The #1 Cause of Birth Trauma
How Long is Postpartum?
“Postpartum,” is a time after birth.
It is not a syndrome.
We can say that the postpartum period lasts for:
6 weeks, 9months, 3 years, 7 years, all of life.
And all of...
Creating Versus Sustaining: What Happens When Uninitiated Adults Parent Teens
When we CONCEIVE of a project, it is fun. All our creative juice goes into the VISIONING of this project; it lives in the ethereal realm - not yet actualized.
Then we bring that...
Bleeding each month as women - helps to prepare us for our postpartum time/s
FEMALE RAGE
Closing of the Bones – A Cross-Cultural, Postpartum Practice
At this time on the planet, especially within the birth community, especially within the birth community in the United States, there is profound polarization on many topics and...
FOUR PILLARS ESSENTIAL TO FORGING NEW, HEALED WAYS FORWARD
Our revillaging project Starseed Root is centered around four major pillars of content, emphasizing the life-skills we believe are essential to forge new, healed ways...
TRADITIONAL MIDWIVES AS CARETAKERS OF HEALTH FROM WOMB TO TOMB
Interventions and Birth: Understanding Our Physiologic Design
When I was 20 years old, I was in the northern part of Thailand, living and learning from the people there. The people I was staying with in Northern Thailand shared with me...
Ancestral Grief, the Postpartum Period, and Humanity’s Collective Healing
Ancestral grief comes in acknowledgment of the trauma that preceded us - the grief in acknowledging the genocides experienced by our respective lineages.
Grief manifests in many...
Author
Rachelle Garcia Seliga
Author
Rachelle is a Mother and traditional midwife - whose work for the past 20+ years has been / is dedicated to midwifing a cultural shift, in honor of our innate wisdom, personal authority and the sanctity of Life. She is the creator of INNATE Postpartum Care Trainings, offering a framework of postpartum and maternal WELLNESS care for health care practitioners worldwide. Rachelle lives and works from the understanding that the most effective and powerful usage of our collective energy comes from creating structures and systems that support Life and our connection to it.
