withlove__ari
Holistic Christian midwife serving North Texas &
southern Oklahoma
If you feel personally attacked, I’m probably talking to YOU 👀🫵🏼
….kiddddding…
I actually LOVE when my clients do their own research. I want you to be curious, ask questions, and take an active role in your care.
BUT if you find yourself spiraling at midnight, trying to figure out whether that one symptom is normal or if Google has just diagnosed you with 17 different complications… puhleeeeaaase just text your midwife. 😭
I’d much rather answer your questions than have you lose sleep over answers that may not even apply to you. Let’s delve into it, together!
With love,
Ari
Fortunately, my credentials didn’t come with a personality transplant. 😂
There’s a beautiful little tango that comes with taking your work, your responsibilities, and the families entrusted to your care oh so seriously, while still making room for the lightness, laughter, and joy of doing life together.
Professionalism and personality were never meant to be mutually exclusive. And I happen to believe there’s something really beautiful about families getting to experience both. 🫶🏼
With Love,
Ari
10/04/2026
There’s a side of midwifery that usually doesn’t fit neatly into the “on call from 37–42 weeks” window. There’s so much care, connection, and showing up that happens in all the weeks in between.
And sometimes, midwifing looks like answering emails and caring for my mamas from a 10+ hour flight away from home, somewhere in the middle of living a life I’ve worked really hard to create.
Making a living AND a life is at the top of my list. I’m incredibly thankful for the freedom to say yes to what I want, no to what I don’t, and to build a life and practice that leave room for both.
With Love,
Ari
10/02/2026
Bearing witness to life is something I’ll never grow tired of.
09/20/2026
After the arts festival today, I had to grin a little. Lately I’m meeting friends for coffee, showing up to community events, lingering just to talk- and actually enjoying it. For a long time, I thought I didn’t have the capacity for any of that.
Turns out, I didn’t need more capacity. I needed a life that didn’t use all of it.
I think part of evolving as a woman is looking at everything you’re capable of carrying and asking: but is all of this mine to carry? Because capability can quietly turn into obligation. & just because you can carry something doesn’t mean it deserves to be carried by you. For me, that meant choosing a slower kind of midwifery. one that leaves enough of me to thoroughly enjoy the people and work I love.
So to the student: get your numbers, finish your clinicals, then slow. the heck. down.
To the midwife: you don’t have to prove your dedication through exhaustion. You are making a difference even if you “only” take 1 client a month.
To the mother carrying seventeen invisible things before breakfast: being able to hold it all doesn’t mean you should. Ask for help before you’re at your breaking point.
And to the woman who feels she has to perform for her place here: you don’t have to earn belonging through burnout.
You get so much life back when you stop rushing through it.
With Love,
Ari
09/14/2026
I’ve got some opinions y’all.
…you tend to form some along the way😆
With Love,
Ari
I think in this line of work, hearing a baby’s heartbeat at an appointment can become routine. Until you don’t.
My armpits will sweat with yours. The room will feel a little less air-conditioned. I’m talking closely with God, silently. But boldly expecting His miracles. Everyone will subtly hold their breath, until we hear that happy, reassuring, gallop.
And then you realize there’s a way to hold both: the expectancy of a miracle, without ever losing the awe of one.
This is never “just” work to me. My heart is with yours, the whole dang way.
With Love,
Ari
08/19/2026
Freshly pregnant, very pregnant, somewhere in between… you’re welcome here.
Come meet other families in the same season, build your village, talk all things birth + ask the questions you’ve been Googling at 2am.
FREE Birth Plan Workshop
August 28th • 6:30 PM
Sherman, TX
Come for the birth talk, stay for the village 💞
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