Nicole’s Story: How My Second Birth Made Me Feel Ecstatic (Episode #2)
What if we told you that, if you take the right steps, giving birth can actually be an ECSTATIC, empowering experience? That it can actually feel GOOD?
Today’s episode focuses on Nicole’s story. Nicole is the mom of a 13-year-old daughter and 10-year-old son. She’s also a trauma-informed yoga facilitator, birth and postpartum educator, and our resident pregnancy and postpartum yoga expert and mindset ninja.
She used her disappointing first birthing experience to have an ecstatic second one using yoga techniques that, in this podcast, she’s going to share with the rest of us.
Our motherhood journeys were different in details, but each had a similar arc, with disappointing first pregnancies and transformative experiences the second time around.
The hope is that, by sharing our stories, more women can avoid the mistakes we made and instead find joy, empowerment and strengths in their own journeys becoming mothers.
ADVANCE WARNING: this episode mentions infant loss and miscarriage for two minutes. If this is a sensitive topic for you, feel free to mute or skip over those two minutes, or refer to the show notes for highlights instead. Notable Quote from Nicole
“Go for the best birth. Aim for it. Go for the best birth and postpartum experience you can imagine. Be bold, get help from people like myself and others of our generation who are seeing other possibilities. In some cases, that might mean you have to be willing to go first. You have to be that pioneer, the creative, the maverick, those archetypes right there.”
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