How intuition expands talent, creativity, confidence & happiness I have been waiting a long time to record this podcast! To say I am excited about the Intuition Process for children is putting it mildly. I believe this program, with its teachings and the power and integrity of the organisation behind it, has the ability to change the world and, as my guests say, contribute to world peace. The documentary and the Australian research are also going to be amazingly powerful. So, let me begin by asking you a few questions… Do you believe in intuition? How often do you access it? Are your children more intuitive than you? Do you think it is important for them to harness their intuition? Today, I have Mala Sundareshan, International Program Director of the Intuition Process, with me. Mala works for the global Art of Living non-profit organisation founded by Sri Sri Ravi Shankar and is currently leading the teacher training and rollout of the Intuition Process worldwide. I also have a dear friend and documentary filmmaker, Michael Collins. Michael is a four-time Emmy-nominated director and producer and the founder of Thoughtful Robot Productions. His films are highly impactful, have been screened globally over the last two decades, and have even changed laws! Mala and Michael share their experiences and insights into following and teaching children aged 5 to 18 techniques to harness what seems like magic or superpowers. The Art of Living says the Intuition Process wakes up our latent intuitive potentials through specific techniques of brain activation and meditation. Allowing children to access, cultivate and maintain their inherent intuitive capacity. “Intuition is the faculty of knowing or understanding something without the need for conscious reasoning or proof. As a culture, we have learned to follow our rational thinking as we go through our daily lives. We pay little attention to our inner voice, our gut feeling, that instinctual form that goes beyond our reasoning layers. We were all born with a naturally intuitive ability to perceive beyond our senses. As we grow, our culture and education obstruct us from developing our capacity to access our inner potential, especially when we need them most.” Today, we talk about: If intuition is an essential aspect of human experience? If intuition can be developed and honed over time? How intuition differs from coincidence How intuition might change the education system? (Fingers crossed for this one!) What children are gaining from learning the process of intuition and how that unique expression occurs in each child. And the research into the mechanisms of intuition by Joel Pearson, world leading neuroscientist based at UNSW, Sydney, Australia. This will create a revolution in not only Artificial Intelligence but Absolute Intelligence! I hope you enjoy. Nadine x #intiution #shebirths #podcast #newepisode Links https://thoughtfulrobot.com https://www.artofliving.org/au-en/intuition-process https://www.unsw.edu.au/staff/joel-pearson

Hello, and thank you for joining me for today's podcast. Whether you're pregnant, you've got a baby in your arms or a child at school. Whether you are a birth worker or an allied health practitioner, you will find this conversation very interesting. I believe it is important to have conversations with people who think differently, especially those who are curious. People who speak their minds and research outside the mainstream narrative. Dr. Stuart Fischbein has been an obstetrician in America since 1986. After working in the standard medical model at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, California, he now practices community-based birthing. He works directly with home birthing midwives through www.birthinginstincts.com to offer hope for those women who prefer and respect a natural birthing environment and cannot find supportive practitioners for VBAC, twin and breech deliveries. He is an outspoken advocate of informed decision-making, the midwifery model of care and human rights in childbirth, receiving the 2016 “Most Audacious” award from HRIC. He has spoken internationally on breech and vaginal birth after cesarean section. He has appeared in many documentaries, including: “More Business of Being Born”, “Happy Healthy Child”, “Reducing Infant Mortality”, “Heads Up: The Disappearing Art of Vaginal Breech Delivery” and multiple YouTube videos discussing birth choices and respect for patient autonomy and decision making. He has the goals of improving collaboration amongst the differing professions in the birthing world and the re-teaching of the core skills, such as breech and twin vaginal birth, that make the speciality of obstetrics unique. One of the most challenging conversations I have during She Births is informing people that your body is your own and only you can decide what to do with it, even during pregnancy and birth. The second uncomfortable truth is that so-called evidence-based care is a term that gets bandied about a lot in search of status and prestige and power, but in truth, health care varies from practitioner to practitioner. From hospital to hospital. From country to country. In today's conversation, Dr Stu and I explore how the medico-industrial complex is more likely to be influencing the policy and therefore the suggestions, trickling down into advice and maybe even coercion that is given to us during pregnancy and birth. Different policies flow down to us as consumers from the private companies that own the hospital as to whether we are allowed to birth in water for example. An insurance company that covers an OB may be the determining factor as to whether you are offered a VBAC. We need to do our own research and choose. Just because someone says so, does not make it so for you. Right now we are living in an age of disinformation and misinformation, and as the powers that be seem to continually try to confuse us and divide us. We're going to have to come back to ourselves. We talk about the medico-industrial complex How informed consent is not able to happen in our current model of healthcare Medical induction, the reality of due dates and the ARRIVE trial Natural breech births and other so called high risk mums being offered more choice The risks of multiple ultrasounds, the label of growth restriction and realising what ais happening redefining risks within maternal foetal medicine How continuous monitoring of labour and tracking the time of labour increases c-section rates And finally my favourite part is seeing this system vs consumers as a Star Wars battle. We also lean into a vision that has hope. I hope you enjoy today’s conversation with Dr. Stu - sending lots of love across the ethers to you and your family. If you feel passionate like I do, and you want to help families have better births then reach out and join me in our upcoming training. Become a wise woman of birth and help others find their own way. I also will be holding a Wise Woman Retreat towards the end of the year. wJVAgTEo9Q0AbiDWL3fB

What happens to your brain as a mother or father?‘Intuition is the parental brain working’ with Neuroscientist Rocio Zunini Welcome, dear listeners, to 2024. I am so happy that this season of the podcast has decided to be about intuition. It is one of my favourite topics, and I believe it is also one of our superpowers as mums. This season I will be exploring intuition and of course other topics with professionals and parents around the world. Today's podcast is with Rocio Zunini, a neuroscientist with a Ph.D. from the University of Ottawa and a mother of two. She is the founder of Newborn Parents, which was born out of a fusion of her two passions: the brain and the relationship between parents and their infants. She educates parents and professionals about parental brain science so that they can take advantage of the profound brain changes that accompany matrescence and patrescence. She is also an advocate for nurturing infant sleep. She firmly believes that when parents and professionals learn about the power of the parental brain, they can create a path for a lifelong nurturing relationship between families and their babies. I couldn’t agree more! And birth is the big bang beginning of this relationship. Today with Rocio we explore the parental brain and the amazing changes that occur across pregnancy, birth and postpartum…And I mean in my experience, when does matrescence ever end? Our children, if we maintain a relationship with them and want to have quality connection then we have to continue adapting and growing. They continue to keep us on our toes. I'm hoping I might even convince Leroy to come on this season, even though as a philosopher, he doesn’t actually believe in intuition I think it would be fabulous to hear about quarter-life and his 21st birthday experience. Let me know if you would like to hear about that. For me I was so emotional I could hardly give the speech. Anyhoo! Today we discuss How the parental brain is highly dependent upon experience and environment How parents and infants synchronise, and children borrow our nervous systems How we can nurture, embrace and help this process of brain development Why it is so important to take care of the Information we are putting in, not just food Why we often feel anxious as new mums, and how to manage this Did you know that because the brain is more malleable, you can actually benefit more from yoga and mindfulness We also describe the brain networks that change during matrescence, which are: reward, protector, emotional and empathy systems The importance of joy and mutual delight! I love how brain science reiterates so much of what we practice in our Soul Mama Circles, which start up again in February. 100% of mums say that they loved the process and found it priceless btw. Also, the wisdom and importance of She Births to utilise both bottom-up and top-down approaches in education. So I hope that there will be joy in your new year, whenever or wherever you are listening to this podcast. I love hearing from you. Leave us a review, send us an email and let us know what you think and feel, please. We have so many exciting things to share this year. My new one-day Masterclass is a hybrid learning program with an online course. It is a one-day live program plus Zoom workshops for Q&A and allows me to include some of my new teachings about intuition, embodiment and matrescence. Our new She Births® Guide and Educator training is launching again. We have a vision to reach so many more families, but we need your help. If you are passionate about helping restore the sacredness of birth in your community and helping others have beautiful births, then reach out. Links Rocio Website www.newbornparents.net Weekend and Masterclass dates: https://shebirths.com/weekend-birthing-classes/events/ Soul Mama Circles https://shebirths.com/mothers-groups/ Guide and educator training https://shebirths.com/birth-professionals/ Email support@shebirths.com

⁠SheBirths.com.au ⁠ | ⁠She Births® Online Courses⁠ | ⁠ She Births® Weekend Courses Maiden to Mother Birth Story : The power of slowing down with Tayla & Jaime Today's podcast is with Tayla and Jaime, a She Births® couple who gave birth on the south coast of NSW about 10 minutes before their midwife arrived. We share a lot of laughs in this podcast and a lot of insights and truths. They are a really fun and playful couple. I was recently inspired by their rewilding of their relationship recently. Tayla took pregnancy as a time for really slowing down. Which I believe is one of the most important things we can do, in resistance to our hyper productivity culture but also because it is a step towards being able to listen and receive all the wisdom and gifts from both our instinctual bodies and our intuitive higher self during pregnancy. As we move into more being and less doing there is more stillness and therefore silence. We can tune in and listen to the way our bodies and all of Nature around us communicates with us continually I love how Tayla could feel the subtle moments when her maiden self was arising and dying throughout labour. And I love how much laughter these two bring to their life. Why can’t birth also be fun and playful? We talk about The shadow and light sides of our maiden selves The victim and drama triangle we can get caught up into Making love to initiate labour Creating a birth altar that connects us with our red thread and the power of mother blessing ceremonies The different type of support we receive from dads and doulas, especially during pushing My knowledge of the psychic imprint on a child at crowning from the atmosphere in the room We also discuss the superpowers and gifts from birth such as intuition, intimacy and the awesome strength and competency as a mother all of which I am writing more about in my upcoming book. As this is our final podcast episode for 2023 I want to thank you all for listening and engaging with my work here at She Births. It has been so nourishing to meet mums post partum who said they learnt and were so inspired by the birth stories we share here. Also, by the openness and vulnerability I share too. I look forward to a new year ahead and sharing some very new and exciting projects and offerings.

SheBirths.com.au | She Births® Online Courses | She Births® Weekend Courses What is a Private Midwife? Should you have one? What is relational based care? How to choose a provider for your beautiful birth... Today's podcast is with Liz Wilkes who is the Managing Director and Founder of My Midwives. My Midwives was established in 2010 and has supported thousands of families. They are change agents in the maternity system offering true individualised care that we so often talk about at She Births. My Midwives is the first midwifery practice in Australia to admit women to hospital with Medicare rebates and also the largest private midwifery practice. They provide continuity of care through pregnancy, labour, birth and postpartum. Their care covers all the normal visits and aspects from booking into hospital, doing blood tests and scans etc. They will remain a mothers primary care provider but work autonomously and collaboratively with a range of hospitals and practitioners. They have exceptional outcomes and their data will be published very soon. Liz Wilkes was one of the first Medicare provider midwives in Australia and conducted the first Medicare rebated birth. LISTEN ON APPLE | LISTEN ON SPOTIFY Most women I know will make a phone call quickly after they pee on a stick and choose whatever care provider their latest friend or perhaps their GP tells them, without actually knowing that outcomes can vary greatly in different models of care. This podcast is designed to help you and any of your pregnant friends out there understand the different models of care and guide you in choosing the best place for you. Because finding out midway through pregnancy at a She Births course can sometimes feel really deflating and frustrating. Today we talk about... → The spectrum of care → The importance of relational care → What research tells us is gold standard → How midwifery continuity is different to obstetric continuity → How Liz started My Midwives and what makes it so unique → How collaboration and advocacy are key to your better birth. How midwives, doulas, and hospitals interact well together to help avoid unnecessary inductions or other medical interventions. → Birthing on Country care for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander families → Freebirthing - what it is and isn't → Giving yourself permission to shop around and trusting what you feel is the best care for you I hope you enjoy this very special episode. Nadine xx She Births® PS. Join me this month in Sydney for an in-person She Births® Weekend Course! Only TWO spaces left! LINKS My Midwives : https://www.mymidwives.com.au/ Instagram My Midwives : https://www.instagram.com/mymidwives/ She Births® Holistic Pregnancy Guide : https://shebirths.com/pg

shebirths.com⁠ Today's podcast is with Laura Latina, who has been a midwife, consultant and trainer for over 15 years and has a huge breadth of international experience. After graduating in Midwifery in Italy she completed her first assignment in the African country Burundi. Laura continued her work with Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) as a supervisor in Malawi and then South Sudan and Kenya. She has also worked as a community midwife in London and a midwifery team leader. Laura completed her fourth MSF assignment in Afghanistan as a manager of a maternity hospital where more than 20,000 women (per year) give birth. She has been an MSF Women's Health Advisor, providing technical expertise and training in countries such as Bangladesh, Nigeria, Chad, Ivory Coast, Uganda, Pakistan and more. Laura is currently interning with Compassionate Inquiry, a somatic based psychotherapy developed by Dr Gabor Mate and Sat Dharam kaur. She is working as an independent consultant around the world preventing birth trauma and medicalisation and promoting gentle, respectful births. She offers sessions for women and families to reclaim their authentic inner power. Today we talk about birth in remote and less resourced areas of the world. We discuss the importance of community, elders and culturally appropriate woman centered care. We explore women's wisdom and knowledge and birth as a community event and celebration. We discuss the safety of so called high risk births and also what actually contributes to morbidity and mortality in these less resourced areas. The importance of access, hygiene, nutrition and medicine to prevent hemorrhage. We mention the power of culture and the evidence of effective TBA’s, traditional birth attendants. I hope you enjoy this very special episode. Nadine xx Links https://www.lauralatina.com/ Instagram @heal.birth.heal.earth

shebirths.com | Birth Harvesting Sessions With Nadine Richardson How to get through birth & breastfeeding hell. Birth Initiation - Doing the inner work with Cristina & Damian Today's podcast is with Christina and Damian, a wonderful She Births® couple that gave birth on a houseboat in San Francisco. They both did a huge amount of the psychological and spiritual work in preparation for not only birth but their relationship and parenting. They still however had moments in birth and breastfeeding of it feeling like absolute hell. Doing the work does not mean we don’t face challenges. But rather that we are prepared to face them and have tools to pass through them with more grace, ease, resources and understanding. We open with Cristina and Damian’s love story. Because who doesn’t love a great COVID love story ;) We talk about the differences and similarities between the Australian and American hospital systems. We discuss iatrogenic harm, morbidity and mortality that occurs within and because of hospital systems. We discuss childbirth as a spiritual initiation and mention kundalini and awakening. The importance of feeling safe during birth and listening to your body for that information. Plus, healing from sexual trauma. Damian shares his personal preparation for parenthood and being a part of the Mankind project. How the soul of his baby reached out to him prior to conception. How fathers can be an amazing support in labour even while feeling fear, uncertainty and the inability to sometimes do anything at all. A powerful use of the incantation ‘Yes’ during labour. Plus, very challenging supply and diagnostic issues while breastfeeding. We discuss healing from our inherited beliefs, softening and developing more of an embodied presence - plus more, what I call superpowers and gifts from birth. LINKS Find out more information about Birth Harvesting sessions with Nadine Richardson. https://shebirths.com/product/birth-harvesting-package-880 NadineRichardson.com https://www.linkedin.com/in/cristina-bowling-94109927 http://linkedin.com/in/dbayona

shebirths.com | mathieucarlot.com S8 Ep4 The power of meditation in our busy lives with Mathieu Carlot How to be free of stress and remember who we really are Hello and welcome, Today I have a wonderful friend and meditation teacher Mathieu Carlot here to help us answer all your questions about meditation. Mathieu Carlot is a Vedic Meditation teacher based in Byron Bay. With a background in the creative industries, he originally came to Vedic Meditation as a way to live his fullest creative potential. The practice takes only 20 minutes and easily integrates into a busy day. It is now practiced by millions of people around the world. As a mentee of spiritual teacher Thom Knoles for over ten years, he is now passionate about sharing this ancient practice to enhance our modern lifestyles. When he’s not teaching or creating, you’ll find him on his surfboard or out in nature, two places of constant inspiration. You'll soon find him changing nappies too as a papa :) In our conversation today we discuss how meditation can help us birth and parent. The types of meditation, including contemplative, concentrative and mantra based The mechanics of the Vedic technique and how it is unique The effects of stress and power of experiencing deep rest What Dharma and Karma are and how to guide your kids so they can thrive The meaning and the importance of honoring Jai Guru Deva The similarities between transcendence in labour and in meditation How meditation increases our adaptability under pressure, elevates creative problem solving, and breaks repetitive thought patterns so we can get back to flowing and being fully present I hope you enjoy LINKS @mathieucarlot www.mathieucarlot.com

Show Links | shebirths.com Make a submission here to the NSW Parliamentary Inquiry Select Committee on Birth Trauma here: https://www.parliament.nsw.gov.au/committees/listofcommittees/Pages/committee-details.aspx?pk=318#tab-submissions Reach out to us or Hygieia Health https://www.instagram.com/hygieiahealthltd/ for help with the submission and letter examples. BESt (Birth Experience Study) Links: https://www.facebook.com/BirthExperienceStudy ⁠australianbirthstudy.com/about-the-study⁠ Birth Time & Jerusha Sutton Links: jerusha.com.au @jerushasutton birthtime.world/ ⁠@birthtimeworld ⁠ midwifehazel.com/ She Births®: The She Births® study: https://shebirths.com/research/ Introduction: Hello, welcome to another episode of the She Births Show. Today I have a dear friend and fellow doula Jerusha Sutton on the podcast. Jerusha has been a birth worker for 17 years, as a birth and postnatal doula in Australia and UK, and an international award winning birth photographer and videographer. Together we are talking about her film that has won 24 international film festival awards that she made in collaboration with Jo Hunter, Zoe Naylor and Selina Scoble, Birth Time. We discuss the changes that Birth Time is making both culturally and politically to our conversations about birth experiences and birth trauma. It has sparked a fire that I am happy to say is now blazing. I'm sure a lot of you have seen Birth Time and been very moved by it and also had multiple questions arise about your own experiences of giving birth in the system and the care you received. Today we dive into the core message of the film which revolves around the question; what would it take for all women to come out of their birth not only safe but emotionally well? On the back of Birth Time a study at Western Sydney University launched, the same place that did the She Births® study. Over 9 months they collected over 8,000 submissions about women's experiences of giving birth in Australia in the last 5 years. You might know this as the BESt study. You can stay up to date with the study via a facebook link in our notes. What was found was heartbreaking but has subsequently changed legal ease already and initiated a NSW parliamentary inquiry. If you are in NSW please, I encourage you to submit any traumatic experience you have had to the inquiry. The link is in our notes. If you are a birthworker and have ever witnessed anything traumatic in New South Wales you are also invited to submit before the 11th of August. Birth trauma is defined as inappropriate, disrespectful or abusive treatment before, during and after birth. We expand on these definitions in our chat. In the BESt study it was found that 30% of women experience some form of birth trauma in Australia. Shockingly, 1 in 10 women experience obstetric violence. We go into more detail around what obstetric violence is. Please note it is not specifically referring to an obstetrician but includes all birth workers. And violence is not just actions but words too and what is commonly experienced as coercive language and a lack of informed consent. Within the 30% of women experiencing birth trauma 70% of those say that it was due to the way they were cared for, or spoken to. 58% of women felt dehumanized. 26% of women felt violated and 16% of women felt powerless. All of these experiences have very significant effects on women, their relationships and of course partners and babies too. None of this is okay. So how do we fix it? Well tune in to discover the most evidence based solutions. Jerusha and I discuss What is birth trauma & how can we reduce it What is true continuity of care The importance of indigenous birthing on country The healing power of birth in our lineages Jerusha’s best experience while interviewing birthing experts for the film My experience of remembering Leroy’s birth at his 21st birthday party recently

Welcome to episode two of Corinne and Andy’s story. Today we share the natural births of their twin girls, Ivey and Rocky, frank and complete breech which is an extremely rare story. I hope you enjoy the way that we talk not only about the mechanics of birth but also traversing the psychological and emotional challenges and the reminder of how important it is at these times to have people around you that are giving power back to you! Sharing our stories in a deeper way to honour all parts of ourselves allows for embodiment and integration. I call this Birth Harvesting. I am writing more about this and how to prevent birth trauma in my upcoming book. Make sure you follow me and She Births® on socials and subscribe to our podcast to hear more conversations about what really matters to all of us, on the inside. In this episode we talk about Discovering the wild woman in your base chakra, SHE How regional hospitals are unable to assist with higher risk births The challenge of changing location and travelling to a supportive hospital How a supportive system can still leave you in tears after each appointment and how to get back into your zone How interpreting statistics and making risk assessments is unique to each of us Avoiding an induction and refusing an epidural Having a dialogue with your cervix How SHE, the wild woman is always there Using affirmations in labour and a birthing stool squatting position for breech babies I hope you enjoy. Nadine Richardson, She Births® Founder LINKS: https://shebirths.com/ http://www.thenestofmoruya.com.au/ More about the upcoming book @nadine_shebirths Birth images by @birthwithlauren Mum Corinne Histon is here to help any twins mumma’s out there @_corinneanne_

shebirths.com Corinne’s Birth Story 3 Under 2. Healing through the mind body connection. One of the most rare twins birth story ever - no epidural, double breech Hello, welcome to a very special two part birth story podcast with parents, Corinne and Andy who have three little girls under the age of 2. In a sense this podcast is three birth stories… all with a lot of change, flux and challenge. Also with a lot of power, agency and triumph. In today's episode we talk about the care and support received at a midwifery group practice, Nest on the South Coast of NSW Australia for the birth of their first daughter, Navy. Then in our second episode (live now) we share the story of navigating the birth of twins within the hospital system. After being told that a c-section was best by two hospitals, then told that an epidural was essential if a vaginal birth was attempted Corinne and Andy managed to have a beautiful natural birth of double breech girls under the care of Prof Andrew Bisits. In today’s episode we talk about: Birthing in a regional Australian area and long labour drives to hospital Doing your own vaginal exams and knowing when to get in the car How education changes the role of our partner for birth Playing music to our babies during pregnancy How birth can be like getting tickets to a great footy game How birth can be incredibly healing The power of claiming and owning our body-mind connection after a history of anxiety Doing the work, turning inwards and using visualisation Calling in a birthing circle and knowing what they give to you Transition and the natural calling we feel into our new identity The embodied process from maiden to mother I hope you enjoy. Don’t forget to subscribe and share with anyone you think needs support and inspiration to create a beautiful birth.

shebirths.com Free Holistic Pregnancy Guide: shebirths.com/pg Join Nadine's VIP Book List: shebirths.com/book Ask Us Anything with Nadine and She Births® Educator Nichola Kinnane. This is a recording from an Instagram live - an Ask Us Anything session between myself and She Births® Educator, Nichola who teaches in Newcastle, NSW. Nichola is a mother and doula with a background in Kinesiology and a Bachelor of Counselling. She loves working with couples to demystify birth, explore the physiological process as well as the transformative process. In today’s episode we talk about: + Why is it important we demystify birth + What is the essence of the transformative process + Why Newcastle is my favourite Australian city + The best breathing techniques for birth + Our POV on hospital courses and online courses + How to help friends get educated without overstepping + Advice and resources for a holistic twins pregnancy and birth experience + Induction and why it’s important to change the word consent to decision We also chat about recent growth of drop in centres for families. The latest evidence on breast crawl and treating mastitis. Catherine Bell’s birth mapping work. We also spend time discussing my favourite topic, intuition. Which I am writing a lot about in my new book, and how in this age of misinformation, disinformation and conflicting research it is more and more important that we connect with our inner knowing. We hope you enjoy listening to this special episode. Nadine xx

shebirths.com | bodylove-mamas.com In today’s podcast we share an Instagram live conversation between Ali Handley, Founder of Bodylove Pilates / Bodylove Mamas and Nadine Richardson, Founder of She Births®. Together they talk all about preparing your body for birth from a unique 20+ years of experience teaching pilates and yoga to pregnant and postpartum women. In fact Nadine is one of the original creators of a unique and dynamic prenatal yoga beyond the norm in Australia. She is the only Australian yoga teacher included in the award winning yoga documentary, YogaWoman. Ali and Nadine start by talking about how important it is to take care of ourselves through important life transitions and the very powerful hormonal shift happening from maiden to mother. They discuss whether it is safe not to exercise during pregnancy because of the enormous benefits for body, mind and childbirth. They talk about building strength physically as well as emotionally. Topics covered include: Why is it important to do prenatal yoga and pilates The differences and similarities between them Movements they recommend as a starting point How powerful our bodies actually are in pregnancy How to be safe on the mat The importance of exploring what feels good How pilates and yoga can allow you to strengthen your intuition for birth How developing blissfulness allows you to ride the waves of pain with more ease Both Ali and Nadine have two fantastic free trials on offer so that you can really feel the benefits of both pilates and yoga for yourself. Simply go to https://bodylove-mamas.com/ and sign up to a free trial for experience the best pre and postnatal pilates Use this special code SHEBIRTHSLOVES so you get an amazing 1 month free (on top of the standard 14 day free trial). And go to shebirths.com/prenatal-yoga to receive our 7 day introduction to the foundations of safe and effective prenatal yoga. All for free. Inside our She Births courses both online or face to face you also receive multiple yoga class options to do regularly over in the lead up to birth.

Brooke Elliston's Birth Story today is inspiring in so many ways. Like so many of you out there Brooke had a looming threat of induction - rates of which have doubled in the last twenty years in Australia. I know a lot of women are struggling with whether to have an induction or not. So I have included a huge amount of information and data linked at the end of these Podcast show notes to a blog on the She Births® website to help you make the decision that is right for your family. https://shebirths.com/australian-birth-stories/to-induce-or-not-to-induce/⁠ Brooke is a yoga teacher and we begin by talking about the language of the body and intuition. Then go onto discuss women’s power in birth plus many ideas and concepts I am exploring in depth in my new book. In the podcast we talk about: Finding your hell YES and your hell NO Listening to your body and feeling resonance Creating strong boundaries for yourself Partners protecting the birthing space Your rights to decline an induction Coercion and lack of ethics often experienced in the system Risk and stillborn data being an individual’s choice as we assess risk differently Whether it is even possible for a labouring woman to give true consent How the environment we birth in has an impact on our outcomes and feelings Power dynamics in the birth space and my concept of ‘Power To’ that is desperately needed At the end we also talk about conscious conception at the quantum level. And how the shakti takes us over during birth. And we go through a little ‘birth harvesting’ as I call it, where we speak to the gifts we receive from our births. This is one of my favourite types of conversations, where we get to be spiritual but also really really practical, pragmatic and grounded in the body. This is one of the reasons I love birth so much, and yoga too because it really is where the rubber hits the road. There are numerous issues unfolding along with the increase of inductions such as increased resuscitation of babies, decreased maternal satisfaction and increased postpartum hemorrhage. A lot of experts are saying we might be reaching the point of doing more harm than good in the birth space right now. The data and articles below will help you make an informed and empowered decision. Remember that your choice needs to be an embodied decision also. Whatever you choose, remember that birth matters and you have rights. You have intelligence within your body. And you can connect to your higher self and inner feelings to help guide you at any time. Our work at She Births® is to empower you and help protect you from the conveyer belt of the systems. But you have to take the education and apply it. Make sure that you choose a team that supports you 100%. If these topics are of interest to you. If you want to connect more deeply with your intuition or if the idea of harvesting gifts from your birth or preparing in a pragmatic yet spiritual way for labour sounds like you, then make sure you subscribe to be part of my VIP book list. You will gain sneak peek access, discount offers and even help me choose the final title! My upcoming book is perfect if you are pregnant, a mum currently or a partner wanting to be useful or understand birth more fully, and of course it is perfect if you are a birth worker. Go here to sign up www.shebirths.com/book FOR MORE INFORMATION GO TO: Decoding the Labour Dilemma: To Induce or Not to Induce – Weighing the Options: https://shebirths.com/australian-birth-stories/to-induce-or-not-to-induce/

S 7 Ep 4, Intuitive Eating & Earth Cakes With Jana Brunclikova How to eat for the seasons, your body and make magic happen in your kitchen She Births® Birth Course: ⁠shebirths.com⁠⁠ | ⁠⁠Free Holistic Pregnancy Guide⁠⁠ | ⁠She Births® Full Online Course Jana Links: http://www.thesecretkitchen.net | ⁠https://www.instagram.com/thesecret_kitchen Today’s guest, Jana B is an author, Naturopath & Plant Based chef. She has over 15 years of naturopathy experience and a Bachelor degree in Health Science. Jana grew up in Eastern Europe and has a long relationship with herbs and their medicinal qualities which have been an important part of her life from a young age. In our conversation Jana shares her passion and experience about healing foods, cycles of nature and the importance of authenticity. Her two self published books, Intuitive Eating and Earth Cakes are a work of art and also make healthy eating easy! Her birthday cakes are extraordinary. In our chat we discuss what intuitive eating actually is and the practical tips and strategies to become more intuitive with our food, body and nature. My favourite part is hearing Jana’s stories as a child growing up in a communist country and how this has shaped her offering to us, as a green witch. Let's all become green witches I say! We hope you enjoy. Please share, subscribe and especially review our podcast so that we can keep delivering wisdom through the airwaves. #pregnancy #birth #birthstories #eatinginpregnancy #birthcourse #birthclass #australianbirthstories #shebirths

MumLife with Ruby Challenger and She Births - Award winning director shares the beauty, chaos and struggles of motherhood She Births® Birth Course: shebirths.com⁠ | ⁠Free Holistic Pregnancy Guide⁠ | She Births® Full Online Course Connect with Ruby: Ruby Challenger Instagram⁠ | Vimeo⁠ | ⁠IMDb⁠ | MumLife Trailer In my soon to be published book I am writing a lot about how screens and stories are creating subconscious wiring and belief systems about birth and motherhood. Through exposure we are all continually absorbing a culture, a set of beliefs. Culture eats birth plans for breakfast! In other words, if you don't take charge of what culture and the narrative is doing inside your brain and body you will not get the birth you want. Ruby Challenger⁠ is also on fire about this. It was a spark ignited at her She Births® course many years ago and now blazing through her work as a filmmaker. Ruby's short film, MumLife, screened in official competition in the 2022 La Cinef section at Cannes Film Festival. Five weeks earlier she had given birth to her second baby, so she packed up her family of four and took them to the festival! MumLife is a 15 minute musical about postnatal anxiety and is now enjoying a festival run. Ruby completed her Masters at the Australian Film Television and Radio School (AFTRS). She wrote her thesis on motherhood and the cinema, looking at mothers in front and behind the screen, which is being released on Instagram to further the discussion about mothers in film. Ruby has been on film sets since she was born - legend has it her first trip after the hospital was a film set to visit her dad. Alongside her award winning musical film, MumLife, her advocacy work for families will fill you with passion and purpose - to make all the places we go more inclusive and family friendly. In our podcast today we discuss media and the common birth/parenting culture. Plus, look at what it's really like studying or working as a mum, in one of the most intense and male led industries, film. As Ruby says: It's important that we change these narratives. Most of the women that you see on film and TV or any media who are mothers, are not going to be a protagonist. Don’t miss this latest inspiration and on fire conversation with Ruby Challenger Please leave us a review of the She Births® Podcast if you are enjoying the show.

S7, Ep2 Lesha Nelson - Healing birth trauma - How trauma imprints and how the nervous system heals shebirths.com | Pregnancy Guide | Lesha Nelson Meditation Our guest today is Lesha Nelson, who is an expert in somatic therapy and healing trauma. Lesha has spent over a decade studying trauma, meditation, stress responses in the body, embodiment, psychosomatics, the womb, and birth work. She believes it’s possible to re-pattern your nervous system from dysregulation, childhood conditioning, and insecure attachment patterns...to a place of connection and deep trust. Lesha guides her clients to their blueprint of health through womb healing, nervous system alchemy, and somatic trauma resolution. She offers guidance in calling your spirit baby into life, preventing and treating birth trauma, and creating more coherence with your own soul’s conception and birth process. I love her vision statement: My dreamiest vision is a world where we feel safe in all of our relationships, feel safe to be authentic, and feel like we belong because we are deeply resourced and open to pleasure. In our podcast we cover what trauma is. What is big and small trauma and how they wire in the brain body and nervous system. How trauma is released and healed. What the opportunities are for us as parents being ‘good enough’ for our children. How we can avoid birth trauma and how to think about birth from a babies’ perspective. LINKS: facebook.com/lesha.nelson11 IG @lesha_nelson https://www.leshanelson.com/ Link to Lesha’s meditation https://leshanelson.ck.page/interception

Astrology for you and your family with Emma Vidgen: A troubleshooting guide to unlock motherhood, creativity and soul purpose Welcome to Season 7 of The She Births® Show. In this episode Emma shares her two beautiful c-section birthing stories and all we love about astrology! We love the way Emma talks and writes about astrology and birth charts. It is so spiritual and so pragmatic. Plus, Emma relates so much wisdom back to ‘how we mother’ and our moon sign. In this episode Emma and Nadine take a deep dive into her new book The Astrology of You. Exploring our unique way of thinking and feeling via the stars as well as the critical south and north nodes that reveal our evolutionary soul journey. Grab it quickly as her book is already being reprinted and translated into Spanish and Swedish. The Astrology of You: Finding Love, Creativity and Soul Purpose in your Birth Chart is available via booktopia.kh4ffx.net/2rvEP0 You can cast your chart and discover your sun/moon/rising and nodes and learn more about Emma’s offerings at https://theastrologyofyou.com/ Connect with Emma Vidgen: Instagram @emma_vee TikTok @theastrologyofyou She Births® Resources: Free Holistic Pregnancy Guide at https://shebirths.com/holistic-pregnancy-guide She Births® revolutionary Birth Course at : https://shebirths.com/online-birthing-classes/full-online-course

Welcome to our bonus episode where you can Ask Us Anything. There are so many questions that arise when you become pregnant and approach birth and amongst all that excitement and love, it's totally normal to feel overwhelmed and nervous. So that's why we created our Ask Us Anything events on Instagram, and share them now in our podcast. Today you will hear my conversation with She Births® Educator, Danielle Syme. Danielle is a qualified midwife with over 30 years experience. She works as the team leader of a busy Midwifery Group Practice in Orange, Central West of NSW. As a mother of three, she is also an IRON MAN and loves swimming, walking her dog and being in nature. She is extremely passionate about Woman centered care - making sure mums get what they want. And also spontaneous labour. She loves witnessing the transformation that She Births® couples go through after attending the Weekend Course. She sees firsthand how important quality childbirth education is for an empowering birth experience. We talk about: + The differences she sees when women are educated + How to refuse an induction and what it means + Preventing tearing and perineal damage + Movement and diet during pregnancy + The best stories to listen to in the lead up to birth + Plus, is the cascade of intervention BS I hope you enjoy it and we will see you at a She Births® course soon either with Danielle in Orange or any of our other locations, or online. Nadine xxx Founder of She Births® Book in your weekend course today: https://shebirths.com/weekend-birthing-classes/events/

Welcome to our bonus episode where you can Ask Us Anything. There are so many questions that arise when you become pregnant and approach birth and amongst all that excitement and love, it's totally normal to feel overwhelmed and nervous. So that's why we created our Ask Us Anything events on Instagram, and share them now in our podcast. Today you will hear my conversation with She Births® Post Natal Expert, Leah Sizeland. Leah is trained by me to run our magical Soul Mama Circles in Bondi, Inner West and the Northern Beaches of Sydney plus on Zoom. She is a postnatal doula, yoga teacher and mother of two. In the first half Leah shares how preparing and then chanting her way through contractions allowed her body to open during her first birth. But how she also felt completely shell shocked after birth. In the second half we talk about the maiden to mother transition, the science of matrescence (maternal adolescence) and the rise of the feminine happening on the planet right now. Plus of course we talk about why every mum deserves a deeper heart felt community with special support and guidance. The days and months after birth are such an important time of change where our brains are literally melting and rewiring anew. It is such an opportunity for growth when we have the right container. I hope you enjoy and we see you at a Soul Mama Circle soon. Click to to view upcoming circles in your area. Nadine xxx Founder of She Births® Quick links to all of She Births®  Resources: https://shebirths.com/links