Addiction Series: Sober Recreation
In honor of Recovery Month, we have as our guests Vanetta Peterson and Chris Ward of Houston’s Sober Recreation Committee. We’ll be discussing opportunities for connection for people in recovery and their families.
Jami Hain, Birth Centers
Jami Hain, MSN, CNM, is a Certified Nurse-Midwife and owner of Nativiti Family Birth Center. She has been married to the love of her life for 38 years and has two wonderful sons. She has been part of the Houston birth community for almost 20 years and has been a nurse and now a midwife at Nativiti for 18 years. She is fiercely passionate about providing personalized, evidence-based care to women and families in our community and empowering women through education and shared decision-making.
Andie Wyrick and Jaelin Stickels, Midwifery
Andie Wyrick and Jaelin Stickels, Midwifery
A certified nurse midwife and doctor, Andie has been in the Houston birth community for over 15 years. Her experience includes elementary school nursing, hospital labor and delivery, birth center, and home birth. Andie has been joyfully dating her husband of 19 years since junior high and has five children. Her passions beyond bellies, birth, and breastfeeding are mission work, reading, and movie theater popcorn.
Jaelin Stickels, MSN, CNM, WHNP-BC
A certified nurse midwife and women’s health nurse practitioner, Jaelin is honored to work with women and their families as they experience pregnancy, labor, birth, and the postpartum period. Jaelin followed her passion into midwifery and has been practicing with women and babies since 2010. She has spent the last 36 blissful years married to her high school sweetheart. She has three children and one grandchild. In addition to her passion for women’s health, she loves quilting, spends her spare time running the www.sheis.com website, and is enamored with her granddaughter. She is currently pursuing her doctoral degree.
Elly Taylor
Elly Taylor, author of Becoming Us, discusses how best to support your relationship as you navigate the changes that come with parenthood.
Nneka Hall, Pregnancy Loss or Racial Injustices in Pregnancy?
Nneka Hall, Pregnancy Loss or Racial Injustices in Pregnancy?
Nneka Hall is the mother of four. She is a whole-woman advocate who provides in-person and virtual support to women through any life phase. She is a maternal/fetal health advocate with a primary focus on infant and maternal mortality within the African American community. In 2014 she founded Quietly United In Loss Together (QUILT) which is a pregnancy and infant loss awareness campaign. She is a certified International Bereavement Specialist, community-centered herbalist, womb health specialist, childbirth educator, and crystal healer.
She is a participant of the United State of Women Summit as a nominated Changemaker. She is featured in the January 2019 “This Is My Brave” short documentary. In March 2019 she received an Advocate of the Year Award from The Boston Public Health Commission’s Community Action Network. Among other accomplishments she won Star Legacy Foundation’s Advocate of the Year Award.
Addiction Series: Lisa Feister, Center for Recovering Families
Addiction Series: Lisa Feister, Center for Recovering Families
Lisa Feister, Clinical Director of the Center for Recovering Families at the Council on Recovery tells us how to recognize if we or someone we love is in trouble, where to go for help, and what to expect when making that first brave call.
Debbie Hull, Homeschooling Part 2
Debbie Hull, Homeschooling Part 2
Debbie Hull has been serving expectant Houston families as a doula and childbirth educator for over 21 years. She is a frequent guest host of Whole Mother and is proud to serve on the faculty of Childbirth and Postpartum Professional Association as both a Labor Doula and Childbirth Educator Trainer, training the next generation of professional birth workers. She has moved right on up in to this century tech-wise since the pandemic began and has presented over 100 hours of training and classes virtually. Debbie is the mother of two fabulous adults, both formerly breastfed and homeschooled, Emily and Isaac.
Debbie Hull, Homeschooling Part 1
Debbie Hull, Homeschooling Part 1
Debbie Hull has been serving expectant Houston families as a doula and childbirth educator for over 21 years. She is a frequent guest host of Whole Mother and is proud to serve on the faculty of Childbirth and Postpartum Professional Association as both a Labor Doula and Childbirth Educator Trainer, training the next generation of professional birth workers. She has moved right on up in to this century tech-wise since the pandemic began and has presented over 100 hours of training and classes virtually. Debbie is the mother of two fabulous adults, both formerly breastfed and homeschooled, Emily and Isaac.
Jube Dankworth
What’s a parent to do? The decisions parents are making in the coming weeks are daunting and stressful. Jube Dankworth of Texas Home Educators discusses educational options in the current climate.
Addiction Series: Boaz House
Debbie Hull speaks with Christina Boaz of the Boaz House, a six-month residential program for women in recovery.