Hi Beautiful Beings! 🤍 I’m Lauren, an embodiment & ecstatic birth coach, speaker, birth worker, and the voice behind Embodied Ecstasy. I’m so honored to be here inside Luminous Birth with all of you. Birth has lived in my heart for as long as I can remember. When I was a child, I used to tell everyone I wanted to “deliver babies” when I grew up 😅. That calling never left me. I eventually became a labor & delivery nurse, traveling and working all over the country, where I learned A LOT 😅, especially about the ways in which birth-over-culture needs an overhaul. Over time, through my own awakening and deep personal transformation, I realized I was being called beyond the medical system and into a more embodied way of supporting women. My work now centers around helping women reconnect to the wisdom of their bodies, emotional landscape, pleasure, and innate power, especially through the portals of their sexuality, pregnancy, birth, and postpartum. I also offer postpartum support and feel especially passionate about honoring postpartum as a sacred integration space that deserves far more reverence, slowness, and care within our culture. In my own life, I’m currently in a deeply intentional preconception season alongside my soon-to-be husband in the mountains of Western Massachusetts (I'd love to connect in person if anyone is local!) This season for me is all about listening, preparing, softening, and opening to motherhood in its own timing. It feels incredibly meaningful to join this space while standing at the threshold myself. I’ve actually been following Luminous Birth on Instagram for years, and after taking Ibu Robin’s placenta class, I finally felt the full-bodied call to join this community 🤍 I'm such a birth nerd, I'm passionate, fiery, and deeply grateful to be a part of this community. If you’d like to know more about me, my story, and my heart behind birth work, I recorded a podcast episode sharing more here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/do-you-have-the-audacity-to-claim-your-ecstatic-life/id1547514379?i=1000688679027