127 | Healing the Mother Wound & the Mysteries of Pregnancy & Birth with Gabriella Cerince
Release Date: 03/02/2022
Integrating the Sacred Feminine in Tech + Business with Sarah Morgan
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info_outlineAs I am about to cross the threshold into motherhood, I sat down to speak with mother, ceremonialist, and birthkeeper Gabriella Cerince. (You can also listen to our last episode from 2020 on Ceremony, Seasons, & the Modern Witch right here).
Gabriella shares her birth story (with her now 6-month old daughter,) and the fine line one walks between fear, trust & intuition in the process, and how she was invited to set boundaries both during and after birth as she stepped into her new role as Mother.
Gabriella has great reverence for mothers, women and mothers-to-be and is working towards a world where our direct line of connection to our mothers and Earth mother can be healed and tended to. This conversation reminds of connecting to our innate power as women as we walk through potent initiations in a full-spectrum life…
“Birth works… the more we can get out of the way, the better…”
In this episode we discussed:
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Gabriella’s home birth story
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The initiations & mysteries of pregnancy
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What Gabriella is learning through motherhood
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How Birth is an opportunity to heal our lineages and the World
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How Gabriella is navigating her Mother Wound as a new mother