Aracely Navarro, MPH, Professional Doula

 I am the daughter of Maria E. Castaneda, and many other mothers and grandmothers that have come before me. My mother was born in Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico and my father was born in Barberena, Santa Rosa, Guatemala. I identify as Chicana, first-generation, and the proud daughter of immigrants. ​I work as a birth keeper, an environmental justice advocate, and Danzante Mexica. I went into healing work when my mother passed from her long battle with breast cancer. My family was very much colonized and our medicines were not spoken of. I believe these circumstances contributed greatly to my mothers illness, she and I did not know where we came from, we did not know who we were. It is because of this that I am in this healing work, in the work of decolonization, reclamation of ancestral knowledge and of protecting and preserving the Earth, great Tonantzin.  I am here offering my heart and spirit, my knowledge from what I have learned about traditional healing in the past several years.

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I have a Bachelors of Environmental Science and a Master of Public Health. Additionally I have received Doula training from Allo Doula Academy with additional trainings from Sumi's Touch and DONA. I am bilingual, fluent in Spanish and am CPR Certified. I have been a doula since 2022 and have helped more than 15 babies come into the world!