The Search for Community #069

We are so thrilled to be coming for Season SIX of the podcast!

As we delve into our new season theme of centering community, it feels fitting that our very first episode at the podcast was about community, it is very much at the heart of the work we do here at your birth partners. And so often when this work is more challenging, there needs to be when things are not going smoothly. It is because we are not rooted in community. We need folks who are here with us doing this work, ones who are ready to hold space with us and for us, ones who are happy to share about their own journey to hold us accountable as we uncover our own biases, as we recognize things that are not ideal in our practice and how we want to change. And we must have others together as we do this collaborative work of shifting, recreating reimagining what birth care can look like.

Our guest this week, Anna Balagtas (she/her) is a radical birth worker and community organizer, known as Your Pocket Doula,  has a ton of personal experience walking through this journey, she is going to share so many ideas that uplift you and show you how it is possible to recreate to change the trajectory of the path you're on to find the community that you want and deserve to be a part of.

Join us as we dive into:
~recognizing when your values aren't shared by those around you

~the role of doula orgs in training complicitness in obstetrical mistreatment

~identifying saviorism in ourselves

~pivoting to find community

~trusting yourself on your journey in birthwork

~learning alongside your community

Learn more about Anna and connect with her work!

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