MotherTongue: Removing the patriarchy from motherhood one conversation at a time‪.‬ CORINA FITCH

Alicia Fishbein and Meredith Nelson are the founders of Intentional Birth, as well as seasoned doulas, with two decades of combined experience serving hundreds of families.  They are mothers and birth lovers who are passionately working to promote physiological, intentional, and instinctual birth from a foundation of trust. They have programs for both pregnant people and those who serve them. In this episode, Alicia and Meredith share their origin stories, their birth experiences, and their passion for reducing trauma and improving birth outcomes through education and support. As a sister culture maker, I really enjoyed our conversation. I hope you will too.




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My guest is Jean Chung, co-founder of FAM, a member-owned health and wellness cooperative that focuses on community-based experiential learning through the arts. Jean learned from a young age that honesty and authenticity are valuable in building relationships. Her parents moved to the U.S. from Korea in the late 70s, and started a community in Virginia. They successfully led that community for over 30 years, which helped shape Jean's love for people, relationships, and values.

Her love for people and building relationships naturally led her to community building. Some of her greatest joys are seeing a group of people strive for a common goal and achieve it together, and learn about themselves along the way.

In our conversation, we explore the ways that the patriarchy has impacted the most powerful feminine experiences - pregnancy, birth, and motherhood - and how that has extended outward into lifestyle choices. Jean shares her story about pivoting from "the religion of obstetrics", leading her to create a short dystopian film about how we treat pregnant people and channel them through the machine and into a certain type of lifestyle.


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My guest today is Heather Drozdowski. Heather is a mother to two girls under two and a stepmother to a 7-year-old boy.  She is married to her best friend and is raising her family in North Florida. 

Heather has experienced deep transformation and awakening from her birth experiences.

Her first was a homebirth in California and her second was a vaginal breech birth on The Farm.  Since her last birth, she has found a passion for discussing physiological and instinctual birth with various mothers' groups in her community and online. 

If you find yourself in a similar position to Heather, with your baby breech and no options other than surgical birth being offered to you, reach out to me here and we can set up a free consultation to see if you are a good candidate for vaginal breech birth.


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In this episode, I speak with Kerry Ingram about the critical importance of having a village.  Kerry is the founder of Community Supported Postpartum whose mission is to build ecosystems of care one community at a time. She contributes to this vision by teaching folks all over the world how to create local parent and baby groups that get parents out of isolation and into a web of support and care.  Kerry is a parent (both biological and foster), an early childhood educator (20 years), a postpartum doula, with additional education in women and gender studies (SUNY Oswego), and maternal mental health care (PSI). She has been facilitating local parent and baby groups for nearly 10 years and teaches others around the world with her Postpartum Community Care course and curriculum on how to create their own groups.  You can connect with Kerry and learn more about her work here.

To set up a discovery session with your host, Corina Fitch, click here.  There's a lot of focus on creating a birth plan (which is important) but postpartum, which is a much bigger and longer process, is often overlooked and underestimated.






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Akilah S. Richards is passionate about mindful partnerships and conscious parenting. She uses audio and written mediums to amplify the ways that unschooling in particular, is serving as healing grounds and liberation work for Black, non-Black Indigenous, and People of Color communities earthwide. Her celebrated unschooling podcast, Fare of the Free Child, and the numerous workshops and gatherings she has been part of, have garnered the attention of Forbes Magazine, The New York Times, Good Morning America, and most importantly, BIPOC families interested in living in more healthy, consent-based, intergenerational relationships. Her recent experiences within the intersection of privilege, parenting, and power are detailed in her latest book, Raising Free People: Unschooling as Liberation and Healing Work available through PM Press.

Check all things Akilah here   You will find her podcast, book, a Raising Free People deck, and even some cool merch all in one convenient spot. 


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In this episode, I share my experience at The Revitalist, a ketamine clinic located in Knoxville, Tennessee.  Ketamine is a disassociative anesthetic with psychedelic properties that is being used for treatment-resistant depression, anxiety, and PTSD with incredible results.   While still not covered by many insurances and so therefore not easily accessible for low-income folks, it is headed in that direction and should be considered for any moms suffering from postpartum depression or anxiety.  To find out more about this innovative medicine, click here:  www.revitalistclinic.com.  They have 11 clinics around the country so there may be one near you.  If you're interested in setting up a discovery session with me to see how I might be able to help you shift out of burnout, depletion, depression, or chronic overwhelm, click here.  


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