Support for Mid Career Birth Workers Ready to Write and Publish A Book (or an essay)

Authority. Alignment. Ease.

Research shows that doulas burn out in five years. But you didn't get into the game to burn out - you felt called to serve. It's time to leave hustle culture behind and build a sustainable ecosystem not by doing more trainings sleeping less and neglecting your family, but by tapping into your creativity, identifying your expertise and sharing that with the world.

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Every doula starts with the same training, but burnout happens when we don't bring our natural talents gifts or proclivities to the work and make it our own.

We get so caught up in the mission, making money, hustling, some of us giving these families what we did not get when we were pregnant (most of us carry maternal wounds right) activism we forget that we are uniquely equipped for a certain type of mother with a certain type of need.Maybe you are a natural teacher (doula trainer anyone), the future midwife, the maternal mental health doula, the artist or maybe you are that writer who wants to speak about all things birth, have some cultural insight that you want to share, release your own mother wound story, write the books that you wish every doula would read before they embarked on this journey, or maybe your book is for your ideal client. Or maybe you just want the write the book, get an agent, and land a deal. That's okay too.

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Okay Danielle. I see your point. But I am out in these birthing streets ... How do I find the time?

This is the number one question all writers ask. Why? Because we see writing as a luxury when writing is NOT a luxury, it is the work. Birth Work as we know it is under attack. Writing is not only about authority for you it is about preservation of the culture as we know it no matter if you are a hospital doula or a home birth doula, end of life doula, or mental health doula.So how to make the time?You put a pen and a notebook in your doula bag or create a file on your phone to record voice notes. It is that simple if you choose. But more than the how it is your why and your community that is going to hold you accountable.And you guessed it, that is where I come in...

Birth Worker. Writer. Amateur Anthropologist. Book Proposal Coach. Publisher.

Behind the self-defined skill sets I am simply a woman who has a passion for children and the mothers they inherit. Mothers are the first home of a child literally shaped in the womb and they need emotional, mental, educational support on how to advocate for themselves more than ever now. I also love language, and strategy. Book Proposals are fun for me because its both a puzzle and a way for me to help you see how brilliant and well connected you really are.But I also believe that every birthing person should have a doula or a book written by one. Having a doula saved my life, filled a gap in my maternal makeup and helped me navigate matrescence with a greater sense of myself. So much so I became a doula who focused on mental health until my life shifted in a way that on call life was unsustainable.Instead of pushing through, making it work, and jepordizing my family I thought about how I could combine my proclivities to serve the world of birth work. I tapped back into my love of writing and literature, trained to be a book coach, wrote a few articles, and and a wrote a book proposal and landed myself an agent (who knew!?) and am now working of three book projects ( one in collaboration with my childbirth doula).But what I really gained is a surer footing of who I was as a doula, a mom, and a woman. I claimed my inner authority to show up to mother, live, and doula in my own way. You see writing isn't all about publishing -- its the ultimate act of self-regard something I believe we all need more of. Getting published is just as they say the cover on the book.So where do you begin? I am glad you asked.