In this episode of The Calmer Mom Podcast, host Michelle Noble chats with Selena Shelley, a licensed Mental Health Counselor and an approved trainer for "When Survivors Give Birth." With over 25 years of experience working with pregnant, birthing, and postpartum trauma survivors, Selena shares her insights into the emotional journey of motherhood and the importance of trauma-informed support during the perinatal period.

Key Takeaways:

• Empowering children and respecting their body consent is key to raising independent and confident individuals.
• While nurturing self-expression is important, setting boundaries is also crucial, as demonstrated by Selena's example about her daughter's use of makeup.
• Engaging in emotional and trauma-related work during pregnancy offers an opportunity for healing and a smoother motherhood experience.
• The metaphor of passing a baton symbolizes the important transition of care and responsibility from parent to child, which is a significant aspect of parenthood.

Homeplay:

Ask yourself: What healing do I still need to make my pregnancy, birth, and parenting experience smoother?

Resources:

The Calmer Mom Most Popular Pregnancy Quiz Yet! https://bit.ly/calmer-mom-pregnancy-quiz

Learn more about The Calmer Mom: https://www.calmermom.solutions

Selenas’s Website: https://www.selenashelley.com

When Survivors Give Birth: https://whensurvivorsgivebirth.net/

Open Arms Perinatal Services: https://openarmsps.org/

Other Resources: https://pattch.org/

https://www.postpartum.net/

https://perinatalsupport.org/

In this episode, host Michelle Noble speaks with Diana Jyoti, hospice nurse, intuitive healer and spiritual teacher to explore the concept of receiving. As mothers, it can be easy to get caught up in the daily grind of responsibilities, leaving little room for self-reflection and inner work.

However, by opening ourselves up to vulnerability and embracing discomfort, we can tap into a deeper level of receptivity and access the resources we need to grow and heal.

In this conversation, Diana and Michelle share their own personal journeys of self-discovery and offer practical advice for moms looking to cultivate a receiving state in conception, pregnancy, and beyond. Tune in to learn how to embrace discomfort, release fear, communicate with your baby (even before they are born!), and tap into your own inner wisdom.

Key Takeaways:

• Set aside fear and choose greater possibilities: By acknowledging and setting aside our fears, we can make choices that lead to greater possibilities.
• Our children choose us: By opening our hearts, our beings and our consciousness to our babies, we add to the communion, the receiving, and the gift of the pregnancy and motherhood experience.
• Healing ourselves is critical to hearing the messages our little ones are asking to share with us. And healing requires courage, vulnerability, and support.
• Homeplay - Questions for beginning and end of life, and every relationship in between: What do you want? Where are you? How do you want this process to look? Do you even want to be in this process? What are your goals? 
• Cultivate curiosity, wonderment, and listening. Embrace vulnerability and willingness to receive.
• Tap into the energy of what you would like your life to be like. It will give you a compass for making choices.
• A healthy ecosystem requires both creation and destruction: As in Nature, Motherhood can include both creation and destruction in order for the ecosystem of our lives, our bodies, and our families to thrive.
• Embrace vulnerability and willingness to receive: By embracing vulnerability and being willing to receive from everything, we can experience the gifts and resources available from others and the universe.
• Let go of control : By letting go of control, you open yourself to receiving the gifts and resources that are available, so you can discover new insights, ideas, and possibilities that can lead to great change.

Resources:

Stories of the Goddess: Divine Feminine Frequency Keepers: http://www.bit.ly/3Z8zeXE

To learn more about or schedule a session with Diana Jyoti: https://www.dianajyoti.com

The Calmer Mom Most Popular Pregnancy Quiz Yet! https://bit.ly/calmer-mom-pregnancy-quiz

Would you like to get to know your baby and talk with them even before birth? Join the Hi Baby Challenge: https://www.calmermom.solutions/hi-baby Learn more about The Calmer Mom: https://www.calmermom.solutions

In this episode of The Calmer Mom Podcast, host Michelle Noble speaks with Dr. Allison Feldt, a women's health and pelvic floor physical therapist, about the importance of pelvic floor health for women during pregnancy, postpartum, and beyond. They discuss common issues related to pelvic floor dysfunction, the benefits of pelvic floor physical therapy, and how it can even impact fertility.

What was talked about in this episode:

• The importance of pelvic floor health and how it can impact a woman's life
• Common issues related to pelvic floor dysfunction, such as incontinence and painful intercourse
• The benefits of pelvic floor physical therapy, including improved bladder and bowel control, decreased pain, and improved sexual function
• The impact of pelvic floor physical therapy on fertility, including how tight pelvic floor muscles can lead to infertility and how physical therapy can improve blood flow to reproductive organs
• Tips for finding a pelvic floor physical therapist and resources for online programs

Resources:

The Calmer Mom Most Popular Pregnancy Quiz Yet! https://bit.ly/calmer-mom-pregnancy-quiz

Dr. Allison Body Motion PT website: https://bodymotionpt.com/

The Edmonds Moms Room Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/edmonds-moms-room/id1456862341

Body Motion PT Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bodymotionpt/

Would you like to get to know your baby and talk with them even before birth? Join the Hi Baby Challenge: https://www.calmermom.solutions/hi-baby

Learn more about The Calmer Mom: https://www.calmermom.solutions