Reshaped by Parenthood: Families, Fathers, and the First Year - Rachelle Seliga
Medicine Stories
Amber Magnolia Hill
4.7 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 15 September 2025
⏱️ 72 minutes
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Summary
Birth opens the door, but what comes after walks you through it. Many new parents find themselves moving through the first year feeling lonely, confused, and wondering why it's so hard.
In this episode, I'm joined again by Rachelle Seliga of Innate Traditions, who has spent over 20 years teaching and gathering communities to explore postpartum, motherhood, and revillaging. Together, we open the conversation wider — into the realm of fatherhood — with Rachelle's signature depth, wisdom, and grounded practicality.
Whether you're preparing for birth or reflecting on your own postpartum journey, this conversation offers insight, validation, and a new lens on what it means to be reshaped by parenthood.
Planning for the Fourth Trimester for Mothers & Fathers workshop with Rachelle and Dan
Two Medicine Stories Patreon bonuses:
1) extended interview w/ Rachelle giving me her hot takes on controversial wellness/spirituality topics and
2) audio recording of me giving a podcast/medicine/life/health status update
Rachelle's previous Medicine Stories appearance Revillaging: Maternal, Cultural, and Planetary Wellness Are One
Take our fun quiz Which Healing Herb Matches Your Energy?
Music by Mariee Siou (from her beautiful song Wild Eyes)
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | The mother is centered because she went through this embodied experience, but the dad is also in his transformation and also needs support. |
| 0:13.5 | And there's the biological fact that the more present a man can be with his woman, with his new baby, with his family in that |
| 0:23.9 | postpartum period, the more his hormonal matrix is altered. |
| 0:32.1 | Hello, friends. Welcome to the Medicine Stories podcast. It's me, Amber, back after an unexpected break. |
| 0:42.0 | If you would like a status update on this podcast, our medicine business, my life, |
| 0:49.8 | you can find that at patreon.com slash medicine stories. |
| 0:53.3 | It's just a 16-minute recording, updating my supporters there on Patreon. |
| 1:01.4 | Thank you so much explaining the break and talking about what's coming next. |
| 1:07.4 | Also, on Patreon is a bonus conversation with my guest today, Rochelle Saliga. |
| 1:13.2 | Today we're talking about the postpartum period. |
| 1:15.9 | We're talking about fatherhood, motherhood, the forging of families in the fire of the first year. |
| 1:24.3 | Wow, should I make that the title? |
| 1:26.1 | It's alliterative, which everyone likes. In the podcast, bonus, |
| 1:32.6 | interview with Rochelle, I give her a wellness trends lightning round. So I ask her about eight |
| 1:42.6 | wellness trends. I don't want to belittle them completely by calling |
| 1:47.9 | them trends, but wellness topics to get her quick yes or no. And then we dive a little deeper into, |
| 1:54.6 | I think all of them. We talk about German new medicine, astrology, free birth, pro-metabolic, microwaves, fasting, |
| 2:04.7 | liver gallbladder flushes, and parasite cleanses. I guess microwaves and astrology |
| 2:11.6 | aren't exactly wellness topics, but anyway, that's there if you want to hear Rochelle's hot takes on all those topics. But anyway, that's there if you want to hear Rochelle's hot takes on all those topics. |
| 2:21.8 | And yeah, because I've recorded the other Patreon bonus sort of a life update, I don't really |
| 2:32.1 | have anything else to say right now. Let's dive into this conversation. |
| 2:36.6 | I think it's going to be so helpful for so many of you. Rochelle's first appearance on this |
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