Sacred Window Podcast: Nurturing Awareness in Postpartum Care

The Sacred Window Podcast is a voice for change and growth in shifting the current paradigm in postpartum care. We discuss a variety of topics that range from abortion to eating in postpartum. We are a community passionate about bringing awareness to all aspects of the emotional, physical and spiritual wellbeing during the postpartum time. This podcast is created by the Center for Sacred Window Studies, an organization that trains current and aspiring doulas and other birth professionals in conscious care for the sacred postpartum window.Visit www.sacredwindowstudies.com to learn more.

Sacred Window Podcast: Nurturing Awareness in Postpartum Care is a health podcast hosted by Christine Devlin Eck, with 123 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80.

Christine Devlin Eck hosts Sacred Window Podcast: Nurturing Awareness in Postpartum Care, a health show with 123 episodes published.

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  Creating Safer Births: Advocacy, Birth Trauma, and the Role of the Doula with Gina Mundy

  Sep 16, 202646 min

  What contributes to a safer birth experience, and how can families and birth workers prepare to recognize and respond to challenges during labor and delivery? In this episode of the Sacred Window Podcast, Christine Eck speaks with Gina Mundy, an attorney, author, mother of three, and childbirth safety advocate who has spent more than 23 years specializing in childbirth cases and birth trauma litigation. Gina shares insights from her work identifying recurring patterns in preventable childbirth mistakes, including induction, Pitocin, fetal monitoring, communication, and hospital pressures. The conversation explores the importance of birth planning, informed preparation, and the role of doulas as advocates, communicators, and supportive bridges between families and medical teams. Christine and Gina also discuss birth trauma, including experiences that may be overlooked when everyone appears physically well. They explore how families can receive compassionate, individualized postpartum support and why preparation before birth can make a meaningful difference. In this episode, we explore: Preventable mistakes during labor and delivery Induction of labor and the use of Pitocin Birth planning and informed preparation Doulas as advocates and communication bridges Navigating communication with medical professionals Recognizing and supporting birth trauma Practical postpartum care following a difficult birth Preparing families before labor begins Resources Mentioned: The Parent’s Guide to a Safer Childbirth Childbirth Attorney Podcast Safer Childbirth Community This conversation is for educational purposes and is not a substitute for individualized medical or legal advice. - Guest: Gina Mundy Gina Mundy is a prominent American attorney, bestselling author, speaker, podcaster, and mother of three. For over 23 years, she has specialized in childbirth cases and birth trauma litigation, traveling the country meeting with doctors, nurses, and midwives, spending thousands of hours analyzing medical records, interviewing delivery teams, and cross-examining the nation's top experts, all to answer one haunting question: why does the most joyful day of a family's life sometimes become the worst? What she uncovered changed everything. The mistakes made during labor and delivery are not random. They are patterns, and in most cases, they are preventable. Driven by that discovery, Gina authored A Parent's Guide to a Safer Childbirth and founded the Safer Childbirth Community ( http://Skool.com ), where expecting parents nationwide access the information, tools, and support they need to have a healthy baby. As the host of The Childbirth Attorney Podcast, she delivers real stories, candid expert conversations, and life changing takeaways for expecting families. Gina's mission is simple: " I've seen what goes wrong. Now I'm making sure it doesn't happen to you." Website: https://ginamundy.com/ Podcast : https://www.youtube.com/@thechildbirthattorney Gina’s Book: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0C9KSHZBC?lv=shuf&channelId=500&plpRedirect=mhFallback Email: gm@ginamundy.com - https://sacredwindowstudies.com/free-cookbook/ - Are you feeling the call to know more about Conscious Postpartum Care? Reach out! ⁠Schedule a time with Christine⁠ to find out how this work can transform your care business or provide a meaningful career path. Here is the ⁠link⁠ to our free class @‌sacredwindowstudies Join our ⁠Facebook Group⁠ Podcast Music is Composed by Sara Emmitt, graduate of the Center for Sacred Window Studies. You can hear more of Sara’s incredible music at www.saraemmitt.com . #SacredWindow #ConsciousPostpartumCare #BirthAdvocacy #DoulaSupport #BirthTrauma

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  Ten Seconds to Ourselves: Tova Citrin on Story, Faith, and Finding the Way Back

  Sep 9, 202640 min

  What happens when life asks us to put down the roles we have carried and listen for who we are underneath them? In this episode of the Sacred Window Podcast, Christine Eck sits with author, songwriter, and AI technology executive Tova Citrin for a deeply personal conversation about story, faith, creativity, identity, and finding our way back to ourselves. Tova shares the unexpected path that led her into high tech, despite being drawn from childhood to poetry, spirituality, philosophy, and creative work. Years later, after becoming a mother, going through divorce, losing her job, and living through war, she found herself asking: Who am I, and what do I really want next? The answer led her back to a novel she had written years earlier, back to poetry, back to songwriting, and into new creative territory she never could have predicted. Together, Christine and Tova explore the power of story to help us understand our lives, the intersection of faith, mystery, and destiny, and what can emerge when we make space to hear the quieter voice within. This is a conversation about life transitions, creativity, and the parts of ourselves that may have been waiting patiently for us to return. Sometimes the way forward begins by finding our way back. Listen in to hear Tova’s story, and consider what part of yourself may be asking to be remembered right now. Guest: Tova Citrin Tova Citrin is an author, songwriter, and AI technology executive who believes that stories have the power to transform lives. Born in the United States and now living in Israel, she draws inspiration from spirituality, Jewish mysticism, and the enduring resilience of the human spirit. Her work explores the places where faith, mystery, and destiny intersect. When she's not writing fiction, Tova works in artificial intelligence and trust & safety, helping make the digital world safer. Ten Seconds to Midnight is her debut novel. Links: Website: www.tovacitrin.com YouTube – Aviya Sage: Aviya Sage Ten Seconds to Midnight: Available on Amazon here - Begin your own journey into nourishment and postpartum wisdom: https://sacredwindowstudies.com/free-cookbook/ - Are you feeling the call to know more about Conscious Postpartum Care? Reach out! ⁠Schedule a time with Christine⁠ to find out how this work can transform your care business or provide a meaningful career path. Here is the ⁠link⁠ to our free class @‌sacredwindowstudies Join our ⁠Facebook Group⁠ Podcast Music is Composed by Sara Emmitt, graduate of the Center for Sacred Window Studies. You can hear more of Sara’s incredible music at www.saraemmitt.com .

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  Sexual Healing for Empowered Birth with Stacey Ramsower

  Sep 2, 20261h 14m

  *This episode is taken from a class offered to our student community by the amazing Stacey Ramsower. We are honored to share it here on the Sacred Window podcast as an opportunity to support our listeners. Sexual Healing for Empowered Birth What does sexuality have to do with birth? In this conversation, Stacey Ramsower explores the deep connection between sexuality, embodiment, consent, and empowered birth. Drawing from her lived experience, work as an Ayurvedic full-spectrum doula, holistic pelvic floor bodyworker, intimacy and communication coach, and sex-positive childbirth educator, Stacy invites us to look beneath the surface of our experiences and examine the patterns we carry into pregnancy, birth, relationships, and postpartum. Our early experiences can shape how we understand our bodies, pleasure, safety, boundaries, and self-worth. These imprints can live in the nervous system and influence how we respond to touch, communicate our needs, and advocate for ourselves during significant life transitions. In this episode, Stacey explores the Wheel of Consent and the importance of understanding the difference between giving, receiving, allowing, and tolerating touch. She also discusses the relationship between voice and the pelvic structures, the role of autonomy in birth, and how learning to say "no," "maybe," or "I've changed my mind" can become a powerful practice of self-authorship. The conversation also includes an embodied practice using sound and the three diaphragms of the body, offering a way to connect with the pelvic floor, respiratory diaphragm, and thoracic diaphragm while cultivating a deeper sense of coherence and presence. Together, we explore: • How sexuality and birth are connected through the physical, emotional, psychological, and spiritual layers of our experience • How early family and cultural messages can shape our relationship with sexuality and intimacy • The ways inherited patterns can influence our relationships, boundaries, and sense of self • The Wheel of Consent and developing greater awareness around giving and receiving touch • Why consent is an ongoing practice that can be communicated, felt, changed, and withdrawn • The relationship between voice, the nervous system, the pelvic floor, and birth • How birth can bring deeply held patterns and experiences to the surface • The importance of self-authorship and communicating our needs • Using sound and embodied awareness to support connection and coherence • Creating safer spaces where sexuality, birth, boundaries, and healing can be explored openly This conversation is an invitation to become more curious about your own body, your own patterns, and your own capacity to know what you want. Because empowered birth is not only about what happens to the body. It is also about having a voice, experiencing choice, and knowing that your needs and boundaries matter. Guest: Stacey Ramsower Ayurvedic Full-Spectrum Doula, Holistic Pelvic Floor Bodyworker, Trauma Resolution Practitioner, Intimacy and Communication Coach, Sex-Positive Childbirth Educator, and Doctoral Student in Psychology. Links: Stacey Ramsower, MA ❤️‍ (@stacey_ramsower) • Instagram profile Learn more about the Center for Sacred Window Studies and explore upcoming community gatherings and educational opportunities at Sacred Window Studies. - Begin your own journey into nourishment and postpartum wisdom: https://sacredwindowstudies.com/free-cookbook/ - Are you feeling the call to know more about Conscious Postpartum Care? Reach out! ⁠Schedule a time with Christine⁠ to find out how this work can transform your care business or provide a meaningful career path. Here is the ⁠link⁠ to our free class @‌sacredwindowstudies Join our ⁠Facebook Group⁠ Podcast Music is Composed by Sara Emmitt, graduate of the Center for Sacred Window Studies. You can hear more of Sara’s incredible music at www.saraemmitt.com .

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  Supporting the Hidden Mental Load in Birth and Postpartum with Nina Spears

  Aug 26, 202649 min

  In this episode of the Sacred Window Podcast, Christine Eck welcomes Nina Spears, a longtime birth and postpartum doula, educator, author of The Baby Chick Guide to Positive Pregnancy , and founder and CEO of Baby Chick. Together, they explore the hidden mental load that can begin long before a baby arrives and how families can prepare for birth and postpartum with more support, connection, and shared responsibility. Even when expecting parents read the books, take the classes, make the checklists, and do everything they can to prepare, the transition into parenthood can still bring overwhelm, uncertainty, and a profound shift in identity. Christine and Nina reflect on the pressure to stay productive, the practice of slowing down and becoming present, and the importance of listening to what the body, baby, and family truly need in each moment. They also explore why support is often what families wish they had prioritized most. From building a village before it is needed to identifying trusted resources, connecting with other parents, and allowing ourselves to receive care, this conversation is a reminder that parenthood was never meant to be navigated alone. A central part of this conversation is the invisible mental load that many mothers begin carrying during pregnancy. Nina shares how the responsibility of researching providers, planning for birth, preparing the home, arranging childcare, and managing countless decisions can quietly become overwhelming. She offers a powerful invitation to bring partners into the process from the beginning, share responsibilities according to individual strengths, and move away from one person carrying the role of manager for the entire family. This episode is a thoughtful conversation about preparation, surrender, partnership, and the healing power of being supported. Because while we cannot control exactly how birth or postpartum will unfold, we can gather knowledge, create our support systems, and remember that we do not have to walk through this journey blind or alone. Bio: Nina Spears , also known as “The Baby Chick," is a certified baby planner, birth and postpartum doula, childbirth educator, newborn care educator, infant massage instructor, perinatal nutrition expert, and the Founder & CEO of Baby Chick®, a trusted digital media resource that has supported millions of expecting and new parents worldwide. For more than 15 years, she has helped over 800 families in person and thousands virtually prepare for pregnancy, birth, postpartum, and parenthood, and has attended more than 350 births. Nina is also the host of Chick Chat: The Baby Chick Podcast and the author of The Baby Chick Guide to Positive Pregnancy . Her mission is to help parents feel informed, supported, and empowered as they navigate one of life's greatest transformations. Links: Baby Chick: Trusted Pregnancy Tips, Birth & Parenting Support Positive Pregnancy Book nina@baby-chick.com - Begin your own journey into nourishment and postpartum wisdom: https://sacredwindowstudies.com/free-cookbook/ - Are you feeling the call to know more about Conscious Postpartum Care? Reach out! ⁠Schedule a time with Christine⁠ to find out how this work can transform your care business or provide a meaningful career path. Here is the ⁠link⁠ to our free class @‌sacredwindowstudies Join our ⁠Facebook Group⁠ Podcast Music is Composed by Sara Emmitt, graduate of the Center for Sacred Window Studies. You can hear more of Sara’s incredible music at www.saraemmitt.com .

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  Ayurvedic Postpartum Care for Cesarean Recovery with Ashlee Sakaishi Wilkin

  Aug 19, 20261h 31m

  This episode is from a live workshop with Ashlee Sakaishi Wilkin, hosted for our student and professional communities. A cesarean birth is a major abdominal surgery, and recovery can bring a unique set of physical, emotional, and practical needs into the sacred postpartum window. In this conversation, Ashlee shares from both her experience as a postpartum caregiver and her own experience recovering from a cesarean birth. Through an Ayurvedic lens, we explore the increased vata that accompanies birth and surgery, and how conscious postpartum care can help bring warmth, nourishment, rest, presence, and support to the recovery process. Ashlee and Christine discuss practical considerations for supporting cesarean clients, including preparing for the cold and sensory intensity of the operating room, supporting digestion and elimination, nourishing tissue repair, managing pain, creating physical ease during those first days of recovery, and recognizing the emotional impact of a birth that may not have unfolded as planned. The conversation also brings us back to the Universal Mother Principles: love, simplicity, compassion, flexibility, non-judgment, community, intuition, and listening. These principles remind us that conscious caregiving is not about following a perfect protocol. It is about listening closely, meeting each person where they are, and creating circles of care around the birther and family. This is a practical and deeply personal conversation for postpartum caregivers, doulas, Ayurvedic practitioners, birth professionals, and anyone wanting to better understand how we can offer informed, compassionate care after cesarean birth. As Ashlee reminds us, the small things can make a profound difference during recovery. Sometimes conscious care begins with simply knowing what someone may need before they have to ask. Learn more about conscious postpartum care and the Center for Sacred Window Studies at sacredwindowstudies.com. This episode is educational in nature and is not a substitute for individualized medical care. Cesarean recovery and wound care should always be supported in partnership with the appropriate medical professionals. Bio: Ashlee Sakaishi Wilkin Ashlee is a founding instructor of the Center for Sacred Window Studies. She is a mama, an Ayurvedic Practitioner, a Massage Therapist, Birth and Postpartum Doula and educator. She has been fascinated and inspired by birth, babies, and pregnant mama bellies since she was a little girl. Growing up, she witnessed the birth miracle of baby animals many times at her mom’s Veterinary hospital. This and other life experiences planted the seed for her life-long interest in birth work. She is passionate about transforming our cultural perspective on pregnancy, birth, postpartum, and parenting by bringing back ancient wisdom for the modern family. - Begin your own journey into nourishment and postpartum wisdom: https://sacredwindowstudies.com/free-cookbook/ - Are you feeling the call to know more about Conscious Postpartum Care? Reach out! ⁠Schedule a time with Christine⁠ to find out how this work can transform your care business or provide a meaningful career path. Here is the ⁠link⁠ to our free class @‌sacredwindowstudies Join our ⁠Facebook Group⁠ Podcast Music is Composed by Sara Emmitt, graduate of the Center for Sacred Window Studies. You can hear more of Sara’s incredible music at www.saraemmitt.com .

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