Womb Stories Project

Kit Maloney
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Womb Stories shares conversations with renowned activists, creatives, entrepreneurs, and thought leaders as they reveal their journeys back home to the body. This is a show honoring the truth the female body is a gift that brings with it potent power, epic healing potential, and boundless opportunity. What if we asked our leaders and inspirations, "What is your relationship to your womb? How have you journeyed with her into connection and healing? Do you trust her? Does she speak to you? How do you listen? How would you share her story? Womb Stories is hosted by Kit Maloney and these are the questions she believes we must start asking. These are the questions we will ask ourselves and each other in a world full of love, equity, and belonging. A world where the female body and women are revered, celebrated, and deeply honored. If you are like us, you agree, it's time to actively build that world now. Kit Maloney is also the founder of Kitara (kitaralove.com), which offers intentionally designed and expertly crafted products for safe and easy yoni steaming at home. Within the Womb Stories podcast is a sub-series called "Steam Stories." Here Kit speaks with holistic health practitioners, gynecologists, and members of the Kitara community to share real-world experience of the benefits of vaginal/ yoni steaming. Follow on IG @bykitara

  1. Reclaiming Pleasure after Chronic Infection, Pelvic Pain & Trauma

    6D AGO

    Reclaiming Pleasure after Chronic Infection, Pelvic Pain & Trauma

    Chaya Leia Aronson of Your Sacred Pelvis shares her powerful journey from chronic bladder infections and interstitial cystitis to living pain-free and deeply connected to her womb. After years of pelvic pain, invasive medical experiences, and being told there was no solution, Chaya turned to natural healing, including herbal medicine, diet and lifestyle changes, Mayan Abdominal Massage, and Yoni Steaming. Through this work, she not only resolved her symptoms but reclaimed pleasure, nervous system regulation, and trust in her body. We discuss how pelvic pain and uterine disorders are often rooted in trauma, and Chaya illuminates how trauma can arise from a much broader range of experiences than we typically consider, including a hard fall to the sacrum.    Through natural healing practices like yoni steaming, which supports deep nervous system regulation and invites gentle emotional release, we are able to move through pain and towards pleasure. Chaya speaks to the fact that activism is best sustained by joy, pleasure, and a regulated nervous system.    This episode is a testament to the possibility of moving beyond chronic pelvic pain and dis-ease in your own womb healing journey. A hopeful and inspiring story offering natural remedies, ancient practices, and wise teachers within the world of holistic women's reproductive health.  About our Guest Chaya Leia Aronson, RN BSN offers both in person and virtual healing experiences that blend hands-on bodywork, somatic practices, and gentle lifestyle and herbal support to help you reconnect with this powerful part of yourself. She utilizes Maya Abdominal Massage, Holistic Pelvic Care™, Yoni Steaming, movement and posture practices, and holistic coaching to help you reclaim pelvic health and wellness.  Connect to Chaya on Instagram. Learn more on her website.   Kitara provides beautifully designed, expertly crafted tools for safe and easy in-home yoni steaming. 🌸www.kitaralove.com🌸   Beautiful Yoni Steam Seats, Organic Herbs, Consultations & More... Connect with Kitara on IG @bykitara   TimeStamps:  5:40 -14:50 How to Heal UTIs Naturally: Yoni Steaming + Mayan Abdominal Massage  14:50-18:03 Trauma as the Root of Womb & Pelvic Pain 18:03- 19:10 Holistic Support for Endometriosis 19:10-2:00 Yoni Steaming for Nervous System Regulation 21- 22:27 Using Herbal Allies in Yoni Steaming 22:27 - 29:41  Healing Generational Trauma in the Body 29:41 - 32:13 Releasing Ancestral Grief & Pleasure Activism 32:13 -35  Yoni Steaming Benefits: The Miracles of Yoni Steaming

    33 min
  2. Over the Steam Pot, Everything Changed

    MAR 21

    Over the Steam Pot, Everything Changed

    Yoni steaming offers a gentle, effective approach to healing period pain naturally. In this episode of Womb Stories Project, Natalie Elliott shares how yoni steaming helped end years of severe period pain and opened a new relationship with her body and menstrual cycle. Natalie shares her journey from severe cramps, dissociation, and trauma to discovering yoni steaming as the pathway to releasing, healing, and coming to live in deep alignment with her cycle and her womb.  What began as a personal healing practice of resting while bleeding became the foundation of her work as a women's health practitioner, and ultimately helped inspire a deeper, more cyclical way of operating for the entire Kitara team.   About our Guest: Natalie Elliott is a women's health practitioner offering in-person and online coaching for a whole body approach to healing period pain, PMS and hormonal imbalance, naturally.  Explore her many delicious offerings: https://www.moonbabymagic.com/offerings  Connect with Natalie on instagram: https://www.instagram.com/natalie.marieclaire/    🌸www.kitaralove.com🌸 Kitara provides beautifully designed, expertly crafted tools for safe and easy in-home yoni steaming.    Beautiful Yoni Steam Seats, Organic Herbs, Consultations & More... Connect with Kitara on IG @bykitara   Timestamps  Intro w/ Natalie Elliot of MoonBaby 0:47-3:11: The Creative Energy Of the Womb 3:11- 8:58: Discovering Yoni Steaming for Trauma & Period Pain 8:58- 13:07: Why Soft, Gentle Healing Works 13:07-19:45: Talking About Menstrual Leave at Work 19:45-28:00 What Happens When You Don't Rest on Your Period? 28:00 - 33:31 : Painful Periods Are Common — Not Normal Outro w/ Natalie Elliot of MoonBaby

    34 min

  3. 11/20/2025

    Healing the Father Wound: Minerals, Yoni Steaming and Nervous System Regulation with Yasmine Minnifield

    In this powerful transmission, Yasmine Minnifield, founder of Womb of Peace, joins Kit Maloney for a profound exploration of the Father Wound and how healing our inner masculine is a path to feminine restoration. Yasmine shares how wounding to our inner masculine affects our sense of safety, openness to intimacy, and feeling worthy of provision and protection - often showing up as overfunctioning, burnout, or a hard, protective shell.  She maps the energetics of the wound onto the body through mineral imbalances, offering a tangible, multidimensional pathway to healing through herbal medicine, remineralization, and inner work.  Yasmine describes how Yoni Steaming supports every level of this process, from the physical release of old blood, tissue, and emotions to remineralization through the herbs in the steam. She invites us to use our steam practice to develop deeper intimacy with self and the ancestral line to create lasting mental and emotional repatterning. Healing the inner masculine allows the mature feminine to rise, the Queen, who knows how to live and lead in a deeply nourishing, empowered way.     Yasmine Minnifield blends functional mineral science and somatic healing to help women decode their body's messages, with hair mineral testing as the doorway into deep restoration. Order a Hair Mineral Test with Yasmine  Connect with Yasmine on Facebook and Instagram   🌸www.kitaralove.com🌸 Kitara provides beautifully designed, expertly crafted tools for safe and easy in-home yoni steaming.    Beautiful Yoni Steam Seats, Organic Herbs, Consultations & More... Connect with Kitara on IG @bykitara   Timestamps  00:00 Healing the Father Wound to Access Feminine Power 00:57 The Father Wound, Minerals, & Cellular Level Healing 05:58 Wounding of the Inner Masculine or Animus, and Yasmine's Experience of Trauma, PTSD, PCOS 10:29 Linking the Effects of the Father Wound to Mineral Imbalances in the Body 13:13 Healing through Yoni Steaming and Herbalism 15:43 Archetypal Medicine, Energetic and Ancestral Healing Reclaiming Power and Sensitivity 18:13 Deep Physical and Ancestral Release and Repatterning through Yoni Steaming 21:12 The Transformative Power of Minerals 22:42 Yoni Steaming: More Than Just Hydrotherapy 26:48 Final Thoughts

    28 min

  4. 07/26/2025

    Fibroids, Refusing Hysterectomy, and the Healing Power of Yoni Steaming with Miara Pack

    Far too often we hear the same story, a woman gets diagnosed with fibroids and is told her only option is a full hysterectomy. In this interview, Kit Maloney and Rachel Rose talk with Miara Pack, who shares her journey of saying no to the white coat and bravely charting her own course. Miara opens up about her experience with painful cycles and dismissive doctors and her choice to pursue natural healing: yoni steaming, breathwork, and lifestyle changes alongside western medical care. A cornerstone of her healing was her connection with Kit, the founder of Kitara, whose compassionate presence was a consistent source of strength, wisdom, and love. We're honored to share this conversation of healing, self-empowerment, and the sacred bond between women supporting each other to reconnect to their wombs and inner wisdom. Visit www.kitaralove.com for intentionally designed and expertly crafted products for safe and easy yoni steaming at home.  Learn more about yoni steaming and fibroids. Connect with Kitara on IG @bykitara. Timestamps 01:26 – Miara's first steam and meeting Kit 07:00 – Steaming at home without a seat 11:00 – Lifelong painful cycles and dismissive medical care 13:00 – Fibroid diagnosis and pressure to undergo full hysterectomy 17:30 – Daily steaming, tracking progress, and signs of improvement 18:30 – Making the emotional decision to have a myomectomy 26:50 – Post-surgery cycles, red blood, and no more pain meds 30:00 – Slowing down: movement, food, and nervous system support 35:00 – Reframing surgery as a reboot, not a failure 38:30 – Breaking the cycle for the next generation 42:00 – Sisterhood, journaling, and the power of being witnessed

    58 min

  5. 06/26/2024

    Meet Our Midwife

    Welcome to another episode of Season 2 of Womb Stories Project, a series of conversations with people involved in the home birth of our son. This is a really important conversation as part of this series because it is with the incredibly wise and amazingly wonderful Tiffany Skillings, who is a midwife and was my midwife through our fertility journey, throughout my pregnancy, and the primary midwife in the delivery of our son at our home.  I can't say enough about Tiffany. She is an incredible gift to the birthing community here in Maine, to me and my family, and we really consider her part of our family now. I imagine that after listening to this conversation, you will understand why.  Visit www.kitaralove.com for intentionally designed and expertly crafted products for safe and easy yoni steaming at home.  Connect with Kit on IG @bykitara. Connect with Tiffany Skillings on IG @tworiverslactation and at www.tworiverslactation.com.    Timestamps 1:38 Tiffany's Journey to Midwifery 13:59 Midwifery as Holistic Well-Bodied Care 25:07 Expertise in Clinical Midwifery Training 31:20 Midwifery Challenges and Misconceptions 45:47 Elevating Midwifery and Public Education 49:32 Healthcare Costs and Transparency 55:49 Collaboration in Emergency Situations 57:22 Home to Hospital Transfers and C-Section Rates 1:17:11 Importance of Trauma-Informed Care and Debriefing 1:22:28 Intentionality in Client Care and Privacy 1:24:49 Special Moments in Mark's Birth

    1h 31m

  6. 05/20/2024

    What is a Postpartum Doula? And why everyone needs one.

    We live in an era of women over-giving and under-receiving. Data shows it is not working for us. Postpartum depression/anxiety is at unprecedented rates and we currently are offering new parents too few options for support. Listen in to hear an expanded perspective on what it means to receive in the earliest days of motherhood.  Season 2 of Womb Stories Project is a collection of interviews with the people who were involved in my conception, pregnancy, birth, and postpartum journey. It is for the listener curious about holistic and non-hormonal fertility treatments, the ins and outs of home birth, and how to thrive in postpartum.  Timestamps 3:21 - Connection through Vaginal Steam Certification 6:27 - Integration of Steaming Practices 12:50 - Magical Pregnancy Experience with Midwife 15:12 - Value of Community Support in Birth Care 17:32 - Journey into Postpartum Care 27:15 - Description of Postpartum Care Services 30:56 - Processing Birth Experiences with Doula 46:24 - Embracing Empowerment and Boundary Setting 1:00:32 - Nurturing Connection to the Womb Visit www.kitaralove.com for intentionally designed and expertly crafted products for safe and easy yoni steaming at home.  Connect with Kit on IG @bykitara Connect with Muriel on IG @heldpostpartum or at www.heldpostpartum.com

    1h 8m

  7. 05/22/2023

    Fear, Faith, and Fertility: My Conception Journey

    Season 2 of Womb Stories Project will be a collection of interviews with the people who were involved in my conception, pregnancy, birth, and postpartum journey. And it all kicks off on the one-year anniversary of the birth of my son. The first episode features an interview with Rachel, an incredible healer who held me in her heart as I navigated a humbling conception journey. Please be advised miscarriage is discussed in this interview, so please take care of your heart and listen only if you feel the discussion will be healing.   Timestamps 5:14 - The desire to have a baby and the beginning of the conception journey 9:22 - Clearing the obstacles to discover the desire for motherhood 13:45 - Intimacy struggles during the conception journey 18:13 - Lessons learned about steaming processes during conception 21:26 - Navigating pregnancy loss 38:13 - Returning to the conception journey after pregnancy loss 1:01:04 - Highlights of the healing process in Mexico 1:08:07 - Stepping into another fertility journey

    1h 13m

  8. 05/22/2023

    My Birthing Story: From Conception to Postpartum

    Today is the first anniversary of the birth of my son, so I am kicking off season 2 of Womb Stories Project with a series of interviews with the people present for my son's birth. This episode is a reflection on the birth experience and the practice of condensing the birth plan into one simple mantra. The next season of Womb Stories Project will feature the sisters who held me during my conception journey, my primary midwife, assistant midwife, and my birth doula. We will also speak with my doctor, my husband, and my parents.

    8 min
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Womb Stories shares conversations with renowned activists, creatives, entrepreneurs, and thought leaders as they reveal their journeys back home to the body. This is a show honoring the truth the female body is a gift that brings with it potent power, epic healing potential, and boundless opportunity. What if we asked our leaders and inspirations, "What is your relationship to your womb? How have you journeyed with her into connection and healing? Do you trust her? Does she speak to you? How do you listen? How would you share her story? Womb Stories is hosted by Kit Maloney and these are the questions she believes we must start asking. These are the questions we will ask ourselves and each other in a world full of love, equity, and belonging. A world where the female body and women are revered, celebrated, and deeply honored. If you are like us, you agree, it's time to actively build that world now. Kit Maloney is also the founder of Kitara (kitaralove.com), which offers intentionally designed and expertly crafted products for safe and easy yoni steaming at home. Within the Womb Stories podcast is a sub-series called "Steam Stories." Here Kit speaks with holistic health practitioners, gynecologists, and members of the Kitara community to share real-world experience of the benefits of vaginal/ yoni steaming. Follow on IG @bykitara

Information

  • Creator
    Kit Maloney
  • Years Active
    2022 - 2026
  • Episodes
    17
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Copyright
    ©2024
  • Show Website
    Womb Stories Project