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 admin | Jul 1, 2020 | Birth trauma healing, Birthing From Within, Childbirth preparation, Holistic birth preparation, Shamanic womancraft, soulcraft
“By courageously diving into your wounds, patiently allowing the suffering to do its work, neither indulging nor repressing the pain, you reach the deeper levels of the psyche where you encounter your larger (soul) story.” – Soulcraft: Crossing into...
