"Peace starts at birth."
Midwife, Birth Educator, and practitioner of body balancing, specializing in trauma, Terri Simmons joins us in a very special episode. Terri talks about birth preparation, how to communicate and prepare for birth, birth integration, de-stigmatizing postpartum and the invitation that postpartum integration can happen at any time. www.alchemybirthandwellness.com
This episode of Rebirth, Kate chats with midwife, Birth Educator, and practitioner of body balancing, specializing in trauma, Terri Simmons. Terri talks about birth preparation, how to communicate and prepare for birth, birth integration, de-stigmatizing postpartum and the invitation that postpartum integration can happen at any time. www.alchemybirthandwellness.com
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Through my work with Terri, as our family’s midwife, I have had journeys of rawness and integration. in my experiences as a body worker, healer and mother there are places where it could be easier to not feel. It could be easier to not fully stand in witness to difficulty, confusion, birth, parenting, and the list goes on. However, I know through my own life and through my clients’ that eventually the story must be witnessed, the pain held, and the difficulty be transmuted to integration.
As an independent woman and bodyworker, I never thought I would birth my child in a hospital, and I was humbled by life in the moment I was wheeled into one. I had expected to maintain my power of control (the fullness of that is a story for another day). I couldn’t have articulated that until a good year after, but I kept digging and I am glad I did. Birth - of any kind - is unique. Birth of a human demands all of the woman, her surrender, her trust, her strength , her release — not matter how it happens. I can only tell my story and share my medicine. I encourage you to tell your own, too. It is powerful to claim your victories and your lessons. Your confusion and your certainty; your pain and your triumph. I think birth carries all of that if we make ourselves available.
One of the reason that I am so deeply delighted to talk with Terri (aside from our friendship and mutual respect) is that I want every woman, no matter her age, to know that integrating your postpartum, your birth story can happen at any time.
Reach out if you have questions or if you are interested in working one on one with Kate or Terri.
We are here for you.
With love + gratitude for listening,
Kate