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Liberating Motherhood
Title: The Liberating Motherhood Podcast
Challenging the culture around US maternal health and strengthening the family unit.
Whos's this for? Pregnant women, birthing people, birth workers, postpartum mothers and parents
Leah LaHue is a birth doula, speaker, educator and mom of 2. She is a life-long learner and actively challenges the status quo surrounding the "business" of maternal health care in the United States. The Liberating Motherhood podcast features raw, unfiltered personal stories of motherhood and childbirth as well as conversations with experts, wellness practitioners, and heart-to-hearts with women whose stories represent us all. She aims to help women cultivate true embodiment and peace in their birth and motherhood transition through critical thinking and asking questions. This podcast includes evidence based research and also thoughtful opinions. We will laugh, cry, but most importantly we will support each other through the most important journey in the evolution of mankind; birth and parenthood.
Challenging the culture around US maternal health and strengthening the family unit.
Whos's this for? Pregnant women, birthing people, birth workers, postpartum mothers and parents
Leah LaHue is a birth doula, speaker, educator and mom of 2. She is a life-long learner and actively challenges the status quo surrounding the "business" of maternal health care in the United States. The Liberating Motherhood podcast features raw, unfiltered personal stories of motherhood and childbirth as well as conversations with experts, wellness practitioners, and heart-to-hearts with women whose stories represent us all. She aims to help women cultivate true embodiment and peace in their birth and motherhood transition through critical thinking and asking questions. This podcast includes evidence based research and also thoughtful opinions. We will laugh, cry, but most importantly we will support each other through the most important journey in the evolution of mankind; birth and parenthood.
Liberating Motherhood
Why We Fear Birth In America: Cultivating the Right Mindset
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Leah LaHue
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Season 1
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Episode 3
Modern America is vastly uneducated about the reality of birth because the truth of it has been removed from our culture. In this episode we explore cultivating mindset for birth by first becoming aware of cultural influences that encourage us to fear the process.
- Childhood programming and lack of education
- Unresolved trauma in the body; Were you criticized about your body? Were you sexually abused?
- Releasing mental tension and why we are intensely emotional
- The damaging cultural portrayal of birth and the misrepresentation of the feminine.
- How your doctor influences your mindset without even knowing it
- How to Protect Your Mindset
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