Postpartum and the People-Pleaser
I love my clients! Sometimes they drop the most amazing wisdom and insight that not only helps me see something in myself more clearly,...
Positive births need processing too!
It is common practice after traumatic births to encourage people to share their birth story and process their feelings about their...
Words of Encouragement
Let’s talk “words of encouragement”. This fundamental comfort measure for people during labor may sound like, “You’re doing amazing”,...
What Happens When Birth Affirmations Lie
Affirmations are thought of as pretty big tools in birth work. Saying things like, “I am safe”, I am powerful and strong”, or “I can...
Foster and Inner Child Parenting
Last week I came across a quote that went something like, "Be grateful for your triggers. They reveal where you are not free." That...
Origin Story: How Comforting Touch Came to Be
The origin of Comforting Touch; for doulas, for parents-to-be, for birth, for postpartum, for babies, and birth professionals, all of...
Healing bad water-birth associations
This week I worked with someone, who now pregnant with her 3rd child, was harboring negative associations from one of her previous births...
The Universal Language of Touch
Whether we’re talking about Comforting Touch, Havening Touch, soft touch, firm touch, attentive or distracted touch, all touch is a...
The Difference Havening Touch Makes
Years ago, long before I trained to become a Havening Practitioner, I had a client whose labor I KNOW would have been hours shorter if...
Pardon My Sweaty Palms!
One of my absolute favorite things about teaching Comforting Touch for Doulas is the way it spontaneously becomes an opportunity for...
