Content Warning: Homicide, harm of children, mental illness, suicide.Lindsay Clancy, an L&D Nurse from Duxbury, Massachusetts, is accused of killing her three children. She was receiving intensive outpatient treatment for postpartum depressio

Trauma and Transformation

Feb 17th, 2022 12m 11s

Learning to live safely in our bodies … how trauma awareness can become the threshold for our transformation. 💜Topics:• The way trauma informs why we are the way we are.• How trauma crystallizes us and keeps us from growing.• What are Ad

Nurses Are Like Cops

Mar 14th, 2021 18m 32s

Before we can heal our trauma as healthcare workers, we have to admit that it’s real.Read the article: https://medium.com/@katenovot/nurses-are-like-cops-8a73a1476711

Taproot Doula Me & White Supremacy

Jul 6th, 2018 10m 29s

We discuss how our work as doulas, nurses, midwives and doctors relates to the Zero Tolerance Immigration Policy. I challenge you to commit yourself to diving into @wildmysticwoman's Instagram challenge, #meandwhitesupremacy.Layla Saad @ Wild

Self Care Episode 10: One Small Change

Feb 5th, 2018 4m 39s

WHY THE MARTYR MOTHERHOOD MYTH MUST DIE, and one small way we can kill it off today!I'm doing something I've been waiting to do for the past 8, 9, 10 years ... a small change that will make my life better. I challenge you to do the same ... c

Self Care Episode 9: WE ARE CONNECTED

Apr 26th, 2017 9m 10s

WE ARE ALL CONNECTED. Is white midwifery/birth community racist? HOW DOES IT AFFECT US?(A brief message addressing recent events in the local and national birth community ... Read more at https://taprootdoula.com/2017/04/24/wake-up-white-bir

Self Care Episode 8: CONTROL

Apr 19th, 2017 13m 52s

CONTROL: We are obsessed with it. We are obsessed with controlling aspects of our life that can't be controlled. We are obsessed with controlling the actions of other people, and we make ourselves miserable when we can't. HOW DO WE COPE? The

Self Care Episode 7: SOCIAL MEDIA & THE GODDESS MYTH

Apr 12th, 2017 10m 36s

RING THE BELLS THAT STILL CAN RINGFORGET YOUR PERFECT OFFERING THERE IS A CRACK IN EVERYTHINGTHAT'S HOW THE LIGHT GETS IN(Leonard Cohen)For many of us, social media is a pervasive aspect of motherhood. This can be good AND bad .... the b

Self Care Episode 6: ANXIETY, JEALOUSY, GRIEF, MANTRA

Apr 5th, 2017 11m 32s

WORDS CREATE WORLDS. This week's check-in we explore how we are beautifully and wonderfully made (anxiety, laundry piles and all), how jealousy is actually a deeper message from our inner selves, and how to rewrite the story of how we talk to o

Self Care Episode 5: I FEEL IT ALL

Mar 31st, 2017 12m 40s

I FEEL IT ALL (cue #feist)Oh, sisters .... oh sisters. The lesson that took me 30 years to learn, condensed down into the length of an extended bathroom break. WHY ARE OUR FEELINGS SO SCARY? Why is it an insult to tell someone they're being "

Self Care Episode 4: HEALTHY FOOD HACKS FOR BUSY MOMS

Mar 23rd, 2017 11m 56s

How do you eat well as a mom when your family is a bunch of jerks that only like red meat and white carbs? What a brilliant question. Our series on SELF CARE FOR MAMAS continues with another episode on FOOD MEDICINE ... easy food prep and plann

Self Care Episode 3: FOOD AS MEDICINE

Mar 22nd, 2017 12m 10s

Welcome to Taproot Doula Episode 3 ... exploring FOOD as medicine! We are taking a journey into our bodies to explore how our bodies process food to either help or hurt us. AND we are exploring the deeper meaning of the expression, "TRUST YOUR

Self Care Episode 2: WHERE IS MY MIND?

Mar 7th, 2017 11m 32s

MAKING OUR MINDS A SAFE PLACE FOR US.Hard times as mommas can look like a lot of different things: postpartum depression and anxiety, difficulties with our kids, problems within our marriages, single motherhood, divorce, and soul searching abo

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