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Birth Sovereignty and Decolonising Healing
It Takes Courage To Tell The Truth
A podcast by Ella Noah Bancroft
Released as a big FUCK YOU to THE COMMONWEALTH On the Queens Birthday.
Aimee Aroha is a Transpersonal Mentor, Transpersonal Birth Mentor & Birth Companion. She is also a Mother of two, a lover, a believer in and advocate for radical self responsibility, body autonomy, expansive conscious relating (with self and others). She believes wholeheartedly in the power of pleasure and the importance of conscious relationships, birthing and parenting for the future of health of humanity and the planet. As a Transpersonal Mentor, Aimee has seen how the wellness world has been created through the colonisers lens and she is using her work to help decolonise healing and self care trend.
In this conversation we discuss Aimee’s journey to decolonise her mind, body and soul as a mixed heritage woman with Maori blood (First Nations people to New Zealand). Aimee is passionate about birth sovereignty and reclaiming the birth space for women and birthing people. She herself has traversed the Rite of Passage that is birth, the transition from Maiden to Mother and we talk about the complex, wild, intuitive, ceremonial, at times traumatic, often joyful and always expansive birth experience. We discuss helpful ways to ritualise your birth and Aimee’s own incredible unassisted home birth in 2019.
Aimee is a huge believer in radical self care and is a rebel at heart and this conversation is so needed right here, right now.
Decolonise To Thrive”
A candid COVID-19 conversation with advice for birth workers and women in the time of COVID-19
Melanie the Midwife
Melanie (@melaniethemidwife, www.transformativebirthwork.com, www.melaniethemidwife.com) and Aimee (@ripsnorter, www.thestonedcrysalis.com) sit down for an open and honest chat about the state of birth for women and birth workers in the time of COVID-19.
Our One On One With Aimee Aroha And WTF Transpersonal Birthing Is All About
Style magazines
You may recognise her from Roller Denim adverts, her crystal business or by her open and forthright Instagram ‘@ripsnorter’. Either way, this is Aimee Aroha and she’s complex, in all the right ways.
I’ve followed Aimee on socials for over a year and her posts have always captured my intrigue. Rather than “pretty pictures”, her images are thought provoking, raw and so utterly real. With lengthy captions reflecting the essence of her imagery, Aimee has become one of the few women out there baring it all – literally. From self-exploration, open sexuality, challenging the gender norm, co-parenting and now transpersonal birthing. Yep, a transpersonal birthing mentor. WTF does that mean? I wasn’t sure, so I simply just asked.
Aimee Aroha
Zarpar Bebe
Introducing you to Aimee. Aimee is a Transpersonal Birth Mentor at The Stoned Chrysalis and a mama of 2 beautiful babes. She homeschools, lives connected to nature in their off grid cottage and has a huge amount of inspiration to share with all of us.
We chat with Aimee about her connection to the earth, her slow post partum journey, and her holistic view of juggling mamahood and her evolving business and career. Come in and get to know this beautiful family...
"It caused many tearful nights." When men refuse to have sex with their pregnant partners.
Mamamia
“Can we please talk about when men refuse sex because of pregnancy and kids?”
“I’m pregs and my boyfriend refuses. I don’t ever see us having sex again especially when the baby is born. Traditionally it’s the other way around and it feels so isolating and shameful not to have my own boyfriend want me.”
When influencer, Aimee Vincent (@ripsnorter), asked readers to share their experiences of balancing being a parent and having a sex life, the above response ignited another discussion altogether.
Realness Ep 1 with Sticks and Stones: Body Hair
Culture Machine X Sticks & Stones
Realness Ep 1 with Sticks and Stones: Body Hair
At the end of last year, I by chance had the pleasure of spending a night with the incredible Yasmin Suteja of Culture Machine when we both turned up to the same party. We spent most of the night getting all juiced up about creating topical video content that promotes conversation, starting a broader movement that connects & empowers women – “real talk, with real women”. By the end of the night, we had named the series ‘Realness’ & within the following month we teamed up with director Aislinn Lowe who helped us put together an inspiring all-female dream cast to get their thoughts & opinions on body hair.