by Nisha Gill | Oct 20, 2020 | Blog, Trauma, Uncategorized
Birthing In The Wake Of Sexual Trauma Given that one in three females have reportedly experienced sexual trauma and that trauma is present on a continuum, we can assume that this topic applies to vast numbers of birthing women. Trauma can be experienced as ‘a thousand...
by Nisha Gill | Jun 17, 2020 | Blog, Uncategorized
Fawning In Birth: A Sign Of Self-Protection Laura is thirty-seven and has just had her first baby. Up until now, she had been immersed in her career of eighteen years, and from the outside looking in, people regard her as ‘successful.’ But on the inside, she feels...
by Nisha Gill | May 21, 2020 | Blog, Uncategorized
Doing Sex Differently After Birth: Opportunity, not Threat Birth rearranges a woman on every level. Clichéd as this sounds, the changes have to be experienced firsthand to be truly appreciated. And these changes most certainly extend to the way in which the woman...
by Nisha Gill | Nov 8, 2019 | Uncategorized
Birthworker Self-regulation: Adding Solutions, Not Problems Birth professionals, no matter the title they go by or where they might work, have the potential to dramatically affect the experience of birth for a birthing family. Not necessarily by what they do or not...
by Nisha Gill | Nov 3, 2018 | Birth, Trauma
Normalising Birth Trauma in Partners I have recently worked with a series of partners, one after the other, who have been traumatized as they supported their birthing partner through the birth of their baby. And in one case at least, it was only the partner who had...
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