About Me

My name is Virginia, and I live in New Orleans with my husband and three children. I believe the way we are born and our earliest years have a profound and lasting impact on us. As Sheila Kitzinger wrote, "In any society, the way a woman gives birth and the kind of care given to her and the baby points as sharply as an arrowhead to the key values of the culture."

My work is centered on creating better conditions for children entering the world in the hopes of building more compassionate and caring communities, leaders, and culture for all. I offer physiologically supportive doula care, education, and intentional parenting guidance. I'm an advocate for the homebirth midwifery model of care.

I also help people of all ages identify and release the most tangled threads that no longer serve them through therapeutic breathwork—the simplest, most accessible tool I’ve found for creating profound change.

I'm trained in Birth and Postpartum Doula Care (through Whapio the Matrona & BirthWorks International), Death Doula Care (through Sacred Crossings), Reiki Level II (with Amanda Fresh), and as a Therapeutic Breathworker (through Transformations USA, a founding member of the Global Professional Breathwork Alliance - the international organization for Professionalism, Ethics, and Training Standards in Breathwork).

Nothing has brought me more joy or taught me more than diving into motherhood. Each of my births and children has taught me new lessons and shown me what I needed to give myself. I reject the narrative that motherhood must involve suffering and sacrifice, and am working on bringing more ease and delight to this experience for myself and others. I hope to empower and inspire you to make space for the same.

Nobody mentioned that, while caring for my tender newborn, I would also be tender and newborn. Mothers, too, need and deserve respectful, loving care. And yes, child rearing does, indeed, take a village. Virginia was my caring village.

Virginia is an experienced mother, birth professional, and doula; most of all, however, she was the person I knew I could turn to for support, advice, and truth during those most vulnerable days of my early parenting journey.

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