Honoring the Lineage We Walk With

OUR PROGRAM

I am My Sister’s Keeper

✨ Sisters Holding Sisters in Power, Love, and Promise

Rooted in the sacred act of reaching back, lifting up, and standing beside — this is more than support. It is ancestral. It is spiritual. It is revolutionary.

When we say “Sisters Touching & Empowering Pregnant Sisters,” we mean:
🌀 A return to the circle.
🌿 The passing of wisdom hand to hand, womb to womb.
🔥 The everyday radical act of loving each other into wholeness.

This is the medicine. This is the movement.

✨ From Sacred Lineage to Living Liberation

We honor and uplift the visionary legacy of Birthing Project USA and its SisterFriend, Sister-to-Sister model — a revolutionary template that reawakened the world to what Black folks have always known: that soul-level connection, radical presence, and kinship beyond blood are the foundation of survival and thriving.

At Sacred Birthing Village, we have embodied this legacy — and we are evolving it. We are deepening the circle.

We are integrating this sacred model not as duplication, but as continuation.
We are weaving it into the distinct needs, voices, and ancestral memory of our South Coast community.
We are not just walking beside our pregnant sisters to help them navigate systems —
we are standing as witnesses to their power. As co-conspirators in their freedom.

This is not care through a clinical lens. This is deep, reciprocal witnessing. This is community accountability. This is reclamation of body-sovereignty, cultural truth, and collective wisdom. As we sit at her feet, we do not rescue her. We remember with her. We honor her rhythms. We pour into her from full cups — and receive from her wellspring of truth.

Together, we unearth what she already carries:
The clarity.
The vision.
The tools to save her own life, and the ancestral permission to do so unapologetically.

This is the SBV model — forged in lineage, blooming in liberation.

🌿 We Walk With Her — Before, During, and Beyond Birth

We are with our Little Sisters through every sacred threshold — from preconception dreams to pregnancy awakenings, through the portal of birth, into the depths of postpartum, and onward into the ever-evolving journey of motherhood and selfhood.

We do not lead. We do not follow. We walk beside her — as kin, as witness, as home.

Preconception:

Calling the Circle Forth

We call in our Sisters who have yet to walk the path of motherhood —
to gather in circle, to sit at the feet of those who have journeyed before.
In the sacred tradition of women being with women,
we raise those who will mother not in captivity,
but in freedom, in knowing, and in the collective memory of their people.

This is how we prepare the soil before the seed is planted.
Through storytelling, sacred study, embodied practice, and communal care,
we tend to the roots of what’s to come.

Come be with us. Come be prepared. Come be poured into.

🌀 Explore our spaces of preparation, joy, and ancestral remembering.

Pregnancy: Holding the Sacred Journey

We uplift and surround our pregnant Sisters with the unwavering love and presence of the Village
as they navigate the sacred path of bringing life earthside.

This is not just about care —
it is about deep nourishment of the body, mind, spirit, and soul.
It is about being seen, held, and honored in every trimester,
in every decision, in every ache, joy, and transformation.

Our Sisters receive:

  • ✨ Holistic prenatal support rooted in ancestral wisdom

  • 🌿 Circle-based sisterhood, storytelling, and healing

  • 🧠 Emotional + psychological nurturing through culturally grounded tools

  • 🛖 Care coordination + advocacy through their devoted SisterFriend

We walk with her. We listen. We trust her knowing.
Because she is not alone, and she was never meant to be.

Birth: Sacred Initiation, Ancestral Portal

We prepare our Little Sisters for the most transformative initiation of their lives — the moment when a child is born, yes — but also, when she is born anew as Mother.

This is not clinical. This is sacred ceremony. This is ancestral remembrance. This is a rite of passage that deserves reverence, not routine.

Through shared wisdom, storytelling, embodied practice, and resourcing, SisterFriends hold the space — not to manage, but to witness, to honor, and to protect.

We help her gather her tools, her voice, her knowing. We help her ready the altar within.

🌿 Our Little Sisters are supported with:

  • Knowledge passed hand to hand — not textbooks, but lived truth

  • Sacred preparation through our Mother Blessing Ceremonies

  • Ceremonial companionship when invited into the birthing space — a sacred trust we hold with humility and deep devotion

We do not enter that room lightly. When she invites us to witness her crossing, we answer with our whole hearts.

Postpartum: Rest, Restoration, and Rising

After the sacred crossing — the re-birth of our Little Sister and the birth of her baby — we wrap her in the arms of the Village and offer her what is not just needed, but what is her birthright:

✨ Rest. Healing. Integration. Reverence.

This is not the end of a journey — it is the emergence. We hold sacred space as she returns from the depths of her initiation, ready to embody her purpose, her truth, and her new way of being.

Through intentional rest, community nourishment, and care that honors her whole being, we support her in reclaiming her full vitality — emotionally, spiritually, physically, and culturally.

SisterFriends do not disappear after the birth. They rise to meet her in her becoming — lifting her, affirming her, and reflecting back her power in moments she may forget it.

Together, we ensure that she, her baby, and her family are not just surviving — but resourced, thriving, and whole.

After the Re-birth of the mother and birth of the baby, the village will prepare to welcome the new lives into our community. We understand our responsibility is to ensure that “we celebrate their lives as if life is all we have” (Mama Kathryn Hall-Trujillo). We welcome our family to a Baby Naming, Whispers & Dreams Ceremony. 

Our approach is rooted in practices that support the vitality and health of our birthing families and lessen extreme symptoms and emergencies of perinatal mood and anxiety disorders. Our approach is rooted in the wise women traditions (midwifery) care model. We follow the four essentials of postpartum healing: an extended resting period, warm temperatures, warm nature, easy-to-digest, nutrient-dense foods, bodywork, and warming therapies.

One year of life: Celebration, Continuation, and Collective Becoming

When a Little Sister, her baby, and her family reach one full year earthside, we do not simply mark time — we witness the becoming.

This is the fruit of our sacred labor. This is the visible, vibrant result of a community that chooses to love each other whole. Through presence, ritual, advocacy, and interdependence, we have built a foundation — not just for survival, but for liberation.

✨ One year in, and we declare:

  • The Mothers have begun their return — restored in their purpose, walking boldly in the direction of their highest calling.

  • The Fathers know their power, their tenderness, and their rightful place in the restoration of family and community.

  • The Babies are held, protected, and seen as the peacemakers, visionaries, and light-bearers of our future.

And so we pause, reflect, and rejoice. We dance. We testify. We lift up all we’ve endured and all we’ve birthed.

Because this — this moment — is revolutionary. And the journey does not end here.

It continues — for generations.

Other Sacred Pathways We Walk:

Our commitment to thriving Black families expands beyond birthwork — it is a life-affirming practice of wholeness, vision, and collective care. We center healing and liberation across the full spectrum of life by focusing on:

💫 Conscious Family Planning

We support our community in making empowered, informed, and sacred decisions about when, how, and if they choose to bring life into the world. Rooted in ancestral wisdom and reproductive sovereignty, this is family planning without coercion, shame, or control — only clarity, autonomy, and love.

🌀 Health & Wellness for Mothers, Fathers & Babies

We recognize wellness as a birthright, not a privilege. Our offerings uplift the physical, mental, spiritual, and emotional wellbeing of the entire family unit. From herbal teachings to somatic healing, from fathers’ circles to mama wellness rituals — we pour into each layer of their being, because when one heals, we all do.

🌱 Community-Centered Resource Development

We create and curate culturally grounded, accessible tools that allow our families to sustain their wellness long after our touch. This includes healing guides, wellness kits, partner referrals, and sacred knowledge passed through the hands of the Village.