw is a national award-winning author and illustrator, a homesteader, and a mother. What They Share: –Motherhood and “The Wild and Sacred Feminine Deck” –Wild, Elemental, Archetypal and Divine suits in the deck –Wildness, embodiment, and Spirit –Creative processing while mothering –Reading of a card for the collective
What You’ll Hear: –The Wild and Sacred Feminine Deck –Wanting to create a deck for mothers –Publishing process with Shambhala –Expanding deck from mother’s wisdom to all aspects of the feminine –Meaning behind the title “Wild and Sacred Feminine” –Decision on four suits and feminine within each –Wild, Elemental, Archetypal, and Divine –Jenny’s process of artwork for the deck –Meaning behind 52 cards in the deck –Multicultural approach to card selection –Using ritual to create deck –Importance of Inanna –Elizabeth and Niki’s reactions to Jenny’s artwork –Embodying the Shapeshifter and fluidity –Incorporating the Wolf into the deck –Jenny surprised by her own artwork –Mothering and the creative process –Creating space away to write and create –Wanting to offer other mothers shorter readings –Creating the deck at the beginning of the pandemic –Weaving pandemic, spiritual life, and mothering into the deck –Jenny’s creative process while mothering –Facing struggle trying to find art in early motherhood –Kimberly’s process getting Fourth Trimester cards published –Writing the How to Use guide –Kimberly’s use of decks –Using decks intermittently or frequently –Co-authoring the deck and collaborating with art –Building meaning through collaboration versus individually –Deck to bring us into soul wholeness –Message of embodiment and spirit to matter through the feminine –Drawing a card from “The Wild and Sacred Feminine” deck –Collective question around our relationship to the earth and traversing these times –Reading of the card
Resources Website: https://www.shambhala.com/the-wild-and-sacred-feminine-deck.html | |||
| 20 Jul 2018 | EP36: Christiane Pelmas on Menopause, Sexuality, and an Emerging Archetype of Womanhood | 01:06:54 | |
EP36: Christiane Pelmas on Menopause, Sexuality, and an Emerging Archetype of Womanhood What Christiane Shares: - her personal experiences with her cycle, abortion, perimenopause and menopause—and the intelligence of these initiations - how her experience with menopause informed major decisions in her life including her living arrangement with her partner, her pace, her work in the world - the potential for whole listening, erotic sex, generative power and a QUEEN existence from our menopausal years and its deep purpose globally
- Christiane shares her own menstrual and perimenopausal cycle and the significance of discussing in our culture, her relationship to her cycle - Kimberly shares about aging and the wishing she had known the wisdom of her cycle earlier - Realizing the empowering and embodying experience of birth and breastfeeding more deeply once reaching perimenopause - Giving bleeding the respect it deserves, the products we use to disguise menstruation, and what this says to our youth - How this lack of respect affects women today regarding fertility, inability to reach orgasm, painful periods - Why Kimberly challenges modern Postpartum Depression, her own personal story of “Russian Roulette’’ when it came to having a child - The blindspot around birth control and our daughters (including those who are ‘sex positive’ or in wellness profession) - What Christiane comes across in her practice, the messaging around perimenopause and menopause - Christiane shares her personal story with abortion, fertility and birth/postpartum experiences, and menopause - Description of menopausal rite of passage and initiatory shift from Christiane’s experience and perspective, sending children out into the world and circulating Kundalini, orgasmic experience, fire and warriorship that is born when bleeding stops and it’s offering to the world - Christiane challenges the mainstream advice of moving into quiet, self care hibernation and calls women at this time the ‘warrior class’ and potential ‘enemies of the state’ meant to bring necessary change toward the feminine - Why regardless if a woman stays in her relationship the old must die and what looks like ‘falling apart’ is actually refinement and a new expression of self - How even holistic doctors are treating menopause (much like pregnancy) as a series of symptoms rather than of initiatory experiences - Christiane’s experience with Holistic and Functional Medicine care and bioidentical hormones during a difficult last year and despite great results to cease care and listen to an internal voice saying “this is not for you” - The small yet ‘radical’ lifestyle changes she made to accommodate her body - The vast potential of pleasure beyond clitorial stimulation available to women before during and after menopause, the ridiculousness of the word ‘foreplay’, the potential to enjoy sex beyond menopause and the exploration - The ‘cougar’ metaphor Christiane’s and Kimberly’s perspective - “Is sex better now?” - How we’ve learned to silence our longing, or made wrong our dissatisfaction is actually the most important information to listen to especially during menopausal years - Christiane shares about the importance of ‘whole listening’ and how and where to resource this and the courage to act on it, our place historically as a female population - The inspiration for her podcast OneWoman Radio
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| 20 Apr 2022 | EP 152: Fascia, Human Anatomy, Reverence, and Understanding the Body’s Tissues with Gil Hedley | 01:12:56 | |
In this episode, Kimberly and Gil discuss human anatomy and Gil’s years of dissection projects and publications. Gil offers a wealth of information he has learned about the body through his dissection work and how his reverence for the human form fuels his projects. Specifically, they discuss various aspects of fascia, nerve trees, adipose tissue, and more, as well as how culture both politicizes the body and dispossesses various aspects of it, perhaps leading to a larger spiritual issue and evolution of our time.
Bio Gil Hedley, Ph.D., earned a doctorate in theological ethics from the Divinity School of the University of Chicago, and also became a Certified Rolfer at the Rolf Institute in Boulder, CO. His combined interests and training has supported his personal exploration of the human body to develop an integral approach to the study of human anatomy. Through hands-on human dissections courses in the laboratory and lecture presentations, he has encouraged thousands of fellow "somanauts" to appreciate, explore and embody the wonders of human form. He has published a number of books, created online access through livestream courses to the wonders of the dissection process, and produced The Integral Anatomy Series, a set of four feature-length videos documenting my whole body, layer-by-layer approach through on-camera dissection. His current project, Anatomy from A to Z, is a comprehensive and inspiring year-long exploration of two forms through the Integral Anatomy lens. What He Shares: –Dissection and anatomy projects –Complexities of nerves and fascia –Differences between male and female forms –Difference between natural tears and incisions –Spiritual components of dissection work –Dispossession and politicization of the body in culture
What You’ll Hear: –Explains Anatomy from A-Z Project –Comprehensive archive of human body recorded –Dissected bones, muscles, tissues, and vasculature on camera –Shares experience dissecting cadaver –Traumatic experience over dissection work and had to adjust emotionally –Intentionally making body connection through dissection work –Connection with families of donors of bodies for project –Learned accidents, traumas, various issues, and emotional experience regarding donors –Nerves are structural, have physical context (not abstract) –”Underdog fascia” and multilayered fascia –Native connective tissue density –IT band structures –Emotional components associated with superficial fascia –Female form has denser, deep fascia and thicker, superficial fascia generally –Dispossession of fat as suppression of feminine in our culture –Culture has problematized and medicalized birth disrupting the process –Traumatized doctors try to control birth to avoid ongoing trauma related to death –Psychological pall thrown over women give impression not capable of birthing –Tears in birth assist with natural process –Episiotomies damage nerves in ways that natural tears do not –Increase in tears and severity in connection with culture –Oversimplification of tissues and meanings such as vagus nerve –How he came to dissect genitals –Took years of dissecting to find erectile tissues of clitoris –Wants to film nerve system dissection, process important –Vaginal work with reverence –From PTSD to helping others process anatomy work –Group processing and shared experiences assisting in dissection work –Energetic relationship to forms –Experiencing the whole form –Self-acceptance and rejection of cultural standards –Politicization of bodies and spiritual problem in identity politics
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| 05 Jul 2020 | EP96: Activate Your Inner Jaguar Roundtable 3 | 01:20:53 | |
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| 19 Jun 2023 | EP 189: Nurtured Parenting, Co-Regulation, and Infant Sleep with Greer Kirshenbaum | 00:43:14 | |
In this episode, Kimberly and Greer discuss her upcoming book “The Nurture Revolution: Grow Your Baby’s Brain and Transform Their Mental Health Through the Art of Nurtured Parenting.” Greer discusses combining her work as a doula, neuroscientist, and sleep specialist after completing research on infant sleep. She proposes “nurtured parenting” as a revolution that tends to the complex emotions and stressors of both parents and infants. With tending to these needs and co-regulation, parents can help babies develop better stress responses in their brains.
Bio Greer Kirshenbaum PhD is an Author, Neuroscientist, Doula, Infant and Family Sleep Specialist and Mother. She trained at the University of Toronto, Columbia University, New York University and Yale University. Greer has combined her academic training with her experience as a doula and mother to lead The Nurture Revolution. A movement to nurture our babies’ brains to revolutionize mental health and impact larger systems in our world. Greer wants families and perinatal practitioners to understand how early caregiving experience can boost mental wellness and diminish depression, anxiety, and addiction in adulthood by shaping babies’ brains through simple intuitive enriching experiences in pregnancy, birth and infancy. Her book is called The Nurture Revolution: Grow Your Baby’s Brain and Transform Their Mental Health Through the Art of Nurtured Parenting. See the link to her website below.
What She Shares: –Connecting doula work, parenting, and neuroscience –Nurtured parenting tending to infant and parental emotions –Developing brain growth in babies –Demystifying infant sleep and high needs’ babies –Emotional co-regulation during infancy
What You’ll Hear: –How infanthood led her to doula and neuroscience –Fascinated by early life experience and neuroscience –Wanting to take research into the public –Attachment parenting as good foundation for nurtured parenting –Nurtured parenting tuning to both parent and infant emotional needs –Nurtured presence and empathy for parent and baby –Emotional co-regulation at center of parenting practices –Uniqueness of infant brain –Baby borrows parent’s brain in places their brain hasn’t developed –Stress responses and systems in parent brain –Baby detects parent responses through their senses –Increasing oxytocin and lowering stress response in baby’s brain –Co-regulation in first 3 years builds areas of brain to handle stress –Major life moments and stress responses –Becoming parent changes brain chemistry similar to infancy –Brain areas become tuned to be more aware and empathetic of babies –Brain shifts during perimenopause –Being near babies also changes brain areas –Cultural changes causing less experience with babies pre-parenting –Issues with attachment parenting –Demystifying infant sleep –Understanding what is biologically normal for babies –Cultural expectations are off for infant sleep needs –Babies develop sleep on their own and can be supported –Infant sleep like a river and physiological process –Night-waking, sleeping nearby, closeness –Circadian rhythm, sleep pressure, stress, daily movement –Babies don’t need sleep training or sleeping alone –Sleep in same bed or room for 6 mo to 1 year –Babies need to sense safety of parents –Optimal circadian input –Opportunities for light, movement, and sensory input –Time in nature and green space helpful for sleep –Normal features of infant sleep –Stress reactivity and sensitivity is genetic and experiential –”High needs” infant sleep –Intergenerational experiences and epigenetics –Experiences in ancestry, pregnancy, and birth contribute to temperament –Identifying needs for intense crying –Emotional contagion and mirroring –Addressing parental burnout –Infant emotions and physiological responses –Anticipating infant stressors and verbalization –Parenting with empathy and compassion to grow brain
Resources Website: www.nurture-neuroscience.com IG: @nurture_neuroscience_parenting
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| 14 Oct 2021 | EP 143: Jaguar Round Table | 01:13:04 | |
In this round table episode, three Jaguar course alumni speak about their unique experiences participating in this deep and transformative course. As Kimberly and her team prepare for the next round of the course, these testimonies speak beautifully to the type of experience you might find in the upcoming: Jaguar Wholeness in Fractured Times: A Real World Understanding of the Nervous System and Feminine Sexuality. | |||
| 01 Oct 2019 | EP78: Kris Gonzalez on Female Reproductive Health, Menstruation, Postpartum and Perimenopause | 01:05:12 | |
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| 16 Feb 2019 | EP60: Dr. Claudia Welch on the Medicine of Subtraction and Balancing Your Hormones | 00:58:14 | |
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| 16 Sep 2018 | EP43: Hunter Clarke-Fields on Mindful Parenting and Creativity | 01:03:02 | |
In this episode, “Mindfulness mama mentor” Hunter Clarke-Fields talks about the importance of practicing mindfulness in parenting and how she helps stressed-out moms become more grounded in their daily lives. Hunter also shares about her life as an artist and the role that painting played in own pregnancy and entry into motherhood. Hunter Clarke-Fields is a yoga teacher, “mindfulness mama mentor,” podcaster, mama, and artist who teaches mothers how to implement mindfulness into their parenting. Her Mindful Parenting course helps mamas understand and transform their stress and become more grounded and centered as parents. What You'll Hear:
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| 01 Sep 2018 | EP41: Rachael Maddox interviews Magamama on the Reparative Power of Connection in Birth and Sex | 01:11:48 | |
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| 05 Jun 2018 | EP31: Eileen Rosete on Motherhood, Miscarriage, and Loss | 01:02:51 | |
“People don’t know they have the permission to mourn [a miscarriage] the same way they would for someone who had lived longer." Eileen Rosete is the founder of Our Sacred Women and a Marriage and Family Therapist. She is the mother of one daughter and has experienced two losses, which I was honored to be a part of. This episode is about honoring all kinds of births- how to do that and what that process is like. Eileen has an enormous heart of service and is infiltrating the fashion world with her message “Women Are Sacred.” What Eileen Shares:
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| 24 Sep 2020 | EP101: Feminism, Sex Positivity, and Finding Joy in the Pandemic with Pam Samuelson | 00:57:23 | |
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Summary: Pam Samuelson, a close friend and educator/bodyworker at Embodywork, joins us to talk about feminism, understanding your sexual body, and how to make the steps towards knowing yourself more intimately. Pam discusses the importance of carrying on the feminist conversations started by the founders of the movement, and how we as a whole can improve the status quo.
Bio: Pam Samuelson is a practitioner and advocate of somatic therapy, exploratory bodywork, and meditation. Founder of Embodywork, Pam finds joy in helping others understand their bodies and teaching that transformation is possible if you know how to find it. Pam is an outspoken advocate for female empowerment, still actively in conversations with some of the leaders of feminist movements dating back to the 60’s.
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| 01 Apr 2020 | EP92: Liz Koch on ReWilding Psoas, Making Birth and Trusting Your Animal Power | 01:05:05 | |
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| 01 Oct 2020 | EP103: Healthy Attachment and the “Strange Situation” with Bethany Saltman | 00:56:17 | |
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Summary: Bethany Saltman joins the Magamama podcast once again, this time to discuss her new book “Strange Situation: A Mother’s Journey into the Science of Attachment. We talk about how insecurities can devastate your ability to function as an independent adult, and Bethany shares her own story of how she’s overcome these difficulties.
Bio: Bethany Saltman humbly describes herself as a long-time Zen student who lives in a small town in the Catskills with her husband, daughter, and two dogs. Moreover, she is a renowned author, researcher, and editor whose work can be found in publications such as New Yorker, New York Magazine, Atlantic Monthly, Parents. Bethany has spent years studying the many emotions we feel that make us human. Amongst those emotions, attachment is one that stuck with Bethany, leading her to write her first book “Strange Situation: A Mother’s Journey into the Science of Attachment”.
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| 09 Sep 2021 | EP 137: Mothering Teens and Pre-teens, Intergenerational Healing, and Badass Girls with Eliza Reynolds | 00:57:19 | |
In this episode, Kimberly and Eliza discuss intergenerational relationships, mother-daughter healing, and navigating parent-child dynamics during the preteen and teenage years in order to cultivate more conscious, self-loving, and resilient children. Eliza discusses how she began this work, alongside her mother, Sil Reynolds, as a teenager. They discuss the need for parents to have intergenerational support while parenting and for teens, holding space for rapid developmental changes and intensity through the teen years, and pushing back on negative cultural stereotypes of preteens and teens in order to raise more empowered youth.
Bio Eliza Reynolds is a best-selling author, speaker, and professional mentor. She’s the coauthor, with her mom, Sil, of Mothering and Daughtering: Keeping Your Bond Strong Through the Teen Years. For almost 15 years, Eliza has been facilitating sold-out workshops for thousands of mothers and their preteen and teen daughters, and now offers online and in-person mentorship programs teaching emotional intelligence, embodiment, body literacy, and more for big-hearted preteen and teen girls at Badass Girls. What They Share --Need for intergenerational support for parents and children --How cultural stereotypes of teen girls impact them --Commonalities between teens and toddlers development --Mature mentorship --Healthy resistance and how to hold space for it from preteens and teens
What You’ll Hear --Describes writing book and teaching with mother at 15 --”Full body yes” to teach and facilitate --Dominant culture “mom bashing” from teens and culture --Sil always looking for mentors, intergenerational village for Eliza --Cultural degradation of teenage girls --Not normalizing parents feeling overwhelmed and isolated --False, harmful narrative that teen parenting is only hardship --Preteens and teens need intergenerational village of support --Parents can’t bridge intergenerational gap with teens without the village --Underestimate fracturing of extended family, place, and impact on parent-child --Healthy mentorship and positive power dynamics --”Daughtering” as being active in relationship with your parent --Growing between healthy independence and healthy dependence --Negative stories/stereotypes we tell teen girls about themselves often come true --Sil would never trash talk Eliza to other people --Teenage girls as fiercely loyal, loving, kind, radically inclusive with support --Mothers need other mother/mentor support in community raising preteens and teens together --Children surrounded by peers in toxic mom-bashing culture --Dual shift parents getting parenting in community and mentorship and daughter getting healthy peer community and mentorship --Teens starve for mentorship and want to be in stable and grounded community mirrors back their magic --Badass Girls Academy supports parents and daughters --Pushing through the resistance as parents --Commonalities in parenting, attachment, and rapid development in toddlers and teens --Preteen and teen “tantrums” because of brain development, psyche, hormones, etc. remembering they are not adults yet --Being safe harbor and adult through teen tantrums --Empowering young people to have more conscious relationships to make home easier and less conflict --Building skill-set to consciously communicate through practicing with mentors, scripts, body-centering techniques, etc. --Holding boundaries and containment around preteens and teens --Safety still really important with this age group --Working with healthy resistance as parents, pushing up ways against similarities and differences as parent --Feel safety with parents to express themselves and not taking it personally as parents --Helping teens navigate resistance and intensity --Holding true space for their ‘no’ in order to hold true space for their ‘yes’ --Badass Academy is program private app and community curated by professional mentors all online, monthly themes, being more invested in radical responsibility of respecting and loving yourself
Resources Website: https://badassgirls.me/ IG: @eliza.feelings | |||
| 26 Aug 2021 | EP 134: Discovering Your True Genius, Embracing All Emotions, and The Upper Limit Problem with Gay Hendricks | 01:02:18 | |
In this episode, Kimberly and Gay discuss his revolutionary term “upper limit problem,” which describes when a person’s capacity for feeling positive emotions is immediately followed by conflict or a dip. They also discuss how Gay discovered this phenomena and his life’s work regarding relationship building, aligning oneself with pure consciousness, and his passion for helping people discover their “genius” or true creativity. Gay discusses his experience being a thought leader of transformational psychology early in academia and mainstream culture and his thoughts on being an elder in today’s society.
Gay Hendricks is a psychologist, author of forty books (including “The Big Leap” and “Conscious Loving”), teacher, and therapist on all things regarding relationships and body-mind transformation. He received his PhD from Stanford University in Counseling Psychology and taught for twenty years at University of Colorado. With his wife, Dr. Kathleen Hendricks, he founded The Hendricks Institute where they coach teachers and conduct workshops on relationships and wellness. They have been featured in a number of radio and television shows as well as many conferences and seminars.
What He Shares: --Gay’s personal awakening in mid 20s --The Upper Limit Problem --The Genius Zone --Embracing all emotions and opening towards pure consciousness --Relationships for mutual healing --Discovering your true genius and creativity
What You’ll Hear: --Describes beginning of academic career from PhD studies to professorship --Negative fantasy that caused worry despite feeling good and being successful --Growing up overweight and body image issues with dieting --Turning point moment of pure consciousness recognized blocking of negative emotions with food --Opening significant new territory within ourselves is major life event --Upper limit problem occurs when intense feelings of goodness are followed by intense feelings of not feeling good (reached upper limit) --Upper limit problem in relationship --Societal upper limit problem from 60s-70s --Expanding with fear instead of contracting with it --Pay-off is living in peaceful flow of positive energy within relationships --Steady relationship, not a lot of ups and downs --Zero-criticism relationships --Criticism as attack on your being instead of actions --Become masters of fear and moving through waves of fear --Staying open to the collective with hearts open not closed towards others’ suffering --Sitting in pleasure without spiritual by-passing, using pleasure to heal trauma --New book describing extension of upper limit problem --How to feel flow and connection all the time --Creativity important in relationships for individuals to grow “your genius” --Everybody has same desire inside to bring forth their “genius,” their true creativity --Finding genius in relationship --Pre-order copy of upcoming book --Being an elder in our culture --Planning for what you want in older age --Choosing creativity instead of stagnation; Choosing integrity instead of despair --Experience being a thought leader and academic in New Age time from 1960s-70s to now --Leaving his legacy
Resources Website https://hendricks.com/ IG: @hendricks.gay | |||
| 24 Apr 2021 | EP 120: Jaguar Bite #4 - Women + The Nervous System | 00:08:46 | |
Welcome to Jaguar Bites: new solo episodes where I break down big nervous system concepts into bite-sized pieces. | |||
| 22 Jan 2019 | EP57: Bari Tessler Linden on Healing Your Money Story and Learning to Earn More | 01:07:11 | |
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| 27 Apr 2021 | EP 124: Jaguar Bite #6 - Porn and Your Partner | 00:11:07 | |
Welcome to Jaguar Bites: new solo episodes where I break down big nervous system concepts into bite-sized pieces.
Jaguar Bites are meant to clarify some of the major ideas and misconceptions in somatic experiencing, polyvagal theory, sex education, as well as the birth world.
These podcast episodes are for you. They are also for anyone who you don't think will take a course or read a book; but who you really want to hear about how trauma works, how we heal from it, how the body is involved, and why it matters so much (especially right now in the world). | |||
| 21 Dec 2019 | EP83: The Sacred Window, Supporting New Mothers, and Ayurvedic Doulas with Christine Eck | 00:50:00 | |
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| 16 Feb 2018 | EP21: Ellen Boeder on Motherhood, Feminism, and the Real Costs of Overvaluing Independence | 00:58:01 | |
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| 30 Nov 2022 | EP 173: Healing Addiction, Spirituality, and Internal Family Systems with Ralph de la Rosa | 01:05:42 | |
In this episode, Kimberly and Ralph discuss commonalities between their work regarding somatics, psychotherapy, and spiritual traditions. Ralph describes his journey of seeking from mainstream religion to various spiritual traditions and how his time in rehab propelled his work in psychotherapy, teaching, and writing his books. In addition, he describes his journey regarding gender and sexuality and how that correlated with his neurodivergence. In addition, he describes Internal Family Systems, our four selves, and his niche work of combining psychotherapy and meditation. Towards the end of the conversation, they share their reactions to receiving negative reviews and the arduous process of writing and publishing a book.
Bio Ralph is the author of two internationally published books about trauma recovery, meditation, and the Internal Family Systems (IFS) model of psychotherapy. He is personally mentored by Richard Schwartz, founder and developer of IFS. He is a psychotherapist in private practice and a seasoned meditation teacher known for his radically open and humorous teaching style. His most recent book, Don't Tell Me to Relax: Emotional Resilience in the Age of Rage, Feels, and Freak Outs was named one of the “Best Books of 2020” by Mindful Magazine. What He Shares: –Ralph’s journey with addiction, spiritual practice, + becoming a psychotherapist –Gender identity, sexuality, and neurodivergence –Multiple selves & Internal Family Systems –Nervous system responses to criticism
What You’ll Hear: –Evolution of his yoga practice –Raised Southern Baptist, experienced early childhood traumas, turned to Hare Krishnas –Experienced suicidal ideation until reading Ram Das –Traveled with Amma –Turned to spirituality as an attempt to continue high –Experience of drug addiction alongside spirituality –Encountered deep spiritual practice in rehabilitation center –Began mindfulness based practice through Buddhist teachers in 2005 –Began teaching meditation at yoga studio –Seeing the humanity of Buddhist practices –Also discovered psychotherapy in rehab –Healing traumas of previous wounding and insecure attachments –Sexuality journey of “neuroqueer” –Journey around gender and sexuality distinctly –Experienced violent bullying in high school because of gender –Embracing the term “genderqueer” –Influence from Bikini Kill and Riot grrrl –Internal Family Systems Therapy and parts work –Internal conflicts and internal dialogues –Multiplicity and multiple selves offers us map of our psyche –IFS and somatics and meditation- Ralph’s niche –No one therapy heals all of us –Pandemic and upheaval of socio-political upheaval –Collective inability to metabolize impact of pandemic –Process of writing first book, dealing with lack of confidence –Confronting demonization of cognition (monkey mind) in spiritual circles –Experiences after publishing first books –Risks of writing and publishing –Reading bad reviews of work –Criticism triggering sympathetic nervous system responses –Shambala as an ethical publishing company –Protecting our own energy –Meditation, movement, breath work, diet, 80-20 lifestyle –Self energy in IFS have to be in compassion and holding space –Embracing all of life’s experiences –Being effective for others through burnout –How the term “neuroqueer” connecting spectrums of queerness and neurodivergence –Labels as stigmatizing and liberating –Upcoming course on mindfulness, somatics, IFS, and more –”Unstuck How to Heal every part of you” starts Dec 2nd
Resources Website: https://ralphdelarosa.com/ IG: @ralphdelarosa | |||
| 02 Dec 2021 | EP 145: Birth, Trauma, Breastfeeding, and Mother’s Mental Health with Kathleen Kendall-Tackett | 01:04:33 | |
In this episode, Kimberly and Kathleen discuss connections between birth, trauma, and breastfeeding. As a researcher and writer on these subjects, Kathleen describes much of her research that centers around birth-related trauma, how trauma affects breastfeeding, as well as secondary trauma experienced by providers and birth workers. They discuss the importance of oxytocin as an antidote to stress, particularly during the early postpartum period. In addition, they discuss how many mothers, care providers, and birth workers experience secondary trauma within labor and delivery units and the importance of more substantial support and postpartum care for mothers.
Bio Dr. Kendall-Tackett is a health psychologist and International Board Certified Lactation Consultant, and the Owner and Editor-in-Chief of Praeclarus Press, a small press specializing in women's health. Dr. Kendall-Tackett is Editor-in-Chief of the journal, Psychological Trauma and was Founding Editor-in-Chief of Clinical Lactation. She is Fellow of the American Psychological Association in Health and Trauma Psychology, Past President of the APA Division of Trauma Psychology, and the chair-elect of APA’s Publications and Communications Board. Dr. Kendall-Tackett specializes in women's-health research including breastfeeding, depression, trauma, and health psychology, and has won many awards for her work including the 2019 President’s Award for Outstanding Contributions to the Field of Trauma Psychology from the American Psychological Association. Dr. Kendall-Tackett has authored more than 470 articles or chapters and is author or editor of 40 books.
What She Shares: --Breastfeeding after trauma --Need for more adequate breastfeeding and postpartum care and support --Increasing oxytocin amidst stress and trauma --Mothers’ mental health --Secondary trauma experienced by providers and professionals --Plans and hope for future generations in birth, postpartum, and breastfeeding support
What You’ll Hear: --Connections between trauma and breastfeeding --Birth trauma impacts two key hormones in breastfeeding --Important to honor mother’s wishes around breastfeeding --Seeing trauma as opportunity for extra breastfeeding support instead of limiting it --Being careful not to put negative expectations on breastfeeding after trauma --In 80s started identifying birth trauma as factor of postpartum depression --Trauma and context when identifying women’s mental health --Uptick in preterm births related to anxiety, stress, and depression --Fish oil/DHA in reducing risk of preterm birth --Three part stress system: Hypothalamus, Pituitary, Adrenal glands --Inflammatory response system also connected to mental health and preterm birth --Oxytocin as a stress fighter which is why breastfeeding is beneficial for mother --Supporting women’s decisions and goals for breastfeeding --Tending to our bodies to feel hormonal surges and differences of baby/partner touch --Understaffed lactation consultants in hospital causing lack of support --Study shows epidurals related to lower rates of exclusively breastfeeding --Study of epidurals related to more depression despite other common factors --Postpartum hemorrhage, postpartum surgery, and epidurals all linked to postpartum depression --Needs to be competency checking in with women postpartum much earlier around breastfeeding and mental health --Lack of adequate pelvic floor health --Secondary trauma happens to providers when witnessing trauma --Secondary trauma vs. professional burn-out --Obstetricians and nurse midwives secondary trauma almost always associated with baby --Labor and Delivery nurses note when providers do something or cause unnecessary harm to mothers and babies --”Moral injury” occurs when forced to participate or witnessed something you knew what wrong --”Acts of omission” (failing to stop harm) causing secondary trauma with birth practitioners --Nurses and doulas reporting witnessing harm done they wish they stopped but couldn’t --25-35% rates of secondary trauma in providers in US compared to other countries --Sanctuary trauma and institutional betrayal trauma to victims of trauma --Getting used to low-level, chronic stress and effects postpartum --Oxytocin to repair trauma --Oxytocin builders: touching a pet, infant massage, skin to skin on chest, being warm, warm bath, wanted touch, positive social interaction, etc. --Bigger goal of breastfeeding is connecting mother with baby --Importance of supporting mental health of providers --Care-providers knowing where they’re vulnerable to avoid secondary trauma --Positive ways to turn off hyper-active stress responses (omega 3s, exercise, cognitive therapy and mindfulness) --Hope for moving forward in repairing traumas and systems and reclamation of birth and postpartum --Early intervention as hope against spiraling from trauma and mental illness
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| 31 May 2024 | Episode 211: Travel, Tourism, and Home in a “Post-Pandemic” World with Chris Christou | 00:54:45 | |
In this episode, Kimberly and Chris dive deep into the impact of travel on their lives and the consequences of tourism in places they call home. As two world travelers, who have each spent a decade living abroad, Kimberly and Chris consider what they have learned about home, hospitality, and culture from places far from the lands they were raised. They discuss how the pandemic impacted travel to where Chris resides in Mexico, one of two countries that kept its borders open? How Air BnB’s, second homes, and passive income have changed the real estate landscape for future generations? They wonder what it would look like to re-imagine the set of relationships and responsibilities one has if they “belong” to their neighborhood? They ask what if we imagined both our “leisure” and our “work” as connected to the place we live? And how does the question of confinement to home, so relevant to new mothers, show up in the “post-pandemic” summer of 2024?
Bio Chris Christou is a writer, educational curator, and activist. Born and raised in Toronto, Canada, he moved to Oaxaca, Mexico in 2015 after a decade of delirious wanderlust. In 2016, Chris began concurrently working in and writing about the tourism industry, founding Oaxaca Profundo, a deep learning organization focused on food culture and radical hospitality. In 2021, alongside friends and strangers, he organized and launched the End of Tourism Podcast. He is the author of a book of poetry entitled the Black Braid of Memory, as well as forthcoming books on the psychedelic culture, the unauthorized history of tourism, and radical hospitality. Finally, he is a student of all things chocolate and cacao-related.
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Resources https://www.chrischristou.net/ IG - @zajorino / @theendoftourism / @oaxacaprofundo | |||
| 24 Oct 2017 | E11: Ellen Boeder on Attunement, Attachment, Regulation and Having the Relationships We Want | 00:56:51 | |
This podcast we discuss attachment theory and the nervous system. We talk about navigating relationships as new moms and as partners, co-dependence vs. interdependence and how mom, partner and baby’s needs can all be met allowing everyone’s cup to be full.
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Ellen Boeder, MA, LPC has been a licensed psychotherapist since 2003, primarily working with women in a range of healing contexts. Her experience includes working with teenage girls in residential treatment, helping women recover from eating disorders, and facilitating women moving through trauma, addiction, mood, and relationship crises. She has a strong background in yoga and meditation, and her graduate training in Transpersonal Psychology also deeply inform her work. Since becoming a wife and a mother to two children (now 6 and 8 years old) she works primarily with couples. Ellen is trained in PACT, a therapeutic modality founded by Stan Tatkin, PsyD., that synthesizes attachment theory, neuroscience, affect regulation models to support couples in creating an enduring and nourishing relationship through secure functioning. Ellen is on faculty for The Relationship School, founded by her husband, Jayson Gaddis, and she also writes a blog on motherhood and relationship. With warmth and eloquence, Ellen brings her lived experience as a woman, wife, and mother into her understanding as a clinician.
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| 23 Aug 2024 | EP 213: Navigating Single Motherhood, Finding Sisterhood, and Forming Kinship with Marysia Miernowska | 01:09:32 | |
In this episode, Kimberly and Marysia discuss how they’ve navigated the challenges and benefits of single motherhood. In many ways, their lives and stories run parallel: surprising pregnancies, marrying into another culture, becoming single mothers with babies, and living out single motherhood while being entrepreneurs. This honest, raw, and tender conversation offers vulnerable testimonies and nuggets of wisdom for other single mothers. They emphasize the difficulties but importance of building kinship and community, undoing internalized shame, and tending to community. Marysia’s School of the Sacred Wild is now open for enrollment with Kimberly as a guest teacher!
Bio Marysia Miernowska is a teacher, author, Earth activist, green witch, folk herbalist and healer rooted in the Wise Woman Tradition of Healing. Born in Poland, she carries with her a lineage of European folk herbalism. Marysia honors plants as sentient beings, elders, healers and teachers. As a Plant Spirit Communicator, Marysia channels messages from the Earth spirits and guides students to connect with plant spirits through meditation and through their bodies, to receive guidance and learn about the constituents, energetics and properties of plants. Registration is now open for the School of the Sacred Wild and can be accessed through the link below. What She Shares: –Journeys into pregnancy –Trauma and shame around single mothering –Finding kinship and community
What You’ll Hear: –Marysia’s surprising journey into motherhood –Managing cultural differences as a couple –Traumatic experience becoming a single mother with a baby –Kimberly’s pregnancy and divorce –Single motherhood sisterhood –Navigating single motherhood challenges and joys –Marysia entering single motherhood –Receiving judgment for divorcing –Physical manifestations of wounds and healing –Functional freeze reactions for survival –Finding the village as single mothers –Fairy godmothers and aunties –Bringing in chosen family for children –Cultural differences in background and local living –Anticipating the death of empty nest –Reviewing mothering choices –Grief and cultural isolation –Predictability and calm in hiring anticipatory help –Working through shame in asking for more help –Nervous systems and being trapped –How culture is physically organized disruptive to kinship –Spontaneous social interactions –Taking risks and extending our ways of gathering –Doing it imperfectly and letting go of shame –Tending to the ecosystem of families, parents, and single mothers –School of the Sacred Wild herbalism program –Creating kinship and a deep sense of belonging between human & non-human –Holding vitality of the Mother archetype and cutting back, releasing, and discerning –September 7th registration closes –10% off code for listeners –Kimberly to guest teach in School of Sacred Wild
Resources Website: https://www.schoolofthesacredwild.com/ IG: @marysia_miernowska Course Link for Listeners: here
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| 04 Sep 2021 | EP 136: Spirit Work, Conspiracies, Elderhood and Grief with Stephen Jenkinson, Part Two | 01:26:48 | |
In the second of two episodes, Kimberly and Stephen discuss the roles of parents, grandparents and godparents in raising children. They attend to what might be some of the consequence of this gross fracturing of a sense of commons in the surge of conspiracy theories. And they wander through the territory of elderhood, grief, and awakening in a hope-free world. What You'll Here: —The role of parenting —Grandparenting is not elder hood —Elderhood or grandparenting or godparenting —Opioids- the longing after beauty- “anesthetic” —Seeking not after approval but for blessing —If you choose to choose the world or you, give them to the world —Parents are in charge of custodial duties- the janitors —Closeness and intimacy belies the suspicion of distance —What was everyone on about before there was a vaccine —Euthanasia is consistent with death-phobia —A personal truth? and the I-focus —Conception of God, the serenity prayer —Crisis- the imagined possibilities are frayed and are no more —There’s a clarity comes with crisis that obliges you that’s not available when you are feeling fine —Grief and brokenheartedness in a culture that believes in wholeness only —Fundamental addiction to self-determination —Consequence of this gross fracturing of a sense of commons will last far longer than the conspiracy itself —Heartbreak is how you cleanse yourself of prejudices, you do not rid yourself of them —Origin of our capacity for gratitude —Labor on behalf of a better day without hope —We don’t need people who have an answer for everything —A healthy respect for the unknown —Meaning of the word “Awake”- of the web of consequence that fanned out from everything you did and did not do, and you did and did not say —What is the sound upon awakening that we make? | |||
| 04 May 2024 | EP 208: Wild Mothering, Elder Mothers, and Mothering the Mothers with Tami Lynn Kent | 00:48:05 | |
In this episode, Kimberly discusses wild mothering, elder mothers, and mothering from our centers with Tami Lynn Kent, returned special guest, women’s health healer, elder mother, and teacher of previous Jaguar classes. We discuss how to remain in true relationship with the feminine, unlearning how we’ve embodied patriarchy, and living and mothering from our feminine centers. She also discusses the challenges of mothering during these times, especially for mothers of teens and young adults. Ultimately, she offers deep wisdom and medicine for staying true to our centers during these fractured times.
Bio Tami Lynn Kent is a women’s health physical therapist, founder of the original method of Holistic Pelvic Care™ for women, and author of “Wild Feminine: Finding Power, Spirit & Joy in the Female Body,” “Wild Creative,” and “Wild Mothering.” She is passionate about the potential in our female bodies and cultivating this vibrant energy that’s meant to run through all aspects of a woman’s life. She draws upon hers daily in mothering three sons now all young adults themselves. Her previous book, “Mothering from Your Center,” is being re-released as “Wild Mothering,” which includes new elder mother wisdom.
What She Shares: –Deep relationship with the feminine –Undoing internalization of patriarchy –Mothering teens during challenges –Embodied mothering during fractured times
What You’ll Hear: –Walking in deep relationship with the true feminine –Boundaries around values and work –Unlearning embodied patterns of patriarchy within us –Overcompensation in business –Bodies giving out from overcompensation –Women giving up space instead of centering –Coming into truth of where energy and body are –Over-extending out of perfectionism and wanting safety –Helping children find their centers gradually –Mothering young adults with internet, pandemic, polarization, etc. –Information is not wisdom –Importance of listening to embodied wisdom and those with it –Mothering as a wild journey –Prioritizing the body and face-to-face –Embodied presence important to mothering –Weekly family facetime meetings –Going through the pandemic with males –Strain on mothers and families feels higher now –Lack of safety webs and social supports –Trends of delaying independence from youth –Determine of pandemic on isolation and young adults –Assessing nervous systems after isolating during pandemic –Embodied care versus smoothing discomfort –Creative, inspired, moving towards passion, tracking health, connection –Increase of body images issues in boys –Getting boys out of looking and more of feeling/felt sense –Fear of interacting in world –Tracking and noticing people around us is embodied mothering –Lost art of tending to home and those around us with presence –Monitoring screen time for young adults –Playing online with real peers –Encouraging children to verbalize online interactions –Rules as child-specific and season-dependent –Building trust bridges –Checking in and checking on –Creating daily embodied moments with children –Embodied mothering as the tether –Presence with children creates more presence within themselves –Stories we tell our children, stories they hear –Balancing heavy times as parents –Lack of deep containers taking toll –Energetic force pulsing through life –Reaction versus resonance –Always new medicine and new hope in true feminine –Not disassociating from deeper problems –Living in deep relationship to feminine field –Tending to our parts of the field is the mending –Using connection to mystery to do our part –Repairing a fractured web –May 11th Mini Mother’s Day Retreat!
Resources Website: https://www.wildfeminine.com/ IG: @tamilynnkent
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| 09 May 2022 | EP 157: Wreckage, Ritual, and Witnessing through Threshold Experiences with Day Schildkret | 00:54:56 | |
In this episode, Kimberly and Day discuss rituals and reflections for life-altering experiences. Our culture does not hold much space for processing how threshold events change us such as birth, postpartum, death, and all forms of comings and goings in our lives. Day describes what led him to his work of “Morning Altars” and newest book “Hello, Goodbye” which was a series of life-changing moments that he calls “wreckage” and how he pieced together rituals to acknowledge those experiences and their influence. Together, they discuss how to create rituals for all kinds of life moments, especially those which impact us deeply.
Bio Day Schildkret is an internationally known artist, teacher, and author. His two books “Morning Altars: A 7-Step Practice to Nourish Your Spirit Through Nature, Art, and Ritual” and “Hello. Goodbye: 75 Rituals for Times of Loss, Celebration, and Change” help readers connect with art, nature, and ritual. His work has been featured on NBC, CBS, as well as BuzzFeed, Vice, Well+Good, and more. What He Shares: –Personal roots behind “Morning Altars” work, when his mother forgot his name –Creating beauty in wreckage - Marking transitions - He’s looking for a husband, if you know anyone! –Ritual, acknowledgement, and witnessing life’s impactful events
What You’ll Hear: –Morning Altars came from early fascination with decorating nature –Morning Altars came after break-up with partner and father’s death –Low-stakes creativity and ritual in nature –”Being wrecked” and not turning away from the endings of things –”Wreckage” deeply connected to grief and loss and turning towards it –Continuing to live while walking in the world with wreckage –Wonderment and not taking life for granted –Making meaning with life, grief, art, relationships –Experience with mother’s dementia –Transforming grief and wreckage into something beautiful –Lit candles thinking of friends and family who loved mother –Creating ritual in pain –Art is putting pieces back together to make something meaningful –”Hello, Goodbye” newest book –Rituals for endings and beginnings –Ritual doesn’t lead to answers or solutions –Handing over dream of having a child to friends through ritual –Understanding comings and goings from nervous system perspective –Unacknowledgement of threshold experiences in culture –Unwillingness to slow down and reflect especially in difficult experiences –Rituals help us reorient to what is new and changing –Marking endings and witnessing to new beginnings –Crucial aspect of being witnessed and held during threshold experiences –Ritual allowing expression of feeling and witnessing from others –Loss of ritual in culture, ancestry, and families –”Hello, Goodbye” is a cookbook to awaken capacity to make ritual
Resources Website: https://www.morningaltars.com/ IG: @morningaltars | |||
| 24 Feb 2023 | EP 180: Midwifery as Salve, Ancestral, and Community Care with Racha Tahani Lawler Queen | 01:01:43 | |
In this episode, Kimberly and Racha discuss Gather Grounded Midwifery, a midwifery practice and birth home created by Racha. They also discuss Racha’s generational influence to midwifery care, how she ended up in Virginia as a California native, and how the pandemic impacted midwives in particular. They also discuss the rich and complicated history of Black midwifery and how it tends to entire communities. The link to contribute to Gather Grounded Midwifery to help this Black owned birthing home provide the resources and services can be found below!
Bio Racha Tahani Lawler Queen is a Black homebirth mama, wife, and midwife of 20 years. She is the CEO and owner of Gather Grounded Midwifery, a Black-owned and operated birthing home and center in the Musqueam Territory / Richmond, Virginia. Opening this Spring 2023, Gather Grounded Midwifery is a safe and welcoming place where Black, Brown, Indigenous, and queer families are prioritized. The birthing home features two birthing suites, where our very own can receive pregnancy, birth and postpartum care in a unique retreat space, nestled in a predominantly Black neighborhood. Gather Grounded Midwifery has a goal to provide families with a sacred place to receive prenatal care, labor amongst 100-year-old pine trees, birth in and out of water, and receive postpartum care that's in alignment with their individual, Ancestral and spiritual practices. We will also support and partner with Black businesses that prioritize the healing and protection of Black birthers and families. Find the GoFundMe link below to contribute to this important space. What She Shares: –Impact of pandemic on midwives and home births –How and why Racha relocated to Richmond, Virginia from LA to create a birthing home –Black midwifery history and community care –The impact of a birthing home on a community
What You’ll Hear: –How Racha from CA ended up in Richmond, Virginia –Midwifery services and birthing home in Virginia for Black and Brown families –Taking a break from birth work to grow –Racist real estate practices while finding birth home –Impact of pandemic on midwives –Background in environmental health and safety and disaster preparedness –Hospital turning away home-birth transfers during pandemic –Advocating for community midwives –EMTs refusing to service –Midwives and birth workers quitting after pandemic-induced trauma –Black Farm Studio House in LA county, non-profit –Non-profit relocated to Richmond –Importance of midwifery in community care –Making midwife ancestors and grandmothers proud –Eradication of Black midwifery in previous centuries –Midwives regaining acknowledgement as intimate healthcare profession –Legacy of great, great grandmother was town midwife –Providing safe care in homes during pandemic –Midwifery as more than prenatal visits –Providing care during so many unknowns –Wider possibilities for midwives in Virginia –Birthing home honors Black midwives elder for rest and care –Prioritizing Black and Brown birth –Birth home will be opening by March –GoFundMe: ”Support a Black-owned Operating Birthing Home” –Crowd-funding for $50,000 for an operating home
Resources Website: https://www.gofundme.com/f/support-a-black-owned-operated-birthing-home IG: @gathergroundedmidwifery
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| 19 Apr 2020 | EP94: Sheila Kamara Hay on Pleasure in Birth and the Importance of Doulas | 00:49:21 | |
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| 31 May 2021 | EP 129: Healing Individually and Collectively - Nervous System Awareness in Social Justice Activism with Hala Khouri | 00:27:57 | |
In this episode, Kimberly and Hala discuss the nervous system’s role in self-regulation and social justice activism. Healing must happen individually and collectively by understanding and regulating the nervous system, establishing and maintaining heart-centered relationships, and working with each other towards liberation. They discuss how to move beyond one’s privilege towards discomfort in order to enact change for the greater good and why trauma-informed spaces are necessary for social justice activists and allies. Hala also describes the process of writing her book “Peace from Anxiety” and why it was written for this time.
Bio Hala is a yoga teacher, somatic counselor, trauma therapist, social justice activist, author, mother, and co-founder of Off the Mat and Collective Resilience Yoga. “Peace from Anxiety: Get Grounded, Build Resilience and Stay Connected Amidst Chaos” is Hala’s latest book which combines somatic experiencing with social justice through an intersectional lens of privilege and power-dynamics.
What They Share —How and why “Peace from Anxiety” was written by Hala —Importance of Critical Consciousness in Somatic Experiencing and healing —Moving from fight-flight response to tend-befriend with social awareness and love for the other
What You’ll Hear —Inception of first book as culmination of Hala’s teachings from past twenty years —Book discusses anxiety and using somatic experiencing to cope —Critical consciousness as awareness of socio-political context —Well-being includes equity and justice for everyone not just most privileged —Healing can be individualized but have to expand compassion for others —Move towards uncomfortable edges towards unfamiliar and discomfort —Use self-regulation and healing to move towards discomfort —Work is to turn towards one another —How to move towards discomfort for privileged people —Love people who are targeted in the world —Change happens relationally through love not intellectually —Change begins with heart and the body —Tending to recent cultural reckonings regarding racism —Creating trauma-informed spaces for healing and a bridge —Addressing nervous system in social justice activism —Understanding trauma and nervous system as we move towards liberation —Hala returns to process of writing book which includes tips, tools, and practices
Resources Website: www.halakhouri.com IG: @halayoga, @offthemat, @collectiveresilienceyoga | |||
| 27 Feb 2020 | JAGUAR JAMBOREE- Roundtable Testimonials | 00:57:32 | |
Find out the possibilities of what can grow and change in you, your life and your relationships as a result of the Activate Your Inner Jaguar class. In a roundtable format, women share about the unexpected transformations they experienced in their lives from the content, the spaceholding, and the group container or people coming together in a process of rewilding and deeper humanness. | |||
| 15 Aug 2021 | EP 133: Lymph & the Nervous System - Massage as Nourishing Touch for Health with Lisa Levitt Gainsley | 00:49:24 | |
In this episode, Kimberly and Lisa discuss the lymph system and all its facets. Lisa describes what the lymph system is, what lymph drainage massage is and feels like, and the benefits of lymph massage for total well-being. They also discuss the importance of communication and safety in bodywork and how to perform self-massage on your lymph system. Kimberly and Lisa are going to host an upcoming workshop on lymph massage and listeners can check out Lisa’s new book, "The Book of Lymph" and website below for more resources.
Bio Lisa Levitt Gainsley is a Certified Lymphedema Therapist, Manual Lymphatic Drainage practitioner, Author, Educator, and Speaker. Her work has appeared in GOOP, ELLE, The Hollywood Reporter, Healthline and more. She has worked at UCLA Medical Center and been in private practice for 20 years. She holds a double certification in Lymphedema Therapy and is a member of the Lymphatic Education & Research Network (LE&RN) and National Lymphedema Network (NLN). Lisa leads workshops across the country and has pioneered the field of Lymphatic self-massage and just published her book “The Lymphatic Message.” What She Shares: --What is the lymph system? --Lymph drainage massage --Health benefits of lymph massage --Importance of communication in bodywork
What You’ll Hear --Lymphatic system is circulatory system, part of immune system --Role picks up waste products of body and absorbs waste --Lymph hard to see and dissect making it slow to scientific discourse --Improve lymphatic health to quell inflammation and affect mood and nervous system --Understanding lymph system can unlock cures possibly to certain diseases such as MS, cancer, etc. --Lymph system moves 6-12x per minute, slow rhythm and layers of lymph --Lymph massage changes lymph and the nervous system --Lymphatic massage is highlighted for different benefits around the world (aesthetic, immune-boosting, etc.) --Pregnancy causes inflammation and swelling but natural process of body --Shift from mindset of weight-gain during pregnancy to natural, intrinsic movement and clearing of waste in support of body --Lymph has patterns of drainage, understand locations of lymph nodes for self-massage --Self-care as self-massage rooted in physiology and clearing waste --Book contains 3-5 minute self-care practices --Different approaches for self-touch --Laying hands flat to grab fluid and move up and let go --Lymph stroke similar to how one touches baby for nourishing touch --Negotiating how and where we accept or request touch --Body-workers needing to communicate type of treatment and touch --Three-layer touch (motherly, gripping, lightly) for lymphatic massage similar to baby sleep training --Communicating through touch what feels safe and secure --Importance of interpersonal communication during bodywork --Importance of relationship with practitioner and client --Proactive towards health with lymphatic massage --Lymphatic massage as community engagement and ways of connecting --Digital course, pre-recorded tutorials and monthly lives to practice on own and in community --Kimberly and Lisa to have workshop together --Cancer and lymph massage --Palliative care and lymph massage
Resources Website: https://www.thelymphaticmessage.com/ IG: @thelymphaticmessage | |||
| 02 Sep 2022 | EP 166: Activate Your Inner Jaguar Alumni Round Table | 00:42:22 | |
In this collection of testimonials, Jaguar course alumni speak about how the Jaguar work and community have supported their journey of healing trauma and widening their capacity to actively and presently engage with life. As Kimberly and her team prepare for the next round of Jaguar, this testimony speaks beautifully to the type of experience you might find in the upcoming 4-week course "Activate Your Inner Jaguar Foundations." In this episode, you meet three dynamic Jaguar women: Audrey Holst, Tori Miller, and Nicole Siegel. Each of these women talks about specific before and after experiences that intersected with their Jaguar work. Here is some of what you will hear in this episode: Audrey:
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To sign up for the Foundation Edition of Activate Your Inner Jaguar that begins September 6th, or to read more about the course and about what other women are saying about Activate your Inner Jaguar, go to https://kimberlyannjohnson.com/sessions/. | |||
| 01 Sep 2023 | EP 194: Marketing + Sales with Consent, AI, Authenticity, and Humanity in Business with Rachel Allen | 00:45:54 | |
Summary In this episode, Kimberly and Rachel discuss how Rachel discovered copywriting and turned it into a business. When many entrepreneurs feel uncomfortable with marketing and social media expectations around business, Rachel provides thoughtful solutions to authentically representing one’s own business, making meaningful professional relationships, and regulating our nervous systems while marketing. They also discuss how to use social media as a tool, using discernment when posting content, as well as the pluses and minuses of Artificial Intelligence. Last, they discuss remembering humility and humor both in social media and business, as well as our everyday lives.
Bio Rachel Allen is the owner of Bolt from the Blue, a copywriting and marketing business that provides clients with services to best communicate their message to their audiences. Bolt from the Blue also offers a variety of trainings and workshops for professionals. Check out all that they provide in the link below.
What She Shares: –Marketing and consent –AI’s capabilities and limits –Bringing authenticity into sales –Remembering humanity and relationship in marketing –Genuine social media content –Building our world on and offline
What You’ll Hear: –How Rachel began copywriting –Body and mind in conflict –Marketing and consent –Reframing predator/prey mentality in marketing –AI and human creativity –AI cannot create –Using AI for ideation and brainstorming –No intellectual property rights over AI generated writing –Current market trends in online business –Thinking of clients as real human beings –All copy is sales copy –Bringing authenticity into sales –Sales as generative not conversion therapy –Relationship physics and marketing –Quality over quantity in marketing everytime –Being genuinely interested in relationships with people –Referrals over endless content posting –Being comfortable with ourselves as individuals before others –Find ways you’re comfortable connecting with people –Understanding own nervous system state and moving from there –Posting content that feels good to you –Mistaking transparency for authenticity –Sharing “minimum viable truths” in posting content –Figuring out your genuine “YES” –Remembering our social media algorithms as silos –Buy in with novelty and stay in with empathy –Hormones, marketing and empathy –Feeling connected and really good, closing the hormonal loops –Being responsible for consequences and outcome –Building in live interactions amongst digital work –Grounding in relationships in real time –Staying humble and using humor –Finding humanity and building world we want
Resources Website: https://www.boltfromthebluecopywriting.com/ IG: @backfromthebluecopywriting
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| 21 Jan 2020 | EP84: Deirdre Cooper-Owens on Medical Bondage, Racial and Gynecological Trauma | 00:58:50 | |
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Deirdre Cooper Owens is a griot, and a teacher who performs may functions in her community, especially in this 21 st century. Her practice is rooted in the West African and Gullah traditions of gathering and telling stories. She’s an award-winning historian and popular public speaker as well as a Professor in the History of | |||
| 01 Dec 2017 | EP14: Ellen Heed on STREAM School of Pelvic and Sexual Health, Sexological Bodywork, and True Health | 01:07:39 | |
EP14: Ellen Heed on STREAM School of Pelvic and Sexual Health, Sexological Bodywork, and True Health Today you will meet Ellen Heed- my mentor, the person who helped me heal my own birth injury and who paved the way for the new model of health that is culminating in our work in the STREAM school. We have taught STREAM together in England and 2018 is the first year we will bring this new radical model of pelvic and sexual health care to the US. Ellen is a Visionary Craniosacral practitioner and teacher and has taught anatomy and physiology all over the world for the past twenty years. You are in a for a treat. Get ready to get your mindbodysoul rocked. “Our hegemony over our own sexuality is a private matter and we have the option of taking private responsibility for that in a community peer-based support environment, which is what my vision is for STREAM to provide.” In this episode, Ellen Heed shares:
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| 11 Jun 2021 | EP 131: Branding, Authenticity, and Assessing Privilege with Kathleen Shannon | 01:03:50 | |
In this episode, Kimberly and Kathleen discuss branding, identity, entrepreneurship, and privilege. Kathleen explains how her branding business came to be and her philosophy for how to brand oneself authentically. Kathleen describes her business, Braid Creative, and the Braid Method. Kimberly and Kathleen also discuss how to have difficult conversations around race, privilege, and capitalism as white women and entrepreneurs. Kathleen shares her expertise around branding and marketing to discuss tips of branding authentically as well as her perspective of recent politics through a marketing lens.
Bio Kathleen Shannon is the Co-Founder and Creative Director of Braid Creative, a branding agency for entrepreneurs, small businesses and organizations. She is the author of “Being Boss: Take Control of Your Work and Live Life On Your Own Terms” and created the Braid Method, a formula for personal business branding.
What They Share —The branding Braid Method —How to brand authentically —Navigating work and parenting responsibilities during COVID-19 —Interrogating privilege as a white woman entrepreneur
What You’ll Hear —Describes founding branding agency with sister —Started blogging about life as freelancer —Forms repeatable methods for branding —Articulating preferred forms of working style —Branding for Kimberly’s work —Creative processes in the in-between moments —Trusting in collaboration with others during creative process —Being vulnerable to criticism and feedback —Became life-coach certified to be a entrepreneur —Branding authentically to self —Presenting aspirational self to dream clients —Cohesiveness and authenticity in branding —Working and schooling from home during COVID-19 —Running business with working mothers —Navigating daily life with work schedules, school, and other responsibilities —Money narratives in relation to white and class privilege —Dismantling capitalism within places of power —Anti-racism and branding work —Marketing and politics —White women holding unpolished conversations together regarding power and racism —Lifetime commitment to equity and progress as white women —Imperfection and discomfort in difficult conversations regarding power and privilege
Resources website: braidcreative.com IG: @andkathleen | |||