Compassionate care with doula Katy Kelley
06/12/22 • 35 min
A Compassionate Presence for Every Birth with Doula Katy Kelley
Today’s guest is doula, Katy Kelley, who has supported hundreds of couples as they brought babies into the world. We start the conversation with a definition for the word doula, which means a mother mothering, and Katy shares with listeners that she has learned something new at every birth, which she takes to the next couple. We dive into the four cornerstones of her practice: nurture, support, education, and celebration, and she describes the labour prep classes she offers in the privacy of a couple’s home. Find out why she believes that the birthing experience has become such an anxious time, why it is important to trust the birth process, and her belief that it is divinely planned, as Katy shares her advice that listeners be team players and trust the healthcare practitioners assisting you through your birth. Katy tells the story of the most meaningful birth experience she has had and what the journey to becoming a doula entails, as well as why she chose to become a childbirth educator. Learn how she aims to empower couples when she educates them leading up to a birth, what a doula can’t do in a birthing process, and how she uses essential oils and acupressure for pain relief. She also reveals her amazing success rate with vaginal births after C sections and tells us about the importance of educating yourself, knowing the medical field, and knowing that it is your experience in order to move through it in a relaxed manner. In closing, she shares some things that can make the birth experience more positive, including music, angel massage, reiki, and more. We hope you join us to hear from this highly experienced practitioner today!
Key Points From This Episode:
- The Greek definition of the word doula, which means a mother mothering.
- How many births Katy has been present for: hundreds and hundreds.
- How, through each birth, she learns something new to take to the next couple.
- The four cornerstones of her practice: nurture, support, education, and celebration.
- Her overall purpose to provide a positive environment.
- Why there is increased anxiety during the birthing experience: electromagnetic fields, stress, and not embracing the present moment.
- The importance of trusting the birth process and the belief that it is divinely planned.
- Why it is important to be a team player and trust the rest of the team.
- The most meaningful birth experience Katy has had: seeing her granddaughter being born.
- The journey to becoming a doula and why she chose to become a childbirth educator.
- How she aims to empower couples when she educates them leading up to a birth.
- What a doula can’t do in a birthing process: birth the baby, mandated care, pain relief.
- How she uses essential oils and acupressure for pain relief.
- Why a doula can be helpful for any kind of birth.
- Katy’s acronym for the word doula: devoted, observing, understanding, loving, and attentive.
- Why you have to have a connection with your doula.
- Katy’s amazing success rate with vaginal births after C sections.
- The importance of educating yourself, knowing the medical field, and trusting in your experience in order to move through it in a relaxed manner.
- Making the experience more positive with music, essential oils, angel massage, and reiki.
Links Mentioned in Today’s Episode:
A Compassionate Presence for Every Birth with Doula Katy Kelley
Today’s guest is doula, Katy Kelley, who has supported hundreds of couples as they brought babies into the world. We start the conversation with a definition for the word doula, which means a mother mothering, and Katy shares with listeners that she has learned something new at every birth, which she takes to the next couple. We dive into the four cornerstones of her practice: nurture, support, education, and celebration, and she describes the labour prep classes she offers in the privacy of a couple’s home. Find out why she believes that the birthing experience has become such an anxious time, why it is important to trust the birth process, and her belief that it is divinely planned, as Katy shares her advice that listeners be team players and trust the healthcare practitioners assisting you through your birth. Katy tells the story of the most meaningful birth experience she has had and what the journey to becoming a doula entails, as well as why she chose to become a childbirth educator. Learn how she aims to empower couples when she educates them leading up to a birth, what a doula can’t do in a birthing process, and how she uses essential oils and acupressure for pain relief. She also reveals her amazing success rate with vaginal births after C sections and tells us about the importance of educating yourself, knowing the medical field, and knowing that it is your experience in order to move through it in a relaxed manner. In closing, she shares some things that can make the birth experience more positive, including music, angel massage, reiki, and more. We hope you join us to hear from this highly experienced practitioner today!
Key Points From This Episode:
- The Greek definition of the word doula, which means a mother mothering.
- How many births Katy has been present for: hundreds and hundreds.
- How, through each birth, she learns something new to take to the next couple.
- The four cornerstones of her practice: nurture, support, education, and celebration.
- Her overall purpose to provide a positive environment.
- Why there is increased anxiety during the birthing experience: electromagnetic fields, stress, and not embracing the present moment.
- The importance of trusting the birth process and the belief that it is divinely planned.
- Why it is important to be a team player and trust the rest of the team.
- The most meaningful birth experience Katy has had: seeing her granddaughter being born.
- The journey to becoming a doula and why she chose to become a childbirth educator.
- How she aims to empower couples when she educates them leading up to a birth.
- What a doula can’t do in a birthing process: birth the baby, mandated care, pain relief.
- How she uses essential oils and acupressure for pain relief.
- Why a doula can be helpful for any kind of birth.
- Katy’s acronym for the word doula: devoted, observing, understanding, loving, and attentive.
- Why you have to have a connection with your doula.
- Katy’s amazing success rate with vaginal births after C sections.
- The importance of educating yourself, knowing the medical field, and trusting in your experience in order to move through it in a relaxed manner.
- Making the experience more positive with music, essential oils, angel massage, and reiki.
Links Mentioned in Today’s Episode:
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Overcoming Adversity as a Source of Inspiration with Real Estate Mogul Venus Morris Griffin
With a story of overcoming adversity to not only survive, but thrive, today’s guest is a source of inspiration to women everywhere. Venus Morris Griffin is an award-winning real estate agent, inspirational speaker, author of an upcoming book, and single mother of seven who unexpectedly became the sole provider for her family in 2011. Today, she tells the story of how she rose above her circumstances to become stronger than ever today. Venus shares how she received a call from a sex worker who was blackmailing her husband and explains why, while she is not responsible for the awful things that happened to her, she takes responsibility for the choices she made. In the face of adversity, she recommends always asking, what can I learn? Who am I and how can I be better for it? Venus gives us some powerful examples of how she has found a positive spin for the tricky hands she has been dealt in life, and how her own challenges have led her to refuse to judge others. She lets us in on her public speaking journey and how she chose this career in the hope of helping others before telling us why the first piece of advice she gives others is to take care of themselves.This episode is peppered with powerful pearls of wisdom that you can apply to your own journey, so we hope you will join us to learn from Venus’s remarkable story today!
Key Points From This Episode:
- The call Venus received from a sex worker blackmailing her husband.
- Her first reaction to defend her husband and not to believe the accusations.
- Insights into Venus’s childhood and the details of her mom’s alcoholism.
- Why she wrote the book to share her light and help others after experiencing darkness.
- Her message is that it doesn’t matter what happens to you; you can get through anything.
- Why it is so important to take responsibility in order to help people to get out of that cycle.
- How she chose to keep supporting her husband before he failed his lie detector test and was convicted of a terrible crime.
- The realization that education would distinguish her life from her brother and sister’s.
- How each of her children was conceived with a donor.
- Her belief in having a deep sense of who you are in order to do better.
- Why she chose to forgive her mother and her husband in order to move forward.
- What you should ask in adversity: what can I learn, who am I, and how can I be better for it?
- Why she refuses to judge others after having experienced her own challenges.
- Why she chose to become a public speaker: to help other people.
- Her advice to surround yourself with people who are better than you, competition is healthy!
- Why your work ethic will set you apart without you having to say anything.
- Her book, Validated, that is coming out towards the end of the year.
Links Mentioned in Today’s Episode:
Venus Morris Griffin
Venus Morris Griffin on Instagram
Venus Morris Griffin on Twitter
Venus Morris Griffin on Facebook
Venus Morris Griffin on LinkedIn
Venus Morris Griffin on YouTube
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Styling yourself from the inside out. How celebrity stylist Lauren Messiah combines the inner work with your outer style to gain confidence and elevate your life!
Everyone loves it when they get a compliment, regardless of how indifferent they may be to fashion. Today’s guest believes that having strong personal style goes far beyond trends and that how you represent yourself is incredibly important. Join us to hear from celebrity stylist, Lauren Messiah, who is revolutionizing the way people dress through her comprehensive approach to elevating personal style, working from the inside out. You’ll hear about the transformative path that led Lauren to coaching and how making herself over and starting a journey of sobriety turned her whole life around. Lauren shares how she observed a ripple effect of what clothing does to change women’s lives and why she chose to open her book, Style Therapy, with a selfie challenge to help readers to take stock of how they see themselves and how the world sees them. Lauren believes that, if you dress like you, you’re always in style. We hope you tune in to hear how Lauren helps everyday women build confidence and style!
Key Points From This Episode:
- The transformative path that led Lauren into coaching.
- How making herself over and starting a journey of sobriety turned her whole life around.
- Why Lauren believes that what’s on the outside is a visual representation of what’s inside.
- What she believes about looking good and how it far supersedes being a slave to fashion.
- Lauren’s work in retail before she became a celebrity stylist.
- How she changed her career to give the celebrity treatment to everyday women.
- The ripple effect of what the clothing did for her clients.
- Her method of reading people and dressing them like themselves, just better.
- Why you have to elevate your inner self in order to elevate your outer self.
- The community that Lauren has created, known as the Style Confidence Collective.
- How you reach certain conclusions when you are ready for them.
- The selfie challenge that Lauren has included in her book, Style Therapy.
- Why it is powerful to take stock of how you see yourself and how the world sees you.
- How, if you dress like you, you’re always in style.
- Why self-knowledge and confidence are far more important than following trends.
- Which pieces in your wardrobe are going to last longest: the foundational ones.
- Why it is so important to have staples in your closet.
- Beyond Style, the six-week transformational journey that Lauren hosts a few times a year.
- How she wants women to own their power and embody purpose.
Links Mentioned in Today’s Episode:
Lauren Messiah
Lauren Messiah on Twitter
Lauren Messiah on Facebook
Lauren Messiah on Instagram
Lauren Messiah on YouTube
Style TherapyStyle Confidence Collective
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