04 · Becoming the Medicine, Not the Martyr

Postpartum Liberation

What if your medicine didn’t require self-erasure? In this episode, we name the martyr myth and rebuild devotion as a covenant with ritual, rest, and reciprocity at the center.

You’ve mastered care. But have you mastered containment?

This episode names one of the most dangerous myths in birthwork: that devotion means depletion — that being “a good doula” means abandoning your own body.

Becoming the Medicine, Not the Martyr is a radical reframe for every birthworker who’s been praised for self-sacrifice… but is secretly exhausted.

In this episode we explore:

• the neuroscience of mirror neurons + co-regulation in postpartum care
• how your nervous system becomes the first altar of healing
• why burnout is not a scheduling issue
• the subtle shift from entanglement into embodied covenant
• the ritual + physiology that protects the healer while you serve

If you’ve ever felt drained after a birth, overwhelmed, or like you’re “carrying” someone else’s pain home with you, this is the episode that will change how you work and how you walk into rooms.

Prepare to shift the way you show up in the birth space. Not by pouring more, but by remembering how Spirit designed you to be resourced, nourished, and held. This is the revolution of sustainable devotion.

And your body has been waiting for this conversation.

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