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Birthing Instincts

#335 Faith Filled Birth: An interview with Tara Menzies

Birthing Instincts

Dr. Stuart Fischbein + Midwife Blyss Young

Parenting, Kids & Family, Alternative Health, Health & Fitness

4.5 • 631 Ratings

🗓️ 15 November 2023

⏱️ 79 minutes

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Summary

While Dr Stu is teaching and playing abroad, Blyss sits with Tara, founder and voice of the Christian Hypnobirthing movement, to discuss her personal birth stories and how these experiences, her faith, tenacity, and curiosity led her to creating this popular app that tens of thousands of women have used to support their birth journeys. Tara's app seamlessly blends traditional hypnobirthing techniques with elements of Christian spirituality and has been a beacon of peace and comfort for expectant mothers globally.

Tara and Blyss journey through a myriad of topics - from the power and spirituality of childbirth, the impact of the physical and cultural environment of a hospital on the birthing experience, to the complexities of faith and spirituality. Tara's candid exploration of her return to Christianity, the transformative power of prayer, and the universal message of love that lies at the heart of her faith is nothing short of awe-inspiring. This conversation serves as a reminder of the profound connections, love, and spirituality that can be experienced through childbirth.

Key highlights:

  • Hypnobirthing and Faith-Filled Childbirth
  • HypnoBirthing App and Its Impact
  • Birth Experiences and Perspectives
  • Childbirth Environment and Religious Perspectives
  • Discovering Personal Faith and Spirituality


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About Tara Menzies:

Tara Menzies is the creator of the Christian Hypnobirthing app and the Faith-Filled Childbirth Course. She created the app in early 2018 after the birth of her first son, because she wanted to combine traditional hypnobirthing techniques (breathing and visualisation exercises, positive affirmations etc) with the incredible love, strength and support that come from our Heavenly Father, Lord Jesus and Holy Spirit, to help expecting mamas feel confident relaxed and connected to God throughout their births. The Christian Hypnobirthing app has since become one of the most highly rated hypnobirthing apps worldwide, and has helped tens of thousands of women have more relaxed, confident and faith-filled birth experiences.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to the Burling Instincts Podcast.

0:05.0

I'm Dr. Stewart Fishbein, community-based practicing obstetrician and long-time advocate for birth choices.

0:10.0

And I'm Bliss Young, a licensed midwife.

0:13.0

Join us in our conversational style podcast where we talk about everything birth.

0:17.0

Sometimes we laugh, sometimes we cry, but we're happy that you're here.

0:20.8

So here we go.

0:21.8

Hello, fellow travelers.

0:25.9

Good afternoon, good evening, and good middle of the night.

0:30.9

I am solo this week.

0:33.9

Dr. Stu is abroad having a grand old time.

0:38.1

And of course, he wanted to be able to join us for the interview and also maybe even recording a little intro like we often do.

0:49.5

But it wasn't in the cards.

0:52.1

He's on a boat with no Wi-Fi, so I told him I would take good care of

0:57.0

you guys this week. I hope you enjoy this episode. My friend Tara from Christian Hypno-Burthing joins me.

1:04.9

She talks about her birth stories, how she came up with this app and the idea.

1:12.3

And we just kind of chit-chat as women often do about our passion for this birth work

1:19.8

and supporting families in the best ways that we know how.

1:24.8

So take a listen, enjoy, and we'll see you on the other side. Well, hello, sister. How are you?

1:36.3

I'm so good. It's so good to see you. Thank you for having me. Of course. It's so good to see you too.

1:43.7

I am going to just introduce you to our

1:46.7

followers and then and then we'll just we'll just have a chitty chat and tell people all about

1:52.4

who you are. So Tara, right? Do I say Tara? Okay. All of a sudden I was like, am I pronouncing it right?

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