EP54: Heng Ou, author of the First Forty, on Slowing Down and Embracing Discomfort to Find Growth.

What She Shares:

• Her varied birth and postpartum experiences
• Learning about nourishing food from her family
• Becoming a single mom of three and reweaving herself

What You'll Hear:

• The importance of practicing receiving and recognizing when we're depleted
• Ways to slow down and reflect on your feelings so they don't accumulate and overwhelm
• Approaching life from a point of maintaining vitality and attending to yourself
• Embracing the simplicity of care
• Respecting the true pace of the body and nervous system to truly be resourced
• How different postpartum experiences affect your health
• Caring for yourself during your menstrual cycle can help fortify your health
• Finding her medicine and following it
• Reconfiguring the meaning of 'family'
• Embracing passions outside of our jobs to bring fulfillment
• Recognizing that we cannot attend to every need or desire
• Allowing space and flow in postpartum, and knowing that re-opening takes time and patience
• All our stories are unique, but many of the feelings are similar