About Me
There are so many ways that I can write and ‘all about me’ and even though I’m a pretty chatty person, to really sit down and type out a “who am I” is tough.
One of my assignments for Doula Canada was to ask friends how they perceive me. I was blown away by some of the emails I received. I thought, there is no way that this is me. But I guess it goes to show that we can be hard on ourselves.
I think of myself as a funny, loud and outgoing person. I also know that I am confident in so many ways and second guess myself in others. But isn’t that human nature? My friends described me as loving, kind and hardworking. They are blown away at my ability to overcome any challenges that come my way. There are other things that were said but I’ll leave those for you to find out yourself.
I am a mom of two little humans, my daughter is four & my son is one. They are my mini mes’. We say my son looks like my husband but we just say that to entertain him. I met my husband in 2010 when we were working in the Athletics department at Humber College. We instantly hit it off and together we have travelled to many NHL and MLB stadiums, to Vietnam, for our best friends’ wedding, to Germany to find his Opa’s bakery that he worked in before coming to Canada and to NYC for one full day ‘just because’. We want to start travelling again with our kids and show them how vast this amazing world is and to immerse them into different cultures.
We got married in 2015, adopted our kitty Troy later that summer, and after my 30th birthday in Mexico we found out we were expecting out littlest lady in early 2020. I was the assistant coach to a girls AA hockey team during my pregnancy and was on the ice for practices until I was 31 weeks pregnant. After Christmas I was put on bedrest, but when I was scheduled for an induction, my husband and I went for one more rip on the ODR before she made her appearance.
A little backstory as to why I am a doula; my daughter was born in January 2020, just before the world shut down. It was the most difficult thing I have ever gone through. Physically & emotionally. In July 2020 I was diagnosed with postpartum depression and anxiety. It took a long time for me to get back to a level head and to start to understand the reasons why I was feeling the way I did. In March of 2021 I made a career shift and started my online learning with Doula Canada to become and birth & postpartum Doula. I wanted to learn how to help others not feel the way I did. I may share my full experience one day, but I’m not totally ready for that just yet.
In the meantime, I’ll continue to learn new ways to help new parents and be a support for them during some of the most vulnerable, challenging, exciting times they’ll experience.
