How can we bring the beauty, wisdom, and deep healing of traditional practices into modern birthwork and motherhood, while honouring their roots?

In this moving conversation, Lauren sits down with Andréa de Keijzer, a doula, photographer, and kinesiologist born in Mexico, whose work is devoted to preserving and sharing the ancestral wisdom of Mexican midwifery. Together, they explore the rebozo—a woven Mexican textile often described as the hug of our grandmothers—and the Closing of the Bones ceremony, a postpartum ritual that invites mothers to be wrapped, witnessed, and restored after birth and other life transitions.

Andréa shares her story of loss, healing, and deep reconnection to her lineage, illuminating how these traditions offer profound nourishment for body, heart, and spirit. She also speaks candidly about what it means to honor cultural roots, practice reciprocity, and integrate ancestral care into our modern context with integrity.

In this episode, we explore:

• The meaning and magic of the rebozo and its role in postpartum and life transitions
• How movement, ritual, and being witnessed in community can restore the postpartum period as a time of true nourishment, not just recovery
• Andréa’s story of “little births,” grief, and how ceremony became a pathway to healing
• What cultural respect and reciprocity look like when engaging with ancestral practices
• Practical ways to find a ceremony guide, choose a fair-trade rebozo, and approach these traditions with intention

If you’re a mother or birthworker seeking deeper, more embodied ways to support postpartum care—and to do so respectfully—this episode is an invitation to return to the wisdom that’s been woven through generations.

About Andréa de Keijzer:
Alongside Angie Yañez, Andréa is the co-founder of Collective Rebozo. They teach rebozo workshops, offer retreats and facilitate closing of the bones ceremonies, in postpartum and other life transitions. They are passionate about creating spaces of warmth, movement, creativity and ceremony.

Learn more: collectiverebozo.com

Instagram: @rebozo.collective ENGLISH | @collective.rebozo FRENCH

LISTENER PERKS GENEROUSLY GIFTED BY COLLECTIVE REBOZO:
Use code REBOZO2025 for 10% off November 2025 Rebozo trainings in Toronto or Ottawa.
To purchase a fair-trade rebozo from Oaxaca, email rebozosequitables@gmail.com with code REBOZOLOVE for $10 off.

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Under September’s full moon, we sit in the messy middle of it all—thresholds, tenderness, and the very human urge to know what’s on the other side. In this episode, Lauren shares the mixed cocktail of grief and excitement as her daughter starts preschool and a whole new chapter of life and motherhood (and schedule) opens up. Nicole reflects on the one-year mark of her child’s autism diagnosis and what softened in their family because of language, support, and self-compassion.

We also name the messy, nuanced terrain of exploring neurodivergence in adulthood as Lauren moves toward a formal ADHD assessment—the freedom, the grief, and the relief of finally having words for what’s been true all along.

This episode is a love letter to liminality and a reminder that rhythm beats routine, devotion beats perfection, and identity is allowed to be in flux. If you’re carrying a lot, if you’re crossing a portal you can’t yet see through, or if you just need permission to cry, rest, and still call it forward motion—this one’s for you.

You’ll hear us talk about:

• Thresholds and rites of passage for mothers and families
• Why language (matrescence, autism, ADHD) can create compassion, not boxes
• Time freedom, ambition, and not overloading a new season
• Rhythm over routine, devotion over perfection
• Friendship, grief, and letting the full spectrum be welcome

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P.S. Are you a birthworker or mother care provider who wants to make a deeper impact with your clients? Join us inside our recent training Matrescence & the Nervous System to understand the maternal nervous system in a way most trainings don’t cover. You’ll learn how to actually meet a mother’s nervous system with compassion and depth in these times.

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Concepts like matrescence and the nervous system are getting more attention, FINALLY! But as they become buzzwords, they’re often watered down, overgeneralized, and stripped of the nuance they deserve.

In this episode, we are sooooooo excited to talk about our new upcoming training centered on the maternal nervous system.

This training will explore why the maternal nervous system is the missing link in most matrescence conversations, and how the information we’re sharing with you will completely change the way you serve mothers. You’ll leave with new knowledge, perspectives, and connections that you can bring into your work to add more IMPACT and a more holistic approach to serving mothers. When you understand the unique nervous system changes that take place in mothers, you can better support them through the wildness of motherhood.

Receive instant access for just $66 USD (value $125)

No live call. No expiration. Just 12 micro lessons (5-20 min in length) you can take in at your own pace.

Click HERE to learn more and register for Matrescence and the Nervous System

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