The End of an Era

I am officially finished with midwifery school! Woo hoo! 

Honestly, I’m not sure how I managed to complete midwifery school over the last two years, plus have an apprenticeship during that time, plus have a pregnancy and give birth to a new baby during that time, plus teaching and working with clients virtually, plus a family and friends as well!

Phew!

It was a lot.

Actually I’m sure that having a nanny full time for part of this journey was instrumental in allowing me the time to get it done, but that was only a small portion of the last two years!

And I honestly can’t really recommend doing it this way for others (midwifery school plus working plus family plus community) because of how challenging it was in all of the ways. But hey, I did it and it’s done and now I’m moving on to other paths! 

So, what is the thing that sticks out to me the most from the last two years ?

Hmm... probably the support of my husband. Without that solid support and his belief in my vision for our life, I would not have been able to do what I did.

And the effect of the craziness of the last two years on our relationship is no small thing. We’ve definitely grown and deepened a LOT but also had to withstand perhaps more than our fair share of challenges because of this life.

I’ll never forget the feeling of being held with such solid support as I journeyed through what has been the most challenging two years of my life thus far.

Thank you, Taylor. :) 

And for what is next, I told myself I would give myself space after midwifery school finished to not do anything learning-related BUT what can I say, I love to learn and have signed up for three courses that I know will benefit me personally, plus my community as I step into the role of midwife here!

After this, I promise I am done with courses for a time!

Except maybe one suturing course if I can find an amazing one ;) 

But the first class is the Blood Mystery School through Freebirth Society. This course is focused on learning more about the hormonal aspects of caring for women. So I learned about the childbearing year in midwifery school, but now I will be learning about helping women heal from infertility, endometriosis, PCOS, PMDD, fibroids, and all sorts of hormonal issues, etc ... and heal in a natural way without the tools of the patriarchy/allopathic world of synthetic hormones and invasive procedures. 

The second course is a homeopathy immersion with Whapio! Whapio is an elder midwife and educator and I’m so excited to sit with her and learn from her considerable experience and wisdom. Homeopathy is a sacred energetic medicinal tool that can help balance all sorts of imbalances in our lives on an energetic level, which of course trickles down into the physical, emotional, and spiritual levels as well. 

My calling in this lifetime (at this point) is to step into the role of Medicine Woman for my community. And in that vein, the third course I’m diving into is called Making of a Medicine Woman with Liana Shanti. She is a shaman and Akashic record reader (and general spiritual healer and energy worker/teacher) and this course is about uncovering and remembering/accessing ancient gifts and energy healing modalities.

I will then use these modalities to deepen my service to my community, offering pathways for us to heal, access our gifts, and uncover the connection with the divine within all of us through the use of ceremony and ritual and deep inner energetic/emotional/spiritual healing. 

Over the next few months I will be immersing myself in all three of these courses, as well as serving my community with support during pregnancy, birth, and postpartum.

I offer monthly pregnancy circles, childbirth education, and midwifery support here in Sedona!

I am also going to be working with another local home birth nurse midwife, assisting and attending births with her.

AND sometime in the next few months will be helping a local new mama to start a new mama circle as well. 

My life is so full but in the best way possible, because I’m so solidly on my path of service… It doesn’t really feel like work to me at this point!

I have recently been through a huge healing portal, reconnecting with my womb, releasing trauma, and connecting more solidly to nature/Pachamama and more solidly to my own channel of power as well.

I know everyone has this, their own special channel of Divine power, and for most of us it’s been covered up by layers and layers of conditioning and trauma. It can take so much work to uncover this and really connect to the Divine and the Source of our personal power in a solid way… and that is a process I’ve been on over the last two years as well (well, it’s a lifetime process, but I’ve really enjoyed the ways that my midwifery education has helped support this process in my life).

My hope is that I can continue to heal and learn and grow and deepen as I step solidly onto this path of service to my community. Establishing and strengthening the web of community here is so vital to me, and definitely feels like part of my sacred calling here as well. Community is essential and the process of revillaging is necessary for the future of humanity, in my opinion. 

On that note, if anyone knows of a supremely badass nanny who might be interested in hanging with my kids, please let me know! We would consider a live-in situation for the right person :) 

Thank you for joining me on my journey thus far! Whenever we linked up on this path is perfect, and I’m looking forward to moving into the future together in our web of interconnectedness. :)

To presence, power, community, and love! <3