In this conversation, we speak with fierce birth advocate, unmedicated birth expert and doula Lizzie Bolliger.   We talk about creating a disruption around giving birth unmedicated in a system that pushes and almost expects births to be medicated. We talk about bringing ourselves back home to the ancient act of giving birth. 

We talk about how our purpose in life is something that is in constant motion and changing and evolving all the time. That the experiences we are having today are going to serve us in the future in the ways we may never know. 

In the end we talk about how being a busy mother providing for the needs of our families and doing work in the world that lights us up is possible.  

This is a beautiful, light hearted, open and honest conversation with a fierce woman who cares deeply about women being able to have a fulfilling birthing experience and is an example to many mothers that being an entrepreneur and a mother is possible and fulfilling. 

A true disruption.

In this episode, we talk about:

Intuition and how powerful a tool it is during our birthing process 

Trusting Your Body to do the one task that biologically most women are tasked with doing which is to give birth

Fear and the role it plays in so many medicated births

Physiological birth which are powered by the innate human capacity of the woman and fetus. 

Purpose and how our purpose is constantly evolving and shifting and its not something that will be the same indefinitely

About Lizzie:

Lizzie Bolliger is a doula and childbirth educator who empowers expecting moms to have their best pregnancy, birth, and postpartum with a balance of mom intuition, evidenced based practices, and knowing what is physiologically normal.

When she’s not advocating for birth you can find her making Nespressos, exercising in her living room, homeschooling, or hanging out on Instagram (@fiercelizzie)

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In today’s conversation, we speak with mentor and change maker, Chris Green.

Chris is the founder and director of the Guelph Outdoor School which is committed to supporting youth by providing opportunities to know themselves, grow rich relationships, and respond with care to a changing world. 

Ten years ago when Chris started the outdoor school, he saw a possibility that not everyone saw. What if there was another way of educating our children that wasn’t just about reading, writing, and arithmetic? Something non-clinical and yet an effective method for children's health and well-being. 

A true disruption in the making. 

This is a conversation about raising whole, balanced, and resilient children through nature immersion. It’s about whole child education. 

We talk about how allowing children access to explore our natural environment is an education that goes beyond just the mind.  It provides them with a solid foundation for interacting with life both now and into the indefinite future.  We talk about the possibility of shifting how we see and conduct education. 

Chris and his incredible team of mentors are providing an alternative and complementary method to our current educational system. 

As Chris and I speak about in this conversation, its hard to put into words exactly what the outdoor school is providing because it's outside the realm of language and falls into the world of experience. One crack as explaining it is  "Learning about plants. Getting feet wet in the river. Playing games outdoors. Yelling. Climbing. Peeing in the woods. Making tea. Lighting fires. Carving. Reverence for the ideas of others in a sharing circle.”

It's sometimes quite difficult to describe experiences but what I do know is that the experiences children get from their time in nature will serve them in ways that go well beyond just their grades on a report card.

We talk about:

Learning: it doesn’t just happen at a desk with paper and pen and happens up in the head and off to one side. Learning is embodied and happens through all our senses. 

Unregimented Play: and how it leads to a deeper understanding of our bodies, developing a strong sense of intuition, and hones children's natural capacity for curiosity. 

Mentorship: The role of question-asking and the value of remaining curious

Attribute-Based Curriculum: focusing on “ways of being” as opposed to things that we know to help children take on many future skill sets.

Experiences: The deep inherent value of having experiences vs being told or explained to which helps to develop multi-faceted children.

About Chris Green

After 2 years of classroom teaching, Chris founded the Guelph Outdoor School in the fall of 2012, and has served as Director. A settler of Scottish and English ancestry, he loves to tell jokes and old stories and is drawn to supporting youth by providing opportunities to know themselves, grow rich relationships, and respond with care to a changing world. This comes in the form of supporting outdoor immersion and mentorship programs at GOS, as well as Rite of Passage experiences for adolescents in the out-of-doors. 

He loves old beat-up things, stacking wood, and sneaking up on painted turtles.

"Humanity for white folks is deeply tied up in this work as well, so it's impossible to live in a world with as much injustice and think that you will be unaffected by it" - Carla Beharry

In this episode, I speak with mixed race, writer, antiracism  consultant, speaker, and mental health advocate Carla Beharry.  This is a conversation about racism for white people.  We talk about being white and the implicit and explicit harm it has caused for generations. We talk about racial justice. We talk about racial trauma.  We talk about the various ways we can teach our children about racism and how to start the process of dismantling it.  

This is an important conversation, friends.   This is  a conversation about uprooting racism that is so embedded in our culture that it's most of the time, invisible.   

As Carla says in our conversation “it’s impossible to live in a world with as much injustice and think that you will be unaffected by it” For us to truly walk a life rich with meaning and purpose, we must look at the ugly parts of humanity in the eye, especially those we are blind to, and have a willingness to acknowledge it, to be with the uncomfortableness of it. Then we begin to disrupt it.  Then healing can happen as the healing is a key piece to us ALL bringing our beauty and gifts to this world.

In this episode, we talk about:

Racism - what do we really mean when we say ‘all white skinned people are racist’.
Silence - how white progressives are causing the most harm to the racial justice movement by saying nothing at all.
Parenting - how can we as parents start teaching our children, even the youngest of them, about racism, and their role in it, in a healthy and non-demoralizing way.
Discomfort - how so many white people choose not to speak out in fear of making a mistake or saying the wrong thing.  We talk about how to navigate this.
Being An Advocate - what does being an advocate for the racial justice movement look like and how to engage in it in the everyday.

and our own personal journey navigating racism.

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Asking ‘what is my purpose’ is one of the most frustrating questions you can ask yourself when you’re longing for a life rich with meaning, creativity and happiness.

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About Carla Beharry

Carla Beharry is a mixed-race, Guyanese-British-Canadian, and works as relationship coach for  racialized individuals and intercultural and multi-ethnic families. She is an Antiracism Consultant, writer, speaker, and mental health  advocate. She specializes in health & education equity and works with wellness  professionals and educators to build antiracist and equitable healthcare practices and  educational opportunities for under-served racialized individuals who have been  historically excluded from health and wellness spaces.