Laurel Wilson, CLC, CCCE, CLE, CLD, CPPFE, CPPI owns and manages MotherJourney in Centennial, Colorado.  With over twelve years experience working with women in the childbearing year, Laurel takes a creative approach to working with the pregnant family.  Using journaling, birth art, visualization and experiential exercises, women connect with their inner resources to discover their true beliefs about themselves, their relationships, and their abilities to birth and parent their children. 

 Laurel has received her training with Union Institute and University, Healthy Children, DONA, ALACE, CAPPA, Birthworks, Whole Birth Yoga and Prenatal Parenting.  She strives to provide the latest techniques, research and programs to her clients by attending yearly conferences and workshops in the birth and lactation field.  

Laurel is certified as a lactation counselor, childbirth educator, labor doula, lactation educator, Prenatal ParentingTM Instructor, and Pre and Postpartum fitness educator.  She serves as the CAPPA Director of Lactation Programs and trains Childbirth Educators and Lactation Educators for CAPPA certification. Offering education and movement classes to families in private and hospital settings, Laurel has created teaching strategies that facilitate better understanding of the change processes during the childbearing year. Laurel has been joyfully married to her husband for almost 17 years and has two beautiful boys, whose difficult births led her on a path towards helping emerging families create positive experiences.  She believes that the journey towards and into motherhood is a life changing rite of passage that should be deeply honored and celebrated.

Sample Past Speaking Engagements:

• Colorado Doulas Association Conference 2004 "The Business of Being a Doula"
• CPAC 2006 "Ecstatic Birth, The Role of Hormonal Influence"
• Boulder Community Hospital 2006 "Essential Oils for Labor and Birth"
• CPAC 2007 "Breastfeeding Teaching Tools"
• Front Range Council 2007 Conference "Compassionate Cesarean Education"
• CAPPA 2007 Conference "Compassionate Cesarean Education"
• Exempla St. Joseph 2007 "Answering Common Breastfeeding Questions"

   

Laurel invites you to take a journey into motherhood with her. 

Come on a motherjourney.....

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