The Eudaimonia Center | Dr. Laurena White

04/16/2021

The Eudaimonia Center
Dr. Laurena White

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We are a 501 3c Non-Profit. Our aim is to prevent and heal birth trauma through education. Women need to understand their options and rights in childbirth so that they can have a safe and healthy birth.

Today we talk to Dr. Laurena White, a medical doctor specializing in both allopathic and traditional medicine, an expert in fertility and pregnancy care, and director of the Eudaimonia Center. She has spent over 15 years using her skill to improve pregnancy care for her patients in a way that promotes genuine healing and avoids invasive medical procedures.

We talk about Dr. White's upbringing, her desire to be a doctor, and the cultural womanhood ceremonies that shaped her ambition to become an OBGYN and Doula. We also talk about what pushed her to reach beyond the standard medical system to find the best traditional practices to integrate in treating her patients. We talk about the changes in her life and ethos that led to her establishing the Eudaimonia center.

We then talk about the modalities used by the Eudaimonia center in healing patients both medically and holistically and how the current medical system and the birth world at large could benefit from integrating a broader array of treatment modalities. Dr. White walks us through her process of assessing patient needs and tailoring their course of care to best address their individual health.

We talk about how normalizing birth and opening education can help to repair some of the misconceptions in the process that lead to over-medicalization. We talk about how to integrate education into your birth plan in order to prevent interventions that you don't want. Finally, we talk about her family culture of vaginal steaming and how having communities of women who talk about their own bodies and health can help girls be more prepared to feel at ease with their natural processes.

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When choosing a pregnancy care and birth modality, choices are often presented as a binary. Choosing the standard medical approach to birth care can often feel like the complete opposite of choosing a more traditional or holistic approach to care, particularly when so much of the birth world seems to be so starkly divided between one or the other. If more space were given for integration of allopathic and traditional medicine, it could help to build a standard of birth care that
Is more equipped to provide the combination physical, emotional, and spiritual care that the birth space demands.

Sarah and Laurena discuss the story and philosophy of the Eudaimonia Center and talk about the ways that an integrative approach to birth medicine leads to better outcomes on the whole. They also talk about the importance of tradition and community in helping women to be more at ease with their natural body processes in all stages of their lives.

Laurena White has over 15 years of service and experience in the field of women’s health ranging from birth doula to physician including acupuncture and Chinese herbal medicine. She works closely with a team she has carefully chosen to deliver expert care not only to women, but also to couples trying to conceive. Together with the team, Dr. White facilitates the transformation of complex women’s health and fertility challenges. By helping women and couples address the underlying root cause of their condition, her patients begin to flourish without taking unnecessary pharmaceutical medications or having fruitlessly invasive surgical procedures. Laurena has developed purpose-built signature programs that are unique to The Eudaimonia Center. Learn more at https://laurenawhite.com/

This episode was sponsored by:

Please donate HERE

We are a 501 3c Non-Profit. Our aim is to prevent and heal birth trauma through education. Women need to understand their options and rights in childbirth so that they can have a safe and healthy birth.