Sumi's Touch

02/28/2026

Can I saturate yalls time lines with some Black Maternal Joy on this beautiful Saturday?

The midwifery model of care centers the mom and baby holistic experience as they journey through pregnancy, birth, and postpartum. Midwives provide a broad spectrum of care from menarche to menopause. This includes treating menstrual, reproductive and hormonal imbalances, ailments, and conditions to preconception support. Midwives provide comprehensive care through pregnancy, birth, and postpartum and can track both the mom and baby to assure they are healthy. Midwives can independently care for their clients and will refer to specialist when indicated like an obgyn, MFM, Chiropractor, Nutritionist, etc.

The midwifery model of care is rooted in a integrative collaborative model that thrives when able to coexist amongst other practitioners. The midwifery model of care centers the client’s needs and voice and see the client as the one driving the vehicle and an expert of their own experience. Midwives consider the emotional, mental, spriritual, and physical well being in all practices and procedures.

Pregnancy and birth are seen a physiological events in nature that rarely need assistance rather than a medical event that requires intervention almost always.

Midwives provide a golden standard of health care that has stellar outcomes all across the board. This is the antidote and the answer to the maternal health crisis.

Drop your questions below and I’ll be sure to get to them!

Would you have a home birth? Have you experienced the care of a midwife?

Get ready for the launch of both the 2nd annual Black Maternal Health Festival AND the 2nd cohort of the Black Midwives Fellowship!!!

Deets dropping VERY soooonnn…..

02/26/2026

If you do not know who is then you are just missing out. Mama Shafia, as we all affectionately call her, has been a midwife for over 40 years. She is a vault of wisdom, experience, and skill that we must cherish and take as much advantage of as possible. She a now only a renowned midwife but also has the longest standing doula training organization, is a cultural competency trainer, a wife, and a mother to 7!!

She has been on the front lines of the midwifery movement for decades and a lot of what we all enjoy and revel in today is because of her!! She sat directly at the feet of granny midwives and she is a living testimony of the power and potential of midwifery!

Mama Shafia poured so beautifully into us at her book signing in Oakland a few weeks ago as she launched the release of her book “Mothering the Mother: African America postpartum traditions, recipes, and healing”

Give our elders their flowers while they can still smell them!! Have you grabbed her book yet? What was your favorite part so far?

Sold every where books are sold!!

02/25/2026

Mothering is a devotional practice…that grows stretches and transforms us in ways that are unimaginable.

Our nervous systems were designed to mother in isolation. It requires lots of support…generations upon generations of support.

What are we doing as a collective in the western world to restore the village? How are we setting our lives and children’s lives up to be in community?

Or are we not? 🫣

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02/25/2026

She’s taking birth prep to a whole notha level!!! lol

What are some ways that you supported yourself to give birth?

BIRTH WORKERS!! What’s your most tried and true advice to get ready for birth and beyond?!

Comment down below and I’ll share mine toooooooo!!!

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Over 1,000 people have answered the call with us!! Comment “Training” to join my 12 month community Learning model traditional birth worker training.

We have weekly gatherings and an archive I’ve over 500 hours of materials!! Comment down below”community” to join us!

This year I’ll be bringing you all to three places that I have lived and have ere the most monumental in my journey. Join me in Mexico, California, and Ghana. Comment “immersion” to learn more about my 10 day traditional birth worker immersion that’s for the entire family!

Got questions? Email me hello@sumistouch.com

02/20/2026

This app…social media in general is sooooo activating for my nervous system. So much information to consume in such a short span. I’ve been muted by it all. Feeling sad, angry, annoyed, inspired, joy intricately woven together…

But…..I want to stay connected. And I deeply appreciate the ways I can connect with people all around the world! So here are a few clips of real life sweet moments. That’s it. That’s the post.

If you wanna connect with me even deeper go run over to my stories….and join my channel. Comment “community” if you bout dat life and you a birth worker 🫶🏿

02/15/2026

Just incase you have been feeling the call, know our training is always available for you 🌸 Our Full Spectrum Traditional Birth Worker Training is a virtual and a hybrid curriculum. meaning, you will be placed in your learning pods and together will move through the curriculum. You will have 12 months to access and complete the training. You can go as fast or slow as you desire within those 12 months. You must complete a modules for the next to release.

Each month there will be multiple live virtual engagement that will alternate between Master Classes, Study Sessions & Community Gatherings. You will also have access to recordings of previous Master Classes if you are interested in diving into even more gems.

Ready to get started?
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01/13/2026

01/03/2026

You are not Lazy.

Capitalism sees our body as currency. Trading our time, our dreams, or body, or thoughts for money to cover our basic needs. These needs that each and every human needs to survive. The bare minimum, crumbs, our birth rite!!

You are not mean. To create boundaries that honor your capacity. To speak up and say that something harms you or isnt sustainable for you.

Over extending leads to burn out. Which is inevitable in a society that doesnt consider you. We are expected to do it all with little to no support. And those who hack the system do so at the expense of others…

As care workers this hits even deeper. The ways we are expected to show up, to pour in, to give, to put ourselves to the side. It’s time for a MAJOR reset button.

If this resonates then join me and on Jan 31st & Feb 1st in person in Oakland for a weekend long deep dive “Minute Zero” the ultimate reset to remedy burn out and compassion fatigue..

Link in mi byyoohhhhhh!!!

12/19/2025

I grew up with 5 grandmas…when people hear this they are usually shocked. They each shaped me into who I am today. I literally grew up sitting at their feet.

Elders are essential. They hold the insights and wisdom that only come with time.

One of the pillars of traditional midwifery is the honoring of elders. It is our duty to pass along the medicine…so sitting at the feet of those who come before us is a crucial aspect in how the knowledge is passed down.

Not just skills, recipes, and protocols but also how we move, how we release, how we hold ourselves.

Each cohort gets better and better and this coming year will be no different! We will be sitting at the feet of those whose shoulders we stand.

The babies are held
The partners/men are held
We are held!

We can’t walk this path alone we must bring our entire family with us!

This is transformative experience for the entire family!

What’s your relationship with the elders? Do you know elders? What missing link do you think were bypassing as a collective?

Only 12 days left to save $$$$ use code EARLYBIRD if you want to join the traditional birth worker training cohort 2026!!! COMMENT “ready” and I’ll swing the link over to you…

Mexico 6/25-7/5
Bay Area 8/1-9
Ghana 12/10-20

12/17/2025

It’s 11:50pm here in Ghana…I can hear the waves crashing in the most melodic sequence. What a song to be lulled by…

We’re on day 6 of the 10 day immersion and there sooooo much for me to share, for me to unpack, for me to chew on.

What’s abundantly clear is that whatever is calling you…LISTEN! Listen to that little small voice..it’s like a compass leading you directly to your joy.

Tomorrow we will visit a clinic and meet with nurse midwives and then have lunch with a sole traditional midwives. Once we return we will do a closing for a Mama all together.

These immersion just keep getting better and better. Just when I think we hit the max…we’re so divinely guided to take it to the next level!

I’ll share more in my stories!!

Next year we will have a men’s retreat alongside the traditional birth worker immersion for both Mexico and Ghana 🙌🏿

This is full family healing journey. Comment “2026” if you’re ready to join us next year!!

Mexico June 25- July 5
Bay Area Aug 1-9
Ghana Dec 10-20

P.s. Save the dates for Jan 31 & Feb 1 for a weekend deep dive with me exploring burn out and compassion fatigue at a beautiful location in the Bay Area. Seats are limited. Registration opens next week!

12/04/2025

Wow do yall remember this?

I’m not surprised but what the actual f**k?????? Can we dig into this a bit together?

The medical industrial complex has crafted its procedures and stances based on the exploitation and experimentation of Black and indigenous bodies. This case doesn’t exist in a vacuum but rather is aligned with exactly how they “research”. There are so many levels of ethical and human right violations here. They will assert that the fetus deserved to live and that they are pro life…but the truth of the matter is the life of Adriana was seen as disposable. She was ignored and her symptoms were diminished….this led to her death. She was only 9 weeks pregnant and they kept her on life support for months as an incubator. does this sound familiar (the two laboring women that went viral who were denied care). Do you see how this is alllllll connected? The anti Black racism and discrimination is systemic not individualized. So no one person or even group of people can overturn such heinous acts!!

There isn’t any gutting the system from the inside out. There no optimizing the system. There’s no infiltration that will ever stop cases like these from happening….

We must create NEW systems, NEW networks of support, NEW beliefs and have our priorities reevaluated as a collective.

What say youuuuuuuuu???

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Want to become a birth worker? Comment “training”. Only $99/ month until 12/31

Want to sit at me and my teachers feet in 2026 and learn the way of traditional birth work? Comment “Ready” and I’ll send you the link to put down your deposit today!! Save $1,000 until 12/31 !!

11/30/2025

Ima hold your hand and look you deep in your eyes when I say this..

What is for you can not miss you…ever! With that being said you must also ACT on the desires of your heart.

Something that’s been so transformative about the immersions is how it invokes us all to tap into our FAITH!!

Inviting you to claim your seat for immersions 2026. This will be cohort 8, 9, and 10 🫶🏿🙌🏿😍

You don’t have to have all the kinks and deets worked out..you just gotta be willing. So proud of this Ghana cohort and all the ways they have made it possible for themselves!!!

Comment “info” and I’ll send you the link to join us this morning for our info session at 10 am pst or 1pm est.

If you already got the yes in ya chest hen secure your deposit before all the seats fill up . Comment “2026” and I’ll slide in your DMs…