Mind-Body, Birth®
Research-informed birth preparation that helps you understand how your body, mind, and context interact—so you can prepare for the birth that's right for you.
Choose Your Format Already Have the Book? Get the WorksheetsOne approach. Two ways to learn.
The same whole-person approach to birth preparation is available as a guided online experience or as a book. Choose the format that fits the way you want to learn.
Learn it. Explore it. Practice it.
Go beyond reading about birth with a guided experience that combines information, reflection, movement, breathing, sound, and activities that help you discover what actually works for you.
7 modules
6+ hours of video
20+ guided activities
5 years of access
$199
Enroll Online
Read. Reflect. Return to it.
The Mind-Body, Birth® approach in book form for people who prefer to read, underline, revisit ideas, and move through birth preparation at their own pace.
Explore the body, mind, relationships, environment, expectations, and experiences that shape birth—without being told there is one right way to do it.
$19.99
Buy the BookNot sure which one? The book gives you the Mind-Body, Birth® framework. Online adds guided activities, embodied practices, video teaching, and dedicated resources for your support person(s).
Praise for Mind-Body, Birth®
“It’s not just a guide; it’s a companion that walks with you every step of the way, reminding you that you have the strength and the tools to make your experience uniquely yours. I can’t recommend it enough"Read the Full Review →
“The book is filled with an amazing amount of information so you can make informed decisions about your pregnancy and delivery"Read the Full Review →
“Her guidance is balanced appropriately between factual information and non-judgmental support, offering objective pros and cons of every choice she discusses but also pointing out that every pregnancy is different.”Read the Full Review →
Birth isn't one-size-fits-all
You can plan an epidural.
You can plan an unmedicated birth.
You can plan a cesarean.
You can plan a home birth.
You can change your mind.
Mind-Body, Birth isn't a one-size-fits-all approach.
It's about helping you understand what happens in birth—physically, psychologically, and within the context you're giving birth in—so you can make sense of your options, prepare for what matters to you, and adapt when birth doesn't follow the plan.
Understand what's happening
Birth is physical. Hormones, the nervous system, pain, movement, rest, and the physiology of labor all matter.
Understanding what your body is doing can make what's happening feel less mysterious—and give you more ways to work with it.
What you think and feel doesn't stay neatly separated from what your body is doing.
Fear, expectations, past experiences, language, and your sense of safety can shape how you experience birth. Understanding those connections gives you choices.
Birth doesn't happen in a vacuum.
The people in the room, the care you're receiving, your relationships, identity, culture, environment, and circumstances are part of the experience too.
When you understand the whole picture, you can feel more confident in the choices you make along the way.
When the plan changes
A birth plan is great. It helps you think about where you want to go, what matters to you, and the route you'd like to take.
But birth doesn't always go according to plan.
When you look around and realize you're somewhere you didn't expect to be, a toolkit gives you something the map can't: information about where you actually are.
You can understand what's happening. Ask better questions. Consider your options. Decide what matters now.
Find North—even when you're no longer on the map.
You belong here
Your family might look different. Your body might look different. Your values, relationships, experiences, needs, or plans might not look like the examples you keep seeing in birth spaces.
Mind-Body, Birth® doesn't need you to become someone else before it can support you.
Is Mind-Body, Birth for me?
Inside Mind-Body, Birth
The Mind-Body, Birth approach is a guided experience—combining information with opportunities to explore, practice, notice, and build the tools that work for you.
Explore birth physiology, pain, hormones, the nervous system, movement, and ways to work with your body.
Look at fear, expectations, past experiences, sexuality, coping, and the connections between mind and body.
Explore how support, relationships, environment, communication, culture, and the people around you can shape your experience.
Each activity helps you explore what works for you, what matters to you, and what you may need.
At the end, you'll bring what you've learned together to build your own unique Birth Toolkit—based on you, not on somebody else's idea of the “right” birth.
The lessons are designed for you. Your support person(s) get a guided journey of their own.
Each module includes a bite-sized Support Report with key information from what you're learning, along with activities created specifically for them.
Mind-Body, Birth: Online Help You build your Birth Toolkit with Video Support
7 modules · 6+ hours of video · 20+ guided activities · 4 breathing practices · spontaneous yoga · 2 sound baths · guided meditation · bite-sized Support Reports for every module · 5 years of access
Pregnancy → Birth → Postpartum
Why I built the Mind-Body, Birth
I learned the science and realized how much of what we're taught to expect from birth isn't the whole story. Then I saw people preparing for birth without the information they needed—and blaming themselves afterward when birth didn't go according to plan.
I saw fear treated as inevitable. I saw judgment and shoulding. And I saw birth preparation that taught people what might happen to their bodies without helping them understand how their minds, relationships, histories, environments, and expectations could shape the experience too.
And I said, no. We aren't doing this anymore.
I wanted a different way to prepare for birth. One that takes the science seriously and the person experiencing birth just as seriously. One that gives you real information without telling you what decisions to make. One that makes room for fear, questions, changing your mind, and a life that might not look like everyone else's.
So I created Mind-Body, Birth.
A way to Birth. Better.
Ready when you are
Mind-Body, Birth gives you information without handing you somebody else's answer.
LEARN ONLINE
The full guided experience with video teaching, embodied practices, reflection activities, Birth Toolkit creation, and Support Reports for your support person(s).
$199
Enroll OnlineREAD THE BOOK
Move through the Mind-Body, Birth approach in book form with embodied practices, reflection activities, Birth Toolkit creation, and Support Reports for your support person(s).
$19.99
Buy the BookUnderstand birth. Fear less.
