loss Archives - Lori Reising

Hi Wild Heart Warriors!

Here is a very intimate, raw and vulnerable interview I did (where I truly bare my SOUL) with Front Seat, The Road Back to You Podcast about epigenetics and how birth trauma/wounds can greatly inform aspects of your life. This work and healing are critical for all the work we need to do as a community. When we care for the emotional and physical experience of our mothers and babies, we create communities filled with trust and empathy. When we bring our babies in through trauma, we contribute to wounding that can express as fear, mistrust, pain and even violence. As Anna Verwaal said “It is much easier to build a healthy child than to repair a broken adult.”
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I also take you on my journey of the loss of my daughter and marriage, where I went through my life’s deepest tragedy to finding my way to working with birth to ultimately help change the world. Monica held a very safe space to share my raw story with you in a way that I believe will offer you hope and excitement in our ability to heal and transform.
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As we move through a great space of education and awareness in our history and for the fight for racial justice, I hope to shine light on the importance of birth since Black women experience up to 2-3 times more trauma and maternal death rates than white women in this country. It’s very real and it must be addressed. Until we fully realize that everything begins with the way we birth and the way we care for our birthing families, our community wounds and health will continue to be compromised as adults. I think you might have a few “aha” moments as you start to make the connections between birth and who you are today, which will be a great asset to your healing work here. 💫 Link below. 👇🏼

https://www.buzzsprout.com/982975/3885863…

Look for my no holds barred book on childbirth at the end of 2020 and my memoir in 2021!

Episode Summary

I am talking today with Morgan Wade, a somatic therapist and hypnotherapist specializing in intimacy and embodiment. We are in unprecedented times with a global pandemic shifting life as we have known it. I believe we are on the precipice of dropping deeper into a society based in community instead of currency and for that I am excited. We are seeing how humanity is rising up to a global crisis and frankly I am proud, but we are also experiencing very real levels of collective grief pertaining to such dramatic change, as well as personal grief and loss from the virus itself. I wanted to get to some real talk about grief for support and understanding. We will explore the language of grief that comes after the sudden loss of a person and how it can be an access point to raw vulnerability and spirit, how loss is human and moments of enlightenment can sometimes be found on a kitchen or bathroom floor and we also look at how grief can become our teacher. We touch briefly on the stages of grief, but more so on the process of finding meaning in grief. In the end, our conversation becomes a beautifully woven exploration of this earth school ride that we are all on together, in community in these human bodies and in our hearts. As someone who had spent many years of my life in grief, this episode means the world to me. I want to offer some support to the many people out there experiencing loss on any plane and to normalize the gravity of what they may be feeling. I also want to offer support to the communities of those very same people so they might be able to hold space a little more without fear. Morgan offers exquisite insights from all sides.