The Home Within Her
The Home Within Her is a Human Design podcast for mothers on the conscious parenting path — whether you’re reclaiming yourself or already living authentically, but seeking deeper alignment. Host Valerie Birch weaves together Human Design, conscious sleep support, nervous system wisdom, and intuitive guidance to help women honor their truth and raise conscious, authentic children without abandoning themselves. It’s not about fixing or forcing — it’s about deepening trust in yourself and guiding your family from that place, creating a home rooted in presence, joy, and liberation. soulfulspaces.substack.com
#12 - The Power of Rested Mothers: Honoring What Comes Easy
There’s something you do so effortlessly, you don’t even see it.
In this episode, I share the story of a recent breakdown that led me to a quiet—but life-shifting—breakthrough. A realization that what I’ve been resisting is also what comes most naturally to me: guiding families to better sleep through the lens of Human Design and intuition.
It’s about more than rest—it’s about reclaiming your aliveness.
You’ll hear:
* Why we often resist the things that come easiest to us
* How your child’s rest...
#11 What Is Human Design? Parenting from Truth, Not Perfection
This isn’t a textbook explanation of Human Design.It’s a lived one.
In this episode, I share how Human Design met me in the chaos of motherhood when I was burned out, questioning everything, and aching to feel like myself again.
It didn’t give me a new identity.It helped me remember the one I’d buried under “shoulds” and survival.
This isn’t about learning a system.It’s about living a life that finally feels like yours.
✨ Inside this episode, you’ll hear:
* The moment I stopped try...
#10 - How Do I Know What’s Best for My Child? A Real-Time Parenting Contemplation
What if we stopped pretending we always knew what was best for our kids?
In this raw, in-the-moment contemplation, I invite you into a sacred question I’m living inside as a mother:
✨ What happens when your child’s truth and your intuitive “no” collide? ✨ Can you trust their energy, even when it challenges your own? ✨ How do we raise children rooted in self-trust, if we keep overriding their wisdom with our own?
This episode isn’t about answers. It’s about letting go of the pressure to be right—and choosing instead to be present.
#9 Freedom Within the Structure: The Mother’s Role in the Revolution, Pt 2
This is part two of a soul-stirring conversation about the revolution happening in homes—and the mother’s role as its sacred leader.
In this episode, I unpack what it really means to live your authenticity—not by blowing up your life, but by creating inner freedom inside the structures you choose to keep.
We explore:
* Why your truth may oppose someone else’s—and that’s not a problem
* Personal vs transpersonal Human Design profiles and how they influence your expression, parenting, and purpose
* How to reclaim your light, witho...
#8 - We’re at a Breaking Point—and the Mother is the Leading Guide of the Revolution
This revolution isn’t about more.More doing. More fixing. More holding it all together.
It’s about being.It’s about you.
This is the inner revolution.And it begins the moment you choose yourself.
All the caretaking, the controlling, the over-nurturing you've done for everyone else?It’s been your soul’s mirror.An invitation to turn that energy inward—where it’s always been needed most.
No one’s going to ask you to stop taking care of them.That’s why it’s a radical act to choose yourself firs...
#7 - Breaking the Bedtime Pattern: A Story About Rest, Boundaries, and Permission
It starts with a familiar scene—bedtime, resistance, and the pull to stay in the pattern.But this time, something felt different.
My body was clear.The exhaustion was loud.And instead of overriding it, I chose to listen.
In this episode, I share a quiet, personal story from my week.A moment when I walked away—not out of avoidance, but from deep presence.Where sleep became the boundary.Where rest became the medicine.Where permission to choose myself felt like the most loving choice of all.
Inside this reflection, you’ll hear:<...
#6 - When Control Looks Like Love
It starts with a week that spirals—overflowing schedules, a sewer backup, and a body that feels like it’s holding everything together.
In the chaos, something cracks open. And in that space, a deeper truth rises: Sometimes, the control we offer in love is really fear in disguise.
In this honest and gentle reflection, I share:
* How my need to guide my child became a mirror for my own fear
* A simple but profound question that invites clarity in hard parenting moments
* Why creating physical space often opens the...
#5 - On Overthinking, Overwhelm, and the Simple Return to Your Body
It starts with a week of transitions—new routines, early mornings, and the hum of busyness that pulls the mind into overdrive.
From there, the loop begins: more stress, more thoughts, more exhaustion. But beneath all of that noise is a quiet truth—peace doesn’t come from solving every thought. It comes from returning to the body.
In this gentle reflection, I share:
* How to notice when you’re caught in the cycle of stress and overthinking
* The role of rest, breath, and nervous system safety in breaking the loop
* A...
#4 - On Rhythm, Authenticity, and the Heart-Led Way
In this episode, I share something tender and true — the quiet battle between my head and my heart, and the deepening trust I’m building in my own rhythm.
We talk about creativity, timing, consistency, and the pressure to produce — especially in a culture that defines value by output. And we remember that authenticity isn’t something to force. It’s something to listen for, to honor, and to gently return to when the world gets loud.
Whether you’re in a creative season, a quiet one, or somewhere in-between, I hope this conversation feels like a breat...
#3 - What If It’s Not About You? On Trust, Love, and Letting It Be
Sometimes, it takes living it to truly see it.
In this episode, I share a quiet realization that’s been unfolding in my own marriage as a Splenic Projector partnered with a Sacral Generator, and how Human Design gently reminds us to trust each other’s paths, even when it looks different from what we might have chosen.
We talk about those moments when you’re invited to share your insight, and then they choose the opposite. About what it means to let your guidance be enough, without attaching to the outcome. About allowing each person...
#2 - Coming Back to Your Body (Without Overcomplicating It)
This episode is an invitation to slow down and notice the spaces in-between.
I share a conversation close to my own practice: the quiet difference between living in the mind and living in the body, and how often we don’t even realize we’re stuck in our heads until everything feels tight and rushed.
We talk about small, practical ways to reconnect with your body in the middle of everyday life — like pausing in your car before getting out, noticing your breath, and feeling your feet on the earth. These are simple, gentle ways to ret...
#1 - Welcome to the First Episode of The Home Within Her
This first episode is a soft beginning — an offering from my heart to yours.
Inside, I share the honest, winding journey that led me here… not just to creating this podcast, but to remembering who I am underneath all the roles I’ve lived — wife, mother, space-holder, business owner.
It’s a story of those quiet inner whispers. Of following breadcrumbs when I wasn’t even sure where they’d lead. Of realizing that even in a beautiful life, something can still feel off. That honoring that feeling isn’t selfish — it’s sacred.
I speak to the inv...
