Listen to The Mother Podcast

Join us as we discuss how to thrive in the lifelong experience of motherhood.

Each episode looks at women's health - how to heal and be strong during fertility journeys, pregnancy, birth and postpartum. Listen as we bring you information on hormone balance, uterine and pelvic health and mental wellbeing. With my guests we discuss realities of motherhood and how to live and support each other as strong, connected women, while nurturing children who will shape the world.

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Postpartum, Mental Wellbeing Suzanne Maier Postpartum, Mental Wellbeing Suzanne Maier

S2:Ep6 Healing After Abortion: A Discussion with India Elyn, Author of Honouring the Loss

In this episode, Suzanne speaks with India Elyn – folk herbalist, birthkeeper, artist and a healer who helps people tend the threshold of pregnancy loss.

India is the author of the book Honouring the Loss: A Holistic Guide to Healing with Ritual and Herbal Medicine after an Abortion.

As a society, do we care for women who have made the difficult decision to have an abortion?

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Postpartum, Reproductive Health, Pregnancy Suzanne Maier Postpartum, Reproductive Health, Pregnancy Suzanne Maier

S2:Ep3 Using Herbal Remedies in the Home with Lucie Bradley

In this episode, Suzanne speaks with Lucie Bradley, a medical herbalist who is eager to teach people how to use and integrate herbal medicine into their lives.

Lucie runs a busy clinical practice in Glasgow alongside teaching online courses to the public on remedies for simple ailments at home.

Lucie is also an ethnobotanist and has lived in Africa, working alongside doctors and nurses integrating herbal medicine alongside Western medicine.

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S1:EP8 Herbal Medicine and Hormone Balance with Klayr Hunter

In this episode Suzanne speaks to Klayr Hunter, medical herbalist, about hormonal balance and disorders of the female reproductive system, and how nutrition and plant medicine can help support a woman through this. Klayr talks about PCOS, endometriosis and fibroids as examples of when hormones are out of balance, and how herbal medicine can help.

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