***The very very bottom of this post includes photos of miscarried babies at different gestational ages, since understanding what to expect to see is a crucial skill for anyone who wants to support clients experiencing miscarriage. Miscarriage is a topic that often remains in the shadows, yet it is an integral part of the childbearing […]

There are many ways to skin a cat. It’s a weird saying, but it’s not one I hear much in the world of birth or by those who have a “birth business”. It’s not common to acknowledge that there are many ways to arrive at the same place; whether that is becoming a doula, a […]

This episode is an interview and chat with Nikko Kennedy, quantum biologist and doula. I love the wisdom she shares here around light and the Sun and all of the reminders to help us get back to what we know. Being human does come with challenges, but it also comes with built in systems to […]

It’s been exactly a year since we arrived here with the intentions of staying a few months. I never dreamed of all the things and gifts and blessings that we would receive here, yet it’s been an intense year of lessons and upgrades. If you have the dream of doing something equally as crazy with […]

Maybe it’s the really cool message I heard this morning about the nature of reality, or my eldest turning 10 last week, or the level 3 IFS training I’m absorbing, or maybe its the more than usual cannabis tincture I took as part of my pre-menstrual protocol (helps me so much with my anxiety and […]

In this episode of ‘Midwifery for the People,’ I had the pleasure of interviewing Nicole Morales, a home birth midwife based in San Diego, California. Nicole shares insights from her diverse background, which includes teaching, co-authoring books on midwifery, and training others in breech birth techniques. She discusses the various roles and internal conflicts midwives […]

I’m physically and emotionally feeling a little in between worlds right now, so come with me on a journey here through vaginal steaming, and then birth, death and midwifery! I somehow tied it all together here by sharing my current desire for the definition of “midwife”; one who witnesses the initiation, whether that be life […]

I have so much to share about my recent miscarriage but it felt easiest in some ways to begin by sharing the experience from a midwifery perspective. It really gets me how many women don’t know what a “normal” loss looks or feels like, or are told lies or shoved into the medical system for […]