EP 128: Doula Work as Spiritual, Sacred, and Community-Building with Haize Hawke

Sex Birth Trauma with Kimberly Ann Johnson

In this episode, Kimberly and Haize discuss Haize’s Get Rooted with Haize Doula Training, Haize’s experience as a doula and mentor, and birth work in relation to relationships, energy, and community-building. Haize describes her experience as a spiritual mentor and doula for birthing families and how her new doula training curriculum came to be. She also discusses how COVID-19 has impacted pregnant and birthing people, causing even more isolation and health risk factors. The pandemic in addition to Haize’s lifelong experiences have re-energized Haize in her trainings to focus on holding space, relationships, and community for birth workers, birthing families, and the community at large.

Bio

Haize Hawk is a certified doula, student midwife, spiritual counselor and community leader, mother, and offers full-spectrum doula care. She recently created and runs doula trainings based on her decades of experience in holding birth as spiritual, a rite of passage, and initiation for families. Get Rooted the Haize Way is Haize’s doula training that began as a pregnant people’s class and has developed into a full curriculum and certification for doulas and birth workers.

What They Share

--Get Rooted with Haize Doula Training philosophy

--Importance of birth workers supporting one another

--Importance of birth workers supporting families energetically

--Impact of COVID-19 on pregnant and birthing people

What You’ll Hear

--Started group coaching for pregnant mothers

--Developed class as a doula training

--Doulas needing certification for hospitals during COVID-19

--Creating curriculum and certification for doula training

--Curriculum includes spiritual ancestry, masculine/feminine, herbology, nutrition, homeopathy and more

--Cohorts building community with each other

--Trainees doing inner work on themselves to prepare for birth work

--Understand importance of birth workers

--Importance of relationships between midwives, pediatricians, hospitals, doulas and all birth workers and support

--Birth workers showing solidarity for each other

--Protecting energy as birth workers

--Power-with vs. power-over

--Pregnant and birthing during COVID-19 increase in high risk factors

--Birth as a spiritual transformation to individual and family

--Maintains morning and evening routines as boundaries for time and access

--Turns to community for support and nourishment

--Self-replenishment as service for community

--Love as foundation of everything

--Recommendations to hold energy not place-holders

--Doula support as mutual energetic reciprocity

--Business of relationships, space-holding as energy in doula work

--Returning to origins of birth with relationships and space-holding

Resources

IG: @iamhaizehawkrosen