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"Healing From Reproductive Trauma"
My guest today helps us understand reproductive trauma, what it looks like, and how to recognize it. She explains the difference between trauma and PTSD, how these conditions can show up in the reproductive period, and how they can impact individuals, partnerships, and families. Most importantly, her message…
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Postpartum Anxiety and PTSD
Postpartum anxiety and PTSD struggles in the transition to motherhood can be a great motivator to help others. Such is the story of today’s guest.
Becoming a mom during the early months of the COVID pandemic left Molly feeling blindsided by her birth and postpartum experience, even as…
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Healing From Tokophobia, PTSD and OCD
We already know that the perinatal experience can be multi-layered and differently nuanced for each person. The story we’re hearing today brings several conditions into the spotlight of our attention and highlights the need for awareness and sound treatment around the world. My guest shares her…
#pregnancyandinfantlossawareness this week with a story from Jennifer Burgard of @haven_midwest
Jen shares her story of loss of her baby, how it impacted her and brought about her work in supporting newly grieving parents through Haven, sending supportive gifts, online grief workshops and her podcast Landscape Of Loss.
Loss is such a difficult experience and loss parents…
Since October is Pregnancy and Infant Loss Awareness Month, we will be hearing stories of people’s lived experiences in these losses, along with experts who support families during these difficult times. While we honor all kinds of loss, today’s episode focuses on termination for medical reasons (TFMR), a pregnancy loss that deserves compassion and understanding.…
Author: Shakima L. Tozay
“Hello everybody my name is Shakima and I am a bereaved mama and survivor of stillbirth and postpartum depression and PTSD”.
This is how I introduce myself in most support group meetings with other moms like me. It wasn’t always this way. But it describes a part of…