Doula Tribe
By Tess Marnane
Doula TribeNov 28, 2023
Phillip Chua- Naturopath
Phillip is a degree qualified naturopath with over a decade of experience in clinical practice.
I have a special interest in supporting people to improve their digestive health and this passion has led me to follow extensive training in this space.
As a GAPS (Gut and Psychology syndrome) practitioner, I understand that food education is an important step in being well, as the food that we choose to eat every day is what heals and support our bodies to thrive.
When changing foods in the home it often means that I work with the whole family (within the same home as well as across generations). Our food and nutritional needs change over our lifespan and having an understanding on how to adjust (from first foods for bubs to special health needs) is a vital part of clinical practice.
My wife and I have two wonderful boys (4 and 1) and I see that being a dad is my most important job in life.
I find this work really empowering as it means that once clients have learnt what works for them, they can go out and be the example in the community. I believe that when people are healthier that they are more able to make better choices for themselves and their communities.
Email : philthenaturopath@gmail.com
www.instagram.com/philchua_naturopath/
www.phillipchua.com/
Katie Naylor- Neurogrow- Sleep Consultant
Nartarsha Bamblett- Queen Acknowledgments
This was a very special conversation about Nartarsha's raw birth stories and culture. My absolute honor to talk to her.
*Some background noise with babies in background but that's Motherhood!
Nartarsha Bamblett is a proud First Nations woman, living & learning on Naarm Country in Melbourne. She is also a mother, raising two warrior boorias. As the Founder of Queen Acknowledgements and a business owner for over ten years, she is passionate about making an impact through connection to self, culture and country. Her intention is to bring long-lasting positive change, identifying intergenerational trauma and transforming it into intergenerational healing. She is passionate about women’s voices and hope to promote women to reclaim their power and own their story, having our voices counted and heard, empowering the ongoing healing journey for women. As her work continues to reach thousands of people across the world her hope to raise awareness around harmful stereotypes, racism, family violence and intergenerational trauma and to share my lived experience as a black woman in this country. https://linktr.ee/queenacknowledgements
https://www.instagram.com/queenacknowledgements/
Donna Wallace-Energy Healer & Soul Jewellery
Find out more about Donna’s custom made for the soul jewellery, please visit her website here: thehouseoforion.com.au/
Book your free energy reading about what your ‘soulmate stone’ could be, please go here: thehouseoforion.com.au/start_here/
To learn more about Donna please visit her website here: donnawallace.com.au/
www.instagram.com/modern_day_medicine_woman_xoxo/
www.instagram.com/the_house_of_orion/
Julie Bell- Nurse, Missionary, Doula, Birth Passionista & Herbalist
Julie Bell is a nurse, missionary, doula, birth passionista, herbalist and owner of Blissful Herbs.
She was born in Australia but grew up in New Zealand so has experienced life on both sides of the Tasman. She claims allegiance to whichever nation is winning the cricket.
After completing her training as a Registered Comprehensive Nurse, she decided the best way to kill herself was to go on the Outward Bound outdoor adventure course.
For 24 days she scaled cliffs, threw herself overboard into frothy seas and kayaked backwards down waterfalls in the wilds of the South Island (yes, where The Lord of the Rings was filmed).
To the amazement of herself and particularly of her instructors, she survived and then proceeded to spend the two decades of her life in South East Asia as a volunteer humanitarian worker.
She can mark her experiences in terms of the bizarre delicacies she has ingested along the way. Frogs, snakes, birds, bird’s nests, sharks, shark fins, thousand year old eggs - some containing embryos - spiders, bats, dogs, cats …. And every possible anatomical appendage or innard a beast can grow: pickled, fermented, broiled, dried, roasted, buried underground, raw, or smothered in chilli enough to sear every internal lining from lips to squat pot.
She can also give the movie ‘Planes, Trains and Automobiles’ a run for its money. Julie’s version would be, ‘Jeeps, Junks, and Tuk Tuks’.
She has been married for a cool quarter of a century and together they have welcomed four babies, all born at home. Now aged from 11 to 24 years, they like to do mad things like free-climbing tall cliffs - and buildings - running marathons, riding unicycles and getting brought home by Police at 4 a.m.
It is the passion of Julie’s life to support women in realizing their personal power and learning to wield it unapologetically. It is the joy of Julie’s life to be allied with a remarkable cohort of creative and inspiring women who are a force of love and change in the world. Julie is the eternal student and constant journeywoman, always seeking, learning, discovering and expecting.
Into her 50s and beyond, Julie intends to continue to live radically, wage peace and make revolution. She has no plans to go quietly.
www.blissfulherbs.com.au/
Claire Tonti- Singer Songwriter- Matrescence Activist- Podcaster
Bec Cameron - Intuitive Coach and Sacred Women's Work Facilitator
Adriana Basile- Ceremonialist, NLP Practitioner and Somatic Body Worker
Adriana Basile is a conduit in the evolution of the soul and humanity. Women's circles have been an integral part of her journey, also infusing pranic, access consciousness, reiki energy healing, ritual and ceremony. meditation, conscious relationship coaching, and all she has embodied in 25-year deep-dive into personal development and spirituality. With a successful career in beauty therapy, she also helps women see their inner beauty, which then radiates out to their families and community.
Adriana's reputation has seen her become a sought after facilitator in shadow work, inner child, boundaries, values, conscious communication, polarity in relationships, masculine/feminine energies, releasing trauma from the physical body, meditation for manifestation, anxiety, tapping into intuition, healing physical ailments, women's wisdom, journaling, tapping and breathwork.
She is an NLP practitioner and Somatic Body Worker, helping people heal past wounds ad shift limiting patterns and programs that have run their lives, allowing them to live from their highest and true potential.
An eternal student, Adriana continues to evolve, guiding others to do the same and remember their true divinity.
Find this incredible human here:
www.evolveadrianabasile.com.au
Grace Larson-Paediatric Intensive Care Nurse
Michael Reid- Welcome to Consciousness
Marion Rose, Ph.D- Aware Parenting
Marion Rose, PhD, is the co-author of the bestselling 'Raising Resilient and Compassionate Children - A Parent's Guide to Understanding Behaviour, Feelings and Relationships' with Lael Stone. She has also written three other books on Aware Parenting and Psychospiritual Parenting which are coming out this year.Marion has been studying psychology and consciousness since 1987 and has a PhD on postnatal depression and the mother-infant relationship from Cambridge University. She researched infant development as a post-Doctoral Research Fellow and taught MA students, as well working as a Psychosynthesis psychotherapist.
After teaching first HypnoBirthing and them Calm Birth, she focussed her attention on bringing about change through supporting parents.Marion has been practicing Aware Parenting since 2002 and is the mother of a 21 year old daughter and a 16 year old son. She has been an Aware Parenting instructor since 2005 and is a Level Two instructor and the Regional Coordinator for Australia and New Zealand. Marion is also the founder of The Marion Method, which is a psychospiritual paradigm of parenting, reparenting and reculturing.She offers online courses and mentoring, including for people who want to become Aware Parenting instructors and Marion Method mentors.She believes that these two paradigms are part of crating systemic change away from The Disconnected Domination Culture.
She hosts The Aware Parenting Podcast, which has more than 1.7 million downloads, and co-hosts The Aware Parenting and Natural Learning Podcast with Joss Goulden, an Aware Parenting instructor. Marion also hosts her own podcast, The Psychospiritual Podcast, often with Nic Wilson, an Aware Parenting instructor and Marion Method Mentor.
You can find Marion at www.marionrose.net
www.instagram.com/_marion_rose_/
www.instagram.com/awareparenting/
www.facebook.com/MarionRosePhD
The lifting technique by Janie McCoy King
Jade Vigliaturo- Holistic Kinesiology
Rachel Preston Broughton- Baby and Mumma Gifts local Business owner
Check it out here- www.babyandmummagifts.com.au/
Baby and Mumma Gifts is a local Shepparton business creating beautiful gifts and hampers for new mothers and their babies. With so many gifts being sent out to babies filled with comforters, teddies, and cute things for babies, I wanted to create something just for mothers. Our hampers are filled with items that are supportive and nurturing for new mothers, with specific items to help support them in their pregnancy and postpartum. Free delivery is available across Greater Shepparton, as well as shipping Australia wide.
Shani Dickins- Motherhood Coach | Postpartum Doula
Shani had a deep calling to help others in some way, to be of service. Naturally she fell into this space of supporting mums after she became a mother at the tender age of 20.
The transition was incredibly fractured and so too was the connection she had, or didn’t have, with her daughter initially. Four pregnancies and births later, two of which were high risk. Shani experienced the broken system, been left to figure it out alone and have being silenced by professionals. This led her to having little trust in herself and stopped her from speaking up when she knew things weren’t right.
Shani has been on a five year journey of understanding who she is, discovering some really deep and dark shadows that lived deep within her, uncovered an entirely new way of living life, and most importantly she has forgiven herself for all that has been in her life.
Shani is so passionate about supporting and holding mums through learning to trust themselves and how to make informed decisions, in what is an incredibly sacred journey. She is so passionate about guiding mums on their transition into and through motherhood to connect with the new, upgraded version of themselves.
Website- www.shanidickins.com.au. Instagram- www.instagram.com/shanidickins/?hl=en
Mick Ryan- Natural Therapist- An Irish Dads Perspective
Our next guest is Mick Ryan, he’s been a practitioner of natural medicine for 20 years primarily in acupuncture, sports/remedial massage, reflexology, Tai chi/Qi Gong, meditation and breathing and more recently TRE and movement therapy. He now does home care treatments for the elderly with Nimbus Health. He has 2 children one of whom had the dubious honor of delivering in the passenger seat of a car on St Patrick’s day 2020.
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Podcast: More Than Wellness | Facebook
Mick Ryan (@micksdownunder) • Instagram photos and videos
Key talking points
“How long have you been in Australia and what are some stand out differences between here and your home country.”
“About your family, values, some key stories about your move to Australia”
“Can you describe to me your work and what your passionate about now. “
“Because this is a podcast all about birth and postpartum support for people living abroad, can you tell me about your births?
'If you had trauma or any type of postmark depression as a man where would you seek this type of support”
“How was the community support after your births”
“What’s the services like for your children compared to home, do you believe.
What are the main community groups your involved in.
How can people connect and find you?
What is/are your current services you offer?
Maria Dillane -Natural Birth-Parenting Coach
Maria has had a really interesting career being a nurse in Oncology and Gynaecology.
After becoming a mum of 2 she has pursued her passion to support parents in parent coaching.
She can be found on Instagram @reachingforcalm
Introductory Bonus Episode- All about me your host Tess Marnane
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