Emotional Birth Prep

Emotional Birth Prep
75 minutes / $125
Overcome fears, harness strengths, create a spiritual birth experience
​Having a baby and becoming a parent often requires more of us than we realized…. more knowledge, more courage, more effort, more intense growth. We may bring with us experiences, beliefs,  and fears, or merely an understanding that this is a new and unknown experience that will require all of ourselves. It asks us to dig deep. A wide range of emotions are experienced during pregnancy, labor and postpartum. The intensity of these emotions is sometimes surprising.  We often focus on the physical discomfort of birth, but it is SO much bigger than that. How you think, what you say to yourself, your coping mechanisms, and your resilience all have far more to do with how you move through labor. There are preparations, coping mechanisms, and personal work that may vastly improve the experience of labor and birth for many women. 

The aim of emotional preparation is to help each person address individual fears and concerns, resolve any previous trauma, identify personal strengths, and pinpoint life issues that may affect the process. These personal individualized sessions utilize bodywork, energy work, verbal processing, trigger mapping, and hands-on techniques. A minimum of 6 sessions are recommended, but benefits can be noted after only a few sessions.

Tiffany Hoffman
Master's in Health Education, Reiki Master, Certified Professional Midwife, LMT

Tiffany began her life changing energetic/bodywork training journey in 2006, the same year she began midwifery school. Both were a huge shift from her previous role working in sports medicine. She brings 13 years of massage therapy experience, and 12 years of attending births in multiple capacities. She values the combination of Eastern and Western medicine in healing.  She is passionate about working with people in all phases of life, and specializes in working with women/birthing people throughout their reproductive lives, from trying to conceive to regaining balance in the postpartum period, as well as healing after a disappointing, difficult or traumatic birth, including miscarriage.  It was her own birth experience that first showed her the power that birth has to shape how we view ourselves and the power it carries for transformation, and she hopes to bring an awareness to the depth and potential for personal growth that accompanies the reproductive lifecycle that is currently missing from the way birth is approached in our country. Tiffany specializes in working with people who have experienced emotional or physical trauma, and has done extensive continuing education to create a trauma-informed and trauma-sensitive practice.