Maternal Wealth Podcast – Own Your Birth
We all enter through the Ladies' Entrance: How motherhood awakens our creative power.
Creativity isn't just something we do—it's fundamentally who we are as mothers and birthing people. This profound insight emerges throughout my conversation with Carla, a visual artist who uses her gifts to help mothers reconnect with their innate power after birth.
Carla's personal journey through two dramatically different birth experiences—from a disconnected hospital birth to an empowered home birth during a hurricane—reveals how our bodies hold wisdom that conventional systems often ignore. When providers changed shifts during her first labor and pronounced she had regressed from 6cm to 2.5cm dilation, Carla felt her birthing energy fracture. Later, when her baby was taken away immediately after birth due to complications, she experienced a disruption in their early bonding that took intentional healing to restore.
These experiences catalyzed her transformation from teaching art to children to creating healing spaces for mothers. The "belly bowls" she creates—clay vessels formed directly on pregnant women's bellies—serve as powerful ritual objects honoring the transition to motherhood. Through her studio aptly named "The Ladies' Entrance," she facilitates creative healing for women navigating birth, trauma, and the complex identity shifts of motherhood.
What makes this conversation particularly valuable is Carla's nuanced understanding of how we heal energetically as well as physically. Her holistic pelvic care work views the pelvic bowl as both physical structure and energetic center—a container of creativity, intuition, and relationship. By using art to access this wisdom center, she helps women reconnect with themselves after trauma, birth, or other life transitions.
Whether you're pregnant, postpartum, or simply interested in the intersection of creativity and healing, this episode offers a refreshing perspective on how we might reclaim our power through artistic expression. What creative tools might help you connect more deeply with your maternal wisdom? Listen and discover how art might transform your motherhood journey.
Want to Learn More about Carla and the Ladies Entrance? Click on the link below.
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