What if the way you entered the world shaped your entire life?

In this deeply moving conversation, Jenny Jimeno sits down with Jane Hardwicke Collings—grandmother, former homebirth midwife, educator, and founder of The School of Shamanic Womancraft—to explore the profound threads that connect our birth, our cycles, and our sense of self as women.

With over 30 years of experience attending births and guiding women through the sacred transitions of menstruation, childbirth, and menopause, Jane shares how our birth imprint influences the way we move through the world—and why reclaiming these rites of passage is a key to healing.

Together, they explore menarche—a girl’s first bleed—as a sacred initiation that shapes her relationship to her body and power. They reflect on how our menstrual cycles mirror the seasons of nature, offering a path to live in deeper alignment with ourselves. And they speak to the importance of honouring the postpartum window as a portal of integration and deep inner knowing.

Jane invites us to release menstrual shame, reconnect with ancestral wisdom, and embrace aging as a return to grace and embodied wisdom. Through tools like cycle charting and mother-daughter preparation work, she encourages us to remember what we already know—that there is power in our blood, our birth stories, and our becoming.

This episode is a call to restore reverence to the sacred passages of a woman’s life—and to change the narrative for the generations to come.

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