Making Sense of Your Birth Through Journalling

After a difficult birth experience, things can feel very raw. And they might continue to feel this way for many months.

The emotions can be intense: guilt, anger, sadness, grief, loss, resentment, fear, anxiety. And you might find yourself replaying moments over and over again. 

Perhaps you feel ready to start processing your birth in some way, but you might not be ready to talk to someone about it just yet. This is where journalling can be a really powerful tool for beginning to make sense of your experience. 

You might like to write down your birth story as a way of starting to piece what happened together and process the emotions that you are feeling, which might feel heavy, conflicting or overwhelming. 

The women and men that I meet in counselling and birth debriefing come at very different points in their journey. For some, it's in the early weeks after the birth when they reach out. For others, it's a number of years after their birth. 

It's never too early or too late to start working through what happened to you in birth and understand how that experience is still impacting you today. 

If journalling feels like a good place to start, I have written a beautiful short guide that walks you through how start journalling and the many ways you can do it. Click here to access the free guide.

I know that for me personally, journalling was the first step I took towards recovering from my own birth experience. Maybe it could be for you too. 

If you have any questions, please reach out.

Or if you do feel ready to start talking to someone about your birth, you can click here to find out more about what I offer.