If you feel edgy and frazzled, confused about what really happened at your birth and why, you're not alone.You may, however, feel lonely and disconnected by all you're holding.

 

If you experienced birth as a serious danger to yourself or your baby's safety and well-being

you may be enduring a chronic stress-reaction.
The amplification of your threat physiology may linger longer as something that is deeply *felt*

and uniquely personal.

 

Mothers remember the negative impact of a traumatic birth even when it didn't involve a surgery, injury or loss.

There may be overwhelming feelings of fear, powerlessness, instability and dread.
You may feel you haven't quite been yourself since your birth.
You may feel as though your self-trust is compromised, teetering on shaky ground. 
 

The emotional burden of carrying such complex emotions forward can be overwhelming.
Your nervous system might still be reacting to an invisible threat

coping and adapting with different protective measures so to create a felt sense of protection.

Because you weren't able to confront or flee the danger at the time,

your distress signals remain stuck in your body.
You don't quite feel like yourself, you feel off.
While in your birth portal, you had to navigate threat in a highly suggestive altered state of consciousness

which may have caused you to freeze, fawn or dissociate,

known in Polyvagal theory as *dorsal vagal shutdown*.
This is your nervous system's security response doing what it is divinely designed to do.

By resolving the hidden impacts of birth trauma, I help women gracefully shift from isolation to presence through acceptance and reconnection with their true nature.
Whether or not your unique experience involved sabotage, medical overreach or obstetrical trespass,

the Rewind Detraumatization process is a safe, effective technique to gently resolve

the physical, emotional and psychological effects of your birth-memory.
It will support you to rebuild trust in your body, especially if you are, or intend to be pregnant again. 

Healing asks for loving, attentive hearts to encircle our deep hurts

with loving acknowledgement, with careful awareness and sensitivity.

It invites embodied maturity, skill-mastery and a trustworthy competency.

If you're ready to let go of what your mind and body are still gripping, I'm here to be of service, mama.
 

Let's shift you beyond trepidation and dysregulation into fuller integration and resonance.......
You're worth your own recovery,
When traumatic birth experiences are transformed into pathways of self-trust,

your personal power will express as a fuller, more embodied motherhood.

I'm a former full-spectrum holistic doula (Pacific Rim College, 2014/15, Matrona Cohort 4, 2022/23).
I've been navigating the intricate nuances of physiological birth for over 30 years, beginning with the undisturbed home birth of my son in 1995. Over time, in various personal and professional relationships, I grew to intimately understand complex perinatal trauma in both hospital and home settings, the impacts, the far-reaching reverberations that too many of my friends and former clients experienced. These traumatic births kept women distraught, hyper-vigilant and anxious.

By holding their tender stories near, I learned more and more about psychological injury.
Many times over I found myself being called upon as a space-holder, a compassionate witness to the quiet tyranny of trauma.

My listening intently on *discovery calls* frequently turned into impromptu debrief sessions, with prospects spontaneously sharing long-held hurts in my anchored presence, longing to be seen and heard for all they had courageously endured.

While the primary focus of my dedicated work and study has centred around the optimization of undisturbed physiological birth at home, the Universe continually steered me toward understanding how to support my sisters in resolving the pain and hurt of a disrupted birth that did not go as planned, restoring wounded trust. 

From close observation I've come to know that *talk therapy* and listening services aren't quite enough.
You can't talk trauma out of the body.

Story-fixation falls short of true, integrated resolution and can even be risky, dangerous.

Every retelling or active remembering of a difficult birth narrative has the potential to fixate the amygdala, the alarm system of the brain, and keep it in perpetual lockdown, on high-alert for invisible danger. 

Repeated rehashing is much like picking an itchy scab.

It never fully heals that way.

When a wound is continually reopened, it aches endlessly and leaves a scar.
 

Often there's little sustained relief when retelling a negative, impactful event over and over again because it keeps the hijacked neuro-circuits misfiring. 
Because transformation exists as a *now-moment* potential beyond the *story*, detailed narrative doesn't have to be shared to irrevocably shift toward the positive, the renewed, the transformed. 

Birth trauma resolution is my humble commitment to you and your family's optimal health.

I'm trained as a Rogerian, person-centred counsellor (Citizens' Counselling Centre, 2019) with a strength-based, humanistic approach that roots focus upon the client's perspective. 

I'm a well-resourced ally who invokes resilience, clarity and reverence for what has been lived through the body, the mind and the spirit.
Skilled with trauma-informed awareness and somatic resolution techniques, I intimately support you to emerge as more than the sum total of what happened to you. I help women like you rebuild trust with themselves after trauma so you can create relationships, lives and businesses rooted in safety, self-worth, and authentic power.
 

I'm confident that trauma can and does resolve because even in the most extreme cases, it can and does.  
It's part of the divine plan of redemption and liberation for all.

It's your God-given right to discover and claim the integration and peace of a transformational *rebirth* into wholeness,

so that your story is rewritten as a remedy and a resource you will carry forward rather than an injury to suffer from

again and again.

Healing is a clarion call which is profoundly relational.

It's founded upon restoring relaxation and trust. 
Healing doesn't begin when you become someone new, it begins when you remember who you were before *coping* became your identity.
 

With sensitive grounding, I anchor clear stability to support you toward an inevitable breakthrough. 
It's high time, sister. 
And from this mutually aligned place, it's an honour to walk with you.  

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If DragonShine Recovery's service mission resonates with you, I warmly welcome you to connect with me directly.

Let's share a complimentary 20-minute alignment call as the next step. 
Let's connect, your recovery matters to me.