The Birth Realm: Kiernan’s Story
When I first began utilizing energy work in my doula practice, I started with what I knew then: distance Reiki sessions to offer my clients a restful space to clear outside influences and connect with their own intuition, desires, and for the pregnant, their babies. Typically a client would hop on our Zoom call, share a little about how they've been feeling, what fears around birthing have been coming up, & what decisions they needed support talking through.
Reiki, as I had learned and trained, was shared as a guided meditation leading them to a forest or beach where they could relax and receive. As time went on, I found each client had a unique inner world that was taking shape and becoming more vivid with each session. I dropped the scripts and trusted what I was sensing, and lo-and-behold, it matched what they were experiencing: The Birth Realm.
Journeying to this inner realm became a practice of developing the inner safety they needed to surrender to birth when the big moment of transition arrived. Over time it’s become my favorite way to approach birth not only because it supports clients during labor, but it also helps nurture their ability to access and trust their inner wisdom in all of life’s unpredictable events — a skill I think we could all use.
Kiernan’s Story in The Birth Realm
I reached out to Siobhán to talk to her about her birth doula services hesitantly due to the fact that I lived states away from her and I wasn’t pregnant yet. On our first call together, I shyly admitted that I felt I had been connecting with a spirit baby for a few months and wanted to see if Siobhán was open to discussing virtual doula care for pre-conception through postpartum.
Right away, Siobhán put me at ease and affirmed my gut feelings around my calling to become a mother & my sense that I was connecting with my baby spiritually. After hiring Siobhán as my spiritual birth doula, we started a regular schedule of virtual calls to discuss my questions around pregnancy, labor, and my fears around motherhood.
The most potent calls were when Siobhán led me through trance journeys for nervous system regulation and deeper trust with my body & baby. These journeys became a place for me to imagine & build my dream world for labor, which was an anchor during the actual birthing experience.
As labor approached, Siobhán was extremely attentive to my questions and performed distance energy work for me and my baby. Knowing that I had someone providing spiritual care for me & my daughter gave me peace of mind and heart in the process of laboring. I am grateful to say that I was able to have the home water birth that I was praying for, however, I don’t know if I would have been able to commit to the full home birth experience without the guidance I had received from Siobhán.
The mental place I was able to be in during & in-between contractions was the realm I had created during our calls together and it resourced me to get through transition and into birthing my baby. After giving birth, Siobhán provided continuity of care during postpartum and has remained an important member of my spiritual care team.
I am so glad that instead of Lamaze or hypnobirthing classes, I chose to work with Mother of PEARL, Siobhán Diores, who provided personalized spiritual care that made me feel seen & safe throughout my entire pregnancy journey.
