Episodes

  • Breastfeeding and Birth Trauma

    Breastfeeding and Birth Trauma
    Apr 4 2024

    In this episode I discuss my own experience of breastfeeding after Birth Trauma. I talk about both encouraging and discouraging situations that occurred with various professionals after giving birth and attempting to breast feed. My hope is to offer understanding and compassion to mothers and birth givers who endure traumatic births and it's lasting effects. And a special thanks to mothers with excess milk supply who graciously donate their milk.

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    8 mins
  • The many layers of trauma: how our early life trauma affects our current birth trauma experience.

    The many layers of trauma: how our early life trauma affects our current birth trauma experience.
    Feb 5 2024
    In this episode, I talk about my thesis, which explored how early life and developmental trauma affect ones experience of birth trauma.
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    9 mins
  • Having compassion for the mother I couldn't be.

    Having compassion for the mother I couldn't be.
    Jan 25 2024
    In this episode, I will explore with compassion some parts of myself that I have come to feel compassionate for. In particular looking at the mom I wasn't able to be due to the trauma and inviting compassion and understanding around that part.
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    9 mins
  • Mothering after Birth Trauma

    Mothering after Birth Trauma
    Jan 12 2024
    In this episode, I speak to the difficulties around mothering after Birth Trauma. My hope is to normalize how hard to is to take care of a newborn in a posttraumatic state and to offer compassion to mothers and birth givers who are just getting through.
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    9 mins
  • Healing from Birth Trauma: A Mother and Counselor's Journey along the way. By Joanna Furtado RPC-C

    Healing from Birth Trauma: A Mother and Counselor's Journey along the way. By Joanna Furtado RPC-C
    Jan 11 2024

    In this first episode of Healing from Birth Trauma, I will share a little bit about my experience and reason for creating this podcast and I will attempt to define birth trauma as experienced by mothers and birth givers.
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    7 mins