What Azita Shares:

Her own experience with trauma and how it shaped her personal and professional path
How she received support to leave her abuser and begin treatment for her trauma
How motherhood uprooted her sense of control
Her fertility and birth journey

What You'll Hear:

Understanding that relational abuse and trauma can take many different forms
Finding the permission to be kind and compassionate to yourself
Listening to the body's experience to finally find healing
Becoming an active participant in your healing
Giving grief time and space, without allowing it to take over forever
Navigating recovery while mothering
Softening into self compassion for mothering
The importance of pausing and allowing inner wisdom to speak
Navigating sexual trauma while trying to become pregnant
The difference between processing trauma somatically and intellectually
Finding time and space to process while caring for a child
Allowing your spiritual practice to evolve as life evolves
The community that comes together for you may not be who you expect
Truly embodying the idea that community support during parenting is a necessity, not a luxury
Getting reacquainted with your body after birth
The power of witnessing for healing
Allowing our children to live their experiences

EP68: Azita Nahai on Transforming Pain into Purpose, Navigating Spiritual Practice as a Mother, and Healing Trauma Somatically