Jazzy Bean Doula LLC

Jazzy Bean Doula LLC Jazzy Bean Doula provides birth, postpartum, gender & post-op, and sleep doula support!

11/01/2025

There is only one Miss Piggy… 🐷💅🏽

🎥 Kermit The Frog 🐸

Jazzy Reflection: I’ve been thinking a lot about interdependence and my relationship to carework lately. I find myself t...
07/04/2025

Jazzy Reflection: I’ve been thinking a lot about interdependence and my relationship to carework lately. I find myself thinking about it because today is the holiday of independence and so soon after a season of celebrating pride. That transition feels so abrupt and unnatural this year (but doesn’t it always?). I think this reflects what a sacred and stressful time it has been for me. I’ve felt saturated in the joy, pleasure, and care of q***r community while also feeling the tension and bounds of my professional carework…

Picture it, I’m getting my whole life on the dancefloor of a gay clurb during pride. My partner and our friends, even in our inebriated state, are buddy systeming our way from room to room. We pause to greet more friends as they enter the scene and I feel a wave of nausea crash over my body. I (very gracefully) vomit into a potted plant nearby. So many g**s came to my aid and I’m gently guided outside of the clurb to get air. Somehow I end up in a homie’s car having a much deserved respite on cool cushy leather seats. Then I’m right back in the clurb, electrolytes in my cup, as we all watch the sunrise from the dancefloor. I’m filled with gratitude as I look up at the sky and thank all the brick throwers for my right to puke.

…As I’m reflecting now, I’m struck by the freedom required to be interdependent, to know that care will always come and I can count on you, and you, and you. I know you can’t receive my care (professional or otherwise) if you do not trust that I’ll be there. Reciprocity is the care I take pride in.

Jazzy Reflection: Fat Liberation and Well BeanFat people are not dying from being fat, we are dying from medical neglect...
05/06/2025

Jazzy Reflection: Fat Liberation and Well Bean

Fat people are not dying from being fat, we are dying from medical neglect.

This weekend I was able to visit for the Fat Liberation Gallery Show and hear Mx. give their talk “A Body Made In My Own Image”.

I love listening to fat people talk about loving their fat bodies and the pleasure and possibilities of fat liberation. I grew up around fat people who only talked about the newest miracle diet, what their goal weight was, and what supplements they were taking. By the time I was an adult, I had already tried every kind of diet, gym membership, personal trainer, doctor, dietitian, and nutritionist. I was told my PCOS was a result of my weight and I needed to lose weight to treat my chronic illness.

But yo-yo dieting only made me heavier, only made my metabolism slower, and my chronic illness grew more complex. At this point, weight loss is no goal of mine. Though, sometimes my old conditioned way of thinking creeps in as I continue to navigate a dehumanizing and fatphobic world.

Ever since I started sharing Jazzy Bean Wellness (now going by Well Bean), I’ve been worried about creating content that perpetuates this narrative that fat people are unhealthy and need to individually make better health choices. Honestly, I’m sick of feeling sick and I’m tired of being harmed by my doctors, the wellness industry, and diet culture. I know they cannot and will not save me. Medical neglect is largely why I got sicker and individual health choices are not enough (and most are not sustainable for systemic reasons).

Even still, most of my days are consumed by me thinking of ways I can feel better. I make this content to share some of the things I have learned to help take the edge off. My hope is that when other fat, q***r, or BIPOC people go to the internet after their doctor failed to help them, they might see my content among all the other thin wellness creators and feel a little more hope.

Let me be clear: I love my fat q***r body. This page is a celebration. I am well and I bean well.

29!!! TWENTY NINE!!! 29!!! 🥳🎂🎉Thank you all for the birthday wishes! I had a beautiful day celebrating my past year and ...
04/27/2025

29!!! TWENTY NINE!!! 29!!! 🥳🎂🎉
Thank you all for the birthday wishes! I had a beautiful day celebrating my past year and welcoming a new one. There has been so much change and still so much more change ahead. Here are some Jazzy B reflections and life updates:
🌻 I am halfway through my graduate program for my MA in Couples and Family Therapy. I’ll begin my internship year in January! I am learning.
🌻 I have paused taking on doula clients. I am focused on training and mentoring birthworkers, and providing childbirth education to expecting parents. I am teaching.
🌻 I am working as a care coordinator, facilitator, and counselor providing community wraparound support. I am listening.
🌻 I shifted away from my movement home about two years ago in order to resist nonprofit martyrdom and welcome both personal pleasure and peace. Since then, I’ve built a new home with my wonderful partner , and am growing more authentic community connections that are rooted in friendship (and not transaction). I am still, and perhaps more, divinely connected to reproductive justice as world building. I am living.

I will continue to embrace the transformation that will come with this final year of my twenties. I hear Octavia Butler’s voice reminding me to remind you:
“All that you touch, you Change
All that you Change, Changes you
The only lasting truth is Change
God is Change”

I dedicate this next year to Change, to ceremony, and to connection. This is twenty nine…

Well Bean: Reading for Pleasure 📚🥰Now why does my face look like that when I am reading? I promise I am really enjoying ...
04/15/2025

Well Bean: Reading for Pleasure 📚🥰
Now why does my face look like that when I am reading? I promise I am really enjoying this book! 😂

In this political moment and my current academic journey, I feel overwhelmed by all the things I am supposed to read. Often these things are heavy or dense and hard to enjoy. My reading practice, though teaching me new skills and keeping me informed, has begun to make me more and more anxious. It is crucial for my health and wellbeing that I manage my stress. How do I even do that right now?

Who knew more reading would be helpful? Since I cannot just stop reading, the way to heal my reading practice and lower my anxiety is to read more for pleasure. I am using reading as a way to embrace my leisure time as an opportunity to visit other stories- other worlds.

The book pictured here is ~Black Cake~ by Charmaine Wilkerson. I really enjoyed this read, not because it was lighter or less connected to the grief we are collectively feeling, but because it was a beautiful story in which to engage with all of these things in the context of a family’s mysterious connection to food, to the sea, and to each other.

Jazzy Bean Reflection- 🕊️🌸🦋👀 sometimes being visible means putting on some shades with the one who sees you clearly. 😎😘
04/01/2025

Jazzy Bean Reflection- 🕊️🌸🦋👀 sometimes being visible means putting on some shades with the one who sees you clearly. 😎😘

Jazzy Bean Wellness Tip #2: DAYLIGHT.Sometimes rest looks like standing in the daylight. ☀️🤩Y’all, my circadian rhythm ...
03/18/2025

Jazzy Bean Wellness Tip #2: DAYLIGHT.
Sometimes rest looks like standing in the daylight. ☀️🤩

Y’all, my circadian rhythm is tore up from the floor up after years of overnight work. My internal clock is often stuck on tired or fatigued. This is also a common symptom of PCOS, diabetes, and hypertension. It is crucial, especially for folks living with these conditions, to get good rest in order to promote repair, balance hormones, and reduce stress.

Nothing is stronger than daylight in setting or resetting the sleep-wake cycle (take note new parents!). Distinguishing day and night is one of our first big lessons as a newborn. Getting out into the daylight is a nourishing and recharging practice that better integrates us into our natural rest rhythm. It is a great alternative to a second cup of coffee, a power nap, or the artificial light of screens.

Now that Spring is arriving, there is so much more opportunity to soak up some daylight! ✨💛

Jazzy Bean Wellness Tip #1: BREAKFAST. Y’all better get you one of these! It’s a high protein breakfast! One of the fir...
03/11/2025

Jazzy Bean Wellness Tip #1: BREAKFAST.
Y’all better get you one of these! It’s a high protein breakfast!

One of the first adjustments I made to better manage my insulin resistant PCOS, diabetes, and hypertension was beginning the day with a meal that doesn’t make me feel like sh*t. Having a good breakfast creates a nourishing foundation for my energy the rest of the day. It is an investment I can’t afford not to make everyday! Instead of striving for “low carb” meals, I focus on building ~high protein~ meals.

The equation I use to build a balanced breakfast for myself =
(PROTEIN + FAT) + (FIBER + VITA/MINS) + (CARBS + VITA/MINS)

The image featured here is my typical breakfast during the week. It contains:
- 🍳 eggs and sausage for protein and fat
- 🥦 roasted broccoli for fiber, vitamins (C, K, and A), and minerals (folate, iron, and potassium)
- 🍊 a small tangerine for carbohydrates, vitamins (C and A), and minerals (folate, thiamine, and potassium)
- 💧water in my 40oz emotional support water bottle

Jazzy Bean Wellness Reflection- EAT, REST, PLAY… I spent the weekend celebrating the 30th birthday of the first friend I...
03/03/2025

Jazzy Bean Wellness Reflection- EAT, REST, PLAY… I spent the weekend celebrating the 30th birthday of the first friend I ever had in life- my older sister. It was a beautiful retreat where we ate great food, relaxed our bodies, and enjoyed each other’s company. My sisters, partner, and I honored the simultaneous ending and beginning that this birthday marked. I feel so grateful to have witnessed my sister experience this milestone. As we all worked on our vision boards, I began thinking about this wellness series. It has become popular to embrace rebirth, transformation, and starting new on the path to self actualization. Though few people actually do the work of stripping their lives back enough to start new, or rather, to start remembering being new. The three practices I’ve shared create a foundational flow: eating, resting, and playing. It is the rhythm of new life, of well being, of re-birth. It is the rhythm we are born with, the flow that is often lost as we are conditioned to become productive consumers (to become unwell). It is this rhythm that I am actively seeking to tap back into and savor. It’s made caring for myself much easier as I am tasked only with completing three objectives for myself each day: eat, rest, and play.

Jazzy Bean Wellness Practice 3- PLAY… I’ve found myself working so much. It became worse during the pandemic, when every...
02/25/2025

Jazzy Bean Wellness Practice 3- PLAY… I’ve found myself working so much. It became worse during the pandemic, when everything felt unsure and we found a way to be invested or productive from anywhere with virtual/hybrid work. Suddenly, every moment of my life felt like availability for possible work. The work has been deeply meaningful and always in service to justice or community wellbeing. Regardless, though, nobody is meant to work so much. As I have been unlearning this devotion to work, I have learned it is not enough to not work. I have to play. I have to use my time in a way that is in service to me, to my inner child, to my joy, to my wonder, to my desires, to my talents. Play has been key to healing my sense of connection to my body. Play helps me deal with my stresses, fills my heart with a sense of connection, and keeps me in movement. Play is not a luxury. I have to play.

Jazzy Bean Wellness Practice 2- REST… I have been known to resist rest by working during the day and night. It has often...
02/18/2025

Jazzy Bean Wellness Practice 2- REST… I have been known to resist rest by working during the day and night. It has often felt like rest was a luxury I couldn’t afford but now I know I can’t afford to go without rest. So much of our repairing, healing, and growing happens when we rest. That is why it is so crucial for a newborn to have a rhythm around rest. This rhythm of rest doesn’t happen all at once but is something that is sprinkled in throughout the day. I have been slowly rebuilding my own rhythm around rest. It is a practice of taking what I need when I need it. I take breaths, I take breaks, I take stretches, I take naps. Hopefully, I will start taking more vacations. Rest is not something we can ever get back after choosing not to take it, so I take rest.

Jazzy Bean Wellness Episode 1- EAT… I eat with structure and I process with intuition. I eat with a rhythmic regularity....
02/11/2025

Jazzy Bean Wellness Episode 1- EAT… I eat with structure and I process with intuition. I eat with a rhythmic regularity. I eat, like a newborn, at least every 3 hours. I eat even as they tell me to skip meals, to only drink shakes, to go on week-long juice cleanses, to try intermittent fasting, and to cut out whole food groups. I eat as a fat person with diabetes. I eat for my safety. I eat to ensure I don’t become lethargic, anxious, fatigued, sad, frustrated, or confused. I eat with structure and I process with intuition. I eat and I connect with my body as it absorbs my fuel. I eat and I connect with the embodied sensation my meal brings me. I eat and then I ask: am I energized? satisfied? tired? jittery? I eat and allow its input to guide me on what to eat next. I eat because I am learning. one. meal. at. a. time...

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