Erika's Personal Profile “I’d rather see my world with infinite possibilities and discover the limits, than set up limits and then never find out what else was possible”.  Erika   I am a mother of 2 lively teenagers, a qualified doula, childbirth educator and life coach and NLP master practitioner training.  I have attended over 200 births in Australia and U.S.A for over 14 years and am based in the eastern suburbs of Melbourne.  I have worked with people from varying cultures, lifestyles, family dynamics and values. I have personally experienced both labour with a breech baby resulting in a c-section and then a water birth with my second at a free standing birth centre with one-to-one midwifery care. With my life partner of 20yrs I have traveled and worked abroad, owner built our strawbale home in Ringwood and for 10 years home educated our boys.   I am a flexible, open minded, curious person; eager to learn and understand people, enjoy life and work on making the best of life's experiences. To find out more information please Contact Me Family snap shots The more recent me Traveling with my boys...Im very tired Cycling Around the Bay in a Day 2010 Lake Louise Canada My creative process - gardening the backyard Our owner built strawbale home Training Motherhood – giving birth and raising my 2 sons Birth Attendant/Doula training at Santa Rosa Womens Health and Birth Centre  California 1999 Rhea Dempsey’s Birthing Wisdom’s Birth Attendants Course 2001 Basic Childbirth Education Training Course for Health Professionals 2003 (National Association of Childbirth Educators) Hypnobirthing workshop – 3 days with Denise Love Nov 2004 Qualified Life Coach – Cert IV 2006 at Life Coach Institute Australia National coordinator and group facilitator of BaBs - Birthing and Babies Suppot groups 2006, 2007, 2008 Accredited N.A.C.E Childbirth Educator 2008 Qualified N.L.P practitioner - With James Tsakalos 2009 Birthwork Part 1 - Creative ways of making space for the baby - 3 day workshop Nov 2009 Regular attendance at professional development conferences Currently studying the diploma of Chilbirth Education with Childbirth International CBI Refresher NLP practitioner training with James Tsakalos 2011 Birthing with Hypnosis training for doulas - Open to Life (Anna Urbanski) May 2011 'What about Dads' NACE 1 day workshop June 2011 Birthwork Part 2 - Creative ways of making space for the baby - 3 day in house workshop Nov 2011 “For God did not give us a spirit of fear, but a spirit of love, power, and self discipline” My preggie belly with my second child