Healing Birth Trauma: How the birthing process impacts the nervous system and how birth trauma left me in a state of freeze

For those interested in birth trauma prevention and healing, this podcast is a good example of the work I do with families every day.

In today’s episode, we talk about…?

• My birth trauma and how it led to nervous system dysregulation postpartum
• Why it’s important to educate providers, midwives, and doulas about the freeze state
• Why Kate likes to unpack early life traumas when helping you with your birth trauma
• How the birth parent’s autonomic response is impacted based on how they're treated during the birthing process
• How the vulnerability of labor and delivery tends to lead to pleasing and appeasing
• Why we need to normalize nervous system responses during the birthing process
• How your baby has a story to tell too
• How our need to do things by ourselves is a survival strategy that we relied on as a child
• Why new parents need more support postpartum
• The impact social media can have on your nervous system
• How Kate helps me disrupt locked-up nervous system energy

…and so much more!

Podcast show notes:?

https://courageouslyu.substack.com/p/kate-white-how-the-birthing-process