Today we’d like to introduce you to Chantal Blake.

Alright, so thank you so much for sharing your story and insight with our readers. To kick things off, can you tell us a bit about how you got started?
My story is an unconventional one– my professional career path has included Nursing, Environmental Engineering, and Travel Writing. But since becoming a mother in 2010 to my firstborn daughter, I have felt the fire to help women feel fully well in the birthplace of our future– our wombs.

I became a Pelvic Steaming Therapist in 2019 and pivoted towards holistic menstrual health education during the Covid pandemic. Women consistently report that they wish they knew the value of their menstrual cycle and proper period care much earlier in life, so I wrote my first book, Peaceful Periods: Holistic Womb Care for Teens, as a resource for change.

We all face challenges, but looking back would you describe it as a relatively smooth road?
It has been challenging to find my voice in women’s wellness as many practitioners are considered useless without a medical degree. Also, traditional and alternative wellness practices are often ridiculed and demeaned by medical doctors. However, there is a beautiful ecosystem of practitioners working collaboratively, realizing both the usefulness of their training and tools, as well as their limitations. I love the synergy that we’re co-creating to ultimately improve quality of life, even if our approaches differ.

The effective use of social media is always a personal challenge for me, as it can feel like such an overstimulating space. Thankfully, I have a team and a system of engagement that includes my website, mailing list, and private community, where we foster more focused and meaningful dialogue.

Alright, so let’s switch gears a bit and talk business. What should we know?
Honored Womb began as a local service-based business to help women have less period pain and improved postpartum recovery through the traditional practice of pelvic steaming. In 2020, I pivoted to become an online educational platform and have been seeding and nurturing a cultural shift towards period-positivity and holistic womb wellness ever since. Painful periods and difficult postpartum experiences have been normalized, and my work actively combats these narratives by both proclaiming and proving boldly that periods and postpartum can be restorative and regenerative times for women, as opposed to deteriorating and debilitating.

I am known for helping girls and women see the value in their menstrual cycles, learning how to care for them holistically, so they have peaceful periods they look forward to and better fertility outcomes when trying to conceive. Instead of focusing on products to relieve menstrual difficulty, I focus on self-care practices and body literacy.

In 2023, I published my first book, <u>Peaceful Periods: Holistic Womb Care for Teens</u>, to help women of all ages better understand how to achieve improved menstrual health. I am most proud of the hundreds of women who report healthier periods, better postpartum recovery, and improved fertility outcomes in our community. Now, my book is reaching younger audiences who will have all the necessary tools to not suffer in the same way their mothers, aunts, and elders did.

We all have a different way of looking at and defining success. How do you define success?
Success is when you are able to use your gifts to answer an urgent need that you feel a deep passion and purpose for, while simultaneously feeling nourished, replenished, and resourced in your personal needs and goals.

I also believe that success must be attained in integrity and ethically without exploitation, abuse, and cutthroat competition.

I love that my success lifts others up in the process and feels like a win-win for us all!

Pricing:

• Peaceful Periods Book: 19 USD plus shipping and handling
• Private Consultation: 350 USD
• Six-Month Coaching: 1250 USD
• Private Membership Community: 99 USD per month

Contact Info:

• Website: www.honoredwomb.com
• Instagram: www.instagram.com/honoredwomb
• Facebook: www.facebook.com/honoredwomb
• Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/honoredwomb/
• Youtube: www.youtube.com/@honoredwomb

Image Credits
Images by Laylah Amatullah Barrayn, Amina al-Bakri, and Daniela Ortiz.