Welcome!
My name is Magnolia, I'm so pleased to meet you!
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You can call me Mags, Maggie, or Noli for short. I am a gratefully certifying full-spectrum holistic doula, supporting individuals and families on their unique journeys in fertility, birth, postpartum, and infant/pregnancy loss. What drives me is the belief that EVERYONE deserves a safe, supported, and sacred transition into parenthood, no matter their circumstances.
I believe your support team should:
- honour and advocate for your autonomy
- encourage your ability to give birth and be a parent
- help you make informed choices and protect your right to choose
- and provide evidence-based knowledge that you can trust and rely on.
The journey to parenthood unfolds differently for everyone, but I believe all families deserve, and can have, an empowering experience with the right support.
A little bit about me: I’m a hippy farm kid at heart. I grew up in a small town called Kaslo in the West Kootenay region of BC, but I’ve been enjoying city life in Calgary Alberta since 2018. I'm a musician, a published poet, a self proclaimed skincare junkie, dog lover, and a proud aunt. I am also a certified Montessori Assistant, and my background in Montessori is actually what led me to doulaing! As of August 2023, I'm a married lady (to the cutie patootie in the photo here). I love to travel, I love getting new tattoos (I have over 50!), a good cup of tea usually fixes all my problems, and my family are my best friends. Of all my passions, pregnancy, birth, babies, and parenting are the the biggest. I’m so grateful that I answered the call to this work and get to support families during this incredibly meaningful and monumental stage of life.
They say it takes a village, and I would be honoured to be part of yours!
Land Acknowledgment
I was raised in the mountains on the traditional Indigenous lands of both the Ktunaxa Kutenai and Sinixt Lakes Nations. I attended high school in the desert of Tk'emlúps te Secwépemc territory, on the unceded ancestral lands of the Secwépemc Nation. In my early adulthood I resided in the traditional territories of the Coast Salish, Nuu-Chah-Nulth, and Kwakwaka’wakw peoples. I now live in Mohkinstsis, in the heart of Treaty 7, on the traditional territories of the Niitsitapi from the Blackfoot Confederacy, including the Siksika, Piikani, Kainai, and Amskapi Piikani First Nations; the Îyârhe Nakoda of the Chiniki, Bearspaw, and Goodstoney First Nations; the Dene of the Tsuut’ina First Nation; and the Métis Nation of Alberta, Region 3.
I consider it an honour and a privilege to live, work, and play on Indigenous land. I am humbled to serve my community through doula care, and my aim is to honour, acknowledge, and respect all the communities and traditional practices that came before me in doula care as well.
Inclusivity Statement
I believe in doula care for ALL walks of life, no matter your race, origin, colour, religion, age, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, family structure or status, marital status, body type or size, ability or disability.
