So much has unfolded and changed in the last few weeks, and while MY life feels mostly the same (albeit busier) I wanted to share some of the reflections and perspectives that I have had stewing, just waiting for the right time to share. The are strange and wonderful things happening in the world right…
Body Scan Guided Meditation to Raise Your Vibration
Join me in this meditation for raising your vibration in this time of virus pandemic and severe psychological challenge! We don’t have control over the world, or each other, but we can be responsible for our inner state of consciousness. I hope you enjoy this simple guided body scan that may help you replace negative…
Mothering #3: Rites of Passage
In this Mothering podcast, I talk about my own experiences and thoughts around all the various transitions or “rites of passage” that babies and young kids might experience. When they experience these things, so do we! I cover some examples from night weaning to losing teeth, and explore why these transitions are such big deals…
Birth: The Greatest Opportunity for a Guy to Be a Man
Guest post by Alethea Boulet The Indie Birth Podcast between Maryn’s husband, Jason, and OBGYN,and expectant father, Nathan, is a must listen and a refreshing male conversation about the journey and roles of fathers and the masculine energy at birth. So often we hear about women making decisions about their births based on…
Indie Birth: A Story of Radical Birth Book Review
Guest Post by Alethea Boulet Indie Birth; A Story of Radical Birth Love by Maryn Green and Margo Blackstone is an eye-opening and heartfelt narrative that explores the true beauty, challenges, sorrows, intuition and desires of modern women in pregnancy, labor, birth and midwifery and how it is necessary to reshape culture to better serve…
I Can’t Afford a Homebirth and Other Money Issues
Here it is…my thoughts and experiences around money and energy in the world of birth. Whether you are a birthing woman, a doula or midwife, I hope you will take what resonates with you and leave the rest. The way “out” of the current confusing conversation around birth/midwifery care happens when we have these conversations….
Waterbirth? Yay or Nay?
Maryn and Margo chat together on this episode about all things waterbirth; why people might choose it, why they might choose it, what we notice as midwives and how we come back to the same belief each and every time…choose what is best for you!
Birth: the Greatest Opportunity For a Guy to Be a Man
This episode isn’t me blabbing about birth from my perspective. Instead, I handed the mic over to my husband Jason, and good friend Nathan, so that they could talk about birth in the way that only 2 guys (with some very varied and unique birth experiences!) could. Share this podcast chat with the men in…
Mothering #2: “Schooling” and Our Kids
“When you take the free will out of education, that turns it into schooling.”-John Taylor Gatto Come with me on this ramble as I share my thoughts on formal education, my own story and what my hopes are for my own children. This is a big and touchy topic but since it relates so much…
A Birth At the Ashram
Listen in on my chat with Eve; an amazing young woman who recently birthed her first baby, Sofiah, in her complete power! I was honored to meet Eve just weeks before her birth, and just as honored to attend her birth at the beautiful Divine Grace Ashram in Arizona on gorgeous, sacred land in the…
