About Debbie
Hypnobirthing since 2007
“My passion lies in advocating wellness, providing ongoing education in utilizing nature’s resources, trusting the design of our birthing bodies and strengthening relationships in raising and rearing healthy, content children and families.”
Core Values
Wellness Advocate
I strive to facilitate and educate mothers and fathers and children everywhere in listening to our intuitive voice, in trusting in our body’s creation and in the normal, natural, physiologic processes of our body to function and heal itself as nature intended when we nourish it well. Nurturing our instincts and intuitive voice also requires stillness, calm and peace and a connection with the divinity within us.
Healthy Living with Essential Oils
Essential oils are nature’s most pure and potent plant-based cellular nutrition and provide ultimate support to re-establish balance as the body heals and repairs itself according to the design of our Creator. My desire to share and educate and provide ongoing support to individuals and families as they learn to embrace nature’s most potent defense for health and wellness drives my passion.
HypnoBirthing®
My passion is that mothers and fathers everywhere will know the joy of bringing forth babies in a calm, gentle, more comfortable manner without meddlesome interference and intervention and feel empowered to raise their children using the gifts of the Earth and listening to their intuitive voices. After working with childbearing women and their families for more than 30 yrs., I have had numerous witnesses that women truly have everything they need to birth their babies, that pregnancy is a normal, natural, physiologic state for which women’s bodies were perfectly designed. My desire is to help couples trust birth and embrace all that nature intended, following the perfectly designed plan of procreation.
Doula Services
How women give birth matters! It literally changes who we are and the confidence with which we parent and care for the needs of our little ones. A confident mother knows the wants and needs of her children and is able to listen to her intuitive voice and divine inspiration in providing the care and nurturing needed. My desire as a doula and professional labor support person is to help facilitate and advocate a couple’s ideal birthing experience as well as guide them in working together to bring forth the babies they created in love. Marital relationships are strengthened and children are welcomed and guided in a loving manner as they grow to maturity.
Debbie Gordon was born and raised in Casper, Wyoming, as the 7th child of 13. She grew up with a baby in her arms and from a young age wanted to be a nurse working with mothers and babies. Her desires were fulfilled as she was hired to work in Labor and Delivery as a graduate nurse in 1985 at the hospital there in Casper. She began working for IHC at LDS Hospital in the maternal/newborn, GYN/high-risk antepartum unit in 1988 after marrying her husband Jay and trained all the new hires from 1989-1994. After transferring to Alta View Hospital to work in Labor and Birthing in 1994, Debbie received her certification in childbirth education and began teaching.
Following many years of infertility and multiple pregnancy losses Debbie and Jay adopted two sons, Jayson in 1995 and Jonathan in 1999, and then later finally carried a baby to term, birthing Matthew unmedicated in 2002. After having assisted childbearing women for 17 yrs., Debbie chose to hire a doula to assist her in her first biological birth. After Matthew’s birth, she turned to her doula (even before the placenta was delivered) and said, “Claire, next time let’s do HypnoBirthing®!” Debbie knew there was a more comfortable way to birth her babies and two years later,using HypnoBirthing® techniques, she comfortably birthed her 4th son, Benjamin. As she did with Matthew, she turned to her husband, Jay, and said, “Gee, that was so fun! Let’s do it again!”
In 2006, Debbie arranged for Marie Mongan, founder of the HypnoBirthing® Institute, to come to Salt Lake City and do a practitioner training in March 2007 and brought the HypnoBirthing® program to IHC (Intermountain Health Care), teaching from 2007 until June 2011. Her personal beliefs were fully expressed in the HypnoBirthing® philosophy which she readily embraced, always believing that she and all women had everything they needed to birth their babies gently, comfortably, and well. After completing the HypnoBirthing® practitioner course, her 5th son, Eran, was delivered at 33 wks. via cesarean after special circumstances. Though it was not the comfortable, calm, gentle vaginal birthing experience she had envisioned for her son, she used her HypnoBirthing® techniques to breathe love and life down to her baby and her experience made her even more passionate about the HypnoBirthing® program.
Teaching HypnoBirthing® has brought her a great deal of joy and satisfaction in her efforts to create a gentle birthing experience for both women and babies and instill in women a confidence in their birthing bodies and of birth’s perfect design. Debbie returned to the bedside of laboring women as a doula (professional labor companion) in 2010 after completing certification requirements through DONA International and has maintained her certification. Debbie chose to step aside from IHC in 2011 after 23 yrs. of service and employment to teach independently so she can more fully offer the ongoing support that the HypnoBirthing® program advocates as well as provide doula services to her clients and facilitate her clients’ birthing desires and philosophies rather than hospital protocols and procedures. There is nothing so heartwarming and rewarding as participating in the miracle of childbirth! Gentle births create gentle beings!
Affiliated with the HypnoBirthing® Institute.