Moon & Scars

A soft landing for cesarean mothers healing from the emotional and physical impacts of childbirth.

The Moon & Scars membership was designed for you, if…

🌙 You’re a cesarean mother who gave birth in the last two years.

🌙 You have been physically and emotionally impacted by your c-section.

🌙 You want to make peace with your birth experience and how it’s impacted your body and life.

🌙 You would benefit from learning with and being witnessed by a community of likeminded and likehearted mothers as you navigate motherhood, life, and cesarean healing.

In the Moon & Scars membership, we address topics most relevant to c-section moms, including:

  • Completing the Birth Cycle

  • Physical recovery, including c-section shelf and scar massage

  • Birth story healing

  • Addressing shame, blame, and anger

  • Mom rage

  • Repairing after separation of baby after birth / missing the Golden Hour

  • Matrescence in the shadow of birth wounds or postpartum difficulties

  • Reclaiming lost moments with baby

  • Returning to physical intimacy

  • Grief and loss

  • Pelvic health

  • Repair with partner / spouse

  • Motherhood boundaries

  • Birth Wounds & Restorative Justice

  • Birthing after cesarean (VBAC and Sacred Cesarean)

Join Allison and mothers from around the world to get support, uncover healing, create meaning, and build community after cesarean birth.

What’s included in the Moon & Scars membership?

🌕 Monthly Community Call (live and recorded - 90-minutes via Zoom)

Each month’s Community Call will include grounding exercises, a facilitated area of learning or reflection, and sharing or discussion. We will also experiment with somatic, trauma-informed activities and exercises to move energy and increase nervous system regulation and embodied presence. Calls are live and interactive but will be recorded for those who cannot attend or wish to refer back to the material. See call dates and times.

🌖 Monthly Q&A Call (live and recorded - 45-minutes via Zoom)

The Monthly Q&A call will focus on member questions and member-requested topics. This is a special opportunity to get your questions answered and received individualized coaching for a fraction of the cost of private sessions with Allison. Some Q&A calls will feature guest facilitators who specialize in cesarean-specific topics such as scar massage, physical rehab, pelvic floor PT, sexual health, etc.

🌗 Access to the Moon & Scars online community

A private online group to ask questions, share what’s coming up, be witnessed in your process, and receive reflections from Allison, as well as your incredible peers. This community is about more than connection — being with others who can relate to our experiences helps our nervous system settle and helps us know we are not alone. In this online community space we continue to build safety and belonging.

Meet your facilitator.

I’m Allison. I’m so glad you’re here, and I’m so sorry that you need to be.

I’m a coach, educator, speaker, researcher, and writer who helps mothers take back their peace and their power after the pain of cesarean birth.

My own unexpected c-section caused so much grief, anger, and confusion. Once I had healed, I wanted to make sure other mothers didn’t suffer the same way.

So I combined my personal experience with thousands of hours and dollars in trainings and certifications to bring forth The Cesarean Doula, a platform to support cesarean mothers and families around the globe with online education, workshops, and support groups, all baby-friendly and accessible from the comfort of their homes.

I have supported hundreds of women around the world with my online groups and programs.

I am a certified postpartum doula, certified VBAC doula, and I hold a certification in Integrative Somatic Trauma Therapy and a Master’s Degree from University of California, San Diego.

Learn more about me here.

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Monthly fee (auto-paid)

$65 USD / month

You may cancel your subscription anytime, for any reason.

Call Schedule

All calls will be recorded and added to the learning library within 3-4 days. You don’t need to attend live calls in order to participate.

August 2025

Community Call: Weds. Aug. 27, 3:00-4:30pm Pacific Time

September 2025

Q&A Call: Weds. Sept. 3, 3:00-4:30pm Pacific Time

Community Call: Weds. Sept. 24, 3:00-4:30pm Pacific Time

October 2025

Community Call:

Q&A Call:

November 2025

Birth story processing

December 2025

Working with big emotions, like anger, grief, and jealousy.

Frequently Asked Questions

  • The total community size ranges but most calls have 5-15 people present. It feels intimate and you won’t risk getting lost in the crowd.

  • This program is for all c-section moms, not just new moms. Mothers at all stages postpartum after c-section are welcome.

    Whether your c-section was just a few days ago, or years ago, you will find so much value, meaning, and growth here.

    That said, the topics we cover will be most relevant to mothers who had a cesarean within the last 3 years.

  • This program is trauma-informed and will be supportive for anyone who experienced a difficult birth or identifies as having birth trauma or any postpartum stress, anxiety, or depression.

    While this group is not a replacement for therapy (please read “Is this group a substitute for therapy?” below), it is an extremely supportive additive to therapy and will involve many therapeutic tools and practices.

  • Yes, absolutely. Women join this group with every type of story and circumstance.

    Everyone is welcome here.

    If your birth or immediate postpartum had impact on you - whether you consider that impact birth trauma, grief, sadness, or you're not even sure, this is a safe place to work through your experiences.

    I commit to ensuring a judgment-free space for all participants, regardless of birthing choices or circumstances.

    All birth matters. All birth choices are valid. Your experience matters and you deserve care, empathy, support, and attunement. Period.

  • Many women who I work with don’t identify as having birth trauma but still feel unsettled about some aspect of their birth.

    If this sounds like you, you’ll find many others who can relate in this community.

  • Absolutely not. This circle serves a different purpose from therapy and is designed to help you build a sense of belonging, relational safety, and community as you recover from a difficult or traumatic birth.

    You will learn techniques and be exposed to different modalities that might help you on your healing path.

    You will also learn from each other and find great solace in knowing that we are all connected by a shared thread.

    If you have birth trauma - flashbacks about your birth, intrusive thoughts, extreme sadness or grief, or cannot think or talk about birth without becoming highly emotional and dysregulated - I highly recommend that you also seek the support of a therapist who specializes in trauma healing, ideally birth trauma in particular.

    If you’d like help finding a therapist, please feel free to contact me.

    I am not a therapist or a medical professional and do not give medical or psychiatric advice. This group can serve as a beautiful supplement to therapy; many of our participants have therapists in addition to participating in this group. Others do not. Everyone is different. You know yourself best.

  • “Allison creates and holds such a beautifully sacred and safe space. This allows for such deeper connection to yourself and the other participants. She really attuned to the group's needs and desires and adapts as needed. I highly recommend joining this circle, it's very transformational."

  • “This group brought me healing when I no longer thought it was possible. After letting time pass, reading books, journaling, I still felt broken. After an unwanted and unplanned caesarean birth, I felt angry, lost, and isolated and like no one else understood. During an event that makes you question everything and feel like you've lost yourself... Allison is here to help you feel worthy, valued, whole, and even find your voice again. This group helped me give "birth" to a new birth story, and was the best thing I have done for myself and my healing journey. I only wish I found Allison and this resource it sooner.”

  • “I did so many things to heal myself after my birth (therapy, books, debriefing with my midwife and family, accessing my medical notes, journalling) and this group was the MOST powerful and healing activity for me. I'm so grateful to Allison and my fellow mums for letting me be part of something so extraordinary. Thank you.

  • “This is the most helpful thing I've done to heal my birth trauma."

  • "One of the most painful aspects of my homebirth cesarean was the isolation. Everyone around me was having “normal,” easy births. I felt like something was wrong with me. It has been really helpful to meet regularly with other mamas who have had a similar experience and are similarly oriented toward homebirth. I definitely felt my healing process improve a lot within just a few weeks of our circle.”