Liam Morley

Liam Lynn Morley (she/her) is a doula, photographer, and writer who tends to the sacred magic of our everyday lives. 

She has a BA in Gender Studies, is a certified birth, postpartum, and full spectrum doula and a certified childbirth educator. Her background is in reproductive health as an educator, community organizer, and project manager. She has been a doula since 2018 and often works with people who are intrigued by what the birth experience has to offer them and who are interested in both holistic and modern options for managing their fertility, pregnancy, and birth. She has supported families primarily in hospitals (as well as homes and birth centers) supporting varied pregnancy and birth journeys -- low and high risk, unmedicated and medicated, VBAC and cesarean, and many in-betweens. Liam will amplify your voice, help you navigate the health care system, know all of your options, support both you and your partner(s), and hold space as your story unfolds.

She is committed to trauma-informed practices and co-creating safer spaces by being body- and sex-positive, anti-racist, pro-choice, queer and gender affirming, and welcoming to solo, poly, blended, or communal families. Your care should be designed for your comfort, needs, and wants. It should see you in your full context – your stage of life, unique body, lived experience, culture, community, ability, desires, and dreams. She believes knowledge building is a collaborative mixture of education, experience, and intuition. Weaving together modern and traditional approaches, her support with families focuses on body literacy and agency, trauma and healing, educating and preparing for birth and postpartum, collective care, caretaking and parenting, honoring transitions, and nurturing relationships (including sex and intimacy). 

Liam is also a birth, family, and pregnancy photographer who specializes in long form, in-home settings that are often published as editorial essays on the Substack Made of Velvet.

She hangs her fanny pack in Edgewater where she lives with her fiance, Mercedes -- a deep-hearted middle school teacher she's spellbound by, and with whom she shares the creative practice called home. 

I want you to know that your existence was set in motion the moment the universe lit like a sparkler bursting with uninhibited joy and chaos. You are the universe. Your baby is made from the calcium of your bones and steadfast heartstrings; they have come to be because you also came to be — because you were meant to be. You are in the right place, at the right time, doing the right thing. There is no "right way." There is only your way. My purpose is to help you find it.