"Draw yourself near."
This episode Kate connects with Dawn Smelser, yoga teacher, healer, activist and open hearted human. Dawn shares a great story of trust, dissolution and rebirth. She shares how a conversation with Ramona Africa was a moment seeded in her childhood, and how she has learned to "draw herself near," continues to do so and teaches others to do the same.
This episode Kate connects with Dawn Smelser, yoga teacher, healer, activist and open hearted human. Dawn shares a great story of trust, dissolution and rebirth. She shares how a conversation with Ramona Africa was a moment seeded in her childhood, and how she has learned to "draw herself near," continues to do so and teaches others to do the same.
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"Peace starts at birth."
Midwife, Birth Educator, and practitioner of body balancing, specializing in trauma, Terri Simmons joins us in a very special episode. Terri talks about birth preparation, how to communicate and prepare for birth, birth integration, de-stigmatizing postpartum and the invitation that postpartum integration can happen at any time. www.alchemybirthandwellness.com
This episode of Rebirth, Kate chats with midwife, Birth Educator, and practitioner of body balancing, specializing in trauma, Terri Simmons. Terri talks about birth preparation, how to communicate and prepare for birth, birth integration, de-stigmatizing postpartum and the invitation that postpartum integration can happen at any time. www.alchemybirthandwellness.com
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Through my work with Terri, as our family’s midwife, I have had journeys of rawness and integration. in my experiences as a body worker, healer and mother there are places where it could be easier to not feel. It could be easier to not fully stand in witness to difficulty, confusion, birth, parenting, and the list goes on. However, I know through my own life and through my clients’ that eventually the story must be witnessed, the pain held, and the difficulty be transmuted to integration.
As an independent woman and bodyworker, I never thought I would birth my child in a hospital, and I was humbled by life in the moment I was wheeled into one. I had expected to maintain my power of control (the fullness of that is a story for another day). I couldn’t have articulated that until a good year after, but I kept digging and I am glad I did. Birth - of any kind - is unique. Birth of a human demands all of the woman, her surrender, her trust, her strength , her release — not matter how it happens. I can only tell my story and share my medicine. I encourage you to tell your own, too. It is powerful to claim your victories and your lessons. Your confusion and your certainty; your pain and your triumph. I think birth carries all of that if we make ourselves available.
One of the reason that I am so deeply delighted to talk with Terri (aside from our friendship and mutual respect) is that I want every woman, no matter her age, to know that integrating your postpartum, your birth story can happen at any time.
Reach out if you have questions or if you are interested in working one on one with Kate or Terri.
We are here for you.
With love + gratitude for listening,
Kate
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Share your Story, and more gems with Ann Randolph on Rebirth
Comedic performer and international teacher shares her passion in bringing everyone to share their stories — without judgment. Contains adult language.
Rebirth: Be the power of the land speaking
This quote by Sharon Blackie sits at the center of today's podcast: the first Episode of Season 3. Kate talks about her eye opening experience with the Q'ero in Peru, learning about ignorance and place, the power of curiosity and connection. If you want to feel free, root down.
This episode I am more personal than I have been before because I feel like our stories are healing us. Our land is needing us and the time is here. The episode centers around Sharon Blackie’s quote, “Be the power of the land speaking” as found in her book If women rose rooted.
When you think of connecting to nature do you think of vacation or do you think of your own surroundings? Do you think we can reestablish a sense of place?
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Welcome to Season 3.
I appreciate your time,
Kate
Meditation Moment : Grounding || Our world is asking for us to make great change + it is time. The more we create clarity and compassion our next right steps illuminate with a bit more ease.
Our world is asking for us to make great change + it is time. The more we create a sense of clarity and compassion our next right steps illuminate with a bit more ease.
This meditation is the second of the series and is accessible to anyone: meditator or not; sitting in your car, or sitting next to a tree, laying in bed in confusion, sitting at a table in frustration, take a moment to ground.
When we are grounded, much like a tree, we are rooted and flexible. We more easily move from our own clarity than swirl in confusion.
These meditations are a monthly offering to our community.
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What phase are you in? || Kate discusses how knowing what phase you are in can help orient you + save time and stress.
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After you listen, let me know your a-ha’s. Do you think in seasons? Can we bring back this way of living in connection?
I think so, What about you?
A Rebirth Chat with Dana Donofee founder of Ana Ono, lingerie for breast cancer thrivers
From radiation to reconstruction, and everything in between, we talk with Dana Donofee, founder of AnaOno Intimates about much that is unsaid about breast cancer, running a business with a mission and the power of reclaiming your body.
A Rebirth Chat: Rather than self care it is a conversation about self worth.
When a soy candle isn’t enough, because the cycle of life we are in is bigger than a bottle of lavender — what can we do? what questions can we be asking?
When a soy candle isn’t enough, because the cycle of life we are in is bigger than a bottle of lavender — what can we do? what questions can we be asking?
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