60. Perceptions of Birth: Birthing From Within Student Kristin Maresca

This was a super fun conversation with Kristin Maresca and was part of a birth processing course she is enrolled in. She asks me to share about my lifelong birth perceptions. It's a raw and vulnerable chat, that left me feeling open & free to share from my heart.  About Kristin -  "I am a mother to two amazing girls, both birthed at home; a wife to an incredibly supportive partner; a yoga teacher; a birthkeeper; a Reiki Master; and soon to be a Transformational Coach. 13 Moons is the culmination of decades of study, exploration, introspection, and passion. I have a background in corporate strategy consulting and international development and have been teaching yoga since 2004. The birth of my oldest daughter shifted the trajectory of my life in ways I could never have imagined. Through my pregnancy, birth, postpartum journey, I was brought to my knees and shown a deep power within myself. I found my calling as a doula and have been working as a birthkeeper and childbirth mentor since 2009. In 2021, I moved to the UK to study midwifery but was immediately struck by the similarities between the mainstream midwifery approach there and what I had witnessed in the United States. In a moment of deep reckoning, I chose to abide by a deep Call within. I left the midwifery course I was studying and, through weeks of intensive yoga and meditation practice, crafted a path forward that would provide me with the experience and structure needed to construct a new paradigm for birth and conscious connection. I now work as a doula and birthkeeper, childbirth mentor, and soon-to-be Birth Story Listener and Transformational Coach based in York, England."  Find Kristin: Website - https://www.13-moons.co.uk/about  Find Holly:  Community – https://www.facebook.com/groups/241111264443799  Website - https://rosebudwellness.com/  Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/rosebud_wellness/  Shop - http://rosebudwellness.com/shop/