The journey that led me here…

I have walked with grief since I was in the womb. A year before I arrived, my sister was stillborn and her spirit started to connect with me in my early 20’s when I started to open myself up spiritually. Becoming curious to what existed beyond this realm and from there on, she continued to invite me in.

As life’s spiral continued, grief reminded me how it greatly coexists with life. In the span of three years, I watched my husband lose both of his parents to demanding illnesses and four months later my father’s battle with addiction came to an end. The summer following that year we got married and several months later we were gifted with the blessing of carrying life in my womb, our son, Luca.

Unfortunately, several months later, we lost him in a second trimester pregnancy loss and I had given birth to death.

Abandoned by those who were supposed to be my pillars of support, I witnessed my own birth team fall short of where the general standard should land. I birthed alone, scared and traumatized at home with my husband.

It was through this initiation into motherhood and a childless postpartum that no one told me existed, where my passion to change the narrative grew. With an aching body and empty womb, I a deep devotion and eager spirit, ready to carry the torch forward and change women’s birthing experiences to come — that has landed me here today.

Through extensive research and after praying long and hard for over a year, I found a beautifully aligned training in Guatemala. I started to question the narrative and asked why Doula’s (and all birth-workers) are not being trained to assist and support mothers and families that will endure any stage of peri-natal loss? (ectopic pregnancies, miscarriages, stillbirths, etc.)

Who supports these mothers? those babies? their bodies? Who is telling them they will still be postpartum and giving them the nourishment they deserve, without discarding their loss telling them to just “try again”?

The training I attended listened through my aching, passionate heart and decided to enhance that years training to support pregnancy loss into their curriculum and I thought, “what a beautiful start” …

It was there in Guatemala, in the mountains and lakeside of Tzununá, where Mayan elders led the way. Herbalism rang through our fingertips. Birth workers from all over the world, gathered to learn, sharing the ancient practices of weaving educational learning, ritual, hands-on practice, and embodied knowing into our path, as guardians of life’s thresholds.

The continuous, birth death, life-cycle.

My training traversed through many landscapes,

Ranging from women’s anatomy, the prenatal and preconception journey, somatic birth practices, mayan lymphatic breast massage, traditional mayan abdominal womb massage, faja wrapping, rebozo support, the 8 stages of psychological birth, theta brainwave states of birth, 40 days post partum nourishment, herbal remedies, baths and how to properly provide a closing of the bones ceremony, tending to all thresholds of life, grief, release and ritual.

We spent time learning & crafting ceremonial experiences for birthing families while steeping the magic that is creating a culture of birth keeping that supports, protects and bares witness to it all.

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As a Full-Spectrum Doula, From Pre-conception, Pregnancy, Birth and Post Partum