by Anne Castles | Apr 25, 2021 | Birth trauma healing, doula, Holistic birth preparation, Postpartum, Pregnancy counselling, Trauma recovery
Pregnancy is an incredible time of transition in our lives, whether this is your first pregnancy or you’re already a parent. There are many reasons why seeking emotional, psychological and social support can help you cope during pregnancy, as well as better prepare...
by Anne Castles | Apr 15, 2021 | Birth trauma healing, Childbirth preparation, doula, Holistic birth preparation, Shamanic womancraft, soulcraft, Womb Healing
You can read part one, BIRTH AS INITIATION GROUND FOR DEEP HEALING here. “Our job is not to deny the story, but to defy the ending—to rise strong, recognize our story, and rumble with the truth until we get to a place where we think, Yes. This is what happened. And...
by Anne Castles | Apr 15, 2021 | Birth trauma healing, Childbirth preparation, doula, fertility, Holistic birth preparation, Shamanic womancraft, soulcraft
“Women are not the cause of unnecessary and unwanted medical intervention in birth. Interventions are rising because the maternity system was never set up to promote physiology or support evidence-based, woman-centred practice. It evolved to sustain medicine...
by admin | Sep 11, 2020 | Birth trauma healing, Birthing From Within, Childbirth preparation, doula, Holistic birth preparation
It’s Birth Trauma Awareness Week (2020) and there are so many things I could say about birth trauma it’s hard to know where to start. Do you start at the systemic level, where we have a culture of ‘care providers’ with so much unhealed vicarious trauma and...
by Anne Castles | Jan 8, 2019 | Ancestral Reverance, Birthing From Within, DIY Potions, doula, fertility, Placenta love, Soulful living, Womancraft, Womb Healing
Much attention has been given lately to placenta encapsulation and consuming placentas through smoothies. These practices have been said to help with the postnatal transition. When I was planning for my son’s birth I didn’t feel interested in encapsulation. I knew I...
by admin | Nov 15, 2014 | Birthing From Within, Childbirth preparation, doula, Pain Coping for Birth
In my work with pregnant women one of the most common things I hear is that women are afraid. Afraid of pain. Afraid of not knowing what will happen. Afraid of birth. There is lot to talk about with this and why this might be the case socially and culturally, but...
