WISE WOMEN DIARIES

Athena Wilder (@wildwillingwisdom) is a fertility astrologer and astroherbalist, a mother, and host of the Cosmic Conceptions podcast. She shares the journey of "unconsciously conceiving" her daughter while living in New York City, working in the fashion world which led her to reorient her life in drastically new ways. The year 2020 triggered a few years of intense fire walks... that led her to deep inner healing, shadow work with poverty and wanting to conceive her second baby, including 'existential kink' work (being radically honest about how your subconscious/ego/shadow is benefitting from the pain and suffering in your present reality). Athena is passionate about talking about preconception, consciously conceiving, fertility astrology, and the dark agenda of the medical industry with "infertility." We refer to Carolyn Elliott's book 'Existential Kink' https://www.wildwillingwisdom.com/   Follow the host at @trusting_birth Instagram

Sara shares her journey of becoming "awake" from the tragic loss of her boyfriend at 24 and her two birth experiences that did not go the way she planned. Then when her second child was 'colic,' that furthered Sara's awakening. In this conversation, Sara discusses her journey of conscious parenting and the lessons she has learned along the way, including how to embrace grandparents that do not live in the same exact value system, yet love and acceptance is predominant. 

Kate shares her journey of self-discovery and motherhood through navigating complex family dynamics. She had four mothers in childhood, her biological mother was an abusive narcissist and Katie was donor conceived, which adds another layer of complexity to a child. Keeping the concept of nature vs nurture in mind, this story shows the power of choice and co-creation despite upbringing!   Follow the host @trusting_birth instagram

Karolina (@moonlightmotherhood) shares her contrasting experiences of two pregnancies and births: a hospital for her first birth and a freebirth with her second birth. She discusses how disconnected she felt from her body in her first pregnancy compared to her second birth, where she centered body connection, intuition, nature, and pleasure!  https://www.moonlightmotherhood.com/ Karolina has beautiful, artistic astrology and human design chart offerings on Etsy, along with a pregnancy and postpartum journal: Etsy Shop

Lindsey Lockett (@iamlindseylockett) shares her journey to self awareness, nervous system regulation, and healing from parental emotional abandonment, physical abuse, and spiritual abuse from religion. Her life experiences led her to become a guide to others to help heal their trauma, holistically, through nervous system regulation, breathwork, somatic work, and becoming aware of unconscious patterns and soul fractures from the past. In this episode, Lindsey shares her story but we also talk about the disconnect from millennials and boomers, how Lindsey reckons with her past parenting choices like spanking now that her children are adults, how to fully feel shame as a parent without projecting it unto children, the path to discovering our authentic self, rebelling against societal expectations and norms, and how social media is... the wild west! Lindsey has many online offerings for others wanting to learn how to identify their body sensations, heal C-PTSD patterns, learn nervous system tools, and find true safety within their body. https://lindseylockett.com/ Follow the host @trusting_birth instagram

Saying Yes to a new experience, like podcasting, can reveal layers of fears and  limiting beliefs.... for healing and liberation. Do you want to sit in your comfort zone, afraid, letting Fear run your life? Or do you want to learn more about yourself from being brave and courageous and saying Yes even IF you're afraid? Also for mothers, podcasting for the first time is a perfect opportunity to model to children how we can do hard things and we can Mother ourselves through fears! 

Autumn (@autumnklender) a mom of 4 under 4 and a birthkeeper, shares her journey from being medicated as a teen to finding her authentic self, health issues that started to wake her up to western medicine, then meeting her husband and becoming a mother. Her four births perfectly reflect Autumn's journey to finding her voice and trusting her voice.... a C-section, a hospital VBAC, homebirth with midwives, and lastly, six weeks ago, a freebirth! Autumn also explains how finding German New Medicine has shifted her life for the better.

Carly Rae Beaudry (@carlyraebeaudry) shares, for the first time, her story from drug and sex addiction to self-reclamation, radical responsibility, and finding her passionate purpose, with women and their amazing bodies. She dedicates her life to helping women reclaim the connection with their bodies and most importantly, their female physiology. Carly Rae discusses the difference between fast food sex and nourishing sex and the need for women to take responsibility for their own pleasure and fulfillment. Carly Rae's online offerings for women: NECTAR: March 24 | An Experiential Workshop | A Guided Hands on, Hands in Vulva and Vagina Mapping Session FRESH & BLOOD | a year-long female physiology and body literacy deep dive | Enrollment is open year round!   Follow the host @trusting_birth Instagram

Haileigh shares her self-transformation journey through mothering four sons. We discuss the impact of choosing to have a child to fulfill low self-worth, the concept of soul contracts between parents and children, how every hard situation and trigger present in parenthood can reveal a lesson, how most parent's issues can melt away by joining their children in the present moment, and how deeply we judge ourselves, our children, and others.

Adults have a conscious mind (fully programmed on how to act in our society), that is a "gatekeeper" that prevents us from punching strangers that make us angry or from telling our friend our honest (negative) thoughts about the dress she loves, but children do not have this brain gatekeeper YET. This is why children have no filter and they express emotion in the second they feel it! I discuss how unrealistic expectations on young children with developing, growing brains, creates suffering and victimhood in parenting! I also discuss my theory about why most of us have the core wound of low self worth, “I am not good enough, pretty enough, successful enough, smart enough.” This episode was inspired by the book Fear No Evil and one of my favorite conscious mothers, Nicole Parker (@theseedofjoy_). If you enjoyed this episode, there are other past episodes about children and conscious parenting from years prior on this podcast.  If you are a conscious parent and want to share your journey to personal awakening please email wisewomendiaries@gmail.com to be on the show!