guiding beliefs:
i believe in so many things, but here are some core beliefs guiding the work i do. i believe that pregnancy, childbirth, and motherhood are sacred and transformative. i believe that childbirth is a natural process, not a medical condition, and that our bodies were designed for it. i believe that birth matters, and the way we give birth matters—that “healthy baby, happy mom” is a damaging myth. i believe that informed pregnancy, childbirth, and parenthood set us up to feel empowered, confident, and strong—everyone deserves equal access to information in order to make the best decisions for their circumstances. i believe that no one should ever have to endure trauma, mistreatment, or disrespect during these moments, processes, and seasons. i believe that if people in positions of power and influence shifted more attention and resources to pregnant people & parents—even a fraction of what is given to celebrities, consumerism, technology, politics—it would change the world. i believe that when a baby is born, so is a mother, and it is our collective responsibility as humans to care for new mothers with the same tenderness, patience, wonder, and unflinching attention we bestow on infants. i believe that it is also our responsibility to live in harmony and align ourselves with Mother Nature through these seasons and, rather than deplete her resources and destroy her, nurture her and protect her just as we do ourselves and our children. i believe that pregnancy & parenthood should not be rooted in consumerism or materialism, that we should not be made to believe we are deficient from the get-go if we don’t have “all the things”. i believe in my call to honor pregnancy, childbirth, and motherhood, to learn more about them, and to protect them, as processes, as experiences, as identities.
