

26. Healing from Birth Trauma with Dr. Rebecca Cohen
Struggling with physical, emotional or energetic birth trauma? This episode is like a warm hug, validating your experiences and supporting you with ways to heal.
Rebecca Lasky Cohen, MD is a holistic women’s healthcare physician specializing in pelvic wellbeing throughout all stages of women’s lives. She has spent the last 30 years dedicated to working with women and has had extensive training in midwifery, family medicine, obstetrics, energetic and physical modalities and traditional healing practices from throughout the world. She is mother to nine children and is devoted to orienting women to their own inner-knowing as they thrive in sovereignty, fully realizing their vibrant health and creative potential. Her practice, Full Circle Holistic, seeks to guide women to reclaim their womb wisdom and honor the sacredness of their bodies.
We discuss:
- Experiences Dr. Rebecca had in the industrialized medical system in both her medical training and as a pregnant and birthing mother herself
- Why she started orienting more to holistic healing
- How women can advocate for themselves within the Western medical model
- How the current medical model and societal norms fail women in postpartum
- What actually is birth trauma? Some examples of what Dr. Rebecca has seen and experienced
- How Dr. Rebecca helps her patients heal from birth trauma
- Steps you can take before or during pregnancy to reduce chances of birth trauma
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