Transform Your Birth Story
45% of new moms report experiencing a traumatic birth.
You are not alone. You can heal.
“I feel like everyone needs one of Farrah’s sessions”. ~ Madison, Manchester NH
Birth Story Medicine ® is a guided process that helps the mother, father, or anyone who witnessed birth to find meaning and healing after a difficult or traumatic birth experience.
A difficult or traumatic birth does not always leave physical scars. Birth trauma can happen in any birth and for any person involved in birth. It can leave emotional and spiritual wounds and affect relationships, parenting, and health. Parents may find that it causes mistrust with healthcare professionals, stress in relationships, excessive negative thoughts or feelings and worry when preparing to birth again.
Birth Story Medicine® is an innovative narrative counseling approach in which a trained Birth Story Specialist guides the storyteller (parent or birth professional) in a specific and intentional process that helps the storyteller gain awareness and insight, and transform their story of the birth and often of the story they have of themselves. You do not have to have experienced birth trauma or be diagnosed with childbirth related PTSD to benefit from Birth Story Medicine. A Birth Story Medicine session with a trained Birth Story Specialist can help you find peace in painful memories and find new meaning from suffering. Birth Story Medicine is not intended to replace mental health counseling and many parents find it greatly enhances any counseling they are engaged with.
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Feel at peace with your birth story
Understand and make sense of your birth experience
Feel more prepared for an upcoming birth
Tell your birth story with intention
Feel a more positively about about yourself or your birth story
Forgive yourself or others for things that didn’t go the way you hoped in birth
Gain clarity about painful emotions or memories
See your birth as a right of passage and the story of your birth as a meaningful journey in your life
Grow as a mother
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Frequent negative thoughts or feelings about a birth experience
Difficulty bonding with your baby
Excessive stress in relationship with partner
Blaming self or others for something that happened in the birth
Excessive worry or concern for upcoming birth
Replaying events in the birth that illicit strong negative emotions
Perinatal mental health impact such as anxiety or depression
Difficulty transitioning to mothering role
Avoiding healthcare professionals or places of care
Birth Story Medicine was developed by Pam England, a visionary, author, artist, childbirth educator, birth story mentor, storyteller, facilitator and former nurse-midwife. Pam spent decades working with families and professionals developing Birthing From Within childbirth education and Birth Story Medicine, a unique and effective approach to overcome difficult and traumatic birth stories. I learned Birth Story Medicine directly from Pam in trainings over the past 20 years. I am honored to be a Certified Birth Story Listener and facilitator for Birth Story Medicine apprentices under her guidance. To learn more about Birth Story Medicine or becoming a Certified Birth Story Specialist, check out the Birth Story Medicine website. To schedule a training for birth professionals contact me.