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Postpartum Liberation

Postpartum Liberation

Written by: Danielle Lyles Barton | Blooming All Over
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Postpartum Liberation is where doulas, aspiring birthworkers, and conscious mothers reclaim the sacred art of postpartum care while imagining the future of how we hold one another. Hosted by Danielle Lyles Barton—doula, healer, and visionary educator—each episode turns skill into ceremony and everyday care into a radical act of liberation for us and the generations yet to come.


Here, you’ll learn the postpartum skills, stories, and rituals we should’ve all been taught—from ancestral traditions to modern, evidence-based practices.


Week after week, Danielle weaves in:

  • Skill-building conversations you won’t find in typical doula trainings
  • Rituals, frameworks, and postpartum practices rooted in Black, Indigenous, and global traditions
  • Liberation-centered insights that name the Truth and reimagine care
  • Honest, soulful storytelling that validates your intuition and expands your capacity to serve
  • Guidance from elders, healers, and cultural changemakers
  • Practical tools for real clients, real families, and real healing



This is more than a podcast. It’s a movement, a teaching circle, and a love letter to the village.


Whether you’re a doula, midwife, birthworker, childbirth educator, or a conscious mother, this is your weekly dose of postpartum wisdom and revolutionary care.


Every episode drops on Tuesdays at 5:00am EST—designed to fuel your week and root you deeper in the work.

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Episodes
  • 11 · Babies Know, Birthworkers Forget with Janisa Camille
    Jan 13 2026

    What do babies know that birth workers too often forget?

    In this episode, we explore a truth that lives beneath technique, protocols, and performance: babies already know how they want to be born—and birth work is not about control, but listening.

    This conversation dives deep into the spiritual, emotional, and embodied dimensions of birth, womb wisdom, and transitional care. We talk about intuition as a skill, the womb as a living archive that keeps count of trauma and tenderness, and why not every doula is meant to practice the same way... or even practice in every season.

    You’ll hear reflections on:

    • Why birth is fundamentally spirit work, whether we name it or not
    • How trauma, surrender, and intuition shape labor and birth outcomes
    • The responsibility birth workers hold in protecting energetic thresholds
    • Why rest is not a luxury, but a requirement for sustainability
    • How birth work extends far beyond the delivery room into grief, menopause, rebirth, and life transitions


    This episode is for doulas, midwives, birth workers, healers, and families who are ready to move beyond surface-level care and into deeper listening—of the body, the womb, and Spirit.

    If you’re navigating burnout, transition, or the in-between spaces of life and work, this conversation is an invitation to pause, rest, and remember what you already know.

    Because sometimes the most powerful thing you can do…

    is listen.



    The Postpartum Liberation Podcast and content posted by Danielle Lyles Barton is presented solely for general informational, educational, and entertainment purposes. The use of information on this podcast or materials linked from this podcast or website is at the user’s own risk. It is not intended as a substitute for the advice of a physician, professional coach, psychotherapist, or other qualified professional, diagnosis, or treatment. Users should not disregard or delay in obtaining medical advice for any medical or mental health condition they may have and should seek the assistance of their healthcare professionals for any such conditions.
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    53 mins
  • 10 · The Cost of the Calling with Janisa Camille
    Jan 6 2026

    What does it really cost to answer the call to birth work?

    Not the certification. Not the hours. Not the money. But the spiritual cost; the unseen.

    In this opening episode of our 4-part mini-series, I sit down with Janisa Camille — birth worker, teacher, matriarch, and lineage carrier — for a raw, unfiltered conversation about what happens when birth work isn’t a career choice… but a spiritual assignment.

    We talk about:

    • Doula burnout and why so many birth workers leave within 3–5 years... or less.
    • The difference between ego-driven purpose and spirit-led calling
    • What it actually looks like to be “chosen” by the work
    • Lineage, matriarchy, and spiritual mothership
    • What is not optional in this work
    • The unseen sacrifices this work can demand
    • Sustainability, integrity, and staying rooted without losing yourself


    This is a conversation for doulas, midwives, healers, and aspiring birth workers who feel the pull, but are asking themselves how to stay.

    Because this work will take everything… unless you learn how to hold it differently.

    If you’ve ever felt called, overwhelmed, devoted, conflicted, or quietly burning out, this episode is for you.

    And if you’re ready to remember that you are your first client, come sit with us.

    Referenced in this episode:

    • Doula of the Divine Website: https://www.doulaofthedivine.com
    • Doula of the Divine Social Media: https://www.instagram.com/doulaofthedivine
    • Mothering the Mother by Mama Shafia Monroe: https://shafiamonroe.com


    🎧 Listen now and begin the reckoning.



    The Postpartum Liberation Podcast and content posted by Danielle Lyles Barton is presented solely for general informational, educational, and entertainment purposes. The use of information on this podcast or materials linked from this podcast or website is at the user’s own risk. It is not intended as a substitute for the advice of a physician, professional coach, psychotherapist, or other qualified professional, diagnosis, or treatment. Users should not disregard or delay in obtaining medical advice for any medical or mental health condition they may have and should seek the assistance of their healthcare professionals for any such conditions.
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    1 hr and 10 mins
  • Holiday Rewind · The Architecture of Postpartum Healing
    Dec 30 2025

    What if postpartum healing isn’t random, but architectural?

    In this week’s episode, I invite you into the blueprint beneath every thriving mother, every sustainable doula, and every lineage of care that has endured. I'll reveal a design older than medicine itself: one built on rhythm, reciprocity, and remembering.

    Through story, science, and Spirit, we explore what true restoration requires… and what happens when we begin to rebuild from the ground up. This is a teaching, a transmission, and a turning point all at once.

    Because postpartum was never meant to merely be survived.

    It was meant to hold and transform us.

    📬 Get on the waitlist for my 9-month postpartum residency, Where the Roots Gather: https://bloomingallover.myflodesk.com/wtrg-waitlist

    📬 Want to be receive weekly doses of postpartum wisdom and care? Join my newsletter, Rooted: https://bloomingallover.myflodesk.com/rooted.



    The Postpartum Liberation Podcast and content posted by Danielle Lyles Barton is presented solely for general informational, educational, and entertainment purposes. The use of information on this podcast or materials linked from this podcast or website is at the user’s own risk. It is not intended as a substitute for the advice of a physician, professional coach, psychotherapist, or other qualified professional, diagnosis, or treatment. Users should not disregard or delay in obtaining medical advice for any medical or mental health condition they may have and should seek the assistance of their healthcare professionals for any such conditions.
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    40 mins
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