Like me, Emma is an ex midwife who now works primarily in supporting new mothers to find healing after a traumatic birth or who have struggled with the transition into motherhood. She shares with us about her midwifery experience and why she quit not long after starting; about her own two birth experiences and the crucial impact that her positive first birth had on navigating major breastfeeding challenges; and about the path she has travelled in her birth work. I love that Emma shares about her experience of doing my Healing Birth Practitioner Training programme and the impacts she sees this work having on the clients she serves. She also talks about her studies in Matrescence and Timeline Reset work.  If you’re potentially interested in developing your own understanding of birth trauma and how to guide people on their healing journey, you’re going to want to tune in for the entirety of this episode. And of course it’s a great listen for anyone who is navigating their own pathway to healing after a traumatic birth. Also discussed in this episode: Induction with ARM and Syntocinon/Pitocin Tongue tie What Matrescence is What a Timeline Reset involves Different categories of birth trauma What Healing Birth Practitioner Training entails Books mentioned: The Postnatal Depletion Cure by Dr Oscar Serrelach Mama Rising by Amy Taylor-Kabbaz (her course to support mothers through matrescence is also called Mama Rising) Check out Emma's work... Her website: https://www.empowermatrescence.com/ Instagram page: https://www.instagram.com/empowermatrescence/ If you're interested in looking into my (Carla's) Healing Birth Practitioner Training, head here: https://www.healingbirth.co.nz/hb-practitioner-training I also offer a FREE Understanding Birth Trauma Basics course: https://www.healingbirth.co.nz/understanding-birth-trauma-basics-course And you can join me on Instagram here: https://www.instagram.com/healing.birth/