Birth trauma is real. Yes many labours and birth are difficult, does that mean you are not needing some grief or trauma healing? When things don’t go to plan, hospitals are not a very personal place to be. It certainly wasn’t for me.
You may talk yourself into thinking you were just unlucky or just didn’t cope as well as other women. A sense of failure, feeling let down and physical trauma trapped energy is still something that needs to be healed.
Even if you feel it was years ago, that you have moved on… you are still needing to heal the undercurrent of grief of not getting the experience you wanted, panic, horror, unsupported, abandonment or depression.
Doulas are not something I had even heard of and due to a lack of courage in my own body I didn’t go into a lot of research. Simply doing what the mainstream and doctor told me. In recent years I’ve come to meet some beautiful Doulas and understand what they do. Love their compassionate and caring work, supporting woman to have an empowering birth experience. I wish I had known about them years ago.
For years afterwards I would get triggered by baby showers or birth stories, especially happy ones. Even choosing not to support a friend at her baby shower because my own experience was too painful.
I have one child. I NEVER intended to only have one child and NEVER wanted my son to be an only child, but there were reasons I stopped at one. I was traumatised from my birth experience for a good four years afterwards. And it really affected my mental state as a new mum.
I had really thought I had moved on from my birth trauma. The food and lifestyle changes I did from 2012 dramatically improved my moods and how I coped with stress in my life. But come 2020, my son is a teenager and yet I was still triggered by birth stories or natural birth photos posted on social media.
My moto has always been, don’t EVER give up looking for an answer.
Don’t EVER accept you what ever is your current ‘normal’, needs to be your forever normal. In this case, getting emotionally triggered by birth stories. There is always hope and help.
Wanting to heal, being prepared to look back in awareness and having PSYCH-K® as an healing tool was the answer I was looking for.
I am now at peace about my birth experience and I knew I had come out the other side when I could think about some of the special positive moments that had occurred. Hidden under my pain. A blessing.
Birth trauma is real. If I can help other woman to find peace, it would be an honour.
Be curious, be open and make an appointment. In person or virtual sessions available.
Suggest 3 PSYCH-K® sessions to give time between each session to uncover multiple layers.
