Hi, I'm Laurisa, Founder of Girls Who Know®
When I was a girl, I didn’t know or trust my body. As a teen, I criticized and loathed the way my body looked and was unaware of the inspiring things it was doing every day. I didn’t recognize my intuitive voice and I didn’t know my inherent power.
When I grew up, I didn’t know that the way my babies were born mattered. I didn’t know that my body was innately designed to work. Because I was uneducated, I left childbirth feeling traumatized by what everyone called a “healthy” birth.
Then, I began to learn.
I learned to love myself deeply and made peace with my body. I became a nurse and a birth worker and attended to women as they gave birth in a variety of settings. I learned the key differences between births that left women feeling powerful and births that left women feeling scarred. Next, I experienced my own power-filled birth, and I was never the same again.
Girls Who Know® is my contribution to raising the next generation differently. Our girls deserve to know. They are ready to know. They are so, so capable. And so are we. Together, we can change the story. As we inform and inspire our girls, they make better decisions for their lives because they are Girls Who Know.
How I became passionate about improving birth: