This is the Shameless Mom Academy episode 879 with returning guest Parijat Deschpande.

Show notes for this episode, including any links mentioned in the episode, can be found by going

to shamelessmom.com and clicking on episode 879.

Welcome to the Shameless Mom Academy. I'm your host, Sarah Dean. I'm here to give you and other passionate, driven, unapologetic moms, stories, tools, resources, and a little bit of humor to help you lead more powerful, positive, and purposeful lives every damn day. So let's dive in. Parijat Deschpande is the founder

and CEO of Rubelle, the only trauma-informed wellness company specifically dedicated to improving

high-risk pregnancy outcomes, reducing preterm birth, and supporting parents on the entire high-risk pregnancy

journey. On a mission to end the high-risk pregnancy crisis, she has served and supported

thousands of clients through her live events, one-on-one work, her best-selling book,

pregnancy brain, a mind-body approach to stress management during a high-risk pregnancy, and her body-language

journal. I'm thrilled to be welcoming Parajat back to the show as a second-time guest. I've watched

her work evolve quite a bit in the years since she was last on the show, and I just had this sense

that now was the right time to have her come back, and this time we're talking about traumatic stress

and collective trauma, something that has touched every single life in the last four or so years.

So listen in to hear Parijat share her path to working in women's health and serving women

who are enduring health trauma, the significance of trauma-informed medical care and where we are currently

going wrong without it, what it's like for people with medical trauma to navigate the world

without people under extending their experience, how the pandemic created a situation of global

collective trauma that we are still very much living in, what needs to happen for us to heal from

collective trauma, when we don't have

collective safety, how we can find support in any given moment by addressing our own physiological

needs, how we have shifted from living in collective trauma to living in a collective functional

freeze, which I found so fascinating and quite true, and what trauma-sensitive medical

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