Episode 37: The Rub: Grief and Gratitude

Have you ever found yourself drowning in grief, or wondering how to wrestle with the strangeness of the human experience as heartbreaking news continues to unfold in the world?

I couldn’t think of a better person to interview than my own doula, who helped me welcome my first baby into the world, and has seen, experienced and participated in countless life and death moments during her own lifetime. 

Her perspective on grief and the rub of gratitude that’s found in the midst of deep grief is such an inspiration.

Listen in if you’re ready for her inspiring, beautiful perspective.

 

_____________

 

Chama has been attending births as a birth doula in Asheville since 1999 and teaching childbirth education classes since 2002. She is a full spectrum birth, death and postpartum and abortion doula, a Lamaze childbirth educator, a DONA International Birth Doula trainer, a Holding Space for Pregnancy Loss Instructor and the Strategic Doula Advisor for Sistas Caring 4 Sistas, a community-based doula program located at MAHEC. Chama is the owner of Homegrown Families a perinatal health center and doula agency, is a mother of two daughters and lives on a farm outside of Asheville NC.

Links:

Instagram: @homegrown_families or @chamawoydak

Facebook: Chama Woydak and Asheville Homegrown Families

Website: ashevillehomegrownfamilies.com