I often say my Doula journey began before I was born

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Birth has been at the center, that steadfast core, of my life since before I could form memory. I've been intrigued with pregnancy and birth since I was a toddler. I've known I've wanted to serve women/birthing people since the beginning.

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There is something, an unspeakable holy magic, holding the threshold as a woman/person touches the power of birth, to bring her/their baby into the world.

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I pursued a doula certification in 2009 and attended my first birth in 2010 while in college at Western Washington University, Fairhaven College. I created my own degree studying reproductive justice, woman's rights, midwifery, cross-cultural medical anthropology, and the intersection between science, embodiment and intuition. 

 

After attending births as a doula and assistant midwife for a few years, it was my turn. The birth of my son in 2013 not only shattered my identity as a human/woman, from maiden into Mama, but my identity as a doula as well. Very little went as planned. And I took the pain of healing from a traumatic birth and used it to inspire and catapult me into an entirely different way to support, educate, and advocate for my clients.

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I'm also a birth based artist, and have illustrated two books, dozens of logos, and many commemorative pieces for babies who have died.

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Currently, I am pursuing a mindfulness-based childbirth education teaching certification, where I get to blend my love of the pregnancy and labor process, and interweave it with meditation, movement, mindfulness and breath practices, to help parents with a transferable skill they can take into parenting for years to come.