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Hello and welcome to Mormon Stories. This is Natasha Helfer Parker and we are to embark on another series focusing on mental health and relationships.

This episode is meant to piggyback my most recent interview with Sarah regarding postpartum depression.

Tonight I have with me, Jamie Bodily, who is a certified birth doula and has been helping mothers and babies for the past nine years.

Jamie initiated co-wrote and coordinated a doula program for women in recovery from substance addiction where she's had great success.

She's worked extensively helping mothers with a variety of mood disorders and is in the internship phase of her master's program for a degree in mental health counseling.

Although am I correct, Jamie, and that you're now currently done with that as of today or yesterday?

As of yesterday, I'm a graduate.

Wow, congratulations.

Thanks.

So you have a master's degree now in mental health counseling.

And you have a master's degree also in human services from Capella University and you received your bachelor's degree in family sciences from Brigham Young.

Jamie has specifically focused on reproductive mental health during her internships and has had the opportunity to work with Dr. Diane Sanford, who's an expert in the field.

She has five children and is a member of our church and with that introduction, I'd just like to say welcome, Jamie.

Thank you, Natasha.

And again, congratulations. That's a huge accomplishment.

Thanks.

All right, so why don't we get started with you?

Just giving us a little bit more of your background and how you kind of got interested in this field to begin with and just fill in any information I left out as far as your journey as far as how you got to where you are today.

So I became a doula about nine years ago.

I'd had a very rough second birth.

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