08/08/2026
My Why
I'm often asked what my favorite part of being a doula is. I love watching people's reactions when I tell them.
My why begins and ends with the journey. Learning what it means for a family to bring a doula into this season of their life is where the relationship starts. It's a relationship built on trust, support, faith, and love.
These families become an extension of my own. Because we get to know one another through the workshops I hold, our phone calls and texts grow into so much more than pregnancy and newborn questions. Whether I'm helping someone track down an affordable mechanic, offering tips on a struggling pothos or aloe plant, or recommending a special spot for one last dinner before they become a family of three, whatever the question, we're learning and growing together.
Watching a couple grow into their roles as parents is a true blessing. I'm honored every time I'm invited into that journey. A single parent, a married couple, a bonded friendship that created a tiny human, whatever the circumstances, mine is a judgment-free zone. I value the pregnant person and their support team exactly as they are. And where that support team is a little lighter, I help fill the gap, because I know that's God's work, and it helps build a brighter tomorrow for that family.
Every journey I've been blessed to be part of has had its own unexpected twists and turns: premature delivery, home renovations, the loss of a loved one, news of medical anomalies, car troubles, prenatal loss. Whatever the journey brings, a special bond forms. Those conversations, that calling to show up for every family in whatever way they need, it isn't a light switch, and it isn't something you can train for. The only way I know how to explain it is that it's the Lord's plan for us to meet.
Being a doula is all about the journey. It's about supporting the pregnant person and the people who love them, educating them on what their bodies are capable of, and helping them build a birth plan that can flex and bend while they learn to trust their own body. I look forward to truly knowing each family as our visits and conversations build. Because those encounters are what carry us through when labor begins: the trust is already there, the relationship is already built, and that foundation is what keeps things calm for mom, dad, or whoever is holding their hand.
That is my why.
