My story

At the age of 12, and later more intensely at 15, I first felt the call to serve women in birth. I witnessed my mother giving birth when I was 15, which planted a seed in my heart and mind that began to sprout and bloom in earnest a few years later when I completed two years of training to be a Fertility Awareness Educator.

Then, after the birth of my first child, which was at home yet disturbed by unwanted cervical checks and painful digital manipulation of my cervix from my medwives, I had deep trauma to work through. I thought I was well-informed on “natural birth” and yet in my own birth I externalized my authority to my dominant medwife, with no sense of instinct as I disassociated in her presence. This shook me, and revealed to me how much more work I needed to do to claim authority over my own body, self, and experiences.

Then 2020 hit and added to the questioning of all systems of power that exert over us in our lives, limiting our concept of our human capacities and creativity. I spent months working through the ways in which I still felt tethered to the System, one by one taking a proverbial axe to those chains.

Because of my own experiences, I am on fire to claim my own autonomy, and to help other women and families do the same.

You won’t find me recommending ultrasounds, Pap smears, genetic testing, Doppler, injections, pharmaceuticals, cervical checks, or any other intrusive intervention whose core purpose is grooming women (and their babies) for submission. You will find me supporting you as you reclaim your own radical woman, returning to the root (wrad) of your innate wisdom, so the tree of your life can rise up with strength and stability, unswayed by narratives that pathologize fertility and birth.