Fill Your Cup
Birth + Wellness
Supporting families in St. Augustine, Jacksonville, and surrounding areas in Florida. Office located within the heart of St. Augustine within the St. Augustine Birth Collective.
Fill Your Cup
Taking care of yourself = Keeping your cup full
We can only provide care for others when our needs are fully met - when we have grounding nutrition, daily self-care practices, body and breath work, a supportive and understanding community, as well as movement. This can be a tough concept for many birthing people and even us all navigating all seasons of parenthood. We often feel like we are over-extended, pulled in many directions, and seeking tranquility. You owe yourself the love you give others. We’ve been programmed genetically and socially to be the caregivers, to put others first; but, self-health is key to providing emotional, mental, and physical care for others. Fill Your Cup Birth + Wellness offers education and guidance towards optimal health, comfort, and daily grounding practices based on one of Earth’s oldest medicines (Ayurveda) - helping keep your cup full!
Our mission is to help fill the cup of our modern-day mother through traditional medicine and to improve birth and postpartum outcomes by providing a continuity of care
⋒ When her cup is full, she has so much more to give. ⋒
What is a doula?
A doula is a companion and support person who works with both the birthing person and partner during labor, childbirth, and the postpartum period.
Located within the St. Augustine Birth Collective
An empowered birth and postpartum experience occurs when there is transparent, collaborative, and cohesive care between all team members! Alyssa enjoys having the support of Florida Homebirth Licensed Midwife, Tiffany Martin, LM, CPM by her side within a community-oriented space here in the heart of St. Augustine. Alyssa runs free pregnancy and postpartum groups within this space for those birthing within all settings: homebirth, birth center, and hospital. Even if you are not a client of hers or Tiffany, all are welcome to these groups! She is planning to host more circles at the space for women in all seasons of life in the future…
In addition to her groups and seeing birth and postpartum clients in this space, she also sees clients of all ages for both Ayurvedic Medicine consultation and for Craniosacral Therapy as well. In her office space, she has a small herbal apothecary with health and wellness products and individualized formulas for sale.
About Alyssa
Alyssa Megeath is a DONA International Certified Birth Doula, Certified Ayurvedic Medicine Prenatal, and Postnatal Specialist. Alyssa is the only holistic birth and postpartum doula in Jacksonville and St. Augustine, Florida area with alternative medicine training, focusing on preparing for conception, pregnancy, and the postpartum window.
Philosophy
Warmest welcome and congratulations during this exciting time! Whether you are trying to conceive, expecting a child, seeking additional support during the healing time after birth, or looking to take charge of your overall health and wellness, I am honored to serve you. Chances are, if you have stumbled upon my website, you or a loved one are searching for an experienced Birth and Postpartum Doula or an Ayurvedic Medicine Practitioner in St. Johns County, St. Augustine, or Jacksonville, Florida. I have practiced in Boulder, Colorado for the last five years full-time (2017-2021) and now excited to call St. Augustine, FL home as of November 2021!
Since relocating here to the nation’s oldest city, North St. Augustine, I have worked with families all throughout Jacksonville, Jacksonville Beach, Atlantic Beach, Neptune Beach, St. Johns County, St. Augustine, St. Augustine Beach, Vilano Beach, Nocatee, Ponte Vedra, World Golf Village, Shearwater, Green Cove Springs, Palm Coast, Daytona, and every where in between.
As someone who holds space for and supports all families from various walks of life, my goal is to help educate and build a close relationship so that I can help you have an empowered birthing and postpartum experience as well as help you achieve your health goals. For those seeking to take charge of their health and treat the whole body, not just the symptom, we work together to help you feel vibrant through daily routine, individualized nutrition, and herbal support.
Working within all birthing and postpartum atmospheres is important to me, from hospital, birth center, and homebirth, along with being in the home supporting the whole family unit during the sacred postnatal period, the First 42 Days. According to Ayurvedic Medicine, this time sets the tone for the Birthing Person’s health and wellness for years to come along with establishing the family’s balance.
EDUCATING YOU. EMPOWERING YOU. NOURISHING YOU. ADVOCATING FOR YOU.
“I know Alyssa as a colleague and see her on the back end of things (aka: not during births and in between postpartum meal prep) and I see the dedication she has for her clients. She goes far beyond “above and beyond” for her clients. I am continuously amazed at the love and support she gives Mothers and families on a daily basis. I feel blessed to know her and even more blessed to be able to have a quality resource for my pregnant and postpartum patients.”
— Dr. Nichelle Gurule, Live Loud Chiropractic
