A More Beautiful Life with Kate White

Dr. Gauri Lowe, a medical doctor and natural birth specialist, draws on over two decades of experience supporting women. After her own homebirth during studies, she became an advocate for physiological birth, later apprenticing with a homebirth midwife to learn how to support homebirths. Since her second son's birth (in water, at home), Dr. Gauri divides her time between South Africa and rural India, passionately supporting homebirths, teaching midwifery, and consulting in integrative women's...

Ashley Brichter is a life-long educator, birth worker, consultant, and entrepreneur. In addition to improving maternal health, she is a champion for systemic reforms to improve the lives of families by rebalancing the division of labor at home and funding parental leave, universal health care, and progressive early childhood education. Despite her experience with hundreds of families as a doula, lactation counselor, and birth educator – like so many, her first birth did not “go as planned.” B...

Margery Segal LPC, RSMT, IDME, PPN is the founder of the Whole Movement Center PLLC located in Austin, Texas. She has spent the last 20 years teaching her embodied approach to pre/perinatal psychology and somatic attachment and bonding in Brasil, Australia, Canada and Texas. She works with individuals, families, couples, infants, children, and people of all ages on early developmental attachment trauma and the art of creating fulfilling relationships. She integrates Dance & Theater, Body-...

This interview is part of the preparation for the series: Supporting Families to Integrate their Birth and Early Experiences, that is a fundraiser for the clinic that is run by Tara and Mary, the Building and Enhancing Bonding and Attachment Clinic. Tara Blasco has a Ph.D in prenatal and perinatal psychology from the Santa Barbara Graduate Institute, and has worked at the BEBA clinic since 2001. Currently she is the Director of the BEBA clinic and works as a facilitator . She is a cert...

Olga is a prenatal psychologist, researcher, author of books, editor of collective authorship projects, Editor of the academic journal, designer of educational programmes in Prenatal Sciences, Professional Education Trainer of many successful educational courses in the field of prenatal psychology internationally. Olga created the Programme Health Promotion "WELCOME" for pregnant couples with a focus on the (unborn) baby. Her vision/ mission is to synthesize and organize the acquired knowledg...

Frank Carbone Is a Singer/Songwriter,and DJ from Queens, New York. He has been performing since 15 years old and is a dedicated practitioner and teacher in the field of somatic health and well-being for over 25 years. He has extensive training with Emilie Conrad and Susan Harper and is a 1st generation Continuum Teacher,and is a certified practitioner in Prenatal and Perinatal Somatic psychology and health (PPN). Frank has extensive training,and experience with D...

Jerusha is a doula, and birth photographer & videographer based in Sydney. She trained as a doula in 2006 through Childbirth International, and has since worked extensively as a birth and postnatal doula in both London and Sydney. Jerusha found the beauty of birth so captivating that she soon trained in photography so she could capture the magic of what she was seeing with her doula clients, to provide lifelong visual memories of their birthing experience. She soon also moved in to videog...

This episode features a conversation with two practitioners: Elisheva Rose Khalfin Elbaz, MSc, BCST, PLC, PPNE, PPNP (they/them): "My personal experience with pregnancy loss in my early twenties and my family lineages of healing practice inspired me to do this work. I started my practice in 2011, and I am a somatics practitioner, craniosacral therapist, full-spectrum doula, and facilitator. I am also a student of traditional Yehudi/Ivri healing practices. I work with parents, babies, an...