The Soul Mama Podcast

We are at the end of Season 2! I end with this solo episode where I reflect on what rest is, what it isn't, why its so important, why we find it so hard as women and mothers and some ways we might begin reframing rest as a sacred practice rather than something linked to guilt and shame. Full shownotes at www.soulmamajourney.com/podcast Follow me on instagram @soulmamacoach  

Part 2 of my conversation with QUEEN AFUA, Master Holistic Healer and Herbalist, Polarity Practitioner, and a lay midwife. She is the author of seven bestselling wellness books, including SACRED WOMAN known as the “Woman’s Bible” by readers around the world, for Queen’s guidance and wisdom on self-healing, holistic wellness, and spiritual practices.  In the second part of our conversation Queen and I discuss how Mothers can heal, their hearts, their bodies, their relationships and what extra wisdom lies in the two new chapters in this 20th edition of The Sacred Woman Book. Full show notes on www.soulmamajourney.com/podcast Follow me to comment on this episode @soulmamacoach.

QUEEN AFUA is a Master Holistic Healer and Herbalist, Polarity Practitioner, and a lay midwife. She is the author of seven bestselling wellness books, including SACRED WOMAN known as the “Woman’s Bible” by readers around the world, for Queen’s guidance and wisdom on self-healing, holistic wellness, and spiritual practices.  As part of the 20thAnniversary Edition this year, Queen and I discuss what I took to write this book and what it means to be a sacred woman today. Full show notes on www.soulmamajourney.com/podcast Follow me to comment on this episode @soulmmacoach.

Part 2 of my conversation with Alex Elle, author & wellness consultant, and mother of three. Alex assists others in finding their voices through storytelling, poetry, and narrative writing rooted in truth without shame. Her mission is to build community & self-care practices through literature & language. She is the author of multiple books and journals, most recently After the Rain, Today I Affirm: A Journal That Nurtures Self-Care. She also hosts the hey, girl. podcast.   In the second part of our conversation, we speak about  how writing became Alex’s therapy and how it transformed her life, her relationships and the way she showed up for others and herself. I trust you will get so much from this conversation. For show notes visit www.soulmamajourney.com/podcast Follow me on instagram xx

Alex Elle is an author & wellness consultant, and mother of three. Writing came into her life by way of therapy and the exploration of healing through journaling. Alex assists others in finding their voices through storytelling, poetry, and narrative writing rooted in truth without shame. Her mission is to build community & self-care practices through literature & language. She is the author of multiple books and journals, most recently After the Rain, Today I Affirm: A Journal That Nurtures Self-Care. She also hosts the hey, girl. podcast. In this first part of our conversation, Alex shares about what it was like to experience single motherhood as a young woman and then to experience a 2 year infertility and IVF journey before going on to conceive her two younger daughters. Full shownotes on www.soulmamajourney.com/podcast And on instagram @soulmamacoach

Part 2 of my conversation with Mimi Young, a witch, a shamanic intuitive, spirit communicator, and founder of Ceremonie, an esoteric brand focusing on education, Shamanic Readings, and plant medicines for skin and aura. Mimi's purpose is to help people connect with their spirits. She does this by integrating core shamanism, plant spirit healing, dream symbol interpretation, and Chinese esoterics in a deeply healing way. Though possessing psychic gifts her whole life, Mimi stepped into this work when she had a profound shamanic experience while on bedrest for 5 months during her pregnancy with her second child. She sees her experience as a way to bridge modern living with ancestral living, to be in full relationship with the seen and unseen worlds, and to break the stale moulds of existing structures that no longer serve us. Check www.soulmamajourney.com/podcast for full show notes. Follow me on Instagram @soulmamacoach

Mimi Young is a witch, a shamanic intuitive, spirit communicator, and founder of Ceremonie, an esoteric brand focusing on education, Shamanic Readings, and plant medicines for skin and aura. Mimi's purpose is to help people connect with their spirits. She does this by integrating core shamanism, plant spirit healing, dream symbol interpretation, and Chinese esoterics in a deeply healing way. Though possessing psychic gifts her whole life, Mimi stepped into this work when she had a profound shamanic experience while on bedrest for 5 months during her pregnancy with her second child. She sees her experience as a way to bridge modern living with ancestral living, to be in full relationship with the seen and unseen worlds, and to break the stale moulds of existing structures that no longer serve us. Check www.soulmamajourney.com/podcast for full show notes. Follow me on Instagram @soulmamacoach

Donna Lancaster is a healer, facilitator and cofounder of The Bridge Retreat which has recently been featured in the documentary film Loved. In this second part of the conversation, we go deeper into the ways that wounding can happen in the parent child relationship. Donna speaks about her own experience of mothering and the motherhood journey of her now adult daughter. Check full show notes on www.soulmamajourney.com/podcast Follow me on instagram @soulmamacoach

Donna Lancastar is a healer, facilitator and cofounder of The Bridge Retreat which has recently been featured in the documentary film Loved.  Donna is passionate about the subject of grief and the grieving process which she believes offers the missing link for many in their search for wholeness. In this episode she speaks of her early life and how the ‘depression’ she was labelled with was actually unprocessed grief. Donna and I speak about how her personal journey influenced her professional journey, and the ways she includes ancient ritual and modern practices to support people to truly heal.    Visit www.soulmamapodcast.com.podcast for full show notes. Follow me on instagram @soulmamacoach

Pheonix Wild is a mother of three, writer, content creator and world traveler. Pheonix describes her life’s mission as creating new paradigms and inspiration through travel experiences and motherhood. She moved to the Hawaiian island of Kauai where she lived with her family for the past four years. In this second part of our conversation we speak about The New Earth, the Annunaki, Ancient Egypt, and what it means to live in your highest potential. Visit www.soulmamajourney.com/podcast for full show notes. Follow me on instagram @soulmamacoach

Pheonix Wild is a mother of three, writer, content creator and world traveler. Pheonix describes her life’s mission as creating new paradigms and inspiration through travel experiences and motherhood. She moved to the Hawaiian island of Kauai where she lived with her family for the past four years. In this first part of our conversation, we speak about what motivated Phoenix to head to Hawaii with 2 small babies,  no plan and 200 dollars in the bank. Visit www.soulmamajourney.com/podcast for full show notes. Follow me on instagram @soulmamacoach

Anisah Amat is a writer a poet,  world traveller and meditator.. Anisah believes a part of her purpose is to guide women to, not only recognizing the light within them, but also recognizing the power within their voice. She encourages women that it is their birth right to speak up and against anything that does not serve their higher selves. She currently works as a Meditation guide for the Expectful platform; composing meditations to support women through fertility, pregnancy and motherhood. She resides in Denver with her husband and their baby girl. In this conversation we speak about what can happen when birth doesnt go to plan. Visit www.soulmamajourney.com/podcast for full show notes. Follow me on instagram @soulmamacoach

Anisah Amat is a writer a poet,  world traveller and meditator.. Anisah believes a part of her purpose is to guide women to, not only recognizing the light within them, but also recognizing the power within their voice. She encourages women that it is their birth right to speak up and against anything that does not serve their higher selves. She currently works as a Meditation guide for the Expectful platform; composing meditations to support women through fertility, pregnancy and motherhood. She resides in Denver with her husband and their baby girl. In this conversation we speak about the fear that can arise when you first find out your pregnant, and we talk about  how important it is to cultivate nourishing conscious partnerships and what it looks like too say yest to what your body needs during pregnancy. Visit www.soulmamajourney.com/podcast for full show notes. Follow me on instagram @soulmamacoach

The second part of my conversation with Layla B Rashid, an entrepreneur, mother, soulful changemaker and business mentor, traditional Mororccan postpartum trainer, writer and philanthropist. She describes her mission as being to revive, reclaim and restore sacred and ancient Traditional Moroccan Postpartum Medicine, to document the wisdom and keep it alive. We talk about what it means to truly mother the mother.  Full show notes on www.soulmamajourney.com/podcast Follow me on Instagram @soulmamacoach

Layla B Rashid is an entrepreneur, mother, soulful changemaker and business mentor, traditional Mororccan postpartum trainer, writer and philanthropist. She describes her mission as being to revive, reclaim and restore sacred and ancient Traditional Moroccan Postpartum Medicine, to document the wisdom and keep it alive. We talk about what it means to truly mother the mother.  Full show notes on www.soulmamajourney.com/podcast Follow me on Instagram @soulmamacoach

Kamila Mcdonald is a certified personal trainer, fitness instructor, author of the mind body and spirit lifestyle guide Wake up and Live and founder of the Well Fit club, a movement and membership offering online classes that support women on their health and fitness journey. Born and raised in Jamaica, she began her public profile through sharing her transformational journey from being overweight to winning Miss Beach Body Jamaica and continues to guide others on the path to living 'well fit' all whilst being a mother, public figure and entrepeneur. In this conversation we learn how Kamilah balances everything and what keeps her going. through it all. Visit www.soulmamajourney.com/podcast for fullshownotes Follow me on Instagram @soulmamacoach

Kamila Mcdonald is a certified personal trainer, fitness instructor, author of the mind body and spirit lifestyle guide Wake up and Live and founder of the Well Fit club, a movement and membership offering online classes that support women on their health and fitness journey. Born and raised in Jamaica, she began her public profile through sharing her transformational journey from being overweight to winning Miss Beach Body Jamaica and continues to guide others on the path to living 'well fit' all whilst being a mother, public figure and entrepeneur. In this conversation we learn the story behind Kamilah’s inspiring transformation. Visit www.soulmamajourney.com/podcast for fullshownotes Follow me on Instagram @soulmamacoach  

This is the second part of my conversation with Rachelle Garcia Seliga is a Mother, Wife, and Certified Professional Midwife, with 18 years of experience working within the realms of holistic women’s health care. She is the Creator and Director of INNATE Traditions Postpartum Care Trainings; which offer a framework of postpartum wellness to birth and health care providers worldwide. Rachelle is Co-Founder of Starseed Root School of Traditional Healing, a revillaging project and educational center in the mountains of Northern New Mexico. All of Rachelle’s work is dedicated to midwifing a cultural shift – honoring our innate wisdom, personal authority, and the sanctity of Life. Read full show notes at www.soulmamajourney.com/podcast Follow me on Instagram @soulmamacoach

Rachelle Garcia Seliga is a Mother, Wife, and Certified Professional Midwife, with 18 years of experience working within the realms of holistic women’s health care. She is the Creator and Director of INNATE Traditions Postpartum Care Trainings; which offer a framework of postpartum wellness to birth and health care providers worldwide. All of Rachelle’s work is dedicated to midwifing a cultural shift – honoring our innate wisdom, personal authority, and the sanctity of Life. In the first part of our conversation, we speak about why balance is unrealistic, why postpartum pathology is a valid response to lack of community and ways we can begin to really mother the mother. Follow me on Instagram @soulmamacoach Full show notes on my website www.soulmamajourney.com/podcast

In the second part of the conversation Yoli Maya Yeh speaks about the healing power of Yoga Nidra, how motherhood and a healing crisis led her to become her own patient and what this new paradigm means and is calling from us. Yoli Maya Yeh is a Yoga & Shiatsu Therapist and Educator in Comparative Religions and Global Studies. Yoli works at the intersection of Indigenous Preservation, Healing Arts and Social Justice. Raised in her family's Native American spiritual teachings, Yoli spent twelve years of her young adulthood studying language, yoga, tantra, healing arts and meditation in India. She blends her understandings of Indigenous wisdom teachings, mind-body science, yogic discipline, and play into programs for all. Full show notes with further resources on my website -www.soulmamajourney.com/podcast Follow me on instagram @soulmamacoach  #Wellness #Lockdown #Parenting #Consciousparenthood #Peopleofcolour #Yoga #Motherhood #Autoimmunedisease #Yoganidra #Sacred dreaming #Blackyogini #Newearth #Paradigmshift #Innerguru #parentinginapandemic

Yoli Maya Yeh is a Yoga & Shiatsu Therapist and Educator in Comparative Religions and Global Studies. In this first part of the conversation we go in on Yoli’s journey – her studies of the traditional paths, and her later rejection of those.  Also, how motherhood and a healing crisis led her to become her own patient and forced her to make some drastic choices. Yoli works at the intersection of Indigenous Preservation, Healing Arts and Social Justice. Raised in her family's Native American spiritual teachings, Yoli spent twelve years of her young adulthood studying language, yoga, tantra, healing arts and meditation in India. She blends her understandings of Indigenous wisdom teachings, mind-body science, yogic discipline, and play into programs for all.  

Join me for this first solo episode and last of the season to look back over the highlights of Season 1, some of my story and motivations and a forward look to my intentions for Season 2. I end with a guided visualisation opening to the warmth and support of sisterhood. I pray this episode nourishes your soul. Enjoy! Much Love Nehanda xx

Olivyah Bowens  is a mother of two, a doula, birth photographer and an advocate for women's maternal health and wellbeing. Through her popular Instagram feed @herholisticpath she guides women to prepare for the best births they can. Here she speaks honestly about her own pregnancies and births, and the shortcomings of the medical system. She honestly shares about the challenges of modern motherhood without the support of a village and the ways she supports herself to keep learning and growing through it.  I really loved this conversation, Olivyah is so honest about her journey and the issues she has with the spiritual and wellness industries. She is passionate and there is so much wisdom, as well as practical tips in here. Check www.soulmamajourney for full shownotes Follow me on Instagram @soulmamacoach

Dr. Rocío Rosales Meza is an intuitive, energy worker, healer, and coach. She has a Ph.D. in Counseling Psychology and is a Reiki Master. She has helped hundreds of women of colour on their spiritual journey of decolonization. Her values lie in anti-oppressive, decolonial, liberation work and in collective healing. Dr Rosales Meza has such a gentle delivery but her words are strong and powerful. She speaks about how motherhood began her healing and liberation and talks about the ways we can truly begin to consciously decolonize our own minds and lives. There are so many gems in this one, I know you will gain a lot from listening. Follow me on Instagram @soulmamacoach Visit www.soulmamajourney.com/podcast for full show notes.

Kelley Palmer, also known on Instagram as the @peacefilledmama is a coach, writer, wellness advocate and community organizer committed to using the tools and philosophies of yoga to cultivate liberation, joy and peace for herself and others. Being a mother of two liberated souls has created a point of focus that brings these tools to the way she mothers and also calling her to share this with all parents. We talk about her commitment to breaking old generational patterns, her liberatory approach to life, discipline and parenting, and how she manages the opinions and expectations of others along the journey. I found Kelley’s approach so refreshing and yet reassuring, I’m sure you will too. Follow me on instagram @soulmamacoach Visit www.soulmamajourney.com/podcast for full show notes.

Caroline Shola Arewa is a Wellness coach and Author of 5 books including the seminal text Opening to Spirit now in its 20 year edition.   In this conversation I invite Shola to unpack the chakra system to learn how they really affect us and we talk about the effects birth can have on the root chakra and ways we can energetically come into balance after new motherhood. I hope you enjoy. Follow me on instagram @soulmamacoach Visit www.soulmamajourney.com/podcast for full show notes.

Akilah Richards is an unschooling mother of two, Tedx speaker and host of the widely celebrated podcast, Fare of the Free Child which explores the intersections of parenting, personal leadership, and tools for liberation-centered community. She is the author of the forthcoming book, ‘Raising Free People: Unschooling as Liberation and Healing Work’ due to be published later this year. This conversation was recorded before Corona and the onset of global homeschooling was even a thing! It is so poignant how much more ready for this conversation so many of us are now. If you have or one day will have a school-aged child, are thinking about choices in terms of education, and especially if your child is black or brown, you need to listen to this conversation now! Follow me on instagram @soulmamacoach Visit www.soulmamajourney.com/podcast for full show notes.

Malaika Maitland is a yoga therapist and Mama Glow Doula. She is also the co-founder of Spice Harmony Yoga studio in Grenada, in the Caribbean, where she lives and works. We discuss her experience supporting other women through pregnancy and birth, whilst also being pregnant herself. She shares about her home birth, the landscape of medicalised birth in the Caribbean and ways we can break intergenerational patterns and cycles through conscious relationships. She explores what it means to consciously and mindfully love ourselves through new motherhood and the effects of new parenthood on a relationship.   I hope you feel the sunshine, warmth and wisdom in this conversation. Follow me on instagram @soulmamacoach Visit www.soulmamajourney.com/podcast for full show notes.

Mimi Kuo Deemer is an author, yoga and Qigong instructor. She is the co-founder of Beijing’s first and leading Yoga Studio and teaches regular Yoga and Qigong classes in London. In this conversation, we speak about what we can learn from nature, how self-cultivation builds on the concept of self-care. Mimi speaks about her personal journey of pregnancy loss, and the impact this can have on the body and a relationship. She shares what helped her heal through the shame and self-blame of multiple miscarriages to move into a place of self-compassion and wholeness. Mimi has such an aura of calm and she speaks with such grace and clarity, I really hope you gain as much wisdom from this episode as I did. Follow me on instagram @soulmamacoach Visit www.soulmamajourney.com/podcast for full show notes.

Dr. Kimani Borland is a Naturopathic Doctor, qualified Vinyasa, and Kemetic Yoga teacher, and mother to two sons. She was born and raised in a Rasta family in Jamaica, graduated from Stanford University, and currently runs a practice in Jamaica, where she specializes in an Integrative approach to wellbeing, using herbs, nutrition, lifestyle & perspective shifts.  I loved speaking and learning more from Dr. Kimani in this conversation. We have a lot in common and although it was our first time connecting, I felt like I'd found a long lost friend. She’s humble and honest and speaks candidly about the initiation of becoming a mum for the first time at 21 and her experiences of having two very different cesarean births. She reflects on the philosophies and foundations that set her in good stead along her path and the struggles as well as triumphs along the way. We talk about the reality for many women living in Jamaica and the Caribbean and what personally motivates her to keep going. I know her insights and assuring wisdom in this conversation will uplift you.  Let me know what you think on instagram @soulmamacoach and visit www.soulmamajourney.com/podcast for full show notes.  

Dani McClain is a writer and award-winning journalist who reports on race and reproductive health. Her work has been recognized by the National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association, the National Association of Black Journalists, and Planned Parenthood Federation of America. She is mother to one daughter and author of the book We Live for the We: The Political Power of Black Motherhood, which was published in 2019. In this conversation, we go deeper into Dani's personal motivations for the book. We talk about the state of affairs in the US. We talk about 'motherwork' and what it means to belong to a black family today.  Dani reflects on her own upbringing and her personal experience of mothering her young daughter in a co-parenting relationship. Let me know what you think on instagram and see my website for full show notes.  

Mars Lord is an award-winning doula and birth activist with a burning desire to see the ‘colouring in of the landscape of birth.’ She is also committed to finding out the reasons for the increasing maternal and neonatal morbidity rates for women of colour. Mars created Abuela Doulas, a doula preparation for women of colour. Her desire for reproductive justice led to the creation of the Reproductive Justice Retreat and she is a constant force in the community propelling the conversation for women of colour and birth forward.  We talk about the role of a doula, about the importance of ancestral wisdom, and explore some ways we can move out of victimhood and regain our power as women and as mothers. Let me know your thoughts on instagram. Full show notes available on www.soulmamajourney.com/podcast

Jessica Huie MBE is an entrepreneur and the author of bestseller 'PURPOSE, find your truth and embrace your calling’ published by Hay House. Having worked for years as a publicist to the stars, to creating the UK’s first range of multicultural greeting cards, Jessica’s life has been an ongoing  journey of self-discovery and becoming. We speak about her abrupt awakening of motherhood at the tender age of 17 whilst still growing and mothering herself, to becoming a carer for her late father and the presence and awakening that came as a result. Jessica carries such grace and gentle wisdom and I love the way she sees motherhood as an interweaving of lessons and inseparable from the fabric of life. Let me know what you think on Instagram. Full show notes available at www.soulmamajourney.com/podcast

The Soul Mama podcast features healing conversations for women on the sacred journey of motherhood who want to live conscious, natural and spiritual lives.  I’m Nehanda Truscott Reid, aka @SoulMamaCoach, a mother of two, and Holistic Wellness Practitioner. In this podcast I speak with inspiring leaders, healers, authors and more whose messages serve to awaken, inspire and elevate us. Welcome to the Soul Mama Podcast.