Module 1 Resource Guide
You may like to journal or speak your responses to these questions to someone who can compassionately listen.
Q1. How connected do you feel your body?
You may have hesitance about connecting with your body, complete disconnection, connection to some areas and not to others or complete connection. Can you identify what the connection feels like, where it is and if it changes from different areas in the body. For example you may feel really connected to your limbs but not connected at all to any birth scar tissue or your womb.
Remembering, it’s ok to feel whatever you are feeling around your body. It’s also ok to have lots of feelings that co-exist.
Q2. How do you feel about your body?
If it feels right to, name the feelings and what they are about. For example I feel so proud of what my body has done and how it has enabled life and I feel disappointed that I have a perineal or abdominal scar. Or I’m really frustrated that I have haemorrhoids and I really like my pregnancy stripes or stretch marks as they are often known as.
Q3. What am I making my issues mean?
Most of us make what is happening in our postpartum bodies to mean:
Remember that you are way more than your vaginal wall, lower belly or skin. You are a bad arse wise woman who has given life to another human! Because of YOU the human race gets to continue. So thank you and your body for what it’s given us. You are amazing, just the way you are!
Q4. Can you be your own best friend here? What do you compassionately need to hear from yourself?
You might like to try placing your hand on your heart and saying or thinking:
You may want to try the compassion relaxation or book a birth debrief and then come back and see if your answers to the questions here change at all.
I just want to send you a lot of love here. Our connection to our body can bring up so many feelings. They’re allowed to be here and you’re worth what it takes to heal. Your body also needs and deserves your compassionate connection to it, this us to be our most powerful.
Please remember if it doesn’t feel right then it isn’t.
Who else you can see for prolapse?
Other Resources:
Questions to ponder:
Q1. What have been your messages around postpartum healing?
Q2. What did you believe you should be able to do in the early months postpartum?
Q3. What do you feel your body needs right now
Q4. How willing are you to work on your body and mind and allow them what they need to heal.
Resources:
Module 1 Resource Guide
Module 2 Audio Resource
Module 1 Audio Resource
Module 1 Audio Resource
Module 3 Resource Guide
Module 2 Resource Guide
Module 4 Resource Guide
Module 3 Resource Guide
Listening Partnerships are where we listen in turn with another adult, swapping an agreed amount of listening time.
Find someone, and ask them if they will listen to you for a while, and then you can listen to them for the same amount of time. Explain that it is:
It may feel uncomfortable at first, but over time we learn to use this listening time (just like children will learn to use the Listening Tools we offer them). If you can’t think of anything else to say, tell your life story! As we do this kind of listening more regularly, we start to notice more things we want to talk about
Use a timer – this means that you don’t have to keep track of how much time you have, and you don’t have to work out when to interrupt someone’s turn when time is up.
Module 2 Resource Guide
Questions to ponder:
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