An Awakening.....

What is an awakening??? Is it just a realization that you need to change or is it an awakening that you know that you need to change the world?? I had this awakening on December 10, 2014. I was working in a call center for a major insurance company, 10 hours a day 4 days a week. It was a mentally taxing job that I have been doing for almost 15 years off and on. I never felt proud of what I was doing and at the end of the day I was left wondering what am I actually doing and am I actually making a difference helping someone pay a bill or sending off documents to a car dealership?

After a lot of thought and tears I decided to take a "leap of faith" and decide to become a postpartum doula. After all my passion was women and babies. I did do a Google search for doulas and two major organizations came up.....DONA and CAPPA I choice DONA  because of the reputation that they have as one of the premiere organizations and also because I felt that their certification process was streamline and detailed. I have always wanted to work in woman's reproductive rights or in a non-profit organization that dealt with that. I was in fact pro-choice and I believed in a woman's right to choose if and when she would be a mother or not. So, I starting looking into doulas who help women through an abortion, miscarriage or fetal loss. There was some information so I started reading up on it.There aren't hat many organization that support abortion doula training. There are only a few.

Then I decided  on my business name.....Ujima full spectrum doula services. Ujima (ooh jeh mah) is the third principle of Kwanzaa meaning collective work and responsibility. I felt that I had a responsibility to my community and to the African-American community as a whole to offer my collective work for the community and mothers to build and maintain our community and make our brother's and sister's problems our problems and solve them together. I'm awakened and I know this is my calling. My passion is to help women and the disenfranchised people of the world. Educating them about their options and ending stigma.
This is my journey, welcome to my awakening.