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Postpartum Liberation

Postpartum Liberation

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
  • Holiday Rewind · Becoming the Medicine, Not the Martyr
    Dec 23 2025

    What if your medicine didn’t require self-erasure? In this episode, we name the martyr myth and rebuild devotion as a covenant with ritual, rest, and reciprocity at the center.

    You’ve mastered care. But have you mastered containment?

    This episode names one of the most dangerous myths in birthwork: that devotion means depletion — that being “a good doula” means abandoning your own body.

    Becoming the Medicine, Not the Martyr is a radical reframe for every birthworker who’s been praised for self-sacrifice… but is secretly exhausted.

    In this episode we explore:

    • the neuroscience of mirror neurons + co-regulation in postpartum care
    • how your nervous system becomes the first altar of healing
    • why burnout is not a scheduling issue
    • the subtle shift from entanglement into embodied covenant
    • the ritual + physiology that protects the healer while you serve


    If you’ve ever felt drained after a birth, overwhelmed, or like you’re “carrying” someone else’s pain home with you, this is the episode that will change how you work and how you walk into rooms.

    Prepare to shift the way you show up in the birth space. Not by pouring more, but by remembering how Spirit designed you to be resourced, nourished, and held. This is the revolution of sustainable devotion.

    And your body has been waiting for this conversation.


    📬 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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    21 mins
  • The Science of a Rebirth
    Dec 16 2025

    In this powerful episode of Postpartum Liberation, we step inside one of the most misunderstood transitions in human biology—the profound neurological, hormonal, and spiritual transformation that occurs after birth. This isn’t just “baby blues.” This is a complete rewiring of brain, body, and identity.

    If you are a doula, midwife, birthworker, nurse, therapist, or parent, this episode will change how you understand postpartum forever.



    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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    27 mins
  • 09 · Integrating Healing, Skill, and Liberation
    Dec 9 2025

    In this episode of Postpartum Liberation, Danielle explores why postpartum care so often falls short—even when it’s well-intentioned—and what becomes possible when healing, skill, and liberation are no longer treated as separate conversations.

    Drawing from lived experience in postpartum homes, nervous system science, and lineage-rooted care, this episode names the limits of insight without support, technique without attunement, and liberation language without embodied practice. Danielle invites listeners—parents, doulas, midwives, and birthworkers alike—to consider a more integrated approach to postpartum care: one that listens deeply, responds skillfully, and remains grounded in justice and safety.

    This is not a list of tips or a quick fix. It’s a reframing of what postpartum actually asks for when bodies are open, nervous systems are vulnerable, and care must move beyond theory into lived reality.

    If you’re navigating postpartum recovery, supporting families in the fourth trimester, or questioning why “doing all the right things” still doesn’t feel supportive, this episode offers language, clarity, and a grounded way forward.


    📬 Get on the waitlist for the next Postpartum Skill Drill: https://bloomingallover.myflodesk.com/waitlistskilldrill


    📬 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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    10 mins
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