Hey Doulas
are we surprised that a pivot was needed? As Doulas, we are really good at pivoting.
Welcome back to your love letters. We have a new home here on substack, and it was quite the journey to landing here.
Earlier this year I launched the Dear Doula letters purely over audio podcast and you can find those posts here on substack as well. About six weeks into the process and after receiving feedback from this amazing community, I decided to re-launch with more variety.
All of the energy and inspiration to expand these Doula love letters on a new platform surfaced during the most gnarly eclipse season. And in true blood moon fashion, I found myself learning the functions of substack and exploring as the Taurus eclipse took over the sky. Allowing this re-launch to take its own form, I followed the ease eventually settled into the comfort of our new home to write, chat, listen and be in community with one another.
Welcome to substack!
In this week of intense Taurus eclipse energy, I find myself smiling upon creating a solution of higher impact, higher thinking, and higher possibility for the Dear Doula community. Substack has continued to rise to the occasion when it comes to providing what we need to communicate and support one another. When my astrology guides continued to show me the vast possibilities of expansion and elevation with this moon’s transformations, I knew what I was making the right move as I do what we do best in this work - intuitively pivot.
Substack allows the Dear Doula letters to be in newsletter format, podcast format, conversational thread format and serves the new possibility of video guidance! I am creating this shift as a way to serve Doulas who have served our community, and me as a community member, for years. My intention with these letters is to provide nuggets of wisdom, share mistakes and missteps, open a flow of continued education and the experience of community with Doulas from all over. It is my hope that these love letters will serve as a reminder of your vast importance, your innate value, your deep practice as a Doula and will bring you home to your sense of self and allowing love in. Together, we can expand our minds, bodies, practices, consciousness and our capacity for the unknown, for joy, for desire and for pleasure.
I always intend on the Dear Doula letters to be free. Subscribing for free will allow you to have access to any of the audio notes, written letters, guest pieces, journal prompts, practical practices, and playlists that I post for community. There will also be open comment threads to communicate with community, ask questions, add information and share your own offerings with us!
You can also make the decision to become a donation based subscriber for $7/month. This membership includes access to all of the above, with additional FREE entry into our monthly Dear Doula virtual coworking Q+A space (which is usually $11/month) and 50% off of our Dear Doula workshops being offered in 2023.
As I wrap up this “re-introduction”, Im going to take a note from my dear friend and business sister Fanny, The Trauma Witch and quote our collective journaling inspiration Erin Fairchild:
This is a freedom project. This is a place to center the fact that writing feels good in my body, that writing connects us to each other, and that when we feel good in our bodies and are connected to each other, we are resourced, and when we are resourced, we can become ungovernable, and together topple regimes of oppression, and co-create a world of justice and pleasure for all bodies.
As Doulas, we guide toward transformation, into higher purpose. Using ancient and ancestral practices provide space and light for others journey through, toward home. As keepers of these sacred spaces, it is our divine right and responsibility to take care of ourselves, sustain our work, protect our energy and receive as much as we give.
Welcome to the Dear Doula letters. Thanks for reading.
✌🏾 love, Scout
💻 Virtual Community Coworking Space | Q+A :: Let’s share space and time together, discuss creative work solutions, and have an opportunity to get your questions answered.
WHERE YOU CAN FIND ME:
✉️ Get in touch by replying to this email, or hey@scoutwildawake.com.