German New Medicine and the Adaptive Wisdom of the Cervix with Dr. Melissa Sell
Release Date: 08/10/2022
How I resolved the suffering of my "ADHD" by Understanding Biological Adaptation
The Womb Room Podcast
Struggling with overwhelm, overstimulation, circular thoughts, distraction and restless seemed to take over my every day...these patterns are often labeled as "ADHD". When I oriented to the paradigm of biological adaptation through the lens of Germanic Healing, I had a big "aha" about these patterns, that shifted their expression for good. In this solo episode I share about: my thoughts on ADHD and "neurodivergence" culture my personal experience with ADHD and how my relationship with it was contributing to suffering and feeling at the effect of my own brain The biological...
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The earth doesn’t cancel, she eats: unpacking misogyny in women’s communities, hyper-independent sovereignty and destructive collectivism, and a "yin" approach to liberation
The Womb Room Podcast
How many women do you know that have a fear (or an experience) of being kicked out of, ostracized from, or canceled by a community they're a part of? Whether it's part of a social justice movement or in an online spiritual community, we live in a time where people are easily disposable, and where we have little capacity for conflict, mess, or nuance. In this conversation, Maura and Qiddist talk about the energetics of what we're seeing in our in person and online communities, and pathways that move us out of the "either/or" paradigm of "sovereignty" vs the collective. We explore: the...
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The Prayer is in the Pause: Discerning Reaction from Right Action in Our Liberation Movements with Alexandria Saleem
The Womb Room Podcast
Alexandria Rema Saleem is a first generation Palestinian-American creatrix. (She's also a dear friend, Womb Room member, and mother of twins!) Her creative work activates from a place of multidimensional healing, to serve as a conduit of ancestral knowledge, collective consciousness, and communal desire. She works between the land, as a regenerative flower farmer, with sacred activism as the foundation of her artistic practice the interweaves through all of the seeds she plants. In this conversation, we explore: How we access the internal spaciousness to discern right action when there is...
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Rectal Bleeding as a Reckoning of Jewish Priestess work amidst Palestinian Genocide
The Womb Room Podcast
How do our bodies experience, metabolize and alchemize the energetics of war? We share a conversation with , community member in The Womb Room, and founder of where she practices as a jewish priestess, ritualist and dream weaver in service to community healing and justice. Rachel came to us in our "matriarchal health care" section of The Womb Room with curiosity about an acute expression of symptoms. She shares the story of how the phsyical healing has been a piece of her alchemical process of navigating identity, community, expression and work as a Jewish woman, amdist the ongoing...
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Resolving Anaphylaxis with Elemental Magic: Solstice Story Medicine with Qiddist, Maura and Ellie
The Womb Room Podcast
What is magic, really -- and how can it be used to support our physical healing? Listen in on a segment of the audio from our recent free class, "Awakening Elemental Magic," where we tell a solstice story of our sister who developed an acute full-body rashed that turned to anaphylaxis...and how we walked with her through a resolve, using our understanding and practice of MAGIC. We touch on: germanic healing knowledge and how recognizing our conflicts will often lead to a worsening of symptoms known as a "healing crisis" how we worked across distance and across multiple...
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Chronic Fatigue, Anorgasmia, Tailbone Pain and More: Resolving Biological Conflicts with Freya Kellet
The Womb Room Podcast
What does it practically take to resolve our chronic symptoms, through the lens of Germanic Healing Knowledge? My friend and colleage Freya Kellet and I go back-and-forth sharing our personal stories of instantaneous relief from issues like chronic fatigue, tailbone pain, anorgasmia and more. If you've been exploring GNM but want the real-life look at what it takes to heal, this is for you! We share stories about: How understanding that consciousness preceding matter allows us to heal instantaneously Qiddist’s spontaneous and permanent resolution of her chronic tailbone pain via...
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Nuance In Times of War: The Witches Talk Israel and Palestine
The Womb Room Podcast
Is there space for nuance in a time of war? How do we orient when we hold both colonizer & colonized? What's being missed energetically in the cultural and historical context of this war? These are questions we (Qiddist and ) have been pondering as we metabolize the genocide(s) we are witnessing globally, and in particular of Palestine. We aren't experts, but we are observers -- in response to the yearning for deeper conversation in our community, we share this conversation with humility and curiosity. We explore topics including: the primal desire to be "good and right," and...
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Why I'm Not An Abortion Activist: My Origin Story in Reproductive Sovereignty Work
The Womb Room Podcast
Last year I shared an episode on "my unpopular thoughts on the abortion bans". Since then, I've supported over 70 women in navigating the decision and process of bringing on their bleed. Today, I'm sharing my reflections and takeaways. I share about: my origin story in reproductive sovereignty work, and my personal potential pregnancy scare what my mother's experience has to do with my path the balance between rejecting credentialism, while honoring education and lineage why I am NOT an abortion activist My three takeaways from the last year of case studies what I believe is needed in...
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Entrepreneurship at the Pace of the Earth with Jeevan Singh
The Womb Room Podcast
I'm coming back to the podcast! I'm sharing some updates and a nourishing conversation with my friend Jeevan Singh on embodied business and earth-paced entrepreneurship. Listen in on our conversation about: Counter-culture mothering as an opportunity for spaciousness and creativity Our body as microcosm of the earth Stepping out of extractive and exploiting practices in our entrepreneurial work Tending others with integrity through tending ourselves How stress can feel good, and how we can observe our addictions to hustle and work, and why rest can feel so uncomfortable Is...
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Embodied Liberation: Internal Union Through Play with Tejal Patel
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When we loosen our grip on the "goal" of healing, we can experience the play and potential of the present -- and embodied internal relation that re-parents our inner child. In this conversation I talk with Tejal Patel, a somatic educator, yoga teacher, and facilitator of embodied liberation, who supports women in trusting their life force and vision. We explore: Tejal's background in Eastern Mysticism and Taoism and how it relates to her orientation to healing and liberation our inner mother and father and the practice of reparenting ourselves Stepping into the "mature...
info_outlineWhat if, instead of orienting to what needs to be “fixed”, we saw our symptoms as brilliant, adaptive, and part of the healing process?
Today I’m talking with Dr. Melissa Sell, a chiropractor who specializes in mindset and health coaching based upon the 5 Biological Laws of Germanic New Medicine -- a paradigm of understanding the body that orients to our symptoms not as a problem, but rather as an adaptation that happens in response to a conflict.
In our conversation, we explore:
- The ancient wisdom of evolutionary adaptation
- How the conflicts we experience in life impact our physiology — beyond the explanation of “stress”
- How we might shift our orientation to our symptoms from being a “problem” to being adaptive and an element of healing
- The science of embryology and how different organs correspond to different parts of our brain
- Why it matters that our primal brain is wired to reproduce, regardless of our conscious desire
- How we can reframe cervical dysplasia as an adaptive process, and the connection to conflicts around sex
- Forgiveness and release for the sake of our organs and tissues
- The role of self responsibility in agency in shifting our relationship with our body and health
Collect with Melissa on Instagram and her website to learn more about germanic healing knowledge and her offerings!