ENLIGHTENED MAMA
def: en•light•ened: well-informed, without bias;
def: ma•ma: woman, mother, caregiver, friend
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Lactation Consultation, Craniosacral Therapy, Mental Health, Emotional Healing
Thrive. Heal. Grow.
Enlightened Mama provides personalized lactation and feeding support with IBCLCs & CLECs, professional training to become an Infant Feeding Ally™, and specialized birth professional courses. We also offer craniosacral therapy, mental health services, and emotional support through Allostatic Healing™ and in collaboration with Vayda Mental Health. Enlightened Mama is a safe space for community-building, evidence-based education, & unbiased support to empower individuals to feel confident. Our goals are to help people thrive, heal, & grow in whatever they are doing–birth, parenting, infant feeding, professional development, & their overall journey in life.
Get ready to embark on a lactation and feeding experience like none other! This 45-hour course offers a new perspective on human infant feeding that truly addresses it from the 365-degree community public health lens it deserves. Using a socially and culturally responsive approach, will examine the psychological and emotional, aspects of infant feeding, as well as work through tools and techniques to help families achieve their personal goals in their feeding journeys while promoting healing and connection that will extend into all elements of parenthood for the duration.
Lactation & Feeding Support
The journey of feeding your child can be one of the most emotional, joyful, and challenging experiences of your life. Enlightened Mama offers highly personalized lactation and breastfeeding/bodyfeeding support from International Board Certified Lactation Consultants and Certified Lactation Education Counselors to build your confidence and help you achieve your personal infant feeding goals. We offer in-home, in-office, and virtual visits, and on a sliding scale.
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Mental Health & Emotional Healing
“Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise again.” There is nothing more important in our lives than our mental health, yet it is often ignored, overlooked, and dismissed, and current options are frequently inaccessible. Enlightened Mama offers four different paths to support emotional healing designed to offer the same personalized, non-biased, support that Enlightened Mama is known for—Allostatic Healing™, private sessions in Life Transition Support, Craniosacral Therapy & Trauma Release, and also providing traditional therapy services at Vayda Mental Health Collaborative.
Craniosacral Therapy & Trauma Release
Craniosacral therapy is an incredibly gentle bodywork to restore homeostasis in the body for babies, children, and adults, to heal a wide array of physical and emotional imbalances in the body and to release trauma. Our infant techniques are very specific to improve feeding, temperament, and healing from birth, for both babies and parents, plus we incorporate myofascial unwinding along with craniosacral techniques to get you results in fewer visits!