Since we have 90 minutes together and I want to write the most potent poem for you, I recommend focusing on one birth per session.

Imagine giving each of your children a custom poem when they're older—a work of art made specifically to honor their unique journey earthside. Imagine the healing you'll give yourself by processing and alchemizing each birth into beauty.

Of course, if time or budget doesn't allow for multiple sessions, you're welcome to share whatever you want during our time together, and I'll translate it into one poem.

A mentor once told me: "Every pregnancy ends in birth."

Whether you experienced miscarriage, stillbirth, or abortion, I will listen to your story with the same care, compassion, and non-judgment that I would any other experience.

I have written about the full spectrum of reproductive experiences in my own poetry, and I believe there is healing power in using art to express what is so common yet rarely spoken about.

I would be honored to write about your experience, whatever it may be.

Your birth doesn’t have to be fresh in your mind everyday to make a powerful poem. In fact, the more you’ve lived into the story—seeing your children grow up, living with a loss, or gaining wisdom from the experience—the more medicine there is for us to explore.

Whether your child is hitting a milestone birthday or you’re simply feeling deep in your bones that it’s time to tell this story, I’ll hold your hand as you connect the past to the present. I’ll offer grounding techniques to help you revisit old memories (without reliving old traumas). I’ll honor who you were at the moment of your birth story and who you became after.

The truth is women remember their births and postpartum periods for a lifetime. How you were treated, who was there for you—you’ll never forget it.

So I want you to know it’s never too late to rewrite this rite of passage, on your own terms.

If you're pregnant, we can create a poem that honors who you are before this major transformation—and set a beautiful intention for what your birth can be.

Whatever you're feeling on this precipice—excitement, fear, anxiety, awe, anticipation, frustration, peace—it's all welcome here.

Your Birth Story Session can be a gift to your present self and your future self. What do you want to tell the version of you who will have given birth? What does she want to tell you now?

This is exactly why Birth Story Sessions exist.

Trauma needs witness. It needs language. It needs to be held in a container where it can be seen, honored, and transformed.

I won't minimize what happened to you. I won't tell you to "look on the bright side" or remind you that your baby is healthy. I'll sit with the fullness of your experience and help you find words for what you lived through.

Poetry doesn't erase trauma—but it can help you carry it differently.

Poetry has a unique power to hold large, swirling experiences in a small, potent space. Birth is enormous—physically, emotionally, spiritually—and poetry can contain all of that complexity without flattening it.

Poetry works with mystery, not just facts. It doesn't need to explain everything or tie it up neatly. It can hold paradox: the beauty and the pain, the surrender and the fight, the love and the grief. Birth lives in those contradictions, and so does poetry.

Poetry also gives us emotional clarity. Research shows that reading or hearing a well-crafted poem activates reward centers in the brain and can produce physical chills—especially near the ending. That's the moment when language clicks into place and something previously unspeakable becomes felt and known.

Your birth story deserves that kind of resonance. Not a clinical report. Not a rushed retelling. But language that makes you feel seen at the deepest level.

Birth Story Sessions are not therapy, though they can be deeply therapeutic.

I am a doula and poet, not a licensed therapist or trauma-healing practitioner. What I offer is compassionate witnessing, active listening, and the transformation of your story into art.

I'm comfortable holding space for difficult emotions and co-regulating through intense experiences—that's part of my training as a doula. But if you're working through significant trauma, I encourage you to support yourself with a qualified therapist alongside our session.

Think of this as complementary to therapeutic work, not a replacement for it. Your story deserves multiple forms of support.

Absolutely, if that feels right for you. This is your session, so you decide who's in the room (virtual or physical).

Some clients want their partner there to add their perspective. Others want solo space to process. Both are welcome.

Absolutely! Birth Story Sessions make a profound gift for a new mother, a friend who's still processing their birth, or someone marking a birth anniversary.

This goes deeper than a massage or a spa day (though those are lovely too). This is a gift that says: "Your story matters. Your transformation deserves to be honored. I see you."

How gifting works:

• Purchase the session and let me know it's a gift when you book

• I'll send a beautiful digital gift certificate you can share

• The recipient schedules their session when they're ready

• You can remain anonymous or include a personal note

This is the gift that keeps giving—a timeless work of art they'll treasure for life.

Not that I know of—and that's exactly why I created it.

This service represents two of the things I'm most passionate about: the power of poetry and the beauty of birth. It's an honor to combine them.

I've spent years honing my craft as a poet, and this feels like one of the most meaningful ways I can share my skills and be of service. Birth stories deserve to be held with artistry, reverence, and care—and poetry is the perfect vessel.

In the future, I'd love to teach other birth workers and writers how to transform birth stories into healing experiences and personal art for their clients. For now, I'm here offering this gift to you.