102: Emotional and Spiritual Postpartum Care ft. Rebecca Christian

The Catholic Feminist

Claire Swinarski

Religion & Spirituality, Christian, Politics, Jesus, Catholic, Religion, Socialjustice, Christianity, Feminist, Women

4.8 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 24 April 2019

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

We often talk about postpartum care in terms of nursing or sleep deprivation…but what about the spiritual and emotional side of things? Today’s chat is with Rebecca Christian of Fiat Doula Services. Rebecca is walking us through why she decided to transition from screenwriting to doula services, why she focuses her practice on postpartum care, and what moms who are struggling in the postpartum stage of life can do to begin to feel like themselves again. We also talk about how silence has been bringing her closer to God (I feel like so many of our guests say this!) and Rebecca generously provided our listeners with a list of Catholic birth affirmations! Make sure to head to our show notes to get your hands on those and send them to a friend who will be giving birth soon. Enjoy!

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0:00.0	You are listening to the Catholic feminist episode 102. Today we are talking about
0:06.1	caring for ourselves postpartum emotionally, physically, and spiritually. Today's episode
0:11.2	is brought to you by Audible for a free
0:13.2	audio book and a free 30-day trial head on over to audibletrial.com
0:17.3	slash Catholic.
0:18.3	Welcome to the Catholic 7ist, a podcast for strong women who want to be informed, inspired, and
0:26.4	intentional.
0:27.4	I'm your host, Claire, and I'm so glad you're here. Happy Easter everybody hope you had a really great holiday. We had Chris's
0:46.2	family here, had a very Polish Easter meal, it was delicious, and yeah it's just
0:52.2	really joyful to be celebrating the
0:53.6	resurrection of our Lord the weather has finally warmed up a little bit here in
0:57.9	Wisconsin it was like 74 degrees yesterday it felt amazing I'm really excited about today's guests. We are
1:04.7	chatting with Rebecca Christian. Rebecca is a dula and we've had a dula on the show
1:10.2	before if you want to listen to our episode with Torrey Pole I'll make sure to
1:13.1	link it in the show notes but today we're talking about that postpartum phase of
1:17.8	life I feel like often when we talk about postpartum care we're talking about
1:22.1	like nursing or pumping in the workplace or like these very physical
1:26.5	aspects of post childbirth and what I loved about our conversation with
1:30.4	Rebecca is that we dive really deeply into how postpartum life affects
1:36.3	our spiritual life and why Rebecca decided to become a Dula. We had a really great
1:41.6	conversation and I hope that you enjoy it. I also wanted to mention
1:45.6	just before we dive in that girl or eyes, the Catholic feminist book is available wherever books I sold.
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