Her Return with Lindsey Curtis

Today's episode is a gem with Michaeleen Doucleff, PhD and New York Times bestselling author. Michaeleen's incredible parenting book Hunt, Gather, Parent was written after traveling to three continents with her then 3-year-old daughter, Rosy. Maya, Inuit, and Hadzabe families showed her how to tame tantrums, motivate kids to be helpful, and build children’s confidence and self-sufficiency.  One of my favorite parenting books, I am thrilled to share this convo with you. We sit down to talk about key points, Michaeleen tells examples beyond the book, and how she sees the efficacy of applying the work - with her emotionally intelligent now 7 year old daughter as living evidence. We touch upon: Togetherness Encouraging helpfulness Cultivating belonging, competence, & autonomy Building connectedness & decreasing conflict Benevolence of child motivations Let us know what you are taking away to play with in the comments below.   Stay connected with Michaeleen by email - mdoucleff@npr.org * Sign up for Lindsey's email list here for updates and offerings. 

Beyond the concept is the lived reality of how we relate to & live the experience of consent. Inspired by a recent experience while wedding dress shopping where I was confronted with having my consent not even considered, this episode is devoted to opening up on embodying consent.  Listen to receive more on: Body is conscious Necessity of medical consent   When body knows it's safe you open Breastfeeding & embodying consent Deeply profound orgasmic pleasures    Mentioned Ep 52 Aurelie & Pelvic Medicine.   Sign up for Lindsey's email list here.   

Sit with Lindsey as she muses on creativity mingled with updates on her life.    From balancing yang/yin & feminine and masculine inner dynamics to where is our creative life force energy stuck or blocked and needing to flow, this episode is devoted to flourishing creatively.    Listen until the end for a dreaming practice that'll get you greater clarity within your nighttime dreaming.   *   Schedule a 1:1 consult call to serve your creativity.  * Connect with her on Instagram here. 

Today Lindsey invites Mama Manon onto the podcast for this conversation about holistic parenting.  Manon's unique holistic parenting approach combines compassionate space holding, nervous system regulation, and healing of attachment or relational traumas. Her 1:1 sessions and online courses support parents around the world in somatic healing & respectful parenting.   Entering parenthood is one of the greatest initiations and invitations to do the work of realizing what is within us & what we desire to transform in service of our children. When we choose to do this sacred work, we are gifted with experiencing ourselves the way we always have dreamed to be and are able to parent from this grounded loving space.    Listen to receive on: Inner child healing Mind Body Integration Being in relationship with our children  Anger & the shame spiral Kids push for our authenticity Connect with Manon: www.MamaManon.com on Facebook and Instagram.    * Related Episodes:  #45 Mother Wound  #47 Sacred Anger #39 Self-Parenting  * Sign up for email updates with Lindsey at www.HerReturn.com  

Welcomed back for the third time to the podcast today is Claudia Kaiser. Lindsey & Claudia sit down to open up Claudia's recently published book - The Fertile Path.  "A soil that is fertile is healthy and full of life, moving, productive, evolving, growing, decaying and changing," and this is also how Claudia defines a fertile person - richly alive, healthy and vibrant.   Have a listen to receive more on: Subfertility versus infertility How conception doesn't necessarily mean fully fertile Stress hormones or Sex hormones Opening up to our fullest fertile potential Connect with Claudia at www.caminodelafertilidad.com Check out her retreat here.    * Sign up for email updates with Lindsey at www.HerReturn.com  

Whenever I notice a pattern I do my best to speak to it. Three sessions in a week recently we touched on empaths/highly sensitive people and our gifts & burdens. Inspired, I've made an episode to tell a bit more about what I see.    Listen to receive on: Boundary development Internal referencing  Heart embodiment Empathy as evolutionary step towards compassion * Sign up for email updates with Lindsey at www.HerReturn.com    

"We've all been in pelvises, we come from pelvises."   This week's guest is Aurélie de Schoutheete, an osteopath and medicine woman in her own right. Aurélie started her career as a cranial osteopath for babies over 20 yers ago, her practice has shifted to supporting women in embodying themselves within their pelvis and through working with the fascia & muscles vaginally. She also leads women circles with her blood sister for the last decade, training other circle leaders & teaching an online program sensory gyn-ecology - all about retaking ownership of vulva vagina & womb outside and beyond patriarchy and the medical model. In addition to all that she’s a mother of two, loves resting as a spiritual practice and connecting with the earth through gardening. In this episode Lindsey & Aurélie dive deep into the mysteries that the pelvis encompass, the healing that can unfurl when we connect through our tissues, and the incredible intelligence that rests within.  Listen to receive me on: Mechanical, Energetic & Transgenerational information stored within How we model & impact the world by being in our own vitality How the body always goes towards healing & vitality Intravaginal tissue release & full body relaxation Anchoring into body connection & consent Connect with Aurélie  www.osteonatal.com/ Pour les francophones en ligne - www.lualuna.com/ &  on Facebook   * Sign up for email updates with Lindsey at www.HerReturn.com  

Have you ever held a newborn baby and witnessed their embodied knowing that they will be taken care of, just as he/she always has been? That level of unshakable Trust & Faith that all is perfect as it is? Not all babies exhibit it, due to life experiences post or prenatally, ancestral inheritances, and the mystical makeup of the individual, but if you've ever been able to witness it - you were touched.   This episode is devoted to opening up the cultivation of Trust that is available to us all. Trusting in the Beauty & Goodness of Life can sometimes feel like work, but really what more fulfilling work could there be?   Listen to the end for Lindsey's favorite Water Ritual to support your Trust cultivation today.   Mentioned is : Ep #45 Mother Wound      Sign up for newsletter updates at www.HerReturn.com  

50 episodes! Through this podcast I've found the truth of the saying 'your work works you more than you work it.'  In celebration of that truth, I devote this episode to reflecting on the podcast, celebrating the 50 episodes that have been & the 50 and more to come.   Sign up for newsletter updates & opportunities at www.HerReturn.com

What is success?    Today I invite you to redefine it from some sort of externally validated form into an embodied experience.    Redefining what success is based upon aligning to what is one's Soul's aim & purpose? What is it that I am here on Earth to create & fulfill?   How do we do it? Listen to this episode to receive more inspiration on:  Dreams guide from Soul Embodiment & sensuality  Aligning with values     Signup for love note updates at www.HerReturn.com

Today Lindsey sits with her teacher, Dr. Catherine Shainberg, for this episode devoted to the subversive nature of dreaming.    Catherine is an internationally renowned teacher, healer, psychologist, and dream and imagery expert. She is the lineage holder the Kabbalah of Light, an 800 year old legacy transmitted to her by Colette Aboulker-Mouscat. The founder of the School of Images, Catherine is dedicated to teaching the techniques of this ancient tradition through imagery & dreaming workshops worldwide and through her books Kabbalah and the Power of Dreaming, DreamBirth, and the Kabbalah of Light.    "The work consists of turning the conscious mind back to looking into the subconscious mind" says Dr. Catherine Shainberg in describing the process of inner gazing, which is the fundamental practice in which we as dreamers engage.     Storytelling, teaching, informing & giving a message of hope for where we are and where we are consciously dreaming ourselves toward, this episode has something for us all to receive & take with us into the dreamtime.    Listen to enjoy more on: The difference between fantasy & true dreaming Discovering meaning within dreams Looking inside to grow in Life Pause as key to transformation Coming back to unity   Connect with Catherine at www.theschoolofimages.org   *   Sign up for email updates from Lindsey at www.herreturn.com

You are an animal being, human with a primal animal body within you.    This episode is devoted to integrating your animalistic anger and rage, so that the sacredness of anger can clearly guide you in what to give your creative energy to.    Anger is here to serve Life. First we need to get clear with the energy of anger, get comfortable with what it does within the body, and then choose to direct that energy elsewhere.   If we have a lot of backup anger, or are already stressed & dysregulated, then expressing it in healthy physically embodied ways is often more accessible than making another creative movement.   Boundaries, nourished with needs met, a woman with a healthy relationship to anger is blessed, protected and guided.     Related to this topic : Episode #37 Shadow Work Episode #39 Self-Parenting Episode #41 The Unknown    Sign up for newsletter updates at https://www.herreturn.com/

Lindsey sits with Sheila Kamara Hay for this episode devoted to expansive sensual living. Sheila is a mother of 3, a Yale and Columbia trained cultural sociologist,  and founder of Ecstatic Birth. Sheila empowers women around the globe to understand and HONOR their feminine flow and locate their FIERCE FEMININE POWER while they birth their babies, their soul’s creations and re-birth themselves. As an Ecstatic Birth advocate and coach, Sheila trains birth practitioners and expectant moms around the globe to integrate the most holistic birthing tool, PLEASURE, in birth preparation and support. Whether you are birthing a baby or your soul’s work, birth is a journey to be thoroughly ENJOYED, rather than endured. Together Sheila & Lindsey open up on shifting from living from the head to being moved by desire, the strength that comes from feeling all that is, and the how the wisdom of birth's movements can guide us through all our creations.     Listen to enjoy more on:  Ecstatic birth The labor of intensity Feminine Flow of Creation How pleasure brings safety  Feeling your way through decisions   Check out https://ecstaticbirth.pro/pleasure-rebirth to receive Sheila's gifted 3 part journey. Then connect with Sheila on Instagram, Youtube, or via email @ sheila@ecstatic-birth.com   * Also related to this episode: Episode #43 Orgasmic Experiences Episode #41 The Unknown Episode #11 Sex is my Religion      

The Mother Wound, the greatest wounding that we have on this dear Earth of ours. In this episode Lindsey opens up on what the Mother Wound is, how it's been experienced and transformed throughout her life, and how this wounding may be showing up in your life.    From the rejection of vulnerability, hiding in the mind, and being guarded against the feminine, to opening up to the purest frequencies of the Divine Mother & Mother Earth embodied, the integration & transformation of the Mother Wound is our greatest invitation today.   May this episode be inspiration for our never ending journeys of integration of wholeness.   Listen to receive more on: Pure Alignment with Desire Addiction = Distraction from Pain Rejection of the Mother & Mothering Mother Wounding in Motherhood, Motherless Mom Mothering Inside & Outside - self, children, & projects   Mentioned in the episode Ep #39 Self-Parenting + Reparenting Self   Sign up for newsletter updates at www.herreturn.com  

Welcome to PeriMenopause with this week's returning guest, Keri Krieger. You may remember Keri from Episode #10, the Chinese medicine woman who weaves magical & whimsical dreaming wisdom through all that she transmits. Keri is on a mission to open us up to "The transition that starts the arching of life's seasons shifting..." which is perimenopause. I am so excited to share this perspective opening conversation about this 15 year window that precedes menopause.  The magic, the medicine, and the invitation for greater softening and opening within your female experience is all within.   Enjoy for more on: Going beyond symptomatology  Perimenopause's invitation & preparations Energetic, Social & Cultural perspectives of this shift Ancient Chinese wisdom about this transitional space     Episodes mentioned within: Episode #10  Keri Krieger  Episode #36  Mikailah Star Witch

In this episode Lindsey exposes her orgasmic nature, talking you through her journey of openness, trauma & closure, reopening, healing & integration, and the continuing of activating expansion.    Have a listen to receive more on: Orgasmic Nature Surrendering to the unknown Sexual Trauma revealed & resolved The keys to opening your capacity up Nipple orgasm, cervical, heart, throat, and more - types of orgasms   Book your consult for Courting Desire and soften into your orgasmic nature.   Mentioned in this episode: Episode #41 The Unknown Episode #11 Sex is My Religion

Kate Christensen is sitting with Lindsey to be this week's guest and generously open up all about her body of work- the Art of Mothering. Getting intimate with assertiveness and the spectrum of anger, releasing toxic self-sufficiency, and the beauty that motherhood allows us to embody are all expanded upon in this episode.    Kate is a Sacred Female & Hatha Yoga teacher, and soon to be certified Women’s Embodiment Psychotherapist & Coach. Since 2016, she's been on a deep & messy journey of feminine awakening and reclamation. Female Embodiment and Aware Parenting are the tools she uses to reconnect with her body, emotions and authentic self and move beyond perfectionism. Kate focuses on helping mothers to mother themselves and to recognize that their wellbeing is the greatest contribution and gift they can offer both their families and the human collective.    Enjoy this episode to receive more on: Kate's personal journey  Tears & tantrums  Anger - Assertiveness spectrum Capacity to Repair & Compassion   Connect with Kate on instagram, Facebook and her online studio Her Space.    Mentioned within are episodes: #39 Self Parenting #25 Tiffany & Human Design #2 Devashi Shakti

This episodes opens up the greatness that is sitting with the Unknown. An authentic life is guided by the unknown, and it takes great courage to sit & soften into the unknown & allow it to make of us what the Divine will.    Listen to receive on: Being in open space to feeling it all Blood, orgasms, your female form Letting go of the unknown logic & settling into the connection of the deep knowing of Soul guiding forward Wholeness includes mystery & the deep dark womb space Specific recommendations for your female Self to meet the unknown through your body & life experiences are included. Hint- your Life is giving you plenty of invitations, soften and listen.    If you're ready and feel the call to get intimate with the unknown & deeply attune to Desire as your guide... Book your Courting Desire consult - https://app.acuityscheduling.com/schedule.php?owner=16799155&appointmentType=9649584

This is a beautiful conversation between Lindsey and Céline Angelici. Céline is a doula supporting women & families through the phases of life creation - preconception, pregnancy, birth prep, birth & postpartum.    "I didn't want to go back to work, because architect - I mean everyone can do that, but Being the mother of my own child, I'm the only one!"    Céline generously opens up about her personal journey into motherhood, her instinctual awakening, and how it transformed & led her to being her Self today. From receiving in her own Life's medicine, she serves a potent love for all those whom she is invited to support.  Have a listen to receive on: The miracle of creation Doula magic & necessity Following the flow of Life Organic downloads of what's truly essential Connect with Céline directly at - Celangelici@gmail.com  

Today's episode is devoted to the nebulous concept of self-parenting/reparenting Self, and grounding it down with a guided experience of how to actually do it.   Born into a world lacking emotional intelligence & maturity, we each have the responsibility of taking up the devotional caring for our inner experience of past & present events. How we do that is largely led by our internal templates of Mother & Father.   Luckily, these templates are not static and with our loving presence we can alter, transform & upgrade our inner models to truly support full expressive creativity.   Listen to be guided into a direct imaginal experience of it here. Enjoy!   *   Book a Consult for Courting Desire Here. Courting Desire is the 9 Month Journey where we spiral deeply into the reclamation of being led by the pure energy of Desire. Weaved throughout are upgrades of our inner parenting templates, as their alignment reflects our experience of worthiness & connection to Desire, and so much more. Let's connect to discuss if you are ready for the transmission.   Episodes mentioned #27 Transforming by Creating & #37 Shadow Work.