What happens to the healer when the work is holy, but the systems surrounding it are harmful?

In this episode of Postpartum Liberation, we tend to the places that often go unnamed in birthwork: the body that holds too much, the spirit stretched thin, and the shadow that emerges when care turns into self-abandonment.

We talk about burnout not as a personal failure, but as a spiritual injury. About what it costs to serve without protection. About the quiet martyrdom many birthworkers inherit—and how it shows up in our nervous systems, our boundaries, and our bodies.

This is a conversation about embodiment and self-protection. About staying open-hearted without leaving yourself behind. About calling your ancestors in, setting spiritual boundaries, and reclaiming rest, pleasure, and sovereignty as part of the work—not rewards for surviving it.

If you’ve ever loved this work deeply and wondered why you feel so tired…

If your body has been whispering for your attention…

If you’re ready to tend not just the clients you serve, but the healer you are—

This episode is for you.

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What do babies know that birth workers too often forget?

In this episode, we explore a truth that lives beneath technique, protocols, and performance: babies already know how they want to be born—and birth work is not about control, but listening.

This conversation dives deep into the spiritual, emotional, and embodied dimensions of birth, womb wisdom, and transitional care. We talk about intuition as a skill, the womb as a living archive that keeps count of trauma and tenderness, and why not every doula is meant to practice the same way... or even practice in every season.

You’ll hear reflections on:

• Why birth is fundamentally spirit work, whether we name it or not
• How trauma, surrender, and intuition shape labor and birth outcomes
• The responsibility birth workers hold in protecting energetic thresholds
• Why rest is not a luxury, but a requirement for sustainability
• How birth work extends far beyond the delivery room into grief, menopause, rebirth, and life transitions

This episode is for doulas, midwives, birth workers, healers, and families who are ready to move beyond surface-level care and into deeper listening—of the body, the womb, and Spirit.

If you’re navigating burnout, transition, or the in-between spaces of life and work, this conversation is an invitation to pause, rest, and remember what you already know.

Because sometimes the most powerful thing you can do…

is listen.

What does it really cost to answer the call to birth work?

Not the certification. Not the hours. Not the money. But the spiritual cost; the unseen.

In this opening episode of our 4-part mini-series, I sit down with Janisa Camille — birth worker, teacher, matriarch, and lineage carrier — for a raw, unfiltered conversation about what happens when birth work isn’t a career choice… but a spiritual assignment.

We talk about:

• Doula burnout and why so many birth workers leave within 3–5 years... or less.
• The difference between ego-driven purpose and spirit-led calling
• What it actually looks like to be “chosen” by the work
• Lineage, matriarchy, and spiritual mothership
• What is not optional in this work
• The unseen sacrifices this work can demand
• Sustainability, integrity, and staying rooted without losing yourself

This is a conversation for doulas, midwives, healers, and aspiring birth workers who feel the pull, but are asking themselves how to stay.

Because this work will take everything… unless you learn how to hold it differently.

If you’ve ever felt called, overwhelmed, devoted, conflicted, or quietly burning out, this episode is for you.

And if you’re ready to remember that you are your first client, come sit with us.

Referenced in this episode:

• Doula of the Divine Website: https://www.doulaofthedivine.com
• Doula of the Divine Social Media: https://www.instagram.com/doulaofthedivine
• Mothering the Mother by Mama Shafia Monroe: https://shafiamonroe.com

🎧 Listen now and begin the reckoning.