State of the natural birth movement

Most birth conversations stop in the delivery room. This one goes far beyond it.

Eyla Cuenca has attended around 300 births over the past 15 years, training doulas and helping women process birth trauma that often stretches back generations. In this episode, Eyla shares what changed after she birthed her own daughter, the grief that surfaced during labor, and why she stepped away from the polarity between hospital birth and free birth.

We also dive into postpartum phone addiction, Edward Tronick’s still-face experiment, and Eyla’s perspective on when the soul fully anchors into the body.

From there, the conversation expands into reincarnation, soul fractals, the Akashic record, and a deeply personal story about how a mushroom ceremony reshaped my relationship to past abortions and circumcision.

We close on the legal side of birth: birth certificates, hospital paperwork, and what really happens to the placenta once it’s classified as “birth waste.”

To enroll in the Sacred Postpartum Doula Training, visit lukestorey.com/doulatraining and use code LUKE10 for 10% off.

For the Uncovering Birth Method Educator Training and Certification, visit uncoveringbirth.com/birth-educator-certification

For the When Birth Heals the Mother Masterclass, visit uncoveringbirth.com/when-birth-heals-the-mother

To generate your free birth plan, visit uncoveringbirth.com/birth-plan-with-uncovering-birth

You’ll learn:

[00:00] Introduction

[19:14] Why boredom might be the most underrated thing you can give a child

[35:12] How far the natural birth movement has actually come

[43:22] What it really takes to commit to a home birth

[1:03:12] Did your soul choose this birth?

[1:11:12] What I learned about time, past lives, and having nowhere to hide

[1:37:05] The strange energy that surrounds the moment of birth and death

[1:50:00] The ceremony that changed how I felt about becoming a father

[1:59:05] What the hospital actually owns the moment your baby is born

[2:20:03] What most doula training gets completely wrong

Resources Mentioned:

Read: A Horse Named Lonesome: Tales and Teachings to Reclaim Connection, Transcend Separation, and Discover the Divine Within by Luke Storey | Book

Edward Tronick | Wikipedia

Freedom | Website

Quanta Academy | Website

Family Constellations | Wikipedia

Bert Hellinger | Website

Morphogenetic Field | Wikipedia

Your Sovereign Baby | Website

Viktor Frankl | Website

Andrew Kaufman | Website

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