Today we’d like to introduce you to Sherry Jones.
Thanks for sharing your story with us Sherry. So, let’s start at the beginning and we can move on from there.
My story begins nine years ago with my career as a preschool teacher which was the introduction to the world of children, pregnancy, and birth. It was my love of children and desire to gain as many tools as possible to further support the families I worked with through school. That led me to pursue children and prenatal yoga which led to birth work. Birth work has been present in my life through my mother who also works as a doula and bodyworker. As a preschool teacher, I began to see a need for more support especially for postpartum mothers who I had the opportunity to talk to, laugh with and see cry and express their needs. Birth work came front and center through my prenatal yoga training where part of graduation requirements was doula educational hours, I jumped in headfirst and decided to do a full doula training at Bini Birth.
That training was the beginning of my love affair, it took me on a journey and quest of knowledge to learn everything I possibly can to help support pregnant women, babies, and families. I began to appreciate and dig deeper into the practices I had been indirectly familiar with my whole life. I became fascinated with everything to do with the physiology of birth. I have continued my love of learning by constantly educating myself and diving into my practice of bodywork and all things birth related. I took my first training in September of 2016 and have not looked back. Over a year ago I decided to do only what I love and dedicate myself to birth work fulltime and it was the best decision of my life.
Has it been a smooth road?
It had been a beautiful and challenging journey mirroring a lot of what birth work is. A combination of tunnel vision, determination, and stubbornness to bring life to this vision that I have of birth work. I’ve spent my last dime all the money I’ve made to gather tools and education to support the work I do. I’ve had to learn to stay in my vision and frequency of energy at my most dire or most tired moments. It was difficult to trust the process of being and becoming in this space. I struggled to believe at the beginning that I could create exactly what I desired and that I could do it on my terms. It was hard to trust that this would work and that I could do it. Getting exposure and clients seemed hard in the beginning. The biggest challenge was learning to trust and believe in me. Once I decided to succeed my world changed. There were still challenges, but I began to blossom in ways I never imagined. I welcome the challenges and embrace them as opportunities for growth and am grateful to polish myself into the best version of me.
We’d love to hear more about your practice.
My business is service-based, I work as a birth worker. I support pregnancy, labor, and postpartum. My practice is based on ancestral practices and rituals that stem from my mother’s Mexican cultural background with a perspective heavily base in holistic midwifery. I am known for my hands-on holistic approach which incorporate all the yummy tools I now am happy to share with the families I work with such as yoga, breathwork, sound meditation, organic movement, food of the soul (eating nutritious foods that feed your soul) hypnobirthing techniques, spinning babies (still a work a progress) and being a strong voice of advocacy for women to find their voice and use it to do things on their terms. I serve as a gentle reminder to listen to the inherent wisdom and power women had especially in pregnancy in labor.
I am proud to marry all my passions into my practice, I am grateful to share and offer a different lens to birth. I am proud to create spaces that encourage freedom and the dismantling of societal constructs and unrealistic narratives about pregnancy and birth that simply have no place with a woman, her body, the baby of her birth. I am the heartbeat of my business and my sheer passion to offer a qualitative experience through exploration, tools, dialogue, community, and family is what makes a different imprint in work.
Let’s touch on your thoughts about our city – what do you like the most and least?
I love the diversity, community, and energy that I find in certain communities. I love food and that Los Angeles can be like a candy shop to explore various cultural cuisines. I strongly dislike the busyness of the city and of course the traffic!
Contact Info:
- Website: www.sherrythedoula.com
- Phone: (424)901-3981
- Email: [email protected]
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