Borderline Witchcraft: Exploring Spirituality, Birth, and Margo’s Personal Journey

2023-12-27

Midwifery for the People

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In this candid episode, Margo discusses her spiritual journey and how it intersects with her work at Indie Birth. She discusses her shift away from conventional religion towards a more earth-based spirituality that embraces elements from different practices such as earth prayers, shamanic journeying, and tarot. These approaches provide a crucial context for understanding the […]

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On this episode I wanted to share a reading from our book Indie Birth: A Story of Radical Birth Love, and in keeping with the recent theme, I’m sharing the complete story of my first miscarriage. This is one of the most “popular” pieces of content I’ve ever created. I wrote it in 2013 when […]
Death, Blame, Grief and Healing: Personal Notes from a Midwife
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43:36
In this episode of ‘Midwifery for the People,’ host Margo Blackstone shares deeply personal experiences exploring her evolving relationship with death, both in her personal life and professional work as a midwife. She reflects on the profound impact of attending a birth where a baby unexpectedly died, which contributed to her first panic attack and […]
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Dancing with Death In the Birth Space
2024-03-25
35:19
Join Margo on this exploratory first part of a series on death and navigating our relationship to it as birth workers. If we want to shift the cultural narrative so that we honor birth as a right of passage, we will also need to reimagine death as a right of passage. The Western medical perspective […]
Borderline Witchcraft: Exploring Spirituality, Birth, and Margo’s Personal Journey
2023-12-27
In this candid episode, Margo discusses her spiritual journey and how it intersects with her work at Indie Birth. She discusses her shift away from conventional religion towards a more earth-based spirituality that embraces elements from different practices such as earth prayers, shamanic journeying, and tarot. These approaches provide a crucial context for understanding the […]
Healing Your Relationship With Money Even If You Think It Is Evil
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I’m sharing a lesson from my new project Mindful Money Magic because we are also offering a new program called Midwifery Magic, a comprehensive mentorship, up-leveling, magic infusing experience for midwives (or advanced midwifery students). A lot of what I offer in Midwifery Magic crosses over with my work as a financial wellness coach, and […]
A Real Life Story of a Midwife on Trial: an Interview with Angee Hock
2023-03-19
1:11:12
Thousands of women have contacted us over the years expressing their bone deep desire to be a midwife. BUT BUT BUT…they are afraid they will go to jail, be criminalized, or be put on trial. We have addressed their fear of persecution in lots of ways, but in this episode, I talk to Angee Hock, […]
The Relationship Between Midwifery Education and Midwifery Regulation, a Lively Conversation with Jessica from Pacific Birth Institute and Bethel, Chair of the Alaska Board of Certified Direct Entry Midwives
2022-08-16
1:03:57
Listen in on a recent conversation I had with midwives Jessica and Bethel! We talked about the difficulties of educating midwives, why we should focus on educating more awesome birth assistants then, how mandatory MEAC education is crippling Alaskan midwifery, and how Alaskan regulation is restricting women’s access to midwifery care. These two midwives are […]
An Intimate Retelling of Indie Birth Story from Answering the Call to Radical Midwifery Retreat
2022-08-05
43:57
This is a unique episode where you can listen in on a section of our Answering the Call to Radical Midwifery Retreat from April 2022 where Maryn and Margo share the origins of Indie Birth and answer questions from attendees about licensing, underground midwifery, what happens when clients aren’t a good match, fear of persecution […]
Offering Support to Midwifery Preceptors: A Mentoring Session with a Greek Midwife!
2022-07-28
45:38
Listen in on this coaching and consulting session where Margo answers questions and talks all things preceptorship with a lovely Greek midwife. She had trained in the UK where the apprenticeship/hands on learning looks quite different than the model we teach. One of our students reached out to her about the potential to apprentice and […]
Understanding the Landscape of Mental Health and Wellness in Pregnancy and the Postpartum with Jennifer Summerfeldt
2022-07-19
1:02:14
Join me for another awesome discussion (best one yet?!) with Jennifer, whose work I admire so much. As a midwife I have seen how mental health, overcoming limiting beliefs, and tapping into your own power is essential if we are going to reclaim birth. Jennifer’s nervous system focused approach feels like it is an essential […]

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Borderline Witchcraft: Exploring Spirituality, Birth, and Margo’s Personal Journey

Midwifery for the People

Fler avsnitt från "Midwifery for the People"

Sacred Loss: The Story of My First Miscarriage

Death, Blame, Grief and Healing: Personal Notes from a Midwife

Dancing with Death In the Birth Space

Borderline Witchcraft: Exploring Spirituality, Birth, and Margo’s Personal Journey

Healing Your Relationship With Money Even If You Think It Is Evil

A Real Life Story of a Midwife on Trial: an Interview with Angee Hock

The Relationship Between Midwifery Education and Midwifery Regulation, a Lively Conversation with Jessica from Pacific Birth Institute and Bethel, Chair of the Alaska Board of Certified Direct Entry Midwives

An Intimate Retelling of Indie Birth Story from Answering the Call to Radical Midwifery Retreat

Offering Support to Midwifery Preceptors: A Mentoring Session with a Greek Midwife!

Understanding the Landscape of Mental Health and Wellness in Pregnancy and the Postpartum with Jennifer Summerfeldt