Brighter Days, Darker Nights

Brighter Days, Darker Nights

Become a circadian health expert at home and in your professional life

Your invitation into the profound world of light’s effects on maternal-fetal health, puberty, fertility & menopause—a new way to view the most mysterious stages of hormonal flux and transformation ✨

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Nikko Kennedy
Feb 18, 2025
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How did 🌞 Brighter Days, Darker Nights 🌚 come to exist?

This all started back in 2021, when the world was still in the throes of the infamous lockdown.

My family and I had been evacuated from our home due to wildfire, and the freebirth of our 3rd baby had turned into a weeklong stay in the NICU after my daughter had gone into respiratory distress a few hours after her birth.

The freelance marketing business my husband and I had built—along with our savings—was slipping through our fingers as client after client scaled back and closed their businesses in the economical downfall of the post pandemic panic.

I could go on, but suffice to say, it was the worst.

It was the pits. Dark night of the soul and all that.

Out of this postpartum depth, a dream of transforming maternity care arose like a phoenix.

Far from being content serving a couple of families a year as a doula while I worked a “normal” job, birth work rose to the front of my heart and professional attention.

Out of my experiences in …

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