In this episode of Postpartum Liberation, we talk about the real cost of sacred work: money, burnout, business, sustainability, and the beliefs that keep birthworkers undercharging and overextending themselves. This conversation explores what it means to build a business that can truly hold you — not just spiritually, but financially, emotionally, and practically. Because liberation is not only about the work you offer others. It is also about what you are willing to build for yourself.

.

What if the most advanced postpartum healing technology isn't new at all, but ancient, ancestral, and already living in your bloodline?

In Part 2 of this landmark four-part series, host Danielle Lyles Barton sits with Asha Edouard (Womb Priestess, Full Spectrum Doula, Reiki Master, and founder of In Grace Yoga Therapy) for a conversation that will permanently change how you think about the postpartum body, womb healing, and the sacred traditions our grandmothers carried.

Asha walks us through the Haitian 3 Bain: a postpartum herbal bathing tradition passed down from her family in Haiti. We go deep.

This episode will leave you with a deeper reverence for the body you serve and the traditions that were always trying to find their way back to you. Whether you're a postpartum doula, midwife, womb practitioner, birthworker, childbirth educator, or a conscious mother reconnecting with your own healing lineage, this conversation is the missing chapter.

Connect with Asha Edouard:

@ingraceyoga

www.ingraceyogatherapy.com

Connect with Danielle Lyles Barton:

@bloomingallover

www.bloomingallover.co

Subscribe to Postpartum Liberation wherever you get your podcasts. New episodes drop every Tuesday at 5:00am EST.

This is more than a podcast. It's a movement, a teaching circle, and a love letter to the village.

What happens when the medicine you were raised with was the very thing you've been hiding?

In this episode, Danielle Lyles Barton sits down with Asha Edouard — Haitian American spiritual social worker, doula, womb healer, Reiki master, and traditional birthkeeper (famaj) — for a deeply grounding conversation about where healers really come from.

Asha grew up living between two worlds: the American experience at school and the traditional Haitian culture practiced at home — the herbal remedies, the spiritual rituals, the prayers. For years, she kept that world hidden. But what she once tried to bury became the foundation of everything she was meant to do.

This episode traces Asha's journey of coming back to herself — deconstructing academic and societal conditioning, reclaiming her Haitian roots in her home, her relationships, and her business, and ultimately answering a spiritual calling to traditional birth work after a life-changing trip to Haiti where a divination revealed she was only partially fulfilling her soul's purpose.

Together, Danielle and Asha explore what it means to live between cultures and hide your ancestral practices out of fear, the painful and necessary process of deconstructing your professional identity to reclaim your humanity, how liberation is an ongoing daily practice — not a destination, birth work as a spiritual assignment that requires ancestral authority and accountability, the power of renaming yourself as an act of rebirth and lineage, and why "going back home" to reclaim your ancestral medicine can change your life and your work.

This conversation is a love letter to every healer who was shaped long before they ever got certified.

Birth is not the end of the work.

It’s the beginning.

In this culminating conversation with Janisa Camille of Doula of the Divine, we name the part of birthwork that’s been overlooked, under-taught, and quietly costing mothers and birthworkers everything.

Postpartum.

The fourth trimester.

The longest season.

The threshold that determines whether a mother is held... or forgotten.

In this episode, we unpack why:

• Every mother experiences postpartum, whether or not she’s diagnosed with anything
• Most doula trainings prepare you for labor, but leave you unprepared for what comes after
• “Holding babies” is not the same as holding a mother
• Community, ritual, and tradition were never optional.
• Healing doesn’t happen overnight, and it doesn’t happen alone

Janisa shares her own lived postpartum journey (through depression, anxiety, rage, single motherhood, and survival) and how becoming what she needed changed the way she now shows up for others.

We talk about what needs to be released in birthwork.

What must be kept.

And what it would mean for mothers, babies, and the future if postpartum was tended with reverence.

This is a conversation about rest as liberation. About allowing yourself to be cared for. About remembering that the mother comes first.

If you’re a birthworker who’s felt the gap...

If you’re a mother who was never held...

If you’ve sensed that the real work starts after the baby arrives...

This episode is for you.

Because postpartum is not the afterthought.

It’s the work that changes everything.

📬 Learn more about Janisa Camille and Doula of the Divine here: https://www.doulaofthedivine.com/

📬 Follow Janisa Camille and Doula of the Divine on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/doulaofthedivine

📬 Sign up for the next free Sacred Shield Masterclass: https://bloomingallover.myflodesk.com/sacredshield

📬 Want to be receive weekly doses of postpartum wisdom and care? Join my newsletter, Rooted: https://bloomingallover.myflodesk.com/rooted

📬 Follow Danielle Lyles Barton and Blooming All Over on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bloomingallover

The Postpartum Liberation Podcast and content posted by Danielle Lyles Barton is presented solely for general informational, educational, and entertainment purposes. The use of information on this podcast or materials linked from this podcast or website is at the user’s own risk. It is not intended as a substitute for the advice of a physician, professional coach, psychotherapist, or other qualified professional, diagnosis, or treatment. Users should not disregard or delay in obtaining medical advice for any medical or mental health condition they may have and should seek the assistance of their healthcare professionals for any such conditions.

What holds you while you hold everyone else?

In this short solo episode, Danielle Lyles Barton speaks directly to doulas, birthworkers, healers, and parents who are carrying a lot — and quietly feeling the weight of it.

If you’ve been feeling exhausted, overextended, emotionally full, or like your nervous system is still “on” even after the work is done, this episode is a gentle but honest invitation to pause and ask a deeper question: What is holding you?

Danielle explores the difference between being needed and being nourished, and shares why support is not a luxury for birthworkers. It is actually sacred infrastructure. This conversation names the hidden signs of depletion, offers a meaningful reflection practice, and reminds listeners that sustainable care must include the caregiver, too.

This episode is especially for:

• doulas
• midwives
• birthworkers
• maternal health practitioners
• healers and space holders
• conscious parents navigating burnout and overgiving

And if you’re ready to build a practice that protects your body, your business and your energy, Danielle also invites you to her Free Masterclass: How to Build a Protected Birthwork Business (that feeds you as much as you feed others).

🎓 Join here: https://bloomingallover.myflodesk.com/protectedbusiness

What happens when a nurse practitioner, someone who knows the system from the inside, becomes the patient… and nearly dies because of medical bias?

In this episode, Tawana Passmore shares a raw, urgent testimony about “trust betrayed” in healthcare and how racism, rushed medicine, and a lack of empathy can turn routine care into a life-or-death situation for women of color. With 22 years in healthcare, Tawana Passmore breaks down what it means to advocate for yourself when providers dismiss your pain, make decisions without consent, and treat you like a “difficult patient” instead of a human being.

She walks us through two harrowing stories: an aggressive breast cancer diagnosis handled with delay and disregard, and a pregnancy complication that escalated into a placenta abruption, where one doctor’s decisive action changed everything. Along the way, she names what too many families already know: the healthcare system was not built with us in mind, and survival often requires knowledge, voice, faith, and fight.

This is a conversation for doulas, midwives, nurses, social workers, pregnant people, anyone supporting Black and brown families through birth and postpartum, and anyone who may ever need to navigate the medical system... because advocacy is not an attitude. It is a lifeline.

In this episode, you'll hear:

• How medical bias shows up even when you’re educated, experienced, and “in the system”
• What it looks like when providers make care decisions without your consent
• A birth crisis story: severe pain dismissed, repeated hospital visits, and the moment everything changed
• Why knowledge can be one of your strongest protection in medical settings
• Practical language, mindset, and permission to advocate firmly—for yourself and your baby
• The spiritual grounding behind survival: trusting your gut, trusting God, and refusing to surrender your power

This episode includes discussion of medical trauma, cancer, pregnancy complications, and systemic racism in healthcare.

In this week’s episode, I’m sharing clips from a powerful panel conversation recorded with 1863FWD, moderated by Jataun Rollins. Together, we name what so many have lived but were taught to swallow: medical mistreatment, dismissal, and the long legacy of trust betrayed.

In this episode, you’ll hear about:

• Medical racism and obstetric violence in reproductive health care
• Historical betrayal: experimentation, consent violations, and forced sterilization
• Social determinants of health and why access, transportation, housing, and language matter
• The history of the Grand Midwives and how midwifery was pushed to the margins
• Birth advocacy, informed consent, and what it looks like to protect your body in the system

If you’ve ever felt small in a medical room (talked over, rushed, dismissed, bullied, etc.), you are not imagining it. You are not alone. And you deserve better care.

Listen now, and share this episode with a friend, a birthworker, a provider... anyone who needs language for what they’ve survived, and a path toward how we advocate from here.

📬 Learn more about Jataun Rollins' organization and work, 1863FWD here: https://www.1863fwd.com/

📬 Want to be receive weekly doses of postpartum wisdom and care? Join my newsletter, Rooted: https://bloomingallover.myflodesk.com/rooted

📬 Follow Danielle Lyles Barton and Blooming All Over on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bloomingallover