Radicle Ruminations Podcast

In this episode, Chantel acts weird and attempts to read 4 blog posts that describe the ways she sees and feels about the current women's health paradigm, and how she wishes we could all shift our perspectives. If you can get past her loopy ass jokes, then you might really enjoy this one! The 4 pieces she reads are: 1) Her recent Medium article, "Real Feminists Don't Go to the Doctor." https://medium.com/@chantelquick/real-feminists-dont-go-to-the-doctor-9d878151bb46 2) Her older Medium article, "There Is Nothing Healthy About “Women’s Healthcare: Why Women’s Healthcare undermines women’s health a creates a culture of abuse we all accept." https://medium.com/@chantelquick/there-is-nothing-healthy-about-womens-healthcare-7ec5ce0597be 3) An IG and blog post from @freya.kellet on Patriarchal ideas of health and hygiene. 4) Chantel's recent IG post on the history and practices of obstetrics @rooted.is.radicle "If you're a feminist, you should be rejecting the ritualistic medical practice of pelvic exams and pap smears."

In this episode I will be breaking down the differences between a traditional midwife and a MEDwife in an attempt to help women who desire a natural, homebirth achieve their desired birth outcome.

How much is too much when it comes to vaccines? Do you have a limit for the the number of pharmaceutical drug interventions you will allow your child to have? Or do you believe, "the more the better?!" Find out why I think it's important for everyone to know their limit.

After 11 years vegetarian and 7 years vegan, I made a huge shift last year. In this episode find out: -The health problems that had me go vegan -The health issues that arose as a vegan mom -How and why I started eating meat again -Mental illness, veganism, and what we eat -Why I think it works for some and not others -Bio-individuality -Words of advice if you are stepping away from a vegan diet -What I eat now -Where I purchase some of my food

Ashley Everly graduated from UC Davis with a degree in toxicology. She is a mother, activist, science writer, and toxicologist at Health Freedom Idaho. She is also the creator of The Vaccine Guide. www.vaccine.guide In the show we discussed: -Her story of having pertussis as a child. -Her son's vaccine injury. -How to differentiate between the load of conflicting scientific data that is available on vaccines. -Vaccine Manufacturer lawsuits and fraud. -Supreme Court Ruling: "Vaccines Are Unavoidably Unsafe." -1986 Act that exempts vaccine manufacturers from lawsuits. https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/42/300aa-22 -The myth that "side effects are rare." - "Lack of clinician awareness." Less than 1% of vaccine reactions and injuries are reported to VAERS. -What do doctors and medical professionals *really* learn about vaccines in medical school? -Aborted fetal cells used in the production of vaccines. -Counter arguments to things like, "but there is formaldehyde in a pear," and "there is aluminum in breastmilk!" -Ingestion vs. Injection -The different routes of exposure, and how there are many aspects and mechanisms of the immune system besides antibodies. -Natural vs. Synthetic Immunity -The ever increasing doses of recommended childhood vaccines. What is your limit? -H E R D I M M U N I T Y -If vaccines are so wonderful/safe/healthy/necessary for optimal human health, why can't we give them to those we know have a compromised immune system? Also, we can't always know who is compromised. -The overall health of vaccinated vs non-vaccinated populations. -The value of our symptoms and our obsession with symptom suppression. -The MTHFR gene mutation. -Vaccine Injury Compensation Program. -How to support and maintain immune health without vaccines. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- My website: www.earthbasedmom.com IG @radiclewomenblog

Dayna Martin is an unschooling advocate, author, and conference speaker. She founded Unschooling United, a non-profit organization dedicated to the radical unschooling movement. What we talked about: -Dayna's background and philosophy in natural parenting, unschooling, anarchism, children's rights, etc. -What happens when we try to force children to do things against their will? -Dayna's traditional upbringing. -Dayna's 4 kids have never been to school and never been punished. -How to Columbine school shooting planted a seed on Dayna's path. -She puts no limits or rules on things like screens, food and bedtimes. -Why she and all of her kids choose to be vegan (different reasons). -Her choice to always respect her kids over agenda. -Unschooling: "The agenda of school isn't to educate you." -How formal education robs children of their childhood. -The inherent abuse that comes with the compulsory education system. -How school limits our freedom and parental rights. -Punishment vs. Discipline. -The good intentions of workers of broken systems (nurses, doctors, teachers, etc). -Our culture runs on the authoritarian paradigm of obedience and compliance. -Why she thinks behavior modification is narcassistic and how obedience is often the main goal in parenting. -A partnership-based paradigm with our children. -Why the prospect of being with our kids all day is overwhelming for most mothers. www.daynamartin.com Her Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCmZF4kG12dtpgDWYBxDyNUQ Dayna's Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DaynaMartin Dayna's IG: https://www.instagram.com/officialdaynamartin/ OUR PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/radicle Radicle Ruminating Women Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/230201384228829/

Emilee Saldaya is the owner and creator of Free Birth Society, an underground movement of people reclaiming their autonomy through pregnancy, childbirth, and parenthood. Here is what Emilee and I spoke about: -Matriarchal households, Emilee and her partner's chosen last name as an act of feminism, and how all of our last names come from patriarchal lineages. -How they chose their last name and where it comes from. -What does it mean to have a free life? -Western marriage, and Emilee's thoughts on traditional, government instituted marriage. -Meaning and origin of the word 'Doula.' -The relationship between violence and lack of mother/baby attachment. 'The Physics Of Love' book: https://www.amazon.com/Physics-Love-Ultimate-Universal-Laws/dp/1572820020 -The importance for children to have a powerful, confident, autonomous mother. -How Emilee became a doula and why she ultimately stopped doing that work. -The foundations of violence and abuse in the obstetrical model of care. -How doulas lack any authority or power with a laboring woman. -Rules and regulations of licensed midwifery. -The maternity model of care stems from how society doesn't trust women to make their own choices about their body/families. -The false idea that a woman can be a "good candidate" or not for a home birth. -Our collective cultural fear of physiological birth. -What is a truly natural (physiological) birth? "The first intervention is leaving your home." -How "we never really know anything," and fear of the unknown is the root of consenting to medicalized care, but it's ultimately counterproductive. - Men traditionally as head of households and the decision makers are choosing how women in their family give birth and the negative impacts of that. -Emilee doesn't participate in the all inclusive birth organizations/groups/rhetoric because, "To stand for something means you stand against things." The Free Birth Society: https://www.freebirthsociety.com/ Free Birth Society Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/freebirthsociety/ Free Birth Podcast: Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/user-754199824 iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/free-birth-exploring-autonomy-in-childbirth/id1231912533?mt=2 Radicle Ruminations Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/radicle Moon Cycle Mastery Course: https://www.radiclewomen.us/mcm/ Enter 'BIRTH' in the coupon code to get 40% off! Radically Empowered Recordings: https://www.radiclewomen.us/radicallyempowered/ Enter 'BIRTH' in the coupon code to get 40% off! Radicle Ruminating Women Facebook Group! https://www.facebook.com/groups/230201384228829/

Lydia Jarjoura is the creatress behind Lunar Nourishment: a women's empowerment platform. Through online training courses and private guidance, Lydia helps women remember ancient wisdom about their bodies and their cycles, so they can reconnect to themselves. Lunar Nourishment helps women live in alignment with their natural rhythms by providing support with menstrual cycle care, pregnancy prevention, family planning, nutrition, yoga, meditation, breath-work, energy balancing and more. She has led over 500 women in reclaiming themselves and their health through her live events and online workshops. **Lydia grew up in a small town in Mississippi. About a year before she and her identical twin sister, Marlena, were conceived, her family tragically lost their 8 year old son (Lydia's brother) in a car accident. On Lydia's website she writes, "My twin and I were conceived into the womb of a woman grieving the death of her 8 year old son." In our interview we talk about how being born into a family full of sadness and grief shaped Lydia's life, and how those experiences led her down her path of alchemizing that pain into healing and a life she is grateful for and thriving in. www.lunarnourishment.com Lydia's IG: @lunarnourishment Lunar Nourishment Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/lunarnourishmentsisterhood/ FOLLOW ME ON PATREON! Mine and Lydia's Radically Empowered Recordings Now Available for $5 Members: https://www.patreon.com/radicle My Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/230201384228829/ **I also talk about my potential new last name, Mesnyi, from Jasminum Mesnyi

Arttemis Keszainn is trained in Chinese Medicine, Ayurveda, Quantum Nutrition, and Regenerative Detoxification and Rejuvenation to Empower Your Healing and Transformation At All Levels. He is also a practitioner and interpreter of iridology, sacred body language translation and conscious language. His mission is to have one million women fire their conventional doctors as to equip women and their families with the most Powerful Tools and Technologies of Nature to heal and thrive at ALL LEVELS OF LIFE! Along with his wife, Krystalle, he is the creator of The Living Well, an online course that uses the 4 pillars for healing disease to help women understand and clear the root cause of disease and poor health. www.thelivingwell.club The episode: -Arttemis's upbringing on highly processed foods. -His introduction to Chinese medicine, detoxification, and muscle testing. -Constipation: A Breakdown. -The emotional body and emotional causes of disease. -His time at the Tree Of Life with Dr. Gabriel Cousens "Simply Raw" documentary on healing diabetes in 30 days https://vimeo.com/27610549 -How the body doesn't know names of diseases (they are made up labels). All disease comes from toxicity/acidosis/inflammation. -Healing requires going back to nature and comprehending the laws of nature. -What diet dogma is missing. -Your body's intelligence to detoxify. -Why everyone can detox and fast, but not everyone will heal. -Healing is a paradox. It's about letting go, not adding more. -Arttemis's healing vision for our culture. -Common every day toxins that are pervasive in our lives (4 categories). www.ewg.org -4 Pillars for healing disease. -"When you educate the mother, you educate the nation." -The state of health of our mothers. -Health starts at conception, and the importance of a woman's health before she conceives. -The importance of spontaneous labor for optimal brain development. The divine intelligence of a woman's body during pregnancy and labor. -Fear and miscarriage. -Cultivating faith in the natural world. -"We are wired to survive. Thriving is a choice." -Fear-based systems and living. -"Karma is any act made from unconsciousness." -Sacred body language translation: the emotional causes of physical symptoms. Arttemis demonstrates with me. -Forgiveness heals not just us, but our lineage. Arttemis's prayer and exercise for forgiveness on our PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/radicle The book, Free to Prosper: https://www.feelfreetoprosper.com/feelfreetoprosperbook/ Moon Cycle Mastery Course: https://www.radiclewomen.us/mcm/ Radically Empowered Recordings: https://www.radiclewomen.us/radicallyempowered/ Primrose Jasmine: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jasminum_mesnyi

Destiny is the president and founder of the pro-life feminist group, New Wave Feminists. She describes herself and her cause as Pro-Life, Pro-Woman, and Pro-Education. She lives with her husband and four hilarious children in Dallas Texas. You can find out more about her and her group at https://www.newwavefeminists.com/ Show Outline: -NWF doesn't seek to make abortion banned or illegal like many pro-life groups. It seeks to make it unthinkable and unnecessary by offering women the support and education they need to understand their bodies and have confidence in themselves as women. -How Destiny came to be a pro-woman, pro-lifer. -The capitalistic influences of abortion. -The pervasiveness and almost "trendiness" of women rejecting or downplaying their fertility/biology. -Messages women receive from a young age that have them fearing/rejecting pregnancy and birth and motherhood. -How our culture is set up in such a way that further disadvantages women when they become mothers. -How we treat fertility like an illness. -Our society doesn't recognize the sanctity and vital necessity of child rearing. -Why the abortion industry targets and preys upon the poor. -Emotional, physical, and spiritual ramifications of the violent interruption of pregnancy (a natural bodily process). -How a woman's strengths and super powers are seen as a liability and weakness by women themselves. -Help Assist Her App http://www.helpassisther.com/ My website services: https://www.radiclewomen.us/my-services/ Facebook Group, Radicle Ruminating Women: https://www.facebook.com/groups/230201384228829/ PATREON! Become a patron! https://www.patreon.com/radicle Follow me on instagram! https://www.instagram.com/radiclewomenblog/ Follow me on Facebook! https://www.facebook.com/earthmomblog/

Yolande Clark is a Canadian writer and birth educator & consultant, and worked as a traditional birth attendant or homebirth witness for many years. She is a passionate advocate for women's autonomy during birth, the protection of mothers' and babies' dignity and for the importance of birth as the foundation for joyful mothering and ultimately, global peace. You can find out more about her at www.freebirth.ca. In this episode we talk about:: -The meaning of Bauhauswife. -What is a freebirth vs. homebirth? -Ultrasounds (You can find Yolande's recent series on Ultrasounds on her Podcast, "Bauhauswife.")Also check out her interview with Emilee Saldaya on Ultrasounds on the "Free Birth Society" Podcast. -Our own personal experiences that led us to birth work. -The limitations of regulated/licensed midwifery. -Does birth ever need medical intervention? -Why the fear and misinformation around birth is so pervasive. -What does Yolande believe it will take for women to take back their autonomy in birth? Also.... *Visit www.radiclewomen.us to sign up for my monthly newsletter! *SUPPORT ME ON PATREON! Go check out my patreon to discover all the sweet offerings for those who become a member! https://www.patreon.com/radicle *Check out my Moon Cycle Mastery Course: https://www.radiclewomen.us/mcm *Also check out my Empowered Health Recordings with Lydia Jarjoura: https://www.radiclewomen.us/radicallyempowered/ *My article on Breastfeeding and how medicalized birthing practices create poor outcomes: http://www.earthbasedmom.com/studies-reveal-medicalized-birth-negatively-affects-breastfeeding-outcomes/ *The book we mention is the podcast is called, 'Heal Your Birth, Heal Your Life,' by Sharon King. *SIDE NOTE* I apologize for the very annoying humming sound and quality of audio on my end in this episode. I was still trying to figure out some technical stuff and later realized my mic wasn't enabled and I was using the computer mic. The next episode I recorded I figured everything out and it will sound much better from now on. I believe you will still find value in this conversation anyway! Enjoy.

Witch, wonder, dissent. Women who work to heal themselves and others through the ancient wisdom of our earth and ancestors. Women who opt for holistic/natural alternatives that support the human body, mind, and spirit. Women who have dissented from the majority in exchange for personal integrity. Follow me on Patreon! www.patreon.com/radicle My Moon Cycle Magic course: https://radicallyembodied.teachable.com/p/moon-cycle-magic Enter the code 'CYCLES' and get 20% off! The article I wrote, "That's Not Feminsim: 3 Way Women Advocate For Their Own Oppression." http://www.earthbasedmom.com/thats-not-feminism-3-ways-women-are-advocating-for-their-own-oppression/