The Wild Haul with Elise

Elise Bowerman

A slow-burn, no-tiptoe podcast where womanhood is held with depth and heat. Hosted by Elise Bowerman - raised to reach for homeopathy and natural medicine first, dancer, trained across multiple energy modalities, birth and postpartum doula, and the founder of Michigan’s first Registered Prenatal Yoga School - this is where lived experience meets unapologetic truth. Elise is a mother to two teenagers and married to an entrepreneurial artist. Each episode is guided by what’s real, what’s rising, and what can’t be ignored. Expect embodied wisdom and raw conversations that invite reflection into what your heart already knows: there is more available than what you’ve been told. Rooted in the earth - and devoted to the finer things, too - "The Wild Haul with Elise" is for the woman who is done performing, ready to embrace her natural gifts, and willing to live differently.

  1. 5D AGO

    13: Mothering is masculine

    There’s a popular narrative that motherhood naturally brings women deeper into their feminine: softness, intuition, flow, devotion. And while motherhood can absolutely deepen those qualities, it also asks women to hold an extraordinary amount of masculine energy. In this episode, I name what so many mothers feel but struggle to articulate: that mothering often requires structure, containment, leadership, anticipation, protection, decision-making, and emotional steadiness. In other words, it requires a tremendous amount of masculine capacity. EXPLORE what masculine and feminine energy look like in real lifewhy motherhood is not only nurturing, but leadershipthe invisible mental and emotional load mothers often carryhow disconnection from the body often begins before motherhoodhow marriage can suffer when one person holds the tone and weight of the home alonewhy softness is not something a woman performs, but something that emerges when she feels safe enough to put some of the weight downMotherhood is sacred work.  But sacred does not mean weightless. RESOURCE 🖨️ Download + print your FREE sacred masculine & feminine guide here ☯️ COMPANION READING FROM THE BLOG Gifts of motherhood every husband deserves to understand Motherhood requires more masculine energy than you realize There is no finish line Support the show CONNECT WITH ELISE 🌐 website: BirthHumanity.com   📲 Instagram: @BirthHumanity   💬 You're invited to ask Elise what you'd like clarification on or learn more about. She'll do her best to address it in an upcoming episode. If one thing rings true, follow that sound. Return the rest to the wind. 💗 Please follow, leave a review, and share this episode with someone you feel will resonate with it.  This podcast is not medical advice. It’s education, story, discernment, and conversation. You are the authority of your life, your body, and your children.

    36 min
  2. MAR 11

    12: Inner winter is training season

    This is Part II of episodes 9 (for HER) and 10 (for HIM), Inner Rhythms | Moon Cycle Mapping. So you may want to listen to one of those first. Here, I will uncover the sacred season of inner winter — menstruation — and how it prepares women for the Wise Woman years. EXPLORE The natural initiations of a woman’s life — menarche, maiden, motherhood, menopauseWhat happens hormonally (in simple, clear language) during each phaseWhy postpartum rest is physiological — not indulgentThe evolutionary power of the grandmother yearsWhy culture’s obsession with youth harms women and our humanityHow monthly menstruation prepares us for agingSmall, embodied ways to begin honoring your inner winter todayThis is a conversation about reclaiming aging as privilege. About training your nervous system for longevity. About modeling reverence — not resistance — to your daughters (and sons!). You are not declining. You are ripening. RESOURCES Banyan Botanicals COMPANION READING FROM THE BLOG Why rest is radical Support the show CONNECT WITH ELISE 🌐 website: BirthHumanity.com   📲 Instagram: @BirthHumanity   💬 You're invited to ask Elise what you'd like clarification on or learn more about. She'll do her best to address it in an upcoming episode. If one thing rings true, follow that sound. Return the rest to the wind. 💗 Please follow, leave a review, and share this episode with someone you feel will resonate with it.  This podcast is not medical advice. It’s education, story, discernment, and conversation. You are the authority of your life, your body, and your children.

    21 min
  3. FEB 25

    10: For HIM - understand her rhythm | moon cycle mapping

    This episode is for HIM. 🙋‍♂️ For the man who loves a woman and wants to understand her instead of taking her moods personally. 🙋‍♂️ For the father raising a daughter and wanting to guide her without shaming her body. 🙋‍♂️ For the partner who senses there is intelligence in her rhythm — but was never taught the language. This is not about walking on eggshells.  This is about biological literacy. EXPLORE: Circadian vs. infradian rhythmsHer Four Inner Seasons (Winter, Spring, Summer, Fall)How to support her during menstruation, ovulation, luteal phase, and menopauseWhy PMS is endocrine feedback — not a character flawHow fathers shape their daughters’ body storiesFemale bodies shift daily.  She is not inconsistent.  She is cyclical. When you understand her rhythm, you stop reacting and start partnering. 🖨️ Download your FREE printer-friendly cycle map, so you can both speak the same biological language. 📖 My FREE blog article about fathers navigating their daughter's period. Her body was never chaotic.  It has always been rhythmic. Support the show CONNECT WITH ELISE 🌐 website: BirthHumanity.com   📲 Instagram: @BirthHumanity   💬 You're invited to ask Elise what you'd like clarification on or learn more about. She'll do her best to address it in an upcoming episode. If one thing rings true, follow that sound. Return the rest to the wind. 💗 Please follow, leave a review, and share this episode with someone you feel will resonate with it.  This podcast is not medical advice. It’s education, story, discernment, and conversation. You are the authority of your life, your body, and your children.

    16 min
  4. FEB 25

    9: For HER - reclaim your rhythm | moon cycle mapping

    This episode is for HER. ✨ For the woman who senses there is more intelligence in her body than she has been taught. ✨ For the woman who was conditioned to dread her cycle. ✨ For the woman in perimenopause or menopause who was never given language for her power. In this foundational teaching, you will walk through Cycle Mapping, a physiological and emotional framework for understanding your monthly infradian rhythm. EXPLORE: The difference between circadian and infradian rhythmsThe Hypothalamic–Pituitary–Ovarian Axis explained simplyWhere estrogen and progesterone originate — and what they actually doWhy ovulation matters for long-term mood, sleep, and vitalityWhat shifts at menopause (and why it is redistribution, not decline)Your Four Inner Seasons: Winter, Spring, Summer, FallHow to read your bleed as sacred biofeedbackWhen you understand where hormones originate and what they are communicating, self-blame dissolves and biological literacy begins. Cycle Mapping is not about control.  It is about sovereignty. Your body was never chaotic.  It has always been rhythmic. This episode is your invitation to remember. RESOURCES 🖨️ Print your FREE Cycle Map here Womben Wellness with Usha Anandi (for more about womb health) The Living Temple with Sarah Jenks (for more about seasonal living) Support the show CONNECT WITH ELISE 🌐 website: BirthHumanity.com   📲 Instagram: @BirthHumanity   💬 You're invited to ask Elise what you'd like clarification on or learn more about. She'll do her best to address it in an upcoming episode. If one thing rings true, follow that sound. Return the rest to the wind. 💗 Please follow, leave a review, and share this episode with someone you feel will resonate with it.  This podcast is not medical advice. It’s education, story, discernment, and conversation. You are the authority of your life, your body, and your children.

    27 min
  5. FEB 11

    6: Remembering Friday the 13th

    Friday the 13th has long been framed as unlucky, sinister, or something to avoid. But that story is relatively new. In this episode, explore what Friday the 13th once represented for thousands of years - a sacred feminine day rooted in lunar cycles, women’s bodies, and ancient goddess traditions. Before patriarchal religion and modern medicine reshaped cultural narratives, the number 13 marked rhythm, fertility, intuition, and renewal. This episode is not about superstition. It’s about remembrance. A reflection on how fear replaced reverence - and why the sacred feminine is rising again through curiosity, embodiment, and a return to rhythm. For an embodied remembering - listen to the next episode (7: Friday the 13th - a ritual of remembering [personal practice]) on our three Friday the 13th's in 2026: February, March, November. COMPANION READING FROM THE BLOG Embracing the cosmic feminine Support the show CONNECT WITH ELISE 🌐 website: BirthHumanity.com   📲 Instagram: @BirthHumanity   💬 You're invited to ask Elise what you'd like clarification on or learn more about. She'll do her best to address it in an upcoming episode. If one thing rings true, follow that sound. Return the rest to the wind. 💗 Please follow, leave a review, and share this episode with someone you feel will resonate with it.  This podcast is not medical advice. It’s education, story, discernment, and conversation. You are the authority of your life, your body, and your children.

    10 min
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About

A slow-burn, no-tiptoe podcast where womanhood is held with depth and heat. Hosted by Elise Bowerman - raised to reach for homeopathy and natural medicine first, dancer, trained across multiple energy modalities, birth and postpartum doula, and the founder of Michigan’s first Registered Prenatal Yoga School - this is where lived experience meets unapologetic truth. Elise is a mother to two teenagers and married to an entrepreneurial artist. Each episode is guided by what’s real, what’s rising, and what can’t be ignored. Expect embodied wisdom and raw conversations that invite reflection into what your heart already knows: there is more available than what you’ve been told. Rooted in the earth - and devoted to the finer things, too - "The Wild Haul with Elise" is for the woman who is done performing, ready to embrace her natural gifts, and willing to live differently.

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