Healing Somatic Trauma in High Risk Pregnancy | Parijat Deshpande

04/01/2021

Healing Somatic Trauma in High Risk Pregnancy
Parijat Deshpande

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We are a 501 3c Non-Profit. Our aim is to prevent and heal birth trauma through education. Women need to understand their options and rights in childbirth so that they can have a safe and healthy birth.

Today we talk to Parijat Deshpande, leading high-risk pregnancy specialist, somatic trauma professional, speaker, and author. She has helped hundreds of women work safely navigate difficult pregnancies, and prevent further complications by healing past trauma with her unique neurobiological approach. She is also the author of the bestselling book Pregnancy Brain: A Mind-Body Approach to Stress Management During a High-Risk Pregnancy.

We talk about the chronic structural damage that trauma can do to the brain and how it affects the nervous system in the future. We talk about how that somatic trauma affects pregnancy and how Parijat starts breaking these patterns. We also talk about humans store memory in the body and the way that pregnancy can trigger memories that cause fear and tension.

We then talk about what makes a pregnancy "high risk" and some of the factors that can put a pregnancy in that category. We talk about how to prevent the stressful parts of high risk pregnancy from storing as trauma in order to help mitigate future problems. We talk about what can be done in every stage of pregnancy to work on encoded trauma and prevent the storage of future trauma.

Finally we discuss the way unresolved trauma affects postpartum anxiety and depression. We talk about how partners and family can be involved with the regulation and release of trauma in pregnancy and postpartum situations.

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When a traumatic event occurs , we store it in our mind, but it also encodes in our body, creating a lasting fear response in our nervous systems. Often when we approach trauma recovery, we only address the mental aspect, and the fear response remains encoded. In order to fully release this unconscious fear and heal the nervous system, it is crucial to address the trauma at the body level.

Sarah and Parijat talk about the ways somatic trauma affects pregnant women, particularly those in the high-risk pregnancy categories, or those who have had a traumatic pregnancy, birth, or loss in the past. They also discuss how to approach healing the trauma at the body level so that the nervous system can encode the experience differently and the risk for further issues can be reduced.

Parijat Deshpande is the leading high-risk pregnancy specialist, somatic trauma professional and speaker and author who guides women to improve their pregnancy complications so they can reduce their risk of preterm birth. Her unique neurobiological approach has served hundreds of women to manage pregnancy complications and reclaim safety and trust in their bodies that they thought was eroded forever. Parijat is the author of bestselling book Pregnancy Brain: A Mind-Body Approach to Stress Management During a High-Risk Pregnancy. She is also the host of the popular podcast Delivering Miracles, that discusses the real, raw side of family-building including infertility, loss, high-risk pregnancy, bed rest, prematurity and healing once baby comes home. Learn more at parijatdeshpande.com

This episode was sponsored by:

Please donate HERE

We are a 501 3c Non-Profit. Our aim is to prevent and heal birth trauma through education. Women need to understand their options and rights in childbirth so that they can have a safe and healthy birth.