EP94: Sheila Kamara Hay on Pleasure in Birth and the Importance of Doulas

What She Shares:

• How the birth of her three children set her on her path
• Discovering ways to connect to your pleasurable sensations
• Practicing one minute of self-pleasure as a meditation

What You'll Hear:

• Healing birth trauma and changing the narrative
• Listening to the body and hearing its message
• Reclaiming your connection with your body through birth
• Being present and available for the ecstasy of birth
• Letting go of the checklist mentality and having a full system experience
• Opening yourself to pleasure to consciously use it during birth
• Expanding your capacity to hold energy through mindful self pleasure
• Integrating trauma as much as possible before birth
• Working to expand pleasurable sensation in the body
• Practicing pleasure in a calm and relaxed state so that it is available in charged situations
• Sourcing energy from a distant source when you feel stuck
• Doulas as energy holders in birth spaces
• Taking care of yourself through connection to your body
• How presence and connecting to Source is helpful in the first 6 weeks of postpartum
• Knowing that birth workers are as important to moms as moms are to babies
• Finding ways to build pleasure and support into your system
• Learning to rest when you need