I am a Wife and Mother of three, a Holistic Birth Doula, Student Midwife, Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy Practitioner and Childbirth Educator in Orange County, California and am incredibly passionate about supporting women through the most profound experience of the childbearing years, a metamorphosis into motherhood through pregnancy, birth and postpartum.
I’ve been a Doula for a lot longer than I have been formally trained. Truth be told, I was a doula even before I knew the profession existed. I felt a strong inner calling towards mothers, babies, their journeys and all the support needed that entails these massive pivotal times to help grow emerging, strong, knowledgeable, self advocating beings. From moms reaching out into the community for help, or a mom needing help in those fresh moments of postpartum, to sisters and cousins pregnancies and births, to supporting new and seasoned moms with intuitive advice, information or sought out knowledge specifically for them and their questions with soft words or presence I was there. Starting at a young age, the need and want to be apart of this world I was witnessing that hovered around moms in these stages was present, though the action and space I felt ‘the pull’ towards didn’t quite have a name yet in my world. I truly didn’t know about the formal profession and established career called ‘Doula’ until 2020, for me, these early actions of support were the guidance of a gentle voice inside being led by passion and soulful excitement through the action of giving in this way from a time long before, a time paved into my childhood even. It felt aligned on a deeper level, eventually I would come to know this ‘voice’ or feeling as my deeply led intuition, something we all have and can tune into.
In my own motherhood journey, I have been met with many, many different experiences, all teaching valuable lessons and insight. So much love, so much joy, so much change, so much effort, so much support, so often advocating, so much excitement, so much “snuggle-up-to-my-baby-and-never-leave” hormones. So much physically, mentally, emotionally, spiritually. Both positive and not so positive (always with purpose though). Yin and Yang. A beautiful balance. Through these processes I was able to see what I truly needed through many different motherhood experiences and what happens when you get what you need in comparison to when you don’t and how profoundly different the experiences and outcomes can be based on the guidance and support you have through these changes. Also learning how to then relay this to others in the form of support.
A little about me, I’m a mommy of two precious boys and two wonderful girls, one residing in a place beyond this plane of existence on Earth. I have always felt intuitively I was meant to help others as much as I was meant to be a mom. From the beginning and into my youngest remembered days I was drawn to the art of healing. So much so it caused me to observe the world around me. Observe how others talked, interacted and thought. Which led to me to be curious by ones ability heal ones selves with a bit of the right influence, as this is where all healing comes from. Within oneself. Little did I know, down the road, fate would have it that I would find myself leaping and bounding, listening to divine inner knowledge that would bring me across country and into Florida on a last minute red-eye flight for a Hypnotherapy Certification course I signed up for on a whim decision to go, again being led by this inner pull. Running, luggage in hand, sparkle in my soul, finding my way through Fort Lauderdale’s airport and into a cab, making it with little sleep and on time with 20 minutes to spare before it started, having no possible idea what I was really there for except that inner voice leading me to be there, all of which would in time change my life for forever.
Within my motherhood journey I was met with growing pains of a motherhood unsupported and not understood at times and it shaped the way I saw my foundation as my cocoon buckled under the wind. For me, each phase was a phase of metamorphosis and in others I could see the same. Whether it be pre-pregnancy stages of pre-conception, infertility, early miscarriage and loss, stillbirth, pregnancy, birthing and all of the different types of birth so graciously available to us today. Each stage a cocoon, with the mother changing and growing to reach the ultimate change and emergence into Motherhood and the importance of what lies thereafter. Which of course in and of itself, all of these having millions of moments to constitute changes in us mama’s, and with good support, changes for the better.
After having worked my way through seminar after seminar that I was so lucky to have found myself apart of (as either a volunteer or participant), I dabbled in many specialties. From depression and anxiety to addiction to wellness modification, emotional mastery, trauma and fear, past experiences, healing with Reiki and other modalities. I sought after the (to me) unfound specialty that would cause me to understand why I still felt this enormous urge to help that wasn’t fully being met yet through what I was doing. Like I was moving in the right direction but not quite there yet. One stepping stone at a time making my way through the steps I was meant to take to continue to lead me to this place. There was this continuous ever present urge to support, and help others through experiences that with the right support and mindset can help heal themselves.
I found out about the official Doula profession and the sweet angel girl in my womb in early 2020. In the throws of the first trimester symptoms, in the back of my mind I knew it was something I wanted to follow. I just had to be apart of this birth centered world, I just knew it, but also knew, with my rougher than average pregnancies and a newborn I was about to bring into the world and my own motherhood journey, I also knew I had to be patient, there is divine timing in everything and this season would take precedence over my readiness to jump in to support other moms in the same space. While resting, I dreamed of the future and all of the possibilities. When that sweet soul didn’t make it past life in the womb, there was a period of rightful mourning and re-balancing, I remember thinking, “well, some good must come out of this loss” (in addition to all of the good that was still brewing towards my evolution and expansion though still unbeknownst to me at that point), I thought “I should start now” putting an extra special meaning to her life and then loss. And so I did. Once balanced again and nourished back to wellness, I signed up for the local Doula training shortly after and started my journey towards this deeply led intuitive hope to help support birthing moms in their motherhood journeys, no matter what they look like, always coming from a deep place of love, understanding and grace. Through her loss my life was flipped upside down, only, the upside down after some time, was really right side up, though it took time to see this. In this time, I started to understand what it was. I was meant to help mama’s have the most supported journeys into and through motherhood no matter what that journey may look like. Before loosing my daughter, I knew such personal tragedies did in fact happen, just as healthy births of different magnitudes (my two sons) happen as well, and despite not being talked about frequently enough, the losses happen and they happen often. Until having gone through such a loss personally, I never could have understood the time stopping event and understand it to its full extent to know how to help others in the same position but also how beautiful and fully miraculous each and every birth is. How the journey of growing life is really such a pivotal and sacred time in a mothers existence it needs to be treated as such. Without having felt the need to understand the neuro-linguistic programming’s that causes us to do what we do after any and all life experiences, I would have never found the calling that would have then led me to where I am now and how to make a positive difference in each of these families pregnancies and birthing journeys. What happens during this time impacts each and every mom (and family!) for the rest of their lives! And even generations to come. I am proud to be on a journey of discovery through helping others by using the modalities, trainings and experiences I have learned from, and am incredibly passionate about being able to help those nearest and dearest to my heart; those entering their own phases and cocoons which may very well be the very most pivotal and expansive points in us, women’s lives, which is the entrance into motherhood whether it be the first time or the tenth time. Each experience birthing in its own unique lessons and uprising of our highest self through balanced support as well as a sacred uplifted positive birthing experience. My personal path into this mother and birth centered world has been so incredibly rewarding and life giving (no pun intended!).
After training, I was soon pregnant with my dearest daughter and rainbow baby and knew with all of my newfound birth knowledge I wanted a completely different experience. I had up until that point had an incredibly lucky hospital birth experience with an epidural, an unexpected hospital birth experience that was without any form of medication, and a home birth miscarriage. I was and felt well rounded in a few different personal birth experiences, except for a home birth with a midwife. Something I had really never given much thought until the beautiful and somber experience of birthing my missed miscarriage birth in the quiet peaceful darkness of my home. Each birth once again, a stepping stone into the direction I was meant to be led in; a live and incredibly redemptive home birth. And in 2021, this is exactly what I was blessed enough to get to experience and it was the absolute most full circle magical experience of my life. She was born at home, in the water, into her daddy’s arms just like I had imagined for so long. I feel so blessed to be able to bring these experiences with me on this journey of supporting other mothers into their journeys into motherhood, while also being able see and meet moms in an unbiased perspective and to be able to meet them where they are and want to be in their life and birth visions and dreams.
Fast forward to the beginning of 2022, where I took an incredibly aligned bridging training to take my prior hypnotherapy certification to go on to become a hypno birthing childbirth education instructor to better support families to a more peaceful, calm, strengthened, fearless birthing experience, offering courses both virtually and in person in an office local to Orange County.
To say that I absolutely love what I do would be an absolute understatement. I not only love what I do, but am incredibly aligned, passionate, fully committed, dedicated and on fire for being able to serve birthing moms and their families to the best of my abilities, and always striving for more. More wisdom, more knowledge, a more intentionally built space to grow roots that branch out farther to then be able to give even more. I am so elated to be welcomed into the families I serve in such a meaningful way and couldn't be more grateful.
I look forward to getting to know you, as you have taken the time to get to know a little bit about me!
With gratitude always,
Lexie Crane
I'm Lexie
Thanks for being here. I cannot wait to get to know you!
