Meet the Doula

The sacred openings of pregnancy are expressed in the gradual expansions that take place: expansion of your heart as you grow in love for your baby, expansion of your mind as you begin to consider your baby's needs in addition to your own, expansion of your uterus as you create more physical space for Baby within your own being.

Labor and Birth are the peaks of expansion and sacred openings within the childbearing year. Your cervix will physically open as you become the tangible and spiritual door between realms - you will become the threshold as you and your baby work together to bring them fully into this physical plane. Your body and spirit will be wide open as you straddle the spiritual plane and the earthly realm, engaging in the most quintessentially human endeavor of childbirth.

Here, the sacred openings of labor & birth are coming to a close, while the sacred openings that began in pregnancy are exponentially increasing. As you move through postpartum (for the first and subsequent times), your heart will continue to expand with love for your baby, your mind can be so expansive as to almost feel single-mindedly focused on your newborn, and while your womb will be closing, contracting back down to its pre-pregnancy size, your breasts will be expanding with milk to nourish your baby. Your life, identity, and relationship with your partner will all expand to include your baby and will continue to do so as you all grow together.  

I will walk beside you as you journey through these sacred openings, expansions, and contractions, as you integrate the largest hormonal shifts you will ever experience, as you move through massive identity shifts and begin to re-meet yourself and re-learn who you are, as you meet the individual soul you have helped create and welcomed into this world. 

I am a support you may lean on as you navigate these shifts and find that, through it all, you already have everything you need within yourself to find your way.