We hope you enjoy this short meditation to connect with your highest self. This is a powerful practice to connect with your inner guide, ask any questions on your heart, and see what is revealed to you…

Enrollment for Way of the Priestess is Open! 

WAY OF THE PRIESTESS: MYSTERY SCHOOL + WOMEN'S CIRCLE FACILITATION TRAINING PROGRAM

We Begin September 13, 2024 (Sept 2024 - Sept 2025)

Online Program for Women Rising on the Priestess Path

Calling all Healers, Wisdom-Keepers, Teachers, Earth Protectors and Highly Sensitive Women Ready to Live and Serve at their Highest Potential to Birth the New World

Join us on a Path of Devotion, Beauty, and Service

Click here to book a call to learn more

Priestess: a space-holder, leader of a movement, of highest service to the greater collective, a vessel for the divine, a living embodiment of love Initiation: a series of ceremonies or rituals marking entrance into a new way of being

...The Lineage of the Rose...

The teachings in this program date back to the mystery schools in Egypt. We will be working with archetypal energies and ascended master guides such as Isis, Hathor, Sekhmet, Mother Mary, Mary Magdalene, and Yeshua among others.

Join us as we explore Core Values of: Femininity, Devotion, Wildness, Compassion, Boundaries, Rebirth, Prosperity, Service, Love, Leadership & Vision

Each month in the program includes:

+ an initiation gateway

+ priestess practices

+ facilitation skills

+ new and full moon wisdom

+ guest teacher videos

+ live sisterhood + ceremonial video calls

Plus you will receive:

+ 6 private healing sessions

+ a closing virtual retreat to share your vows

To Learn More about the Program Curriculum, Call Dates, and Payment Options: Download the Program Guide

Join us in Sisterhood as we Purify, Activate and Align

Claim your Embodiment as a Priestess

We will join together to reveal a deeper meaning of existence, and anchor into our living as an embodiment of love to serve our planet and future generations.

If you feel a resonance in your heart I invite you to book a free 30 minute call...

This is an opportunity to gain clarity on your intentions for the next year, identify where you feel held back on your path of service, and I'll be able to share resources + support for your next steps.

We'll also have the chance to explore if this program could be a good fit for you to join us this year.

Stay in Touch with Rising Women Leaders:

• Website
• Instagram
• Make a donation on Patreon

Have you ever felt judged by someone? Can you remember that pain of feeling misunderstood? Cast out? And separate?

Usually the people in judgement don’t know the whole story. They don’t know the truth of who we are or what we’ve been through. And usually the people who judge, are themselves in some kind of pain. 

I imagine you can relate to that truly awful feeling, especially if you identify as highly sensitive. It’s enough to make one want to attack back, or worse, go into hiding or shame. 

I’ve been thinking of Mary Magdalene this week, as her Feast day approaches.

Eight years ago Pope Francis declared July 22 as a Feast Day for Mary Magdalene, honoring her role in Jesus’ life as “The Apostle of the Apostles.”

Many of you may know of her as she was named by the Catholic Church long ago - as a prostitute or whore. She was judged, and as what happened to many powerful women, her name was dragged through the mud.

But the truth is she was an absolute equal to Jesus in his ministry.

There came a time, in the first few centuries that the Bible was changed, and stories of powerful women were taken out of it.

And the Church didn’t want people to think that Jesus was human - that he had a beloved, instead they wanted to portray him as this divine being that could only be accessed through the Church.

That way they could keep the power. So any stories depicting Jesus as a partner, a beloved, a lover and husband to Mary, were removed.

Powerful women were seen as a threat in her time. Women were mysterious - they carried the gifts of new life inside their bodies, it was something men were not capable of, or even fully understood. 

When women joined together the men felt even more threatened (what is more powerful than a coven of women woven together by the same beliefs?) 

So whether it was conscious/intentional or not, the women were systematically shamed. 

First they shut down their power center - their womb - by shaming their sexuality. 

Then their menstrual cycle was seen as dirty, a burden or a curse. 

Bearing children, and giving birth was seen as a punishment. 

The women were deemed inferior. A woman was confined to the home. 

And sadly, when a woman shuts down in her womb center, she often shuts down her voice. 

I believe Mary knew one day though that her name would be restored, that one day thousands of women would awaken and carry on her legacy, of being powerful and embracing that power, as teachers, guides, healers and claiming their place as part of a larger movement.

I believe she knew one day these women would reclaim the power of their menstrual cycle…

The holiness of conception, pregnancy and birth…

And through healing, would find their voice. 

But not only that, I believe that she also holds the codes of forgiveness. 

She reminds us to feel all the pain of the past, and to release judgement of others, even when we feel judged. 

To remember that those who are causing pain are also in deep pain themselves. 

I believe she had compassion for those who shamed her, dragged her name through the mud, even for those who wanted to persecute and kill her. 

There’s so much we can learn from Mary, and her embodiment.

I wanted to share one of the audio lessons in my program, The Way of the Priestess about her. This weekend, let’s honor Mary, her sacred teachings and all she embodied.

Listen to this recording to learn more about the practice of feeling our pain, a forgiveness process, seeing sexuality as sacred, our bodies as temples and how to embody a consciousness of abundance.

Learn more about these practices in Mercedes Kirkel's channeled book, Mary Magdalene Beckons.

Below I’m including some of the podcasts we devoted to spreading her truth and message as well as information regarding the 2024-2025 Way of the Priestess Initiation Program.

With love, Meredith

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016 | Mysteries of Mary Magdalene with Faye Wylder

Listen here

046 | Channeling Mary Magdalene with Mercedes Kirkel

Listen here

059 | In Honor of Mary Magdalene with Meredith Rom

Listen here

056 | Angel Guides, Motherhood and the Modern Magdalene with Lisa Devine

Listen here

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You’re invited to…

The Rising Women Leaders 2024-2025 Way of the Priestess Initiation Program

Begins September 13, 2024 (September 2024 - September 2025)

MYSTERY SCHOOL + WOMEN’S CIRCLE FACILITATION TRAINING

Online Program for Women Rising on the Priestess Path

Calling all Healers, Wisdom-Keepers, Teachers, Earth Protectors, and Highly Sensitive Women Ready to Live and Serve at their Highest Potential 

JOIN US ON A PATH OF DEVOTION, BEAUTY, AND SERVICE

...The Lineage of the Rose...

Join us as we explore Core Values of: Femininity, Devotion, Wildness, Compassion, Boundaries, Prosperity, Service, Love, Leadership & Vision

Each month in the program includes:

+ an initiation gateway+ priestess practices+ facilitation skills+ goddess guides recording+ new and full moon rituals

Plus throughout the program you will also receive:+ 7 guest mentor videos+ 21 live sisterhood video calls+ a virtual closing retreat + vows ceremony+ access to our priestess curriculum+ private whatsapp group+ accountability sister (optional)+ 6 private 1:1 healing sessions (optional)

To Learn More about the Program Curriculum, Call Dates, and Payment Options View the Program Guide

STEP INTO YOUR EMBODIMENT AS PRIESTESS

We will join together to reveal a deeper meaning of existence, and anchor into our living as an embodiment of love to serve our planet and future generations.

If you feel a resonance in your heart I invite you to book a free 30 minute call with me...

This is an opportunity to gain clarity on your intentions for the next year, identify where you feel held back on your path of service, and I'll be able to share resources + support for your next steps. We'll also have the chance to explore if this program could be a good fit for you to join us this year.

CLAIM YOUR POWER AND VOICE

“Speaking to strangers has been one of my greatest fears that would often shut off my ability to be fully present and prevent me from making new connections with people. I dedicated a good portion of my life trying to overcome this fear by intentionally seeking out experiences that triggered this fear and this process was extremely difficult and the progress felt extremely slow.

After a few sessions with Meredith on healing my voice and the fears associated with that, I now find myself effortlessly interacting with strangers, making new connections and to my greatest surprise I am starting to enjoy mingling in large corporate settings, which would previously terrify me.”

~Alina Daunyte

Book a 1:1 Call with Meredith

Blessed Be!

Enrollment is now open for our Year-long Priestess Initiation Program: Beginning this September. Learn more here

What a blessing to welcome Ashley Burnett back to the Rising Women Leaders podcast. She was an original guest on episode 013 | Uninhibited Leadership in 2016!

We talk about Ashley’s evolution as an entrepreneur, how she’s been changing through motherhood and a cross-country move, her new book, Your Spacious and Seasonal Year, and how to reclaim our time for what we truly value.

More specifically, we discussed:

• Becoming a mother, moving across the country, and the evolution of her work since Ashley’s last podcast episode
• The High Holy Days of the Year and Cross Quarter holidays and how to honor them
• Ashley’s journey from dance to entrepreneurship 
• All about her new book, Your Spacious and Seasonal Year and how it can help business owners/busy working women and moms
• The journey of publishing (it doesn’t have to be as hard as you think)
• Her growing edges and how she’s been facing her fears and more

Stay in Touch with Ashley:

• Visit her website ashleyburnett.co
• Instagram @ashleyburnettco

Stay in Touch with Rising Women Leaders:

• Website
• Instagram
• Make a donation on Patreon

Women’s business & wellness coach, circle & retreat facilitator, author, yoga teacher, and seasonal living advocate, Ashley Burnett has created a 20-year strong global entrepreneurial & wellness movement.

She helps entrepreneurs, artists, healers, and creatives buy back hours of their free time, increase their income, become more impactful leaders, and seasonally align their businesses for heightened profitability, joy, and sustainability.

She also leads women’s seasonally-focused ritual circles and wellness workshops that inspire more meaning, well-being, mindfulness, and magic.

Ashley has facilitated hundreds of classes, workshops, events, and retreats, and has taught thousands of heart-centered change-makers around the globe.

She just relocated back to her hometown hamlet of Quincy, IL on the Mississippi River, after 18 years in the San Francisco Bay Area – along with her husband David and sweet son Quintin.

Her new book, Your Spacious and Seasonal Year has just been released, and she’s launching her Wellness, Creativity & Self-Development Studio & Retreat Space, The Gathering Ground later in 2024.

Visit ashleyburnett.co to learn more.

Special Announcement: Doors are now open to our 5-week Money Mastery Study Group where Lindsey will be a guest teacher about Personal Finance 101

I was drawn to invite financial advisor Lindsey Woodward to the podcast after participating in a retreat together with founder of Abacus Wealth, Spencer Sherman.

I found it so refreshing to meet a fellow socially responsible woman in the field of investing, and I was excited to share her wisdom with our community at Rising Women Leaders.

In this episode we discussed:

• How Lindsey was drawn to working in money & business 
• What it was like working in a male-dominated field at her first firm, and the journey of finding her voice even when she was often the only woman in the room
• How she was able to shift to investments that align with her values at Abacus Wealth
• The intersection of values and money, and how to be intentional with spending, saving, investing, giving, and passing money on to future generations intentionally
• How to discover your values and align them with your investments
• Investing basics, compound interest, how to get started and why we do it
• Some basic steps to get started with financial literacy and empowerment
• Lindsey’s advice for when you’re having trouble saving or giving 

May 31 is the last day to get the discount on our :: 5-Week Money Mastery Study Group :: This 5-week online zoom group meets every Monday for 5 consecutive weeks: June 3 to July 1, 2024

Each week has a different focus:

• Key Principles of Wealth + A Deep Dive into The Luminous Method
• Bank Account Awareness (Systems + Tracking)
• Ancestral Healing + Tapping into the Belief Systems 
• Recently added Bonus: Personal Finance 101 with Wealth Advisor Lindsey Woodward

All classes are recorded even if you can't make it live...

We'll walk you step by step through the changes we have made in our lives to become conscious creators when it comes to money.

PLUS you'll receive Jessica's digital course to learn THE LUMINOUS METHOD ($300 value) 

PLUS you'll receive a one-on-one 75 min Money healing EFT session with me ($300 value)

and 5 weeks of live zoom study group calls with us ($500 value)

That's a $1100 total value.

But, right now we're taking off more than 50% for you, available today only, May 31. 

Sign up today for one payment of $444 or 3 payments of $150. 

Our intention is to make this fun, easy and digestible, to take the stress out of our relationship to money and open to the abundance of financial miracles... 

We believe in empowering others to heal inherited limiting beliefs and grow beyond what we thought was possible for our lives.

We know when more of us are feeling capable and empowered when it comes to money, it's going to ripple out and expand our capacity to give and serve at our highest.

Read more about it right here. Class begins on Monday, June 3 and classes are recorded if you can't make it live. 

Stay in Touch with Lindsey:

• Linked In
• Abacus Wealth
• Email: [email protected]

Other Links in this Episode:

• Ellevest
• Manisha Thakor’s books
• Vanguard

Stay in Touch with Rising Women Leaders:

• Website
• Instagram
• Make a donation on Patreon

Lindsey serves as the Co-Chief Investment Officer at Abacus Wealth Partners, a firm that provides fee-only, comprehensive financial advice to help individuals, families and foundations. Lindsey is dedicated to helping the people and organizations she works with align their money with their goals and values. She is a proud member of WISE (Women Investing for a Sustainable Economy).

Lindsey loves exploring new places with her husband and their pups. Her favorite evenings are spent catching up with family and friends over a great meal.

Special Announcement: Doors are now open to our 5-week Money Mastery Study Group

Welcome back! I’m excited to share my latest conversation with spiritual mentor Jessica Bowes. The universe recently reconnected us for a new free collaboration we’ve been working on called,  “The Consciousness of Wealth” ~ you can sign up for it right here.

I wanted to have Jessica on the show so you could learn more about her background and amazing gifts as a channeler, seer, highly intuitive, sensitive and empathic person. Years ago she received a specific practice from the angels that she now uses to support her clients and people around the world to energetically align with their desires.

We talk about money miracles, health challenges, love, spiritual growth, how manifestation actually works (and why it sometimes doesn’t) and more…

In this episode we discussed:

• What was different about Jessica as a child
• How she discovered her gifts of channeling and seeing and communicating with ascended masters and angels
• Living as an empath and Highly Sensitive Person (HSP) and how to cope with difficult energies
• How she discovered the Luminous Method she teaches and uses in her life
• The money miracles Jessica has attracted
• How Jessica got through a challenging mystery illness that kept her bedridden and sick for three years - she eventually tested positive for Lyme’s disease
• Why some of us have really challenging illnesses or health problems in our life
• How she manifested love after divorce and being a single mom
• What Jessica’s spiritual practice looks like in her life now
• Her biggest growing edge now

Stay in Touch with Jessica:

• Website
• Instagram

Stay in Touch with Rising Women Leaders:

• Website
• Instagram
• Make a donation on Patreon

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Jessica is passionate about guiding others on the spiritual path of self-mastery while living a modern world.  As the creator of The Luminous Method, a manifestation practice for co-creating your soul’s desires, she helps others transform their lives by unleashing the Divine within and energetically aligning with their desires.

After developing a condition where she began to have an allergic reaction to almost everything she ate, Sena knew something had to change. She had been living a health-focused lifestyle for years after leaving a job at Google and finding the heart medicine of cacao. But years later she would discover her days of drinking cacao, using plant medicines and eating a more vegetarian diet were no longer supporting her body’s needs.

By chance, she won an instagram contest for a Hair Tissue Mineral Analysis and learned she was very depleted in certain key minerals our bodies need to thrive. Through changing her diet and supplementing with minerals, Sena began to see all the ways her current life were not supporting her true needs. She bravely left her fiancee, and soon moved from Northern California to her home town in St. Paul, Minnesota.

I love watching my friends evolve and grow, and after witnessing Sena’s transformation to become radiantly nourished, I knew I wanted to hear the whole story. It turns out what may have worked in our 20’s is not always sustainable into our 30’s and beyond…

In this episode we discussed:

• What is hair tissue mineral analysis? What does it tell us about key minerals we may be missing?
• The industrialization of our food system and why so many of us have food sensitivities that our grandparents didn’t
• Why Sena’s health started deteriorating and how HTMA got her back on track to living radiantly nourished
• Why Sena left her relationship, moved home to Minnesota and started over in life
• The vulnerability of choosing to be single at 35 and also having the desire to start a family
• Sena’s shift from using cacao daily to microdosing with mushrooms to letting go of both of them as a regular routine

To learn more about Sena’s evolution, listen to our previous episode here

Stay in Touch with Sena:

• Website
• Instagram

Stay in Touch with Rising Women Leaders:

• Website
• Instagram
• Make a donation on Patreon

Sena Maria supports women to embrace a nourished, resilient and radiantly healthy state.  She uses Mineral Nutritional Balancing to rebuild our mineral heritage and get to the root of our health issues. She believes that we are only as healthy as our cells and by supporting our bodies ability to create energy and eliminate toxins efficiently, we can return to the simple, natural joy of being alive. 

Sena’s degree in Psychology, career at Google and her subsequent studies of yoga, energy healing, shamanism, plant medicine, tools for building emotional capacity and integration, and Mineral Nutritional Balancing have led her to sit with many questions about what humanity may need at this time to heal from trauma + toxins, strengthen our families and create mineral-rich generations to come. She offers a woman-centric approach to healing with Hair Tissue Mineral Analysis utilizing it as a tool for deepening connection with one's self.

Jane Mayer and I are back to answer the questions we received from you all in February! We also get to hear about Jane’s updates at the end of her pregnancy, her move to Alabama to be closer to family, what the third trimester has been like, and how she’s being changed.

Hear Jane's full story in our previous podcast, episode 133.

In this episode we discussed:

• Approaching the birth portal and preparation for birth
• Ways to connect with Celtic wisdom keepers
• Priestess lineages that were destroyed and how to connect with lineages we trust
• Root causes of carrying extra weight on a spiritual level ~ how to address secondary gains ~ subconscious ways we protect ourselves and rebel against strict rules that were placed on us in the past
• How to address picky eating with toddlers/children
• Thyroid challenges in women and regulating hormones
• EFT Tapping and how to use it to release old stories, limiting beliefs and childhood traumas
• Our culture’s relationship to food and weight and finding your own normal
• How the lymph plays a role in hormonal balance
• The year of the dragon and the mysteries of dragon energies ~ did they really exist?
• Soul contracts and how to attract soul aligned clients and the energetics of charging for our sacred work

Links in this episode:

• To ask a question to us on Rising Women Leaders send a voicemail or text to ‪(707) 559-8346‬

• Womb Awakening book

• Alliance Avalonia on instagram

Stay in Touch with Jane:

• Website

• Instagram

Stay in Touch with Rising Women Leaders:

• Website
• Instagram
• Make a donation on Patreon

Announcement: Enrollment is now open for the next cohort of the Way of the Priestess. Richard will be one of our guest teachers

When I first discovered that when everyone is talking about “Full moon in Leo” the actual moon in the sky is most often in the constellation of Cancer my mouth dropped! How could this be?

Ever since I was a kid I loved looking at the stars and astronomy was one of my favorite subjects in school. I’ve always asked questions like, “Why are we here? Where did we come from, and what’s the point of all of this?” So many of these questions have begun to be answered through my study of Vedic Astrology, the ancient form of astrology from India.

In Vedic astrology, our chart is a printout of our karma, the lessons our soul came to experience in this life. We bring with us our beneficial and challenging karmas to be lived out and worked through. Our soul has different reasons for incarnating - for example Dharma, Artha (Money, and how we earn it), Kama (Passion, desire) and Moksha (liberation). I’ve been wowed again and again by the accuracy of Vedic Astrology, to predict dates and beneficial phases.

Richard has helped me choose dates to buy a car, beneficial times to marry, has predicted certain moves I’ve had, and so much more.

This episode has been a long time coming! I’ve been referencing what I’ve learned in Vedic astrology more and more in the episodes, so I wanted to sit down with guest expert, Vedic Astrologer Richard Powell. Richard has been a dear friend and teacher of mine since I began studying with him during the beginning of the pandemic.

In this episode we discussed:

• The differences between Western and Eastern or “Vedic” astrology

• The “Four Aims of Life” (Dharma, Artha, Kama and Moksha) and why our souls choose to incarnate

• The 12 constellations, what planets they are ruled by and what are their unique energies

• Each of the planets and their energies

• Phases of life ruled by the planets and how to find out what phase of life you are in

• The nodes of the moon: Ketu and Rahu: And our experiences from these life phases

Links in this Episode:

• View your unique chart: https://deva.guru/ - exact birth time does make a difference so be sure to check your birth certificate

• Your “sign” in vedic astrology will be the number in the top center diamond (1-12) in the chart

• Your “phase of life” will be the planet listed in the “Viṁśottarī Daśā” section underneath the chart

Stay in Touch with Richard:

• Richard’s Vedic Astrology Course Begins February 19th

• Website - Book 1-1 Vedic readings

• Instagram

Stay in Touch with Rising Women Leaders:

• Website
• Instagram
• Make a donation on Patreon

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Richard is a NAMA-certified Doctor of Āyurveda. He is a graduate of the Āyurvedic Institute and has studied extensively under Dr. Vasant Lad in the US and India. He furthered his Ayurveda and Vedic philosophy studies under Dr. Ashwin Shastry of Arogya Niketana in Karnataka, India. Upon returning to the United States, Richard pursued advanced classical Ayurvedic studies in a clinical setting at the Arogya Center in Albuquerque, New Mexico, under Kashyapa Fisher for an additional four years. Since 2018, he has been employed at the Ayurvedic Center of Vermont where he gives consultations, teaches, and gives treatments. Complimenting his extensive education in Āyurveda, Richard has been studying and teaching yoga for over 20 years and is an ERYT-500. He is an avid student of Sanskrit, Jyotisha (Vedic Astrology), and Vedic philosophy. After a chance meeting with Hart DeFouw he decided to study in that lineage, most prominently under Penny Farrow, with whom he still studies.

In addition to his studies in the Vedic sciences, Richard is a Reiki Master and is an avid practitioner of Aikido, the Japanese martial art. His passion for earth healing meets his devoted studies in physical, mental, and spiritual health as he was formerly a permaculture designer and educator and founded the nonprofit Orlando Permaculture in Orlando, Florida. Richard believes that by aligning with nature and the Divine we will find not only our own optimal health but also greater peace and balance in the world. He brings his comprehensive experiences and education into his consultations with his clients to empower them to find fulfillment, peace, and healing.

I’m back to podcasting! I know it’s been about 8 months since my last episode and I have missed you all. I have just been navigating the reality of being ia new mother, having more limited time now, amidst navigating the identity shifts and transformations of becoming a mother.

I’m so excited to share my conversation with Jane, a true voice and channel for the heart of the Holy One. You may remember Jane from earlier episodes: episode 118 - Navigating Change and the Power of Listening, and episode 128 where I shared the story of my daughter’s birth.

Jane and I have also had these parallel paths, like the passing of birds in the sky, she moved to kauai the month I was getting ready to leave, being pregnant and desiring to be closer to family. And now, Jane being halfway through her pregnancy is deciding the same.

In this episode we discussed:

• Trusting our intuition

• Being open to the twists and turns and mystery of life 

• Gender reveals and navigating surprise and difficult emotions

• Jane’s unsuccessful journey with IVF in a previous marriage and the journey of natural conception and pregnancy years later

• Jane’s decision to leave Kauai 

• Our stories of miscarriage from this past year

• Vedic astrology insights and life transitions

Stay in Touch with Jane:

• Website

• Instagram

Stay in Touch with Rising Women Leaders:

• Website

• Instagram

Jane Mayer is a medicine woman, creative, doula, and guide to the unseen realms, who delights in supporting humans and Earth in coming fully alive. Alongside supporting private clients, she writes, records and performs music, and guides a school for creativity and awakening.

A keeper of song and a lover of mythos, her practice is borne of the weaving of indigenous medicine from Peru, Hawaii and Ireland, the Christian mysticism of her home in the deep South, and a depth of knowledge in the nervous system, subtle body, womb healing, and the somatic experience of awakening.

She holds deep trust in the wild intelligence of nature to guide all of Creation, and orients others to their deeper nature and innate gifts with sound, myth, dreams, plant, energy medicine and somatic integration.

She is devoted to the heart of all  things, sacred union, and the  liberation of all beings. To learn more, visit  iamjanemayer.com.

This Fall I participated in a weekly new parent-baby group in Sebastopol, CA with Kerry Ingram. I met Kerry years ago when she found one of my self-care guide downloads and invited me to be a wise woman to visit her mom and baby groups. I remember thinking I would love to join something like that to meet other mothers and babies if I ever had a child one day… and about six years later it happened!

Kerry has been supporting new mothers, babies and families for the past decade in CA and now is sharing her curriculum to create a ripple effect of sharing more of these nourishing postpartum groups around the world.

Care for the next generation really does start with the mother, and the more we can surround families with support in early postpartum the easier it will be to interrupt harmful narratives and create networks of love, care and support when we need it most.

In this episode we discussed:

• Kerry’s experience postpartum: the surprises, challenges and ways she found the support she needed

• How community support impacts early parenting and is culture-making by creating space to see and interrupt harmful narratives

• How to be a village tender and step into leadership for new parents in your community

• The “Early Parenting Villains” and how these systems, for example, ‘consumerism’ ‘diet culture’ or ‘patriarchy’ come up so often in new motherhood, how to identify them and ways to shift our relationship with them

• Self-care in postpartum, asking for help and building community

Links in this episode: 

• Kerry’s Course: Village Tenders Postpartum Community Care Course

Stay in Touch with Kerry:

• IG: @villagetenders

• FB: Community Supported Postpartum

Stay in Touch with Rising Women Leaders:

• Website

• Instagram

• Patreon

Kerry Ingram is the founder of Community Supported Postpartum whose mission is to build ecosystems of care one community at a time.  She contributes to this vision by teaching folks all over the world how to step into the role of Village Tender by creating local parent and baby groups that get parents out of isolation and into a web of support and care.

Kerry is a parent (both biological and foster), an early childhood educator (20 years), a postpartum doula, with additional education in women and gender studies (SUNY Oswego), and maternal mental health care (PSI). She has been facilitating local parent and baby groups for over 10 years and teaches others around the world to step into leadership with her Village Tenders Postpartum Community Care course, curriculum and business framework.

It’s an honor to have Becca Piastrelli back on Rising Women Leaders. It’s been a few years (and a lot of transformation) since our last conversation (episode 10!). We’ve both transitioned from maiden to mother, and our lives and businesses have transformed along with us. In this conversation we share the real, the raw, and the beautiful of being initiated into mothers: Becca shares of her journey of the last 2.5 years after birthing her daughter, her journey with delayed postpartum depression (and rage) at 18 months, how she has done her best to recreate the village we all long for, what it looks like to untangle from patriarchy and letting go the need to always do more, and how we can honor and ritualize the powerful rite of passage of shifting from maiden to mother. 

Stay in Touch with Becca:

• Becca’s book
• Becca's website
• instagram.com/beccapiastrelli
• belongingpodcast.com

Stay in Touch with Rising Women Leaders:

• Website
• Instagram
• Patreon

Current Offerings with Meredith:

• 1:1 Coaching & Mentorship
• Womb Healing

Becca Piastrelli is the author of Root & Ritual: Timeless Ways to Connect to Land, Lineage, Community & the Self and is the host of the Belonging podcast. She teaches and speaks on the nature of belonging and runs retreats to help women reconnect with their rooted sense of self. She lives in the San Francisco Bay Area (soon to be Hudson Valley, NY) with her husband, child, two cats, and five chickens, where she gardens, cooks, mothers, and gathers with the ebb and flow of the seasons.