About the Practitioner:

Jennifer received her acupuncture and shiatsu training from the Oregon College of Oriental Medicine.  She received her doula training from Birthingway School of Midwifery. 

 

My dream for every woman who is going to give birth is that they feel empowered by their experience; not co-opted or tormented.  I believe in women and our ability to give birth; I believe in our capacity to become bigger than our baby’s head, bigger than our fears, bigger than any nay-sayers or doubters.  I believe in our deep connection to ourselves, our babies, each other.  I believe we can all support each other as we rise to the challenge that is labor and childbirth; as we walk or crawl or grunt and push our way through the awesome rite of passage that is childbirth I believe we become stronger, wilder, more beautiful. 

 

There is a deep place inside all of us in which our greatest fears lie mingled with our greatest strengths.  This dark recess is the key to our greatest capacity for health; the secret is that we must walk through our fears in order to find our strengths.  We cannot pretend that our fears will magically go away, nor can we afford to continue to let our fears rule our lives if we indeed desire health.  It is my goal and desire that we begin the journey to find this dark place within ourselves, and that once getting there, we discover that we have the trust, will, and compassion to face our fears and walk through them into true health.