The Sacred Womb
Hosted by Melanie Swan, this podcast is for women who are ready to dissolve our part in the patriarchal blueprint — and come home to our true nature.
This is not more healing. This is deprogramming, dissolving what's false, remembering what's true, and inhabiting our gorgeous female bodies.
We move through the full arc of the work and womanhood: the female psyche in her true nature, womb healing and menstrual cycle embodiment, perimenopause as an initiation, shadow and soul, attachment repair, the mother wound, primal desire and erotic power, womb dis-ease, money and receiving, and the deeply longed-for return to sovereignty.
The first 75 episodes laid the somatic and womb foundations — and they remain essential. The podcast has since deepened with me as I move through my own arc, particularly perimenopause.
24 years of clinical and metaphysical grounding.
Restoring the true nature of womankind.
No bypassing. No pathologising. We can't become sovereign on the very blueprint we're dismantling.
Hosted by Melanie Swan — Trauma Resolution Specialist, Womb Medicine Woman & founder of The Sacred Womb.
Instagram: @melaniejswan_ | www.thesacredwomb.com
Episodes
73 episodes
From Endometriosis To Natural Pregnancy: How Michelle Healed When Nothing Else Worked
The conflicting advice around reproductive health — from conventional medicine and from the wellness world — leaves most women cycling through practitioners with no real answers. I invited Michelle on because she has done what many women are to...
Winter Reflections from Thailand & What's Changing In 2026
It’s winter in Chiang Mai — sunlit, yet crisp enough to invite true wintering: slow, quiet, reflective. As I prepare for the Womb Medicine Woman Training starting in January, one word has defined 2025 for me: REFINEMENT.I share wh...
Why Strength Training Matters In Perimenopause, with Charlotte Hewlett
Ready to feel strong, steady, and unapologetically capable through perimenopause and menopause? We sit down with Charlotte, a Chiang Mai–based fitness and nutrition coach who specialises in midlife women, to unpack what actually changes as horm...
Killing the Disney Princess Fantasy in Relationships: From Extraction & Control to Sovereign Love
You were told a love story. That if you were chosen — really chosen — everything would finally feel okay. The loneliness would ease. The ache would quiet. You'd feel complete.It doesn't work. Because it's a fantasy. And in this episode, ...
Becoming Sovereign: Inside the Womb Medicine Woman Training
Become the frequency of this work and guide women home to their true, sovereign nature.I’m truly delighted to share this with you. The Womb Medicine Woman Training® is back!This training has run in different forms fo...
Why Money Blocks Are Hard To Budge — and How to Resolve Them at the Root
Women and MONEY! Why are so many women struggling to earn, receive and retain money?!!Women are conditioned—subtly and overtly—to emotionally over-give, to feel guilty for charging for their time, to equate compassionate with “low...
Dancing With Goddesses Through The Menstrual Cycle — with Agnieszka Drabek-Prime
Agnieszka Drabek-Prime weaves the cyclical wisdom of goddess archetypes into a rich map for navigating life’s transitions — from menstruation to motherhood, through perimenopause and beyond. Her new book, Dancing With ...
You Just Need To Be In A Calorie Deficit – The F**kery of Peri-Menopause Advice
The journey through perimenopause is unique for every woman, yet the unsolicited and contrary advice remains universal. This was the inspiration for my latest poem, which is part of a book of poetry in which I’m documenting t...
I Don’t Know – A Poem On Peri-Menopause
Today is my 49th birthday, and peri-menopause is in full swing. My last period lasted 26 hours. As my blood started to flow, I felt love and bliss emanating from my womb.I lay on my bed for 4 hours, riding the waves of energy that...
Is It ADHD — Or Is It Attachment Trauma?
Have you noticed the huge rise in the diagnosis of ADHD?It’s everywhere — in adults, in children, on social media, in therapy rooms. And while it’s often discussed through the lens of ‘neurodiversity’ or executive dysfunc...
Radical Relating Through The Natural Voice, with Anthony Johnston
In our conversation, Anthony shares the essence of Singing in the Wild, his five-day retreat that I've been on twice (17 years ago and more recently just a few weeks ago).I had such a transformative time that I invited...
Why ‘Letting Go’ Doesn't Work and What Actually Does
have you ever tried to ‘let go’ of behaviors that no longer serve you, only to find yourself repeating the same patterns? You're not alone. The popular advice to ‘release what no longer serves us’ or burning our troubles...
A Guided Practice To Energise Your Womb Center
This guided practice serves as both a foundational womb healing technique to energise your whole womb center and a diagnostic tool to understand your current relationship to your womb.You’ll learn to direct energy to each part of ...
9 Ways Unresolved Attachment Trauma Affects How We 'Hold Space'
The phrase 'holding space' is immensely popular with those in therapeutic, healing, coaching, wellness, and women's circles, but what's really happening?I've investigated this over the last few years with those I've worked with...
How To Develop A Genuine Adult Self
In this episode I explore the concept of becoming a genuine adult, what it means to develop emotional maturity and a grounded sense of self, what that looks like and feels like, and how we can do it in a way that increases our range...
Recalibrating Our Attachment Template: Incarnation To Birth
Our attachment template primarily determines how we relate to ourselves, others, and the world, and to recalibrate it, we need to work where it was formed: from incarnation, conception, in our Mother’s womb, to birth and our first year. ...
Menopause, Hormones & Health with Salena Walker
If you've been wondering what is actually happening in your body during perimenopause and menopause — beyond the generic "your hormones are changing" — this conversation is for you.I'm joined by Salena Walker, herbalist, naturopath and n...
Healing Emotionally & Spiritually After Abortion
Download the healing after abortion course: https://www.thesacredwomb.com/store/Healing-After-Abortion-Course-p658419675I want to set up the co...
What Is Womb Healing?
To heal our womb means to dissolve all the ‘stuff’ we’ve been holding in there, restore its true purpose and reconnect the whole womb centre with the rest of our system.To do this we need to consider six aspects:
3 Core Issues That Hold Us Back & What To Do About Them
I explore 3 core issues that I see over and over again in my work, particularly with women. I describe how each particular aspect shows up, the root cause, and what to do about it.Perpetually Putting Others’ Needs Before Our Ow...
The Hungry Mother: A Poem On Healing from Narcissistic Parenting
Have you ever felt an insatiable hunger for love and validation?In this episode, I explore ‘The Hungry Mother,’ a medicine poem that speaks to the experience of, and healing from, narcissistic parenting.Put simply, narcissi...
Reclaiming The Divine Masculine To Restore The Divine Feminine
Welcome to another episode where Kim and I discuss the growing divine feminine movement and its pitfalls……as many women who are in this movement are struggling to turn ideas into reality, have a lack of internal authority and are...
Debunking 6 Menstrual Cycle Myths
Ready to debunk some myths about your menstrual cycle? I talk about 6 of the most common myths in the realm of ‘womb work’ that are limiting our experience of what the menstrual cycle truly is, and get clear on what the antidotes...
The Root Cause Of Keeping One's Self Small
Many women I come across talk of keeping themselves small. It's one of the core wounds that women in particular struggle with.In this episode, Kim Barnard and I explore the 4 aspects that form the 'root system' that keep us livin...
It's Time To Shine: A Womb Medicine Poem Guided Practice
A short and sweet episode to share with you a Womb Medicine Poem to restore the beauty and wonder of the womb centre. It starts with a brief introduction, and then there's a guided practice to listen to the poem with your womb....