Service Description

This 90-minute session is designed to gently guide you through a process of storytelling about your reproductive experience. After pregnancy, we have an immense amount of work and healing to do. If you're like most, your own needs have been put on the back-burner. But leaving your raw story unprocessed can add a layer of exhaustion to your burnout. If your pregnancy experience was difficult, disappointing, or traumatic, thinking about it can be triggering or upsetting. This session scaffolds care to give you a chance to let messy emotions emerge and dissolve unfair self-perceptions.  Whether you were pregnant last week or decades ago, this session can be helpful for you. Our reproductive experiences stick with us, and can leave us silently suffering during what is supposed to be a very special time in our lives. If your pregnancy, miscarriage, or abortion experience was intense for you, you're not alone. Most people walk away from pregnancy feeling like a changed person; you deserve the space to express whatever comes up for you. This Trauma-Informed reflective practice will provide birthing people, their partners, and any other family caregivers the space and reflection they need to make meaning from your experience. Doulas, midwives, and other perinatal professionals can also use this space to recap difficult or trying birth experiences from a professional perspective. Telling your story can help you gain understanding of yourself and others as you reflect and reconcile your experience. Email emilylikinsehlers@gmail.com for group discounts and pay what you can services. PWYC is available as my schedule allows.