I am excited to get to continue supporting our clients as Terra Cotta Perinatal Services grows. For those of you that have asked, yes, I will continue to attend births, but at a lesser rate as Amanda steps into heading up our birth doula services! In the meantime, I am taking a half-step back, working to develop our educational offerings and client resources, continuing to teach classes and even receive more training, myself, to expand our perinatal mental health services.

Katherine MorrisJuly 1, 2021birth doula, childbirth education, perinatal mental health, 2020, terra cotta, holding space, perinatal, prenatal, postpartum, labor support, childbirth, pregnancy

Dear Mama...

Since it is not the role of the birthing person to hold us as the support person as we download these emotions, these memos have been left alone on my phone until now. But the more I dig into the birth worker role, the more I believe that the way to avoid burnout in these roles is to benefit from space being held for you in the way that you hold it for others.

So here I am, stepping into a little vulnerability of my own - on the internet, of all places - sharing some of my own downloaded thoughts and hoping you might share along with me and that we, as birth workers, might create this space together.

Dear MamaKatherine MorrisDecember 18, 2019birth doula, dear mama, lonely, loneliness, holding space, processing, emotions, vulnerability, trust