The Womben Wellness Podcast

You Need to Be a B*tch to Not Get Sick with Dr. Sarah Campbell

What if the reason so many women are chronically sick isn't just physical? If you've ever held in your anger, tried to find the more 'spiritual' route, or bypassed your way to indifference… you'll want to give this one a listen. In this rich episode with Dr. Sarah Campbell, we sit down and explore how our beliefs influence our health, how to finally belong to ourselves, and how to stop outsourcing our sense of safety. Dr. Sarah Campbell is a root cause medicine practitioner, mind-body medicine specialist, and creator of the Root Cause Academy. She developed an autoimmune disease in 2021, and what she discovered on the other side completely changed how she practices medicine and how she understands why certain women get sick. In this episode, we covered… 00:06:21 - The specific archetype of woman who develops autoimmune disease, and why. 00:07:55 - How unmet childhood needs become the invisible constraints running your adult life. 00:09:07 - Why nervous system regulation work alone will never be enough. 00:11:04 - What's actually happening when you keep looking for safety outside yourself. 00:41:32 - The direct link between your relationship with anger and your relationship with boundaries. 00:44:22 - What's underneath rage that most people never touch - and why that matters. 00:47:50 - The fear that stops women from going into their emotions, and why it isn't true. 00:48:36 - The difference between understanding your trauma and actually healing it. 00:59:23 - Why affirmations don't work for most people, and what to do instead. 01:01:59 - Dr. Sarah's take on the "low vibration creates disease" narrative circulating in wellness spaces. 01:04:26 - A reframe of chronic illness that might be hard to hear - and might also change everything. 01:16:16 - The two things Dr. Sarah says are non-negotiable for healing anxiety at its root. 01:19:09 - Why believing in something bigger than yourself isn't spiritual - it's physiological. Episode Links: Continue this work... Womben Wellness: 🔥 Restore Balance to Your Womb & Release Chronic Jaw Tension: https://bit.ly/48G8RQG [https://bit.ly/48G8RQG] 🧘‍♀️Join the Only Place I Mentor Women on the Internet: https://bit.ly/4pVyao3 [https://bit.ly/4pVyao3] 💌Weekly Womben Wellness Newsletter: https://www.go.wombenwellness.com/join [https://www.go.wombenwellness.com/join] 🌐Website: https://www.wombenwellness.com/ [https://www.wombenwellness.com/] 📸Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/wombenwellness [https://www.instagram.com/wombenwellness] Find Dr. Sarah Campbell: 📸Instagram: @medicine_mami [https://www.instagram.com/medicine_mami/] 🫚Root Cause Academy (flagship group program): https://medicinemami.mykajabi.com/guthealing [https://medicinemami.mykajabi.com/guthealing]

Motherhood as Ego Death: Postpartum, Grief & Repair with Rachelle Seliga

This conversation with Rachelle Seliga is one of the most important I've ever recorded. I came into this episode feeling activated - because postpartum was one of the hardest, most disorienting thresholds of my life. I got pregnant during COVID, gave birth in deep isolation, and despite years as a doula and womb health educator, postpartum broke me open in ways I never anticipated. Rachelle and I speak honestly about what postpartum actually is, why six weeks was never enough, and why so many of us are still carrying grief from a time that was never properly held. In our conversation, we talked about: * 00:00 - Introduction & why postpartum was the most activating threshold of Usha's life * 01:19 - Why postpartum is an imprint for the mother, baby, and family system * 05:31 - How long is postpartum, really? Six weeks, three months, nine months, three years, all of life * 11:19 - Co-sleeping, nervous system tracking, and when separation happens on the child's terms * 20:09 - Grief and repair when postpartum was never properly held * 28:50 - Postpartum depression, postpartum psychosis, and the power of social support as the real preventative * 30:59 - The fracture between maidens and mothers, and why everyone is responsible for supporting mothers * 36:16 - The father's role in postpartum and why a partner was never meant to be a village * 50:58 - How to build community and real support in the modern world, practically * 1:19:22 - How unprocessed material in the mother manifests in the child's body, and why treating the mother heals the child This episode is not polished. It's a real invitation to grieve what was never given, stop pretending motherhood is meant to be endured alone, and to meet postpartum - and womanhood - with the reverence it deserves. If you've ever felt undone by motherhood… this conversation is for you. Connect + Continue If this episode moved you and you're ready to hold this kind of space for other women, Womb Circle Facilitator Training is now open. Learn how to guide women through the initiations of womb health, postpartum, grief, and cyclical wisdom inside a structured, embodied container. 👉https://bit.ly/41lG1kp [https://bit.ly/41lG1kp] 💌 Get my weekly Womben Wellness Tea Newsletter: https://www.go.wombenwellness.com/join [https://www.go.wombenwellness.com/join] 🌐 Website: https://www.wombenwellness.com [https://www.wombenwellness.com] 📸 Follow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/wombenwellness [https://www.instagram.com/wombenwellness] Want to learn more about Rachelle? 🌐 Website: www.innatetraditions.com 📸 Instagram: @innatetraditions 📚Rachelle's blog on postpartum: https://www.innatetraditions.com/blog/how-long-is-postpartum Download Rachelle's FREE BOOKLET: The 5 Cross-Cultural Prescriptions of Postpartum Wellness https://www.innatetraditions.com/postpartum-care

From Corporate to Circle: What It Really Takes to Lead Women's Healing Spaces

Want to hear from more womb circle facilitators? Join me on March 25th at 10am PT for one of my most-loved free wokshops, Work Like a Girl: Feminine-Based Business: https://bit.ly/4sJph25 Three graduates of my Womb Circle Facilitator Certification - Kelly Rae Kerwin, Melissa O'Malley, and Jennifer Gimeno - join me for a raw, honest conversation about what it actually takes to lead women's healing spaces in the world. This one is for you if you've ever asked yourself "who am I to do this?". We talk imposter syndrome, the cost of performing vs. sharing, energetic protection, the medicine of circle work, and so much more. These women have done the trainings, made the leaps, and they're here to walk you through it, too. Here's what you can expect... 00:00 - Opening: "The only time imposter syndrome cannot exist is when you're being yourself" 04:13 - Meet the guests: Melissa the Self-Care Witch, Kelly Rae the birth-worker-turned-energy-healer, and Jenny the ex-hairstylist turned somatic facilitator 11:16 - Leaving the "normal" path: the inner knowing of fuck no and why it's so scary to follow it 13:34 - Jenny's ultimate hack for imposter syndrome (and why it works every single time) 18:10 - Kelly Rae on healing her early-twenties self as the key to stepping into leadership 22:46 - Performing vs. sharing: why performing is exhausting and how one small language shift changes everything 27:19 - Show your scars, not your wounds: how to be vulnerable online without bleeding on your audience 34:21 - Your body is a love story: Jenny on somatics, nervous system safety, and teaching from lived experience 43:28 - What actually happens in your circles when you stop performing and just show up real 47:52 - Melissa on the moment she brought herself into the circle - and how it unlocked everything for her participants 54:50 - One-on-one vs. group work: the unique medicine of community healing and why if the wounding happens in community, the healing must too 01:01:48 - Jenny's anonymous bowl exercise and the magic of watching women see themselves in each other 01:06:26 - Energetic protection: how to hold space for other women's pain without carrying it home 01:17:39 - What makes Womb Circle Facilitator Certification different from every other training these women have done 01:26:42 - Billboard wisdom: if every woman in the world could read one thing, what would it be? Connect + Continue 🔥 Register now for my FREE workshop, Work Like a Girl: Feminine-Based Business: https://bit.ly/4sJph25 💌 Get my weekly Womben Wellness Tea Newsletter: https://www.go.wombenwellness.com/join [https://www.go.wombenwellness.com/join] 🌐 Website: https://www.wombenwellness.com [https://www.wombenwellness.com/] 📸 Follow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/wombenwellness [https://www.instagram.com/wombenwellness] Want to learn more about our speakers? Melissa O'Malley Melissa O'Malley is a healing circle facilitator, coach, and birth and postpartum doula devoted to creating spaces for embodied and cyclical healing. With a Master's degree in Clinical Counseling, she spent years facilitating therapeutic groups and community healing circles, weaving together psychological insight, ritual, and somatic practice. Over time, her work has deepened to intentionally include womb wisdom, moon work, and body-based healing, alongside breathwork and sacred ceremony. Melissa has facilitated over 600 circles across clinical and community settings and is passionate about creating spaces where people feel safe to be seen, witnessed, and transformed in community. 📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theselfcarewitch/ [https://www.instagram.com/theselfcarewitch/] Jennifer Jimeno Jennifer is a somatic and embodiment guide devoted to helping women remember who they are through the wisdom of their bodies. Motherhood and her own seasons of becoming taught her that we don't need to fix ourselves, we need to listen more deeply. Jennifer guides women back into self-trust, nervous system understanding, and embodied truth so they can thrive without abandoning themselves. 📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jenniferjimeno_/ [https://www.instagram.com/jenniferjimeno_/] Kelly Rae Kerwin Kelly Rae Kerwin is an integrative spiritual mentor devoted to guiding women back to their innate power. Before stepping into the Womb Circle Facilitator Certification, she was already holding sacred ceremonies and spaces for women, rooted in grounded healing, embodiment, and deep spiritual remembrance. What began as professional expansion became a profound personal initiation. Within the container of the certification, Kelly was able to tend to deep sisterhood wounds in a way that hadn't been accessible anywhere else - transforming not just her facilitation, but her relationship to feminine community itself. 📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kelly.rae.kerwin/ [https://www.instagram.com/kelly.rae.kerwin/]

Erotic Liberation: Healing Sexual Shame Without Losing Yourself with The Libido Fairy

I recently sat down with somatic sex educator and relationship expert Hannah Johnson (The Libido Fairy) to face something that still stirs so much discomfort in me: my own sexuality. Despite years of teaching womb health, sex has remained a largely private and unspoken topic in public work for me. Growing up in a Catholic household where my body and sexual expression were shamed, I share how early conditioning shaped my relationship to pleasure, desire, and visibility. Here's what you can expect… 00:00 - Why sex is still so hard to talk about 03:40 - The anatomy lesson: why women often don't orgasm during sex 08:13 - Knowing your own body before expecting a partner to 12:40 - Live somatic session: working through sexual shame in real time 17:00 - "If I step into my power, I'll lose everyone I love" 26:00 - Why repressing desire makes it stronger, not weaker 33:00 - What self-forgiveness after sexual trauma actually looks like 37:21 - Why women's libido is tied to emotional connection 41:47 - Mismatched libido affects 80% of couples - what to do 01:02:24 - Using fantasy, kink, and imagination to heal and connect I share personal stories of early sexual exploration, confusion, and the long journey toward understanding my own anatomy and pleasure. Hannah reframes sexual self-knowledge as empowerment, agency, and liberation - encouraging women to reclaim pleasure without waiting to be "rescued." The conversation moves into a live somatic exploration, where Hannah gently guides me through body-based inquiry around sexual power, fear, and safety. This episode is an invitation to release shame, reclaim aliveness, and remember that sexual energy, creativity, joy, and power all come from the same source. Connect + Continue 🔥Register now for my FREE class, From 1:1 to Group Magic: https://bit.ly/3PqF2fX [https://bit.ly/3PqF2fX] 💌 Get my weekly Womben Wellness Tea Newsletter: https://www.go.wombenwellness.com/join [https://www.go.wombenwellness.com/join] 🌐 Website: https://www.wombenwellness.com [https://www.wombenwellness.com/] 📸 Follow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/wombenwellness [https://www.instagram.com/wombenwellness] Want to learn more from Hannah? Hannah is a sex educator and coach with a specialty in helping women in relationships increase libido and enjoy sex. If you'd like to explore your sexuality with her, check out her free Libido Quiz here: https://freebies.thelibidofairy.com/libido-quiz 🌐 Website: https://www.libidofairy.com/ ▶️ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCW-m6oSPQcoMV1dhN2hhZqg 📸 Instagram: instagram.com/thelibidofairy

The Secret Behind Guiding 11,000 Women in Healing Circles

If you feel called to lead healing women's spaces but keep getting stuck in "who's going to take me seriously?" or the sense that you need to be 100% perfect before you lead, listen up. In this episode, I take you through the secrets behind guiding over 11,000 women in healing circles for the last 11 years. Transformational healing goes way beyond just being good at "holding space", and in this episode I'll break down for you some of the most important pillars successful graduates of my programs integrate in order to become torchbearers of this work in their communities. It's time to move out of isolation and back into the circle. In this episode, you'll learn how to share your medicine as we explore: The truth about Imposter Syndrome How to differentiate between the fear that keeps you hidden and the healthy barometer that tells you it's time to build a solid framework. Creating Coherence & Harmony through Principles and Agreements Why Confidentiality and Choice are the bones of a healing space. When you give women the power to listen to their own bodies over yours, the pressure to be a perfect leader vanishes. The Kite String of Nervous System Regulation How to use your own breath and presence to anchor the energy of a room. You'll learn why your own embodiment is the greatest tool you have as a facilitator. Attunement over Perfection Why being a levitating, enlightened healer isn't the goal. Real healing happens when you have the capacity to simply be with another woman in her humanity without trying to fix her. Healing the Witch Wound How to let your freak flag fly and step out of the broom closet. We discuss how to create spaces where women can finally feel safe enough to be seen. Rites of Passage and the Womb Portal Why women's physiological transitions (menarche, pregnancy, menopause) are natural altered states that require a village to hold and honor them. This episode is an invitation to start reclaiming the original oral and healing traditions that belong to us all. Connect + Continue 🔥 Lead Women 🔥 Register now for my Womb Circle Facilitator Training: https://bit.ly/4rFS2gi [https://bit.ly/4rFS2gi] 💌 Get my weekly Womben Wellness Tea Newsletter: https://www.go.wombenwellness.com/join [https://www.go.wombenwellness.com/join] 🌐 Website: https://www.wombenwellness.com [https://www.wombenwellness.com/] 📸 Follow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/wombenwellness [https://www.instagram.com/wombenwellness]