About this episode

Debra Pascali-Bonaro interviews Josefina Schiller about the interconnectedness of birth, motherhood, and healing.

In this episode, Debra Pascali-Bonaro speaks with Josefina Schiller, a mother, singer, doula, translator, and host of Café Comparto Birth Café, about how birth, motherhood, sexuality, loss, and healing are deeply connected. Josefina shares two powerful home birth stories, including a 96-hour labor supported by her community in southern Spain, and reflects on how birth helped her heal ancestral and childhood wounds. Josefina also discusses the role of postpartum as a transformative period, how writing poetry became a creative outlet during mothering, and why she believes oxytocin, pleasure, and sisterhood are central to healing. She closes by sharing her band Samambaia, her website josefinas.art, and a community art project called Track Your Woman's Bleed. Josefina Schiller is a mother, singer, doula, and devoted lover of birth stories. Josefina was born in Brazil and now lives in the south of Spain in a spontaneous community centered around natural birth. She trained as a doula at Da-a-Luz Oasis in 2017 and has deeply studied the work of Argentine writer and thinker Laura Gutman, whose teachings supported Josefina through the early years of mothering her daughters, Cora and…

People in this episode

Host: Debra Pascali-Bonaro

Guest: Josefina Schiller

Topics covered

• birth
• motherhood
• sexuality
• loss
• healing
• postpartum
• community support

Keywords

• birth stories
• home birth
• oxytocin
• pleasure
• sisterhood
• postpartum
• community

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Café Comparto Birth Café, Da-a-Luz Oasis, Café com Parto, Samambaia

Places: southern Spain, Brazil

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