Chloé Searcy, Birthkeeper
Hello, my name is Chloé a birthkeeper, dynamic meditation and breathing guide using the sophrology method to guide moms on their sacred birth journey.
As a birthkeeper I guide, support and educate moms and their partners during their childbearing years. I guide moms on their sacred birth journey. I am passionate about births and empowering women. I believe that each woman has the ability within to experience an empowered birth. I am here when moms need me, I hold the space when they need me to, I am the support moms need me to be. I enable her to regain her power and confidence that she needs to welcome her baby earth side.
As a dynamic meditation & breathing guide I use the sophrology method to help moms to rediscover and reconnect their body - mind & soul and to have a deeper relationship with their baby. I help moms to gain confidence in trusting their own intuition and being in tune with their body.
I am also a former clinical psychologist who worked with moms and their children, helping them to gain confidence in their abilities of being mothers. I also guided children in their learning discoveries as a Montessori teacher.
I am also a mom of many who have been born at home and a native French. I love being with my husband and my children, exploring and being in tune with nature.
I look forward to helping you in your sacred birth journey.
What is sophrology?
Sophrology is widely used in Western Europe during pregnancy and birth preparation.
Sophrology is a comprehensive approach that brings mind and body into harmony. You become more aware of yourself, how you feel and what you want. It guides you to find your inner harmony. Being able to connect within and discover your hidden gifts which is extremely useful during this time of transformation, when your mind and body constantly adapt to the physical changes.
Sophrology was created by a Spanish neuropsychiatrist, Alfonso Caycedo, who researched different approaches to balance consciousness following Eastern traditions like yoga and meditation, as well as Western sciences, including relaxation, psychology, phenomenology and hypnosis.
Sophrology benefits pregnancy, birth and postpartum
Pregnancy is an amazing experience, but can also feel challenging on many levels. The body, mind and soul go through different changes and sophrology can help you elevate your experience to a whole new level.
Whether you feel exhausted or amazing, sophrology can help guide you through pregnancy and birth preparation and postpartum. Sophrology uses simple breathing, relaxation exercises, guided meditation and visualization. This method will allow you to connect with your consciousness and inner self. The continued practice helps you to learn the true art of relaxation and acknowledge your thoughts without any judgment. This method adapts to your needs and desires. It will support you through your childbearing journey and lead you to:
Feel more energized
Manage emotions
Deal better with the discomfort of chronic pain
Feel ready for any type of situation that might emerge on the day of birth
Identify stress and let it go
Be more aware of your fears and let them go
Connect with your baby
Sleep better
Better understanding of your breathing and how to cope and surrender during contractions
A better understanding of your intuition
Be more mindful and fully present
You can have a positive birth experience that will empower you for the rest of your life and give the best strat for you and your baby.
By practicing sophrology, it helps you feel empowered. The intimate sense of trust that you build with the practice allows you to remain connected with yourself. In some cases, it can also free yourself from family patterns or old beliefs that don't connect with you and a weight would be lifted.
After the sessions, you’ll be guided to continue the practice at home for just 15 minutes each day. In fact, practicing daily deeply enhances the sense of well-being in your body and mind.
After birth, practicing sophrology helps you to:
Return to restful sleep
Accept the transition to a new life, new routine
Deal with family beliefs, expectations, pressure
Bond with baby more easily and quickly
Feel confidence in your new role
Deal with the emotional ups and downs that can happen in the first few months
Sophrology is a self development method based on a practice for body and mind. Sophrology can bring so many benefits to feel calmer, empowered and in control and it is compatible with other approaches. However, it doesn’t replace medical and psychotherapeutic treatments.
Birthkeeper Package // 1700
Home Birth and Birth Center Support
This package allows me a deep connection and understanding on how I can support your desired birth. Meeting before the births help me to connect with your birth goals and desires, engaging with arising emotions, guiding to a total surrender and empowered birth.
Support during pregnancy looks like guidance on pregnancy nutrition and food prep, breathing techniques, education on physiology of undisturbed birth, help with your birth plan preparation.
This package includes:
2 prenatal meetings
1 sophrology guidance session
Unlimited access call/text/email support from the time of contract signing until 6 weeks postpartum
Attend and guide you through your sacred birth journey (Labor support: rebozo, pressure point support, partner support, getting ready for your sacred birth space)
On call from 37 weeks and until you give birth
Postpartum care: nurturing moms, guidance on newborn care, lactation support, expressing and integrating your birth experience if desired
Visioning and preparing for a sacred postpartum
Immediate postpartum care up to 2 hours at your place of birth
2 postpartum visits
Birth Guide Coaching & Virtual Support // 1000
We can sometimes feel overwhelmed with all the information that we are encountering during pregnancy. I am here to help you to reconnect with your soul and intuition. Guiding and empowering you to prepare the birth that you envision. Your sacred birth is unique to you and only you and your baby know what is best. I am here to support you and your needs, desires, doubts, challenges and questions.
1 prenatal virtual call every month from the time of hire and your birth
Access through text and emails
Birth preparation guidance
1 sophrology guidance
2 postpartum calls: follow up, lactation support, expressing and integrating your birth experience if desired, guidance on newborn care
Sophrology Sessions (Online or in-person)
New Client Special // Initial 90 min consultation for $35
We can start sophrology anytime during pregnancy. Email to schedule your free onboarding call.
Initial 90 min consultation $75
Follow up sessions of 45 - 60 min $50
Mindful Group sessions // Online $30
Once every week, we meet for a mindful time where we go deeper into our inner self. We harmonize our body and soul, we learn meditation and go into a deep relaxation, breathing exercises where I will be guiding you using the art of sophrology as a prenatal sophrologist.
What is a birthkeeper?
Birthkeeper as no solid definition. I like to define a Birthkeeper as a keeper of a sacred space. It is someone who holds space for women to find the fullness of their power, learn to truly trust, connect and listen to their bodies.
As a birthkeeper I share knowledge and wisdom to better prepare for the mother’s birthing journey. I will always encourage full autonomy with every choice you make. I help the woman to create a pregnancy, birth and postpartum plan that fits her specific needs and desires, supporting the mother in every choice that she makes guiding you to look inward during this divine process.
I support woman centered care and encourage every woman to find their voice and make 100% informed decisions that enable her to feel connected, at peace and empowered with her own birth choices. My support doesn’t stop after the birth. As a birthkeeper, I offer support and guidance during the first hours postpartum.
Why not using the term doula?
I do not call myself as a doula because I feel it doesn’t represent who I am and the services that I offer and I do not operate within a certain scope. Doulas are limited in how they can support women by whatever scope their certifying organization has set.
I offer much more within my practice using all my birth experiences, life experiences, researches, certifications, readings and mentorships. I have heard once someone saying doula is a profession and birthkeeper is a calling.
Being a birthkeeper to me means taking every part of me to keep, protect and hold the sacred space that mothers need to birth. As a birthkeeper I am with you every step of the way, supporting and holding space for the spiritual, physical and emotional. I help the mom to navigate through her fears, guiding them to their inner peace. As a birthkeeper, I believe that birth is a sacred space. A sacred birth is different for each woman. I guide the mom to feel and communicate with her baby through her intuitions to know what is her sacred birth. Every woman deserves to birth in a way that is safe for her and her baby and in a way she feels respected, cherish, loved, known and supported.
As a birthkeeper I meet the mother where she is at. I align with her energy, I respect her boundaries, I support her wants, I guide her desires.
Birth is not only a physical experience but it is also a spiritual and emotional experience. As a birthkeeper, I cherish every aspects of the birth and every wants and desires that the mom wish for.
It is very important to me that the woman feels empowered, trust and connect with their body to birth in a way that she feels seen, heard, safe, respected. I do not empowered woman but I help the mom to embrace her power within. As a birthkeeper, I encourage women to take control of their birth by knowing their rights, becoming educated about the birth process and so she can make choices that are best for her and her baby.
As a birthkeeper I believe in traditional wisdom and that birth is a rite of passage. I believe in mothering the mother. I believe in the capacity of each woman to give birth. I believe that women are wise and birth is sacred. I believe in the capacity of each woman to listen to her intuition.
A birthkeeper is for you If you:
- Dream of a healthy, wild, raw, birth where you are in a total connection with your baby and your body
- Desire to birth on your term, in a warm, quiet, safe place surrounded by loved ones, plenty of room to move, rest and eat
- Dream of a natural and sacred birth
- Desire support, love, care, understanding,
- Desire to always have access to someone knowledgeable on physiology and autonomous birth
- Desire someone who believes in your capacity, in your body, in your baby
- Desire someone who can walk with you every steps of the way
- Desire to access empirical evidence, trusted natural birth resources
- Desire to navigate through your fear by understanding the natural and physiological process of birth
- Deep connection with your intuitions
A birthkeeper helps the mom in her journey of her sacred birth, she also brings other family members to experience a deep connection and love in the birth process.
Each birth has its own story that the mother and baby writes together. It will always be an honored and to be part of a mother’sacred birth.