The Mama Psychedelia Podcast Mackenzie River

In this episode of The Mama Psychedelia Podcast, I talk with Kate Coletti. Together we journey  deep into the world of Birth & holistic pelvic care. Kate shares about her personal journey as a young body worker turned midwife then Mother, and her devotion to working with women in birth as well as in her hands on hands in body therapy practice. Kate helps women restore pelvic health through intravaginal manual therapy that softens and strengthens tissues, relieves symptoms, and clairvoyantly taps into the well of wisdom that resides in the root. We discuss the power this tender work holds for women holds pre pregnancy, postpartum, and in all stages of womanhood, in the way of healing trauma & greater supporting our physiology and alignment, which can often be life altaring, in how we exist in our bodies, how we birth, and in our sexual expression. Kate speaks to her book Enlightened Birth which is not yet released, and shares so much profound wisdom and beauty on Birth and how transformative birthing is no matter what way one chooses to birth.


Resources: Where to find Kate:

IG: https://www.instagram.com/wildwomanwellness/
https://www.instagram.com/enlightenedbirth/
Website: https://www.katecoletti.com/

 Your Host Mackenzie:
 IG: @mamapsychedelia 
@hunnywombdoula
 Intro Music "Waters of the Earth" by Satori covered by me, Mackenzie. (For more of her music, check out her Spotify)
 Remembering the Wild Woman Retreat -April 20th-25th, 2024 in Baja California Sur, Mexico: here is our payment portal here.

if you'd like to join us,  contact me for more info @hunnywomb on Instagram.
 Support the Mama Psychedelia Mission!
PAYPAL: Birthkeeperkenz@gmail.com
Directly Supporting my Costa Rica Home Birth Fund for Costa Rican & Low Income Families 
 Website: www.hunnywomb.com ((Under Construction))

In this episode of The Mama Psychedelia Podcast, I interview Micah Stover. Micah is a psychedelic somatic therapist working with clients healing from complex trauma. Her work revolves around supporting women and mothers in their path to reclaim agency and embodiment from systemic patriarchal oppression. Micah has a book called Healing Psychedelics which will be published in October 2024 focused on her experience as a survivor of trauma and a therapist in the psychedelic space. She is a featured guest speaker and writer on podcasts like Ten Laws with East Forest and Back from the Abyss, as well as a contributing author for DoubleBlind and Women on Psychedelics. She hosts monthly retreats in Mexico, and travels across the United States to present and facilitate. Micah has a BA in philosophy with an emphasis on Buddhist studies and an MA in psychoanalysis and feminist theory. Micah is a mama to two beautiful boys and loves spending time with them in the ocean in her free time.

Together we explore what lead her to leading a life in Mexico with her husband and sons, what brought her to psychedelic therapy, some of her own intiations in the psychedelic space as well as her entrance into Motherhood, and some golden nuggets she has gathered as a mother and a therapist, she speaks to the specific medicines she works with in the trauma healing space and their impact.

Resources: Where to find Micah:

IG: @micahsugarfoot

Here's her: Linktree

Your Host Mackenzie:

Your Host Mackenzie:

IG: @mamapsychedelia
@hunnywombdoula

Intro Music "Waters of the Earth" by Satori covered by me, Mackenzie. (For more of her music, check out her Spotify)

Remembering the Wild Woman Retreat -April 20th-25th, 2024 in Baja California Sur, Mexico: here is our Payment Portal

Email me at Birthkeeperkenz@gmail.com or send me a message for all the retreat details, we have an early bird rate running til February 1st, 2024 payment plans available until April 5th, 200 USD deposit is required to claim an Early Bird spot before 02/01

Support the Mama Psychedelia Mission: PAYPAL: Birthkeeperkenz@gmail.com
 
Directly Supporting my Costa Rica Home Birth Fund for Costa Rican & Low Income Families 
 
Website: www.hunnywomb.com -Under Construction-

In this episode of The Mama Psychedelia Podcast, I interview Veladya Chapman of Veladya Organica (previously known over the years as Earth Mama Medicine). Veladya is a mother and herbalist, living and homesteading in rural Georgia. Along with herbalism, Veladya studies and teaches breathwork, entheogens, womb wisdom and holistic nutrition. Her heart is expanded by guiding others towards elevated ways of being. She’s also a YouTube sensation (check her out). In our conversation together we explore Veladya’s history: from Broadway to Herbal medicine; the practice of Yoni Steaming; the mourning of maidenhood in early mothering; the transformation it is to become a mother; being an entheogenic guide; recoupling with her baby’s father; her birth experience with her first born — and so much more. Love chatting with this woman, and honoured to call her a friend and ally on the journey. She’s truly an inspiration. I’m sure you’ll agree.

Resources: Where to find Veladya:

IG: @veladyaorganica

Wesbite links: Find her Offerings

Shop: https://www.veladyaorganica.com/shop

Youtube Channel: https://youtube.com/@veladyaorganica?si=uTpojV4zuX66LUMn

Your Host Mackenzie:

IG: @mamapsychedelia
@hunnywombdoula

Intro Music "Waters of the Earth" by Satori covered by me, Mackenzie. (For more of her music, check out her Spotify) 
 
Support the Mama Psychedelia Mission: PAYPAL: Birthkeeperkenz@gmail.com
 
Directly Supporting my Costa Rica Home Birth Fund for Costa Rican & Low Income Families 
 
Website: www.hunnywomb.com -Under Construction-

 In this episode of The Mama Psychedelia Podcast, I interview Jess Shine.

Jess is mother, wife, life lover, farmer, birthkeeper, village wise woman, adventurer, and dreamer. 
Life has led her to her latest big leap: her 50 acre family homestead in Northern Idaho where she is dedicated to making their place on this earth better for the next generation. She says “I’ll die satisfied knowing that I made the world a better place, even if it’s just for my 3 littles.” 
 They’ve got a a whole farm, milk cows, chickens, sheep, alpaca, mini donkeys, llamas, peacock, guinea hens, turkeys, cats, and, of course, dogs.  
Jess found a 10 year career in the hospital as a labor and delivery nurse abruptly dissolved a few years back. She was a nurse, a good one, and then overnight wasn’t — fired for following the law of informed consent and not checking a mother’s cervix when the mom told her she couldn’t. 
 Seeing the hospital thru the view of policymakers changed the way she saw her work, and losing the career she built up over a decade  rocked her to her core.  
She went from a really hard, exhausting, inflammation and stress causing job to village wise woman. She learned how to help others heal by healing herself, and sharing her findings through herbalism and homeopathy. Add in mindfulness practices, plenty of fresh air and sunshine, remove the toxins as best as one can, and top it all off with love. 
Jess Shine shows up as a companion for the births to which she’s called as a witness and a guide.
She teaches natural healing and home health classes, and hosts free calls on zoom to help mothers find peace with their births and unwind their stories. Jess recently launched a program to help birth attendants and families understand the ins and outs of the hospital. 

She is also the director of programs at the Matrona, the school founded by Jess and I’s elder teacher Whapio, and a true blessing to this world.   
 In this episode together we explore the concept of mothering the mother: caring for mothers in our own community through pregnancy, birth, postpartum, and beyond — & equally important — nourishing the great Mother Earth.
 
 Enjoy. 

Resources: Where to find Jess:

IG: @badassbirthkeeper
        @shinewildfamilyfarm

Website: https://shinewild.farm/badass-birthkeeper

Your Host Mackenzie:
 
IG: @mamapsychedelia
@hunnywombdoula
 
Intro Music "Waters of the Earth" by Satori covered by me, Mackenzie. (For more of her music, check out her Spotify)
 
 Support the Mama Psychedelia Mission: PAYPAL: Birthkeeperkenz@gmail.com

Website: www.hunnywomb.com -Under Construction-

In this episode of The Mama Psychedelia Podcast, I interview the second papa to ever come on the show, Levi Barker, a father and steward of Iboga Wellness Center in Costa Rica who approached me with a desire to share his story. Levi came to Iboga about 14 years ago due to an opiate addiction. After coming to the medicine himself and finding solace and healing, he befriended a Bwiti medicine carrier who trained him, and 8 years later offered him the blessing to serve this medicine. Iboga holds incredibly potent powers in reminding people of their clarity and strength, and aids them in overcoming intense addictions, as well as being a form of treatment for common mental health obstacles such as depression (including postpartum depression) anxiety, and ptsd. Iboga is also now known for its supportive measures in boosting fertility & supporting those who may have been considered infertile to conceive human life. Levi shares some of the Bwiti lessons he’s walked with, simple universal truths about what it means to be a human and live here on earth. He speaks to how this medicine & his journey has impacted his parenting & how he feels this teacher can support those clearing out their subconscious closets before becoming parents or those who already are and want to go deeper.

(Wifi connection was weak in a few moments excuse the breaks)

Resources: Where to find Levi:

IG: @realibogawellnesscenter
https://www.instagram.com/realibogawellnesscenter/
Website: https://ibogawellness.com/

Your Host Mackenzie: 
IG: @mamapsychedelia
@hunnywombdoula
Intro Music "Waters of the Earth" by Satori covered by me, Mackenzie. (For more of her music, check out her Spotify)
 Support the Mama Psychedelia Mission: PAYPAL: Birthkeeperkenz@gmail.com
Website: www.hunnywomb.com -Under Construction-

In this Episode of The Mama Psychedelia Podcast, I interview Lindsey Wise.
This may just be my favourite episode to date. One of the most moving conversations of my life and truly an answered prayer to share this type of soul medicine with those seeking it. Together Lindsey and I explore the sacredness of Birth, Death, Loss, Illness, Ecstatic Joy, and Sound Frequency. Each share along the way is golden heart nectar, through the beauty and pain, the synchro-mystic unravelling of the ceremony of life is so ever-present. I am so honoured to have received this woman and her family's life story.

Following the birth of Lindsey's first child, she had a Near-Death Experience, where she found herself surrounded by multitudes of light beings who initiated her into the world of subtle energies and healing vibrations. At that moment, she realized that all beings create their own unique vibration—their soul song. Each person’s soul song makes up the great Choir of Life. And that is where one of her heart offerings 'Soul Song Revival' was born. Her work is to awaken humanity to the healing power of their unique sound. She's traveled the world and the astral realms, cultivating healing techniques to help people awaken to the power of their own voice and to the healer within. She blend ritual, breathwork, guided journeys, sound healing, yoga and community song  and she call this Ceremonial Energy Medicine.


Resources: Where to find Lindsey:
 
 IG: @shamamawise
LinkTree https://linktr.ee/Lindseywise
Website https://www.shamamawise.com/

For Inquiries for sessions & couples counselling with 
Lindsey's Husband Joshua Wise:

wise.joshua@gmail.com

 Your Host Mackenzie:
 
IG: @mamapsychedelia
@hunnywombdoula
 
Intro Music "Waters of the Earth" by Satori covered by me, Mackenzie. (For more of her music, check out her Spotify)
 
 Support the Mama Psychedelia Mission: PAYPAL: Birthkeeperkenz@gmail.com
 
Directly Supporting my Costa Rica Home Birth Fund for Costa Rican & Low Income Families 
 
Website: www.hunnywomb.com -Under Construction-