Blossoming Flora Doula

18/06/2025

06/06/2025

14/11/2024

Hello all!

I have just been approved as a Doula for the Doulas for Aboriginal Families Grant Program (DAFGP.)

I am serving the Port Alberni Valley.
I have openings for the winter and spring seasons for birth & postpartum support.
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26/10/2024

The darker days of autumn and winter and here and we are easing into Scoprio season as well. 🖤🐈‍⬛️✨️

Holistic recommendations for mothers postpartum dealing with the drop of pregnancy hormones & seasons change/anyone who needs a bit more support with the seasons shift:

-Take liquid vitamin d daily in the morning- can be put under the tongue or in your morning tea or coffee.
-Get outside, even on rainy or cloudy days!!
-B vitamins.
-DHA.
-Lemon balm herb- taken as a tea or tincture.
-Morherwort her- taken as a tea or tincture.
-Lavender oil, Lemon oil, and rose oil can be difused in the home for an uplifting feeling.

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This is your reminder to check in with your friends and family who are in their fourth trimester/ postpartum. Sometimes all they need is a hug and/or just having someone check in. ✨️

How do you work with the changing seasons for better mental health?
Let me know in the comments 👇

24/10/2024

Hello! ✨️ 👋 A little bit more about me.

I am a practicing Holistic Doula in the Port Alberni Valley. I've lived here for a year now and I love it. I moved here from Sooke, where I lived previously for 14 years. 🏡

After high school I was in the pre-social work program because I am passionate about people, but realized that it might not be the avenue that was perfect for me at the time. It was a great base of knowledge because I learned about sociology and psychology. I took an extra couse on the philosophy of love and s*x and from there I was called to become a doula by my inner intuition in 2017. I just had a feeling that is where my hearts work would be, helping people through such a changing time in their lives and bringing forth new life. 👼

So by 2018 I had decided that it was time to attend some schooling to become a doula, after saving up some money and quitting my full time job to attend Pacific Rim College in Victoria full time for the next 4 months. Over those 4 months I took 14 courses ranging in herbs for pregnancy, yoga, acupressure, Thai chi and meditation, ethics of being a doula, buissness skills for a doula, anatomy of the female body down to the cells, nutrition for pregnancy/postpartum, and others. I passed all my exams and then did a 1.5 year practicum with a mentor and attended 3 births to graduate. I have been attending births on and off since. 🤰

Personally I love to be in nature when I'm not working: hiking or walking my puppy Cypress (he is an almost 8 month old Mastiff/Cane Corso.) 🐾

I have been together with my high-school sweetheart now for 9 years. ❤️

I love to read and learn about new things!! I love books with adventures as well. 📚

I also have a passion for baking. I find baking to be very peaceful and relaxing. I recently got into playing with sourdough and experimenting with the many ways you can use it. 🥖

I am a Reiki practitioner. ✨️🤲

I currently work as a server and bartender when I'm not attending births. I have been in the food and beverage industry for 13 years. 🍽

07/10/2024

Take a read as we enter cold and flu season! 💓

22/05/2024

"Stay flexible and anticipate change. Change is the only constant.
- Erica Chidi Cohen.

29/02/2024

Herbs for pregnancy and postpartum! 🌿

4 herbs that support a healthy pregnancy ❤️

🌿 Red raspberry leaf (Rubus idaeus)
• Uterine tonic, allowing for a healthy, strong and toned uterus
• Drink often in the 2nd and 3rd trimesters

🌿 Nettle Leaf (Urtica dioica)
• High in vitamin C, manganese, iron and calcium nutrition for both the mother and the baby
• Continue drinking this while nursing to help maintain milk volume

🌿 Oatstraw (Avena sativa)
• High in calcium (which tones muscles) and magnesium (which relaxes muscles)
• Great for a toned uterus
• Good for easing cramps and restless legs

🌿 Alfalfa leaf (Medicago sativa)
• Reduces morning sickness
• Rich in Vitamin K which is needed for blood clotting
• Allows for reduced hemorrhoids and varicosities
• Helps maintain milk volume

Note: when in doubt throughout and after your pregnancy, remember to always refer back to your physician.

29/02/2024

Hello all, Grace here! 👋 💛✨️🐝

Now in Port Alberni, Vancouver Island.

AUGUST AND SEPTEMBER are booking up fast, but I do have availability for births for the spring, early summer and fall months.

Information about my services & contact are on my website!

Happy leap year! What are you doing with the extra day? 💛✨️