Did you use your voice in labour? Have you ever thought about the connection between the throat and the cervix? Some musings…. Physiological labour and birth is designed for women to experience a hormonal cocktail that enables the veils to thin, waters to break and internal doors within the body to open so we can Read more about The power of speaking up in labour and birth[…]
What is communicated to me without words when I enter the space of a new mother? Do you see me in all of my divinity? Can you hold me in the vastness of what I have just been through? Can I trust you to walk with me and help guide me through this delicate landscape? Read more about New Paradigm of Postpartum[…]
Women’s healing arts have been around for thousands of years. It is a cross-cultural common thread that knits our human family together, and despite what the popular culture would have us believe, we have much in common with one another. Our foremothers knew the value in tending to the new mother because she was the Read more about Women’s Healing Arts[…]
You carry the other end of this cord and organ around with you as an indent in your abdomen. What a funny reminder of such an important connection. We all commence here. We all begin in the dark waters of our mothers womb. We all feel before we see with our eyes. It is believed Read more about Placenta[…]
We are at a pivotal moment in time both as a collective and as individual women. Perhaps at this very moment, with this virus in full effect, we are all taking stock and realizing how dependent we have become on systems that are not necessarily conducive to our personal success as women, as mothers and Read more about Awakening Fertility[…]
I can’t begin to tell you how many stories I hear of women who have had difficult postpartum experiences ranging from nervous anxiety, episiotomy recovery, baby blues, worries their baby isn’t feeding enough, breastfeeding problems, exhaustion, inadequate help, subpar nutrition, caesarian recovery, traumatic birth process recovery, depression and on and on. 💛 It breaks my Read more about Postpartum Reality[…]
Stepping onto the motherhood path and into the role of Matriarch comes with it great responsibility and challenge. There is no shortage of outside chatter and opinion from others on how to raise a child, all which has been filtered through personal agendas as well as love and personal experience, too. It’s a lot to Read more about Matriarchy[…]
You have arrived on the other side of birth. It’s the golden hour and it’s trauma. It looks different for us all, but regardless this initiation comes with blood, sweat and tears. There is an overload of information coming at you through the filter of an institution or someone else’s experience. It is not a Read more about On the other side of birth[…]
The last week of July had me flying to Calgary to sit at the feet and learn from the legendary Whapio. When I was pregnant with my daughter I remember reading the “Holistic stages of Birth” and my eyes being open to a whole new world of the way we think about labour and birth. Read more about Whapio[…]
To be a doula is to continue on the ancient work that women have always done. Since time immemorial women have always cared for other women in this tender moment of metamorphosis. Doula, the word itself sounds ancient rolling off the tongue, and means caregiver. 🦋 Yes, we provide physical and emotional comfort measures as Read more about A Doula’s Work[…]