041 What is On My Heart with Michelle Smith

In this personal episode, Michelle shares her experience of supporting her most recent doula families through the births of their babies during the COVID-19 pandemic. She candidly explores the emotions coming up for her during these last few weeks as the mother of a multi-racial child. Michelle explores how she is navigating it all through the lens of grief support. “It hit me, and I am still working through it. If I am this exhausted as a white woman with a black family how depleted our black communities must be?And as I listen, they are exhausted. And, tired of trying to get people to listen and fighting a system that isn’t broken that is actually working exactly as it was designed to do.”—Michelle Smith Connect with Michelle Smith: Website: BirthEaseServices.com (https://www.birtheaseservices.com/) Facebook:  Birth Ease Baby Loss Support (https://www.facebook.com/BirthEaseLossSupport),  Birth Ease (https://www.facebook.com/BirthEaseMethod/),   The Birth Ease Podcast (https://www.facebook.com/thebirtheasepodcast/) Instagram: @birtheaselosssupport (https://www.instagram.com/birtheaselosssupport/),  @ birtheasemichellesmith (https://www.instagram.com/birtheasemichellesmith/) YouTube:  Birth Ease (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCcpfTDHpaqRkU2w_GHdGlmQ) LinkedIn:  Birth Ease Michelle Smith ( https://www.linkedin.com/in/birth-ease-michelle-smith-033a8b1a6/) Pinterest: Birth Ease (https://www.pinterest.com/birthease/boards/) Show: Birth Ease (https://feeds.blubrry.com/feeds/birthease.xml)