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Podcast – Fiona Rogerson with Nikola Willis on The Small Business Podcast

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This blog post is a transcript of the podcast interview between Aimee Heinrich and Nikola Willis, for The Small Business Podcast. Listen to the Podcast here. Top 4 tips for maintaining your mental health in small business ownership (Episode #39) Nikola: [00:00:00] Good afternoon and welcome to the Small Business Cheerleader Podcast. I’m Nicola […]

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Podcast – Fiona Rogerson with Aimee Heinrich on The Post Party Project

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This blog post is a transcript of the podcast interview between Aimee Heinrich and Fiona Rogerson, for The Post Part Project. Listen to the Podcast here. Birth Trauma… do I have it? How to support someone with their birth trauma, Postnatal depression in our partners – with Fiona Rogerson (Episode #15) Aimee: [00:00:03] Hello

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Somatic vs emotional flashbacks: what’s the difference?

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Somatic vs emotional flashbacks – what’s the difference? The bliss I had felt during my first pregnancy was nowhere to be found. Instead, going through the motions of this pregnancy had triggered intense feelings from my daughter’s birth. My body was remembering the painful events of that birth, and these visceral memories brought with them

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What happens in trauma counselling?

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What happens in trauma counselling? It took me three weeks from finding the counsellor who I thought could help me, to finally picking up the phone to call her. I had never been to see a therapist before so I had images in my head of sitting in front of someone with a clipboard

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What NOT to do when offering support

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What NOT to do when offering support Offering support is a kind and natural thing to do for a friend or family member who has experienced birth trauma or perinatal mental health challenges. Thank you for being willing to walk this bumpy road together. It really does take a village to support a new parent

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Why is it so hard to change things?

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Why is it so hard to change things? You know things are tough right now. In fact, they’ve been tough for a while. So you know that something has to give. Something has to change, but you’ve tried it before and you’re back to where you started. Maybe it’s setting boundaries with family members,

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An easy mindfulness technique

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I want to share with you an easy mindfulness technique that I share with many of my clients. These five steps are a way to ground yourself in the now, take you out of your head and help stop your flooded thoughts. Your thoughts are directly linked to how you feel and although we feel

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I don’t feel bonded with my baby

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Love at first sight. An instant connection. A flood of overwhelming emotion. A bond that will hit you like a brick. I’d heard it all before, and it excited me! I expected to feel a rush of beautiful emotions wash over me when I met my baby for the first time. But I didn’t. And it

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Who Holds the Mother?

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Everyone wanted to visit my baby. To see her, to hold her, to ask how she was feeding and sleeping. I distinctly remember in the weeks following the birth of my first child waiting patiently for that elusive 6-week check, where there would be someone waiting to check in on me…

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Out with the old, in with the new

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Out with the old, in with the new If you’ve read my story, you’ll know that what initially established back in 2015 as Exhale Birth, then moved to Exhale Counselling & Wellbeing in 2019, was founded as a culmination of my own personal experiences, my education and my deep desire to facilitate an avenue

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