Join Dr Tracy Breathnach PhD for this series where she explores and reflects on the ways that we heal and grow after birth drawing on her own lived experience and research. Primarily focusing on the woman or birthing person's experience, the series also includes a look at the baby's experience of being born and also partners and birth support workers' experience. www.tracybreathnach.com
A moving conversation with Nicola Kelly who gave birth 22 years ago but only recently realised that she had locked the difficult memories of her birth experience away.Nic booked in to see me for a 1 to 1 IEMT (Integral Eye Movement Therapy) session and after an hour she had some significant changes not only in how she thought about the memories, but in the way she related to her son and her own body.Our conversation reflects on her birth expeirence and how she has come to think and feel about...
14 Nov 2023
6. Helen Acklam
Helen Acklam is an artist based in Bristol and at BV Studios, Bedminster. Her practice is site-responsive and draws on personal experiences and events to explore ideas around death, loss, identity and feminism. Bodily engagement and a sense of collaborating with materials is key to the unfolding of her ideas and processes. In particular, we discuss her project 'What it is to be there.' Helen writes: "There is an area of ground in the Garw Valley, South Wales, next to a coal min...
31 Jul 2023
5. Angharad Jenkins
Angharad Jenkins is a song-writer, fiddle-player and creative collaborator from Swansea. Described as a ‘musical chameleon,’ she has long worked at the edges of expectations. She’s enjoyed a 15-year career touring the world with multi award-winning Welsh folk band Calan, but since becoming a mother she has discovered her voice. Literally a singing voice, and also words and stories that needed to be told. In 2023, she launched her new, alt-pop project under the name ‘Angharad.’ A powerful...
9 Sept 2022
3. Dr Deirdre Donoghue & Marlies Phielix
Dr Deirdre Donoghue & Marlies PhielixDr.Deirdre M. Donoghue, PhD, is a mother of two, a birth doula since 2015, and a pregnancy- and postpartum masseuse. She has published on mothers and art, maternal subjectivity, -thinking and -experience, and has developed pedagogical materials on combatting gender inequality and gender-based violence against women through art. Besides her practice as a doula, she is a visual and performance artist. She is currently also working as a researcher and the...
12 Aug 2022
4. Matthew Appleton
Matthew Appleton is a fully qualified Psychotherapist, and Craniosacral Therapist working in Central Bristol. He delivers and trains in Integrative Baby Therapy (IBT) which acknowledges babies as sensitive and aware beings, who are affected by their birth and womb life. Matthew trained extensively with American Pre and Perinatal Educator Karlton Terry. Out of this experience he developed Integrative Baby Therapy, which he teaches to health professionals in the UK and a number of other co...
15 Jul 2022
2. Sonia Richards
Sonia Richards is a scientist, multi-disciplinary therapist, author and singer. She began her career in Obstetrics & Gynaecology and diversified into pathology and genetics. Sonia helped to introduced HypnoBirthing into the UK and was a member of the UK HypnoBirthing Board. She trains integral Eye Movement Techniques (IEMT) and Metaphors of Movement and is a member of the Mental Space Institute, and works with clients in the UK and globally via Zoom. She has recently published the only bo...
11 Jul 2022
1. Mia Scotland
Mia Scotland, Perinatal Clinical Psychologist and author of two books: "Why Postnatal Depression Matters" and "Birth Shock". Mia has a clinic in Leicester where she provides therapy for people who are struggling and she also runs online courses for birth professionals on perinatal psychology via Yourbirthright. Her passion is advocating for better care and support for mothers and families in the perinatal period.Website: www.yourbirthright.co.ukBook link: Birth Shock: How to recover fro...
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