birth story processing
Find healing in your birth experience through 1:1 connection with a certified Birth Story Listener
Birth story listening is a unique method of exploring difficult birth experiences with the goal of finding healing, self-compassion and peace.
Birth story listening sessions guide you through reexamination of your birth to uncover the beliefs and feelings hidden inside your experience, so you can integrate and make peace with your experience.
Sessions are fully guided. Together we’ll explore the events and beliefs that shaped your experience and discover what lies beneath.
Sessions are held by phone or Zoom and require a private and uninterrupted setting that allows you to focus on your story.
$95
Stephanie
“My birth story listening experience with Kate was incredibly healing and grounding. Her gentle encouragement, deep listening, and powerful invitations and reflections helped me reframe a story I've been telling myself since the birth of my second son, a story that has been laced with guilt and shame. In the matter of an hour, I was able to find healing & peace in something I've carried for over 3 years with angst and pain. It offered me a fresh start and hope for the future.”
All the answers to your Birth Story Listening questions in this 7-minute overview.
WHO IS BIRTH STORY LISTENING for?
Anyone who has experienced or witnessed a birth (birthing people, partners, birth workers, etc) who has unresolved feelings about the birth may benefit from a birth story listening session.
Birth story listening is designed for those who:
Feel shame, anger, sadness or other difficult emotions about a birth experience
Have difficulty thinking about or accepting a birth experience
Want to explore compassion and resolution around what happened
how soon after the birth is birth story listening recommended?
Healing isn’t linear and each person processes differently, but generally, in the first few weeks and months after birth, you are still integrating your experience and may not be ready to process it.
Some women may be ready to reexamine their birth story as early as 3 months postpartum and for many others it can take years before they’re ready to look at it again.
There is no time limit on reexamining a painful birth experience. I have heard stories from women months, years and decades after they happened.
Is this therapy?
I am not a therapist and Birth Story Listening is not a replacement for therapy. I’ve found Birth Story Listening to be a beautiful complement to therapy and a unique and powerful format for reexamining birth experiences to find healing.