Birth Story Healing
Find new meaning and enhanced resilience
Birth Story Healing is a guided, co-creative process that holds space to find new meaning and enhanced resilience after a challenging experience.
Whether the birth of your baby involved unexpected medical interventions, disappointment or confusion in the support you received, or an unwelcome or traumatic event throughout the prenatal, birth or postpartum season, Birth Story Healing can support you in finding wholehearted resolution on your path through parenthood.
Birth story healing is for parents who:
were present when there were unwanted or unexpected interactions, moments, or outcomes during pregnancy, birth, or the postpartum period
want to create space to explore and reflect on the events surrounding the birth and its impact on your life
have tried telling your birth story in family or social settings and the experience was negative or created an uncomfortable reaction
want to prepare for another pregnancy and labour after a challenging birthing experience
would like to bring an embodied approach to your healing process.
My Approach to Birth Story Healing
As a Certifying Yoga Therapist, a Birthing From Within Mentor and a Doula, my approach involves, but is not limited to:
— Listening to find new meaning from your birthing experience, through the prenatal, birthing, and postpartum transitions, all the way through to parenthood
— Noticing how you react to life’s daily stressors
— Building your ability to connect and engage with other people and the elements of the natural world
— Developing resources for rest, self regulation and resilience throughout your daily activities
— Preparing for a birth following a challenging birthing experience
— Breath and other physical practices to enhance healthy pelvic floor function
Client Testimonial
“After going through the 1 hour birth story listening session, I was immediately relieved. It felt as though I had been carrying a large and heavy parachute behind me for the past 19 months and now I could finally let it go. Jen did not take away the humiliation or the suffering that I had gone through during my birth; no one can do that. However, she guided me through a process which allowed me to move forward stronger, and lighter than before. Our birth journey is sometimes like going into battle, and we come back changed covered in invisible battle scars. The birth story healing process allowed me to see this change as an empowering one. Now, I can see my strength. Thank you Jen, and thank you to the process for helping me gain strength from my challenging birth.”
— Christiane Lafleche, Registered Social Worker specializing in perinatal counselling and psychotherapy
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