Listen "112. Reclaiming Birth as Ceremony: Catalina Clark’s Journey of Healing"
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Podcast Show NotesEpisode Title: Reclaiming Birth as Ceremony: Catalina Clark’s Journey of HealingAbout Today’s Guest: Catalina ClarkCatalina Clark is a woman, mother, sister, daughter, midwife, and student on the healing path. With over 10 years of experience in birth work, Catalina has dedicated her life to supporting women in alignment with the natural world and the profound power of physiologic birth.Her journey began entrenched in the medical model, where disempowering experiences led her to seek wisdom from traditional healers outside the medical industrial system. Through this path, she reawakened her calling as a spiritual midwife, holding space at the sacred portal between life and death. Catalina walks alongside women with love, humility, and trust, offering support through all realms of transformation: birth, death, and rebirth.Episode Overview:In this episode, Catalina shares her inspiring journey of self-healing, remembrance, and reclaiming birth as ceremony, ritual, and prayer. Through personal stories and insights, she offers a unique perspective on the power of birth as a transformative experience and the role of the midwife in holding space for this sacred process.Key Topics Discussed: 1. Catalina’s Journey of Healing • From disempowering experiences in the medical model to discovering the wisdom of traditional healing. • How her role as a spiritual midwife emerged over a decade of learning and transformation. 2. Wild Pregnancy and Free Birth • The birth of her second child as a profound teacher of trust and radical responsibility. • Reclaiming birth as a sacred ceremony and a portal for self-rebirth. 3. Birth as a Sacred Threshold • The midwife’s role in holding space, witnessing, and protecting the transformative journey of birth. • How birth connects us to ourselves, nature, and the divine. 4. Healing Through Ceremony and Prayer • The integration of ritual, tradition, and community support in all realms of life transformation, including birth, death, and rebirth. 5. A Call to Radical Responsibility • How stepping into the unknown allows us to untangle old stories and return to our hearts.Guest’s Message:Catalina reminds us that to heal is to reclaim and reweave the fabric of our True Selves, recognizing our wholeness and perfection just as we are. She invites us to approach birth—and life itself—as an opportunity for transformation, empowerment, and deep connection to the divine.Connect with Catalina Clark: • Instagram: @catalina.clark • Website: www.catalinaclarkbirth.com • Email: [email protected] Reflection:This episode is an invitation to explore birth as a sacred, empowering, and transformative act. Catalina’s wisdom guides us toward radical trust, love, and remembrance of our innate power as women, mothers, and human beings.
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