Ep. 20 - Prioritising Your Emotional Wellbeing Bump, Birth and Beyond w Sophie Burch

In today's episode we are joined by fellow mama, Sophie Burch. Sophie aka The Mamma Coach is on a mission to put mental and emotional wellbeing onto the map in pregnancy, birth and parenting https://www.instagram.com/themammacoach/ she has 16 years as a mother to 4 boys (including twins), as a perinatal therapist, coach and a birth trauma and PND survivor.  Her experience has shaped who she is and awakened her to a life of compassion and deep empathy for everyone from pre-conception through parenting to menopause, Sophie’s approach is simple: to allow people to feel heard, held, safe and worthy of love and self acceptance. 2020 saw her launch her Book, Beyond Birth: A Mindful Guide for Early Parenting, which is an integration of all she knows will help people have a more balanced, positive experience as they transition from pregnancy to parenting https://themammacoach.com/beyond-birth-guide

So, in this episode we dive into the societal culture around parenting and the importance of us normalising and making our own emotional wellbeing as parents a priority. Sophie shares with us how implementing emotional wellbeing practices can positively impact not only how we show up for ourselves but also our family. Sophie opens up about how this has had a positive flow on effects onto her own children and how this has allowed her as a mother to example emotional regulation. Lastly she explains how simplistic yet powerful emotional wellbeing practices can be and how we as mother’s can start to integrate these into motherhood even with the busiest of schedules.

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