Julie-Anne Malette-Mauno is a French Canadian settler living on Treaty 9 territory in Northeastern Ontario, Canada with her family. She has 7 children. She writes poetry and her love for the boreal forest is reflected in her writing. She is a Registered Social Worker and is working as a therapist and researcher. Her work centers on perinatal mental health and wellbeing, and grief and loss. She is committed to her evolving decolonial practice and her calling to embody midwifery paradigms in her work and life. Though she is not working as a clinical midwife, she carries that calling into her poetry, social work practice, life, and relationships.