Whole Ground Doula, Bellingen (2025)

19/03/2024

I’m dreaming of connected families, supportive friends, abundant nourishment on many levels.
Social cups being filled and deep nourishing rest.
Solitude and solidarity.
Babes born into loving arms that are being held by loving presence. Mamas and papas and Carers holding children’s childhood collectively. Holding each other in parenthood collectively. Crone, maga, mamas, maidens, Elders, men, fathers, brothers, boys, children, babes. Human beings in their different life phases and stages interacting, learning, receiving, caring, building, growing.

I’m living and experiencing moments and pockets and tapestries of this being woven in every day reality. Speaking these conversations with many beautiful people in my world. Feeling the dream in its real life form. The chaos and the (inner) calm. The commitment and the care, the tending and the strength, the love and the grit and the beauty of life through it all!

I don’t have the answers but we all have the wisdom. Can we slow down enough to hear it? What we need and what we can co-create?

There’s a thriving ‘village’ around. It’s us. You and me and each of us. That is the reality not an abstract idea. To me the in person manifestation of the ‘village’ is everything at the moment. I feel called to deepen and tend to connection in person, in the physical world, in real time. Building a village for me is building a village for you, for all.

I’m here (for contacting & real conversations) but ultimately my life force is currently cultivating a beautifully messy real life filled with ~
Pregnancy circles
In person consults
Doula visits
Birthworker meet ups
Weaving/crafting hangs
Community choir & song circles
Connecting with nature, friends & community
Supporting families
Creativity & art-forming
Ample rest & recharge

🌞 Warm love to you all 🌞
Hannah xx

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14/02/2024

This Sunday 18th February ~ the second pregnancy circle for the year is on.

Sharing space and experience, connection with ourself and each other, weaving community.

Bring yourself, $10 and something comfy to sit on 🧡
There will be chatting, iced tea and some crafting with air dry clay this week.

Leave a comment or send me a message if you’re coming ~ I’ll add you to the group chat. See you there.

14/02/2024

A reminder that it is you that is the expert on your own birth.

Not your GP
Not your OB
Not your midwife
Not your Doula!
Not your partner, mother, relative, friend or stranger.

Ultimately it’s you.

Others can be experts in their field, sure, but no one is the expert of your unique pregnancy and birth. 🤍

16/01/2024

Pregnancy circles are here ~ with the first one on this Sunday 21st January 🌀

I’ve been wanting to create more spaces for people to form meaningful connections for a while now. To feel connected and supported in community is such a pillar of health and well-being, for anyone and particularly for parents in the postpartum period. These circles are for those on a pregnancy journey with the focus on creating a space for connections to form, with each other, with practitioners, through recommendations and referrals. Planting the seeds of support in the pregnancy period that will flow through to the postpartum phase.

This is the vision.

A more connected pregnancy ~ empowered birth ~ a more connected postpartum experience

Let me know in the comments if you’re coming and pass this along to your pregnant friends 💚

Location ~ Urunga boardwalk. To the right on the grass past the playground.
Bring ~ a cushion or something comfy to sit on, a hat, water & $10

I’ll be forming a group chat re: details and ongoing circle information so DM me if you are interested in joining

15/01/2024

It’s natural for me to rely on nature, on Mother Earth to hold me.

As someone who holds space for others; for birthing Mothers, families and for little children, it is paramount for me to have space held for me also. (As it is important for us all to have space held for us)

Nature is our deepest and richest resource. Our most effective nervous system regulation tool. Nature offers a reset and recharge to our being, in subtle ways and sometimes more obvious ways.

I often find myself in nature. Literally and figuratively. I know I spend time in nature to connect to source/the world/nature/the bigger or simpler picture/joy/existence. But I also do it to feel more me, to gain insight/clarity, make intuitive decisions and quieten the external noise. I have been leaning more and more into the truth of this.. by incorporating nature time into my work and creative flows as a beneficial and genuine use of my time.

My service is possible because of Mother Nature
~ She is my teacher, guide and mirror ~
Through nature I can give from a deep well 🌀

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12/12/2023

Mama Blessing ~ ritual, connection, nourishment, community, joy, uplifting, support. 🌸

Gathering the women in your life who support you and wish you the best is such a powerful action in pregnancy. Having your loved ones come together to celebrate this season of your life, hold space for your experience, gift you affirmations of your power and abilities and love on you, is soul nourishing and empowering. Bringing awareness and honouring the red thread of our wombs, all wombs we have come from and the strength inherent in this collective power, connects us all to each other and to the birthing mama as you journey into the birth portal.

A Mama Blessing is a beautiful way to honour your pregnancy and birth journey. You can ask a close friend to facilitate a Mama Blessing for you, or find a local facilitator (👋🏼 that’s me!) to organise one for you. Your Mama Blessing can be as simple as you’d like and is ultimately easeful for the birthing mama as you only need to organise who you’d like to come together.

🌸 A BEAUTIFUL EASEFUL MAMA BLESSING 🌸
- everyone brings a cushion
- everyone brings a plate of food to share
- a ball of red thread & scissors
- a communal nature setting such as a local park or beach or a friend to host it
- a rug or two
- an earth altar foraged from the bush or a friends garden blooms
- a deck of affirmation/tarot/oracle cards
- optional altar pieces that are meaningful eg crystal or goddess statue etc
- a film camera everyone can use or one person to help capture some moments for the mama
- safe, supportive, open women. It can be 1 or 10 what matters is that you want them and their energy to be a part of your journey.

What a Mama Blessing looks like is unique to you ~ just as your journey is unique to you. At its core a Mama Blessing is an opportunity for you to see and feel how supported you are by the ones in your life that you want to show up for you.

Film from Mama blessing ✨

21/09/2023

Being an anchor for those experiencing shifts, birth, rebirths and transitions is work that is aligned with my purpose.

It looks different for each person, each mama, each baby and each family.
It is founded on a holistic view of well-being
It’s practical it’s energetic it’s tangible and intangible. It’s obvious, potent and subtle.

I’m navigating how to show up on here knowing it’s just a small capture of what is Whole Ground and me, Hannah, as a birthworker, doula and space holder.

I’m focusing on how I show up in life. In person and in community. Ears and heart open to hear what is needed, where support is required and deeply listening.

I want to give from a place that is true, authentic and sustainable. Nourishing self allows me to nourish others, regulating self allows regulation with others, resourcing myself allows me to be resource for others. Nature holds space for me, allowing me to hold space

If you’re interested in these topics I’m always up for a good old chat and my dms are open. Connecting and discussing life, birth, parenthood, selfhood, is so valuable to us all.

I’m open to hearing what it is that you’re needing in your life~ more support? Spaces to celebrate the small wins and miracles? Sisterhood? More creativity? Or time to self? People to share and express yourself to? A hug? More laughter or peace?
I want the human connection to be alive and present for us all.

If you’re on Gumbaynggirr country, or in bello, I’d love to connect in person, come along to community spaces (check out Village ~ what’s on tab on my website) or reach out to grab a chai together 🥰

These are some of the thoughts and feelings that are currently present for me and my work. Seemingly separate but all connected and wanting to be shared. 👁️

01/09/2023

The Labyrinth
This sacred, gentle, powerful, ancient symbol has been weaving itself into my life. There’s great wisdom in its essence and it’s meaning. The labyrinth we each walk is unique to us. Truly our own and by viewing our experience as walking the labyrinth we can hold a greater compassion and facilitate a natural transformation of self that occurs.
The labyrinth of birth is a beautiful, potent symbolism of the journey each one takes into the birth portal. I want to highlight the entirety of the experience ~ the walk in (pregnancy), the mid point (birth & rebirth of self) and the walk out (postpartum). Each is an experience that deserves acknowledgment of their value and support. I feel the labyrinth of labour and birth extends before birth AND after birth. All experiences that are worthy of support, understanding and compassionate care.
Read more on my substack 🌀

16/08/2023

Birth imprint
Life journey
The spiral
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Have you sat with your entry into the world?
Do you know your own birth story?
Have you ever noticed patterns in your life that play out within the same theme?
How do you walk on the earth? Where do your feet take you? Where do you feel landed?

These questions are some I offer for those I get to walk alongside in their birthing journey. I offer these questions as enquiry into HOW you relate with birth. Your own, and birth in general. To enquire into how you walk through your own life and allowing the spiral to reveal itself. Tracing back your path, the patterns, the stories, to the heart & to your initial landing into earth. Your own birth can illuminate a blueprint you may be following unconsciously and it’s with awareness that you can choose whether it’s true to you anymore.

To feel grounded in your self, your power and your being is a revolutionary act. It is an accessible and revolutionary tool to enter the birth portal again and allow it to unfold with trust and knowing your innate strength and ability.

02/08/2023

What is community?
It is belonging. It is being supported. It is knowing that someone will genuinely check in on you. It is connection. It is understanding. It is compassion. It is supporting each other. It is a helping hand. It is checking in on those in your circles or neighbourhood or town. It is sharing the ride of life, in day to day moments, or in sporadic ways or through consistently showing up. It is events, catch ups, chats over the garden fence or through the open windows as you pass on the dirt road you both live along. It is connecting.
It is nuanced, deep and simple.

Some words from my most recent substack musing on the notion of COMMUNITY. Link in my story. Head over there to read the whole article 👁️
& join the conversation. What are your feelings around community and how to become part of one? Let me know below 🤎

28/07/2023

Anchoring you as you journey the realms of birth.

A hand, a touch, a hug, a supportive hold, these are all but one embodiment of what space holding is. Holding you physically yes, this happens, is important and supportive but it is not the extent of how I hold you. Throughout your unfolding there will arise a holding of space, a holding of you, on many levels that go beyond the physicality. Holding space for your feelings, your experience, your expression, all of you. Holding you physically whilst holding a deeper energetic container for you to lean on, draw strength from and anchor into. Allowing you to feel held. Grounding you in a sense of safety that you are supported as you journey the liminal places.

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