SageTalking Stella

-Midwifery care that bridges the sacred and the scientific-



Melissa Chappell has been helping babies enter this world in holistic ways for many years and is a vessel of knowledge when it comes to preserving the naturally induced physiological state women go into during the birth process that is vital for a natural birthing scenario.



She got her licensure in 2016 and opened her first birth birth center in 2018. She has since opened another birth center and with her team served over 500 families!

Melissa has had the opportunity to travel the world doing birth work in Haiti, Costa Rica, Kenya, and Ethiopia.



She is a wonderful person to speak and listen to, full of knowledge and love for the process of birth and connecting it back to its natural roots.

In this episode we debunk some myths surrounding birth that are very common.

Melissa talks us through some of the ways of how the setting for a safe, holistic delivery can be created and why she isn't a fan of in-hospital births if not absolutely necessary.



We speak about the importance of re-establishing trust.

In oneself in earthly processes, the knowledge that birth is natural to us and that our body knows how to navigate it if we let it.

Partially, this episode was very emotional.

Honestly, although it is a long way ahead, I could already picture myself feeling very safe under Melissa's guidance to support my own birth process one day.



🦋If you are located in Provo or Utah county and feel called to contact Melissa to have her and her Team guide you on your path to and through a holistic birth process, find her website here



You have been wanting to take a doula or widwifery training? Great news! Melissa offers courses to carry on this sacred knowledge and practice👼🏼🌱



Thank you for listening to this Talk☀🌊🌍

which came alive through the voices of

Melissa Chappell

and your host Stella Sage🌿

10 % of American women are diagnosed with Endometriosis.

That is millions of women!

Worldwide, fertility issues and inflammation related diseases are extremely relevant topics.

In this episode Matilda Rosengren is sharing her personal experiences with fertility and Endometriosis and her motivation to start her online platform Mind and Womb which offers tools and support to those women trying to conceive.



This episode is not only for female ears! Fertility issues are wide spread and equally distributed between men and women.



The understanding regarding women's cycles and the need for rest and slowing down in work and personal life especially, but not only, when dealing with Endometriosis and the toll it can take on body and mind, can definitely be improved.

Matilda shares the rad to her diagnosis, treatments she has undergone and how she has used self-practices like yoga and womb massages to re-connect to her body.



Thank you for listening to this Talk🌊🌍☀

which came alive through the voices of

Matilda Rosengren

and your host Stella Sage🌿



Sources/Resources:

National Geographic article on men's fertility: https://www.nationalgeographic.co.uk/science-and-technology/2022/11/sperm-counts-worldwide-are-plummeting-faster-than-we-thought



Mind and Womb: https://mindandwomb.com/

Erik G. Turner has a background in chemical and process engineering and started his career in the Pharma industry.

Currently working for Neustark, an ETH spin off which works in the carbon removal space, transforming old concrete and CO2 into recycled concrete, he is contributing to the transformation of one of the largest waste streams in the world.

Erik got interested in sustainability in 2018, joining the NGO YES Europe, a youth led initiative focusing on a sustainable energy transition.

His thoughts center around identifying leverage points we have as a society to make change happen, around complexity and ambiguity and about "living the questions", which is very much what this episode is about.

We explore the topics of "tools" (which will we be choosing to address different crisis),

the "simple solutions trap" presented by politics and industry and why Erik's honest answer to: which solutions he is seeing at the moment -

is quite shockingly "none!"



This is an episode of exploration and questioning and we do hope you enjoy listening🌱



Thank you for listening to this Talk🌊🌍☀

which came alive through the voices of

Erik Turner

and your host Stella Sage🌿

Cate Zoltan is CEO of the Undo App, which is designed to activate self-healing through deep body meditations.



In this episode we discuss how Cate found her way to the concept of natural meditation, what it means to live a more "natural life" and how we can re-connect with our "original self" through meditation, which requires slowly carving our way back to who we are at our core, seeing through the experiences, information and all else that is imposed onto us throughout our lives and daily.

We ask how important TRUST is and why the lack of trust in our capabilities, in the world, in each other may be informing much of the un-kindness, insecurity or even hatred that is also present at these times.

We answer the question, why all of this matters -

This internal work, the attention to mental health, deep connection, emotional intelligence...

If not simply for our own sakes, think of the farmer providing your food, a teacher or a supreme court judge.

All of their decisions and impacts, no matter how big or small will be informed by their worldview, their relationship and connection to themselves, their biases and morals.

This will impact their town, a nation, in a wider sense, the world and might mean the difference between:

Petrochemicals or farming with the rhythms of nature.

Providing safe spaces for children to thrive or pushing for discipline and silence.

Verdicts informed by a drive to exert power and having a distrust towards certain cultures or verdicts motivated by the will to make a positive change, to build trust in the law and make people's lives easier, not harder.



It always starts with us, whether we think us important or not - we are. Every living being has an impact on their surroundings and the world and how we tread this earth matters greatly.



Our healing journey will have ripple affects.

Our connection to ourselves will impact our external connections.

If you are presently embarked on a healing journey, we are sending our loving wishes,

if you would like to try another tool or take new steps towards healing, maybe you will find it with Undo

feel free to use the code STELLA24 for a 14-day-free-trial in the App.



Thank you for listening to this Talk🌊🌍☀

which came alive through the voices of

Cate Zoltan

and your host Stella Sage🌿

Lydia Afriyie - Kraft was born and raised on a farm in Ghana, she holds a Bachelor in silviculture and forest management and a master of international management of forest industries.
Currently she is providing consultation to European Wood Importers and on timber trade regulation.
Her father, a cocoa farmer, cultivated land not only for cocoa, but also for palm oil production and growing food for the family to live off.
Lydia shares memories and experiences from her childhood, inviting us to walk to the water well in the morning, on to a school she was grateful to have been able to attend, from school back to one of the plots of land that needed working on, back to her house at night, guided by the light of the moon and finally studying in the light of a kerosene lamp.
Our conversation also takes us to her work in the regulation and certification of sustainable forest management in Germany.
Here, mine and Lydia's differing backgrounds, worldviews and influences show, as we discuss sustainable resource use and our views on what sustainably managed forests looks like. We realize here that the two of us have quite different ways of relating to earth and forests in particular.

It holds so much value and is very expansive to share perspectives and realize that you and the person you are sitting across are both relating to a topic informed by your own personal beliefs and experiences.

🌱These conversations are becoming more and more important as we are aiming to sit together, cross reference, develop and exchange in order to create local, national, communal, international pathways for positive, regenerative changes.

Thank you for listening to this Talk☀🌊🌍
which came alive through the voices of Lydia Afriyie-Kraft
and your host
Stella Sage🌿

Four extraordinary days in the Engiadin Valley in La Punt, Switzerland.

Nestled in between mountains, next to a river where cool, clear water flows steadily is where [y]our2040 found its place for the third time since 2020.

I was so very blessed to be part of the Team that delivered [y]our2040 in the summer of 2023 and it had me absolutely hooked.

Four days of incredible conversations around all topics mainly centered around regeneration.

Regeneration of communities, natural habitats, connections, communication, spirit, systems, oceans, soils, economies...

Critical, challenging, loving, discussions and sharing of opinions.

Around 100 participants coming together to work on over 10 different projects that should serve a regenerative purpose, carried out and nurtured far beyond the gathering.

Music in the background, painting, writing, dancing, laughter, tears, ideas.

People from different backgrounds with different mind sets and visions, yet at a closer look fundamentally similar, walking barefoot from one tent to the next, forming a community that feels like family after only a couple of days.

I recorded tiny live conversation snippets with about 30 people to put them together into one episode that explores the outlooks on the concept of regeneration that must be central to our present and future actions.

One word, many interpretations.

This is explored in this episode of SageTalking with a foreword from one of the founders, Jonelle Simunich 🌱



Thank you for listening to this Talk☀🌊🌍

which came alive through the voices of

participants of the [y]our2040 gathering

and your host Stella Sage🌿