Acknowledging and Moving Through Birth Fear

Working through fear, anxiety and/or trauma from past birth experiences can be an integral piece for many women as they prepare to give birth. This work is important for anyone who holds any unresolved feelings from a past birth experience that may hold them back from truly being present for the next birth. By acknowledging, working on, learning from and moving through past experiences, parents are able to fully experience the next birth for what it is, moment to moment, without being held back by old beliefs, thoughts and feelings. Working through fear or trauma can directly affect how you live day to day, not to mention how you experience your next birth(s). This work creates empowerment, strength and clarity in one's life.

It is common for many women to have expectations going into a birth, how she "envisions" it happening. So often, a birth experience can be very different from what we are expecting or hoping for. This can lead to disappointment, feelings of failure or resentment. How will those feelings impact a mother's life after the baby is born? How will it be to prepare for another birth, knowing that there are all those feelings below the surface? How can acknowledging and moving through an experience help open up the possibilities for the future? This is where I come in...