76. Nature’s Ancient Design: Exalting Life by Honoring the Physiologic Truths of Childbearing - Rachelle Garcia Seliga
Medicine Stories
Amber M Hill
4.8 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 26 February 2021
⏱️ 84 minutes
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Summary
How do we support thriving life on earth through the pathway of maternal health? Our physiologic design is the inarguable truth, but in today’s confusing online culture well meaning morality politics often obscure what eons of evolution make clear. If we want to best support babies and their families, do the deep repair work of these times, and become the fully realized adults we were born to be, we must have an accurate understanding of what our biology needs from us.
Learn more about studying in community with Rachelle and exploring true wellness on the childbearing continuum, creating a culture of thriving life, and growing ourselves into the elders we so desperately need in the Innate Postpartum Care Certification Online Training at https://tinyurl.com/1darrj59.
TOPICS:
- Social engagement: the lesser-known third branch of the autonomic nervous system (beyond sympathetic and parasympathetic)
- Getting out of our conditioned morality and turning to nature/life/evolution as our ultimate teacher
- Eating to grow a baby, birth a baby, help the body recover from birth, shift from gestation to lactation, replenish iron stores, and supply the nursling with necessary nutrients
- Babies in utero and at the breast literally grow their brains off of their mother’s brains (our bodies will always give our gestating or nursing babies nutrients first- at our expense, if we aren’t getting enough)
- Health is multigenerational
- The profound lack of emotional and spiritual maturation in modern adults
- Be real with yourself and speak your truth, because you’re going to offend people no matter what
- “I can’t be triggered if I don’t have something to work on”
- Reorienting towards joy and the alchemy of women coming together to exalt life
- How lack of community support is toxic for mothers
- Keeping in mind the both/and in this time of repair
- Healing can only happen when we feel safe
- Kids and anxiety in heightened times
RESOURCES (if listening on an app that doesn’t support embedded links, find these at https://mythicmedicine.love/podcast):
- Innate Postpartum Care Certification Online Training (early bird registration for $300 off ends 3/2; total registration period ends 3/7)
- Medicine Stories Patreon- get an extra $100 off coupon code for the training through 3/7
- Our previous conversation- Revillaging: Maternal, Cultural, and Planetary Wellness Are One
- Rachelle on Instagram
- Rachelle's Physiologic Baby Care Course
- Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art by James Nestor
- My website MythicMedicine.love
- Take our fun Which Healing Herb is Your Spirit Medicine? Quiz
- Medicine Stories Facebook group
- Mythic Medicine on Instagram
- Music by Mariee Sioux (from her beautiful song Wild Eyes)
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | what does the physiologic design say? What is required for ultimate healing for a postpartum |
| 0:07.9 | mother and not just ultimate healing for her body, but for the baby that she's growing through |
| 0:13.7 | her breast milk? So when we start looking at all these things, we can really get out of opinion |
| 0:21.7 | and we just get into simple, natural truth, right? What is required to grow thriving human life? |
| 0:30.7 | Hi, friends. Welcome back to the Medicine Stories podcast where we are remembering what it is to |
| 0:38.4 | be human upon the earth. This is episode 76. I'm Amber Magnolia Hill and today I'm speaking again |
| 0:48.0 | with Rochelle Garcia-Saliga. In this interview, as in the last one, we're exploring the question, |
| 0:56.0 | how do we support thriving life on earth through the pathway of maternal health? |
| 1:01.4 | The last episode was episode 61 entitled Revillaging, |
| 1:07.3 | Maternal, Cultural, and Planetary Wellness R1. You guys loved it. It kind of went crazy on my |
| 1:16.0 | social media and so I'm thrilled to have Rochelle back. You know, our culture is really set up |
| 1:22.8 | to fail new families and parents and we pathologize the postpartum period, which overlooks the |
| 1:30.3 | fact that it's our social structures that are the cause of the immense emotional and psychological |
| 1:36.1 | pain that most postpartum mothers feel. Rochelle Garcia-Saliga is a mother, wife and midwife who |
| 1:43.8 | has spent the past 19 years working with women and families in service to woman-centered, |
| 1:50.0 | family-centered birth, health and life. She is deeply invested in the revitalization of community |
| 1:57.0 | living as the most important medicine of our times. All of her work is dedicated to midwifeing |
| 2:03.4 | a cultural shift, honoring our innate wisdom, personal authority, and the sanctity of life. |
| 2:11.2 | Coming up is Rochelle's innate postpartum care certification online training. If you're |
| 2:17.5 | interested at all, the Early Bird Registration is February 26th. This is 2021 |
| 2:25.3 | through March 2nd. So only a few days to sign up to get the $300 discount of that early bird |
| 2:33.2 | registration. After that, regular registration period closes March 7th at midnight, California time. |
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