Abigail (she/they) is a DONA International trained Birth Doula, a Doula Trainings International certified Postpartum Doula, a Sibling Doula, and a Hypnobabies® Hypno-Doula, as well as experienced in a variety of other healing arts such as herbs, nutrition, meditation, yoga, and bodywork.
Abigail is skilled in working with a variety of birthing goals and preferences. They are focused on providing trauma-informed, gender-affirming & culturally competent prenatal, birth, and postpartum support. Having experience working with couples, un-partnered parents, Survivors of sexual trauma, LGBTQIA+ families, BIPOC families, advanced maternal age, IVF, VBAC, and high + low-risk birthing people, Abigail offers exceptional support to families of every dynamic.
Like sunlight, Abigail’s genuine warmth and compassion flow effortlessly into holding space for another. Always a healing force in their life, Abigail takes lessons from nature on how we feed, how we move, and how we care for our bodies. She believes being seen, heard, and informed is an integral part of honoring the right to bodily autonomy and choice.
In addition to being a passionate doula, Abigail also studies the time-honored tradition of folk herbalism. Spending much of their time cultivating, foraging, harvesting, and creating various plant potions and healing remedies for their passion-project Venus Botanica. Abigail can also be found cooking thousands of pounds of food with Feed Durham NC, a mutual aid collective & community love project who feeds folks struggling with food insecurity in the Durham area. Other interests of Abigail’s include a deep love for all things feline, dismantling (personal & collective) imperialist white supremacist heteropatriarchy, hiking through forests, submerging in whatever body of water is within closest proximity, eating + cooking seasonal foods, and spending quality time her 2 cats, partner + beloved gremlin pup, Clover. Abigail lives on the traditional land of the Lumbee, Saponi, Eno, Shakori, and Occaneechi people in so-called Hillsborough, NC.
Abigail's Trainings and Education:
June-August 2014: MindBody Centering RYTT200 Global Breath Studio - Durham, NC
October 2015: Lead service project creating large-scale Permaculture garden for early childhood learning center & food insecure families
January 2016: Classroom Alive- Participant in 90 mile urban exploration walk of history, culture, and renovation of impoverished areas through expressive arts programs- Los Angeles, CA
September- December 2016: Internship with Chama Woydak, LCCE, CD(DONA), BDT(DONA) of Homegrown Babies - Asheville, NC
October 2016: DONA Birth Doula Training- Homegrown Babies of Asheville, NC
October 2016: Breastfeeding for Doulas with Jen Chandlee PCD(DONA). CD(DONA), CLE(CAPPA), ICCE(ICEA)- Homegrown Babies- Asheville, NC
November 2016: Attended Childbirth Education series- Homegrown Babies - Asheville, NC
November 2016: CPR & AED training for Adults, children, & infants
November 2016: Participant in direct actions, first aid assistance for actions, community member, project organizer, meal preparation, listener- Standing Rock Sioux Reservation, ND
December 2016: Bachelors of the Arts in Psychology- Warren Wilson College - Asheville, NC
February-August 2017: Mentor/Teacher/ Facilitator of therapeutic wilderness program focused on sacred ceremony at Wayfinder’s Village, Greenbrier Academy for Girls- Pence Springs, WV
October 2017: Core Shamanism Workshop - Marcia & Jack Hebrank, One Light Center -Durham, NC
January 9th 2018: Breastfeeding for Doulas with Victoria Facelli, IBCLC
March 2018 - Present: Herbal Apprenticeship with Suki Roth of Suki’s Blends/Herb Haven
December 2018: When Survivors Give Birth with Elizabeth M. Johnson of Spark Equity
May 2019: Attended Spinning Babies® Workshop with Tammy Ryan
September 2019: Rebozo Mexicano & Mexican Birth Practices with Lucía Gutiérrez, Indigenous Engineer, Mujer Medicina, Mexican Doula, Rebozo Educator, https://www.echeriwoods.com
April 2020- December 2020: Core member and participant of Feed Durham NC, a scrappy, determined mutual aid collective feeds folks struggling with food-insecurity in the Durham area, due to COVID.
January 2021: Postpartum Doula training with Doula Trainings International
January 2021: Child and Baby First Aid/CPR/AED via American Red Cross
March 2021: Systemic Racism and Implicit Bias in Perinatal Health with Jen Sarduy of Re+Birth Equity Alliance
January 2022: Adult, Child, and Baby First Aid/CPR/AED via American Red Cross
February 2022: Certified Doula Trainings International Postpartum Doula
June 2022: Certified Hypnobabies® Hypno-Doula Course
June 2022: Teaching Babies to Nurse: Reading Infant Bodies to Support Breastfeeding Families - Workshop for Doulas with Ellen Chetwynd
June 2022: Placenta Encapsulation Specialist Training with Eboni of My Dear Doula LLC
