Beyond Birth

Hi! Welcome to the Beyond the Birth Podcast. Join us each week as we take the conversation of motherhood … beyond birth. Co-hosted each week by Liz Winters ( Nutritional Therapy Practitioner, certified pre and post-natal coach, Birthfit Regional Director, and mama) and Jenny Anderson (doula, Birthfit Regional Director, and mama). Our hope is to inspire, educate, and empower women as they navigate pregnancy, postpartum, and parenthood with evidence based guidance, informative interviews, and entertaining anecdotes from our perspectives as moms, entrepreneurs, and birth professionals. IN THIS EPISODE 1:30 … Sweet feedback and why Jenny needs more “stranger love”. 6:35 … How do we define Holding Space? (Huffington Post article) 8:56 … Truthfulness: Two truths of one event can coexist 10:15 … Unknown destination - removing personal experience 15:30 … What holding space isn’t. 21:20 … Holding space for a toddler. 24:10 … How to explain it to someone else. 27:25 … Keys to holding space for a living as a doula. 33:0

TRIGGER Warning:  Welcome to the Beyond Birth Podcast. This episode Jenny shares the story of her son, Jack. It is a story of love, loss, and pregnancy termination so if any of those things is triggering for you or anyone you are listening with, it may be best to come back to this episode at another time. We hope that this story and discussion is insightful, uplifting, healing, and loving for all. IN THIS EPISODE 3:00 … How we chose to share this story between us. 4:50 … Jenny’s beloved Jack and his story. 17:35 … It’s Dr. Balderston  53:00 … How it relates to “late term abortion” discussion currently happening in the media and national politics. FOR MORE FROM LIZ & JENNY Hosted by: Liz Winters & Jenny Anderson Find us: Instagram @sproutwellness @birdie.in.bend www.sproutwellnesspdx.com bend.birthfit.com FOLLOW US Subscribe, Rate, and Review TAGS miscarriage, stillbirth, loss, abortion, pregnancy --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/unrefinedshe/message Support this podcast: htt

Happy Love Day! Valentine’s Day sometimes gets a bad rap as being over commercialized, ostracizing to singles, or superficial to true romance. It can be all of those things, and it’s a perfect opportunity to talk about our Love Languages, tendencies, personality types, and communication styles, and how important they are during birth and in motherhood. Welcome to the Beyond Birth Podcast! IN THIS EPISODE Celebrating Valentine’s Day in our worlds. 8:00 … Love Languages and how they help us communicate Book: The 5 Love Languages Quiz: What is your Love Language? Expressing and receiving love differently 14:00 … Universal Toddler Love Language: Quality Time? 17:00 … Four Tendencies: Upholder, Obliger, Rebel, Questioner Book: The Four Tendencies Quiz: What is your tendency? 23:00 … Struggles with our tendencies  25:20 ... How love languages and tendencies apply to doula support 29:00 … Communicating and supporting team members 32:30 … Nine Enneagram Types: Reformer, Helper, Achiever, Individualist, Investiga

Hi! Welcome to the Beyond the Birth Podcast.  Your goals for your body are yours alone. We (Jenny and Liz) do not want to tell you what to do with your body or what your goals should be; that’s for you to discover and work through as your life changes. But, we do want you to know that we celebrate the way your body looks right now, the amazing things it has done, and will do. We want you to be healthy, strong, informed, and proud. Free Resource: Nourishing Foods for Postpartum IN THIS EPISODE 6:00 … Liz’s version of a high fat/protein coffee. 11:00 … Just why the goal of getting your pre-baby “body back” is in fact bullshit.  17:50 … How did your body change during pregnancy and birth top to bottom? 25:15 … Women who have experienced loss are still postpartum. 28:00 … Celebrating new mom’s body. 29:46 … This was a major event for the body. Realistic recovery rates for mom is not 6 weeks,  31:48 … Returning to a feeling of self. 35:00 … Ideal recovery plan or body composition change plan for mos

ABOUT BEYOND BIRTH PODCAST Hi! Welcome to the Beyond the Birth Podcast. Join us each week as we take the conversation of motherhood … beyond birth. Co-hosted each week by Liz Winters (Nutritional Therapy Practitioner, certified pre and post-natal coach, Birthfit Regional Director, and mama) and Jenny Anderson (doula, Birthfit Regional Director, and mama). Our hope is to inspire, educate, and empower women as they navigate pregnancy, postpartum, and parenthood with evidence based guidance, informative interviews, and entertaining anecdotes from our perspectives as moms, entrepreneurs, and birth professionals. IN THIS EPISODE Watermelon Radishes … the Cinderella of the vegetable aisle. 5:05 … Liz livin’ the life in “real” Portland. 7:30 … Who exactly is living in her house? 13:20 … How to spend a honeymoon Winters style! 18:00 … Liz’s journey with food. 24:34 … Liz’s Businesses: Sprout Wellness (soon to be Liz Winters Wellness), BIRTHFIT NE Portland, Portland Outdoor Fitness, Beautycounter. 36:00 … Being an edu

ABOUT BEYOND BIRTH PODCAST Hi! Welcome to the Beyond the Birth Podcast. Join us each week as we take the conversation of motherhood … beyond birth. Co-hosted each week by Liz Winters ( Nutritional Therapy Practitioner, certified pre and post-natal coach, Birthfit Regional Director, and mama) and Jenny Anderson (doula, Birthfit Regional Director, and mama). Our hope is to inspire, educate, and empower women as they navigate pregnancy, postpartum, and parenthood with evidence based guidance, informative interviews, and entertaining anecdotes from our perspectives as moms, entrepreneurs, and birth professionals. IN THIS EPISODE We get to know Jenny (IG @birdie.in.bend … Although we never address exactly how she got the nickname Birdie, but hey, there’s always next time). Owner of 3 and a half horses, mother to four, doula, Birthfit Bend Regional Director, and loud laugher. 3:30 … How many horses does she actually have and how she came to call her “half horse”, Doody. 7:25 … Personal journey into motherhood and

ABOUT BEYOND BIRTH PODCAST Hi! Welcome to the Beyond the Birth Podcast. Join us each week as we take the conversation of motherhood … beyond birth. Co-hosted each week by Liz Winters ( Nutritional Therapy Practitioner, certified pre and post-natal coach, Birthfit Regional Director, and mama) and Jenny Anderson (doula, Birthfit Regional Director, and mama). Our hope is to inspire, educate, and empower women as they navigate pregnancy, postpartum, and parenthood with evidence based guidance, informative interviews, and entertaining anecdotes from our perspectives as moms, entrepreneurs, and birth professionals. IN THIS EPISODE Happy New Year! Resolutions are happening all around us right now. Have you made any? Are they actually achievable, supported, and habit forming?  Let’s dive into why resolutions are hard to keep, and how we can shift them into intentional, habit forming goals for ourselves. 2:04 … What are we really into right now? 7:30 … New Year as a new start.  11:30 ... Breaking down into s

ABOUT BEYOND BIRTH PODCAST Hi! Welcome to the Beyond the Birth Podcast. Join us each week as we take the conversation of motherhood ... Beyond Birth.  Co-hosted each week by Liz Winters (Nutritional Therapy Practitioner, certified pre and post-natal coach, Birthfit Regional Director, and mama) and Jenny Anderson (doula, Birthfit Regional Director, and mama). Our hope is to inspire, educate, and empower women as they navigate pregnancy, postpartum, and parenthood with evidence based guidance, informative interviews, and entertaining anecdotes from our perspectives as moms, entrepreneurs, and birth professionals. IN THIS EPISODE This episode may contain “boat talk” aka swear words (minimal). In this episode, we take a brief moment to introduce ourselves, give some background, and start this podcast journey with each other (and our listeners!). Collywobbles: when you eat too many sweets and your tummy doesn’t feel so great. Liz’s favorite podcast: Curious and Curiouser (iTunes: Curious and Curiouser)