Thank you @cbattan and @elleusa for coming out to NC to chat birth with me! I feel honored to be included in this month’s issue and most importantly I’m thrilled that a conversation about home birth gets a special spotlight in ELLE! As I prepare to embark on my own birth journey I feel extra grateful for the strong women who have trusted me to support them and allowed me the privilege of witnessing birth outside the paradigm we’ve been so conditioned by and accustomed to. By sharing their stories they’ve inspired so many women to reclaim their trust, autonomy, power and voice regardless of where they choose to birth. ... “She neither sensationalizes nor sugarcoats anything related to childbirth. ‘I try to help women really understand what the process is,’ she tells me. ‘I think we’re raised to believe that [birth] is a broken thing that you need to be saved from. But the more you know about how the process unfolds, the more trust there can be in the process.’” Photo by the incredibly talented @celestesloman