What Happens When a Woman Chooses a Sovereign Birth? with Dr. Sonja Murray

078: From the Mayo Clinic to home birth, Dr. Sonja Murray’s story is a powerful exploration of what happens when a woman questions the system and reclaims her own wisdom. Listen in and learn from an embodied woman about sovereign living, birth, informed consent, postpartum care, and the kind of support that helps women feel more fully in their power.

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✨ Time sensitive invitation: If this conversation with Dr. Sonja Murray stirred something in you around women’s wisdom, embodiment, healing, or reclamation, I’d love to invite you into my upcoming free class, The Pleasure Gap, happening live on April 27th. This is a powerful conversation for women ready to understand why pleasure can feel so unavailable — and what begins to shift when we close that gap. Save your spot here!

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• Her journey from rural Minnesota to becoming a pediatric nurse at the Mayo Clinic

• What working across 73+ pediatric specialties revealed about the strengths and limits of conventional healthcare

• How acupuncture for sleep struggles during night-shift nursing led her to study Chinese medicine

• Her first birth experience, including unexpected preterm labor, an emergency C-section, and a two-week hospital stay

• The questions that experience raised around informed consent in birth and standard hospital birth practices

• Why protocol-based medical training can disconnect providers from the body’s natural intelligence and physiologic birth

• Holistic postpartum care through the lens of Chinese medicine, healing traditions, and life-transition support

• How she prepared for and chose an unmedicated home birth after a previous hospital birth

• The role of evidence-based research, intuition, privacy, and partner support in making sovereign birth decisions

• Her work today through Sovereign Support, Sovereign Circle, Sacred Seasons, Motherwise, and her book Wild Roots

Connect with our guest, Sonja

• Website: Acupuncture | Burnsville, MN | Women's Health | Wild Integrative Health

• Instagram: Dr Sonja Murray | Wild Integrative Health (@drsonjamurray) • Instagram profile

• Motherwise - a transformational program for mothers ready to stop outsourcing their health and return to grounded, sovereign living: Motherwise

• Substack Sovereign Wealth Journey:

• The Resourced Mother | Substack

• Dr. Sonja’s Book - Wild Roots: A Family Guide to Traditional Chinese Medicine, Herbs & Food Therapy:

• Wild Roots: A Family Guide to Traditional Chinese Medicine, Herbs & Food Therapy

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