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Parenting with heart and science - two doulas exploring connection, community, and realistic ways to make it all make a little more sense.

Ariel Swift & Caity Mehl

  • Mar 15, 2020 LATEST EPISODE
  • monthly NEW EPISODES
  • 40m AVG DURATION
  • 18 EPISODES


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S2 Ep6 - COVID-19 & Parenting w/ Tara Haelle

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 15, 2020 44:32


S2 Ep6 - COVID-19 & Parenting w/ Tara Haelle by Ariel Swift & Caity Mehl

S2 Ep.5 - Guest Dr. Amy Gilland - COVID - 19 & Doula Care

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 14, 2020 35:38


S2 Ep.5 - Guest Dr. Amy Gilland - COVID - 19 & Doula Care by Ariel Swift & Caity Mehl

S2 Ep 4 Emboudior, Following Your Passion Into Body Positive Art

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 23, 2019 38:33


Artist Rebecca Lynn Craig talks about entering parenthood after being diagnosed with PCOS, and her sex-positive work as an embroidery artist at Emboudior.

S2.Ep3 Doula Partnerships, Prenatal Appointments With Kara Plante

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 14, 2019 73:19


Chicago doula partners Ariel and Kara talk about how they found and continue to work on their work partnership, how the prenatal appointment has changed in the last 4 years, and communication.

ASMoment S2 E2 - Guest Ciara Johnson

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 1, 2019 56:43


Talking with a professional woman about her choice to not have children, and how that has impacted her profession, relationships, and outlook on life.

Fed Up Gemma Hartley ASwiftMoment S2 EP1

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 12, 2018 54:47


Emotional Labor: The load. The mental labor. Author Gemma Hartley sums it up in the introduction of her book Fed UP: Emotional Labor, Women, and the Way Forward as, “a special kind of invested effort encompassing the anticipation of needs, the weighing and balancing of competing priorities, and the empathy of putting oneself in someone else’s shoes, among other factors.” Or, it’s knowing about homework assignments and meal planning. It’s how holidays magically seem to happen. It’s remembering birthdays, anniversaries, and when to buy toilet paper. It’s a lot, but it is also invisible. 

 The invisible work that women have predominately been keepers of and responsible for passing on to generations is finally coming to the forefront and we’re wondering, there has got to be a better way. 


 Gemma admits this is still the beginning of the conversation, but it’s an exciting beginning. 

Fed Up is a book that explores how our culture got to this moment, how engrained emotional labor effects women in the home, workplace, and culturally at large, and starts to ask questions about why we need this work to be seen and valued.

Ep. 13 -BRAWN And Making Decisions

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 29, 2018 54:05


Birth plans are en Vogue, but what happens when they can't be followed? What happens when you need to change course? Today's episode explores a tool to increase communication in the labor room and help laboring people feel empowered during their birth. Hosts: Ariel Swift, Caity Ann Mehl Music Provided by: BenSound

What Do Doulas Do?

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 5, 2018 55:52


Ariel Swift and Caity Mehl take today's episode to talk about what doulas do because even after decades of momentum, there is still broad confusion about the purpose, role, and benefit to having a pregnancy, birth, and postpartum support.

Ep. 11 - 6 Needs Of Kids To Thrive

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 22, 2018 60:36


When you think about what a kid needs to move through this world, as parents , we can get stuck on the stuff. But when we put the stuff aside, we are left with the emotional child. The person. This episode with my co-host Caity Mehl, we’re going to go through the 6 basic needs of children that influence how these core beliefs develop.

Ep. 10 - Close and Personal with CPS

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 13, 2018 28:52


Co-host Caity Mehl shares her personal experience with FCCS, and how it was both terrifiying and affirming.

SAHM Vs Housewife A Swift Moment Ep. 9

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 12, 2018 27:55


How the heck do we (women-identifying) SAHMs and Housewives do it? How did it get this way? We unpack two very different terms.

Resentment - Ep. 8 A Swift Moment

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 4, 2018 63:28


Resentment - Ep. 8 A Swift Moment by Ariel Swift & Caity Mehl

Ep. 7 Co-dependency, building healthy relationships - Guest Caity Mehl

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 6, 2018 48:34


Unpacking co-dependency, building healthy relations, and becoming a more mindful you.

Finding Your Why - Episode 6 With Ariel Swift And Catie Mehl

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 2, 2018 22:07


Were you one of the millions who watched Simon Sinek's Ted Talk? Ariel and Catie unpack how it can be extremely helpful to use your why to inform your parenting choices.

A.Swift Moment Ep. 5 - Getting Parenting Off Autopilot

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 24, 2018 10:49


The only person you can control is yourself, but what about habits, superhighways of neurological predisposition? Forming new speech habits requires knowing some of the phrasings to use. Catie Mehl helps us and we explore thoughts vs. feelings and end it with a real-world example.

A.Swift Moment Episode 3, With Guest Catie Mehl: Oxytocin, Habits, Sleep, and Feelings

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 18, 2018 31:49


What happens when two birth professionals, and friends, get together? They talk! Special guest, Catie Mehl of Columbus Birth & Parenting joins Ariel in this first of many conversations that happen around the kitchen table. Oxytocin, forming new habits, sleep teaching, and the FEELINGS are all part of today's episode.

Parenting In A Harvey Weinstein World By Ariel Swift

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 20, 2017 12:27


When real life news reiterates a parenting philosophy, it doesn't make it easier to follow through.

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Play Episode Listen Later Nov 1, 2017 3:52


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