The Bloom Institute

With fall right around the corner, we're taking a moment to give you a heads up on what to expect with us at Root & Rise Collective in Mesa this season, beautiful humans 🍂

Bloom will be supporting our BW community, mothers, women and families through a few powerful opportunities including:

• Birth Worker Mentorship on Thurs, Aug 29 on Holding Grief

• Women's Grief Group on Fri, Sept 13 & Nov 15

• Postpartum Educator Training on Tues, Sept 17 (this portion of the asynchronous certification offers an education in belly binding and postnatal herbs) and,

• Conscious Parenting Class on Oct 12

All of these events are in Mesa, AZ & you can find the 🖇️ below or comment BLOOM to learn more.

We can't wait to see you,
Your Bloom Mentors, Educators & Guides
The Bloom Institute

Fall events listed will be led by Ayurvedic postpartum specialist, grief doula, integrative life coach, birth and postpartum mentor, soul tender, and conscious parent of two thriving tween/teens Jennifer Magnano.

New to TBI? Invested in mothers, parents and professional caregiving bodies, The Bloom Institute for Intergenerational Impact offers education, mentorship and support in Arizona and online. Our sole aim here is to produce groups, workshops, courses and events inviting the community and caregivers to bloom personally and professionally 🦋

Because we can.

With fall right around the corner, we're taking a moment to give you a heads up on what to expect with us at in Mesa this season, beautiful humans 🍂

Bloom will be supporting our BW community, mothers, women and families through a few powerful opportunities including:

• Birth Worker Mentorship on Thurs, Aug 29

• Women's Grief Group on Fri, Sept 13 & Nov 15

• Postpartum Educator Training on Tues, Sept 17 (this portion of the asynchronous certification offers an education in belly binding and postnatal herbs) and,

• Conscious Parenting Class on Oct 12

All of these events are in Mesa, AZ & you can find the 🖇️ in our b ! o or comment BLOOM to learn more.

We can't wait to see you,
Your Bloom Mentors, Educators & Guides


Fall events listed will be led by Ayurvedic postpartum specialist, grief doula, integrative life coach, birth and postpartum mentor, soul tender, and conscious parent of two thriving tween/teens Jennifer Magnano aka .

New to TBI? Invested in mothers, parents and professional caregiving bodies, The Bloom Institute for Intergenerational Impact offers education, mentorship and support in Arizona and online. Our sole aim here is to produce groups, workshops, courses and events inviting the community and caregivers to bloom personally and professionally 🦋

Because we can.

Impacting generations.

Check out our 🖇️ below for our first almost-fall edition of Birth Worker Mentorship newsletter, beautiful humans.

https://birthworkermentorship.substack.com/p/the-art-of-reflective-listening-with

With you,
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Babies crack parents wide open in ways we (as birth and postpartum workers) are not always prepared to hold. Join us for an evening of sharing traditional skills and resources dedicated to ushering in greater ease for this transition.⁠
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This is part two of an asynchronous certification, meaning there is no necessary order to this training. You can start with part two!⁠
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Learn more at bloomforimpact.com or comment BLOOM 🦋⁠
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What's the scoop on our certification?⁠
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Prepared Postpartum Educator Certification prepares to you teach Prepared Postpartum to mothers & parents 1:1 and in groups. And, it's curated to bring value to the families you serve whether it's their first baby or sixth! This training is dedicated to being in service of caregiving bodies through the lens of trauma-informed, accessible, integrative, Ayurvedic and Traditional postpartum care. Prepared Postpartum Educators can expect to walk away with basic and advanced tools, tips, resources and hands-on practice; a wider worldview of postpartum support and practical ways to honor timeless Traditional healing in postpartum; plus, complete postpartum guides & bonus worksheets to use with your clients for holistic vaginal and cesarean birth recovery and healing. ⁠
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Part II of the Postpartum Educator Certification is Aug 19th Mesa, AZ & Online. Investment is $297 for the complete certification plus book list with payment plan option. As always, scholarships are available.⁠
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(Training will be held at Root & Rise Collective 🦋)

"Healing ourselves is not the end of the line, but brings us into relationship with others, and allows us to do the work that brings healing to the wider world." -

As we reintroduce The Birth & Postpartum Institute as The Bloom Institute for Intergenerational Impact we want to be excessively clear about our messaging. The education, mentorship and support you'll receive here is for world change. Change that ripples out into bodies, minds and lives that reshapes the landscape of motherhood, parenting and caregiving.

Caregiving bodies (of all kinds) are the foundation from which beauty grows.

We believe it and we've seen it.

Stick around for opportunities to be a part of this initiative, beautiful human.

With you,
The Bloom Institute

// Honoring caregiving stories, bodies & lives since 2011

"Healing ourselves is not the end of the line, but brings us into relationship with others, and allows us to do the work that brings healing to the wider world." -

As we reintroduce The Birth & Postpartum Institute as The Bloom Institute for Intergenerational Impact aka we want to be excessively clear about our messaging. The education, mentorship and support you'll receive here is for world change. Change that ripples out into bodies, minds and lives that reshapes the landscape of motherhood, parenting and caregiving.

Caregiving bodies (of all kinds) are the foundation from which beauty grows.

We believe it and we've seen it.

Stick around for opportunities to be a part of this initiative, beautiful human.

With you,


// Honoring caregiving stories, bodies & lives since 2011

There is still time to join our Community Postpartum Educator training next week at Root & Rise Collective in Mesa, beautiful humans. Check out the link to learn more, or send us a message to learn more!

https://calendly.com/jennifermagnano/prepared-postpartum-certification

Birth Worker Mentorship is officially BACK for her 2024 season!

Re/ignite your passion for mothers, parents, families, birth work & working with birthing people with us on Thursday's March 7 & 21 from 10-11:30 am MST!

This two-part virtual gathering has been created to enliven your holy, wild work, dear one. Featuring local biz mavens: award winning birth doula, Cherry Blossom Doula Services CEO and visionary Alyssa Leon on March 7th & renowned midwife, reiki instructor and Magical Mama’s founder Jennifer Hoeprich on March 21st, you are sure to leave with you fire lit for the New Year!

Check out our latest newsletter to learn more:

Updated March Links! Jennifer & Alyssa are back for all the spring news you can use to re/ignite your passion for birth work in 2024, plus - we've got community resources!

We had our first event promoting the 2024 re-launch of our Birth Workers Mentorship program today. It is an absolute honor to continue to support 4th Trimester Arizona & the beautiful families they serve!

Grief is not a disorder, a disease or a sign of weakness. It is an emotional, physical and spiritual necessity, the price you pay for love. The only cure for grief is to grieve." - Rabbi Earl Grollmam

Due to unforeseen circumstances (sometimes we call this, simply, real life!) HOPE & HEALING will be online for February, dearest souls.

Women and mothers are invited into sacred circle and a safe virtual container for processing all journeys with birth, trauma and loss THIS FRIDAY February 9th at 6:30 pm MST. This community-centered, virtual soul care session is a starting point to fuel future hope & healing. You can expect a no-skills-necessary time of mindfulness, meditation and mediums of embodied poetry and prose, writing, journaling, doodling, mandalas, collage work and art.

Please log in 10 minutes early with any comfort items (sitting pillow, journal, pen/pencil, crystals, feathers, etc.) and an open heart. Your optional donation of $10 goes back supplies care packages for bereaved and birth trauma experiences in Arizona.

Type REGISTER below for the 🖇️

About your facilitators: With a wide range of experiences throughout the spectrum of wild, raw motherhood and caregiving, Jennifer & Lanita offer mind, body and soul care in a myriad of ways outside of Hope & Healing.

Jennifer Magnano is the founder of The Birth and Postpartum Institute an Integrative Life Coach, Ayurvedic Postpartum Specialist and Bereavement Doula with certifications in modalities from trauma and recovery to herbal healing to MBSR group facilitation. She has worked on-ground with families since 2011 & has partnered with Cherry Blossom Doula Services, LLC since 2019.

Lanita Ugstad is a Certified Advanced Yoga Teacher (ERYT-300, ERYT200, RPYT, YACEP and Trauma Informed), Certified Trauma Informed Mindfulness Coach, Birth Educator / Labor Doula, Prenatal Yoga Teacher, Reiki Master and Certified Equine Assisted Coach. Lanita works with/through Vivify Wellness Counseling; her own business, Sacred Equine Journeys Upward Light Healing & Yoga Studio; ; and, under her own LLC.

Jessica Morel is currently on hiatus from co-facilitating. We welcome her return when the time is right.

A better world can be assured in by conscious parents, willing to uphold values of connection and empathy first.

Yesterday, we had the most gorgeous wisdom energy in our home thanks to this brilliant retired Doula. Di has traveled the world teaching parents how to connect with babies & embody the most beautiful versions of themselves! On this note, we are SUPER EXCITED to share that this upcoming year we will be offering a Conscious Parenting Class through our newly rebranded .

If you've been here for any length of time, you know our hearts for OUR (the collective) children.

We can change the landscape of parenting and therefore childing in this wild world, loves.

Still.

We're with you,
Your TBPI Doula

"I do not at all understand the mystery of grace - only that it meets us where we are but does not leave us where it found us." - Anne Lamott

The biggest gift you can give yourself in motherhood & parenting is grace, beautiful human.

Grace when you're tired and grumpy.
Grace when you've overcooked the green beans.
Grace when you forgot the laundry in the washer and must wash it for the second or perhaps third time.
Grace when grief rises up unexpected & you can't contain it.
Grace when your toddler has watched 7 straight hours of Kids YouTube shorts.
Grace when you left the one item you really needed at the bottom of the grocery cart.

Offer yourself more grace.
Offer others grace, too.

And maybe, just maybe, life will feel a little bit lighter.

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We are SO READY for our next Postpartum Birth Workers Mentorship & Ed Meetup online this week, beautiful humans.

This experience is a new layer of mentorship for new and existing birth workers who work for the betterment of postpartum mothers and people. We'll chat about how you are as a person & professional before diving into this months theme of ushering in CALM as we support postpartum bodies, minds, lives.

All families deserve and desire well and well-resourced caregivers. With over a decade of experience in this space
in modalities including trauma-informed yoga, integrative life coaching, Ayurvedic postpartum medicine and herbal healing, MBSR, and grief, loss & recovery group facilitation, Jennifer aka is your mentor, guide and companion for this monthly group.

Know that sacred space is held for all those in attendance & your processing is welcome here. Always! 🫶🏻

Register here:
https://thepostpartuminstitute.mn.co/plans/339812?bundle_token=b94dd5ab785fac4c8cef9a47ffb5d48e&utm_source=manual

An energetic exchange of $15 holds your spot. And as always, scholarships are available.

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Our Postpartum Birth Workers Mentorship & Ed Meetup is the third Thursday of each month. The meeting will be from 10-11:30 am MST and the invitation is extended to both new and experienced folks who work with postpartum bodies - birth workers, midwives, doulas, birth assistants, therapists, IBCLC, energy medicine workers etc. If you have an interest in serving postpartum families and/or women, this meetup is also for you. Join us!

Meet our main moderator for Hope & Healing, loves.

Jennifer Magnano is a mother, Ayurvedic postpartum specialist, and writer with certifications and training in integrative life coaching, grief, bereavement and trauma-informed and accessible yoga. She is the survivor of sibling loss, one traumatic birth and, one healing birth, too. Jennifer is currently a student of spiritual direction, virtual doula & founder of The Postpartum Institute and VP of Cherry Blossom Doula Services, LLC.

Join our next Hope & Healing group online tomorrow Wednesday September 27 at 10 am MST to process your birth trauma and/or loss. More details can be found at:

thepostpartumintitute.mn.co
or visit & follow the 🖇️ to receive access to our private group plus registration.

We're with you,
Your TPI Team

Mothering is not just for mothers, as I've been writing about lately. Sometimes, birth workers show up for my classes and ask what value they can bring to this space having not birthed themselves.

I don't believe you need to be everything to a child in the capacity of mother, father, parent in order to bring necessary good into this space. In fact, I know plenty of folks without children whose value in sacred seasons of pregnancy through postpartum and early parenting is immense.

What they (you!) bring to the table, I cannot some days. And while we aren't watching tots and elementary-aged kids in our home jumping into lava pit pillow piles on the regular anymore (most days), my hands are full every day.

And so, I wrote this yesterday.

Pondering the immense beauty that is mothering in all bodies, always.

If you occupy this precious space, I would love to hear your thoughts on mothering too ❤️

With you.
J. 🍃🤰🌻

X The Postpartum Institute

Reminder! Hope & Healing our sacred circle for Birth, Trauma and Loss will be held THIS WEDNESDAY September 27 at 10 am MST for 60 minutes of community-centered soul care online. Women and mothers on all grieving paths are welcome to attend as a story keeper (holding space) and/or as storyteller, having your story witnessed by intentional bodies, minds and hearts.

You can register for Hope & Healing on our virtual platform with The Postpartum Institute, precious humans. Please plan to bring any comfort items (sitting pillow, journal, crystals, feathers, etc.), a journal and an open heart.

Your optional donation of $10 goes back into our Hope & Healing community, supplying care packages for newly bereaved families and birth trauma experiences in Arizona and beyond.

It is the honor of my lifetime to be here with you.

Gentle hugs,
J. 🍃🤰🌻
Your Virtual Postpartum Doula, Mentor & Guide
Founder

Visit https://buff.ly/48hmxQa to register today.

On this International Day of Peace, we want you to remember that peace is your birthright and that through birthing and/or choosing to raise precious children in this wild world, you have the opportunity of a lifetime. To call that peace back in; and, to empower your children with embodied peace from and through pregnancy, birth and postpartum.

Have you thought about how responsive, respectful and conscious parenting is the way foward - really, for all of humankind to thrive? With peace as the foundation for your mothering and/or parenting journey, you are making a significant difference.

We thank you for this today and every day.

With you.
J. 🍃🤰🌻
Your Virtual Postpartum Doula, Mentor & Guide
Founder

P.S. We don't expect your path to be perfect, and we (as parents) can remember the wisdom of choosing peace - reclaiming it - over and over and over again.

Keep lavender in mind for your complete postpartum healing 🍃

What remedies can you have on hand for postpartum? Lavender is one of my go-to's for a variety of reasons. Topically, it can reduce pain levels when applied to the hands and feet in a balm, salve or massage oil. And aromatically it can soothe the mind-body!

If you are curating a basket or box of things for your postpartum or for the postpartum of someone you love, consider adding lavender in!

The best part? Lavender is now clinically proven to produce specific results like less anxiety in surgical birth & postpartum.

I always love when science catches up with ancient medicine, friends!

With you,
J. 🍃🤰🌻
Your Virtual Doula
The Postpartum Institute

A note to birth workers, you can benefit from lavender too! Manage your mind with this wonderful gift from Mother Nature after a long birth when it's hard to get to sleep, or when you've had a long day full of postpartum people. Your calm will be contagious 🌈

Bonus article for cesarean birthers & access to conversations like these, can be found at thepostpartuminstitute.mn.co. In our free Community Care group (it's an app, not Facebook 🥳) you'll get direct links to articles and research studies, plus receive access to ALL THE TIPS on living your best postpartum & life.

You're worth it.

You were meant to blossom, bloom & grow in motherhood and parenthood, dear ones. Consider that the words "you've changed" to also mean you have evolved or are evolving 🍃

Most of the people we love are not comfortable with change, by the way. This is not a reflection of you, but simply their capacity to step into newness and new life with you.

On this note, over the years, I've found that when one partner says this to another, it can be an invitation to deepen communication. Sometimes the safest container for that will be a quiet time just the two of you & other times you will want to invite a counselor, coach or mediator in to hold space for you both.

No matter what, if you like who you are becoming, please keep becoming.

The world needs more of us who have fully come alive!

Save, share & as always, feel free to share your experience of expansion with us below 🥰

With you,
J. 🍃🤰🌻

Did you know that we explore partner care more in depth through The Postpartum Institute? A website and app available to guide you through pregnancy and postpartum into the beyond, this sacred space is now open for enrollment in our free & paid memberships.

ID: white lettering on purple graphic" consider taking the words you've changed as a compliment."

🖇️ thepostpartuminstitute.mn.co

Love will get us through 🙏

Our latest newsletter is UP, dear souls. It includes 12 tips from Anne Lamott on how to get through "It All" - from the world being on fire to our own homes experiencing the turbulence we'd prefer didn't exist. Can we tell you HOW MUCH we pray this one honors your soul?

Find your Hope Notes here: https://jennifermagnano.substack.com/p/love-will-get-us-through

Maternal-child mental health challenges are messy.

And they'll radically change not only your life, but your relationship with the Lord.

"The invitation into your child's world means a surrender to being STRETCHED beyond recognition.

It means refinement by fire.
It means dying to personal desire.

It does not mean dead, though.
We do not lose life here.
We gain it.

WE GAIN IT.

If you are personally in the fire right now, I want to encourage you. This weekend I sat with my local MFMH family & we spoke just such life into one another.

Even in the hardest seasons, days, moments, there is bread. There is beauty and life and joy that just doesn't make sense.

I can pop a 50-lb child over my shoulder & make a getaway from a painful moment AND be in awe that my physical body is still able to do this 😭 I'm not saying this happened this week. I'm also not saying it didn't.

Even in the hardest seasons, days, and moments, my loves... there is bread. There is beauty and life and joy that just doesn't make sense.

So, if you're being stretched beyond your own recognition...
If you're standing IN THE FIRE...
If you're not even sure what personal desire is anymore...

BREATHE

Look for the beauty

ONE MORE BREATH NOW

Look harder

It's there.
I promise.

Dear ones, some language is for for every stage. So, this goes for if your babe has just come earthside or is presently in the double-digits.

Look harder.
Beauty still exists.
It co-exists.

Do you agree? ❤

I'm exhausted after fighting a migraine & allergic reaction the second half of this week, friends. Yet beauty. Crafting with this fabulous little-big human. Listening to her brother learn the cello. Beauty.

Being real with you is an honor I won't forsake.

Thanks for always being real back."
- Jennifer The Barefoot Preacher

Reposted from our founder The Barefoot Preacher -

"Why is God so comfortable with allowing us to experience the very outer reaches of our limits? I don’t know." - Andy Squyres

I DON'T KNOW 🔥

It's a valid answer, loves.

A valid answer for when we are in the hole & when we are not.

I remember when I first started referring to myself as a special needs parent...

I felt seen.

Seen because my daughter lives with mostly-invisible special needs, except for when it's highly visible... yet because of her neuro-typical appearance, it's never TRULY visible by anyone who hasn't been here in the land of the messy middle - or isn't God him/herself.

Loves, I don't know when we get to stop falling into the hole 🤷 I don't know why God stretches us, or allows us to be stretched. I don't know why my Abba allows OCD, ADHD, sensory processing disorder to EXIST. I don't even know why s/he allows me to exist.

Yet, here I am. Here I am. Gifted with UNFATHOMABLE compassion for my child, my family, my fellow parents - labeled or not.

So, on days when you feel like no one sees you - that God isn't seeing this - please, please know another human is seeing this. She's with you even if you're thousands of miles apart.

To those who see me/us, I am forever grateful. Beyond words grateful. To my God who sometimes seems absent yet never is, I'm still grateful You exist. And that you allow me to, too.

Even if it's hard sometimes.
Even if.

If you need a reading for today visit Romans 12, loves ❤ it gives me light on dim days.

With you.
Always, always.
J. 🌻


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DM with credit for this graphic. I'm not sure the original author. I'm willing to bet s/he is an absolutely fabulous human being I would live to get to know.

Squeezes.

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Did you know our ministry has a diverse group of voices speaking life into everything from personal pain to special needs parenting?

We're better together seeking Jesus in hard places & spaces & seasons, dear one.

Link below to grab more conversations like these.

Your MFMH Community
Moms for Mental Health

Link - jennifermagnano.substack.com

Our latest newsletter is up, dear ones!

I have dreamed of Hope Notes like these in your inbox uplifting your life for a decade now. Get to know the voices we amplify for your experience of motherhood and mental health in our latest edition: The Pressure of Mothering Today.

https://jennifermagnano.substack.com/p/the-pressure-of-mothering-today

We are with you.
Jennifer & The MFMH Team

We are STANDING FIRM with you for an increase in faith this season, Mom.

We are with you.
We are with you.
We are with you.

Your MFMH team

// follow for community in your journey of maternal-child mental health🌻 We are better together

Would you stand in the fire for this God who is with you and within you? Do you TRULY know who's you are?

This Saturday is our live conversation on your real identity, Mom.

Get a sneak peak TODAY at 9 am PST by joining founder Jennifer Magnano and Shanicka House of on IG LIVE!

About Shanicka: Shanicka Vail House is the wife of Virginia native, and worship artist, Chris House, and the mother of two beautiful girls Raegan Leigh (5) and Rhian Elise (3), and also the Angel MOM to Justice River and JaKob Bean.

Having always been passionate about serving, Shanicka was able to really share her love for assisting others as she traveled the world serving Motown Recording Artist, Tasha Cobbs Leonard, as personal assistant for about five (5) years. This was key in helping to grow and prepare Shanicka to walk in the ministry God would give her.

My TransParent (MOM)ents, LLC, a ministry, a brand, and a business where she connects with, encourages, and shares her life with other MOMs online and in real life, as well as through apparel in the MTM online store.

Gifted to serve and assist in many different capacities (a wife, mother, author, and entrepreneur,) Shanicka is most grateful for God’s continued faithfulness to honor her heart to serve.

At our core, we are a community to explore a mothers truest identity at the intersection of faith, motherhood, and mental health. So many mothers have bought into the lie that the ONLY identity that matters is MOM.

I was one of them.

In 11 years of soul searching, I have found over and over again that the title, role, and label of MOM are invaluable to my journey! And also, I am so much more than MOM. So are you.

This month we are tackling one of our biggest conversations yet for our More Than Mom series with Shanicka House of My Transparent MOMents.

Do you know yourself?
Do you know WHOSE you are?
Do you have faith that STANDS FIRM in the face of what looks like certain death?

Lean into Shanicka's story with us on August 21st. Even if life has brought doubt and dysfunction and dismay into the picture, we aren't walking this long road home alone dearest one.

As you grow in knowing whose you are, we think you might just have a better idea of your value, identity, and worth.

We are with you.
Jennifer & The MFMH Team

Note: LIVE session online is August 21 @ 10 am PST. You can pre-register here, today: mfmh.org/upcoming-events

Doubt much?

EVEN IF you are beat up or bogged down with hurdles in real, raw motherhood, mental health and life, we believe you haven't been left behind. If fact, we have NO DOUBTS that God is standing with you in the fire! Join our founder The Barefoot Preacher and August speaker (plus newlsetter writer) My Transparent MOMents for a sneak peak into our first mom-versation this fall on Tuesday the 17th at 9 am MST/12 pm EST. You won't want to miss this, Mom!

With Love,
Your MFMH Team