SOUNDFOOD

About SOUNDFOOD

An open, intersectional dialogue on nourishment of all mediums. Conversations with leaders working in the arts, education, agriculture, film, music, media, wellness, social activism and sustainability. Hosted by Nitsa Citrine.

Publisher

Nitsa Citrine

Category

arts · arts

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

5 Nov 2020

Latest episode

6 Jan 2026

Latest episodes

1 of 111 episodes have a transcript.

1. 

   6 Jan 2026TRANSCRIPT

   NURTURING THE MOTHER with Heng Ou

   Eating for Fertility, Pregnancy, Postpartum and all Cycles of the Feminine We are honored to welcome the luminous Heng Ou—author of The First Forty Days, Nine Golden Months, and Awakening Fertility, founder and CEO of Mother Bees—for an expansive conversation spanning from conception to birth, postpartum care, lineage healing, and the sacred act of nurturing the mother as the foundation of family wellness. In this heartfelt dialogue, Heng shares stories from her three births, ancestral traditions, and the intuitive wisdom that has guided all her creations. We explore how our hormonal cycles and stages of womanhood are not isolated events, but initiations into a lifelong relationship with self-healing, surrender, listening and resonance. Tune in for Awakening Fertility as a state of body trust, playfulness & surrender Preconception nourishment and the power of oysters, anchovies, salmon roe & mineral-rich foods Letting go of control as the gateway to conception Home birth, water birth & trusting the body's innate intelligence Hypnobirthing, intuition & minimizing outside noise Traditional Chinese postpartum care, confinement & "sitting the month" Why rest, warmth, broths & deep nourishment are non-negotiable after birth The emotional realities of postpartum, sleep deprivation & breastfeeding challenges Creating postpartum containers with doulas, midwives & family care teams Mother Bees as a movement of food, service & maternal restoration Healing generational wounds through nurturing the mother first How children mirror their mother's inner healing work Gut health, warming foods & cycle-based nourishment for women Small daily transitions as portals of self-care for exhausted mothers Resonance, intuition & following the body's "pull" as spiritual practice We Love You, Heng! Watch the Video Replay on Love & Other Frequencies (https://nitsacitrine.substack.com/s/soundfood) OFFERING 10% off everything Motherbees.com (http://motherbees.com/)  →  with code nitsa10 15% off Living Libations Oils + Serums 15% off with our link →  https://livinglibations.com/soundfood (discount automatically applied) CONNECT With Guest Heng Ou Website: motherbees.com Instagram: @motherbees Books: The First Forty Days, Nine Golden Months (https://motherbees.com/pages/our-books) , Awakening Fertility Host Nitsa Citrine @nitsacitrine @soundfoodspace Substack: Love & Other Frequencies (https://nitsacitrine.substack.com/) MENTIONED The First Forty Days by Heng Ou Awakening Fertility by  Heng Ou Continuum Concept Alex  Olson  of Pacific Prenatal Mother Bees postpartum soups & broths Hypnobirthing Traditional Chinese "sitting the month" practices Acupuncture for fertility & cycle health Magnesium Salts Living Libations Frankincense, Rose Absolute & Blue Tansy essential oils Catherine Shainberg Dream Birth WAVELENGTH Ep. 107: Way of Devotion with Nina Lombardo Ep. 57: Solstice Blessings with Nadine Artemis Ep. 90: Biohacking for Women with Dr. Karley Denoon ND NOURISH This podcast is nourished by your donations and our partners: AWAVEAWAVE: enter CITRINE for 15% off at awaveawake.com LIVING LIBATIONS: enjoy 15% off all botanical beauty alchemy with this link https://livinglibations.com/soundfood(discount automatically applied) COOKMA: SOUNDFOOD for 15% off nourishing one-pot meals from cookma.co MIKUNA: enter SOUNDFOODFAMILY for 25% off regenerative plant protein from Mikunafoods.com (https://mikunafoods.com/) LIVING TEA:  SOUNDFOOD for 15% off all tea nourishment livingtea.net SUPERFEAST: enter CITRINE for 10% off our favorite tonic herbs + superfoods superfeast.com OSEA: enter CITRINE for 10% off oseamalibu.com (http://oseamalibu.com/) sea-to-skin magic Kindly share this episode and leave us a review on APPLE or SPOTIFY it means the world to us and keeps these conversations evolving!

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   6 Dec 2025

   SEX, DEATH, BIRTH & BEYOND with Stephanie Simbari

   Welcome to the Unhinged Pregnant Women Episode! We are joined today by the hilarious, brillant, fiercely tender Stephanie Simbari—comedian, writer, actress, podcast host, and mother—for an intimate and wickedly honest dialogue on conscious partnership, ancestral healing, pregnancy, birth, creativity, grief, and the feminine superpowers awakened through motherhood. We Discuss: Healing the maternal lineage & breaking generational patterns of silencing How pregnancy became a portal into wild feminine expression and karmic fulfillment The paradox of motherhood: losing morning rituals, losing identity, and finding deeper nourishment Being a "sponge" rather than an empath & why boundaries matter more than labels Creative rituals,  morning pages, dream processing & anchoring into self The grief portal: losing her mother, supporting her through death, and emerging transformed Sex, celibacy & calling in the father of your children Pregnancy as both blessing and sacrifice—body changes, identity shifts & energetic depletion The psychedelic nature of unmedicated birth & why surrender is the medicine Home birth vs. hospital birth, fear culture & reclaiming physiological birth Navigating partnerships, blended families & inviting older children into the birth field Reviving creative identity after motherhood and the fear of using one's voice again Stephanie's new project Moms Are People Too and the tender rebirth of public expression Her upcoming live show in Malibu — reconnecting to the stage after a decade Astrology, Human Design & the cosmic timing of babies! We Love You, Steph! Watch the Video Replay on Love & Other Frequencies (https://nitsacitrine.substack.com/) OFFERING Silk Pillowcases: CITRINE for 15% off everything awaveawake.com CONNECT with Stephanie Simbari Instagram: @stephsimbari Substack: High Vibes (https://stephaniesimbari.substack.com/) New mini-series: Moms Are People Too' Past pod:  That's So Retrograde (2014–2021) Upcoming show in Malibu — December 7 with Nitsa Citrine Instagram: @nitsacitrine @soundfoodspace Substack: Love & Other Frequencies (https://nitsacitrine.substack.com/) MENTIONED The Artist's Way Tibetan Book of the Dead Midwife Johanna Storey OBGYN Dr. Phabby Human Design: Manifesting Generator Malibu Live Show — December 7 The "Legendary Baby Salad" from Slice Life Beverly Hills Silk pillowcases from AWAVEAWAKE ON THE WAVELENGTH Constellation of Consciousness with Dani Beinstein 90: Biohacking for Women with Dr. Karley Denoon ND 108: Into the Birth Portal with Lori Bregman NOURISH This podcast is nourished by your donations (https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=QSNEDVZKR7UPY) and our partners: AWAVEAWAVE: enter CITRINE for 15% off at awaveawake.com LIVING LIBATIONS: enjoy 15% off all botanical beauty alchemy with this link https://livinglibations.com/soundfood(discount automatically applied) COOKMA: SOUNDFOOD for 15% off nourishing one-pot meals from cookma.co MIKUNA: enter SOUNDFOODFAMILY for 25% off regenerative plant protein from Mikunafoods.com LIVING TEA:  SOUNDFOOD for 15% off all tea nourishment livingtea.net SUPERFEAST: enter CITRINE for 10% off our favorite tonic herbs + superfoods superfeast.com OSEA: enter CITRINE for 10% off oseamalibu.com (http://oseamalibu.com/) sea-to-skin magic Kindly share this episode and leave us a review on APPLE or SPOTIFY it means the world to us and keeps these conversations evolving!

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   25 Nov 2025

   INTO THE BIRTH PORTAL with Lori Bregman

   Tune in for an uplifting reframe on all things birth. We welcome the brilliant Lori Bregman—renowned doula, life coach, spiritual  mentor, and author—for a deep dive on pregnancy, birth, capacity and motherhood as our host Nitsa enters her 33rd week of pregnancy. Lori is the real deal. With 26+ years of experience and over 1,600 births attended worldwide, she offers a rare refinement of intuition, wisdom, and grounded practicality to the field. She reminds us that every birth is a unique rite of passage—a spiritual and physical initiation that asks us to both soften into and invoke our deepest power. From riding the intense waves of labor, to navigating hospitals with sovereignty and tapping into the psychedelic edges of transition, Bregman offers life-changing guidance for expectant mothers, partners, birth workers, and anyone walking the motherhood path. We are so grateful to have you as our doula Lori! Watch the Video Replay on Love & Other Frequencies (https://nitsacitrine.substack.com/) OFFERING Living Libations Oils + Serums 15% off with our link →  https://livinglibations.com/soundfood (discount automatically applied) Cookma Ayurvedic Meals: SOUNDFOOD for 15% off→  cookma.co CONNECT Lori's Website: loribregman.com Instagram: @lbreggy Books: The Mindful Mom-to-Be, Mamaste, The Doula Deck Nitsa Citrine Instagram: @nitsacitrine SoundFood: @soundfoodspace Substack: Love & Other Frequencies MENTIONED The Business of Being Born Midwife Johanna Storey Mindful Mom to Be - Lori's Prenatal Course The Mama Portal Doula Your Way: Lori's Virtual Coaching Package Walking Epidurals Living Libations Immortelle Best Skin Ever Living Libations Frankincense Castor Oil Breggie's Belly Butter (Lori's stretch mark balm) Oxytocin & Neurochemistry of Birth Hypnobirthing Ayurvedic Kitchari (Cookma) Dr. Gerardo Collaborative Care Models Dr. Phabby - Phabulouse Care ON THE WAVELENGTH Bio Finessing with Nadine Artemis The Energetics of Transformation with Hermas Lassalle Biohacking for Women with Dr. Karley Denoon ND NOURISH This podcast is nourished by your donations (https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=QSNEDVZKR7UPY) and our partners: AWAVEAWAVE: enter CITRINE for 15% off at awaveawake.com LIVING LIBATIONS: enjoy 15% off all botanical beauty alchemy with this link https://livinglibations.com/soundfood(discount automatically applied) COOKMA: SOUNDFOOD for 15% off nourishing one-pot meals from cookma.co MIKUNA: enter SOUNDFOODFAMILY for 25% off regenerative plant protein from Mikunafoods.com LIVING TEA:  SOUNDFOOD for 15% off all tea nourishment livingtea.net SUPERFEAST: enter CITRINE for 10% off our favorite tonic herbs + superfoods superfeast.com OSEA: enter CITRINE for 10% off oseamalibu.com (http://oseamalibu.com/) sea-to-skin magic Kindly share this episode and leave us a review on APPLE or SPOTIFY it means the world to us and keeps these conversations evolving!

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NURTURING THE MOTHER with Heng Ou

Published 6 Jan 2026 · Transcript excerpt

[…] Yeah. Yeah. It's a very vulnerable time. Right. So it's a very sacred time, too, to really just, you know, bind everything. This is why it's called confinement. You know, in the olden days, confinement was just a little bit hardcore. I think it's for, you know, it's a little extreme. Yeah. For the Western. Tell me, say the name for me in Chinese. Yeah. It's with a... You're right, which translates to... Sitting the month. Right. 做,做 is sit, and then month is 月子, so 做月子. So that is, yeah, that's all we knew, right? Right, and that is very structured. Very structured. Yeah. Take us, for those who haven't read the book, will you just take us through kind of like what that confinement looks like in the traditional sense and then how you've adapted it to modern times? […]

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Apple Podcasts (US)

4.8 / 5

112 ratings

Spotify

4.9 / 5

73 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 65 / 100

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