Cove is the happy go lucky one in our family. She is almost always happy; but the last few nights she has been getting sad at bedtime and asking me a strange question. “What life am I in??!” has been how she’s said it. At first I thought it was kind of funny. I mean, […]

…and how that has carried through to birth work! With the announcement of our Sacred Birth Certificate program, I wanted to do a lengthier storytelling share about my former life as a young musician. This came to me in a dream recently as something I needed to feel in my body and I know it’s […]

Life has been a winding road for Margo and I the last few years. I feel that in many ways our experiences, obstacles and insights have brought this Sacred Birth Certificate program TO US. Not the other way around. This program found us; in all the ways that we started wanting to express the BIGNESS […]

I had sorta a strange weekend of taking care of my 17 year old self. Wait, who? It all started with a dream that I had about one of my amazing oboe teachers. She was/is such a female role model for me; a determined, smart and talented woman in the still very heavily male world […]

I am sharing this podcast I did with Brittany on HER podcast (link below) because it felt so good and resonant to offer my community. I am grateful for this opportunity to share more with you all about our daily life, and how we approach topics like schooling and learning in our family. Brittany’s Podcast […]

The first miscarriage I experienced was over 12 years ago, in between my 5th baby Belgium and before I got pregnant with True. I never really thought it would happen to me, and even as a midwife I felt really unprepared. I remember seeing the first wipe of blood (I was just about 5 weeks […]

My 15 year old son takes a prenatal “vitamin”. I put that in quotes, because it’s not a lab made vitamin full of filler (most of them are BTW, even the expensive “healthy” ones), but real food. I wouldn’t put anything else in my kids’ bodies besides real food in one form or another. Since […]

I start this podcast with a mini-rant on blame and shame and miscarriage and why I think we need to shift this old paradigm and way of thinking. It’s literally everywhere; in the foods we’re told we shouldn’t eat to the air we breathe to the studies that say…this causes miscarriage. I am feeling this […]