Uploaded September 2026 | Updated September 2026, 3 hours ago
The advice to “just trust the system” falls apart fast when you’ve already been gaslit by doctors, pressured toward induction, and made to feel like your own body can’t be trusted. Jasmine shares the full arc from her first hospital birth, and the quiet unease that followed, to the radically different freebirth that changed how she sees motherhood, power, and herself.
She opens up about a messy first pregnancy, an OB-led experience that included pressure around size, a threatened induction at 39 weeks, and the claustrophobic feeling of being managed instead of supported. But the deeper story is what happened after birth: postpartum isolation, dark thoughts she was too afraid to say out loud, and the people-pleasing pattern that kept her suffering silently.
Then everything shifts. In her next pregnancy, Jasmine finds Free Birth Society, devours hundreds of hours of podcast stories, and starts to imagine something she never thought possible: having her baby at home, without a midwife, on purpose.
If you want to connect with Jasmine, follow her on Instagram at instagram.com/rootedandradiant.motherhood and you can find her website here: campsite.to/jasmines?fbclid=PAQ0xDSwL-ZpdleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABp41hNyD0lr2Sc0eyhQATy4JAxcxKuu0EHi6z0ElKCVbagK1OTDgRGqt1CFOF_aem_Ti0oltBLcLWVYCX4a2FCFw
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Introducing LEMONADE, my newest training program.
Six months, live, with me. LEMONADE is where you stop shrinking your truth and start building the visibility, the spiritual grit, and the real world tools to speak it in public and survive what comes after. Because the backlash isn't a maybe. It's the toll for doing big work in the open, and I'm going to teach you how to turn it into fuel.
Learn more at emileesaldaya.com/lemonade
The Complete Guide to Freebirth, our popular flagship program, takes you from conception through postpartum with a full education in physiological birth and the mindset of self-responsibility.
Learn more at freebirthsociety.com/cgtf
The Radical Birth Keeper School, an in-depth training for women called to sovereign birth-work, blends self-mastery, birth literacy, and practical mentorship outside the medical model.
Learn more at freebirthsociety.com/radicalbirthkeeperschool
The Lighthouse, our private membership sanctuary for awakened women, offers four live coaching sessions a month with Emilee, a library of 50+ expert workshops, and a private forum connecting women worldwide.
Learn more at freebirthsociety.com/membership
Follow Emilee's next chapter at emileesaldaya.com/, where business and self-mastery coaching for disruptors, healers, and mission-driven entrepreneurs lives beyond the birth space.
Find more from Emilee on:
instagram.com/freebirthsociety/, youtube.com/@UCW5LVxPY3UnJ3iS5CAaD97A and the Free Birth Society website: freebirthsociety.com
The advice to “just trust the system” falls apart fast when you’ve already been gaslit by doctors, pressured toward induction, and made to feel like your own body can’t be trusted. Jasmine shares the full arc from her first hospital birth, and the quiet unease that followed, to the radically different freebirth that changed how she sees motherhood, power, and herself.
She opens up about a messy first pregnancy, an OB-led experience that included pressure around size, a threatened induction at 39 weeks, and the claustrophobic feeling of being managed instead of supported. But the deeper story is what happened after birth: postpartum isolation, dark thoughts she was too afraid to say out loud, and the people-pleasing pattern that kept her suffering silently.
Then everything shifts. In her next pregnancy, Jasmine finds Free Birth Society, devours hundreds of hours of podcast stories, and starts to imagine something she never thought possible: having her baby at home, without a midwife, on purpose.
If you want to connect with Jasmine, follow her on Instagram at instagram.com/rootedandradiant.motherhood and you can find her website here: campsite.to/jasmines?fbclid=PAQ0xDSwL-ZpdleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABp41hNyD0lr2Sc0eyhQATy4JAxcxKuu0EHi6z0ElKCVbagK1OTDgRGqt1CFOF_aem_Ti0oltBLcLWVYCX4a2FCFw
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Introducing LEMONADE, my newest training program.
Six months, live, with me. LEMONADE is where you stop shrinking your truth and start building the visibility, the spiritual grit, and the real world tools to speak it in public and survive what comes after. Because the backlash isn't a maybe. It's the toll for doing big work in the open, and I'm going to teach you how to turn it into fuel.
Learn more at emileesaldaya.com/lemonade
The Complete Guide to Freebirth, our popular flagship program, takes you from conception through postpartum with a full education in physiological birth and the mindset of self-responsibility.
Learn more at freebirthsociety.com/cgtf
The Radical Birth Keeper School, an in-depth training for women called to sovereign birth-work, blends self-mastery, birth literacy, and practical mentorship outside the medical model.
Learn more at freebirthsociety.com/radicalbirthkeeperschool
The Lighthouse, our private membership sanctuary for awakened women, offers four live coaching sessions a month with Emilee, a library of 50+ expert workshops, and a private forum connecting women worldwide.
Learn more at freebirthsociety.com/membership
Follow Emilee's next chapter at emileesaldaya.com/, where business and self-mastery coaching for disruptors, healers, and mission-driven entrepreneurs lives beyond the birth space.
Find more from Emilee on:
instagram.com/freebirthsociety/, youtube.com/@UCW5LVxPY3UnJ3iS5CAaD97A and the Free Birth Society website: freebirthsociety.com
