Episode 94 : Welcome To Medicine Mother

She’s here to bring voice to the stories of women, mothers mostly, so we as a collective can heal and parent with intention, community and curiosity.

There is medicine in story and Medicine Mother is the megaphone.

I’ve naturally lived most of my life outside the bounds of what ‘normal’ looks like. I’m built this way and naturally skew towards a road less travelled, and what I’ve learned is with those paths less travelled comes doubt, growth, scarcity, exclusion and that it is built on the foundation of healing my own wounds.

It can feel deeply lonely.
It would be naive to believe that I am actually alone in this though.

In bringing the podcast back to life, I felt that I wanted to shine a light on the paths less walked. Or maybe it’s actually the paths less shared.

I’ve never been able to only project a perfect picture of life.
It’s stupid and boring.

Give me raw.
Let me get dirt under my nails.
Show me the grit.
I want to feel what’s real.
And I want to feel it now, in the belly of my life, not only at the end.

I want to know what matters about life, now.
Not on my death bed.

I know I’m not alone.

Let me talk to the women healing linages as they raise their little people. The ones that don’t have research reports to show their significance, fan clubs and seven figure months. I want to highlight the stories you don’t get to hear.

The women in the trenches of life.
Reparenting themselves while they burn the dinner.
The makers of art.
The ones who moved mountains to build lives that matter, but that only they truly see.

I want to give space for women to tell their stories of living life.

Why they do what they do.
How they burnt it all down and built anew.
What they regret.
What leads them.
Their complexities and contradictions.

Because when we hear story, it gives us permission.
It heals us.
It encourages us to connect to our own wisdom and lead our lives down the paths our soul wants us to go.
When we don’t feel alone we feel braver, more bold.
We make the choices we want to make.
We sit together in the fear and hold each other through it.

And we move god-damn mountains to build lives that we’ll toast to on our death bed.

LFG!

Welcome to Medicine Mother.

Find more on this episode and connect with Kate here.