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...
Pelvic Health in Relation To Mental Health
When applying for continuing education units, for mental health professionals within the United States, through the NASW (National Association of Social Workers), I had a brief...
Pathologizing Maternal Mental Health
Clearly, we have an epidemic in maternal mental health.
The Center for Disease Control (CDC) reports approximately 20% of women in the United States experience postpartum...
Preventing Perinatal Mood Disorders: supporting Women's Physiologic Design In The Childbearing Continuum
The epidemic levels of perinatal mood disorders being experienced in modern times are most often a SYMPTOM of the underlying problem. The underlying problem being:...
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Rachelle Garcia Seliga
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Rachelle Garcia Seliga is the creator and director of INNATE Postpartum Care - a postpartum wellness training for birth and healthcare professionals, which has trained hundreds of practitioners and supports thousands of Mothers and families worldwide. Rachelle is a Certified Professional Midwife, through the North American Registry of Midwives. She has spent the past 18 years working with women and families, in service to woman-centered/ family-centered birth, health and Life.
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