The Sacred Womb Melanie Swan

Welcome to another episode where Kim and I discuss the growing divine feminine movement and its pitfalls…

…as many women who are in this movement are struggling to turn ideas into reality, have a lack of internal authority and are using ‘the masculine’ as a dumping ground for traits that are not liked or deemed to be ‘feminine’.

In the first half, we examine why and how our masculine part is often projected outwards, and in the second, we challenge the idea of labelling certain characteristics as masculine or feminine, emphasising the need to own our shadows (that which we think we are not) to reclaim our authentic masculine energy – which naturally restores our feminine energy.

We also define and question the patriarchy, our role in its creation and sustanance, and explore what’s needed to dissolve the trauma preventing us from fully embracing and unifying both energies within.
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Melanie Swan is an internationally renowned leader in healing the physical womb, restoring the metaphysical womb, and connecting with the cosmic womb.
She’s a Womb Medicine Woman and Mulit-dimensional Womb Healer with 20 year’s experience – who guides and empowers women to come home to their true nature.
She hosts The Sacred Womb Podcast and founded The Womb Medicine Woman Training®, which she's been running for the last 7 years and is currently writing her first book The Sacred Womb, which is, at its core, a handbook for the empowerment of womankind; due for release in late 2024. Having traveled extensively she currently lives in Thailand, with her two much loved cats, Sophia and Lyra.

Ready to debunk some myths about your menstrual cycle?

I talk about 6 of the most common myths in the realm of ‘womb work’ that are limiting our experience of what the menstrual cycle truly is, and get clear on what the antidotes are.

PMS is not a foregone conclusion!
Rather, it's an access point to our subconscious, a time to listen to and align with our truth. Our pre-menstrual time can be SO powerful, and is natures way of helping us to see what’s really going on. As we start to understand and clear the what caused the underlying rage, anger, frustration - and are able to into alignment with ourselves, PMS symptoms disappear.

Chasing the ‘perfect cycle’ is a fallacy.
Our menstrual cycle is a barometer of our our spiritual, physical and emotional health. In the absence of a genuine connection with the ever changing undercurrent of our menstrual cycle, we can take on ideals that our outside of us and try to conform to them, resulting in trying to ‘fit’ our cycle with expectations, that inevitably don’t match. The way forwards is to clear the trauma that is blocking a genuine connection.

Tired of battling your inner critic?
This is a wounded part of us that we don’t have to manage, put up with or work around. It’s a part of us the NEEDS our attention, connection and love. Criticism comes from fear and this needs processing and integrating so that we can see clearly. It’s totally possible to do this!

Bleeding On The New Or Full Moon Means Something Specific
Nope! Only we know how the interaction between our unique menstrual cycle and the moon cycle is both supporting and challenging us. Again, when we don’t have a genuine connection, we can take on external beliefs and structures that keep us stuck in a certain way of  being. The antidote, as always is to do the work to get a genuine connection.
Blaming The Moon or Astrology On Our State Of Being
Not necessarily directly related to our menstrual cycle, but very popular in the work of cycle attunement and women’s work….Attributing our state of being solely to the moon phases or astrological climate blinds us to what is really going on within. The antidote again, is to look within, understand what’s going on and then look at how the moon phase or astrological climate is amplifying that.
The false premise that hormones are the only drivers of our health.
I discuss how factors like trauma, synthetic hormones, the pill and toxins affect our hormones, and that we need a wholistic approach to heal and take care of our menstrual cycle.

The antidote to all of this is to look within, attune to our unique cycle and listen to the information it’s giving us.
Support the show
Melanie Swan is an internationally renowned leader in healing the physical womb, restoring the metaphysical womb, and connecting with the cosmic womb.
She’s a Womb Medicine Woman and Mulit-dimensional Womb Healer with 20 year’s experience – who guides and empowers women to come home to their true nature.
She hosts The Sacred Womb Podcast and founded The Womb Medicine Woman Training®, which she's been running for the last 7 years and is currently writing her first book The Sacred Womb, which is, at its core, a handbook for the empowerment of womankind; due for release in late 2024. Having traveled extensively she currently lives in Thailand, with her two much loved cats, Sophia and Lyra.

Many women I come across talk of keeping themselves small. It's one of the core wounds that women in particular struggle with.

In this episode, Kim Barnard and I explore the 4 aspects that form the 'root system' that keep us living with tethers on our life force, and how to heal.

There are several expressions of keeping ourselves small, which are (but aren't limited to):
Feeling not good enough, or unworthyBelieving that somehow we don't deserve love / money / successImposter syndrome (fearful that people will find out who we really are underneath)Feeling afraid to embody our life force and what will happenScared to share an opinionAfraid to do what the work we want to in the worldThe 4 areas of the root system and how to heal it are:
Cultural influencesPast life roots:  exploring the 'trauma triangle' - victim, perpetrator and failed rescuer states of being within within our consciousness.Roots in this life that are part of our attachment template.Generational roots that amplify what's already running in our consciousness.

The main take away from this episode, is that it IS possible to heal this, for the tethers to come off our energy, and to embody our life force again.

We would love to hear how this lands with you, head on over to Instagram to share your experience.
Support the show
Melanie Swan is an internationally renowned leader in healing the physical womb, restoring the metaphysical womb, and connecting with the cosmic womb.
She’s a Womb Medicine Woman and Mulit-dimensional Womb Healer with 20 year’s experience – who guides and empowers women to come home to their true nature.
She hosts The Sacred Womb Podcast and founded The Womb Medicine Woman Training®, which she's been running for the last 7 years and is currently writing her first book The Sacred Womb, which is, at its core, a handbook for the empowerment of womankind; due for release in late 2024. Having traveled extensively she currently lives in Thailand, with her two much loved cats, Sophia and Lyra.

A short and sweet episode to share with you a Womb Medicine Poem to restore the beauty and wonder of the womb centre. 

It starts with a brief introduction, and then there's a guided practice to listen to the poem with your womb.
I invite you to attune to the feel of the words, the energy, and the response from your womb.

It’s a chance to dip your toe into the potency of your womb, to tap into the void from which all of life is born, and to resonate with the frequency of creation.
I'd love to hear your reflections and experiences— it's your time to shine!

See The Moon shine
Regardless of phase
This is your time beauty
To shine in all ways.

No more push on regardless
No more have to’s or should’s
This is your time beauty
To be as wild as wild woods.

From the depths of your soul
Go with your flow
This is your time beauty
Let go, let go, let flow.

Your womb is the void
From which you create
This is your time beauty
To connect and activate.

Be lovingly ruthless
As you intuit your way
This is your time beauty
Don’t waste another day.

So shine beauty, shine
This is your time
This is your time
This is our time.

By MELANIE SWAN


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Melanie Swan is an internationally renowned leader in healing the physical womb, restoring the metaphysical womb, and connecting with the cosmic womb.
She’s a Womb Medicine Woman and Mulit-dimensional Womb Healer with 20 year’s experience – who guides and empowers women to come home to their true nature.
She hosts The Sacred Womb Podcast and founded The Womb Medicine Woman Training®, which she's been running for the last 7 years and is currently writing her first book The Sacred Womb, which is, at its core, a handbook for the empowerment of womankind; due for release in late 2024. Having traveled extensively she currently lives in Thailand, with her two much loved cats, Sophia and Lyra.

I applaud and welcome a more inclusive, accepting, loving world. 
To love each other in our unique expression is wonderful, it’s progress, it’s needed.
However…I have noticed a very gradual eradication of the word WOMAN in women’s work. In reference to a woman’s cycle, I’ve seen the word WOMAN replaced with ‘menstruators’, ‘people with womb’s’, ‘people with periods’. 
If that’s what a person wants to call themselves – fine. 
But, nothing changes that fact that women have wombs. Women have a cycle, Women have periods. Women birth babies. Trans women don’t. Men don’t. 
This is not to diminish anyone’s abilities, or unique expression of who they are within.
I have noticed in order to be current and trending and liked, there is an attempt not to say WOMAN. 
I believe this to be the slow, gradual, eradication of the word woman from our everyday language. 
It’s subtle, it’s done in the guise of trying to be respectful.

But, let’s not include different expressions of humanity by diluting or dimishing another. 
Woman. Let’s say it again. Woman. 
A woman’s cycle – a woman’s period – women give birth – women breast feed – women go through menopause – women have womb’s. 
Women’s only circles are Sacred. Women NEED women’s only spaces to heal, to share, to be with each other – just as men, trans men and trans women do.
This isn’t exclusion, it’s an honouring of woman in her essence, so that we may come home to our true nature, and meet the world from that place.
Women – let’s not give away our true essence in an attempt to be liked, to be seen or experienced as inclusive, or for fear of being trolled/cancelled.
I know many women who think like this but are scared to actually say it in our current climate.
‘Woman’ is not up for cancellation! We can all live together, respectful of all, AND respect and celebrate each others differences. 

Join the conversation Instagram post, I’d love to hear your experience.
Support the show
Melanie Swan is an internationally renowned leader in healing the physical womb, restoring the metaphysical womb, and connecting with the cosmic womb.
She’s a Womb Medicine Woman and Mulit-dimensional Womb Healer with 20 year’s experience – who guides and empowers women to come home to their true nature.
She hosts The Sacred Womb Podcast and founded The Womb Medicine Woman Training®, which she's been running for the last 7 years and is currently writing her first book The Sacred Womb, which is, at its core, a handbook for the empowerment of womankind; due for release in late 2024. Having traveled extensively she currently lives in Thailand, with her two much loved cats, Sophia and Lyra.

Kim Barnard @sacred.womban and I get together for a great chat about Perimenopause!
I’m in perimenopause right now (at the time of recording) and share my experience and how it can be a time of accelerated growth and change to align with our deeper truth.
Saying NO with no attachments
The ability to respond rather than react
The first signs of perimenopause – the grit! an adjustment of values, and a need for our outer world to align with those.
What is ‘sacred rage’?
Dismantling the patriarchy and owning our part
Ways to prepare and work WITH for perimenopause – emotionally / spiritually
Ways to prepare for perimenopause – physically – Anthony William ‘Cleanse To Heal’ book for the liver cleanse.
Support the show
Melanie Swan is an internationally renowned leader in healing the physical womb, restoring the metaphysical womb, and connecting with the cosmic womb.
She’s a Womb Medicine Woman and Mulit-dimensional Womb Healer with 20 year’s experience – who guides and empowers women to come home to their true nature.
She hosts The Sacred Womb Podcast and founded The Womb Medicine Woman Training®, which she's been running for the last 7 years and is currently writing her first book The Sacred Womb, which is, at its core, a handbook for the empowerment of womankind; due for release in late 2024. Having traveled extensively she currently lives in Thailand, with her two much loved cats, Sophia and Lyra.