What's a doula?
Woman Caregiver
Doula means woman caregiver in Greek culture. A trained and experienced person in areas of pregnancy, birth/labor and postpartum for expecting families. Providing continuous emotional support, physical comfort and assistance in educating families on birth options and choices.
Heart Centered Support
Doulas realize that births are major milestone in families lives and how birth impacts the mom throughout her life. Pregnancy is the beginning of parenthood, assisting women and their partners for birth is essential for baby's foundation for life.
Cultivator of Birth Experience
Many studies have found that having a birth team profoundly affect birth outcomes in the most positive way. Women who have full birth support are less likely to give birth by cesarean, less likely to need interventions and less likely to rate their childbirth experience negatively.
Offerings
Holistic Full Spectrum Doula Care
Holistic means whole, treatment of the whole person taking into account emotional and mental wellness, rather than just the symptoms of discomfort. As your doula, I will provide whole care throughout your pregnancy, birth and postpartum. I empower families to have the birth experience they desire. I also support women in alternative care such as abortion, adoption and also provide tender support for families experiencing miscarriages and stillbirths.
Herbal Apothecary
With holistic doula care comes nutrition support. Joyful Mamas also offers herbal therapies and support for pregnancy, birth and postpartum. Womb centered herbalism also supports and aids women into naturally healing common feminine discomforts likes painful cramps, heavy bleeding and bacterial infections.
We also educate on whole food nutrition and easy ways to grow your own produce.
Placenta Encapsulation
Placenta encapsulation is the practice of ingesting the placenta after it has been tenderly steamed, gently dehydrated and ground into a fine powder which is encapsulated. There are wonderful benefits to consuming your placenta. Increases oxytocin which is the feel good hormone and it reduces postpartum stress, encourages bonding with baby. Also restores normal iron levels in the blood, increases milk production for breastfeeding and helps uterus shrink down to normal size.
This is also an indigenous and cultural practice in many ethnic groups areas across the planet. Its certainly not a new trend.
Yoni Steaming
What is it?
Yoni is sanskrit for womb, which includes the vulva, vagina, cervix and uterus. It literally means sacred seat, the place of power for persons with a womb. When the womb is happy the woman/person is also happy and content.
The womb is the second heart of the woman/person. Its aligned anatomically with the heart in the body, its made of similar tissue like the heart and also pumps blood and is the source of life. Its essential that women/womb carriers care for their womb space.
Generations of women from many indigenous cultures through centuries have been passing down this sacred ritual to energetically, emotionally and physically cleanse and nourish their yoni and awaken their Feminine Essence.
During a yoni steam, the vapor carries the medicinal properties of select herbs used. The vapor or steam permeates the vulva and vagina and wafts up to the cervix and uterus, causing relaxation, detox of the muscular tissue (vaginal walls). The absolute best seat you will ever take.
Heat and steam is perfect for soothing and cleaning the womb as heat relaxes, reducing constriction of blood vessels and improving blood flow to the uterus.
Not only is it good for you but feels good as well. Its a perfect time to create a practice of self care.
Here's a list of benefits.
- Provides gentle nourishment to your body
- Detoxify your uterus
- Warm up your womb and connect spiritually with your creative center
- Improve your health and overall well-being
- Heal your reproductive system
- Embrace your femininity and feel the Magic of being woman
- Release store emotions and open your heart
- Relax your mind
- Enhance your unique vibrant radiance
- Relax your womb and sexual organs
- Reduce menstrual cramps
- Significant reduction in pain, bloating and exhaustion associated with menstruation.
- Help your uterus to tone and clean itself
- Decreases menstrual flow.
- Regulation of irregular or absent menstrual cycles.
- Revitalizes and energizes your uterus,
- Eases anxiety,
- Rids your body of any bad energy and trauma,
- Relieves feelings of stagnation and coldness,
- Relaxes your pelvic floor muscles and helps you to connect with your feminine center.
- Increased fertility.
- More rapid healing and a toning of the reproductive system after giving birth.
- Treatment of uterine fibroids, ovarian cysts, uterine weakness, uterine prolapse & endometriosis.
- Assistance with the repair of a vaginal tear, episiotomy, or C-section scar.
- Assistance with the healing of hemorrhoids
- Treatment of chronic vaginal/yeast infections, and works to maintain healthy odor.
- Relief for symptoms of menopause including dryness or pain.
- Detoxification of the womb and body.
- Re-connection to the Earth and ancient women’s wisdom and rituals.
- Access to the feminine energy that gives rise to our vibrant radiance and creative potential.
- Connect with your root and find stability
- Help ease period cramps and bloating,
- Make your periods more regular and lighter
- Increase your fertility
- Improve scarring
- Quicken the process of healing and toning after childbirth
- Relieve the symptoms of menopause
- The warmth of the steam can also be an orgasmic experience, as the rush of blood to your clitoris can be stimulating and give you that feel-good factor
- Improving circulation (blood supplies nutrition thus more blood flowing = more healing for the area)
- Boosting immune & digestive health
- Enhancing Fertility
- Pre/post menses and postpartum support (cramps, irregular periods, etc.)
- Healing infections (bladder and yeast especially) and soothing inflammation
- Dryness
- Cleansing, toning and nourishing the reproductive tissues
- Balancing pH
- Increase in libido as the heat increases blood flow to the vagina, as well as the clitoris
Get you some, you deserve it!
Live a Joyful Lifestyle
Whole Food Nutrition/Urban Gardening
The spirit of the planet is wellness. We are all on a journey of healthy living and loving it. When the body is properly fueled with nourishing foods, your performance increases, you heal faster, your skin glows and your brain is running all on cylinders. The key to good brain health is good gut health. What you put into your body will translate into your brain functions.
So, just imagine if the gut is filled with gunk, sludge, grease, fat and mucus. Nothing is moving at the rate to produce good sustainable energy. Its literally stuck. The body then becomes sluggish, bloated, weight gain in uncomfortable space. That stagnant energy translates into emotional distress, if you don't feel good physically, you don't feel good emotionally or mentally.
Discouragement, disappointment, sadness, negative self talk creates stress, stress creates disease, and disease causes complete discomfort and sometimes death.
But, wait there's great news. You can fix, repair and prevent this discomfort. By making daily decisions to consume things that are good for you. Yes, its that simple. A choice. Choose life and grab some whole food nutrition.
Its recommend that humans consume at least 12-15 servings of raw produce daily to fight off current environmental factors and stress alone, in today's climate. I don't know anyone that can consume that many servings (fist size) in a day. We all are sooooo busy with life, its almost impossible to get the proper nutrition nowadays. You are doing the work, but is it enough?
There is a bridge to fix that gap and ensure that your are receiving optimum nutrition.
Introducing JuicePlus+. The leading global healthy living community! We eat whole food nutrition in a capsule or plant based gummies. The farm fresh produce is vine ripened (meaning its picked at it peak and not a moment before) to ensure the integrity of the produce and its nutrients. The produce is then juiced at cold temperature and dehydrated at cold temps to preserve the live enzymes of the fruits, veggies and berries. Encapsulated at high standards and delivered straight to your door. This product is none like any other, its also the most researched and studied nutritional product on the planet! Its bio available and reaches the bloodstream very quickly to promote healing at the cellular level. Yes, at cellular level, that means it can repair DNA!!!! Fresh local pesticide free food is truly medicine!
Not only do we provide excellent nutrition but a way for you to grow your own produce right at home. Tower Garden is the future of farming. Innovative, sustainable technology that allow space for farming indoors or outdoors, rooftops, greenhouses, the possibilities are endless. . This closed loop system maintain itself, the plants are always fed, no dirt no soil, no weeds, equals up to no pesticides! Your own fresh local produce grow in your home, office or farm. All you need a little space, air, water and nutrients (raw materials, minerals and vitamins) essential for plant growth and of course PLANTS. Its an aeroponic system, an advanced form of hydroponics. Aeroponic is the process of growing plants in an air or mist environment rather than soil. A soilless growing medium to quickly and efficiently grow more colorful, tastier, better smelling and incredibly nutritious produce.
Its absolutely awesome to be able pick your own basil and thyme , spinach and kale for a smoothie or a bunch of collard greens for dinner. So amazing.
The key to wellness and excellent health is diet. We must fuel our bodies with the proper nutrition to help prevent diesease, reduce discomforts and nourish the body back to homeostasis.
You are so worth the change, you are so deserving of good health, and with support you can live your best life.
Dive into the joyful living lifestyle.
Make the Choice! You deserve it!
Amazing Whole Food Nutrition simple and easy. You can start a healthy living lifestyle one capsule at a time. Also take a peek at the Tower Garden to become a grower yourself, maybe even a farmer. Healthy living is a lifestyle. Welcome!