Welcome to the Free Birth Podcast, a supportive space for people who are learning, exploring,

and celebrating their autonomous choices in childbirth.

Together, while unpacked truths, share personal stories, and claim our ability to birth freely

and intuitively.

Here's your host, Emily Saldaya.

On the show today, I talk with fertility and conscious conception coach Elizabeth Manning.

Elizabeth teaches people how to live a more fertile life through self-exploration and loving what is.

She speaks of fertility, being a journey of the soul, a sacred path to be honored and leaned into.

Elizabeth shares her wisdom and reminds us to look at our childhood wounds and learn how to heal ourselves

so that we can call in our children in the highest vibration possible.

Having a parent who had you when she was 19, when she was 19 and she was very mentally unstable,

she was running from her parents' control, she was being a rebel, she ran away from home,

she had me, but I have this imprint in my life where I became the absolute center of my

mom's universe while she was sitting in the kitchen, smoking cigarettes, drinking beer with her

feet up, watching TV. And that was my life. And I was watching this woman and tell me I was the

I was the source of her happiness. And I'm thinking, fuck that. Go be happy yourself. Give

yourself a life. Don't rely on me for your life. And so I remember thinking, I am not going to be

like that. And so this lodged something in me where I thought, wait a minute.

What if parents had this for themselves? What if they burst themselves first?

My mom never did that. And she relied on me to give her all the light that she could live on.

And that's a terrible burden to put on a child. Children so common, right?

Very common. Very common. And I don't get to talk to parents that have been through that.

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