I'm a doula dedicated to guiding you through the miraculous journey of motherhood. By providing full-spectrum postpartum support, I bring an empathetic touch to your unique odyssey.
My own story, culminating in the joyous, at-home arrival of my daughter, Clover Joy, marked a profound shift from someone who once feared childbirth to one who can’t wait to do it again. It was a journey of self-discovery, overcoming fears, and healing through postpartum, ultimately leading to my calling as a conscious and sacred doula.
As your doula, I offer evidence-based information, emotional support, and continuous care from through 6 months postpartum. My goal is to empower you with knowledge and compassionate guidance, weaving spells of comfort and brewing potions of knowledge throughout your journey. I'm here to ensure your voyage is deeply supported with love, strength, wisdom, authenticity, and empathy. Whether you are planning a home birth, hospital birth, or birth center birth, natural or with pain medication, I am here to support YOU on the path YOU choose.
It is my honor to provide a space filled with love, balance, care, and empowerment as you embrace the beautiful and sacred journey of motherhood.
Love and Light, Dru Erin Houchen!
Education
Birthing Doula - Awakened Spirit Yoga / The Doula School
Postpartum Doula - The Sacred Window [completion 2024]
Bachelor of Fine Arts in Professional Photography - Brooks Photography Institute
Reiki Artist Level III - Soul of Yoga
Sound Meditation Guide- Soul of Yoga
Physiologic Baby Care - Innate Traditions
Newborn Care - The Cradle Coach
Baby/Toddler Sleep Consultant - The Cradle Coach [completion 2024]
Women’s Holistic Health Coach - Arhanta
200-Hour ERYT Yoga Instructor - Marianne Wells Yoga
85-Hour PRTY Prenatal & Postnatal Yoga Instructor - Awakened Spirit Yoga
50-Hour Yin Yoga Guide - Durga Excursions [completion 2024]
Breath Coach - The Whole Health Project
Hypnotherapy Guide - Arhanta
Grief & Bereavement Space Holder - Pursuing Wisdom Academy
Feng Shui - Tisha Morris
The Deeper Story
Like most stories, mine to create A Sacred Heart was sculpted by personal experience. In July 2023, I welcomed my first baby, Clover Joy, to the world. If you had told me back in 2018 that I was going to have a baby and I was going to give birth to her at home with no drugs, I would have said you’re out of your fucking mind! My perspective shifted in 2020 as the world was forced into lockdown. Many people took this time to get ripped and take local trips…me? I took this time to slowly decline to the point of ending up in a mental health treatment center by 2021. As I had the absolute pleasure of meeting and greeting all my demons, I kept telling myself there was a more profound meaning to this journey. I realized I was going through all this heartache to clear and cleanse my inner world to prepare for motherhood. I was stunned by this realization. I asked, why do I want kids all of a sudden? I went 30 years saying naaaa, nope definitely not…and now? Is this some weird primal biological clock that's kicking in? I didn’t understand. Turns out, it was the release of trauma that allowed me to find the root cause was a deep-seated fear of childbirth and the laboring process. My path to becoming a birth supporter was fueled by a desire to conquer my fears.
Fast forward three years…I’M A MOM, WTF!! AND LOVING EVERY SECOND….well, most of the seconds! I had so much knowledge, having completed a Doula training and having an incredible midwife and doula in my corner, I was unstoppable!
and then Postpartum…
Yet, amidst my sacred postpartum space, I recognized the scarcity of support and education available. I felt left in the dust when the postpartum window came. Yes, I had support; however, the education around what I was feeling on a biological and psychological level was non-existent. I was overwhelmed, had crippling fear-based OCD, postpartum anxiety, and depression, and was moving through a possible vulvar cancer scare. It all crept in and hit me like a ton of bricks! For sure, I had heard about postpartum anxiety and depression but never thought that would be me since I did sooo much work on my mental health! I thought I felt prepared because I had a delegated list of who was doing what and a meal train planned. What I did not prepare for or understand was the heartache I was going to endure around breastfeeding, hormone drop-off, intense body recovery, people-pleasing visitors, and feeling depleted, all after a 48-hour home labor.
I remember when I was doing my research to choose my support team. There was the midwife, the prenatal and birthing doula, a postpartum doula, post chefs, and bodyworkers - everything felt so separate. How could I pick or even understand what I might need? A supportive husband is amazing; god, is he a total angel! He could only do so much as he also had his own postpartum story. I needed a nurturing woman to come in and not ask me questions like “What do you want to eat?” or all those other what and how questions….I couldn’t think; I didn’t know what was happening, AND the last thing I wanted was advice. I needed someone who could scan me, know what I needed, and just do it!
As I entered 6-month post-birth, I felt a deep call to share my knowledge and experience. So, the next thing I knew, I finally put my doula training and all other years of life experience to work and went back to school to study the postpartum window!
My mission was ignited by the desire to extend tender, loving care to other mothers, guiding them through the complex labyrinths of the prenatal and birthing process, with an emphasis on the postpartum window.
and just like that…A Sacred Heart was born!
