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The Sacred Space Storytelling Podcast

The Sacred Space Storytelling Podcast

by The Sacred Space

Alternative Health

Season 2

Christie-Lee's Story: Soulful Caring

Christie-Lee is a multifaceted woman's facilitator who works in many realms of community support, She runs a youth work and disability business named Wild Sol as well as a self development and energy healing soul passion called Well and Balanced. She has delved into the depths of herself through grief and listening/understanding and is here to share her purpose with the world through leadership and education. Delivering all her work in an authentic way that aims to not be scary or overwhelming. Attracting a holistic approach to all things and coming at life through the lens of reality and humour. Want to connect with Christie? Find her on instagram as @wellnbalanced or @wildsolmentoring

Amy Lou's Story: Working At The Intersection of Birth and Unschooling

Amy is a mama of three beautiful humans, a birth keeper, unschooled, artist and content creator. She is working a lot at the intersection of Free Birth and unschooling at the moment. She is dedicated to supporting families claim the life they truly desire through deschooling and connecting to their authentic self expression. In this episode we dive into Amy's three birth experiences and how birthing her last baby in sovereignty led her to the School Free Life. Want to connect with Amy? Find her on instagram: @amy.lou_ @the.school.free.life

Romina's Story: A Homebirth After 2 Caesareans

Romi is a daughter, sister, wife and mother to three beautiful children aged: 7, 3 and 3 months old. She is a crafts woman by trade and an advocate for beauty as a form of self love and in all aspects of life. The birth of her third baby at home in water with her family and midwives as witnesses only, after 2 caesareans, has been one of herbiest revolutions and has given her more than she could have ever imagined. Want to connect with Romina? Find her on instagram as: @romina_alessandra

Maha's Story: Elder Wisdom

In this episode we had the absolute privilege of speaking with Maha Al Musa. Maha is first and foremost a mother to three beautiful children (now 27, 24 and 15) a doula, birth mentor, international educator and the founder of EmbodyBirth and Bellydance For Birth® since 1997. She has released two award-winning resources—a world first book on Bellydance for birth, entitled Dance of the Womb, endorsed by Sheila Kitzinger, Dr. Michel Odent, Dr. Sarah Buckley and NACE (Aust.) and a follow on video series voted by about.com readers choice award for Best Pregnancy Fitness Product. She was presented with the One World Birth Hero National Award in 2011. Maha has been a keynote speaker at many birth conferences worldwide including the Shandong Midwifery Conference China, Human Rights In Childbirth Conference India and Birth Keepers Summit USA. She also offers her online wise conscious birth preparation program and her highly acclaimed EmbodyBirth teacher training certification as well as other powerful resources. All of Maha's teachings are supported by the Universal truth that birth is a sacred portal that has the potential to raise human consciousness and that every woman and baby has the freedom to choose and the right to be supported and born into the hands and arms of Love. Want to connect with Maha? Website: www.mahaalmusa.com Instagram: @embodybirthinternational

Amanda's Story: How the birth of her third baby became a rebirth of herself

In today's episode we hear Amanda's story.. Amanda is a mother of 3, a wife, a healer, a psychic mentor, therapist and soul guide. She works with women all over the world supporting them to deeply heal and transform their lives. In this episode she shares the lessons she has learnt from walking through the shadow that is path of life's journey. From these experiences she has been able t0 alchemise the darkness into light and bring depth and awareness to her work, Mothering and third birth. She felt her third baby calling out to her for years before he was concieved. When she was finally ready to welcome him she entered a deep and embodied journey. Amanda's entire pregnancy was conscious and ignited something within her. She was in tune with her baby and body which led to her feeling strongly in how she needed to birth him. She took up space and used her voice when faced with doubt and obstacles from the system. She stayed true to her instincts and intuition which led to her birthing her baby on HER terms, in HER own timing. This birth has set off a ripple effect out into the world, teaching the system what a strong birthing woman looks like and how they need to support birth. Want to connect with Amanda? Find her on Instagram as: @Amandaharrishealing or Facebook as: Amanda Harris

Jem's Story: Coming Back to Her Human Essence

In this episode we hear Jem's story..... Jem is a Mother of three, creative director, student of metaphysical healing. She has been on a life long journey of what it means to be here, to be present, to be human, to be in connection with others. Why do we connect? Why are we here? Since she was very young she always witnessed and observed, she soothed situations and was able to tune into and connect with a range of people. Her fascination with people led her into studying theatre & performance and film making, She started training in drama when she was a young kid and made her first film when she was 16... always trying to capture and keep moments in everything she did. In her work she practices the approach that 'in everything is everything' so in the very form of what she creates she places the concept and the essence. This could be said for all of life. She has been on an ultimate unravelling, letting go of everything 'learnt'. She is on the path of reconnection with her own being, her basic human essence, her absolute potential. She is forever deeply feeling and thinking about life, philosophising on every element of everything. She is an artist in many ways, and a cliche of all things Pisces. The three births of her children were all wildly different and completely necessary for her journey home to herself. Her children continue to teach, challenge and define her More than anything she has learnt that everything she seeks is within herself... her wisdom is infinite and beyond what she can even grasp and looking back at her journey as mother, all she can do is hold compassion and understanding for herself at every stage. Every decision, every consequence. For a long time she wanted to live life on her own terms, that has evolved to become a commitment to living life intentionally. She continues to journey everyday. Want to connect with Jem? Find her on instagram: @cloudherdfilmco and @cloudherdcommercial

Anni's Story: Reclaiming Birth and Motherhood

In this episode we hear Anni's Story. Anni is a Mother of 2, based in Victoria, Australia. Since childhood she had been fascinated by birth. She began formal midwifery training in 2014 only to find the system to be unsupportive of women, babies and midwives and so made the decision to leave university. After unexpectedly falling pregnant at a young age she engaged privately practicing midwives and pursued a homebirth. The birth lead to the realisation that any form of registered midwifery is contradictory in its nature. The next 5 years brought many lessons of ceremony, life, death and birth and in July 2023 I birthed a baby boy at home in the sole presence of myself and partner. The birth was carnal and celestial, calm and wild all at once and with it I birthed confidence in motherhood and womanhood. Want to connect with Anni? Find her on Instagram as: seasons_of_anni

Kristy and Lucy Have a Conversation: The Art of Holding Space

In this episode we have a conversation about 'holding space' and unpack what this truly is. This term gets thrown around a lot these days, but what does holding space really entail and how can we ensure we are consciously creating safe spaces for people to heal and grow.

Lucy's Story: The Wild and Cosmic Birth of Finn

In this episode we hear the birth story of Lucy's fourth baby. In the years leading up to Finn's birth she had gone through massive transformations and initiations in her life. Diving deep into her belief systems, the conditioning and stories she held around birth, womanhood and herself... this all led her to leave a career that she had always believed was her dream. After walking away from her employment and moving through the grief that midwifery was never going to be what she had hoped, and processing the trauma that she had experienced (and witnessed working as a midwife, she soon came to the conclusion that she no longer wanted to hold a midwifery registration at all and handed in back to AHPRA. It was the first of many, radical actions she made to take ownership over her life and time line. Finn's pregnancy and birth was the last piece of the puzzle and the embodiment of everything leading up to this point. Lucy chose not to have a 'care provider' in this pregnancy and birth and instead focused her energy and time on tuning into her own intuition and inner knowing. In this space she was forced to face fears head on and break generational and personal cycles. It was liberating for her to step out of her "midwife" brain and BE the pregnant woman. She faced the rawness that is growing and birthing life and chose to take radical responsibility for her whole experience. This decision led to an extremely healing and ecstatic birth, at home, in water, with only her partner and other children present. We hope you eniov this episode! Want to connect with Lucy? Find her on instagram as: mama_of_luna

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Athena's Story: Birthing in Denmark and Finding Her Own Flow in Business and Motherhood

In Episode 14 we hear Athena's Story. Athena Maroulis is an RTT clinical hypnotherapist and coach with a background in business and advertising. She changed careers a few few times but knows her work is about lifting humanity one person at a time from within. She was born in Australia but lived in Denmark and Guatemala where she fell in love with studying the spiritual practices of shamanism, indigenous spirituality and various other mystery school paths which enables her to integrate a deep spiritual knowledge into her work with clients. In this episode we hear the story of Athena's journey of integrating Business and Motherhood. When she found out she was pregnant with her son, she was living in Denmark at the time and shares how she had to navigate a foreign system and language, and how her experiences in her travels before her pregnancy shaped the way she chose to birth and then Mother her son. She shares how she struggled to integrate her new role as Mother with the expectations held by society to return back to work before she felt ready. This experience was the catalyst that led her down the path of discovering Hypnotherapy and creating her own business, so that she could Mother AND work in her a passion. Want to connect with Athena? Find her on Instagram as: @estate_of_being or wwww.estateofbeing.co

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