Keeping Your Power Workshop – with Traci Doula

By: Care Messer | Advocacy, Doulas, Podcast | December 5, 2024


In October, we hosted Traci for her 2 day workshop attended by both Doulas and Childbirth Educators. In this episode, Traci Doula returns to our podcast to hear feedback about her impactful workshop ‘Keeping Your Power for Doulas.’ I invited Lydia and Jenna to come on as special guests to tell some of the ways the workshop is shifting their birthwork for the better.

Our conversation delves into the importance of doulas understanding their own personal stories/habits from their upbringing and how that shapes their interaction with families and in the birth room.  We talk about the importance of establishing solid boundaries, building trust and enhancing their communication skills to better support families. 

As a childbirth educator who was already teaching advocacy in my classes, this workshop gave me better words and visuals to use that has better brought out the empowerment that parents already hold inside of them. Birthwork is so much deeper than attending a birth and doing a hip squeeze. The emotional, spiritual growth that can spread through your personal life is there for discovery. Traci’s workshop opens up those doors and joins people together who are ready to do the work.

The episode highlights the power of self-advocacy, centering the family’s voice, and the transformative experience of building resilient and empowering births.

You can find Traci at https://tracidoula.com/ as well as on IG @doulatraci and on Tiktok @TraciDoula4

This episode wraps up Season 2 and we will see you all in February for a month of connection, sex and communication episodes!!

Let’s connect: Have questions or comments for this episode?

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Work with Care or Ashley: 858-251-4204

About the author:
Care is the founder of the Birth Education Center, San Diego HypnoBirthing and Cuddle Sanctuary San Diego. She is a Birth Educator, Hypnotherapist, Birth and Postpartum Doula, INNATE Care Provider, Erotic Blueprint Coach and also professional Cuddler. She specializes in connection work between people and increasing self boundaries for a more balanced life together.

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All group classes are held online with everyone’s cameras on to cultivate the intimacy between families.

We have no date yet for returning to in-person group classes.