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Hi, I'm Clemy Telford and it's time to get open and get honest.

Each week, I interview a guest about a topic

that we as a society often shy away from. From sex lives to salaries, life and death, religion and

real bodies, no subject is off the table. Welcome to Honestly, the podcast. I am thrilled to introduce this week's guest, none other than

Holly de Cruz. Holly is a hypnoborthing teacher, an author, and I am fortunate enough to call her one

of my good friends. We first met when I enrolled on her hypnoberthing course when I was pregnant

with my second son, Woody. And that experience and the knowledge she shared with me was nothing

short of transformative. So it is my pleasure that I have her here today. Labor isn't something

you can plan or control, but it is something that you can purposely prepare for. Getting to talk to

Holly for an hour in the name of work

was a pleasure for me and I hope you love it as much as I did. So here's Holly. So as you probably

know, if you've listened, we're going to start with a quick fire around. This is what I'm most

nervous about. Is it really? Yeah. Yeah. Why? I don't know. It just feels like there's pressure. No, I'm actually really interested to know some of your answers to this. So on a scale of 1 to 10, how confident are you?

Eight. Why am I saying 8? I have grown confident in myself. If you'd have asked me that 10 years ago, I'd probably said a 3. And now it's an eight. That's motherhood for you, isn't it?

Do you think they make you more confident or they force a journey to making yourself more

confident? A hundred percent the journey. I think they force you to look at things you might

have avoided, you know, before that. I think that you have no idea that that's coming either.

I think, you know, we're obviously going to get into birth in a minute,

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