Tamara Donn - From Woman To Mother
After leaving University with an honours degree, I spent several years in the IT industry. Realising that this was not fulfilling my passion, I retrained as an aromatherapist.
For many years, prior to becoming a mother, I was involved in personal development. Among my teachers were Deepak Chopra (meditation), Chuck Spezzano (Psychology of Vision) and Brandon Bays (The Journey). I spent time traveling and visited sacred centres in Peru and Egypt.
In 2000 I gave birth to my daughter and passed through the life-changing rite of passage into motherhood. This was the start of my true inner learning and gave rise to a strong passion to mentor other women through their rite of passage into motherhood. I started by offering support to women wanting a home birth for my local NCT group. Since then, I have taken courses with Sheila Kitzinger on Birth Crisis, Doula training with Ruth Tamir, Foundation course in The Gentle Birth Method with Dr Gowri Motha and have completed training Levels 1 and 2 with Pam England as a Birthing From Within Mentor. In December 2004, I presented my work with Birthing From Within at a midwife study day for ARM (the Association of Radical Midwives). Click here to see the article written about my workshop as printed in the Spring 2005 edition of Midwifery Matters. In February 2005 I gave a presentation to the midwives at Hemel Birth Centre.
My desire is to re-awaken women’s inner wisdom within all mothers (to-be) and to empower them to truly trust their bodies and listen to their hearts, whatever the birth outcome
If after reading Tamara's experiences below, you would like to find out more about Tamara, her website can be found at http://www.antenatalclasses.co.uk
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