Healing After Birth
Birth trauma, nervous system care, embodiment, integration, and gentle healing pathways.
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Birth trauma, nervous system care, embodiment, integration, and gentle healing pathways.
Agency is not loud.
It is not domination.
It is not resilience performed for others.
Agency, in its truest form, is the quiet return of choice.
Reflection on agency and wholeness.
When our children are unwell, the body can respond with urgency, fear, and deep care all at once — without asking permission, without explanation.
If you recognise yourself here — tight, tearful, unable to rest — please know this: Your body is responding to love, responsibility, and memory intertwined.
Some births leave marks you cannot see. Birth is not only remembered as a story — it is remembered by the body. This essay gently explores how safety, vulnerability, and nervous system responses shape the imprint of birth, even when everything appeared to go well.