Holy Wild Birth

Christina is a Catholic mom of three, who came into marriage "late" and has joyfully received 3 sons, all via homebirth, into their family. In this episode she shares all three of her birth stories, with a particular emphasis on the final one, at which she experienced a greater degree of surrender and worship than ever before. By the way, she sites the Faith Filled Home Birth Intensive as one of the tools that helped her come into alignment with God's dreams for her birth, so be sure to grab that free resource for yourself, sister. Also mentioned in this episode is the work of her mentor over at Make Joy Normal. Birth Story Disclaimer The choices, beliefs and opinions of the mamas sharing their stories are as individual as the storyteller herself and do not necessarily reflect the beliefs or recommended choices of Lauren and/or Brooke. You'll find Christina here: Instagram Email: theevangelistaa@gmail.com  SHOW NOTES “FOOTER” Email us to say hi: holywildbirth@gmail.com Put in a request for future topics and/or submit a question for future Q&A episodes: Fill out the form Apply to tell your birth story on the podcast: sisterbirth.com/podcast-guest Join Natural Christian Home Birth (Assisted and Unassisted) - a FB community From Lauren: Instagram Midwifery consults: Email  lauren.rootedineden@gmail.com From Brooke: Instagram Trust God, Trust Birth Workshop - a 5-part high-level roadmap to a confident home birth (pay what you can) Faith-Filled Home Birth Workshop - a free, 3-part video series delivered to your inbox --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/holy-wild-birth/support

In this episode we invite you to listen in on a conversation with Lauren and Kathy Bryan, The Founder and CEO of The Genesis Project. Kathy is a respected international speaker/trainer, consultant, mentor, and author, who works tirelessly to communicate the stark truths of trafficking. She has trained thousands of professionals on how to identify and respond to those victimized by human trafficking, including medical personnel, Homeland Security, anti-trafficking organizations, and churches, to name a few. She also happens to be Lauren's mom! In this episode they scratch the surface on the many topics around unpacking one's trauma as preparation for birth but most importantly in order that you might walk more fully in the freedom and healing that Jesus has for you. Mentioned in the episode: https://www.thegenesisproject.life/ Text to give: Text4THEM to 53555 Red Flags of Sex Trafficking for Medical Professionals PDF Book mentioned: When Survivors Give Birth by Penny Simpkin SHOW NOTES “FOOTER” Email us to say hi: ⁠holywildbirth@gmail.com⁠ Put in a request for future topics and/or submit a question for future Q&A episodes: ⁠Fill out the form⁠ Apply to tell your birth story on the podcast: ⁠sisterbirth.com/podcast-guest⁠ Join ⁠Natural Christian Home Birth (Assisted and Unassisted)⁠ - a FB community From Lauren: ⁠Instagram⁠ Midwifery consults: Email  lauren.rootedineden@gmail.com From Brooke: ⁠Instagram⁠ ⁠Trust God, Trust Birth Workshop⁠ - a 5-part high-level roadmap to a confident home birth (pay what you can) ⁠Faith-Filled Home Birth Workshop ⁠- a free, 3-part video series delivered to your inbox ⁠Embrace Birth Journey⁠ - comprehensive and holistic faith-based home birth preparation --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/holy-wild-birth/support

Birth plans. You've probably been told you need one. But we'd like to pick it up, shake it around, and see what comes out as we re-examine this now-common practice of writing hand-over birth plans to your birth team. There are some shortcomings that we think you should know about. But don't worry: we won't leave you hanging there. We'll also present a fresh take on how to get the clarity you need for your birth. We'll present some other words, like vision, intentions, goals, principles... and why they're more important to focus on. Mentioned in this episode: Birth Plan: Does the Path Still Fit the Objective? Do the Means Still Fulfill the Purpose? on Midwifery Today Beyond the Birth Plan with Britta Bushnell A Heavenly Welcome Finding Your Unique Birth Approach from Brooke Birth Vision Worksheet from Lauren Hearthmother Approach to Birth :Planning" SHOW NOTES “FOOTER” Email us to say hi: holywildbirth@gmail.com Put in a request for future topics and/or submit a question for future Q&A episodes: Fill out the form Apply to tell your birth story on the podcast: sisterbirth.com/podcast-guest Join Natural Christian Home Birth (Assisted and Unassisted) - a FB community From Lauren: Instagram Midwifery consults: Email  lauren.rootedineden@gmail.com From Brooke: Instagram Trust God, Trust Birth Workshop - a 5-part high-level roadmap to a confident home birth (pay what you can) Faith-Filled Home Birth Workshop - a free, 3-part video series delivered to your inbox Embrace Birth Journey - comprehensive and holistic faith-based home birth preparation --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/holy-wild-birth/support

Was it a Free Birth, Sovereign Birth, or Unassisted Birth...? How do you identify the birth you are planning or had? Who is defining these concepts and terminology? Do these terms have owners or authorities presiding over them? Join Brooke and Lauren as they discuss the current hot topic of defining birth terms. Prayerfully, this can be a jumping-off point to help us all come to a place of unity and mutual respect for one another as each shares her own story of the transformative experience that was her birth, whatever that might look like. Listen with an open mind and a gentle curiosity. Be sure to get the accompanying freebie Brooke made for you! This 11-page workbook aims to help you get free from dogmatic subscription to these terms and labels and to get in touch with what matters to you in your birth plans! From Lauren: ⁠Instagram⁠ Midwifery consults: Email  lauren.rootedineden@gmail.com From Brooke: ⁠Instagram⁠ ⁠Trust God, Trust Birth Workshop⁠ - a 5-part high-level roadmap to a confident home birth (pay what you can) ⁠Faith-Filled Home Birth Workshop ⁠- a free, 3-part video series delivered to your inbox --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/holy-wild-birth/support

If you've gone most of your menstruating history seeing it as an annoying inconvenience at best or a painful torture session you'll want to tune in for this episode. We'll explore: the deeper meaning and symbolism of our cycles what it means to be a cyclical being (our menfolk too!) similarities between cycles phases in our bodies and in creation as a whole how God "sees us" in our cycles and makes provision for us how our bodies express truths about YHWH and the gospel feminine and masculine ways of learning and living with our cyces and so much more. It's a delicious conversation. We hope you'll never see your period the same way again! PS: Don't forget that our first-ever cohort of our one-of-a-kind holy wild birthkeeper training Is OPEN FOR ENROLLMENT until October 25th. We start classes on November 1st. Join us in Hearthmother Journey today. Resources for Your Deep Dive Kisha Gallagher (Moonbeams and the Moedim Part I, Moonbeams and the Moedim Part II, Moonbeams and the Moedim Part III, Moonbeams and the Moedim Part IV) Zola Levitt -- The 7 Feasts of the Lord - The Making of a Baby A brief theology of the periods, yes really by Rachel Jones Theology of the Womb myFLO app Wisdom of the Womb (teas) Sheila G’s post on honoring seasons Rosh Codesh SHOW NOTES “FOOTER” Email us to say hi: holywildbirth@gmail.com Put in a request for future topics and/or submit a question for future Q&A episodes: Fill out the form Apply to tell your birth story on the podcast: sisterbirth.com/podcast-guest Join Natural Christian Home Birth (Assisted and Unassisted) - a FB community From Lauren: Instagram Midwifery consults: Email  lauren.rootedineden@gmail.com From Brooke: Instagram Trust God, Trust Birth Workshop - a 5-part high-level roadmap to a confident home birth (pay what you can) Faith-Filled Home Birth Workshop - a free, 3-part video series delivered to your inbox Embrace Birth Journey Membership - comprehensive and holistic faith-based home birth preparation (courses + private community) --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/holy-wild-birth/support

Hello, sisters! It's been a while but we're baacccckkk. So let's catch up! Lauren has some big life changes to update us on, the story of which so perfectly illustrates what a good leader and Father YHWH is. And then we get to give you the latest on the doula and birthkeeper training we have been working on, the reason we had this podcast on pause all summer. It's our 40th episode, and as if at the end of a 40-week pregnancy, we're "birthing" this thing into the world. Can't wait to have some of you join us. To learn more about Hearthmother Journey and to enroll go here: rootedineden.org/hearth-motherjourney SHOW NOTES “FOOTER” Email us to say hi: holywildbirth@gmail.com Put in a request for future topics and/or submit a question for future Q&A episodes: Fill out the form Apply to tell your birth story on the podcast: sisterbirth.com/podcast-guest Join Natural Christian Home Birth (Assisted and Unassisted) - a FB community From Lauren: Instagram Midwifery consults: Email  lauren.rootedineden@gmail.com From Brooke: Instagram Faith-Filled Home Birth Workshop - a free, 3-part video series delivered to your inbox Embrace Birth Journey Membership - comprehensive and holistic faith-based home birth preparation (courses + private community) for expectant mamas. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/holy-wild-birth/support

What makes a good birth attendant? How do I become one? Where can I learn to do this holy work? These questions and variations of, are things we hear often and have lead to some great conversations. Conversations that sparked a project that we are finally ready to share with all of you! Tune in to hear our thoughts, hearts and what we've been working on to bring to the birth world. Mention in this Show: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/holy-wild-birth/episodes/The-Way-of-the-HearthMother-e1mvm6j/a-a8i8rlj CONNECT Stay in the know about this project by signing up on the Hearthmother Journey Waitlist Email us with your questions: ⁠holywildbirth@gmail.com⁠ Put in a request for future topics and/or submit a question for future Q&A episodes: ⁠Fill out the form⁠ Apply to tell your birth story on the podcast: ⁠sisterbirth.com/podcast-guest⁠ Join the⁠ Believing Birth Keepers Circle⁠ Join ⁠Natural Christian Home Birth (Assisted and Unassisted)⁠ - a FB community From Lauren: ⁠Instagram⁠ Midwifery consults: Email lauren.rootedineden@gmail.com From Brooke: ⁠Instagram⁠ ⁠Faith-Filled Home Birth Workshop ⁠- a free, 3-part video series delivered to your inbox ⁠Embrace Birth Journey Membership⁠ - comprehensive and holistic faith-based home birth preparation (courses + private community) --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/holy-wild-birth/support

On this week's episode of Holy Wild Birth I (Brooke) am joined by a graduate of Embrace Birth Journey who is offering up her stories of miscarriage, followed by a rainbow baby and lovely home birth, then a slow transition for her baby, which was punctuated with a difficult NICU stay. ⁠ ⁠ Aly speaks candidly about the highs and lows of every part of her journey to becoming a mother, the ways she experienced God's provision and care along the way, her acceptance of the painful parts, and the ways she learned to wisely advocate for her daughter.⁠ ⁠ I hope you'll be inspired by her faith and courage. ⁠ ⁠ You can read Aly's written miscarriage story on her substack. Subscribe if you'd like to also catch her written birth story when she adds it there in the near future. https://open.substack.com/pub/alyolichny/p/baby-jack-and-grandpa-darrell?r=2sg05&utm_medium=ios&utm_campaign=post CONNECT Email us to say hi: holywildbirth@gmail.com Put in a request for future topics and/or submit a question for future Q&A episodes: Fill out the form Apply to tell your birth story on the podcast: sisterbirth.com/podcast-guest Join Natural Christian Home Birth (Assisted and Unassisted) - a FB community From Lauren: Instagram Midwifery consults: Email  lauren.rootedineden@gmail.com From Brooke: Instagram Faith-Filled Home Birth Workshop - a FREE, 3-part video series delivered to your inbox Embrace Birth Journey Membership - comprehensive and holistic faith-based home birth preparation (courses + private community) ⁠ --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/holy-wild-birth/support

This is an episode about loss, specifically first- and second-trimester loss. They say that 1 out of 4 of women will experience miscarriage at some point in their childbearing years. This is not uncommon, but it is often hidden and unspoken. In this episode, we hope to bring our own stories -- as well as the stories and wise reflections of our friends in the Believing Birth Keepers Circle -- into the light. We hope that hearing of them will communicate to you that you are not alone and that perhaps you will hear your own heart and experience mirrored in what is shared here, then paired with a powerful hope. These stories include experiences of being very well supported and also very much alone. There are stories of the miscarriage process happening at home as well as in the hospital, with varying degrees of medical intervention. These are stories of grief, and also stories of meeting Jesus in places of great sorrow. Be warned that this episode is long, and of course, the content is sad. Please take your time and take care of yourself as you listen through this at a pace and in a place that is best for you. If that means skipping this episode altogether, that's ok too. CONNECT Email us to share your own story of loss (know we hear you, deeply): holywildbirth@gmail.com Put in a request for future topics and/or submit a question for future Q&A episodes: Fill out the form Apply to tell your birth story on the podcast: sisterbirth.com/podcast-guest Join the Believing Birth Keepers Circle Join Natural Christian Home Birth (Assisted and Unassisted) - a FB community From Lauren: Instagram Midwifery consults or processing your own loss story: Email  lauren.rootedineden@gmail.com From Brooke: Instagram Faith-Filled Home Birth Workshop - a free, 3-part video series delivered to your inbox Embrace Birth Journey Membership - comprehensive and holistic faith-based home birth preparation (courses + private community) --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/holy-wild-birth/support

This is our first FTM home birth story! So often we think that only moms who have already had a baby in the hospital have a home birth. NOT TRUE! Brooke's first was born at home, too, but today we have a beautiful guest mama to share her experience of having her first baby at home. Ella's first pregnancy was a surprise, but she was pretty clear right out of the gate about her desire to have a home birth, even though some voices around her said they'd never have been brave enough to have a first baby at home. Even with some scary first trimester incidents, and even when she was thrown a couple of curve balls at the beginning of her labor, she went on to have a beautiful and pretty textbook home birth, keeping her curiosity and connection very much online through it all. Her story shows how home birth is a wonderful choice for first-time moms! But breastfeeding turned out to be the bigger challenge. Ella had to navigate her self-judgment for "failing" to live up to some cherished ideals, connect with her underlying values, and make some compromises to give her baby what he needed in order to thrive (and herself too!). Her message for moms here is SO important. Ellla is a jazz singer and a teacher of somatic practices (hello, nervous system regulation!). You can find her and her music/work here: Personal IG @thesounds_ofearth Band IG @third_coast_swing_band Band FB https://www.facebook.com/thirdcoastswingband CONNECT WITH LAUREN AND BROOKE Email us to say hi: holywildbirth@gmail.com Put in a request for future topics and/or submit a question for future Q&A episodes: Fill out the form Apply to tell your birth story on the podcast: sisterbirth.com/podcast-guest Join Natural Christian Home Birth (Assisted and Unassisted) - a FB community From Lauren: Instagram Midwifery consults: Email  lauren.rootedineden@gmail.com From Brooke: Instagram Faith-Filled Home Birth Workshop - a free, 3-part video series delivered to your inbox Embrace Birth Journey Membership - comprehensive and holistic faith-based home birth preparation (courses + private community) --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/holy-wild-birth/support

Taleitha Selby, wife and 4x homebirth momma, tells the story of her 3rd pregnancy and birth that she attributes to breaking her out of the mold of what she thought birth was. Listen to her share her story of how stepping out from how she had always done things prepared her for an accidental unassisted precipitous birth and self-led neonatal resuscitation. Our conversation also turned to the end caps of the physical life on this earth, as returning both to birth and death to the home holds special places in both of our hearts. CONNECT Email us to say hi: holywildbirth@gmail.com Put in a request for future topics and/or submit a question for future Q&A episodes: Fill out the form Apply to tell your birth story on the podcast: sisterbirth.com/podcast-guest Join Natural Christian Home Birth (Assisted and Unassisted) - a FB community From Lauren: Instagram Midwifery consults: Email  lauren.rootedineden@gmail.com From Brooke: Instagram Trust God, Trust Birth Workshop - a 5-part high-level roadmap to a confident home birth (pay what you can) Faith-Filled Home Birth Workshop - a free, 3-part video series delivered to your inbox Embrace Birth Journey Membership - comprehensive and holistic faith-based home birth preparation (courses + private community) --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/holy-wild-birth/support

Lauren, with guest Jaclyn have a fun conversation swapping their precipitous birth stories, 6 to be exact! They both each have had 3 fast labors and so they not only share their stories but discuss the mutual experience of having babies in a fast and furious style. They chat about way to prepare their hearts and minds to be able to surrender to whatever birth may hand them. It's a fun conversation and I hope it helps you feel seen and hear if your perfect but fast birth felt a traumatizing and gain some perspective should you find our self preparing for a possibly very fast birth again. Note: Lauren couldn't recall that it was Kimberly Ann Johnson define trauma as "too much, too fast, too soon" CONNECT: Email us to say hi: holywildbirth@gmail.com Put in a request for future topics and/or submit a question for future Q&A episodes: Fill out the form Apply to tell your birth story on the podcast: sisterbirth.com/podcast-guest Join Natural Christian Home Birth (Assisted and Unassisted) - a FB community From Lauren: Instagram Midwifery consults or virtual services: Email  lauren.rootedineden@gmail.com From Brooke: Instagram Trust God, Trust Birth Workshop - a 5-part high-level roadmap to a confident home birth (pay what you can) Faith-Filled Home Birth Workshop - a free, 3-part video series delivered to your inbox Embrace Birth Journey Membership - comprehensive and holistic faith-based home birth preparation (courses + private community) --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/holy-wild-birth/support

Arguably, one of the most important decisions you'll make about your birth is not WHERE or HOW you give birth but WHOM will be there with you. For an expectant mother, the birth team MATTERS and we have some things to offer up for consideration as you're selecting your attendants.  The lesser-known other side of the coin is how important it is for a birth attendant to carefully select which mamas/families she will serve. If that sounds iffy to you, this episode is a must listen for you, too! We cover: The role of time and prayer before saying yes to one another Pre-screening processes  Having an aligned philosophy of birth Knowing yourself and your biases (birth attendant) or needs (birthing mama) The intangible things people carry into birth spaces ...and more! RESOURCES mentioned in this episode: Brooke's What I Want In A Midwife document (filled out) Blank template of What I Want In A Midwife (save a copy of this google document to edit) CONNECT Email us to say hi: holywildbirth@gmail.com Put in a request for future topics and/or submit a question for future Q&A episodes: Fill out the form Apply to tell your birth story on the podcast: sisterbirth.com/podcast-guest Join Natural Christian Home Birth (Assisted and Unassisted) - a FB community From Lauren: Instagram Midwifery consults: Email  lauren.rootedineden@gmail.com From Brooke: Instagram Trust God, Trust Birth Workshop - a 5-part high-level roadmap to a confident home birth (pay what you can) Faith-Filled Home Birth Workshop - a free, 3-part video series delivered to your inbox Embrace Birth Journey Membership - comprehensive and holistic faith-based home birth preparation (courses + private community) --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/holy-wild-birth/support

You know the story of Abraham, right? Of how God told him it was time to hit the road and go to... a place he would show him later (huh?!). In other words, "Pack up everything you have and everyone in your family and get going. But you don't get to know the destination just yet." How do you plan a road trip (with thousands of livestock, nonetheless) when this is all you have to go on? FAITH is what carried that man forward. As Marina shared her story with me for this episode, that biblical story kept coming to mind because the similarities are many. Walking in faith, Marina and her (big!) family ended up in places they didn't expect to be -- metaphorically and literally -- for the birth of their 8th baby. It wasn't always easy, but in the end, it was just right. May you be encouraged also, dear listener, to walk by faith. Like Abraham. And Marina.  You can connect with Marina (and her incredible wisdom as a big family mama and mission to share Jesus) on IG at LewandowskiAdventures or email her at mommilew@gmail.com. CONNECT: Email us to say hi: holywildbirth@gmail.com Put in a request for future topics and/or submit a question for future Q&A episodes: Fill out the form Apply to tell your birth story on the podcast: sisterbirth.com/podcast-guest Join Natural Christian Home Birth (Assisted and Unassisted) - a FB community From Lauren: Instagram Midwifery consults or virtual services: Email  lauren.rootedineden@gmail.com From Brooke: Instagram Trust God, Trust Birth Workshop - a 5-part high-level roadmap to a confident home birth (pay what you can) Faith-Filled Home Birth Workshop - a free, 3-part video series delivered to your inbox Embrace Birth Journey Membership - comprehensive and holistic faith-based home birth preparation (courses + private community) --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/holy-wild-birth/support

You think you might be called into birth work... And you're also a mother of small children (another calling!).  How can you live out both of those callings without either of them suffering?  We hear women wrestling with this so often, reaching out in the DMs or making posts about it in Natural Christian Home Births. And we ourselves have wrestled through it. In this characteristically meandering conversation we'll cover: How do you know you are called? Discerning your season The role of your marriage/husband in birth work Not sacrificing your family on an altar of birth work Types of apprenticeships (numbers & speed & preceptor type) Embracing a Head-down-power-through season Knowing that "the work will always be there" Expand our definition - what are you actually called to? Why being older when you start birth work isn't such a bad thing How our everyday life is training for this work Resources mentioned in this episode: Are You Called To Be A Midwife (blog post by Brooke) Anointed Midwifery Unschool  - email Lauren to apply! The Way Of The Hearth Mother (an episode from season 1) Connect: Email us to say hi: holywildbirth@gmail.com Put in a request for future topics and/or submit a question for future Q&A episodes: Fill out the form Apply to tell your birth story on the podcast: sisterbirth.com/podcast-guest Join Natural Christian Home Birth (Assisted and Unassisted) - a FB community Go Deeper with Lauren: Instagram Midwifery consults: Email  lauren.rootedineden@gmail.com Go Deeper with Brooke: Instagram Trust God, Trust Birth Workshop - a 5-part high-level roadmap to a confident home birth (pay what you can) Faith-Filled Home Birth Workshop - a free, 3-part video series delivered to your inbox Embrace Birth Journey Membership - comprehensive and holistic faith-based home birth preparation (courses + private community) --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/holy-wild-birth/support

Grace took a long, meandering path to home-birthing her 4th baby, and that path was inexorably intertwined with her conversion to eastern orthodoxy. You'll love hearing how the practices, perspectives, and prayers of her faith informed her journey through pregnancy, birth, and postpartum. We touch on facing the fear of death, the church's discomfort with the feminine, offering up our suffering to Christ... and much more. If you'd like to reach out to Grace, you're welcome to email her. Birth Story Disclaimer The choices, beliefs and opinions of the mamas sharing their stories are as individual as the storyteller herself and do not necessarily reflect the beliefs or recommended choices of Lauren and/or Brooke. ------- CONNECT Email us to say hi: holywildbirth@gmail.com Put in a request for future topics and/or submit a question for future Q&A episodes: Fill out the form Apply to tell your birth story on the podcast: sisterbirth.com/podcast-guest Join Natural Christian Home Birth (Assisted and Unassisted) - a FB community From Lauren: Instagram Midwifery consults: Email  lauren.rootedineden@gmail.com From Brooke: Instagram Trust God, Trust Birth Workshop - a 5-part high-level roadmap to a confident home birth (pay what you can) Faith-Filled Home Birth Workshop - a free, 3-part video series delivered to your inbox Embrace Birth Journey Membership - comprehensive and holistic faith-based home birth preparation (courses + private community) --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/holy-wild-birth/support

If you missed it, there was recently a court case in Nebraska that made the mainstream media and was even televised on Court TV. The state of Nebraska brought charges against traditional midwife Angela Hock (aka Angee). Angee is a friend of ours and for the three years leading up to her trial, we've been prayerfully holding vigil. We wept when the verdict was declared: NOT GUILTY. In this episode, Lauren recorded a conversation with Angee with the intention fo really just giving her the floor to share about this experience as much as she wanted to, without censorship or agenda. Her story touches on so many of the issues facing midwives today and the rights of birthing women. If the Spirit leads you to link arms with Angee, here is the donation link for our donors to contribute to her extensive legal fees. https://chuffed.org/project/zplbylweo4ya  Connect: Email us to say hi: holywildbirth@gmail.com Put in a request for future topics and/or submit a question for future Q&A episodes: Fill out the form Apply to tell your birth story on the podcast: sisterbirth.com/podcast-guest Join Natural Christian Home Birth (Assisted and Unassisted) - a FB community From Lauren: Instagram Midwifery consults: Email  lauren.rootedineden@gmail.com From Brooke: Instagram Trust God, Trust Birth Workshop - a 5-part high-level roadmap to a confident home birth (pay what you can) Faith-Filled Home Birth Workshop - a free, 3-part video series delivered to your inbox Embrace Birth Journey Membership - comprehensive and holistic faith-based home birth preparation (courses + private community) --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/holy-wild-birth/support

By baby #4, Tori and her husband were united on the plan to have a home birth, but they had to find a midwife. Using a local FB group to gather recommendations, they ended up finding a wonderful Mennonite midwife to work with, and what resulted was a simple, beautiful birth and a new friendship.  Find tori on Instagram or Facebook to connect. The choices, beliefs, and opinions of the mamas sharing their stories are as individual as the storyteller herself and do not necessarily reflect the beliefs or recommended choices of Lauren and/or Brooke. -------------------- CONNECT Email us to say hi: holywildbirth@gmail.com Put in a request for future topics and/or submit a question for future Q&A episodes: Fill out the form Apply to tell your birth story on the podcast: sisterbirth.com/podcast-guest Join Natural Christian Home Birth (Assisted and Unassisted) - a facebook community From Lauren: Instagram Midwifery consults: Email  lauren.rootedineden@gmail.com From Brooke: Instagram YouTube Trust God, Trust Birth Workshop - a 5-part high-level roadmap to confident home birth (pay what you can) Faith-Filled Home Birth Workshop - a free, 3-part video series delivered to your inbox Embrace Birth Journey Membership - comprehensive and holistic faith-based home birth preparation (courses + private community) --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/holy-wild-birth/support

It's a new year and with that come new year resolutions which often include various forms of SELF-CARE. As moms and women we're so often told not to forget to take care of ourselves, to fill our own cup so that we can pour out on others. And while none of that is entirely WRONG, it often seems shallow or laughably unattainable.  That is until you redefine self-care and bring it into alignment with what your soul is really thirsty for.  In this episode, Lauren and Brooke dig into what self-care is and isn't. We cover: How the podcast season break was a self-care thing Self-care doesn’t equal "me time" Distinguishing between distraction/tuning out vs true self-care Lauren’s “cheat sheet” of things to do after a hard birth Building in rhythms proactively The role of self-talk in self-care And more! Grab your mug of hot beverage and listen in.  Mentioned in this episode:  An Invitation to Self-Care: Why Learning to Nurture Yourself Is the Key to the Life You've Always Wanted, 7 Principles for Abundant Living  Connect: Email us to say hi: holywildbirth@gmail.com Put in a request for future topics and/or submit a question for future Q&A episodes: Fill out the form Apply to tell your birth story on the podcast: sisterbirth.com/podcast-guest Join Natural Christian Home Birth (Assisted and Unassisted) - a FB community From Lauren: Instagram Midwifery consults: Email  lauren.rootedineden@gmail.com From Brooke: Instagram Trust God, Trust Birth Workshop - a 5-part high-level roadmap to a confident home birth (pay what you can) Faith-Filled Home Birth Workshop - a free, 3-part video series delivered to your inbox Embrace Birth Journey Membership - comprehensive and holistic faith-based home birth preparation (courses + private community) --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/holy-wild-birth/support

Today's episode is for those of you who deeply desire a home birth or unassisted birth but whose husbands are not sold on the idea.⁠ ⁠ We'll cover things like: ⁠ ❤️ Why dads might be opposed or resistant⁠ ❤️ What our response as Christian wives should be⁠ ❤️ Tools for having a conversation that might bring you onto the same page⁠ And more!⁠ Oh, and this episode also has a special secret guest appearance that I'll think you'll really appreciate. ⁠ We're on a season break after this episode, so we'll see you back here in January.  In the meantime, Put in a request for future topics and/or submit a question for future Q&A episodes here: Fill out the form Other Links: Email us to say hi: holywildbirth@gmail.com Put in a request for future topics and/or submit a question for future Q&A episodes: Fill out the form Apply to tell your birth story on the podcast: sisterbirth.com/podcast-guest Connect with Lauren: Instagram Midwifery consults: Email  lauren.rootedineden@gmail.com Connect with Brooke: Instagram YouTube Trust God, Trust Birth Workshop - a 5-part high-level roadmap to a confident home birth (pay what you can) Faith-Filled Home Birth Workshop - a free, 3-part video series delivered to your inbox Embrace Birth Journey Membership - comprehensive and holistic faith-based home birth preparation (courses + private community) Natural Christian Home Birth (Assisted and Unassisted) - a FB community --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/holy-wild-birth/support