NURTURING THE MOTHER with Heng Ou

NURTURING THE MOTHER with Heng Ou

January 6, 2026 · 1h 11m · Episode 110

About this episode

Heng Ou discusses the importance of nurturing mothers through various stages of womanhood, emphasizing fertility, postpartum care, and ancestral wisdom.

Eating for Fertility, Pregnancy, Postpartum and all Cycles of the Feminine We are honored to welcome the luminous Heng Ou—author of The First Forty Days, Nine Golden Months, and Awakening Fertility, founder and CEO of Mother Bees—for an expansive conversation spanning from conception to birth, postpartum care, lineage healing, and the sacred act of nurturing the mother as the foundation of family wellness. In this heartfelt dialogue, Heng shares stories from her three births, ancestral traditions, and the intuitive wisdom that has guided all her creations. We explore how our hormonal cycles and stages of womanhood are not isolated events, but initiations into a lifelong relationship with self-healing, surrender, listening and resonance. Tune in for Awakening Fertility as a state of body trust, playfulness & surrender Preconception nourishment and the power of oysters, anchovies, salmon roe & mineral-rich foods Letting go of control as the gateway to conception Home birth, water birth & trusting the body's innate intelligence Hypnobirthing, intuition & minimizing outside noise Traditional Chinese postpartum care, confinement & "sitting the month" Why rest, warmth, broths & deep…

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