Every choice in my life has led me to where I currently stand today, so it could be argued that my journey in birth started with my own, but the moment this path became conscious to me was a few years ago on a sheep farm in Ireland during the lambing season.

Witnessing these animals surrender to the unknown process of birth was powerful. Life and death danced together and sparked a light in me to follow this path. I then witnessed my sister’s beautiful home birth of my precious niece and was hooked.

I followed the only path into midwifery that I knew, and enrolled in a degree program. The three years of working within the NHS as a student slowly but surely broke my heart into many tiny pieces with each woman I witnessed being stripped of the rite of passage that belonged to her. I deeply wished that I could do my part to change these experiences and even the system itself – but in reality I was a drop in a stormy ocean being carried away.

At the end of my degree, I couldn’t continue and decided not to sign onto the midwifery register. It was at this point, my dear sister guided me to The Radical Birth Keeper School. There, I found the clarity I had been seeking. Enrolling in this school gave me the answers I was searching for, and I realised that the system doesn’t need fixing as it is working exactly as it was always designed to.

This meant only one option – to serve outside of it!

My midwifery training taught me how I don’t want to work. Now, I’m discovering how I do.

Birth is a sacred, spiritual process—and that simply cannot be honoured within a system that has stripped away the soul. Birth the way it was done for centuries before industrialisation is somewhat rare in today’s age, and the decision to follow this ancestral lineage of the women who came before us can be a lonely one. 

You do not have to walk alone.

I would be honoured to walk with you.