Hello beautiful humans. Todays episode is so fucking delicious! We have Sophia Paskell, a friend and incredibly inspiring woman on the pod. Sophia is a Mother, a Writer, a Childbirth Educator and an experienced Birth Doula. Having attended well over 200 births and part of thousands of pregnancies, Sophia has dedicated 16 years to guiding women inward to a deeper knowing and to strengthen their intuition. Sophia explores life's intense themes unconventionally — grief, death, fear, love — she encourages full, unbridled expression. Her workshops empower deep self connection to unearth and release authenticity. Sophia embraces the raw, the real, and the profoundly beautiful journey of life. You honeys are really going to love this one - we chat about rites of passages, the maiden, mother crone archetypes, expressing grief, birth and we touch on huge impact of experiencing miscarriage. This is such a potent kōrero (conversation) for women in all walks of life, I'm sure you will feel inspired and empowered to be the full fuck off women that you are! We are done dampening our expression of emotion, Sophia is such a guiding light in that space - of freely, truly authentically expressing all of our shades. TRIGGER WARNING - we discuss miscarriage in this epsiode (in an empowering and supportive way) What we cover:

Reconnecting with her Māoritanga through discovering the grief her grandmother experienced
Rites of passage - the maiden, the mother the crone.
Birth and death
The sound of birth
The need to express grief regularly
The bigness of miscarriage
Birth Doula - to be a servant of a woman
Emotional support for women during the biggest transformational moment of their life - birth
The journey to becoming a birth doula

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29. Embracing the Expression of Grief with Birth Doula Sophia Paskell