In this episode of The Mama Psychedelia Podcast, I interview Bri Aberdeen. Bri started her journey of learning about her life giving body at the age of 22 and soon after became a practicing birth and postpartum doula. She’s been serving in this capacity ever since and in her 30 years on earth she’s always been inspired by mamas, who make this world go round. Bri has definitely found throughout her walk on this path that she’s needed to balance out birth work with life, and other pursuits, sometimes needing to take a pause to integrate all that her doula practice reveals. This is something we dive into conversation together about, amongst an array of topics. How to integrate birth experiences as a professional in this field, how the Doula can Doula herself, the importance of the self care & nervous system regulation for the birth worker to show up fully in someone’s birth space. Through her journey of study in birth and her own body, when her own time came she was able to birth without fear, totally in her power. She feels passionately about sex education and birth education and that everyone deserves access to understanding birth and how to support the process beyond birth into postpartum. Doula training is life training. We will all certainly be close to at least one person in our lives who brings life into the world! Relational care is revolutionary my friends. Throughout our conversation we talk in depthly on the path of doula hood, becoming doulas before having children of our own, body literacy and taking charge of our own education, along with Bri’s personal journey, the trip in which she conceived her daughter, her relationship with psilocybin, and surprise free birthing her baby at home on her own!
*Wrapping up a Hiatus after one of the most full on months of my life on the Birth path. Emerging out of a Cocoon. So much depth there. So many learnings. Happy to be back.*
Resources: Where to find Bri:
IG: @mtomwellness @breezzlebub
Website: www.mtomwellness.com
Email: aberdeenbri@gmail.com
Your Host Mackenzie:
IG: @mamapsychedelia
@hunnywombdoula
Intro Music "Waters of the Earth" by Satori covered by me, Mackenzie.
(For more of her music, check out her Spotify)
Support the Mama Psychedelia Mission:
PAYPAL: Birthkeeperkenz@gmail.com
Directly Supporting my Costa Rica Home Birth Fund for Costa Rican & Low Income Families
Website: www.hunnywomb.com -Under Construction-