Beyond Birthing

12/27/2023

Late notice, but just in case any of you are expecting or have pregnant friends - I am beginning a birth prep series tomorrow that is the ultimate transformational holistic manifestation focused birth course with solid training for the body, heart, and mind.

I am both a certified Birth Educator and a Transformational coach, so we’ve got all the bells and whistles for a magical, informative, and empowering experience.

Own your birth. Feel confident. Birth with joy, not fear.

Starts tomorrow, so register today!🎉

https://www.gobeyondbirthing.com/10weekprogram

Please help get out the word and share with your pregnant friends, giving birth can be the most incredible experience♥️

Being fully prepared for birth means that you can feel at peace knowing that you are ready for anything, while creating the experience you desire.

04/01/2022

Woohoo! If you’ve been looking for a way to prep for birth, find balance in motherhood, or bring your partner into your vision, then

Here you go!🎉

I am so excited to walk with you wherever you are at in your journey, and to help you achieve your ideal birth and find ease and joy in your life!

You can always book a discovery call to ask questions or see if this coaching is for you!💓

03/31/2022

Standing up for what you want in your birth

What comes to mind when you think of self-advocacy?

How does it feel in your body when you think about telling other people, particularly your loved ones and medical professionals, what is and isn’t going to happen in your labor?

Is there a part of you that feels you need to do whatever a medical professional says or else you might put yourself and/or your baby at risk?

Giving birth is not a medical event. And while there are times when your doctor will have life saving wisdom for you, most of the time, especially in an uncomplicated birth, ✨you✨ are the expert on what your body needs to have a healthy, safe birth.

But we have been trained to be passive in birth. We have been trained that, “yeah it’s going to hurt, but I’ll get through it.” Go in, do the thing, and go home with your baby.

Birth is an 💜active💜 journey through a rite of passage of becoming a more powerful, centered, wise woman.

A woman who knows her own ability to gracefully, calmly, and powerfully surrender to the forces of nature as they move through her.

No one else can tell her how to move through this journey,

And thus her voice is of paramount importance

YOUR voice is of paramount importance in your birth.

It takes active, focused preparation to stand in your own power in the birthing room,

And this is exactly what beyond birthing mamas do.

🌸What is something you would love for your birth, but are afraid to say?

03/08/2022

“You may not get the birth you want, but you will get the birth you need.”

My incredible midwife said a variation of this before my first birth.

What is the birth we “need”?

When we become a mother either for the first or second plus time we get a chance to upgrade our “self”. This means anything that is holding you back,

✨people who you haven’t forgiven
✨important things left undone
✨situations in your life that are not aligned or unsatisfying

Are going to come up in pregnancy and in your birth, so that you can

💛 let them go and move on to greater happiness
💛make room for more of what you would love
💛embody the woman and mother that you most want to be.

The more aware and conscious you are of what’s coming up the more powerful the release and the easier your birth will be.

This is the kind of deep work we do in birth coaching!🌟

“The birth you need” is the one that will make it the most clear where you are stuck and insist on moving that energy.

“The birth you need” will push you to show up for yourself and your baby in ways you couldn’t imagine.

Birth is powerful stuff and there are deep transformative processes at work.

So prepare for and call in your dream birth, AND also practice letting go into the mystery, you may be surprised by the unexpected gifts along the way!🏵

🌹Did you experience, or are you experiencing unexpected complications in your pregnancy and/or labor?

03/02/2022

The call that rises unbidden from your lips, your heart, your body

will be answered.

Whether you believe in God, Spirit, the Universe, or simple that which is greater than you, or not

you are not alone in birth.

The multitudes of women, your ancestors, the collective feminine is

by your side.

You do not need to ask, they will come, they will surround you, and hold you,

bouy you up in your most difficult moments.

When you practice 💎presence💎 you will feel them, see them, know them.

This clarity distinguished my first birth from my second.

My first birth I cried out in despair,

the second I called in power, in confidence that they would come

And they did.

Your birth can be empowering, healing, and connect you more deeply with all that is.

The more you move your fear, your doubts, and anxiety the greater your experience will be.

🌟Who did you/will you call on in birth? Did you feel a presence with you while you were birthing? Share in the comments!

02/28/2022

Stress comes from not being happy with reality and feeling powerless to change it.

When we feel stressed we are not present or accepting the perfection of “what is”. Maybe we are scared because we feel out of control or we have decided that what is happening is “bad” or not good for us.

In birth, this shows up as
✨ feeling like labor is taking too long or will never end
✨ feeling overwhelmed by the physical and emotional experience
✨ listening to other people’s fears and taking them on as your own
✨ following unnecessary “protocol” that leads to one intervention after another

Stress in birth leads to tension, pain, and interventions.

So how do we turn stress around to serve us? Because the flip side of stress is excitement🌟💛🥳

🏵 Practice breathing into the moment, become present in your body, actual notice and feel what is happening right now, the cloth against your skin, the smells, the way your fingers and toes feel.

🏵 Use these affirmations (or ones that resonate with you) and actually feel them as true (this takes practice, if it’s difficult at first keep trying)

🏵 remember that birth is bigger than you, and it’s okay to feel overwhelmed, keep surrendering, and know that you are held.

Here are three BONUS affirmations that can help with letting go of stress:

🌸 I choose to let go.
🌸 I willingly surrender.
🌸 It is safe to receive this great power through my body.

Which affirmation is your favorite or resonates the most?

02/24/2022

You can enjoy giving birth?🥳

What if you could feel your waves as joyful, high inducing, ecstatic, even

Pleasurable?!

Deep in preparing for labor I had a practice wave that rocked my world.

It felt far away at first, like thunder rolling down from the sky then a wave of power washed through me from head to toe like an earthquake moving through my body.

It felt incredible!!🤗🌟🦋

And in that moment I knew, labor was going to be awe inspiring, faith affirming, full body chills, wondrous, and even

Pleasurable.💛

I’m not talking about or****ic pleasure (that is 💯 % possible too!),

this is about that joyful feeling when the world is so stunningly beautiful, when your experience of life is so deeply connected that all is right and you are filled with the deep pleasure of existing.

How often do we get present enough to feel this? (If this has been missing in your life, birth is your opportunity babe!🌹🌸)

How often do we feel unworthy of pleasure or feel that there is some taboo around feeling pleasure?

Especially when it comes to labor!

🌺When you think of actually enjoying, taking pleasure in giving birth, what does this bring up in you? Share your feelings in the comments!🌺

02/23/2022

Have you ever thought about this?🌑✨💫

Your baby is entirely encapsulated within your body, which means to him/her you are literally the ENTIRE universe.

And if you are the entirety of the universe, then you must contain the entirety of the universe within you, including all of the

☄️strength
☄️love
☄️courage
☄️brilliance
☄️peace

As well as the fear, anger, shame, and other emotions.

When you act at the gateway for life, the universe pours through you, and provides you with an opportunity to release that which is no longer serving you.

What you choose to resolve is yours, what the universe chooses to resolve through you is a gift, and how present you are with these releases is the extent to which you get to witness the healing power of birth.

Above all the universe is love, and your baby, held in so much love, adores you as we adore the stars, the sky, the sun, and the earth beneath our feet.

So if you ever question your capacity to give birth, or to do so with grace and peace, remember

You are the entire universe for someone and all the universe’s powers are at your disposal.💋

💌Share with mamas who you love!
📨Save as a reminder of how powerful you truly are.

02/15/2022

Birth time is outside of linear time✨⏱

Have you ever had an experience where time seemed to fly by or crawl slowly onward?

Our concept of time, and general experience, is that it moves linearly, one thing after the next.

When we get into our zone, this experience of time shifts into a sense of “timelessness”.

You can find examples of this throughout your life, and it happens in birthing too.

The experience of birthing takes us out of the mundane sequence of linear events and into a spiritual place (meaning you are accessing parts of yourself and experience that are beyond logical comprehension).

The deeper you can drop into this place the smoother and faster your birth will seem (and be!).

In this place of timelessness, there is no clock ticking by creating anxiety about what is or isn’t happening “by now”.

Without this pressure you can relax and let expectations and tension melt away,

relieving any pain and allowing your body to open with ease and grace.

So once birthing starts, let the clock go. Follow your body’s unique rhythm and trust in the process.💖

Practice this by putting aside your phone and any clocks for five minutes a day (or longer!☺️) and simply become present. Meditate, journal, or simply breathe.

Allowing yourself to truly let go of any agenda or sequence of timing (where you should be, what you should be doing) and breathe into the present moment.

Does this resonate with you? Have you had moments of timelessness?

Can you see this happening in birth?

💎 for hell yes, 🤔 for still processing!

💓

02/09/2022

What is this strange tightening sensation across my belly?!

You are most likely having practice waves/practice labor!

These can come on for many different reasons, and they come with a HUGE benefit, so celebrate them babe!

First, these slides share four ways to tell if you are having practice labor versus real labor.

An additional option to try is going to the bathroom. Sometimes a full bladder can also bring on practice waves.

Aaaaand the benefit!🎉

Every practice wave is a perfect opportunity to practice for labor! So if your practice waves are painful, rather than trying to escape or endure the feeling until it’s gone, instead see if you can be super curious about the sensation, actually feeling it more fully.

It may seem counter intuitive at first but the more you surrender into the powerful feeling the easier and more comfortable it will be.

Celebrate and welcome this incredible force moving through you love, it is the power of creation that began with the spark of love that has become your baby soon to be in your arms!💞

We go deep into how to surrender into labor and practice during pregnancy, with both practical tools and strategies and deep embodied wisdom.

Remember to SAVE for later!

🙌🏼 if you’re feeling practice waves and want to learn how to use them to practice for the real thing!

02/07/2022

If there are changes you’ve been wanting to make in your life, pregnancy is your best time to start!

All those hormones raging through your system might not be easy on your tummy, but they’re fantastic for transforming your life.

During pregnancy, these hormones actually make you more open to change!💃🏼

And what a perfect time, when you’re either entering into a brand new phase of being a woman, or shifting into a new phase of motherhood.

More often than not, I’ve noticed there is a theme that comes up in each pregnancy, something that is weighing more heavily on mama’s mind than usual, or even haunting her dreams.

A few of the areas that have come up in beyond birthing for healing are:

💗 releasing past relationships
💗 financial challenges
💗 relationships with family
💗 releasing sexual trauma
💗 finding life purpose
💗 relationships with current children & making space for a new baby

We dive into these blocks/challenges on the birth journey because otherwise they can actually turn into blocks in labor, stalling the process or presenting as fear.

Birth is as much a biological process of making a baby as it is a moment of deep transformation in a woman’s life.

You’ve got all this great power running through you mama, so

while you’ve got biology on your side,

what would you love to bring into, or clear out of your life?

🎉

♥️ in the comments if you’re ready to make some shifts in your life!

02/06/2022

You don’t have to be superhuman to have a magical experience of birth.

Your body is created perfectly. You are perfect, no matter what you have been told or experienced in the past.

I have heard women say that their doctor told them because of the shape of their uterus (also present in their mother) that they would have a difficult time birthing.

We busted right through that silliness.

What have you been told or do you believe about your body that would make it difficult to birth?

Let’s change the story and change your birth.💛