Cedar Sisters Doula & Reiki

01/01/2026

2025 sends me off with a sunbeam. 🌞

See you next year!

12/25/2025

Dear ones,

I wish you softness.

Be so soft
and so gentle
with yourself.

Be so loving,
so nurturing,
so tending
and restful
and attentive,
with your body
and with your heart.

Even if it's just
in moments,
in glimpses,
in three deep breaths.

Be so soft,
so soft,
so soft.

❤️
So much love,
✨️Katrina

12/08/2025

Dear ones, a big shift is happening in my life. After spending too long in the dark and the muck and the uncertainty of what was meant for me, I have found clarity: it is time for Cedar Sisters to be put to rest.

I am letting go of the title 'doula', with such gratitude and peace in my heart. It is time to close this chapter. This work was my calling for ten years, and I grew so much by sitting at the feet of women, of birth, of families as they grew. I learned so much from my teachers and my doula friends, and each family I got to know.

I became a doula because birth woke me up to my own strength, and I know that being a doula was what I was meant to do, to be a reflection for others of who they truly are and how much they are capable of.

Now it is time for something else. Doula work led me back to energy work, and to ceremony, and to grief work. I am following those threads, and weaving them into what will be born out of the rich soil of the cedar sisters as they nestle down into the forest floor. (Thank you, thank you, thank you, dear cedars.)

I will always be a "doula". I will always be a calming presence for those who walk through big (and small) changes and challenges in their lives. I cannot unbecome what I have become in this decade, it is now part of how I interact and show up for people, and for myself: with non-judgement, gentleness, advocacy, and presence.

If I was your doula in any capacity, THANK YOU, thank you, thank you. You taught me so much. You showed me what strength and softness and power and purpose and vulnerability can look like. You let yourself be seen, witnessed, and held in such a tender time in your life, and I treasure your courage.

I will still be supporting the families I am currently walking with on their paths to birth, and am so honoured and grateful to get to complete this work with a peaceful and grateful heart.

I will still be teaching Reiki Level 1 on January 31 as Cedar Sisters Doula & Reiki, and there is space for you if this idea creates a flutter in your chest.

If you are part of this community and want to remain so, fear not. The path is not clear yet, but I am not finished holding space for community, for gatherings, for ceremony and the unraveling and reweaving of who we are in the world.

In a couple of weeks my website will disappear into the annals of cyber-nothingness, and again this brings me such peace. There is part of me that wants to keep it alive, try to force it into being something new, but it is time to clear the way for what wants to be found.

I will keep this page alive for the next bit. When the Next Thing reveals itself completely, I will share it with you here and invite you to follow there.

Be well, dear ones. Let die in your lives what must die. Mourn it, honour it, grieve it, celebrate it. And let it go. Nothing is forever, not even a calling of our heart's work. Listen to your own inner wisdom. It knows what is meant for you, and what is complete. You know, wise ones. You know.

THANK YOU for being here, for witnessing me in my unfolding and reforming. I am always here to receive your news, updates, wonderings, worries, and requests.

My email cedarsistersdoula@gmail.com will still be a good way to get in touch in the next few months, if you want to. Thank you, thank you, thank you, dear community.

12/04/2025

Gnome leggings, snoozing pup, sunshine through my favourite window.

A tiny glimpse of a moment in a day that also included:

Supporting pregnant folks through emotions and unexpected changes.
Volunteering at a Christmas lunch at my kid's school.
Weeping at the sight of a neighbourhood meadow, habitat to birds and bunnies, being excavated and destroyed.
Getting kisses from a horse.
Laundry, cooking, dishes, repeat.
Holding space for my kid's meltdown over not being able to get a hedgehog for Christmas.
Sending and receiving voice notes with dear ones.
Being passing ships with my man, feeling like there's so much to talk about but never enough time.
Emails, texts, etc. with clients.
Reading a cute witchy graphic novel with my kids for bedtime.

Things are rolling along over here. Tell me about your day! Even just a glimpse. I'd love to know what you're up to.

11/23/2025

Dreaming of what's to come
after sitting (too long)
in what felt stuck and hard and heavy.

Shucking off the old skin
like Arbutus,
Queen of Seaside Cliffs.

Change is afoot,
transformation is underway.

Death to what must die
so that my soul can live
its truth.

11/04/2025

Reiki Shares are my favourite! It's a new group every time, and the alchemy of each person who shows up always mixes into something magical.

Thursday 7-9PM, $20 fee.

10/30/2025

Do you ever hang out with a tree long enough that you end up feeling so grounded that you actually feel high? Slowed down, relaxed, happy hormones flowing...

If not, today's your day! There's a tree out there who's been waiting to meet you. ❤🌲

10/29/2025

This Saturday! Come and be held, and hold your own dear tender heart, in community.

Send a message to learn more

10/29/2025

Tending to Ourselves, a community circle open to all who need tending.

Saturday November 1, 7-9PM.

Facilitated and guided by me, co-created with the courage of all who show up.

10/26/2025

Never stop being a kid. Leaf piles are for laying in and being buried. Go have fun!

10/26/2025

Gathering my garden's fresh fall blankie!