The Mama Psychedelia Podcast
Mama Psychedelia is a platform to de-stigmatize the psychedelic nature of Parenthood. We celebrate stories of the role of ceremony, entheogenic allies, and the intuitive realms in every state of the parenting journey from pre-conception, postpartum, familial rites of healing and reconciliation, birth, death, and beyond. In each episode of the Mama Psychedelia podcast, we will explore and witness lived experiences of mothers, healers, birth keepers, and ceremonial facilitators. And in the process, open the space for the expansive transformation that these ways can bring in to any human life.This platform is a home for education, de-stigmatization, and enrichment through conversations that center intuition, ancestral guidance, and medicines of the earth. This is not a space to persuade, prescribe or preach.This is, however, a space for radicalism, sovereignty, and enlightening, thought-provoking discussion. One for storytelling, breaking taboos and to share personal truths that shed light on the magic & healing that can come through the childbearing continuum. My invitation while you listen to these stories is that you allow yourself to access your deepest inner knowing, and that you open yourself to connection with the ancestors that walked before us, and to collaborate with them in all you chose to do. My wish is you can recognize the unshakeable truth that exists within you. Please do what you wish with the insight I trust you will receive in every episode of Mama Psychedelia. We are not licensed medical or mental health professionals — nothing said here is medical advice. We don’t promote or advocate for the use of illegal substances; we simply wish to hold space for education, harm reduction, and medicine work that have long histories of use in cultures worldwide.
The Mama Psychedelia Podcast
4. Kanga and Roo: A Surrogacy Story -Michelle Maclean
In this episode of The Mama Psychedelia Podcast, with Michelle Maclean, we chat about her 17 year (and counting) path as a birth worker, her own birthing experiences, and her journey as a surrogate, carrying life that wasn’t her own. We explore the psychedelic nature that comes through giving birth: the hormonal high, the other plane of existence we enter as birthing beings, the expansion. Michelle is a birth and postpartum doula that has been serving families living on the Unceded territories of the Coast Salish nation, also known as Vancouver since 2005, having attended about 1400 births. She is a proud mother of two and surrogate to one. Her vast experience in the birth space has opened her heart in supporting birthing people on all types of journeys, from home water birth to high risk hospital. Michelle co-facilitates a Trans and Queer pregnancy and birth group, teaches prenatal education, she is a mentor Doula, and was a Holistic Doula trainer at Pacific Rim College in Victoria for 9 years. Birth and death is where her heart lies and she will continue to support families in welcoming new life and releasing it for as long she can. This conversation touches me in so many ways, may you receive her magic and her overflowing heart, as we ride the waves together through beauty, challenge, and transformative growth. Michelle is a real life super woman for all that she does and is.
Intro Music "Waters of the Earth" by Satori covered by me, Mackenzie.
(For more of her music, check out her Spotify)
Resources: Where you can find Michelle:
Website: http://thedivinechild.ca/
Michelle@thedivinechild.ca
IG: @divinechild
https://www.instagram.com/divinechild/
"Creative Visualization" -Shakti Gawain
https://www.amazon.com/Creative-Visualization-Power-Imagination-Create/dp/1577312295
Mackenzie's Offerings:
https://snipfeed.co/hunnywomb
IG: @mamapsychedelia
https://www.instagram.com/mamapsychedelia/
@hunnywombdoula
https://www.instagram.com/hunnywombdoula/