Uploaded October 2025 | Updated September 2026, 12 minutes ago
This week, I am joined by Celia from the Bay Area, California, who shares her journey from birthing with medical midwives and working as a doula, to stepping fully into sovereign birth work and choosing freebirth with her fourth child.
Born at home herself, Celia’s path was forever changed when she read Portal and began to unravel everything she thought she knew about birth. As a graduate of the Radical Birth Keeper School, she now carries this work forward in her own community.
Celia reflects on her four births, including the painful memory of her midwife pulling out her placentas. She shares how, in her fourth and most recent birth, allowing her placenta to be born in her own way and her own time became her favorite part of the entire experience.
In this conversation, Celia names what it means to let birth be simple, to trust herself, and to claim it all.
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If you want to connect with Celia, follow her on Instagram at instagram.com/intuitive.birth and find her website here: intuitivebirth.org/. Celia has studied with Sister MorningStar on the art of facilitating village prenatals and has now hosted monthly village prenatals since January of 2025. For more information, contact Celia.
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instagram.com/freebirthsociety/, youtube.com/@UCW5LVxPY3UnJ3iS5CAaD97A and the Free Birth Society website: freebirthsociety.com
This week, I am joined by Celia from the Bay Area, California, who shares her journey from birthing with medical midwives and working as a doula, to stepping fully into sovereign birth work and choosing freebirth with her fourth child.
Born at home herself, Celia’s path was forever changed when she read Portal and began to unravel everything she thought she knew about birth. As a graduate of the Radical Birth Keeper School, she now carries this work forward in her own community.
Celia reflects on her four births, including the painful memory of her midwife pulling out her placentas. She shares how, in her fourth and most recent birth, allowing her placenta to be born in her own way and her own time became her favorite part of the entire experience.
In this conversation, Celia names what it means to let birth be simple, to trust herself, and to claim it all.
✨ Join The Lighthouse — A private, life-changing membership space for conscious, sovereign women. Check it out here freebirthsociety.com/membership
✨Donate to the podcast - paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=2YJBSCNYXT52Y
If you want to connect with Celia, follow her on Instagram at instagram.com/intuitive.birth and find her website here: intuitivebirth.org/. Celia has studied with Sister MorningStar on the art of facilitating village prenatals and has now hosted monthly village prenatals since January of 2025. For more information, contact Celia.
Find more from Emilee on:
instagram.com/freebirthsociety/, youtube.com/@UCW5LVxPY3UnJ3iS5CAaD97A and the Free Birth Society website: freebirthsociety.com










![Unpacking the Choice to Not Register Your Baby After Birth With Freebirther Veda Ray
What if the birth certificate was never for your baby—but a tool of control used by the state?
In this episode, I sit down with Veda Ray, a freebirthing mother of two, who chose to walk a path most women never even consider: birthing and raising her second child completely outside the system. No pregnancy test. No monitoring. No birth certificate. No social security number.
After her first birth at a birth center, Veda knew she wanted something different. This time, she listened deeply—to her body, to her baby, and to her own intuition—and what she heard was clear: this child was to be born free.
We go deep into the realities of living outside the system, including how she navigated the legal terrain to secure a passport without government-issued ID, why she believes the birth certificate is a jurisdictional trap, and the spiritual responsibility of saying no to the state’s contracts.
Inside this episode:
- What really happens when you don’t get a birth certificate or Social Security number for your child
- The process Veda used to get a passport without a state-issued ID
- Why a “family Bible” can hold legal weight in proving lineage and identity
- How the social security number binds your child into the U.S. corporate system
- The link between freebirth and reclaiming jurisdiction over your body and family
- What it’s like to raise a child who has never been registered by the state
- The unseen cost of outsourcing authority—and what you reclaim when you stop
Timestamps:
[00:00] Introduction
[02:01] Choosing radical self-trust after rejecting the medical model
[09:21] Learning to sit in the unknown and trust yourself through freebirth
[22:54] Rethinking the birth certificate as a contract with the state and choosing a sovereign path instead
[26:08] Creating private records to get a passport without a birth certificate
[36:47] Using private trusts and EINs as alternatives to social security numbers and state contracts
[52:44] Facing fear, claiming trust, and birthing in full sovereignty with family by your side
Resources Mentioned:
The Business of Being Born | https://imdb.to/3K86Zqc
If you want to connect with Veda, follow her on https://www.instagram.com/veda.revival/ and you can find her website here: https://vedarevival.com/
Find more from Emilee on:
https://www.instagram.com/freebirthsociety/, https://www.youtube.com/@UCW5LVxPY3UnJ3iS5CAaD97A and the Free Birth Society website: https://www.freebirthsociety.com/ Unpacking the Choice to Not Register Your Baby After Birth With Freebirther Veda Ray](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/PecysOe7dew/mqdefault.jpg)