Resilient Birth

Resilient Birth

Hosted by: Justine Leach and Sarah Adelmann

Conversations about trauma in the perinatal period

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Episodes

Client Driven Therapy and Brainspotting with Jana Glass

We welcome Jana Glass, a Licensed Professional Counselor certified in Brainspotting, Addictions, and Perinatal Mental health, to the podcast this week. In this conversation we explore what it means for therapy to be...
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The Power of Words: A Birth Story with Liz Gray

This week, Liz Gray, LCSW, RPT, shares her birth story in which she explores the complex feelings she has about the OB at her birth, who provided physically good medical care but whose language and attitude was...
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Simone Biles: The Power of Choosing Yourself Over the Noise

In this episode, Sarah brings in a quote from Simone Biles in her documentary "Rising." Join us as we find deep connections between Simone's words and the weight of expectations around the identity of motherhood and...
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Babies are the Royalty of Humanity with Kate White

In this episode, we are joined  by Kate White, who talks intimately about integrating implicit memories and her experience supporting mothers and babies through trauma-informed somatic healing approaches. She starts...
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Dissociation Reframed with Morning Alexander

In this episode Sarah and Justine's guest, Morning Alexander, a birth and postpartum doula and soon to be labor and delivery nurse, surprises us with a quote from Justine that she wrote on the Resilient Birth social...
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Holding Space for Trauma with Kristi Field

In this episode Sarah and Justine talk with Kristi Field about how her work as a birth and postpartum doula is grounded in Polyvagal Theory and how trauma can be stored within the nervous system. Join us as we explore...
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Defining Birth Trauma

  In this episode, Justine and Sarah debate definitions of birth trauma. Is birth trauma really just any experience of distress in childbirth? Does it occur because we had unrealistic expectations? And what is the...
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What If You Can?

  In this episode, Sarah and Justine explore the value of shifting your mindset in the perinatal period as Sarah was inspired this week by words from a competitive cyclist that helped reconnect her to her power....
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We're Not Meant To Do This Alone with Erin Ronder Neves

This is our second episode of Season 2 and today we are talking to Erin Ronder Neves, a birth and postpartum doula, about her experiences with Postpartum Depression and OCD. In this episode, Erin shares candidly about...
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Birth Injuries

We are excited to announce the first episode of Season 2 of the Resilient Birth Podcast! In this episode Justine speaks about her own experience of suffering a third degree tear with her first child after reading the...
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Why Care about Trauma-Informed Care?

In today's Resilient Birth Short why you should care about trauma-informed care and we introduce our training Trauma Informed Fundamentals, which provides a really great introduction to trauma and trauma-informed...
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Bearing Witness After the Birth

In today's Resilient Birth Short we discuss debriefing a birth with your client. We discuss how your client may be looking for more than just person to listen to the story of the birth.  So often our clients want to...
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