toRaise Questions Doula Podcast
1) Back to Back and Overlapping Births: How to Navigate a "Birth Bender"... Episode 124
😅 What happens when you’re called to two births at the same time—or you’ve just walked out of one birth and another client needs you? It’s one of the most stressful and tender realities of doula life...Show More
2) Finding Your Path: A New Doula’s Journey from Retreat to Real Life with Rae Thweat... Episode 123
🕊️ Connection, creativity, and community — plus the best food ever. Rae’s story will leave you inspired to slow down, fill your cup, and do the work you love. Watch the full video version here: https...Show More
3) Episode 122 - A New Kind of Doula Training...
Send us a text 🌿 Melanie Russell is back with big news: ToLABOR’s brand-new Combo Doula Training + Retreat has arrived! This unique approach to doula education goes beyond classroom-style learning—it...Show More
4) Episode 121 - We're Back!!
Send us a text 🎙️ Melanie Russell is back in the studio — and it feels so good! After an 8 year hiatus, the ToRAISE Questions Doula podcast returns with fresh energy and a whole lot of heart. In this...Show More
5) Episode 120 - When Your Client Is Also Your Sister
Thérèse spends time talking to Valerie Drews who is a birth doula in the Chicago area (http://www.sacred-pregnancy.com/ ),about her experience being a doula for her sister's births. Is it hard to stay...Show More
6) Episode 119 - A Birth Story
Dana Jarmon shares her birth story with Thérèse. Dana a birth doula herself, discusses the impact of having a doula present at her birth and also how it may have informed her own doula practice. www.k...Show More
7) Episode 118 - Traumatic Birth: A Deeper Understanding
Thérèse has a conversation with Heather Self, a birth doula who had an extremely traumatic birth and the impact it has had on her practice as a doula.
8) Episode 117 - We're Back!
It's been a long time since our last podcast and Thérèse takes a few moments to say hello again and talk about some of the lessons learned on her journey this past summer.
9) Episode 116 - Supporting a Client Desiring a VBAC
Thérèse has a conversation with Emily Bruno, a Certified Birth Doula and one of the owners of My Birth in Richmond VA about how to best support a client who is planning to have a VBAC.
10) Episode 115 - The Life of A Doula
Thérèse has a conversation with Karry Wolf Anderson, a doula in the Chicago area. They discuss Karry's life as a mother, wife, doula and massage therapist and how she balances it all throughout these ...Show More