My Harvest

Susan’s Story

The Empress is in the House.

Each Woman’s Story is a Source of Inspiration!

This is the story of how I began to see every woman as an Empress, a woman worthy of her own throne.

I have been a birth doula for over 20 years. When my son was born, I realized how hard pregnancy, birth and post partum can be for all families! I decided that I wanted to help women with the transition into motherhood.

I began by attending births for free to offer support.

I decided that this was something that I wanted to dedicate time and energy to and begin to build something for myself to offer others.

I took a class at the local hospital called DONA; Doulas of North America. The woman from the hospital imediately asked me to work at the hospital when I had my certification. That is how I began to work for the local hospital, the homebirth midwives and DCF.

I began to notice that even women in labor could not stop caregiving for those around them. It baffled my mind to watch a laboring mother check to see if anybody in the room needed a glass of water.

Contractions would be coursing through her body ask she asked:

Is everyone ELSE alright?

Does the midwife have enough tea?

How about the Doula?

Is her partner doing okay?

As a birth doula, I have seen this same moment play out over and over and over again:

Women in the heat of labor
STILL TAKING CARE
of everyone around them.

So, I started calling my birthing mothers “Empress.” I started consciously reminding them of their own needs, over and over again, returning their focus to their experience and to the task at hand. I called them into their royalty, their sovereignty, their significance in the cycle of life.

It made all the difference!

I looked out over my life and realized that an Empress on her throne has a radically different perspective and a radically different experience to go with it.

As the Empress, seated on my throne I have an ancient power that brings about internal centering. And from this center flows the clarity of my life fully lived in the heart of purpose. Here I create my life from what I know deep down, and from the richness that I harvest from the soil of my own life.

It’s this purposeful kind of clarity I most want to share with you, Empress to Empress, one nourishing cup of earthy soul medicine and deep understanding at a time!

Book Your Cup of Clarity Discovery Session With Susan! During this session, we will:

• Discover the Mother Earth medicine that will bring your wisdom through;
• Uncover the truth about where you want to be;
• Revisit the pain of where you are; and
• Create a plan of action for rediscovering yourself, putting down roots, and taking a seat on the throne of your life.

Start the Empress Medicine Journey