In April, I spoke on a Charlotte-based hospital sponsored panel in celebration of Black Maternal Health and Wellness, and hopefully, provided the community of listeners some encouragement to work with doulas to support their reproductive, birthing, and postpartum journeys. I wrote a bit about it on my Weekly Substack Newsletter.
With some work behind me and much laying at my feet, I've been thinking a whole lot about how to maintain a personal regimen that predictably answers to the roles I embody. It's not easy, for me - implementing consistent wellness care. I know very well the need for preservation and protection of givers of care - especially for the eternal caregiver; the mother, the mothers who mother mothers. Astutely mindful. And in all humility, I know that I am regularly in need of better structures of support, and a personal embrace of far more grace, the kind of grace I encourage others to welcome. So whenever you may think of me, in my work and in my motherhood, please send a little prayer to The LORD for your girl - that what I need for my own nurturing makes its way to me, with more ease.
Genia is the Perinatal Health Educator and Doula Coordinator for Novant Health.
We met in person for the first time with a sigh of relief and a big hug, after I was literally lost, driving, on the phone with her, looking for her orientation tour for NH Verified Doulas (I'm one!) seeking to support any of their clients who may be admitted into the OR for cesarean surgery. Folks who call me Krissy (cause they know me and my mama, which means they've known me long-long) know that the impeccable Thomas Guide skills my Dad had did not rub off on me -
I have the road-mapping instincts of an inanimate object. The. Worst. Haha!
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And after this orientation and tour was over, she sat with me - just the two of us - looked into my eyes and straight into my soul, asked me something so profound and knowing, and then I got all juicy and she's been pouring into me ever since. We've done some good work together thus far. But I know, without a shadow of a doubt, that some of our best work is ahead of us - I look forward to the really extraordinary things that we'll do together to uplift the communities of folks we serve and impact, from that deep within place - we both pour.
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