Herbal Womb Wisdom Kay'aleya Hunnybee

Click here to send me your Q’s, comments, lovenotes, or a quick message here :) Okay, wait what!? Is it actually possible to experience an empowered pelvic exam?If you've ever laid on an exam table with your feet in stirrups awaiting a cold speculum from a practitioner who's giving dozens of pelvic exams each day, you'd probably answer, 'hell no.' Almost every part of a gynecologic exam feels awkward to most of us. Pants off, feet in stirrups (are we riding a horse?), some veritable stra...

Click here to send me your Q’s, comments, lovenotes, or a quick message here :) This is a first my friends. I can't always answer Q's, especially in my DM's and emails, from listeners so I thought this would be a great way to share my answers (which always tend to be more nuanced than a quick response, let's be honest).If someone is asking these questions, my guess is that many more of you are too. So I hope you enjoy this grab bag of Q+A this week.First I share my thoughts on wheth...

Click here to send me your Q’s, comments, lovenotes, or a quick message here :) I'll be the first to admit that it irks me when people use the term "plant medicine" to refer to psychedelics, or what perhaps could be more properly termed "entheogens."First of all, half of those are isolated compounds that are created in labs (perhaps originally derived from plants, but not always) and others are derived from fungi or animal compounds. Like, they aren't even all sourced from plants. And I ...

Click here to send me your Q’s, comments, lovenotes, or a quick message here :) We all know loss, grief, heartbreak. But how many of us know how to tend it in ourselves or in those we love?Once we've made it into adulthood, many of us have experienced heartbreak -- a total shattering -- at least once, if not multiple times. And as we move onward into midlife and beyond, the heartbreaks just compound, don't they? We begin to identify, for years, sometimes decades, with parts of ours...

Click here to send me your Q’s, comments, lovenotes, or a quick message here :) Herbs and pregnancy.Let's just say this is a topic with all kinds of perspectives depending on who you talk to. Or what link you click after your google search. So, how do you know what's safe, what's not, and who to trust when it comes to herbs, like for instance red raspberry leaf, in pregnancy?Well, it's a multi-layered response really, which is why I recorded an entire episode on it. But the short an...

Click here to send me your Q’s, comments, lovenotes, or a quick message here :) What does it mean to hold trauma in the wombspace? And what are some signs that indicate that womb trauma may be present?The topic of "womb healing" is a bit of a buzz these days and sometimes I wonder what people mean by that. I see social media profiles of "womb healing practitioners" and "womb healing" programs and honestly it's a vague concept.It could be everything from someone who has absolutely no tra...