In this episode, we’re speaking with Dorothee Sophie Royal from the Moonwise podcast and the author of Rooted, a pregnancy journal honoring the inward path to motherhood, which launched in August 2021.
Dorothee shares how she birthed the Rooted journal from her pregnancy experience - a powerful initiation allowing her to explore shadow parts of life, huge transformation, and journey from maiden to mother. She shares how shame drove her curiosity to explore programming and conditioning related to being pregnant, a sexual being, and a woman, opening up a discussion of my own discovery process of programs related to productivity, worth, energy during my own pregnancy journey.
We talk about the greater impact of our dominant culture on the pregnancy, birthing, & motherhood experience and the lack of support, cycles, and rhythms we are meant to experience.
Dorothee shares lots of sage advice, including ways to call in support in an age of isolation, separation and disconnection. She also talks about her journey with postpartum depression, how the seeds were planted during pregnancy, and her intention to heal herself and offer insight for others.
We get super honest and personal in this episode about our respective journeys in pregnancy, and Dorothee drops so many pearls of wisdom I know will be supportive for you and/or loved one you know!
Dorothee Sophie Royal is a writer and media producer, focusing on feminine wisdom, nature connection and motherhood. She is the founder of Moonwise.co and host of the monthly Moonwise podcast. Her new publication Rooted is a pregnancy journal honoring the inward path to motherhood. Dorothee lives in Portland, Oregon with her husband and son.
Show Notes
In this episode, we discuss:
The story behind Rooted and how Dorothee came to birth this journal
How Dorothee felt pregnancy was a powerful initiation allowing her to explore shadow parts of life, huge transformation - not just about physical
How Dorothee created her own journal during pregnancy because of isolation and wanting to support herself thru the process she was going through
How the shame that Dorothee felt drove her curiosity to explore programming and conditioning related to being pregnant, a sexual being, and a woman
How kindness, people pleasing, and saying yes often became a hindrance during pregnancy
Dorothee’s experience with morning sickness and its connection to negative energy
The experience that Venessa and Dorothee had facing shadows regarding productivity, worth, energy, and passage from maiden to mother
The greater impact of our dominant culture on the pregnancy, birthing, & motherhood experience, and the lack of support, cycles, and rhythms we are meant to experience
Some of the challenges of separation and stress being pregnant and a parent during Covid era
Dorothee’s sage advice for calling in support in an age of isolation, separation and disconnection
How both Dorothee and Venessa struggled with asking for help
How raising a baby is a community effort
How much she needed to be held while she was holding new life
Why Dorothee chose the name Rooted
Dorothee shares about her journey with postpartum depression, how the seeds were planted during pregnancy, and her intention to heal herself and offer insight for others
Dorothee’s experience with inner warriorship and boundaries ushered in by her son’s energy
Dancing with the intermingled energies of two beings co-inhabiting one body
How to create an altar for the pregnancy, calling in the allies to support this transformation
Dorothee’s vision for a Rooted community & the potential medicine of intergenerational support
Quotes from Dorothee in today’s episode:
“If we really start to understand what we’re capable of making, then everything changes. Because if you can dream up another being who can survive on their own, and be a sustainable organism that has a life and a liver and an ear and an eye, what else can we make in this world...? We can do anything. That’s the power that we tap into.”
“If you’re feeling lost or alone or exhausted, it’s not your personal failing. This is actually a systemic issue and we don’t have the support and the deep wells of nourishment that we really need to thrive as parents and community members and people who can nourish ourselves.”
“The mother really needs to be mothered herself.”
“Rooted mothers make the world bloom.”
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Connect With Dorothee Sophie Royal
Website | Dorothee’s Instagram | Moonwise Instagram
Rooted Journal Website: www.rootedmotherhoodjournal.com/
Rooted Instagram: @rootedmotherjournal
Resources + Links Mentioned
Feed Your Wild Ep 01 Tapping Into Your Every Day Medicine with Susan Lipshutz
Motherhood: Facing and Finding Yourself
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