The Root & Womb Collective Podcast – Details, episodes & analysis

Inside this solo episode, Haley dives into 3 of your major birth - Oxytocin, Endorphins & Adrenaline.

She gives insight into how each one supports the female body in navigating labor, as well as how you can positively influence these hormones to support your own birth!

ABOUT HALEY

Haley Nichole is the creator of Root & Womb Collective, a space where she holistically supports women through their fertility, pregnancy & birth journey's.

She has been an avid student of women's health for well over a decade and has a background in nutrition, hormonal health, female physiology & is currently studying holistic midwifery.

She lives on a farm & orchard in the San Diego mountains with her husband, daughter, dogs, cat, sheep, pigs & chickens. 

WORK WITH HALEY

⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠The Awakening Fertility Mentorship⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠The Rooted Birth Mentorship ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

⁠Join the Rooted Birth Waitlist⁠ - a 6 week natural birth education course

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Interested in connecting or have a question? Email Haley at Rootandwombcollective@gmail.com

Inside this interview, Haley chats with Alisha Meyer, who was the birthkeeper for the home birth of her daughter.

Alisha is a traditional birth attendant who has been sitting at the feet of women in birth since the young age of 14. She shares her unique story of getting into birth work & the role of a birth sister, versus someone whom may be licensed.

In this episode, Alisha shares in depth about the importance of birth education, how to honor undisturbed birth & what non-medical midwifery looks like. Haley also shares some personal insights around how she navigated the glucose tolerance test & the importance of working alongside a care provider who respected her autonomy & leadership throughout pregnancy & birth.

This is a wonderful, soulful chat between 2 women who trust birth full heartedly. Enjoy!

About Alisha:

Alisha is a Traditional Birth Attendant passionately pursuing the traditions of our ancestors for the birthing years. She is also actively guiding women in taking back their power to be the wise woman of her family and in her community through her mentorship and birth support.

Alisha's Website

Alisha's Instagram

Alisha's Podcast

ROOT & WOMB COLLECTIVE

Serving Women holistically through the Reproductive Continuum

Fertility, Pregnancy, Birth & Motherhood

WORK WITH HALEY

⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠The Awakening Fertility Mentorship⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠The Rooted Birth Mentorship ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

Join the Rooted Birth Waitlist - a 6 week natural birth education course

LINKS

Follow along on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

Explore the ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Website⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

Join the ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Feminine Vitality Newsletter⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

Interested in connecting or have a question? Email Haley at Rootandwombcollective@gmail.com

In this episode, Haley shares her postpartum experience. She dives into

• The raw first week of postpartum
• Physical Healing after a second degree tear
• The hormone drop

• Breastfeeding - the good + bad
• Receiving support
• Bedsharing & sleep
• Trusting her intuition over schedules

+ so much more

ROOT & WOMB COLLECTIVE

Serving Women through the Womb Continuum

Fertility | Pregnancy | Birth | Motherhood

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Inside this episode, Haley shares the empowering homebirth story of her daughter, Brooks Naomi.

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Serving Women through the Womb Continuum

Fertility | Pregnancy | Birth | Motherhood

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Inside this episode, Haley speaks to her experience in the third trimester. She covers:

• Dreaming & envisioning the specifics around her birth

• Processing fears 

• Childbirth education 

• Cultivating confidence

• Birth as a spiritual initiation into womanhood 

• Grief around this past chapter closing 

• Newborn interventions 

• Learning more about vaccines 

• Planning for postpartum 

• Vaginal Health

• What type of body work she is doing

+so much more

Ironically, she went into labor just hours after recording this episode!

Resources mentioned in the episode:

Built to Birth Course

Vaccine Empowerment Program {this is a free class that links to the full program}

SBO Probiotics

ROOT & WOMB COLLECTIVE

Serving Women through the Womb Continuum

Fertility | Pregnancy | Birth | Motherhood

Connect on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

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Inside this episode, Haley shares more about her second trimester of pregnancy!

She dives into:

- Traveling while pregnant

- Different health conditions that are arose

- Pregnancy as a state of vitality

- Mindset shifts

- What she is focusing on - physically + logistically

- What has supported her in having an easeful pregnancy

- How she is preparing for birth

+ so much more!

ROOT & WOMB COLLECTIVE

Serving Women through the Womb Continuum

Womb Health | PreConception | Fertility | Feminine Living

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In this solo episode, Haley shares about her experience navigating the first trimester of her pregnancy.

She chats about:

- Why the preconception season was so important for the first trimester 

- Haley’s first trimester symptoms 

- What helped with the nausea 

- Importance of blood sugar for managing nausea 

- Food aversions & cravings 

- What has helped & hindered nausea 

- Navigating fatigue 

- First trimester body changes 

- What she focused on logistically in the first trimester 

- Being versus Doing

- What she is looking forward to in the second trimester 

ROOT & WOMB COLLECTIVE

Serving Women through the Womb Continuum

Womb Health | PreConception | Fertility | Feminine Living

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⁠⁠⁠Work with Haley 1:1⁠

Inside this Episode, Haley chats with Dr. Rebecca Lasky Cohen, MD - a holistic women’s healthcare physician specializing in pelvic wellbeing throughout all stages of women’s lives. She has extensive training in midwifery, family medicine, obstetrics, energetic and physical modalities and traditional healing practices from throughout the world. 

Haley & Dr. Cohen chat about:

• The disassociation & cognitive dissonance that occurred throughout Dr. Cohen’s medical training 
• Some of the common obstetric practices Dr. Rebecca would see 
• Birth control as the common bandaid in the obstetric world
• What it looks like to outsource your authority 
• Understanding all the different types of birth 
• What is physiological birth & how that differs from birth in the hospital 
• How authentic midwifery was eradicated by the medical system
• The hormone Oxytocin’s role in birth
• The cascade of medical interventions 
• How physiological birth is undisturbed birth 
• Questions to ask your midwife if you want a physiological birth
• Matrescence & the importance of a nourishing postpartum 
• How postpartum translates to our menopausal years 
• Asking for help in the postpartum period 

+ so much more

CONNECT WITH DR. COHEN:

Website: www.fullcirclelouisville.com

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/fullcircleholistic/

ROOT & WOMB COLLECTIVE

Serving Women through the Womb Continuum

Womb Health | PreConception | Fertility | Feminine Living

Connect on ⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠

Explore the ⁠⁠Website⁠⁠

Join the ⁠⁠Feminine Vitality Newsletter⁠⁠

⁠⁠Work with Haley 1:1⁠

Join us on the Rebirth Retreat in Pavones, Costa Rica March 18th - 24th. Download the Retreat Lookbook & Schedule a call with Haley here!

Inside this episode, Haley chats with Cara Lennan all about the mindset + energetics behind Fertility.

The two of them dive into:

• Cara’s fertility journey after being given a 1% chance of conceiving naturally 
• The role of fear in our fertility journey & how that impacts our emotional health + nervous system
• Integrating a feminine approach to your fertility 
• Body based practices to promote fertility
• Fertility as your birthright 
• The energetics of fertility 
• Tapping into your intuition as an initiation into Motherhood
• Using the body as a guide to see what is in alignment on our fertility journey
• Stress mode versus conception mode
• The importance of safety for conception 
• How hyper masculine approaches to Fertility aren’t beneficial 
• Untangling from the identification of your diagnosis 
• The power of your belief system 
• How thoughts influence our physiology 
• Creativity’s crucial role in our fertility journey 
• Tangible Ways of connecting to your feminine

+ so much more

CONNECT WITH CARA

Website: www.caralennan.com

Instagram: Beingfertile_withcara

ROOT & WOMB COLLECTIVE

Serving Women through the Womb Continuum

Womb Health | Conscious PreConception + Fertility | Embodied, Feminine Living

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⁠Work with Haley 1:1⁠

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Inside this solo episode Haley breaks down one of the most common patterns she sees inside her practice - body image challenges & how they impact menstrual health, specifically irregular cycles.

Haley chats about:

- The many societal pressures of being a woman 

- The emotional toll of body image challenges 

- Defining an irregular cycle

- Emotions & how they influence our physiology 

- Chronic stress & its influence on the menstrual cycle

- Stress hormones versus sex hormones 

- Ovulation & safety 

- Food Restriction influence on the menstrual cycle 

- Keto diets influence on the ovarian cycle 

- Subconscious Restriction & the feminine 

- Extreme exercise as a coping mechanism 

- Working out with your cycle 

- Low impact exercise for the Female Body

- Ways to cultivate a healthy body image

- Acceptance versus Love

- Getting to the root wound of your body image challenges 

- Integrating stress management practices 

- Understanding your Inner Mean Girl 

+ so much more

ROOT & WOMB COLLECTIVE

Guiding Women Home to their Body, Womb & Cycle

Holistic Womb Health | Conscious PreConception + Fertility | Embodied, Feminine Living

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⁠Work with Haley 1:1

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