Womb Stories Project

Womb Stories shares conversations with renowned activists, creatives, entrepreneurs, and thought leaders as they reveal their journeys back home to the body. This is a show honoring the truth the female body is a gift that brings with it potent power, epic healing potential, and boundless opportunity. What if we asked our leaders and inspirations, “What is your relationship to your womb? How have you journeyed with her into connection and healing? Do you trust her? Does she speak to you? How do you listen? How would you share her story? Womb Stories is hosted by Kit Maloney and these are the questions she believes we must start asking. These are the questions we will ask ourselves and each other in a world full of love, equity, and belonging. A world where the female body and women are revered, celebrated, and deeply honored. If you are like us, you agree, it’s time to actively build that world now. Kit Maloney is also the founder of Kitara (kitaralove.com), which offers intentionally designed and expertly crafted products for safe and easy yoni steaming at home. Within the Womb Stories podcast is a sub-series called “Steam Stories.” Here Kit speaks with holistic health practitioners, gynecologists, and members of the Kitara community to share real-world experience of the benefits of vaginal/ yoni steaming. Follow on IG @bykitara

Diagnosed with Fibroids: I Knew What To Do 05/14/2026

Diagnosed with Fibroids: I Knew What To Do For her second delivery, Lilliana Rivera did everything within her power for a vaginal birth after cesarean (VBAC), yet had another C-section delivery. In the years following she had a scar that felt as thick as an electrical cord, shooting pain, numbness, and a general disconnection to her body. When she got on the abdominal massage table, she was shocked to discover her physical symptoms disappeared — and living dormant in her tissues was an intense feeling of guilt. In her womb space, the unprocessed emotions from that second C-section still lingered unmet, untouched, and unprocessed. Meeting herself on the table was the catalyst that completely transformed the trajectory of her life. Her journey into abdominal massage and yoni steaming unlocked healing tools, a holistic health community, and mentors who would become her village. Little did she know, she was building the knowledge and network she'd lean on when diagnosed with fibroids and complex cysts. When the OBGYN delivered the diagnosis, Lilliana took a deep breath and thought — I know what to do. I know how to care for myself. I know who in my network to call in. This same trust carried her through a challenging perimenopausal moment where the bleeding would just not stop. Learning the tools along the way and fostering a deep connection to what the body is saying affords us sovereignty within the world of women's reproductive health. Lilliana's story is a testament to what becomes possible when we build that relationship before the crisis arrives. All of these experiences underscore the hope we hold — that our daughters may grow up knowing they have the tools, the network, and the trust in self to know how to care for their wombs. About Kitara and Womb Stories Project Womb Stories Project is the in-house podcast of Kitaralove.com, your one stop shop for everything you need for safe and effective Yoni Steaming at home. Kitara is a yoni steaming company made up of devoted womb healers. Our passion for steaming is rooted in the profound healing we’ve experienced ourselves and witnessed in those we support. Our founder, Kit Maloney, holds a Masters Degree in Gender and Social Policy from the London School of Economics and has spent the past two decades as a thought leader on victim advocacy, pleasure activism, and holistic womb health and healing. Follow, subscribe, and share. IG @bykitara /episode/index/show/wombstories/id/41299700

Abortion: An Unconventional View with Juliana Rose Goldstone 04/30/2026

Abortion: An Unconventional View with Juliana Rose Goldstone Kit Maloney, founder of Kitara has been advocating for reproductive choice and freedom for over 20 years. Yet this conversation is like none she's ever had before. As womb healers, Juliana and Kit hope to broaden the conversations we’re “allowed” to have around reproductive choice and freedoms – and the physical, emotional, and spiritual impact that may have, honoring that everybody's journey is unique and special. Pregnancy termination is a controversial, taboo, and polarizing subject that can bring up a lot of strong beliefs and big feelings. The commonness of abortion and narrowness of storytelling on the topic leaves many women alone in their decision, without spaces to integrate or heal afterwards, and also ignores the nuance and paradox we as women experience as the guardians of the threshold of life and death. What does it mean for us to have both life and death move through our bodies? How do we process the loss of life physically, mentally, and spiritually? Juliana honors the importance of claiming our rites (not just rights) and owning them through ceremony, or spiritual practices and rituals (including yoni steaming). We discuss how to remember and reclaim these rites and wear their inherent truths into our culture as we navigate the cycles, rhythms, responsibilities and decisions of living in a body with a womb. The silencing of these nuanced conversations that hold paradoxes with love and compassion keeps us isolated. This is our one small step towards creating supportive spaces for women to explore their experiences within a grounded and loving container. Ultimately, weaving the fragments of our experiences into a story we can claim, make sense of and feel whole within is our hope and wish for women who have ended a pregnancy. Know that you are not alone and there are practices and healing spaces to support you in holding this. We hope you’ll listen with an open heart, in your own timing and for your own healing. Through Kitara, we honor that we each come to this topic with our own beliefs, feelings, and journeys. We’re here, doing our best, to hold it all with compassion. Sending love. About Kitara and Womb Stories Project Womb Stories Project is the in-house podcast of KitaraLove.com, your one stop shop for everything you need for safe and effective Yoni Steaming at home. Kitara is a yoni steaming company made up of devoted womb healers. Our passion for steaming is rooted in the profound healing we’ve experienced ourselves and witnessed in those we support. We are devoted to supporting your womb health and healing journey. Our founder, Kit Maloney, holds a Masters Degree in Gender and Social Policy from the London School of Economics and has spent the past two decades as a thought leader on victim advocacy, pleasure activism, and holistic womb health and healing. Kitara provides beautifully designed, expertly crafted tools for safe and easy in-home yoni steaming. 🌸🌸 /episode/index/show/wombstories/id/41080850

Avoiding Unnecessary C-Section: Self Advocacy for Hospital Births and Healing from Coercion 04/17/2026

Avoiding Unnecessary C-Section: Self Advocacy for Hospital Births and Healing from Coercion In this episode of Womb Stories Project, Kit Maloney, founder of Kitara, shares her raw birth story on a phone call with two sisters… just 3 weeks after giving birth (in her 40s) to a healthy baby girl. An incorrect ultrasound report shows Kit’s baby in transverse position and completely derails her home birth plans. What followed was the very real possibility of an emergency C-section. Her work with Kitara informed that moment. She recognized the pattern because she had heard it so many times. “Everything was fine, and then suddenly it became an emergency C-section.” With an EPIC labor support team ( her husband and midwife ) and years experience in women’s health and advocacy, Kit was able to have an unmedicated hospital birth within a highly medicalized system. But what if she didn't? Her experience speaks to the importance of support in hospital birth, patient advocacy during labor, and how challenging it can be to navigate informed consent and avoid unnecessary birth interventions. At one point, the situation escalated to threats of the Department of Health and Human Services being called. Kit found herself wondering, “how am I going to get out of here?” What followed wasn’t just about getting through the experience, but what it meant to come out the other side of it with a sense of agency and wholeness. Birth trauma is real. Kit has come to see that a huge part of trauma prevention is being able to process more quickly. To be witnessed and affirmed almost in the moment of it can set you up for a totally different recovery. This episode reaffirms the “why” behind the Womb Stories Project. Sharing our stories is an invaluable piece of spreading awareness, education, and advocacy within the women's health and wellness world. If this resonates, like, subscribe and share your birth story below in the comments. Kitara provides beautifully designed, expertly crafted tools for safe and easy in-home yoni steaming. Learn more about the Follow Kitara on /episode/index/show/wombstories/id/40917840

Reclaiming Pleasure after Chronic Infection, Pelvic Pain & Trauma 04/04/2026

Reclaiming Pleasure after Chronic Infection, Pelvic Pain & Trauma Chaya Leia Aronson of Your Sacred Pelvis shares her powerful journey from chronic bladder infections and interstitial cystitis to living pain-free and deeply connected to her womb. After years of pelvic pain, invasive medical experiences, and being told there was no solution, Chaya turned to natural healing, including herbal medicine, diet and lifestyle changes, Mayan Abdominal Massage, and Yoni Steaming. Through this work, she not only resolved her symptoms but reclaimed pleasure, nervous system regulation, and trust in her body. We discuss how pelvic pain and uterine disorders are often rooted in trauma, and Chaya illuminates how trauma can arise from a much broader range of experiences than we typically consider, including a hard fall to the sacrum. Through natural healing practices like yoni steaming, which supports deep nervous system regulation and invites gentle emotional release, we are able to move through pain and towards pleasure. Chaya speaks to the fact that activism is best sustained by joy, pleasure, and a regulated nervous system. This episode is a testament to the possibility of moving beyond chronic pelvic pain and dis-ease in your own womb healing journey. A hopeful and inspiring story offering natural remedies, ancient practices, and wise teachers within the world of holistic women’s reproductive health. About our Guest Chaya Leia Aronson, RN BSN offers both in person and virtual healing experiences that blend hands-on bodywork, somatic practices, and gentle lifestyle and herbal support to help you reconnect with this powerful part of yourself. She utilizes , , , movement and posture practices, and holistic coaching to help you reclaim pelvic health and wellness. Connect to Chaya on . Learn more on her . Kitara provides beautifully designed, expertly crafted tools for safe and easy in-home yoni steaming. 🌸🌸 Connect with Kitara on IG TimeStamps: 5:40 -14:50 How to Heal UTIs Naturally: Yoni Steaming + Mayan Abdominal Massage 14:50-18:03 Trauma as the Root of Womb & Pelvic Pain 18:03- 19:10 Holistic Support for Endometriosis 19:10-2:00 Yoni Steaming for Nervous System Regulation 21- 22:27 Using Herbal Allies in Yoni Steaming 22:27 - 29:41 Healing Generational Trauma in the Body 29:41 - 32:13 Releasing Ancestral Grief & Pleasure Activism 32:13 -35 Yoni Steaming Benefits: The Miracles of Yoni Steaming /episode/index/show/wombstories/id/40131175

Over the Steam Pot, Everything Changed 03/21/2026

Healing the Father Wound: Minerals, Yoni Steaming and Nervous System Regulation with Yasmine Minnifield 11/20/2025

Healing the Father Wound: Minerals, Yoni Steaming and Nervous System Regulation with Yasmine Minnifield In this powerful transmission, Yasmine Minnifield, founder of Womb of Peace, joins Kit Maloney for a profound exploration of the Father Wound and how healing our inner masculine is a path to feminine restoration. Yasmine shares how wounding to our inner masculine affects our sense of safety, openness to intimacy, and feeling worthy of provision and protection - often showing up as overfunctioning, burnout, or a hard, protective shell. She maps the energetics of the wound onto the body through mineral imbalances, offering a tangible, multidimensional pathway to healing through herbal medicine, remineralization, and inner work. Yasmine describes how Yoni Steaming supports every level of this process, from the physical release of old blood, tissue, and emotions to remineralization through the herbs in the steam. She invites us to use our steam practice to develop deeper intimacy with self and the ancestral line to create lasting mental and emotional repatterning. Healing the inner masculine allows the mature feminine to rise, the Queen, who knows how to live and lead in a deeply nourishing, empowered way. Yasmine Minnifield blends functional mineral science and somatic healing to help women decode their body’s messages, with hair mineral testing as the doorway into deep restoration. Connect with Yasmine on and 🌸🌸 Kitara provides beautifully designed, expertly crafted tools for safe and easy in-home yoni steaming. Connect with Kitara on IG Timestamps 00:00 Healing the Father Wound to Access Feminine Power 00:57 The Father Wound, Minerals, & Cellular Level Healing 05:58 Wounding of the Inner Masculine or Animus, and Yasmine's Experience of Trauma, PTSD, PCOS 10:29 Linking the Effects of the Father Wound to Mineral Imbalances in the Body 13:13 Healing through Yoni Steaming and Herbalism 15:43 Archetypal Medicine, Energetic and Ancestral Healing Reclaiming Power and Sensitivity 18:13 Deep Physical and Ancestral Release and Repatterning through Yoni Steaming 21:12 The Transformative Power of Minerals 22:42 Yoni Steaming: More Than Just Hydrotherapy 26:48 Final Thoughts /episode/index/show/wombstories/id/39112950

Fibroids, Refusing Hysterectomy, and the Healing Power of Yoni Steaming with Miara Pack 07/26/2025

Meet Our Midwife 06/26/2024

What is a Postpartum Doula? And why everyone needs one. 05/20/2024

Fear, Faith, and Fertility: My Conception Journey 05/22/2023

Season 2: My Birthing Story: From Conception to Postpartum 05/22/2023

Integrating Safety, Pleasure & Expansion into Life and Career with Sabia Wade 11/15/2022

Integrating Safety, Pleasure & Expansion into Life and Career with Sabia Wade Today’s interview is with Sabia Wade. I first connected with Sabia several years ago when I learned of their various initiatives in support of black maternal health several years ago. Sabia’s organization, For the Village, does incredible work for marginalized birthing groups. It is beautifully aligned with the mission of The Kitara Fund. If you don’t know, I set up The Kitara Fund even before I launched our yoni steam products on Through the Kitara Fund, we honor Kitara’s promise of sharing 1% of our revenue on every single item sold with Black-led community initiatives advancing birthing rights and maternal health in disenfranchised populations. It’s a privilege to support Sabia’s initiatives, as well as others, through the Kitara Fund. This conversation was actually recorded about six months ago. It was back during the end of my pregnancy when I secretly thought I’d be back at work within weeks of birthing our son… I hope to have the opportunity to share more of my birthing experience and postpartum journey in future episodes but for now, I’ll just say that I am grateful for the space to slow down, trust a different pace, and savor the snuggles. About Sabia Wade So today we get to hear from Sabia, not just about their work with For the Village but about their mission as a Black, Queer, CEO to build bridges for a more inclusive, diverse, and equitable world through Reproductive Justice, distribution of financial wealth to BIPOC communities, and investing in emergent and innovative businesses. Honestly, there are so many parts of this discussion that blew me away. Sabia’s cool, grounded, determination to expand and expand and to create change through system overhauls is profound and inspiring. You’ll hear moments where I am speechless at the capacity of their imagination and gumption. Balancing Pleasure with Productivity Sabia reflects on how she sets boundaries and nourishes herself in a world where slowing down isn’t always an option. She shares how true happiness for her comes from true satisfaction over instant gratification. In today’s world, there is a lack of time for integration in a world filled to the brim with content to absorb. Sabia’s wisdom and practice help guide her through the world as it is today, and maybe you can pick up some tips from her. Creating a Value-Led Career Sabia is a doula who also runs a trucking company. No matter what she does, she embodies her values. She takes her knowledge as a doula to a diverse array of spaces and disciplines, while always being authentic to herself. She never wanted to be pidgeon-holed as a doula, who can only ever work and speak in spaces related to doulas. The way Sabia speaks about her work is inspiring, and maybe you can embody some of it in your own career. In The Episode 12:30 - The importance of slowing down and investing in pleasure 21:37 - The reality behind social media 38:52 - Being value led so your business and career can adapt to you as you grow 52:53 - Taking a pause at different levels of your career 1:05:46 - History of black and brown midwives and the industrialization of birth /episode/index/show/wombstories/id/25020513

Healing Fibriods Naturally: Yoni Steaming and Holistic Health with Madam CJ 08/08/2022

Healing Fibriods Naturally: Yoni Steaming and Holistic Health with Madam CJ If you are listening to this near the release date, I’m now ever so gently dipping my toes back into the waters of work after a beautiful cocoon of postpartum time. Our baby boy arrived the morning of May 22. He is a gem, we are wildly smitten new parents, and I look forward to sharing the journey of our home birth with you here on Womb Stories Project in a future episode. Today’s interview is with Madam CJ who has a dynamic, bold, and compelling story of womb healing. She also celebrates her use of yoni steaming to support her fibroid release and passing fibroids naturally. In this episode, Madam CJ also shares her journey of connecting to her innate and natural beauty as well as finding freedom through sensuality and dance. Like many of our episodes on Womb Stories Project, the conversation takes us beyond a particular diagnosis and into a deeply real conversation about the profound ripple effect that womb space health and healing have on one's life and community. Healing Your Body from Fibroids Madam CJ was diagnosed with fibroids when she was 35 years old. Her grandmother used to suffer from fibroids, so she knew something was wrong when she started experiencing similar symptoms. The surgery and intensive recovery period were inaccessible to her, so she threw herself into natural remedies and emotional healing to heal her own fibroids. Vaginal Steaming Practices for Fibroids A commitment to extreme self-care inspired Madame CJ to order her own steam seat. She has a home vaginal steaming process where she steams every day so that she isn’t bleeding. Vaginal tissues are extremely absorbent, so Madam CJ reflects on how her yoni steaming practice has helped her to recover from multiple illnesses, including her fibroids. Eliminating Toxic Skincare to Prevent Fibroids Soaps, hair products, nail polish, hair color, and even feminine hygiene products have xenoestrogens that feed fibroids. Eliminating these products and releasing the beauty standards that keep women hooked on these products is essential to fibroid healing and prevention. Madam CJ reflects on her journey of learning how to make her own natural soaps and embracing her natural look. In This Episode 4:20 - Madam CJ’s experience with fibroids and her healing journey 11:31 - Why the surgery isn’t the right solution for a lot of women 17:10 - Madam CJ’s current fibroid journey and the healing practices she keeps in her daily life 27:30 - Eliminating toxic skincare products that are linked to fibroids - particularly in the black community 36:28 - Madam CJ’s home vaginal steaming practice 50:14 - Being able to ask for and receive help when healing from fibroids 1:01:22 - Dance and the womb healing gifts it offers Links Use code madamlove at KitaraLove.com /episode/index/show/wombstories/id/23989716

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Trailer 01/26/2022

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