Healing and reconnection after miscarriage, ivf loss, abortion or after a traumatic birth experience

If you have experienced a womb loss or trauma, you may sense the need for embodied care. That you need not just to have your story heard, but that your body and tissues need to feel held, met, soothed and responded to.

Our culture lacks embodied feminine care, and there is little space in our health system for these essential holistic arts. I believe our bodies remember and know what they are missing.

No matter what stage of pregnancy you lost your baby, you will be postpartum and in need of support. Touch, warmth, holding, and witnessing are often the missing pieces for you to find relief and resolution.

The holding for this kind of work is in a therapeutic container. We meet weekly for the short to midterm. This gives the work containment and focus, and your body receives the message that support is available. It is worth taking time to tend to the different layers of your experience and to trust the unfolding of your integration process.

Abortion is a choice but it is rarely a simple decision. There can be complex emotional and physiological responses which sometimes seem paradoxical.

Some women experience relief but feel like their connection to their wombs needs tending after the event (no matter how long ago it happened). Some women find that their heart needs support to find acceptance and self-compassion.

Working somatically gives different parts of you the chance to rise to the surface, be heard and tended to.

Sadly, many women have terminations without adequate support. Working with a therapist offers you the care and tending that you may have missed at the time, and provides a space to honour what you have been through and your feelings about it.

Attachment trauma can affect how you feel about yourself and experience your body. Attachment wounds are not healed through talking or gaining more knowledge, though this can be important, but through experiencing oneself differently in relationship, and building a new kind of relationship with oneself. This is where somatic work and particularly touch is important.

Implicit memory is held in the body and in the skin. Touch has been proven effective at helping to repair unfulfilled preverbal needs. Gentle, supportive, and nurturing touch brings back hope to a body that did not experience enough care, attention or validation. 

Many people have imprints from their experiences in utero and at birth. Whether you know your birth story, birth mother, or not, working somatically can bring healing to these foundational patterns held in the nervous system, leading to greater ease, acceptance and vitality.

Through this healing process, aspects of yourself that have been suppressed or that have had to work really hard for your survival get to experience something different. Over time, you will start to experience less shame and greater safety in being yourself.

For some women there can be an awareness that stagnant, painful aspects linger or block their sexual wellbeing or fulfilment.

Womb Gaia therapy can help make sense of and relieve the psycho - somatic symptoms related to menstrual or hormone imbalances, perimenopause and menopause struggles, pelvic dysfunction, bladder, rectal or vaginal prolapse, painful intercourse, vaginismus, PMT/ PMS/depression, digestive issues, IBS, recovery from STDs, sexual assault & sexual abuse.