EMDR Therapy for Birth Trauma: What to Expect | Libby Orrick Therapy
Birth trauma can leave you with intrusive memories of the delivery, fear of future pregnancies, panic in medical settings, intimacy disruption, or a body that no longer feels safe. EMDR is one of the therapies that can help.
If you are considering EMDR therapy for birth trauma, one of the hardest parts can be not knowing what the work will actually involve. This post is meant to make that more concrete. The first half walks through what EMDR for birth trauma may look like, session by session. The second half looks at other approaches that may also help, because EMDR is not the right fit for everyone and is not the only path forward.
Finding Your Way: A Compassionate Framework for Parenting Decisions
The perinatal period is a tender time for a million reasons: hormones, physical changes, identity shifts, relationship strain, sleep deprivation, you name it. Add to this that every day you have to make hundreds of parenting decisions where there’s no clear right answer. Much of the conversation around the right way to parent stems from the emotional weight of cultural expectations, not research. And none of it seems to factor in the impact parenting decisions have on our well-being and capacity.