Childbirth Is Not A Medical Condition: The Freebirth Revolution W/ Yolande Norris-Clark #346
The Life Stylist
Luke Storey
4.7 • 2.1K Ratings
🗓️ 11 May 2021
⏱️ 140 minutes
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Summary
Yolande Norris-Clark cut the cord with western medicine after her traumatic first pregnancy and miscarriage at 19 years old. She broke away from the Western test tube of clinical hospitals, foreign metal instruments, and disconnected docs-in-white coats for the pure, serene, natural womb of the home. She has free-birthed eight children onto this planet, choosing to not partake in industrialized prenatal care, instead cultivating mental fortitude through meditation, nature, and independent (un)learning.
Together, we examine our personal traumatic birth stories and unpack the healing potential of free birth. She articulately explains how one can lean into the free birth experience if they feel called to do so. Lastly, we broach why traditional feminism has ignored the uncomfortable theme of birth in the women’s rights movement.
This enlightening conversation pushed me to the edge of my programming around the subject of childbirth and what we collectively deem as an appropriate birth experience to claim the “good” parent badge.
The miracle of life has so many layers, and I’m in awe of ALL parents who make empowered decisions that align with their moral compass and lifestyle. I encourage everyone to listen with an open mind and heart, whatever your childbirth value system may be.
08:30 — From Lockdown to Liberation
- Moving from Canada to Costa Rica during the pandemic
- Her huge family!
- Her holistic parenting philosophy
18:50 — Processing Birth Guilt & Trauma
- How free births have helped heal her distressing entry to this planet
- Why cutting the umbilical cord is not beneficial to a baby’s health
- Reconciling ancestral trauma through non-hospital births
- How the system disconnects us from truly knowing our own bodies
- The collective awakening happening right now
- Ayahuasca reflections on my experience in an incubator post-birth
36:44 — (Ultra) Sound Awakening
- Predatory ultrasound experience and subsequent miscarriage
- Supporting spontaneous miscarriage at home
- The pivotal moment where she walked away from the hospital and never went back
54:11 — Defining Free Birth
- How “natural birth” has been politicized and miscategorized
- She thinks no hospital birth can be deemed natural
- The characteristics of a “physiological birth”
- The current political situation with midwifery
- Pre-birth education and deprogramming
1:17:14 — Leaning into Free Birth
- Aligning yourself with the right birth experience meant for you
- The hallucinogenic energetics of birth and death
- Her incredible experience using an underground midwife at 20 years old
- Ego death and surrender during birth
- Cultivating mental fortitude
- Reverence for the miracle of life – and death
- Pushing past indoctrinated birth fears
- Stepping away from Industrial prenatal care
1:58:30 — What About Feminism?
- The blind spot in the body rights movement
- Dismantling fake liberation stories sold to women
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| 0:00.0 | It's not just that the hospital environment is impersonal and sterile and you know, maybe unpleasant for some people. |
| 0:08.0 | It's that being in that environment has a direct physiological effect on how our bodies function. |
| 0:19.0 | I'm Luke Story. For the past 22 years I've been relentlessly committed to my deepest passion, designing the ultimate lifestyle based on the most powerful principles of spirituality, health, psychology and personal development. |
| 0:36.0 | The Lifestyleist podcast is a show dedicated to sharing my discoveries and the experts behind them with you. |
| 0:49.0 | When I was a kid, my grandma used to harp on me about how important sleep was and of course as a kid I thought, sleep who needs that? That's for old people. Well, she happened to live until she was 99 so she might have been on to something. |
| 1:03.0 | Now, most of you listen to this show, know how important sleep is and if you want a healthy life of vitality and longevity, you want to get 7 to 8 hours a night. |
| 1:11.0 | Now, I know that can be very difficult. There's a number of different reasons. One of those reasons might be that you are low on magnesium and if you don't have adequate levels of magnesium in your body, sleep can be very difficult. |
| 1:24.0 | Now, there are actually 7 unique forms of magnesium and you got to get all 3 of them if you want to experience its calming, sleep-enhancing effects. |
| 1:32.0 | That's why I always recommend magnesium breakthrough by by optimizers. All you got to do is take 2 capsules before you go to bed and you will be amazed on how much better you sleep and also how much more rested you'll feel when you wake up. |
| 1:44.0 | So, if you're ready to improve your sleep and get more magnesium in your body, here's what you do. |
| 1:49.0 | Go to magbreakthrough.com slash luke. That's M-A-G-B-R-E-A-K-T-H-R-O-U-H-G. |
| 1:59.0 | I'm going to admit something here. I suck at cooking. I suck at making smoothies, elixirs. |
| 2:12.0 | Now, that doesn't mean I can't make something that's good for you. And I can make a bomb-ass smoothie, elixir that is incredibly fortifying and nutritious. |
| 2:31.0 | However, making one that tastes good to a normal person is very challenging for me. So, I'm kind of joking. I mean, I'm okay at it, but one way I've managed to hack the system of creating amazing tasting smoothies and hot elixirs, both, that are not only delicious, but also highly nutritious, is by using this product called organics. |
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| 3:11.0 | In most cases, they say yes, and I come out with just about any drink I make, honestly, that has organified gold in it, is going to get a positive response. |
| 3:19.0 | And then, of course, I just take the credit and say that I made it up. But what makes organified gold awesome is not only that it tastes delicious, almost like a dessert or a gold and latte if you've had one of those. |
| 3:30.0 | But the fact that it has nine superfoods formulated for rest and relaxation, it's, of course, 100% certified organic, taste delicious and warm or cold drink, it's also very low in sugar. |
| 3:42.0 | And even though this is a very calming drink and one that's great at night to support with relaxation and sleep, you're going to wake up feeling refreshed without drowsiness, which is really important. |
| 3:51.0 | Sometimes I'll take a sleep blend and it just knocks me out so much that the next morning, I feel drowsy. |
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