In this episode I share some really vulnerable feelings that came up after receiving a DM from someone I was supposed to do a collaboration with. I talk about why censorship and a culture of silence for fear of speaking out about anything controversial is harmful to our society, as well as, go into how the connection of politics and health and polarization that's happening is dangerous.

If you ever wondered if you needed to agree with me about certain issues to receive benefit from being in my community or being able to work with me if you weren't "crunchy" enough... please tune in.

Link to original post that sparked this talk. https://www.instagram.com/p/DTvqFkfETK3/?img_index=1

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In this episode, I share my honest, nuanced perspective on the growing media controversy around freebirth — from my years of birth work and personal birth experience, to the systemic issues fueling polarization, fear, and misunderstanding in the birth world.

• What freebirth actually is and how it became more widely known through The Freebirth Society’s online presence, podcast, and programs

• Why the recent Free Press and Guardian articles struck such a chord — and the many thoughts and feelings they brought up

• My background as a doula and birth-obsessed human and why this topic feels so important and personal

• Real stories of unassisted birth (both planned and unplanned) and the wide range of women who choose this path

• How the extreme medicalization of birth fuels an equally extreme counter-response — and why freebirth has grown in popularity

• Where I think The Freebirth Society movement goes too far, including the tone, dogma, and the concerning stories emerging from their online community

• Why I believe women were never meant to birth alone and were also never meant to birth under fluorescent lights, tied to machines, on hospital timelines

• The real data on birth safety — homebirth, hospital birth, medical management, outcomes, and where risk actually lies

• The danger of women not seeking care when it’s needed, and how community pressure, people-pleasing, and fear can shape decisions

• The urgent need for a middle ground between hyper-medicalized birth and dogmatic freebirth ideology

• The systemic issues driving this whole crisis, including licensing restrictions for midwives and liability-driven hospital policies

• Why women must reclaim their voices, power, and research skills, no matter where they choose to birth

• My deepest hope for birth culture: more support, more education, more physiological birth, and less extremism on both sides

At the heart of it all, this episode is an invitation to think more deeply — beyond fear, beyond headlines, and beyond extremes — about birth, autonomy, support, and the kind of world we want mothers and babies to enter.

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In this episode, I share the full story of consciously conceiving our second baby — from choosing ancestral child spacing to navigating postpartum cycles, illness, intuition, and the sweetest positive test moment.

• Why we waited 3 years between babies and the ancestral + physiological wisdom behind it
  
  
• Ecological breastfeeding, delayed cycles, and waiting for my period to return
  
  
• A chaotic spring (moving + Danny’s health scare) and how it shifted our timing
  
  
• Getting salmonella + the intuitive nudge to do a parasite cleanse before conceiving
  
  
• Tracking fertile signs simply and why I don’t say “trying” to conceive
  
  
• The moment I knew I was pregnant and our very real-life reveal
  
  
• Our due date landing on Ojai’s birthday — a full-circle blessing
  
  
• What we did for preconception nourishment (Weston A. Price–inspired)
  
  
• How this pregnancy feels compared to my first
  
  

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