What is my why?

…my WHY? I think that is one of the most important things in life. Asking why. I think that a lot of people stop asking that question– Why? It is a heavy question and one that often does not have a straight-forward answer.

Why does the United States have one of the worst maternal death rates in the developed world? Why do mom’s often leave their births feeling disempowered, defeated, unheard, depressed, confused etc. Why is the cesarean rate in this country over 30 percent? Why, why, why…

I started asking these questions about two years ago and I just did not stop. The more I learned the more intrigued I became. I became so enthralled with the idea that the health of a nation is intricately tied to the way that it treats women while they are growing life, birthing life, and sustaining life. We as women are tasked with growing, nurturing, birthing, and sustaining life from our CAPABLE bodies.

But– in little ways our entire lives we are told we are not capable and we are told that being a mother is not enough or is it too much? Alas, I digress. That is a topic for another day.

When I became a nurse in 2017, I wanted to change the world! I wanted to care for and serve people in their most vulnerable moments. Support their journey to health, wellness, and a full life. However, I was gobsmacked with the reality of “health care” in America. The hamster wheel of treating every symptom with a pill, and then treating the side effects of that pill with another pill and so on. All the while, no one is treating the root cause of disease and no one was asking WHY are all of these people so sick?

So, in my effort to exit the conventional healthcare system. I fell in love with all things preconception, pregnancy, birth and postpartum. Because, what better place to start healing a nation than at the beginning of life. Women have a special role to play (Men do too, of course!) in the revolution of health and I want to devote my career and my passion to supporting mothers in their POWER. So that is why I went from a neurological ICU step down nurse in the hospital, to a natural minded nurse/doula supporting women during the years of their lives they devote to mothering.