
Develop your true nature as a woman. The Feminine Effect is your all-in-one guide to spiritual pregnancy, conscious conception, modern motherhood, spirituality, holistic health and wellness, and rediscovering your sacred feminine. Gain a healthier, stronger, relationship with yourself. Hi! I’m Chelsea Ann O’Brien. I’m an Integrative Medicine Nurse Practitioner, a healer, mother, and author of four books for women on motherhood, spirituality and femininity. I help women around the world create a happy, healthy, and conscious relationship with themselves and their family through coaching, books, a podcast, and educational materials. My work is based on both Western medicine and Eastern spirituality. If you are ready to feel worthy, fulfilled, connected, feminine, confident, and powerful as a woman, I invite you to join me on this journey.
Episodes

Wednesday Jan 24, 2024
How to Overcome Unhealthy Eating Patterns and Create Health
Wednesday Jan 24, 2024
Wednesday Jan 24, 2024
Meg and I speak about her past battle with an eating disorder. We dive into her healing process: how she did it, why she healed, her barriers and her victories. Great resource for anyone who is looking to heal their relationship with food.
To meet with me personally reach out here: www.mysticalmotherhood.com

Friday Jan 12, 2024
Friday Jan 12, 2024
My guest today Gina Mundy is an attorney specializing in childbirth cases. She is also the best selling author of the book, "A Parent's Guide to a Safer Childbirth" and mother of 3 children. Gina has traveled nationwide, engaging with healthcare professionals such as doctors, nurses, and midwives to explore all aspects of labor and delivery. Today we speak about:
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What parents must know to help them have a healthy baby: What is the most common issue in a childbirth case that every parent should know?
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How parents can avoid the mistakes and complications in the birth of their baby: How can parents prevent these mistakes in the hospital setting?
- What are the important lessons that parents can learn from the childbirth cases?
To get in touch with Gina go HERE
You can purchase her book "A Parent's Guide to a Safer Childbirth" on Amazon or visit her instagram account HERE
To get in Touch with Chelsea from Mystical Motherhood for a Private Session or interest in her books GO HERE

Tuesday Dec 19, 2023
Finding Your Vital Spark with Lisa Marchiano
Tuesday Dec 19, 2023
Tuesday Dec 19, 2023
"A call to action for women who dream of reuniting with their unique and independent nature. Within every woman lies a powerful force. Yet, somewhere along the line, the burdens of responsibility and desire to nurture the ones they love cause that fire to dim, and they lose their sense of self. The Vital Spark brings women on an immersive journey that reunites them with their innate humor, cunning, and assertiveness."- Lisa
Lisa is an author, podcaster, and certified Jungian analyst. She is the author of two books published by Sounds True, Motherhood: Facing and Finding Yourself, and The Vital Spark: Reclaim Your Outlaw Energies and Find Your Feminine Fire. She is the creator and cohost of the popular depth psychology podcast The Jungian Life. She has a private practice in Philadelphia. To learn more about her work: Go HERE
To get in touch with Chelsea the founder of Mystical Motherhood : Go HERE.

Tuesday Dec 12, 2023
Ditch Exhaustion and Embrace Flow with Sarah Starrs
Tuesday Dec 12, 2023
Tuesday Dec 12, 2023
My guest today Sarah Starrs is a menstrual cycle coach. This is what she has to say about tracking your cycle..
People work with me because they’re feeling exhausted, overwhelmed, and like there’s never enough time. From the outside, you have an arguably awesome life (and there’s so much you love about your life!). But on the inside, you’re drowning under the weight of so much pressure. Because this awesome life? It requires you to be “on” all. the. time. And that’s beyond exhausting.
My approach isn’t about doing more or even finding the perfect “productivity hack.” This is about meaningfully reorienting your life so that you have access to more energy, a deep connection your intuition. and a natural sense of “flow” that permeates your life.
I work with parents who have periods and are feeling exhausted, overwhelmed, and like there’s never enough time.
Through 1:1 coaching, workshops, and online courses I help you feel more energetic, intuitive, and confident that the work you’re doing in the world matters.
To find out more about all of this go HERE
If you would like to book a session with MYSTICAL MOTHERHOOD go HERE

Friday Nov 10, 2023
Be More Do Less: Healing Anxiety & Overwhelm in Motherhood with Ciara Burton
Friday Nov 10, 2023
Friday Nov 10, 2023
Ciara Burton is known as “The Life Coach for Moms,” her work solves anxiety, uncertainty, disconnect, Type-A tendencies and perfectionism for the soulfully ambitious Mother by helping her reconnect to her "Self" and her intuition in order to find happiness within. Her course, Becoming Her is helping Moms everywhere build, create and design lives characterized by their values, which they identify in her course. Her clients go from list checking and feeling like they need to DO MORE to learning how to BE MORE in their lives for the people they love most. This approach is revolutionizing "family" dynamics as everyone is having fun again without needing to schedule a vacation to do so!
Ciara's unconventional approach quickly gets to the root of toxic patterns, routines and blockages that leave women feeling anxious, purposeless, and overwhelmed. Her research-based and intuitive methods empower clients to find fulfillment and freedom within themselves, which revolutionizes their families, careers, relationships, physical health, and more.
Ciara can help you with:
Healing the “Mother Wound” and generational patterns/programming
Difficult relationships and the mother-in-law dynamic
Simple shifts out of exhaustion/overwhelm
It takes ONE to fix your marriage (not two plus a therapist!)
A dark night of the soul (aka: depression, you aren’t alone!) and what the challenges you face may be here to teach you
“Silent parenting” and how to deeply connect with your kids (and become the hero they write about on in their college entrance essay)

Friday Oct 20, 2023
Friday Oct 20, 2023
My guest today, Dr. Laura Brayton, is passionate about educating and empowering women from conscious conception, healthy pregnancy, empowered birth and joyful motherhood on holistic health and lifestyle. She has dedicated her entire career to learning and applying the best ways to support women in my holistic chiropractic practice located in Hoboken, NJ; from hands-on skills in addressing pregnancy back pain and headaches to balancing a third trimester woman’s pelvis using the Webster Technique to assist her baby in going into a vertex (head down) position as well as reading copious amounts of information from the leaders in the holistic birth movement.
She runs a family wellness practice, specializing in pediatrics and maternity, and strongly believes in the body’s innate intelligence and ability to heal itself when blockages to the healing process are removed. Utilizing chiropractic, soft tissue techniques, allergy elimination, nutritionals/supplements, and massage, health is restored and maintained for optimal wellness.
To learn more about her work and courses go HERE
To learn more about Mystical Motherhood go HERE

Wednesday Oct 04, 2023
Wednesday Oct 04, 2023
Thomas R. Verny is a psychiatrist, writer and academic - and an incredible resource for mothers who want to increase their consciousness. One of his first books The Secret Life of the Unborn Child has become an international bestseller published in 27 countries. The Secret Life has changed the pregnancy and childbirth experience for millions of mothers and fathers.In 1983 Verny founded APPPAH—Association for Pre- and Perinatal Psychology and Health. In 1986 he launched the APPPAH Journal – the Journal of Pre- and Perinatal Psychology and Health. You can find his recent books (such as The Embodied Mind) and articles published for Psychology Today on his website HERE.
To speak to Mystical Motherhood or book a consult go HERE.

Wednesday Sep 27, 2023
Letting Go of Motherhood: The Pressure is On Let Me Take it Off
Wednesday Sep 27, 2023
Wednesday Sep 27, 2023
What happens when you try everything to become pregnant and nothing is working? You are at your breaking point with self-help, healers, doctors and IVF clinics. Do you keep on going even if it is hurting you and your relationship? Listen to Suzanne's story of letting motherhood go and learning to love her new life. This is her healing journey!

Wednesday Sep 20, 2023
Entering Parenthood: A Pre-Birth Check-In for Couples with Dr. Dueger
Wednesday Sep 20, 2023
Wednesday Sep 20, 2023
Dr. Stephanie Dueger is an author, educator, parent coach, and psychotherapist who works with expectant and new parents and their little ones up to age 5. Her book, Preparing for Parenthood: 55 Essential Conversations for Couples Becoming Families (2020), is the book she wishes she’d had for herself when first becoming a parent and was the winner of a bronze medal for Parenting and Relationship books in the 2022 Global Book Awards and a finalist in the 2023 Book Excellence Awards.
She facilitates parent workshops and courses and was the Editor-in-Chief of the academic Journal of Pre- and Perinatal Psychology and Health from 2019-2022. Dr. Dueger lives in Colorado with her husband, two daughters, and furball of a dog. Learn more about her work at Prepared for Parenthood.
To speak to Chelsea - the Mystical Motherhood host - or book a consult go to Mystical Motherhood.

Friday Sep 15, 2023
Friday Sep 15, 2023
Annie Brook, Ph.D in Perinatal and Somatic Psychology, LPC, RSME, Body-Mind Centering teacher, is a therapist in high regard in the Somatic community. Today we spoke about healing from birth imprints and IVF by slowing down the nervous system.
Annie blends psychotherapy, sensory-motor neuroscience/cognition, play therapy, early bonding attachment, Body-Mind Centering, cranial sacral, touch/movement education, and perinatal therapy to offer lasting results.
You can contact her HERE
You can contact Mystical Motherhood HERE