About
The Birthing Soul
Pregnancy, Birth, Postpartum & loss are a time of deep transformation and deep identity shifts, as everything in our lives is touched in some way by this transformation.
My name is Britta, founder & CEO of The Birthing Soul, and going into birth with my firstborn, I thought I was a shoo-in for blissful parenthood. Sure, I had a deeply uncomfortable (painful) pregnancy, but I was trained as a doula, a perinatal mental health specialist and was on the founding team for a school for pregnant and parenting teens, building their Maternal Health and Wellness programming. I had cared for babies in countless ways, considered their mental health, and yet couldn't grasp the depths of what their mothers were transiting.
At 38 weeks pregnant, I was exhausted, spent, ready to give birth--thinking naeively that this is the 'end of the hard part' and now I get my sweet baby. Despite my birth going as planned at home, I ended up being confused, overwhelmed, not knowing how to verbalize what I actually needed, not having the energy to do more to find it. The ancient birthing wisdom, the space holding and understanding was nowhere to be found. My pregnancy apps had lapsed and now the baby was the sole focus. The systems were done with me and I felt lost and disposed as a mother.
I know, as a therapist, EVERYONE experiences this transition differently. I know from CERTAINTY that we as mothers and birthers are absolutely not getting what we deeply need & deserve during this time.
The Birthing Soul was created off the wisdom gleaned from modern and ancestral resources, from inner and shared feminine wisdom, from the pain of experience, to bring a different opportunity to process this transformative time while being held, inspired, deeply present and attuned to the body, connected to nature and to our spritiual and emotional health.
Birth is a time of soul entry (the baby) and soul transformation. It is a threshold to integrate more wisdom from your soul's path, face & heal pain from your childhood, your lineage, your community. All of this in the name of supporting and valuing the life that is now growing in your care, this baby soul new to earth.
Mission
The Birthing Soul delivers exceptional quality content in digestible amounts, in daily drips, over the time scope of 1-3 years via the customized app The Birthing Soul (pregnancy) Held Postpartum (postpartum) sections of a phone and web app. The App content is segmented into weekly delivery, including weekly inspired Energy, Embodiment practice (somatic, yoga, ayurveda, breathwork, hypnobirthing, visualization, relationship exercises and more) Educational content, and Embracing content to give space to integrate and land the wisdom received.
Vision
To ignite the inner knowing of women, men and families who are pregnant, experiencing loss, giving birth, and going through the transformational identity process of postpartum and parenting. To provide robust and equitable mental health support spanning pregnancy, birth and especially the postpartum period. To prevent isolation, declining mental health outcomes for parents while supporting infant mental health and development via the well being of the parents.
“To deeply alter the birthing consciousness of collective women and birthers to become deeply aligned to themselves, their own power, and their connection to self, to their baby and to nature.” To transform humanity, to remember our humanity, to humanize and decolonize the birthing process by connecting to self, to nature, to the divine, to community and to empowered potential. To permanently alter the source point of the way souls enter the world.