So you can access your intuition

So you can master the art of holding space

For self development

You feel more YOU from doing the work

This work is in direct alignment with your life purpose

Your main focus is not money, profit, clout or business

You cannot learn to be a birth worker, you are born one

You understand the nuances between politics, policy, and people power

Advocacy as an avenue to support your clients to exercise their agency

Intersectional lens: You understand the connection between social determinants and peoples experiences

Birth justice means all people are afforded informed consent always in all ways

Having the competency to support people through abortion, miscarriage & live birth

Induced abortion/termination is a valid, honorable, a fucking normal choice

Holistic Care: mental, physical, spiritual, emotional

Learning rituals, ceremonial practices, and culturally relative traditions each step of the way

Remembering traditions so we can release colonial practices

Honoring the legacy of the traditional midwife

Naming our teachers and never overstepping them

Naming where traditions derive from

Trusting our inner being to guide us

De-Whitewashing midwifery by reclaiming our “old ways”

Birth is an extension of the human sexual/erotic/kinky/sensual experience

The same body parts are being activated

The lack of informed consent being exercised is an extension of the rape culture we live in. (Obstetric rape)

Sexual trauma can be healed and/or triggered during birth & vice versa

The female anatomy needs the same thing during both orgasm and birth

We have the power to manifest and be deliberate co-creators of our reality

When this path is for us a way will be made

The seeds we plant are congruent with fruit it bares

MANIFEST MANIFEST MANIFEST

Prevents burn out

Self care is simply listening to your self. Especially regarding your input and output.

Having healthy self talk is one of the foundations of self care

Self care doesn't have to cost money

Having routine in your life balances out being on call and the input— output balance