Episode 23·November 12, 2024

What is Sovereignty & Free Birth?

Sarah Hawley walks Tyzen through free birth: birthing physiologically, without medicalizing the process. She contrasts her hospital birth against her undisturbed home birth, and ties reclaiming birth to sovereignty, the mother archetype, and the land at The Haven.

It is allowing your body to birth your baby and not turning it into a medicalized event.Sarah Hawley

What is Sovereignty & Free Birth?, on The Ascension Podcast

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Show notes.

Show Notes

The Haven origin story: acreage in Central Texas, and the land’s history as a gathering place.
Defining free birth and physiological birth, and how the body’s hormonal sequence supports each phase of labor.
Sarah’s two births contrasted: a medicalized hospital transfer versus an undisturbed home birth.
Sovereignty, the mother-centered culture vision, and reclaiming birth as a sacred right.

Key Takeaways

Physiological birth runs on a precise sequence of hormones. Interventions and being observed can trigger adrenaline early and stall labor.
Sarah experienced disconnection after her medicalized first birth, and a calm bonded recovery after her free birth.
Free birth reframes safety as taking back responsibility rather than outsourcing it. To live is to be at risk, and risk cannot be removed.

Meet the guest · Soul Fam

Sarah Hawley

Free Birth Advocate · Birth Keeper · Mentor

Sarah Hawley is a free birth advocate and birth keeper, and co-host of the free birth podcast HEAR ME ROAR. After a medicalized hospital birth and then an undisturbed home birth, she now supports women to reclaim physiological birth as a sovereign rite, mother to her sons Luka and Avery.

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