Meet Shayla Brown

We recently connected with Shayla Brown and have shared our conversation below.

Shayla, sincerely appreciate your selflessness in agreeing to discuss your mental health journey and how you overcame and persisted despite the challenges. Please share with our readers how you overcame. For readers, please note this is not medical advice, we are not doctors, you should always consult professionals for advice and that this is merely one person sharing their story and experience.
I’m a mother and though the conversation around maternal mental health is growing, it is still very much a new and budding topic. Having battled with maternal mental health wellness, I’ve found that telling my story and listening to the stories of others is a tremendous help.

Appreciate the insights and wisdom. Before we dig deeper and ask you about the skills that matter and more, maybe you can tell our readers about yourself?
I’m Shayla Brown the visionary running Genesis Birthing and Living. I create and nurture digital spaces for Black women to share birth stories and build a healthy and satisfying cultural narrative around childbirth.

If you had to pick three qualities that are most important to develop, which three would you say matter most?
1) childbirth knowledge obtained while training as a doula.

2) women’s wellness knowledge obtained through independent study and already developed frameworks.

3) ability to network and find the most useful resources and communities.

My advice to folks early in any journey is: never stop seeking, learning, and growing.

Tell us what your ideal client would be like?
Here is a profile of the Genesis Birthing and Living IDEAL CLIENT:

you enjoy reading and writing
you are a black woman with or without support. Maybe your family has just relocated 
and you live away from extended family. Whatever the case, you need to connect with someone a little more personally through your birthing process.

OR

you are a 1st-time mother and
you want a safe calm atmosphere during birth.

OR

you are newly pregnant
for a second time or more and you felt alone and depressed in previous pregnancies.

you might feel stressed and uncertain around your current provider.

OR

you are a student doula or student midwife looking for professional support or resources for clients

OR

you are birthing at home for the 1st time
even though you are having your second child and you are wondering how the experience might be different with a doula

you are excited but scared and don’t know too much about preparing for birth

you are not pregnant but you are thinking of starting a family

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