How can you be a better doula? If you’re a doula, it’s a question worth pondering for sure!
If you know me at all, you’ll know I think the world of doulas. They play such an important role in supporting expectant mothers to have a positive and empowering birth experience. We know this because the data tells us.
…if a birthing person has continuous labor support
(that is, someone who never leaves their side),
both mothers and babies are statistically more likely to have better outcomes!
And yet, we know that the support of a doula extends way beyond simply being present on the day of the birth. As well as childbirth education, doulas also provide emotional, mental, and psychological well-being support.
In some cases, it’s this emotional support that can be the thing that makes the difference between a positive and a negative birth experience.
This is where training in Fearless Birthing can help you to be a better doula. If you’ve read by book Fearless Birthing: Clear Your Fears for a Positive Birth you may already be familiar with my approach.
LISTEN TO THIS PODCAST where I talk more about it: Fearless Birthing the podcast
The fear clearance method at the core of Fearless Birthing – Head Trash Clearance – can significantly enhance a doula’s ability to provide holistic support to families as they navigate pregnancy and prepare for birth. It is also a DIY self-healing technique that can help you to manage your own mental health and wellbeing.
7 Ways You Can Be a Better Doula
I’ll explain more about the training but first I’d like to share with you seven compelling reasons why I think doulas should consider incorporating Fearless Birthing professional training into their skillset so that they can be a better doula. Being a doula is so much more than the job… for many it’s a calling. This is why it’s important for doulas to thrive as humans. You are doing important sacred work and we all need you be the best doula you can, and I want to help you to be the best!
So here are my 7 ways that I believe my training can help you to be a better doula.
1. Provide a Deeper Level of Support
Doulas are already known for their compassionate care and emotional support. However, by adding Fearless Birthing to your toolkit, you can take your support to a much deeper level.
The fear clearance technique that is at the core of the Fearless Birthing methodology allows doulas to help their clients address and overcome anxieties and fears related to pregnancy, childbirth, and parenthood. It can be used to target very specific fears or anxieties that women might be feeling, either in the lead up to the birth or during birth itself. By guiding clients through laser-focussed fear release process, doulas can create a more relaxed and positive environment, promoting a smoother birthing experience.
Furthermore, because of the personal healing work that’s required as part of the Fearless Birthing training, trained doulas will be much better able to hold the space for their families, and advocate for them in difficult environments. Often your clients will share similar fears to the ones you may have had. Having intimate knowledge of conquering your fears and anxieties will help you to better connect to your families, and better support them.
2. Offer Additional Services to Your Clients
Training in Fearless Birthing opens up new possibilities for you to offer specialised fear release services to your clients. Expectant mothers often grapple with a range of fears, from the fear of pain to the fear of the unknown. Doulas with Fearless Birthing training can provide tailored sessions to address and alleviate these anxieties, helping clients feel more in control and confident throughout their pregnancy journey. These sessions could be an additional service option for families to access during the perinatal period.
Doulas can also create audio tracks for their clients which they can sell as part of their doula packages, or as standalone items. These are a great way for potential clients to discover you and create a connection with you. This can help you to win clients.
3. Increase Your Prices and Earn More
By adding the Fearless Birthing therapeutic technique to your repertoire, you can expand the services you offer which can help you to earn more as a doula.
This added expertise can justify higher pricing for your services as families seek having a higher level of emotional support available to them as part of their doula package. Clients are often willing to invest more in comprehensive support that addresses their emotional well-being and helps them navigate the emotional challenges of pregnancy and childbirth.
And, because personal healing work is an essential part of the training, doulas will have the opportunity to address their own fears and conflicts that might be getting in the way of them putting their prices up and owning their worth as a doula.
You’ll be in a position to start offering Fearless Birthing to your clients within 3 months of starting your training, which means you could make your return on your investment very quickly indeed.
4. Stand Out and Win More Clients
In a competitive doula market, standing out is essential. Fearless Birthing therapeutic training sets doulas apart from others in their community. It provides a strong signal to potential clients that they are committed to providing holistic support that addresses both the physical and emotional aspects of pregnancy and childbirth. This unique selling point can help doulas attract more clients and build a strong reputation in their community.
5. Accelerate Your Personal Growth and Be More Emotionally Resilient
Fearless Birthing training not only benefits clients but also offers personal growth and healing opportunities for doulas themselves.
An important and essential part of the training is the personal clearance work that needs to be undertaken at the start of the training. This is important because every doula needs to know what it’s like to have fears and then overcome them. But for the doula, it means that they get the opportunity to undertake powerful personal healing work to address their own fears and anxieties.
This helps doulas to be more emotionally resilient which in turn can help them to better cope with the emotional demands of birth work. In other words, you can become even more badass.
6. Self-Healing and Self-Care
Doulas often witness intense and emotional moments during childbirth, which can take a toll on their own emotional well-being. The technique that is at the core of Fearless Birthing is a potent self-healing tool that doulas can turn to whenever they need to so that they can manage their own emotions and release any accumulated stress or trauma. This self-healing and self-care aspect of the training can contribute to greater emotional resilience and overall well-being, and is a compelling reason to add this to your repertoire.
7. Better Support Your Family
The benefits of fear release technique of Fearless Birthing are not limited to just your clients. Once you’ve trained in Fearless Birthing you can support family members, including your kids. You can teach the DIY technique to your family members to help them cope with their own emotional health challenges. This can help you to cultivate a more emotionally balanced and harmonious family environment. A win for all parents!
Fearless Birthing is a unique training programme for doulas. Not only does it offer you the opportunity to stand out and charge more for your work, but the benefits are priceless when you consider how it can affect your personal emotional wellbeing. It could be the difference between burn-out and a thriving business.
What is Fearless Birthing Training?
The Fearless Birthing Training is a comprehensive program designed by Alexia for professionals who support families in preparing for pregnancy, birth, and parenthood.
It is tailored for doulas, therapists, midwives, yoga teachers, pregnancy and birth coaches, and other birth professionals. Fearless Birthing training has been created so that professionals can help families to build emotional strength and resilience so that they can approach pregnancy and birth confidently and without fear.
Key Features of the Fearless Birthing Training:
Here are some of the key features of the training programme;
1. Emotional Resilience Building:
The training focuses on assisting expectant parents in clearing their fears, anxieties, and traumas, allowing them to develop emotional strength. This emotional resilience enables them to stay present during labour, advocate for themselves, and increase the chances of having a positive birth experience.
2. Unique Intervention Technique:
The core technique taught in Fearless Birthing is the Head Trash Clearance method, which swiftly and effectively eliminates fears, phobias, anxieties, and traumas from the mind and body. This technique works so quickly that it can even be used in between contractions.
3. Self-Paced Online Program:
Fearless Birthing offers a self-paced online training program that combines online resources with live group classes. This approach ensures that birth professionals have all the tools and knowledge they need to emotionally support families on their journey to parenthood.
4. Revenue Generation:
Graduates of the training can generate additional revenue by offering fear clearance and emotional support services to their clients. The course pays for itself, potentially allowing professionals to increase their prices and recoup their investment with just one or two client bookings.
5. Personal Growth:
Participants in the training have the opportunity to work on their own fears, stresses, and anxieties, enhancing their personal growth and emotional well-being.
The Fearless Birthing Training is divided into three parts:
Part 1 – Self:
Participants begin by addressing their own unresolved feelings, fears, and traumas related to pregnancy, birth, and parenthood. This self-work helps birth professionals better serve their clients and maintain their own emotional well-being.
Part 2 – Others:
This phase focuses on teaching birth professionals how to use the Head Trash Clearance technique with their clients. It covers topics like identifying and clearing head trash in clients, preparing clients emotionally for birth, and helping them let go of limiting beliefs.
Part 3 – Getting Started:
In this final phase, participants learn how to establish themselves as practitioners and offer Fearless Birthing services to clients. It includes practical aspects such as client preparation, intake forms, and integrating Head Trash Clearance into their practice.
The training includes various elements such as online masterclasses, live group classes, group exercises, a private forum for peer support, self-care practices, and homework assignments to ensure comprehensive learning. Assessment is conducted throughout the training to guarantee participants fully understand and embody the techniques taught.
The training offers two levels:
1. Practitioner Training: Ideal for those who want to add fear-clearance to their current work. Suitable for doulas, midwives, yoga teachers, and childbirth educators.
2. Professional Training: Designed for therapists, counsellors, psychotherapists, and other professionals experienced in working therapeutically with clients. This level provides additional tools for expanding their practice and offering support for clients dealing with anxiety, tokophobia, and depression.
Overall, the Fearless Birthing Training equips birth professionals with the skills and techniques to help expectant parents overcome their fears and anxieties, fostering emotional strength and empowerment for a more positive birthing experience.
Find out more about training in Fearless Birthing.
Alexia supports families planning pregnancy and birth. She helps them to overcome their fears and feel calm and confident about birth and pregnancy.
Alexia also trains birth professionals in the Fearless Birthing, a unique approach to birth preparation that is ideal for those who have fears around birth.
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