{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"Chama Woydak of Homegrown Families on birth, death, and land connection","description":"Episode #62 of the Ground Shots Podcast features a conversation with Chama Woydak of Homegrown Families and Dancing Springs Farm, out of Asheville, North Carolina.   Chama and I have a relationship that spans over a decade, which began when I landed on her farm in 2012 to go to herbal medicine school. We ended up farming together for a few years before I hit the road, and I owe a lot of my knowledge about growing food and caring for animals to Chama who has dedicated the last few decades to these practices alongside her work as a doula and childbirth educator. As you\u2019ll hear in this interview, her work as a farmer tending life and death is inextricably linked to her work as a doula re-humanizing care for others\u2019 births in a society that doesn\u2019t prioritize it or see it as vitally important.   In this conversation with Chama, we talk about: Chama\u2019s journey into childbirth education and birthwork The role of doulas in childbirth The difference between a OBGYN, doula and midwife The problematic nature of the medical industrial complex in relationship to birth how doulas can re-humanize care in a culture and system that dehumanizes from the bottom up raising the bar of birth experiences the intricacies of complex medical trauma and how it trickles into our society taking a restorative justice approach to birthwork the connection between farming and birthwork how tending space in nature can help teach us how to tend and care for our human systems (we are nature) doula work is inherently justice work the power of small adjustments and interactions in making big change and how tending land can teach us about this how death and birth are parallel initiations       Chama on Instagram: @chamawoydak Homegrown Families on Instagram: @homegrown_families https:\/\/www.ashevillehomegrownfamilies.com\/ Support the podcast on Patreon to contribute monthly to our grassroots self-funding of this project  For one time donations to support this podcast: Paypal : paypal.me\/petitfawn VENMO: @kelly-moody-6 Cashapp: cash.app\/$groundshotsproject   Our website with an archive of podcast episodes, educational resources, past travelogues and more: http:\/\/www.ofsedgeandsalt.com  Our Instagram pages: @goldenberries \/ @groundshotspodcast Join the Ground Shots Podcast Facebook Group to discuss the episodes Subscribe to our newsletter for updates on the Ground Shots Project Theme music: 'Sweat and Splinters' by Mother Marrow Interstitial Music: Ebb and Flow, Finger and the Bone by Brown Bird This episode hosted by: Kelly Moody Produced by: Kelly Moody ","author_name":"The Ground Shots Podcast","author_url":"http:\/\/www.ofsedgeandsalt.com","html":"