Choosing Joy Over Cultural Expectation: The Spiritual Journey of Solo Parenting with Julia Karol

Published: April 7, 2022, 6 a.m.

b"Ashley sits down with friend and fellow podcaster Julia Karol. Julia is building a family. Along the way, she is asking anyone and everyone about how they came to make the decisions they did regarding family life. On her podcast Stork'd, she's opening up an honest, funny, raw, and earnest conversation looking at what creating a family really means and how it might show up differently than expected. Julia herself has created a family in a non-traditional way as a solo parent. While fiercely rooted in her spiritual practice, intuitive guidance and dedication to her own joy, she manifested her son through IUI. In this episode we discuss Julia\\u2019s path to parenthood, the fear, envy and pain of fertility struggles, her spiritual journey as an individual leading into motherhood and the self-care practices she\\u2019s leaning into as a new mom."