Recently my youngest son asked me, “Mom, if you could do your dream job, what would you do?” The answer was immediate and simple. I told him… “I AM doing my dream job!”
It’s true and what I love most about it is that I don’t feel like I chose to do this job. Instead, this “work” I do… chose me.
I became a licensed massage therapist not because I decided that it sounded good but because nothing had impacted me so greatly as healing touch and therapeutic movement and when I experienced it… I had to share it.
I became a doula because the first time I ever heard a mother really talk about her birth, she spoke mostly of what she needed to be different in her next one and when I found out I could make a difference… I had to share it.
I became a childbirth educator because I witnessed the possibility of great transformation and love available to the family through childbirth and when I realized I had a unique way to help couples access that possibility… I had to share it.
And I am now training doulas for all the same reasons… because birth matters… and because I have to share it.
So, despite the title of this page … this work that chose me isn’t about me.
It’s about YOU. What can I share with you?