Farrah Sheehan Perinatal Professional Services

03/16/2026

No one talks about this part of becoming a parent…

Before you have children, you imagine the big things.

The first cuddle.
The first smile.
The first steps.

What you don’t always imagine are the small everyday things that quietly change you.

How you’ll become emotionally invested in someone else’s sleep.

How a quiet house suddenly feels suspicious.

How you’ll have conversations about p**p you never imagined having.

How tired you can be and still somehow keep going.

How fiercely protective you can feel over a tiny human.

Parenthood isn’t just a new role.

It’s a slow transformation.

A reshaping of who you are, what matters, and how deeply you can love.

Messy.
Exhausting.
Humbling.
And bigger than most of us ever expect.

Some of the biggest life transitions don’t arrive with a ceremony.

They arrive with a baby.

03/15/2026

Not a peer support group. Not a mental health support group. Facilitated by a certified and skilled Birth Story Listener. NO ONE shared their birth story. Yet healing and transformation happened in 4 weeks. Stay tuned for a virtual circle and to bring circles to your community - DM me. 🌀

03/14/2026

Overuse of the term “Birth Trauma” leads some moms to feel they didn’t suffer enough to get help. And birth peeps don’t know that help is available for everyone. is NOT a debrief and is NOT mental health care. It is an innovative model of healing that draws from multiple bodies of ancient wisdom and modern knowledge for change work. It will transform the birth story in 1, 2 or 3 sessions. Find us. Follow us. Refer to us. Better yet, join us. Become a Birth Story Listener.

03/14/2026

Direct quotes from sessions from moms who wish they had experienced more heart in healthcare. We can provide quality clinical care with love and compassion. It starts with connecting with your own heart and remembering the person in front of you in labor doesn’t do this every day.

03/13/2026

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03/13/2026

Rethinking Empowerment in Birth

For years we’ve been told that an empowering birth looks like this:

You advocated for yourself.
You made all the decisions.
Your plan was respected.
Your body did what you hoped it would.

And if that happened — wonderful.

But what about when it didn’t?

Because birth is not a controlled environment.

There are so many factors that influence what unfolds, physiology, timing, the people around you, the system you’re in, and sometimes just plain luck… or grace.

Yet the way empowerment is often talked about today quietly implies something else:

That if you were prepared enough, informed enough, and made the right choices,
you could shape birth exactly the way you wanted or come out feeling the way you wanted.

And when it doesn’t go that way?

Many women are left carrying an invisible weight:

Did I do something wrong?
Why didn’t I handle it better?
Why couldn’t I make it happen?

Maybe real empowerment isn’t about controlling birth.

Maybe real empowerment is about how you hold yourself through whatever birth becomes.

The strength to face the unexpected.
The compassion to love yourself even if things went sideways.
The humility to understand that birth is bigger than any plan.

Empowerment might not be:

“I got the birth I wanted.” Or "My wishes were respected."

It might be:

“I can honor my experience, even when it wasn’t what I hoped.”

Because true empowerment doesn’t abandon women when birth doesn’t follow the script.

It makes space for the whole story.

And that’s where healing, and real power, often begins.

03/09/2026

WHEN CHILDBIRTH BECOMES A CONSCIOUS INITIATION . . .

Open to all: Parents and those who listen to birth stories.

MAY 13, 2026. 10 to 11:30 am PST
Pam England will be your guide.

We will take a journey through the landscape of the childbearing year, but see it through the lens of Initiation as an archetype.

Pausing to reflect on the phases, landmarks, our dreams and images, and the timely tasks of Initiation can do two things: one make the inner experience conscious and embodied, and second, turn a medical story into a mythic one.

Fee: $30

DM us for the registration link.

03/09/2026

Tell the truth about birth.

03/09/2026

Buyer beware - if someone is telling you they’ll “protect your power” in birth they are simply exchanging the power dynamic in healthcare. Birth will humble you. That’s one reason why it’s a Rite of Passage. So instead of asking “who will protect my power” in birth, ask “how will I BE WITH the power of birth?” Sometimes the answer will be by coming to your knees at the altar of birth and surrendering every last ounce of power you thought you were supposed to have - so your baby can come into the world. Somewhere along the way it was decided that getting birth right = being in our power. What if that’s not the whole truth?

03/06/2026

This makes me a very happy nurse. 💫

Your birth, your way — with the support of a team you can trust.

At 𝐍𝐞𝐰 𝐄𝐧𝐠𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐌𝐢𝐝𝐰𝐢𝐟𝐞𝐫𝐲, our team continues to grow with the addition of Kathrine Krupnik, CNM. Our certified nurse-midwives work collaboratively to provide safe, personalized and empowering care through pregnancy, labor, delivery and beyond.

Whether you’re hoping for an unmedicated birth, want to explore your options, or simply want to feel heard, our team-based approach puts your birth plan — and your voice — at the center of it all.

Learn more about our team and practice here: https://bit.ly/4r8nrXp

03/05/2026

A call to action for birth trauma content creators. Please!!! Make healing content. Current content and algorithms are keeping a generation of mothers trauma bonded. Let’s move from trauma bonding to trauma healing. Do your part.

03/05/2026

You were incredible at the birth.

You held the room.
You advocated.
You stayed steady when things changed.

But then you talk later.

And she’s replaying it.
Questioning herself.
Quietly shaken.

And you’re not quite sure what to say.

Because listening helps.
Validation helps.

But sometimes… it doesn’t shift anything.

Birth shock doesn’t resolve just because someone tells the story.

Blaming the system doesn’t restore identity.
Planning a “redemptive” birth doesn’t repair meaning.

Birth Story Medicine teaches you how to:

• Work with story at the identity level
• Understand how meaning forms in shock
• Help someone reclaim power without bypassing reality
• Facilitate transformation, not just debriefing

This isn’t therapy.
It’s not fixing.

It’s a structured, teachable process for postpartum story work.

And yes, it can become a dedicated postpartum offering in your business.

Become a Birth Story Listener by completing Part 1, 2 and 3. Part 1 March begins soon and is filling up.

Comment STORY for more info.