The Organic Path, Self-Abandonment, and Reuniting Men & Women | Rachelle Seliga (Innate Traditions)
<html><p>Your body whispers, <em>“This isn’t working...”</em> And the world keeps shouting, <em>“More speed. More screens. More 'fixing' yourself.”</em></p><p>In this episode of The Conscious Misfit (previously We Are Already Free), midwife and cultural weaver Rachelle Seliga and I sit right inside that tension. We talk about the fork in the road we’re living through: the pull toward the synthetic path (top-down control, distracted escape, 'playing God') and the pull back toward biology, nature, and embodied truth.</p><p>This is not a 'guru episode'. It’s two humans trying to tell the truth in real time... including the grief, the loneliness, and the very unsexy reality of what it can cost to stop self‑abandoning and live what we say we want.</p><p><strong>About Rachelle Seliga</strong></p><p>Rachelle Seliga is a devoted Mother and Midwife whose work is dedicated to midwifing a cultural shift - where our innate wisdom, personal authority and the sanctity of Life are honoured and centred. Her legacy work is INNATE Postpartum Care - Certification Training, which teaches the global postpartum tradition of "Physiologic Postpartum Care,” the unifying tradition etched into the blood and bone of postpartum women. Rachelle lives and works from the understanding that our physiologic design IS our divine design, which IS our blueprint, which ARE our original instructions. These different ways to say the SAME thing acknowledge that there is an order, a structure, a map to LIFE that supersedes human will; it is Nature's Design.</p><p><strong>Topics Covered:</strong></p><ul><li><p>The 'bifurcation' we’re living through: technology + disembodiment vs the Organic Path (biology, nature, embodied truth).</p></li><li><p>What truth in the body actually means, and how to track it when your mind is loud.</p></li><li><p><strong>Self‑abandonment</strong>: the subtle ways it shows up, and what can happen when you stop doing it (including the destructive side of creation).</p></li><li><p>Ceremony vs paraphernalia: why powerful experiences can still leave your life unchanged without integration.</p></li><li><p>Loneliness, sovereignty, and the slow work of re‑villaging (without collapsing into codependence).</p></li><li><p>Why Rachelle believes the future depends on women and men remembering: we <em>need</em> each other.</p></li><li><p>Stay to the end for: Rachelle’s vision for <strong>Rights of Reunion</strong>, a gathering to bring women and men back into honest partnership.</p></li></ul><p><strong>Resources</strong></p><ul><li><p>Website: <a href="https://InnateTraditions.com" target="_blank">InnateTraditions.com</a></p></li><li><p><strong>LIVE EVENT on Friday 19 Dec: Ceremony, Menarche and Culture Creation….weaving together her experiences of midwifery, Mothering, ceremony and culture work - </strong><strong><a href="https://www.innatetraditions.com/Ceremony-Menarche-Culture-Creation" target="_blank">https://www.innatetraditions.com/Ceremony-Menarche-Culture-Creation</a></strong></p></li><li><p>Instagram: <a href="https://instagram.com/innatetraditions" target="_blank">https://instagram.com/innatetraditions</a></p></li><li><p>Rachelle’s trainings mentioned: <strong>INNATE Postpartum Care</strong> and <strong>Physiologic Baby Care</strong></p></li><li><p>Project: <strong>Rights of Reunion</strong> (Rachelle mentions a likely in‑person gathering in September 2026)</p></li></ul><h3>⭐ <strong>Support the Podcast & Access the Bonus Chat</strong> ⭐</h3><p><strong>PLEASE NOTE:</strong> I’ve just moved this podcast over to <strong>Patreon as the new host</strong>. So you’ll see this episode as a post on Patreon if you follow me here. You can also listen in your usual podcast app: just search for <strong>The Conscious Misfit</strong> wherever you listen.</p><h3>The Patron‑Only Bonus (the “private juicy bits”)</h3><p>After the main conversation, Rachelle and I drop into a deep and raw bonus segment that felt like ceremony: https://nathan.live/patreon</p><p><strong>We talk about:</strong></p><ul><li><p>Why it can be <u><em>way easier</em></u> to 'hold space' than to be a partner and a parent in real life.</p></li><li><p><strong>My private birth story with our daughter Honey:</strong> a long labour, an emergency, and the practice of how we hold (and speak about) experiences that weren’t the dream… but became medicine.</p></li><li><p>What actually changes a potentially traumatic experience into something integrating: <strong>the quality of support</strong> (and why men need support too, not just responsibility).</p></li><li><p>The 'humble pie' of birth and parenting... and the relief of letting go of righteousness and just being human.</p></li><li><p>Joy, ministry, worship as <em>worthiness</em>, and the practice of singing even when “no one comes.”</p></li><li><p>And we end by getting into the frequency of joy with a live song: <strong>Sway With Me.</strong></p></li></ul><p>If these conversations are medicine for you, become a <strong>co‑creator</strong> of the podcast. Your support keeps this show free from chasing algorithms and advertisers, so I can focus on sharing what’s true, grounded, and genuinely of service.</p><p><strong>Become a Patron to hear the bonus chat and co‑create the show:</strong></p><p><a href="https://nathan.live/patreon" target="_blank">https://nathan.live/patreon</a></p><p>Shoutout to Maria, Brian, Dusky, Martin, Kellie, Trinia, Cassandra, and all the other co‑creators on Patreon. This happens thanks to you. Thank you.</p><p></p></html>
