Doula, Antenatal and Postnatal Educator, Babywearing Instructor and Reiki Healer.
Workshops to help birth workers unleash their inner power through a unique blend of science and traditions.
Latest reads from my blog
Why it’s important to sit with the pain
I have just supported another long birth, one that didn’t end up the way the parents were hoping for. I always find myself raw and open after supporting such a birth. As a doula I become so emotionally invested in supporting the parents, when thing don’t go the way they had hoped for, I feel…
Are you full of should?
This week I had a very interesting coaching session with Charlie from Your Time to Grow. I wanted to talk about how I’ve been feeling like I’ve got too much to do, and how to manage my time better. It is a recurrent problem for me, I am a busy self employed person with many…
How do we make decisions (especially difficult ones during pregnancy and birth)?
I’ve been reflecting on the complexity of decision making lately. How do we make decisions , especially difficult ones, and how does this apply to pregnancy and birth? Let’s debunk some myths first. I think we naively like to believe that we make decisions in a step by step, rational, logical, maybe even scientific basis.…
Today I was healed-a closing the bones story
We recently asked for stories from the people trained in offering closing the bones. We ran a competition to celebrate our 200th member. We wanted their experiences of both giving and receiving. We had many marvellous entries and will be sharing the winning entries over the coming weeks. Here is our runner-up winner, Rosie, with…
Sacral release : the most powerful of all spinning babies techniques?
This week I attended the advanced spinning babies workshop with Gail Tully and Debra Mc Laughlin. I already knew many of the techniques, having learnt them with other birthworkers, and having refined them by attending the first spinning babies workshop in 2016. Spinning babies, the brain child of American midwife Gail Tully, is a set…
a male doula’s experience of closing the bones
Please visit our sister website to read Dr Attila Jonas’s account of closing the bones Closing the bones : a male doula’s experience
Reflections on four years as a doula
This week is world doula week and I thought it would be the perfect occasion to reflect on what I have learnt since I became a doula. I kind of fell into doulaing when my friend Maddie McMahon invited me to attend her first ever Developing Doulas course, back in 2008. Four years later, Maddie…
Do you find it hard to charge for your services?
I have been meaning to write this for a while. This week I had a couple of conversations both online and in real life, which finally gave me the impetus to write it I have 4 hats: doula, antenatal and postnatal educator, babywearing instructor and healer, and therefore interact with a lot of people in…
How to survive a long birth as a doula
When I started working as a doula, one of my biggest fears was: how will I survive the sleep deprivation of a long birth? The universe was kind to me, because my first birth was a text book, 12h long easy birth centre water birth, I came back elated and full of joy! And overall,…