It's A Circus - Unfiltered stories of motherhood, identity, and the art of self care

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Hope and Healing with Holly

May 20, 2026 • Season 5 • Episode 6

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Host Elsa welcomes Holly, a craniosacral therapist and somatic practitioner devoted to helping people reconnect with their body’s wisdom, as they discuss motherhood as an initiation filled with grief, surrender, and honesty. Holly shares her unplanned pregnancy after leaving an engagement, an attempted home birth that became a long hospital labor ending in a vacuum attempt and C-section, and a difficult postpartum period marked by breastfeeding struggles, recovery challenges, and feeling unsupported and judged. She explains how these experiences later shaped her work with families and infants, especially around early signs like feeding difficulties, mouth breathing, airway issues, snoring, and sensory sensitivities. Holly also recounts her own health crisis after an HPV shot, which led her to craniosacral therapy, and describes how the modality supports the nervous system, fascia, and overall regulation for both children and parents.

00:00 Meet Holly

02:54 Podcast Mission

05:50 Holly Becomes Mom

07:10 Surprise Pregnancy

13:19 Pregnancy Plans

16:16 Home Birth Derails

19:40 Hospital C Section

25:46 Postpartum Struggles

29:48 Grief and Ego Death

33:39 Another Baby Question

38:52 Judgment and Meltdowns

42:41 Autonomy Over Obedience

44:33 Generational Trauma In Kids

49:55 Motherhood Without Martyrdom

51:48 HPV Shot Health Spiral

57:31 Finding Craniosacral Healing

01:01:47 Pandemic Reactions And Advocacy

01:04:47 Kids Airway And Oral Ties

01:11:53 How Craniosacral Works

01:19:57 Fascia Trauma And Breathwork

01:21:25 Care For The Caregiver

01:23:22 Closing And Community Invite

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Holly Del Valle is a Craniosacral Therapist and somatic practitioner devoted to helping people reconnect with the wisdom of the body. After navigating her own health challenges, she became deeply passionate about showing others just how remarkable the body is at healing, adapting, and finding balance when given the right support. That journey transformed not only her health, but also the way she understood the body, nervous system, and healing itself.

Then motherhood rocked her world.

Becoming a mother shifted everything and had her viewing the body, regulation, development, and healing through an entirely new lens. Through her own experiences and challenges navigating infancy, feeding, airway concerns, regulation, and the things many parents are told are “normal,” she began seeing how many early signs and patterns often go unnoticed. That journey expanded her work beyond individuals and into supporting entire families, infants included.

Today, her approach bridges science, fascia, the nervous system, and subtle energy, helping clients reconnect with safety, coherence, and embodied expansion while remembering that the body is always communicating.

Business Info: Through Hollystic Alchemy, Holly offers private Craniosacral Therapy, lymphatic drainage, fascia focused therapies, workshops, and educational resources designed to empower individuals and families to better understand and support their nervous systems at home. Her mission is helping people move from survival mode into greater resilience, regulation, and embodied expansion.

2–3 Areas of discussion lighting me up: • Fascia and the incredible role it plays in health, compensation patterns, and whole body function • The connection between hypermobility, highly sensitive individuals, and what the body may be communicating through those patterns • Babies and early development, especially the subtle red flags we now recognize through airway, feeding, movement, fascia, and nervous system patterns

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