Pregnancy and Birth, natural events that people have navigated throughout time, have been co-opted by highly regulated health systems requiring constant medical intervention and supervision. The support and guidance women receive during pregnancy sets the tone for her laboring experience and provides her with the tools she will use to traverse the massive rites of passage that is giving birth. Too many women are stepping into the work of birthing and mothering with few tools if any, little support, and minimal resource to help them thrive as the parents of our future.

In my thirteen years of working with expecting families I cannot tell you how many seemingly normal births, resulting in healthy babies, simultaneously unmasked trauma for parents facing unresolved parts of themselves during the intensity of labor and birth. The truth is emotional and spiritual preparation during pregnancy can address deep- seated traumas and create resolution, thereby avoiding the challenges these traumas can cause during the labor process. Additionally, parents experience increased confidence as they step into the roles of parenting allowing them to show up fully for their child feeling resourced and ready. Witnessing frustrating stories unfold time and again with expecting parents, and also seeing the tremendously empowered results of parents who were given the proper tools, I can tell you the difference between the two is like night and day…

Modern midwifery education, doula trainings, and the like all echo a widely accepted medical model in our contemporary birthing culture.  The focus is the physical body and the emotional, mental, and spiritual aspects of preparing for birth as a sacred event are ignored.

As a birth worker, imagine showing up to a birth without an entire set of tools that would support your clients to feel prepared and resourced for what labor and birth will ask of them.  This leads to situations where you can be blamed and feel terrible about how a women feels about her birth story. Those of us who serve birthing families all want the best birth outcomes but we are showing to the altar of pregnancy and birth under prepared. 

• In this module, you will explore your relationship to your mother; what you want to leave behind, what you want to hold on to and embody as you step into the role of great mother. Birth Workers are the mothers to mothers, holding unconditional love and support through the process of pregnancy.
  

• Explore your resistances and learn how to resource yourself. You will learn to connect to your needs and make space for the innocent, vulnerable aspects of yourself that only want to be heard and loved. Being in tune with your inner child opens up your availability to hold space for the unborn and to learn and listen from beyond the veil
  

• Call upon the emotions to inform you of your wounding, where it lives in your body and how you can learn to flow through your emotions with presence. As keeper of birth, we are also protectors of the waters, the emotions, and the sacred fluids that create life. Realizing our role as water women ignites our sacred contract to our wombs and the wombs of all women.
  

• Aligning with the Fire as a tool to call your spirit into yourself. You are creating space and time for the inner fire of the spirit to be tended with fierceness and compassion. Learn preparatory tools to better support clients to prepare for the challenge of labor by facing fears, releasing resentments, and calling in forgiveness. Learn to sit in the discomfort and trust in birth on a whole new level!