And so what we do with the land we do to ourselves what's been done to our relationship with the land, we then perpetuate on ourselves and on our babies.

And it's really fucking heartbreaking, Amber, it's really sad that it's become kind of countercultural to mother in a way that the ancient mothers have since time immemorial.

Hi friends, welcome to the Medicine Stories podcast where we are remembering what it is to be human upon the earth together.

I am Amber Magnolia Hill and today I'm sharing my interview with Amy Aroha.

Our modern disconnection from land and lineage mirrors the culturally normal but biologically abnormal separation between mother and baby parents and children.

The consequences of these intertwined attachment wounds are vast, but many of us are dreaming into a different way forward.

Let us speak truthfully about what isn't working, exit the systems that break our sacred bonds to the earth and to one another and heal into the wholeness that is our ancestral inheritance.

A little brief update on my upcoming retreat, it is going to be a forest bathing eco retreat.

The company is calling it in Costa Rica with me September 23rd through 28 tickets are available now.

And so we can get right into this just beautiful and heart opening mind blowing interview.

I will wait to give you the details until after the interview. So if you're interested, stay tuned after the interview to hear more in the outro.

Amy is a free birthing free schooling homesteading mother of Mary Irish and Scottish descent.

She lives with her partner and three babes in the Northern Rivers, Australia.

Amy is a qualified counselor but has used her training to divest from the mainstream system and create her own therapeutic modality.

Transpersonal birth mentoring is a modality that blends holistic counseling and art therapy with birth reverence and support.

It understands birth as central to human wellness and as a roadmap we can use for all manner of life's transitions.

Amy works largely with mothers and women on the childbearing continuum who are seeking to liberate themselves from outdated systems and ways of being.

She believes that when birth is revered once again and when mothers and babies are well strong and supported, we will reshape the culture and bring balance back to the earth.

There are two Patreon bonuses available for patrons of this podcast at patreon.com slash medicine stories.

The link will be in the show notes as always. There's quite a few links in the show notes for this episode because so much of what Amy and I speak about has been touched on before on this podcast.

And so I'm linking to past episodes if you want to dive further into some of these topics which are just so rich and important for these times.

So the first bonus at patreon is an extended conversation with Amy.

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