My Story

Chrys is a queer, neurodivergent mother who raised their children in a non-traditional family structure, and who brings deep emotional intelligence and an open heart to every relationship they tend. They believe parenthood is a developmental stage in the lifecourse of a human full of profound transformation,  and that our capacity to attune to one another is the very vehicle of that transformation. They are fascinated by the malleable nature of the community and family structures that hold us as we grow. Building their own chosen family as a new parent was life-saving for them, steadying them through trauma healing and the tender, difficult work of single parenthood, and it shapes how they show up for others navigating their own thresholds today.

Chrys was born and raised in rural East Texas and earned her Master of Health Sciences at the University of Texas at Tyler. She brings over twenty years of experience as an educator, having taught post-secondary health courses, alongside extensive experience within healthcare systems — giving her a rich, embodied understanding of the human body, mind, and the relational fields that connect us. She came to birthwork serendipitously, navigating an unexpected pregnancy of her own during graduate school, a path that led her into work as a community based infant and young child feeding specialist. Since then, she has organized parenting peer support groups, contributed to breast/chest feeding research, and taught family cooking and nutrition classes in community settings — always finding joy in helping people build knowledge and confidence in caring for and feeding themselves and each other. She practices community nutrition guidance from a Health at Every Size perspective, using Intuitive Eating principles to advise families on best practices for eating and feeding as a family.

Chrys's own experiences with grief, bereavement, and neurodivergence have shaped a doula practice rooted in trauma-informed, gender-affirming community care. She holds space with a rare steadiness — attuned, unhurried, and deeply respectful of each person's autonomy — for those moving through the profound transition of postpartum. Her gift is meeting people exactly where they are, offering mentorship and heartfelt support as they grow into their new family unit, at their own pace and in their own way.

Outside of birthwork, Chrys is a movement instructor, kitchen witch, lay ecologist with a solar punk bent, and somatic performance artist. With a strong desire to role-model gender-expansive home management skills, they hope to embody the diversity and resilience that live within every evolving stage of parenting — for their clients, and for the wider community of care workers they hope to inspire into more sustainable practices of reciprocal care communities.