In this powerful episode, we sit down with Nicole (@nicole_keilani)—a mother of three, former New Ager transformed by Jesus, and now a devoted birthkeeper—whose birth journey will encourage any mom navigating fear-based labels or “high-risk” diagnoses.
After being diagnosed with gestational diabetes and risked out of midwifery care, Nicole found herself facing medical pressure, limited options, and the familiar “you can’t have a homebirth” narrative. Instead of surrendering to fear, she turned to Scripture, her husband’s leadership, deep research, and the quiet voice of the Holy Spirit.
What followed was a beautiful, precipitous freebirth at home, free of complications and full of God’s presence. Nicole shares what she learned about trusting God over protocols, the wide spectrum of maternity care—from hospitals to homebirth to unassisted birth—and how this experience inspired her to become a birthkeeper and now an HJ student preparing for her fourth homebirth.
This episode is rich with faith, courage, personal responsibility, and a reminder that your provider should serve you, not the system.
Links:
Little Lamb Birth Services
Birth circle rsvp:
Pregnancy & Postpartum Gathering RSVP
Connect:
Email us to say hi: holywildbirth@gmail.com
Put in a request for future topics and/or submit a question for future Q&A episodes: Fill out the form
Apply to tell your birth story on the podcast: Holy Wild Birth Podcast : Guest Application
Hang out with us and other Holy Wild Women in our private community (off Facebook): Rooted in Eden PMA
Become a holy, wild birthkeeper with us inside Hearthmother Journey
From Lauren:
Midwifery consults: Email rootedinedenpma@gmail.com
From Brooke:
Trust God, Trust Birth Workshop - a 5-part high-level roadmap to a confident home birth (pay what you can)
Faith-Filled Home Birth Workshop - a free, 3-part video series delivered to your inbox
Embrace Birth Journey - comprehensive and holistic faith-based home birth preparation (courses + private community)
Intro and Outra Music Credit -Betty Dear By Blue Dot Sessions is licensed under a Creative Commons License.
In this transformative episode, Brooke sits down with Jes— a holistic Hyperemesis Gravidarum (HG) coach, root-cause practitioner, and home-birth mother— to discuss a new way forward for women experiencing severe nausea in pregnancy. Jes shares her personal healing journey, how she entered the world of holistic pregnancy support, and why so many women with HG are dismissed within conventional care.
Together, they dig into the deeper layers of HG through a root-cause pregnancy and functional medicine lens. Jes breaks down the clues behind HG: antihistamine pathways, B6, minerals, nutrient co-factors, and how modalities like TCM, GNM, Ayurvedic wisdom, and Western medicine can blend to offer more complete holistic pregnancy care. They also explore how to differentiate standard morning sickness from true HG, the biological purpose of nausea and vomiting, and the impact of underlying factors such as H. pylori, trauma, nervous system dysregulation, and chronic depletion.
Jes introduces her newest offering, The Human Blueprint, and shares supportive, accessible approaches for women seeking natural HG relief, functional pregnancy support, and deeper understanding during early pregnancy.
If you want a compassionate, evidence-informed, and holistic perspective on HG, this episode is essential listening.
Where to Find Jes:
Instagram: @the_wellness_element & @bornfrom.her
Website: BornFromHer.com
Photography: @futureselfcreative
Connect:
Email us to say hi: holywildbirth@gmail.com
Put in a request for future topics and/or submit a question for future Q&A episodes: Fill out the form
Apply to tell your birth story on the podcast: Holy Wild Birth Podcast : Guest Application
Hang out with us and other Holy Wild Women in our private community (off Facebook): Rooted in Eden PMA
Become a holy, wild birthkeeper with us inside Hearthmother Journey
From Lauren:
Midwifery consults: Email rootedinedenpma@gmail.com
From Brooke:
Trust God, Trust Birth Workshop - a 5-part high-level roadmap to a confident home birth (pay what you can)
Faith-Filled Home Birth Workshop - a free, 3-part video series delivered to your inbox
Embrace Birth Journey - comprehensive and holistic faith-based home birth preparation (courses + private community)
Intro and Outra Music Credit -Betty Dear By Blue Dot Sessions is licensed under a Creative Commons License.
In this episode, Brooke and Lauren wade into the topic of water birth—sharing their own brief stories for transparency’s sake and unpacking what the research really says. From separating solid evidence from hearsay to understanding sample sizes, peer-reviewed studies, and funding bias, they explore how to read and interpret data with discernment. Lauren walks listeners through a research review that clarifies key terms like hypoxia, ANP, and vasopressin, and explains how anti-gravity effects and APGAR scores factor into water birth safety.
Whether you’re a data lover, a birth worker, or an expectant parent curious about the evidence behind water birth, this episode brings clarity, nuance, and transparency to a conversation often clouded by misinformation.
Mentioned in this episode:
Connect:
Email us to say hi: holywildbirth@gmail.com
Put in a request for future topics and/or submit a question for future Q&A episodes: Fill out the form
Apply to tell your birth story on the podcast: Holy Wild Birth Podcast : Guest Application
Hang out with us and other Holy Wild Women in our private community (off Facebook): Rooted in Eden PMA
Become a holy, wild birthkeeper with us inside Hearthmother Journey
From Lauren:
Midwifery consults: Email rootedinedenpma@gmail.com
From Brooke:
Trust God, Trust Birth Workshop - a 5-part high-level roadmap to a confident home birth (pay what you can)
Faith-Filled Home Birth Workshop - a free, 3-part video series delivered to your inbox
Embrace Birth Journey - comprehensive and holistic faith-based home birth preparation (courses + private community)
Intro and Outra Music Credit -Betty Dear By Blue Dot Sessions is licensed under a Creative Commons License.
It’s tea time with the Holy Wild Birth crew, and this week’s conversation is full of real-life updates, laughter, and the beautiful chaos of transition. Lauren shares the excitement (and gratitude) over her new office space, Brooke gives a long-awaited update on her Transit van adventures, and HJ’s graduation sparks heartfelt reflection on growth and change. We also chat through the realities of menu planning for big families, the mental load moms carry, and a little breech birth workshop talk sprinkled in for good measure.
Fair play book - https://a.co/d/gSZrzig
A better Share book -https://a.co/d/7xsMka1
Blank playing cards - https://a.co/d/4gJ8Rka
Vanilla Tulip meal plans - https://www.thevanillatulipstore.com/
Breech workshops with Nicole Morales - https://restorybirthwork.com/workshops/
Jessica’s double breech twin story - https://spotifycreators-web.app.link/e/zGzq0X2YUXb
Hearthmother Journey - rootedeineden.org/hearthmother-journey
Connect:
Email us to say hi: holywildbirth@gmail.com
Put in a request for future topics and/or submit a question for future Q&A episodes: Fill out the form
Apply to tell your birth story on the podcast: Holy Wild Birth Podcast : Guest Application
Hang out with us and other Holy Wild Women in our private community (off Facebook): Rooted in Eden PMA
Become a holy, wild birthkeeper with us inside Hearthmother Journey
From Lauren:
Midwifery consults: Email rootedinedenpma@gmail.com
From Brooke:
Trust God, Trust Birth Workshop - a 5-part high-level roadmap to a confident home birth (pay what you can)
Faith-Filled Home Birth Workshop - a free, 3-part video series delivered to your inbox
Embrace Birth Journey - comprehensive and holistic faith-based home birth preparation (courses + private community)
Intro and Outra Music Credit -Betty Dear By Blue Dot Sessions is licensed under a Creative Commons License.
What if puberty was never meant to be awkward, clinical, or confusing—but sacred?
In this beautiful and thought-provoking conversation, former middle school teacher turned puberty mentor Megan of Body Talk Basics joins us to explore how our culture has stripped connection out of puberty education—and how she’s bringing it back in. After years of watching young teens wrestle with shame and silence around their changing bodies, Megan realized that the real missing piece wasn’t more diagrams or data—it was connection. Connection to self, to community, and to the divine design of the body itself.
Together, we talk about what it looks like to return reverence to the puberty transition—to see it not as an inconvenience, but as a holy initiation into self-awareness, nourishment, and the sacred responsibility of caring for one’s body. Megan helps us recognize the parallels between puberty, pregnancy, and postpartum—each a profound initiation that calls us deeper into trust, surrender, and partnership with God.
We explore the universal truths about the body that resonate with people of all beliefs—how the language of the body plants quiet seeds of faith and wonder, subtly shifting how we see God’s character reflected in every stretch, bleed, ache, and renewal.
Megan also shares her personal story of transformation: from being birth-phobic to becoming a joyful “birth evangelist.” Her first free birth unfolded as a prayerful partnership with God—nine nights of prodromal labor, whispered mantras of “Good job, baby. Thank you, God. Yes.” and the tender spiritual companionship of St. Olga, whom she calls her spiritual midwife (link to her story)
This episode is an invitation to remember that the body tells the truth of God’s design—and that every threshold, from puberty to postpartum, is a doorway back to reverence, responsibility, and joy.
✨ Get Megan’s Body Talk Basics course using code SISTERBIRTH to save 10%!
Connect:
Email us to say hi: holywildbirth@gmail.com
Put in a request for future topics and/or submit a question for future Q&A episodes: Fill out the form
Apply to tell your birth story on the podcast: Holy Wild Birth Podcast : Guest Application
Hang out with us and other Holy Wild Women in our private community (off Facebook): Rooted in Eden PMA
Become a holy, wild birthkeeper with us inside Hearthmother Journey
From Lauren:
Midwifery consults: Email rootedinedenpma@gmail.com
From Brooke:
Trust God, Trust Birth Workshop - a 5-part high-level roadmap to a confident home birth (pay what you can)
Faith-Filled Home Birth Workshop - a free, 3-part video series delivered to your inbox
Embrace Birth Journey - comprehensive and holistic faith-based home birth preparation (courses + private community)
Intro and Outra Music Credit -Betty Dear By Blue Dot Sessions is licensed under a Creative Commons License.
In this profound and grace-filled episode, Marisol Ross opens her heart and shares the story of her second child’s birth — a redemptive and holy experience that reshaped her understanding of trust, surrender, and God’s design for motherhood.
After being induced with her first baby, Marisol longed for a different kind of birth — one marked by peace, trust, and reverence for the way God created her body to work. Her second birth unfolded at home, in the most serene and beautiful setting, surrounded by quiet faith and deep intuition. It was everything she had hoped for — the kind of birth that brings healing and restoration.
But soon after her son’s arrival, he struggled to breathe. What began as a gentle home birth quickly shifted as they transferred to the NICU, where Marisol and her husband learned that their son had a rare genetic condition called Trisomy 18. Doctors told them they might only have a few weeks with him. Yet, in God’s goodness, their son continues to thrive — now ten months old and full of life, light, and purpose.
Marisol’s journey is one of redemption and revelation — a testimony of trusting in God’s perfect design, listening to a mother’s intuition, and parenting with eternity in mind. Her story reminds us that even when the path looks nothing like we imagined, the Holy Spirit is near in every breath, guiding us through both the beauty and the breaking.
This conversation is a tender invitation to see birth as sacred, to trust that redemption is possible even after disappointment, and to believe that every life — no matter how brief or unexpected — carries eternal weight and holy purpose.
Marisol's Instagram
Connect:
Email us to say hi: holywildbirth@gmail.com
Put in a request for future topics and/or submit a question for future Q&A episodes: Fill out the form
Apply to tell your birth story on the podcast: Holy Wild Birth Podcast : Guest Application
Hang out with us and other Holy Wild Women in our private community (off Facebook): Rooted in Eden PMA
Become a holy, wild birthkeeper with us inside Hearthmother Journey
From Lauren:
Midwifery consults: Email rootedinedenpma@gmail.com
From Brooke:
Trust God, Trust Birth Workshop - a 5-part high-level roadmap to a confident home birth (pay what you can)
Faith-Filled Home Birth Workshop - a free, 3-part video series delivered to your inbox
Embrace Birth Journey - comprehensive and holistic faith-based home birth preparation (courses + private community)
Intro and Outra Music Credit -Betty Dear By Blue Dot Sessions is licensed under a Creative Commons License.
In this Holy Wild Birth conversation, we’re getting honest about money, midwives, and the value of birth work. Too often, women feel uncomfortable talking about what birth support “costs” — but we’re turning that on its head and exploring what it’s actually worth.
Lauren and Brooke share candid thoughts on why hiring a midwife is an investment, not an expense, and how cultural narratives about “affording” care can quietly shape our choices around birth. From breaking down what goes into a midwife’s fee to unpacking the unseen hours, emotional labor, and sacred holding of women — this is a tender, fiery episode about money, mindset, and meaning.
If you’ve ever wondered:
✨ Why midwifery care seems “expensive” compared to hospital birth
✨ How to think about value and exchange in birth work
✨ What it really means to pay for presence instead of procedure
…this episode will help you see the full picture.
Join us for a conversation that honors the holy work of midwives, the true cost of birth, and the the wild abundance that comes from choosing care that honors the way God designed birth.
Mentioned in this Episode:
SHOW NOTES “FOOTER”
Connect:
Email us to say hi: holywildbirth@gmail.com
Put in a request for future topics and/or submit a question for future Q&A episodes: Fill out the form
Apply to tell your birth story on the podcast: http://sisterbirth.com/podcast-guest
Hang out with us and other Holy Wild Women in our private community (off Facebook): https://anointed-birth.mn.co/
Become a holy, wild birthkeeper with us inside Hearthmother Journey
From Lauren:
Midwifery consults: Email rootedinedenpma@gmail.com
From Brooke:
Trust God, Trust Birth Workshop - a 5-part high-level roadmap to a confident home birth (pay what you can)
Faith-Filled Home Birth Workshop - a free, 3-part video series delivered to your inbox
Embrace Birth Journey - comprehensive and holistic faith-based home birth preparation (courses + private community)
Sister Birth: The Podcast - short, beautifully scripted episode to encourage your along the way
Intro and Outra Music Credit -
Betty Dear By Blue Dot Sessions is licensed under a Creative Commons License.
Join Lauren and Brooke in this heart-to-heart conversation on the language, philosophy, and everyday life of being a birth keeper. From redefining “birth team” to more soulful terms like birth companion and birth trust, to swapping stories about chickens and the beautiful chaos of big families, this episode weaves wisdom with warmth. You’ll also hear about their brand-new Birth Servant Starter Kit—a resource packed with video lessons and tools for those ready to step into holistic birth work. If you’re passionate about sacred birth, intentional language, and community-centered care, this one’s for you.Mentioned in this episode:
Connect:
Email us to say hi: holywildbirth@gmail.com
Put in a request for future topics and/or submit a question for future Q&A episodes: Fill out the form
Apply to tell your birth story on the podcast: Holy Wild Birth Podcast : Guest Application
Hang out with us and other Holy Wild Women in our private community (off Facebook): Rooted in Eden PMA
Become a holy, wild birthkeeper with us inside Hearthmother Journey
From Lauren:
Midwifery consults: Email rootedinedenpma@gmail.com
From Brooke:
Trust God, Trust Birth Workshop - a 5-part high-level roadmap to a confident home birth (pay what you can)
Faith-Filled Home Birth Workshop - a free, 3-part video series delivered to your inbox
Embrace Birth Journey - comprehensive and holistic faith-based home birth preparation (courses + private community)
Intro and Outra Music Credit -Betty Dear By Blue Dot Sessions is licensed under a Creative Commons License.
I (Brooke) am joined in this episode by our friend Sarah to talk about her call to birth work and then deliverance ministry for women in their childbearing year. Through her own testimony and experiences, and through sharing what the Lord has taught her through Jael (the woman who drove a tent peg through the enemy's temple), this episode offers many insights and action points on spiritual warfare in fertility, pregnancy, birth, and beyond.
Some themes present in this episode:
You can find Sarah here:
SHOW NOTES “FOOTER”
Connect:
Email us to say hi: holywildbirth@gmail.com
Put in a request for future topics and/or submit a question for future Q&A episodes: Fill out the form
Apply to tell your birth story on the podcast: Holy Wild Birth Podcast : Guest Application
Hang out with us and other Holy Wild Women in our private community (off Facebook): Rooted in Eden PMA
Become a holy, wild birthkeeper with us inside Hearthmother Journey
From Lauren:
Midwifery consults: Email rootedinedenpma@gmail.com
From Brooke:
Trust God, Trust Birth Workshop - a 5-part high-level roadmap to a confident home birth (pay what you can)
Faith-Filled Home Birth Workshop - a free, 3-part video series delivered to your inbox
Embrace Birth Journey - comprehensive and holistic faith-based home birth preparation (courses + private community)
Intro and Outra Music Credit -
Betty Dear By Blue Dot Sessions is licensed under a Creative Commons License.
Welcome back for part 2 of Becky's birth story!
Join Brooke as she talks with her in-real-life friend, Becky, about her three births (a special surprise). Though her first two attempts at a home birth didn’t turn out the way she diligently planned for (as you’ll hear in Part 1), she was not to be discouraged, and went on to have an incredible, redemptive story (as you’ll hear in Part 2).
Among other things, Becky touches on:
How a shift from nursing background to preventative and root-cause driven healthcare impacted her birthing choices
Pregnancy during Covid and the fear that came with it
Coming to terms with a difficult birth story she can’t remember
The leap of faith in choosing to have another baby after trials
Learning fertility awareness “late” in the game
** becky is in IRL acquaintence of Brooke’s**
SHOW NOTES:
Join Brooke as she talks with her in-real-life friend, Becky, about her three births (a special surprise). Though her first two attempts at a home birth didn’t turn out the way she diligently planned for (as you’ll hear in Part 1), she was not to be discouraged, and went on to have an incredible, redemptive story (as you’ll hear in Part 2).
Among other things, Becky touches on:
How a shift from nursing background to preventative and root-cause driven healthcare impacted her birthing choices
Pregnancy during Covid and the fear that came with it
Coming to terms with a difficult birth story she can’t remember
The leap of faith in choosing to have another baby after trials
Learning fertility awareness “late” in the game
BIRTH STORY DISCLAIMER:
The choices, beliefs, and opinions of the mamas sharing their stories are as individual as the storyteller herself and do not necessarily reflect the beliefs or recommended choices of Lauren and/or Brooke.
SHOW NOTES “FOOTER”
Connect:
Email us to say hi: holywildbirth@gmail.com
Put in a request for future topics and/or submit a question for future Q&A episodes: Fill out the form
Apply to tell your birth story on the podcast: http://sisterbirth.com/podcast-guest
Hang out with us and other Holy Wild Women in our private community (off Facebook): https://anointed-birth.mn.co/
Become a holy, wild birthkeeper with us inside Hearthmother Journey
From Lauren:
Midwifery consults: Email rootedinedenpma@gmail.com
From Brooke:
Trust God, Trust Birth Workshop - a 5-part high-level roadmap to a confident home birth (pay what you can)
Faith-Filled Home Birth Workshop - a free, 3-part video series delivered to your inbox
Embrace Birth Journey - comprehensive and holistic faith-based home birth preparation (courses + private community)
Sister Birth: The Podcast - short, beautifully scripted episode to encourage your along the way
Intro and Outra Music Credit -
Betty Dear By Blue Dot Sessions is licensed under a Creative Commons License.
In this episode, we sit down with Kurin (@kurinadele & the "The Mindful Mama Podcast"), a current Hearthmother Journey student and soon-to-be graduate, as she shares her long and beautiful unfolding into birth work. From her mother’s words spoken over her as a toddler—that she would one day be a midwife—to a detour into other career paths, marriage, a hospital birth, loss, and then the redemption of a home birth, Kurin’s story is rich with depth and faith.
She opens up about the major mindset shifts she’s experienced, how Christ has become the center of her calling, and the power of prayer in birth work. Kurin’s journey through Hearthmother Journey has been the final push that empowered her to fully step into serving women in their birth spaces with courage, reverence, and joy.
🔥Enrollment for Hearthmother Journey is open now through September 15th—join us as we prepare the next wave of birth workers to walk faithfully in this calling. (https://www.rootedineden.org/hearthmother-journey#payment-options)
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Connect:
Email us to say hi: holywildbirth@gmail.com
Put in a request for future topics and/or submit a question for future Q&A episodes: Fill out the form
Apply to tell your birth story on the podcast: http://sisterbirth.com/podcast-guest
Hang out with us and other Holy Wild Women in our private community (off Facebook): https://anointed-birth.mn.co/
Become a holy, wild birthkeeper with us inside Hearthmother Journey
From Lauren:
Midwifery consults: Email rootedinedenpma@gmail.com
From Brooke:
Trust God, Trust Birth Workshop - a 5-part high-level roadmap to a confident home birth (pay what you can)
Faith-Filled Home Birth Workshop - a 3-part video series delivered to your inbox ($7)
Embrace Birth Journey - comprehensive and holistic faith-based home birth preparation (courses + private community)
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Intro and Outra Music Credit -
Betty Dear By Blue Dot Sessions is licensed under a Creative Commons License.
In this special episode of Holy Wild Birth, we’ve gathered clips from our recent live coaching event where birth workers brought their deepest questions and tender crossroads to the table. Together, we explore what it means to follow the call into birth work—whether as a doula, midwife, or mother balancing both roles.
You’ll hear honest conversations about discerning if this path is right for you, navigating the tension between mothering and serving, and practical guidance on topics like what a doula should charge. These coaching moments are raw, real, and full of the kind of encouragement that reminds us we’re not walking this journey alone.
If you’ve been wondering about your next steps in birth work, this episode will meet you right where you are.
* Hearthmother Journey is a year-long path of mentorship, community, and practical training for women called to birthwork and embodied living. Learn more and join us at https://www.rootedineden.org/hearthmother-journey
🎙️ This Week on the Podcast
From Broadway to barnyards, baptisms to birth stories—this episode is a true tapestry of life.
✨ We cover it all:
Hamilton and theatre in general
Nesting chicks under a broody hen
The tender work of holding space for suffering and dying animals
The winding road to Brooke’s children’s baptism and the beauty of the moment
Lauren’s string of unfortunate events (and the silver linings she’s clinging to)
All the things Lauren dreams of doing while off call
And, of course, how Brooke somehow ended up at another birth even when she was “off call” 😉
It’s raw, tender, and joy-filled—a snapshot of ordinary moments that carry extraordinary meaning.
🌿 Don’t forget: Hearthmother Journey is enrolling now through September 15!
👉🏼 rootedineden.org/hearthmother-journey
Introducing yet another "genre" or podcast episode here at Holy Wild Birth: The Community Hearth Call where we host a live coaching call in our community on Mighty Networks and take live "callers" on camera with us to talk through their questions and conundrums regarding their calling as birth servants.
On this inaugural community hearth call, you'll hear:
🥁HEARTHMOTHER JOURNEY IS OPEN FOR ENROLLMENT RIGHT NOW!!!
The fall cohort launches September 30th
Enrollment closes September 15
👉🏼 rootedineden.org/hearthmother-journey
Join the next generation of holy, wild birthkeepers
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Connect:
Email us to say hi: holywildbirth@gmail.com
Put in a request for future topics and/or submit a question for future Q&A episodes: Fill out the form
Apply to tell your birth story on the podcast: http://sisterbirth.com/podcast-guest
Hang out with us and other Holy Wild Women in our private community (off Facebook): https://anointed-birth.mn.co/
Become a holy, wild birthkeeper with us inside Hearthmother Journey
From Lauren:
Midwifery consults: Email rootedinedenpma@gmail.com
From Brooke:
Trust God, Trust Birth Workshop - a 5-part high-level roadmap to a confident home birth (pay what you can)
Faith-Filled Home Birth Workshop - a free, 3-part video series delivered to your inbox
Embrace Birth Journey - comprehensive and holistic faith-based home birth preparation (courses + private community)
Sister Birth: The Podcast - short, beautifully scripted episode to encourage your along the way
Intro and Outra Music Credit -
Betty Dear By Blue Dot Sessions is licensed under a Creative Commons License.
Stephanie always did things the mainstream way: she had her babies in the hospital, usually started with an induction and a couple of times with rushed cesareans before labor started. But for er 8th pregnancy -- a surprise that took some getting used to -- she and her husband took a hard pivot and chose the home birth route. Armed with faith in the goodness of God, a wonderful midwife, Embrace Birth Journey, and determination, they went on to have the best home birth she could have dreamed of.
In this episode, we cover:
Resources mentioned in this episode:
You can connect with Stephanie on FB or IG (@MamaKamps)
BIRTH STORY DISCLAIMER:
The choices, beliefs, and opinions of the mamas sharing their stories are as individual as the storyteller herself and do not necessarily reflect the beliefs or recommended choices of Lauren and/or Brooke.
SHOW NOTES “FOOTER”
Connect:
Email us to say hi: holywildbirth@gmail.com
Put in a request for future topics and/or submit a question for future Q&A episodes: Fill out the form
Apply to tell your birth story on the podcast: Holy Wild Birth Podcast : Guest Application
Hang out with us and other Holy Wild Women in our private community (off Facebook): Rooted in Eden PMA
Become a holy, wild birthkeeper with us inside Hearthmother Journey
From Lauren:
Midwifery consults: Email rootedinedenpma@gmail.com
From Brooke:
Trust God, Trust Birth Workshop - a 5-part high-level roadmap to a confident home birth (pay what you can)
Faith-Filled Home Birth Workshop - a free, 3-part video series delivered to your inbox
Embrace Birth Journey - comprehensive and holistic faith-based home birth preparation (courses + private community)
Intro and Outra Music Credit -
Betty Dear By Blue Dot Sessions is licensed under a Creative Commons License.
If you've heard these phrases spoken in relation to birth, you may have wondered what exactly these woo-woo words mean, what their origin is, and whether it's a Biblical concept.
In this episode we'll explore the meaning and etiology of "thin places" and "sacred space," why we feel that pregnancy and birth ARE these things, where we see this concept in the scriptures, and how to surrender to and facilitate the experience of them as mothers and as birth workers.
Resources referred to in this episode:
Sacred Ceremonies for Birth (get it in the shop OR as a freebie bonus you can access after going through the Faith-Filled Home Birth Challenge)
Hearthmother Journey - attend our Open House on Mighty Networks August 18, enrollment for fall cohort ends September 15.
Connect:
Email us to say hi: holywildbirth@gmail.com
Hang out with us and other Holy Wild Women in our private community (off Facebook): https://anointed-birth.mn.co/
Become a holy, wild birthkeeper with us inside Hearthmother Journey
From Lauren:
Midwifery consults: Email rootedinedenpma@gmail.com
From Brooke:
Trust God, Trust Birth Workshop - a 5-part high-level roadmap to a confident home birth (pay what you can)
Faith-Filled Home Birth Workshop - a free, 3-part video series delivered to your inbox
Embrace Birth Journey - comprehensive and holistic faith-based home birth preparation (courses + private community)
Intro and Outra Music Credit -
Betty Dear By Blue Dot Sessions is licensed under a Creative Commons License.
Welcome to a rambling conversation between friends on a range of topics so varied that thematically naming this episode became a real challenge!
You'll hear about:
what's in our mugs
a sad induction to knitter status
Brooke's overthinking about light therapy
our shared love of nature and water
what we like about where we live and why we both love arizona too
taking things slow with habit changes
all the many births Lauren supported since our last cup of tea episode
that time when we thought we could whip up a huge training program in a single week 😂
the power of naming
midwife husbands
bougie espresso machines
"cousinness"
why Brooke is unexpectedly going back on call earlier than planned
the value of community
PS: Don't forget to join us in our Mighty Networks community so you can attend the upcoming FREE, live birth worker mentoring calls.
In this episode, Lauren is joined by traditional midwife and Hearthmother Journey graduate, Alisha Meyer, for a rich and reverent conversation about the design and rhythm of birth. Together, they explore the sacred balance between ancient midwifery wisdom and modern science—how the two can harmonize to support both physiological safety and the deeper, soul-level unfolding of birth.
Alisha shares from her lived experience, offering insight into the patterns woven into the natural process and the importance of learning to recognize and trust them. From the signals of early labor to the intuitive knowing that rises in both mothers and midwives, this episode invites listeners to consider what it means to co-labor with the design rather than manage it.
Whether you're a birth worker or a mother preparing for your own journey, this conversation will stir your confidence, sharpen your discernment, and remind you that honoring the innate is not only wise—it’s holy.
Want to connect more with Alisha? - Find her website, podcast, adn mentorship opportunities below:
Website: https://birthcultivated.com/
Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/birth-cultivated/id1805256067
Mentorship: https://birthcultivated.com/subscriptions/
⭐️ Learn more about Hearthmother Journey and Attend the Open House on August 18, 2025 ⭐️
Connect:
Email us to say hi: holywildbirth@gmail.com
Put in a request for future topics and/or submit a question for future Q&A episodes: Fill out the form
Apply to tell your birth story on the podcast: http://sisterbirth.com/podcast-guest
Hang out with us and other Holy Wild Women in our private community (off Facebook): https://anointed-birth.mn.co/
Become a holy, wild birthkeeper with us inside Hearthmother Journey
From Lauren:
Midwifery consults: Email rootedinedenpma@gmail.com
From Brooke:
Trust God, Trust Birth Workshop - a 5-part high-level roadmap to a confident home birth (pay what you can)
Faith-Filled Home Birth Workshop - a free, 3-part video series delivered to your inbox
Embrace Birth Journey - comprehensive and holistic faith-based home birth preparation (courses + private community)
Intro and Outra Music Credit -
Betty Dear By Blue Dot Sessions is licensed under a Creative Commons License.
Because the Lord called her and her husband to move to other countries to serve as missionaries, Jamie had her 4 home births in 3 different countries. In each one, she encountered the beauty of midwifery care and the gifts of cultural differences and honorary grandmothers supporting them. Her story shows us how wherever God places us, He is trustworthy to provide a way.
You can connect with Jamie Nunes in our private community (anointed-birth.mn.co) or on IG (https://www.instagram.com/mrsnewness/)
BIRTH STORY DISCLAIMER:
The choices, beliefs and opinions of the mamas sharing their stories are as individual as the storyteller herself and do not necessarily reflect the beliefs or recommended choices of Lauren and/or Brooke.
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Connect:
Email us to say hi: holywildbirth@gmail.com
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Apply to tell your birth story on the podcast: http://sisterbirth.com/podcast-guest
Hang out with us in our private community (off Facebook): https://anointed-birth.mn.co/
Become a holy, wild birthkeeper with us inside Hearthmother Journey
From Lauren:
Midwifery consults: Email rootedinedenpma@gmail.com
From Brooke:
Intro and Outra Music Credit -
Betty Dear By Blue Dot Sessions is licensed under a Creative Commons License.