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I live just outside Bristol. I am 28, mum to one small madman, yoga instructor and doula.
I am a somewhat goofy, very affectionate, open, honest and compassionate person and after giving birth to a hilarious little bobble, I realised that my calling in life was bringing that joy, care and positivity that I discovered on my way to motherhood to all mamas and mamas-to-be that I can.
What is important to know about me? I am passionate about people. I don’t judge, I don’t hold grudges, I fight for anyone that needs me to, I don’t shy away from the awkward conversations and you can tell me anything and I’ll normally find some way for us to laugh about it.
A big part of who I am now is down to my own birth experience. I entered mamahood feeling like a badass: a strong, beautiful and capable woman who had created life and then pushed said life out of me whilst my partner fainted on the floor. I was a freeaaking goddess! As I looked around, I saw all these other mamas around me and I had a new found respect and complete love of all women who had birthed before me and would after me.
But after a while, when my experience started to come back more clearly, I realised how much more powerful I could have been, how my birth was good – not great, but okay. I saw that for every urge or instinct I had felt, there was always a person or a piece of information gently, kindly but firmly reminding me that they knew better. Then I started to listen to all those other mothers telling their stories, stories of unwanted interventions, of being told ‘this is how it’s going to be’, of believing they weren’t strong enough to birth the way they wanted and I realised that so much of the western world around us tells women not to trust themselves. Not to listen to that voice in their head or their body guiding them in what to do. I realised all of that natural, beautiful, incredible maternal instinct that women have is made to sound silly.
It was at this point that my passion for helping women understand how strong they are was really born. I quickly started learning all I could about birthing in all walks of life, in different cultures and environments, in various approaches and finally I took my biggest step and trained as a doula. So here I am now, a lot better in formed but with still a lot to learn ahead of me, helping women through a transformational, amazing, natural but also vulnerable time. Reminding them that they are freaking goddesses, and shouldn’t be treated as anything less.