Restoring the Village: Reimagining Postpartum Care Through Community with Lauren Felts

In this episode of the Sacred Window Podcast, Christine Eck sits down with **Lauren Felts**, founder and CEO of Birthing Mothers, to talk about her journey into postpartum care and the vision that grew from her work with mothers and families. Lauren shares how her background in nutrition and her training in Ayurvedic postpartum care shaped the way she understands nourishment, healing, and the postpartum window. Through her work as a postpartum doula, she began to see the many questions and needs that families experience in the spaces between appointments and visits. That experience inspired her to create Birthing Mothers, a space where mothers can find grounded information, connection, and support while also bringing together practitioners from different areas of care. Christine and Lauren explore the importance of integrating evidence-based medicine with traditional and holistic wisdom, supporting postpartum partners, and creating community among the practitioners who care for families. They also talk about something equally important: **who is caring for the caregivers?** As Lauren's vision has expanded, so has her understanding that supporting mothers means looking at the whole system around them. Mothers, partners, practitioners, families, and communities are all interconnected. At the heart of this conversation is a simple but powerful reminder: **we were never meant to do this alone.** **In this episode:** • Lauren's journey into Ayurvedic postpartum care • The inspiration behind Birthing Mothers • Supporting mothers between appointments and visits • Bringing different approaches to care together • The role of partners in the postpartum experience • Supporting and nourishing practitioners • Building stronger networks of community care • Reimagining the village around motherhood **About Lauren:** Lauren Felts is a Certified Nutritionist, Ayurvedic Postpartum Doula, and the Founder & CEO of Birthing Mothers, a practitioner-led maternal wellness platform supporting women from preconception through pregnancy and postpartum. With nearly two decades in the health and wellness space, Lauren’s work is rooted in the belief that truly caring for women requires looking beyond physical health alone. Birthing Mothers brings together evidence-based Western medicine with nutrition, Ayurveda, movement, meditation, breathwork, mental health support, and other integrative practices—giving women trusted education, practical tools, community, and access to experienced maternal-health practitioners in one supportive space. Born from Lauren’s own experience of pregnancy and motherhood, Birthing Mothers is working to create a more connected and human approach to maternal care—one that supports the body, mind, and heart while helping women build greater self-trust throughout the transition into motherhood. Lauren is also passionate about building a connected network of maternal-health professionals and creating meaningful collaboration across disciplines. Birthing Mothers is currently welcoming new practitioner partnerships with aligned providers and organizations interested in education, referrals, events, community, and expanding integrative support for women and families. **Links:** **Learn more:** www.wearebirthingmothers.com **Practitioner Partnerships:** https://www.wearebirthingmothers.com/practitioners \- https://sacredwindowstudies.com/free-cookbook/ \- Are you feeling the call to know more about Conscious Postpartum Care? Reach out! ⁠Schedule a time with Christine⁠ to find out how this work can transform your care business or provide a meaningful career path. Here is the ⁠link⁠ to our free class @‌sacredwindowstudies Join our ⁠Facebook Group⁠ Podcast Music is Composed by Sara Emmitt, graduate of the Center for Sacred Window Studies. You can hear more of Sara’s incredible music at www.saraemmitt.com. #SacredWindowPodcast #SacredWindowStudies #LaurenFelts #BirthingMothers #ConsciousPostpartumCare #PostpartumSupport #AyurvedicPostpartum #Ayurveda #CommunityCare