Doula Talk Blog & Podcast
Welcome. This is a space for thoughtful guidance, honest conversations, and practical insight for the postpartum period and first year.
Here you’ll find blog posts and podcast episodes that help you make sense of sleep, feeding, recovery, and the emotional load of early parenthood. My goal is not to give you more rules to follow, but to help you understand what’s happening beneath the surface so you can respond with clarity and confidence.
Whether you’re navigating sleep disruptions, feeding challenges, or simply trying to feel more steady in your role as a parent, these resources offer evidence-informed perspective, real-world context, and support you can return to whenever you need it.
You don’t have to figure it all out alone.
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Learning to See Yourself Differently: Pregnancy, Body Image, and the Sacred Transition into Motherhood
Pregnancy has a way of changing everything.
Yes, your body changes. Your routines change. Your relationships shift. But perhaps the biggest transformation isn’t one you can see from the outside at all.
You’re becoming a mother.
That transition is beautiful, exciting, overwhelming, and sometimes surprisingly complicated. Many parents tell me they expected the physical changes of pregnancy—but they didn’t expect how much their relationship with their own body would change along the way.
On a recent podcast episode, I had the privilege of speaking with underwater maternity photographer Caroline White about the deeper meaning behind her incredible work. What started as a conversation about maternity photography quickly became something much bigger: a discussion about body image, self-compassion, and learning to honor the incredible work our bodies are doing.
It’s a conversation I think every expecting parent deserves to hear.
Learning to See Yourself Differently: Pregnancy, Body Image, and the Sacred Transition into Motherhood (Guest: Caroline White)
You know the moment.
You’re standing in the kitchen holding a bottle, a pump part, your phone, and a cold cup of coffee. You walked in there for a reason, but now you can’t remember what it was. The baby finally fell asleep, you should probably eat something, someone texts asking how you’re doing, and suddenly your partner says:
“What do you want for dinner?”
And for reasons you cannot explain, you feel irrationally angry.
If this sounds familiar, first: hi, welcome to postpartum.
Second: no, you are not failing.
And third: your brain is probably overloaded.
One of the biggest misconceptions about new parenthood is that because we have more information than ever before, parenting should feel easier. But for many families, especially in the postpartum period, the exact opposite happens.
Instead of feeling supported, we feel buried under information, opinions, tracking apps, and endless decisions.
If you’re struggling with postpartum brain fog, postpartum overwhelm, or decision fatigue in parenthood, there is a reason for that, and it has a lot less to do with your capability than you think.
The Missing Village: Why Parenthood Feels Harder Than It Should
When I ask new parents how they’re doing, I often hear the same answer:
“We’re surviving.”
Sometimes it’s said with a laugh. Sometimes it’s followed by tears. But almost every family I work with has some version of the same feeling: “Why does this feel so much harder than I expected?”
If you’ve ever wondered that yourself, I want you to know something important:
You’re not doing anything wrong. You’re trying to parent without the village humans were meant to have.
The Overloaded Brain: Why Parenthood Feels Like Decision Fatigue on Steroids (And What to Do About It)
You know the moment.
You’re standing in the kitchen holding a bottle, a pump part, your phone, and a cold cup of coffee. You walked in there for a reason, but now you can’t remember what it was. The baby finally fell asleep, you should probably eat something, someone texts asking how you’re doing, and suddenly your partner says:
“What do you want for dinner?”
And for reasons you cannot explain, you feel irrationally angry.
If this sounds familiar, first: hi, welcome to postpartum.
Second: no, you are not failing.
And third: your brain is probably overloaded.
One of the biggest misconceptions about new parenthood is that because we have more information than ever before, parenting should feel easier. But for many families, especially in the postpartum period, the exact opposite happens.
Instead of feeling supported, we feel buried under information, opinions, tracking apps, and endless decisions.
If you’re struggling with postpartum brain fog, postpartum overwhelm, or decision fatigue in parenthood, there is a reason for that, and it has a lot less to do with your capability than you think.
The Taboo Conversation: Cannabis, Women’s Health, and Making Informed Choices (Guest: Dr. Amanda Reiman, Founder Personal Plants)
If you’ve used cannabis before pregnancy, you’re not alone. This is especially common in states where it's legally available.
For many people, cannabis is already part of their life before pregnancy, whether that’s for sleep, anxiety, chronic pain, or simply as a way to unwind at the end of the day.
And then pregnancy happens.
Or postpartum hits.
And suddenly, something that once felt normal or supportive becomes confusing, stigmatized, or even scary to talk about.
The messaging tends to shift quickly into black-and-white: Just stop. Don’t use anything. Don’t ask questions.
But real life is rarely that simple.
So instead of shutting the conversation down, what if we approached it differently?
What if we looked at cannabis use during the perinatal period through a harm reduction lens, one that prioritizes safety, informed decision-making, and honest conversations?