Birth has been systemically taken from us by the powers that be, but each birthing body holds deep knowledge of how to bring forth life. This conversation is part of a much larger cultural remembering of what our ancestors instinctively knew about giving birth and nurturing our babies.

IN THE INTRO:

• If we're not changing our minds, we're not growing
• Mammalian birth [mama & mammal & mammary are etymologically related, and there's a reason for that]
• How the Taoist medicine perspective of how energy moves through the female body explains why everyone wants to be around women

IN THE INTERVIEW:

• How Emilee’s radical teenage years led to her work now.

• Supporting mother’s instincts so that the mother-baby conversation can happen.

• Birth story: Dolphins(!), their potent medicine, and telepathic connection to birth (I cry).

• The spectrum of birth experience from beautiful and respectful, to dark and scary.

• How Emilee’s first hospital birth helped align her with her dharma.

• Our special likeness to all mammals through hormonal sequencing and our need to birth in a safe, familiar space (the choice of birth location changes the hormones flowing through the body during birth).

• Ultrasound technology safety and what affects our choices to use it.

• We are culturally trained to fear birth, and be terrified of death.

• How Patriarchy & Christianity disempowered birthing women.

• Fear- allying ourselves with it, rather than struggling to “overcome” it.

• Holding space for all individual birth experiences while still rejecting The System.

• Surrogacy, the primal wound, the commodification of bodies, and our bodily sovereignty as women.

• Staying open and nuanced in complex conversations.

• Meeting your divinity through birth, and the sacred spirituality of pregnancy.

• We birth the way we live.

• We are all descendants of women who birthed at home (like 99.999999999% of our female ancestors). Birth is in our bones.

• Creating a matriarchal household/family.

• A freebirth is a birth unhindered, undisturbed, in the support of loved ones, and outside the system that oppresses women and especially women of color.

• When we align with truth, in our power, we are unshakable.

LINKS:

• Emilee’s websites: Free Birth Society, Free Birth Podcast, my interview Matrilineal Love

• Medicine Stories Patreon (podcast bonuses!)

• Episode 30, The Innate Intelligence of the Immune System with Cilla Whatcott

• My website MythicMedicine.love

• Take my fun Which Healing Herb is Your Spirit Medicine? quiz

• Medicine Stories Facebook group

• Mythic Medicine on Instagram
  

• Music by Mariee Sioux (from her beautiful song Wild Eyes)