Birth Listening
Birth Listening
Birth is a profound experience. It is the most profound physiological experience and transformation that our body is designed to naturally undergo. It is often the case that when we are submerged in profound and fundamental life experiences that we take time to digest what took place.
Sometimes birth can be incredibly confronting and we can come through the experience with unresolved thoughts, beliefs, somatic experience and emotions. Birth trauma isn’t something that happens to us, trauma occurs when an experience is too huge or challenging for us to digest and assimilate. No matter whether your birth experience appeared traumatic or ideal, it can be completely normal to feel overwhelmed by some of your experience or to still feel as though some of the experience you had is still unresolved.
Storytelling not only helps to describe but also to shape our experience. Sometimes we can modify stories so that they be socially acceptable or sometimes we can inherit narrative from those around us (such as a doctor or birth keeper) about our birth story and this can alter our tale. Birth listening facilitates an environment within which you are invited to tell your own unfiltered story without judgement or expectation. Birth listening is not therapy or counselling and advice is not offered. However, I will always help signpost you to further professional support from a clinical psychologist or psychotherapist if you or feel this would be of benefit.
Birth listening is for anyone who feels like they still have something to process or digest around their experience of pregnancy, giving birth or experiencing pregnancy loss at any stage.