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The Heal & Rise Blog


11 Things I Wish I'd Known Before My Homebirth
With our son's first birthday this week, I've found myself reminiscing with disbelief that it's been an entire year already since...
Feb 20, 20238 min read


Consent: The Crucial Concept Missing from Women's Health
Consent. The understanding that we have a right to bodily autonomy is a crucial one for our physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual...
Feb 13, 20233 min read


The Moment I Discovered Roe vs Wade was Overturned
I sat, stunned on the floor and tears came to my eyes. Baby Leo lay beside me on his play mat as I sank deeper into my knees and ankles...
Jun 27, 20223 min read


Leo's Home Birth Story (part two)
Continued from Leo's Home Birth Story (part one). 11:40PM on 2.22.22. He was beautiful, absolutely perfect, but he was completely limp in...
Mar 21, 20226 min read


Leo's Home Birth Story (part one)
"After all of this, are we going to have a baby on the twenty-third?" our midwife, Dawn, casually asked between pushes... knowing full...
Mar 7, 20228 min read


Dreaming of Pink (and not the color!)
You ever have someone influential show up in your dreams? Perhaps someone you know personally, an ancestor or spirit guide, or a...
Jan 17, 20223 min read
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