How We Hold It

A 4-Week Training for Doulas, Midwives, Therapists, and Birth Workers in Trauma-Informed Birth Story Processing

The most powerful thing you can do after a birth isn't what you say. It's whether you ask.

If you support birthing people, sit with postpartum families, or hold the complicated territory of perinatal care in any capacity: this is for you.

The birth is over. The family is home. And now the story needs to be told.

How that story is told matters.

This training is about how birth workers can help their clients process the birth story. The way the story is told can change if that story is remembered as beautiful, traumatic, or something in between.

Birth stories matter. They need a witness.

And the people most often in the room — you — have the opportunity to be that witness in a way that changes everything.

Hi, I’m Ashley Ward

Mental health therapist based in Fort Collins, CO, specializing in postpartum care, birth trauma, and birth story processing

My path here was not exactly a straight line.

I had three kids while working full time and doing what a lot of us do: not processing a single thing about any of it. My first birth was a 34-week induction for preeclampsia and HELLP syndrome, with a NICU stay and failure to thrive. I didn’t process it. Nobody really asked me to.

My third birth is the one that changed everything.

On paper, it was a dream — birth center, eleven hours start to finish, no tearing, everyone in the room called it beautiful. What nobody caught — what I didn’t even know to name for seven years — was that I had a full panic attack during active labor. My nervous system was completely offline.

And because nobody asked, because the chart looked good, and because everyone kept telling me how beautiful it was, I spent years walking around with a story I couldn’t make sense of.

That’s why I built this training.

Thoughtfully crafted to elevate what matters most.

  • "What I love most is the flexibility. I can go at my own pace, revisit lessons, and keep learning whenever it works for me."

    Former Customer

  • "Even as a total beginner, I never felt lost. The step-by-step structure and encouragement along the way made all the difference."

    Former Customer

  • "This has been such a worthwhile investment in myself."

    Former Customer

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