Motherhood as Medicine
There are moments in life that change us before we understand why.
Looking back, I can see how certain moments of my past shaped my health, my relationships, how I saw myself, and the life I was creating.
For much of my life, I thought I was pursuing freedom. Over time, I came to see that much of what I called freedom was protection.
At 33, I developed a severe, persistent rash and became profoundly exhausted. At times, I could barely wear clothes or stay awake. I sought help from medical doctors, naturopaths, acupuncturists, and healers, but for years I struggled to find answers. I felt cut off from the joy, vitality, and connection I had known.
I wasn’t only searching for relief. I longed to understand what was happening and to feel met as a whole person—not just as a collection of symptoms.
Eventually, I asked my father for help. He had spent decades working with flower essences and teaching the Delta Gardens method. Over the next two years, we explored the physical factors involved, as well as emotional experiences I hadn’t felt supported in processing. Alongside medical care, I began working with flower essences, breathwork, creative practices, and intention.
As I looked back on my life, I began to wonder how past experiences had shaped my relationship with my body. I came to understand some of my own symptoms through the lens of emotional experience and the body’s memory. This was a personal way of making sense of my story—not a medical conclusion, and not an explanation I assume applies to anyone else.
Over time, my symptoms cleared. I don’t believe this means every illness has an emotional cause, or that the same practices will bring the same outcome for someone else. What stayed with me was the experience of becoming more curious about my body, listening more closely, and finding support that made room for my whole story.
That experience changed the questions I was asking.
Instead of asking only, “How do I make this go away?” I began asking, “What might it mean to be in relationship with my body—with care, honesty, and trust?”
Learning to Listen
Years later, after becoming a mother, I found myself navigating another season of change. My husband and I were adjusting to early parenthood and the distance that had grown between us. I grieved the loss of intimacy, while old feelings from my adolescence began to surface. I started to recognize how sex had sometimes been a way to move away from difficult feelings rather than meet them.
I was also experiencing hormonal changes and changes in my well-being. I sought support from health-care practitioners, asked questions, and explored different approaches. I wondered how the emotional and body-based practices I was using related to this chapter of my life. I can’t say they reversed menopause or would have the same effect for someone else. I can say that listening to my body became an important part of how I moved through change.
My path wasn’t about finding one answer or following a formula. It was about becoming more present with what I was experiencing—and learning to meet myself with compassion.
Again and again, I was learning that insight isn’t something we have to find outside ourselves. We can learn to listen more honestly to the body and to the signals we’ve been taught to ignore.
Practice of Coming Home
My path has included twenty years of dedicated yoga practice, more than 10,000 hours supporting others as a healing guide, over a hundred medicine ceremonies with one teacher, a lifetime as a trained dancer, and an inherited family lineage of flower medicine. I have also used the methods shared through the Institute as part of my own healing from two significant chronic health conditions.
These experiences have not given me a single answer for how healing happens. They have taught me to stay curious, to honor the complexity of each person’s experience, and to trust that our inner lives deserve to be heard alongside our physical needs.
For me, Embodied Power is not about controlling the body or demanding a particular outcome. It is about becoming more present with ourselves: honoring our needs and boundaries, listening to our inner signals, and making room for the parts of us we may have learned to silence.
I created the Intuition Institute as a safe place to share the practices that have mattered most in my own life and to offer support for those seeking a trusted path within the noise of the modern world. Through this work, we guide and accompany women as they find their way toward greater self-trust, healing, embodiment, and wholeness.
My story is one person’s experience—not a promise of healing, a substitute for medical care, or a prescription for anyone else’s path. It is an invitation to listen inward, explore with care, and discover what feels true for you.
I believe even the chapters we would never have chosen can bring us closer to ourselves—not because we have to make them mean something, but because we can meet ourselves within them.
With love,
Miranda Rae
Embodied Healing Expertise
100+ Medicine Ceremonies
15 years One Teacher, One Traditional Lineage
Lifelong Trained Dancer
From 3 Years Old to Forever 40 Years and Counting
20 Years Dedicated Yoga Practice
It’s Yoga Trained. Progressive Ashtangi 17 years Full-Time Teacher, Master Trainer
10,000+ Private Client Hours
Physical Rehabilitation through Pilates and Flower Essence Therapy
Fascia Stretch Therapist
8 Years Professional Experience Trained by Stretch to Win Institute
Flower Medicine Lineage
Trained in the Delta Gardens Method 40 Years of Learning, 25 Years Professional Experience