Mother Wisdom

<p><strong>I am so pleased to be able to speak with Chelsea Connor on the podcast - The queen of nuance, </strong><a target="_blank" href="http://instagram.com/houseofnourishment"><strong>@houseofnourishment</strong></a><strong> on Instagram, deep thinking woman here for joy, for nourishment, for self reflection and exploration. We talk about all the forms and flavors of nourishment; food, connection, nature, and so much more.</strong></p><p>And while good food is only a part of the story, it is absolutely vital. Food is so much more than just like a tool for shaping our body. It is the basis of everything - our brain cannot function, our nervous system cannot be grounded, at ease, and out of that survival state without the proper nutrients that we need in our diet.</p><p>Not only are we trying to nourish ourselves in this new world where there’s so much technology, toxins, EMFs, and general bad news bears, acting against our nourishment, we’re also kind of dealing with a whole childhood of Lunchables, purple ketchup flavored with who knows what a microwave waffles made enriched with iron shavings - a real lack of real food nourishment. There’s so many layers to our symptoms, our bodies and what’s going on with our health and our culture, and I am so happy to have talked to Chelsea about it.</p><p><strong>We Discuss:</strong></p><p>* The push-pull of posting, sharing about your life and potentially even “health advice” on the crazy interwebs. The balance of sharing valuable content on line in your wheel house, and showing up as an imperfect, multidimensional human</p><p>* How Chelsea did a radical thing and *gasp* decided to go for a walk during the first few days of her bleed instead of just resting and her journey with intense menstrual pain.</p><p>* The overall personal development movement from creating rules for yourself to scaffolding of nourishment. And how we can build foundations before we can move on to the building blocks. We need to nourish before we can fine tune, start eating 3 meals a day before lifting weights every day.</p><p>* What self care from a grounded, resourced place looks like. When your body feels the inspiration and spark to begin to change things instead of knowing what you need to do because that’s what you’ve been told</p><p>* Chelsea’s transition from crazy fast city life to her nervous system allowing for more space, quiet, and slow. It’s not all easy and smooth!</p><p>* Her engagement!!! And how her difficulty, her resistance to imagining a beautiful engagement ring turned into an analogy for receiving goodness in life. How can we open to receive more than we believe is possible for us, more than we believe we deserve.</p><p><strong>Subscriber Content</strong></p><p>* Chelsea’s <a target="_blank" href="http://motherwisdom.substack.com/simple-nourishment">SIMPLE NOURISHMENT Fall/Winter PDF cookbook</a>.</p><p>* I can’t believe I didn’t know I could make epic hashbrowns at home for breakfast until this cookbook. I also love the teriyaki drumsticks, dandelion root chai, so many good ones. And I can’t believe I haven’t tried the caramelized onion roast beef sandwich recipe yet. There’s also a list of seasonal produce, budgeting tips, and meal and snack building resources.</p><p><strong>🧡 You can upgrade your subscription </strong><a target="_blank" href="https://motherwisdom.substack.com/subscribe"><strong>right here</strong></a><strong>.</strong></p><p><strong>Connect with us:</strong></p><p>* Find Chelsea on <a target="_blank" href="http://instagram.com/houseofnourishment">Instagram</a></p><p>* Connect with me</p><p>* Instagram - <a target="_blank" href="http://instagram.com/maible.arden">@maible.arden</a></p><p>* Website - <a target="_blank" href="http://www.maiblearden.com">MaibleArden.com</a></p><p><strong>If this resonated…</strong></p><p>* Comment here in the comments!</p><p>* Leave a review on Apple Podcasts or Spotify</p><p>* Share this episode with someone who needs to hear it</p><p>* Tag me on Instagram with your takeaways: <a target="_blank" href="https://instagram.com/nurtured.grove">@nurtured.grove</a> and <a target="_blank" href="http://instagram.com/houseofnourishment">@houseofnourishment</a></p> <br/><br/>This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit <a href="https://motherwisdom.substack.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&#38;utm_campaign=CTA_2">motherwisdom.substack.com/subscribe</a>

<p>In this episode of <em>Mother Wisdom</em>, I watch the pendulum swing between <strong>victimhood, radical responsibility</strong>, and the seductive (and harmful, in my opinion) idea that you were simply an “energetic match” for your birth experience.</p><p><strong>Was it random? Was it cosmic? Was it preventable? Was it what you really wanted deep down in your subconscious?</strong></p><p>These are the uncomfortable questions so many mothers, women, humans grapple with, especially when things don’t go as imagined. <em>And especially when you’re on the internet in the alternative health, quantum blah blah blah, corners.</em></p><p>This episode is a meditation on making meaning from what <em>has</em> happened, rather than obsessing over what could have been. On taking responsibility for the choices you made, not claiming you’ve masterminded the entire universe around your subconscious.</p><p>I talk about the damage I perceive can come from telling women they “attracted” their birth experience, how spiritual bypassing hides behind personal growth language, and how to hold the complex truth that <strong>sometimes things just happen</strong>, without slipping into blame or victimhood, or on the other side, playing God in your own life.</p><p><strong>In this conversation I explore:</strong></p><p>* The illusion of control and the reality of chance</p><p>* The harm in “you manifested this” narratives around birth</p><p>* What <strong>radical responsibility</strong> <em>actually</em> means (hint: it’s not about controlling the uncontrollable)</p><p>* Acknowledging both <strong>randomness</strong> and <strong>deep intelligence</strong> in the unfolding of birth. And life. And mothering.</p><p>* Exploring the many threads that may influence birth: fascia, trauma, nutrition, ancestry, biomechanics. But perhaps most importantly, the humility of <em>not knowing.</em></p><p>* How to take aligned responsibility without ego</p><p>* The mental gymnastics we do to avoid feeling what <em>is</em> or <em>was</em> (as I watched myself do when I was late the other day) and the invitation to come back to presence</p><p>* Turning difficult experiences into wisdom, not through spiritual bypassing, but through embodied reflection and integration</p><p>Subscriber Content</p><p>* The lovely little, or not so little (it’s 37 pages!) <a target="_blank" href="https://open.substack.com/pub/motherwisdom/p/your-powerful-placenta-guide"><strong>Placenta Birth Guide</strong></a> - women centered, mother powered placenta birth videos, all about cord burning, traditional understandings of the spiritual significance of the placenta, a placenta burial ceremony ‘recipe’.</p><p>* A delicious <a target="_blank" href="https://motherwisdom.substack.com/p/guided-meditations"><strong>bundle of guided meditations</strong></a> for the childbearing year including….</p><p><a target="_blank" href="https://open.substack.com/pub/motherwisdom/p/relaxation-meditation?r=1m2x99&#38;utm_campaign=post&#38;utm_medium=web&#38;showWelcomeOnShare=false"><strong><em>Relaxation Meditation</em></strong></a></p><p><em>Settle into our bodies, becoming still, and just be in this moment and in our experience.</em></p><p><a target="_blank" href="https://motherwisdom.substack.com/p/birth-visioning-meditation"><strong><em>Birth Visioning Meditation</em></strong></a></p><p><em>A guided exploration into your birth portal and the divine vision you hold for yourself, as well as listening to any messages your baby may have for you.</em></p><p><a target="_blank" href="https://motherwisdom.substack.com/p/release-with-the-river-meditation"><strong><em>Releasing to the River Meditation</em></strong></a></p><p><em>A fear release meditation. Exploring relaxing our grip on fears or anything else that may feel heavy in this process of preparing for birth.</em></p><p><a target="_blank" href="https://motherwisdom.substack.com/p/opening-to-receive-meditation"><strong><em>Opening to Receive Meditation</em></strong></a></p><p><em>Made with postpartum in mind. Opening to the energies of receiving, and an opportunity for you to tune into any mantras or reminders that may come through.</em></p><p></p><p>🧡 You can upgrade your subscription <a target="_blank" href="https://motherwisdom.substack.com/subscribe">right here</a>.</p><p>Mentioned in this Episode</p><p>* <a target="_blank" href="https://nurturedgrove.podia.com/mini-placenta-guide">Free Mini Placenta Guide</a></p><p>If this resonated…</p><p>* Comment here in the comments!</p><p>* Leave a review on Apple Podcasts or Spotify</p><p>* Share this episode with someone who needs to hear it</p><p>* Tag me on Instagram with your takeaways: <a target="_blank" href="https://instagram.com/nurtured.grove">@nurtured.grove</a></p><p>Connect with me:</p><p>* Instagram - <a target="_blank" href="http://instagram.com/maible.arden">@maible.arden</a></p><p>* Website - <a target="_blank" href="http://www.maiblearden.com">MaibleArden.com</a></p> <br/><br/>This is a public episode. 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<p>Welcome to the first episode in this new chapter of the podcast, Mother Wisdom. </p><p>In this intimate and nourishing conversation, I’m joined by Dr. Suuzi Hazen - mother, doctor of Traditional Chinese Medicine, farmer, and founder of Mother’s Best Liver Pills - for a deeply embodied exploration of what it really means to nourish ourselves through pregnancy, postpartum, and beyond.</p><p>Based on her knowledge of TCM and our own real life experiences (both in nourishment and true self care, and the mistakes and missteps we made) together, we un-peel the onions of <strong>maternal depletion, body image, nutritional wisdom, traditional weaning</strong> (this may not be what you want to hear!), <strong>morning sickness through the lens of TCM</strong> (turns out, there are actually things you can do to support yourself through it), and the very real <strong>tension between self-sacrifice and self-honoring as mothers</strong>.</p><p>Dr. Suuzi shares her two wildly different pregnancy and birth stories, from a morning sickness fraught pregnancy ending in a near death experience and emergency cesarean to a pregnancy of eating well and truly supporting her body, and a fully natural VBAC. These threads continue to play out in how she learned to support her body in motherhood through food, boundaries, and traditional practices.</p><p><strong>In this conversation, we explore:</strong></p><p>* <strong>What does white label actually mean?</strong></p><p>* Suuzi’s <strong>two radically different pregnancy & birth experiences</strong>:</p><p>* Her first, shaped by severe morning sickness and undernourishment, a castor oil induction, and a near-death emergency cesarean birth</p><p>* Her second, guided by nourishment and a deeply supporting her female body, ending in a straightforward VBAC</p><p>* How <strong>intermittent</strong> <strong>fasting </strong>to lose the ‘stubborn baby weight’ <strong>and long term depletion</strong> led to a total metabolic crash, and how Suuzi slowly nourished her way back to life</p><p>* Why these “crashes,” as brutal as they are, can be <strong>thresholds into the Wise Woman tradition</strong> — into slow, into simple, into nourishment, into the spiral of healing.</p><p>* The tension between <strong>intuition vs. intellect</strong> in motherhood: Do I follow what my body knows, what my spirit knows... or what I <em>think</em> I know?</p><p>* <strong>TCM insights on morning sickness</strong>, tandem nursing, and child spacing — and why many traditional cultures built in space for maternal recovery</p><p>* <strong>The facades of health (and motherhood, and life) we see on social media</strong>, and the dangers of trying to recreate someone else’s life without tending to our own foundations</p><p>* What our <strong>current breakfasts</strong> look like and why sustainable, gradual nourishment is a much better route than drastic change.</p><p>* My own shift from vegetarianism rooted in community acceptance over my bodies messages to an ‘<strong>ancestral diet’</strong> that supports my body, family, and values</p><p><em>This episode reminded me of the gentle wise woman nourishment as the path of motherhood and womanhood - not getting overwhelmed by information and comparison, but focusing on our nourishment and the soup in front of us. Can we let it be simple?</em></p><p></p><p><strong>Giveaway + Subscriber Bonus</strong></p><p>To celebrate this first episode, we’re giving away a bottle of <strong>Mother’s Best Liver Pills</strong>!Here’s how to enter:</p><p>* <strong>Become a paid subscriber</strong> here on Substack (either $5/mo or $40/year)</p><p>* <strong>Leave a comment</strong> on <a target="_blank" href="https://motherwisdom.substack.com/p/45-suuzi-hazen-bonus">this post</a></p><p><em>That’s it.</em></p><p>(Yes, this is still a very small Substack, so your chances are pretty dang good.)</p><p>Even if you don’t win, paid subscribers get access to a <strong>discount code</strong> for all of Dr. Suuzi’s products including her <strong>Lucky Duck Electrolytes</strong> and liver pills.</p><p>🧡 You can upgrade your subscription <a target="_blank" href="https://motherwisdom.substack.com/subscribe">right here</a>.</p><p><strong>Resources & Links</strong></p><p>Dr. Suuzi Hazen</p><p>* <strong>Website</strong>: <a target="_blank" href="https://mothersbestliverpills.com/">mothersbestliverpills.com</a></p><p>* <strong>Instagram</strong>: <a target="_blank" href="https://instagram.com/drsuuzihazen">@drsuuzihazen</a></p><p>* Her podcast here on Substack, or wherever you listen to podcasts, <a target="_blank" href="https://substack.com/profile/51201223-womens-bodies"><strong>Women's Bodies</strong></a> </p><p>* <a target="_blank" href="https://www.instagram.com/p/C74JtWuREln/"><strong>TCM Morning Sickness Reel Series</strong></a> (It’s a 4 part thing)</p><p>* <a target="_blank" href="https://www.instagram.com/reel/DBmAJ48vNiK/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&#38;igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA=="><strong>Pregnancy and Breastfeeding Reel</strong></a></p><p>Mentioned in this Episode</p><p>* <a target="_blank" href="https://www.armstrongsisters.com/podcasts/rooted-in-resilience/episodes/2148942422">Armstrong Sisters’ discussion of the Minnesota Starvation Experiment</a></p><p></p><p><strong>If this resonated…</strong></p><p>* Leave a review on Apple Podcasts or Spotify</p><p>* Share this episode with a mother or friend who needs to hear it</p><p>* Tag us on Instagram with your takeaways: <a target="_blank" href="https://instagram.com/maible.arden">@maible.arden</a> and <a target="_blank" href="https://instagram.com/drsuuzihazen">@drsuuzihazen</a></p> <br/><br/>This is a public episode. 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<p>In a world where blogs are written by AI, I turned to the flowers for inspiration. Walking in my favorite field, I’m starting a new chapter in this podcast. Welcoming in Season 4 with the bluebirds, mushrooms, an abundance of native wild flowers, and a fresh air blowing through this podcast.</p><p></p><p>If you’re looking for chronology and logistical details, head on over to the Mother Wisdom Reintroduction - regular edition.</p><p>If you’re wanting to be infused by the smells and colors of my dreams for this space, you’re in the right place.</p><p></p><p>Moving forward, I’m going to co-create bonus content for each episode available for subscribers, so if this corner of the universe fills you up, consider being a subscriber for only $5 a month.</p><p><p>Mother Wisdom is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.</p></p> <br/><br/>This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit <a href="https://motherwisdom.substack.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&#38;utm_campaign=CTA_2">motherwisdom.substack.com/subscribe</a>

<p><em>Welcome to Mother Wisdom, a space for stories, musings, and medicine from the heart of motherhood.</em></p><p><em>Here, we walk the spirals of fertility, birth, postpartum, and the becoming and unbecoming that is motherhood continuum.</em></p><p><em>Orienting to wisdom and intuition, softness and strength, practical and magical, relationship and autonomy, physiology and mystery, personal and collective.</em></p><p><em>I’m Maible Coughlin — Here for the wisdom of our bodies, our babies, our motherlines, the earth, and the sacred web of all mothers - past and present.</em></p><p><em>Our exploration is in making the collective map, not exact directions and never medical advice. Make your own choices, and Trust your own wisdom.</em></p><p></p><p>As Wise Birth Radio was ready to round a corner into season 4, we blossomed into Mother Wisdom. I’m your host, Maible Coughlin, postpartum care provider, mother, dishwasher, laundry folder and tomato sauce canner, student midwife and soon to be womb continuum care provider.</p><p></p><p>On this podcast you will hear about the depth and breath of the experience as woman, as mother, and human. Connecting with the wisdom of our own bodies, lineages, and the archetypes of Mother in all her forms, I am here for grounded, nourished, powerful women. </p><p></p><p>Subscribers will receive access to bonus content for each episode, whether that is deeper conversation, giveaways and discounts or further resources, as well as my collection of guided meditations for the childbearing year, and other things I will create.</p><p><p>Mother Wisdom is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.</p></p><p></p><p><strong>Related Episodes & Additional Resources</strong></p><p>* Stay tuned for Mother Wisdom Intro - the ‘Unhinged” Version aka Let’s ask the flowers about it)</p><p>* <a target="_blank" href="https://www.lindsaycourcelle.com/">Lindsay Courcelle</a> - Myofascial release training</p><p>* <a target="_blank" href="http://maschool.co">MA School</a> - hands on, hands in pelvic work</p><p><strong>Community</strong></p><p>* <strong>Become a </strong><a target="_blank" href="http://motherwisdom.substack.com/subscribe"><strong>Mother Wisdom subscriber</strong></a><strong> - </strong>This is the most impactful way to support the show, for only $5/month</p><p>* <strong>Sign up for the </strong><a target="_blank" href="http://nurturedgrove.com/newsletter"><strong>newsletter</strong></a><strong> - </strong>(monthly-ish, actual good stuff, no filler nonsense just for the sake of marketing.)</p><p>* <strong>Follow me on social media -</strong> <a target="_blank" href="http://instagram.com/nurturedgrove">@nurtured.grove</a></p> <br/><br/>This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit <a href="https://motherwisdom.substack.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&#38;utm_campaign=CTA_2">motherwisdom.substack.com/subscribe</a>