By Lacey Barratt
The podcast currently has 73 episodes available.
We tend to use birth photography and videography to create a model of what we think our birth should look like. All of these images and videos can give us inspiration but they can also concrete the experience in our minds. We look to confirm our views and values with other people’s but it often doesn’t work out that way.
In this episode, I’m discussing how our values play such an important role in the birth experience. I’ve found by working with clients that our conscious values can often be very different to our unconscious values. By taking the time to explore with your client, you’ll unearth the true values they weren’t even aware of leading to a completely different, but truly aligned, birth plan.
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All of the work we do as doulas is prior to being in the birth space. Our job is to teach clients how to advocate for themselves, create a plan that reflects their values, and mitigate pain before they go into labour. This amazing work is centred around powerful conversations that empower our clients to take control of their own birth experience.
In this episode, I’m exploring what doula work means to me. I’m so grateful for this opportunity to talk about the motivations behind the decisions we make and how my work as a doula is centred around values. I always focus on the ‘why’ behind my client’s choices because it’s so important to bring clarity and ensure their decision is based on their values and not on societal conditioning.
LINKS:
Click here to learn more about Doula Unschool visit
Sign up for my FREE mini-course Persevering Through Pain In Pregnancy (and birth!) here!
Instagram: @birthphotographer
I’m so interested in the energies of masculine and feminine, especially because of the roles my husband and I play in our household. We’ve taken a stereotypical role reversal where I’m the sole income earner and he’s at home with the kids but it’s taken me a while to see how this would affect us emotionally.
In this episode, I share why I’ve struggled with being in feminine flow and how I’ve come to realise that being masculine was the most feminine thing I could do. I explore the polarity between the two energies and how these work together to make magic.
LINKS:
Click here to learn more about Doula Unschool
Join the Exposing Birth Conservatory today
How to Book and Exactly What to Charge 5 Day Training - Exposing Birth
Instagram: @birthphotographer
Manifesting is such a powerful tool, it’s something that I love and I am definitely not alone. One of the steps is to imagine yourself in the future once you have achieved your goal and feel how you would feel at that time. I’m lucky enough to visualise things like this easily but I know it isn't so easy for lots of people.
LINKS:
Join us in Doula Unschool here
Join the Exposing Birth Conservatory today
How to Book and Exactly What to Charge 5 Day Training - Exposing Birth
Instagram: @birthphotographer
Accepting compliments is really hard.
When someone reaches out with something positive, our first reaction is often to dismiss their words and question their judgement. It comes from a sense of unworthiness within us - not believing we deserve compliments and hunting for reasons to deny ourselves them. This extends beyond compliments too, we can't struggle to accept anything that might signal our worth - praise, success, money. This habit leaves us shying away from everything that’s meant for us, unconsciously keeping distance from things we consciously want.
LINKS:
Join us in Doula Unschool here
Join the Exposing Birth Conservatory today
How to Book and Exactly What to Charge 5 Day Training - Exposing Birth
Instagram: @birthphotographer
Birthing is such a special, sacred time where we are often incredibly vulnerable.
It’s a time we may want or need support from people we love but sometimes people we love aren't the people we’d love to have with us. If the people at your side are nervous or scared or panicked, it’s natural to pick up on that energy and internalise it.
It can feel powerful to create boundaries for people you believe would hinder your birth but it can also leave you feeling a sense of guilt. We also can’t be sure if the people we invite will be as supportive and calm as we hope.
In this episode I want to talk about finding strength in yourself and reflecting negative energy away so you can be your own source.
LINKS:
Join the Exposing Birth Conservatory today
How to Book and Exactly What to Charge 5 Day Training - Exposing Birth
Instagram: @birthphotographer
Trauma will follow you wherever you go. As birth workers, I see many people begin working with births as a photographer or as doulas, become triggered and drop out. This is a very real problem that is impacting many people so I wanted to discuss how trauma affects us in our work.
In this episode, I am exploring the trauma we experience during births and how it can lead us to avoid discomfort and steer clear of particular environments. I’ve worked really hard to work on my generational trauma, secondary trauma and first-hand trauma so I wanted to bring you what I’ve learned to help you stay present for your clients.
Have you felt pale white, shaky, light-headed and triggered during a labour? I definitely have and I’m taking you through the method you can use in real time to deal with your trauma to truly serve your mothers. After all, this is not the mother’s trauma, this is your trauma. It’s not fair for us to not attend a mother’s birth because it makes us uncomfortable and triggered.
We don’t have to view it as a negative experience. Being in the presence of life and death is keeping us alive. Instead of feeling stretched thin, reframe the moment to view the moment as expansive. This episode encourages us to delve into self-discovery to find our traumas and triggers to be truly present and support our clients throughout their birth journey.
LINKS:
Join us in Doula Unschool here
Join the Exposing Birth Conservatory today
How to Book and Exactly What to Charge 5 Day Training - Exposing Birth
Instagram: @birthphotographer
Our job as a doula is to give our clients the information they need to empower themselves, we don’t empower them. We guide women through the process to discover themselves and find their power within this transformative moment.
In this episode, I wanted to explore the powerful benefits of NLP for my doula clients. I was so inspired by Hayley Carr’s NLP course that I started using it with my clients. We’re all already doing NLP every day in our lives, but now we can do it more intentionally.
I’m very excited to announce that we’re launching a new course called Doula Unschool in January 2022! In this course, we’re talking about how to communicate effectively with our clients, quantum linguistics, the emotional evolution process and how we use it, and the miracle of hypnosis.
Check out the link below to join us in January. We’ll create breakthroughs for our clients and learn how our values dictate our experiences. I can’t wait to see you there.
LINKS:
Join us in Doula Unschool here
Join the Exposing Birth Conservatory today
How to Book and Exactly What to Charge 5 Day Training - Exposing Birth
Instagram: @birthphotographer
I have been MIA for a while. There have been a couple of huge things that have been going on in my world that I wanted to fill you in on in this episode.
Firstly, we have five children and our youngest is 4 years old. His kindy teacher told us last year that he may need extra support. This year we discovered through appointments with a paediatrician that he is autistic. I was initially quite disappointed that I missed the signs but when you’re really close to something, it can become hard to see past the love and connection of everyday life.
I gave myself grace and was filled with gratitude to the people in his life that are working to help him get the help he needs. There are really incredible people with autism doing amazing, remarkable things and I’m so excited to see what my son will create.
This experience is teaching me more about myself through empathy and learning to hold space. After all, the best way to teach our children is by example.
Secondly, we’ve just finished Birth Photographer of the Year!
It was such an exciting time and I’m so incredibly proud of every photographer who entered their photos. I’m so grateful to everyone that participated, the sponsors and the judges. If you haven’t seen them, head over to our Facebook page to see the remarkable, show-stopping images.
I know you’ll be inspired by them just as much as I was.
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Join the Exposing Birth Conservatory today
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I have five children and I own three businesses. One question I’m asked frequently is ‘How do you do it all?’.
I wanted to let you know that - I don’t. I have a fantastic team that supports me. When we begin in business, we all start off thinking we have to do everything on our own but it’s not the case.
One thing I have learnt through my extensive experience over the past 10 years of being in business and even before that in the corporate world - you can’t do it all.
In life there is both masculinine and feminine energy. One cannot exist without the other.
It can be really difficult to navigate these energy polarities because of societal norms. This goes for women in business, when stepping into an entrepreneurial role or any role that is outside of social constructs.
My husband is a stay at home Dad and I am the breadwinner, I have seen it break people’s brains.
It took so much strength for me to break out of the mould for what is inherently feminine or motherly.
But I want you to remember that you don’t have to always be both masculine and feminine at the same time, you can outsource roles to someone else.
If you’re in business and you’re struggling to do every single task, it’s OK to ask for help and assign them to someone.
Try and ask yourself, ‘what is one thing that I can do today to reach my goal?’ and, remember, you can ask for support!
It’s not all on you.
LINKS:
Join the Exposing Birth Conservatory today
https://birthphotographeroftheyear.com
https://www.wisdom.audio/
Instagram: @birthphotographer
The podcast currently has 73 episodes available.