I am a Birth Doula, Reiki Master, Sound Healer, Earth Keeper, Activist, Mother, Perpetual student, and Founder of Peace Tree Village. 

I was inspired to open Peace Tree Village over a year ago after becoming pregnant with my third child and then miscarrying at 10 weeks gestation. I was stunned by the loss of my pregnancy, but even more shocked by the way the community as well as my neighbors originally reacted to my decision to have a home birth. I had already given birth to both of my other children at home with a midwife in Florida, and just couldn't understand how moving across state lines somehow stripped me of my inherent rights to have my baby where, when, how, and with whom I chose. I became an activist for the legalization of Certified Professional Midwives in North Carolina and Nationwide. I joined the North Carolina Friends of Midwives (NCFOM) and I am currently one of the Board of Directors for this consumer-based organization. I also joined the North Carolina Midwives Alliance (NCMA), Midwives Alliance for North America (MANA), North American Registry of Midwives (NARM), Citizens for Midwifery (CfM), International Cesearean Awareness Network (ICAN) and many other advocacy groups who are working to improve choices in womens health care, advocate for informed consent, and protect birthing rights and improve birthing conditions everywhere.

Peace Tree Village started with the vision of offering resources, support, education, and alternative health care choices to women in their childbearing years, as well as their families as a whole. We were to become a resource center, a referral network, a safe-haven to express and educate ourselves about the laws and the choices facing us with regards to pregnancy and birth, and a place to celebrate and commune. We were driven to promote a sense of community that was supportive, understanding, and compassionate about the challenges facing mothers in our world today.

Many midwives, doulas, and childbirth educators immediately aligned with Peace Tree's mission and felt the resonance deep within themselves as well as witnessed it in the women and families they served. A slow, but steady sort of underground momentum began to emerge as more and more practitioners who served the birth and holistic communities began to join our co-op and soon we grew into a Village of 20+ holistic health and healing practitioners providing a wide range of services filling any need, or niche that could possibly present itself.

My own personal path of growth, health, and healing has been facilitated and challenged by the work I've done with Peace Tree Village. I have also traveled outside of the US in an effort to help improve birthing conditions in third world countries. I am currently planning a trip to Haiti sometime in 2010. I am fascinated by tribal cultures and their birthing practices and am always working to discover, understand and assimilate the wisdom our ancestors held in their hearts, minds, and souls.

My work with birth has enhanced my spiritual practices and propelled me forward on my path of service, self-awareness, forgiveness, and enlightenment. I am currently working on my Reiki-Master-Teacher certification, studying the Human Energy Field and the Chakras, engaging in Shamanic practices and study, incorporating Sound Healing (crystal singing bowls, drumming, Native American flutes, etc.) into my healing sessions and practicing past life regressions. I am interested in crystals and colors and how they affect the auric bodies, as well as intuitive guidance, divination, dowsing, scrying, journeying, and channeling. Learning to use the sacred Tibetan Chakra tones is one of my favorite practices and I use it almost every day.

I am also passionate about my own children and all of the children of the world. This is a very auspicious time to be born and all of the "little ones" incarnating on our planet at this time are in desperate need of our love, empathy, compassion, and understanding if we are to ever evolve to a point where we can truly have and sustain Peace on the Planet. Being an Earth Keeper is something I do as a way to preserve our precious resources for our future generations, including my own. Peace Tree Village is part of this shift towards conscientious living and sustainable development. We recycle everything we can in-house, have furnished most of the rooms with re-used furniture, we use Young Living, green and earth friendly cleaning products and we only endorse and promote those other members of our community that are living in right relationship with the earth and with themselves. Peace Tree Village is constantly changing, ever-growing, always learning and conscientiously invoking that which will keep us in line with what serves the greater good and all of humanity. We are determined to promote and practice holistic living, self-healing, compassionate community, and co-operative teamwork.

If you would like to learn more about the services I offer, the classes I teach, or would like to hire me as your birth doula, you may visit my website at www.MysticalWomb.com

email me at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it or call 919-418-5805.

Namaste.