Hey everyone, welcome to this week's episode of the Motherkind podcast, the show that's

going to help you navigate the massive challenges of life as a modern mother with more community,

confidence, clarity and self-awareness. I believe the most important and inspiring thing we can do for our children is to become the

most empowered, resilient, authentic versions of ourselves. And this podcast exists to help you do

just that. This week's episode is about the importance of being able to process our experiences.

From the moment we're born and throughout our lives,

one of our biggest wishes is to be heard.

In fact, as humans, one of our core needs is to be listened to,

to be validated and to be understood.

And this episode is about how to process your birth and early motherhood experience so that

you feel listened to, validated and understood.

It is really important.

Whatever happened at your birth, childbirth and early parenthood are some of the most

transformational experiences as we talk about week in, week out on the podcast you can ever go to. But so often we're not given that space, time or the tools to process and

reflect and reframe those experiences. The pressure to bounce back, to adjust,

to just push down any difficult motions and carry on is immense. And sometimes we just have

to do that, don't we, just to keep going. Well, in this episode, the incredible Ili Morrison is

here to help. So Ili is a midwife specialising in postpartum recovery and care.

And Ili facilitate birth debriefs, where women get to be validated, understood and listened to,

to take control of their experiences, to feel seen and centred in their pregnancies and births.

This episode does come with a trigger warning. We speak about birth. We speak about birth trauma

and birth recovery. And if you think that might be hard for you to listen to, just give this

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