With pregnancy and childbirth being an ongoing topic on the pod, we thought it would be really cool to hear perspectives from women who have already gone through it. This is our first ever episode with not one, but two guests! Deborah Binun, a psychotherapist, birth educator, and author of "The Missing Peace of Childbirth" and Jessica Mayfield, a fellow mom and member of the Tokophobia Facebook support group join us! Both women recount their individual experiences with tokophobia and the empowered feelings they now carry having conquered their phobia of pregnancy and/or childbirth.

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LINKS DEBORAH MENTIONED:

1) Ina Mays Guide to Childbirth by Ina May Gaskin

https://www.amazon.com/Ina-Mays-Guide-Childbirth-Gaskin/dp/0553381156/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=inna+may+gaskin&qid=1700490524&sr=8-1

2) Spiritual Midwifery by Ina May Gaskin

https://www.amazon.com/Spiritual-Midwifery-Ina-May-Gaskin/dp/1570671044/ref=sr_1_2?keywords=inna+may+gaskin&qid=1700490623&sr=8-2

3) Orgasmic Birth by Debra Pascali-Bonaro

https://www.amazon.com/Orgasmic-Birth-audiobook/dp/B00LGY1DXM/ref=sr_1_1?crid=AXFZP40H2JGK&keywords=orgasmic+birth+debra&qid=1700490652&sprefix=orgasmic+birth+debra%2Caps%2C239&sr=8-1

4) And my book! The Missing Peace in Childbirth by Deborah Binun

https://www.amazon.com/s?k=missing+peace+in+childbirth&i=audible&crid=33C4CTL6RPUPM&sprefix=missing+peace+in+childbirth%2Caudible%2C229&ref=nb_sb_noss

Social Media -

Personal Page: Deborah Binun

My Facebook Group,is 'Birth Free - Birth with confidence Ease and Peace of Mind': https://www.facebook.com/groups/birthfree

International Networking Group

https://www.facebook.com/groups/1062721948305655/

Instagram: deborah.binun_birthfree

Holistic Networking: Root Connections (Finchley) - FB Page tbc!

Email: [email protected]

Website: www.birthfree.com

Tokophobia Support Network (Facebook Group):

https://www.facebook.com/groups/tokophobiasupportnetwork/

Resources that helped Jessica:

Instagrams:

• Trusting_birth

• Sacred.earth.motherhood

• Badassmotherbirther (TW: birth photos) - also runs what looks like an excellent online class

• Thepositivebirthcompany

• Doingitathome

• Birthwithoutfear

• Thebirthnurse

• Painfreebirth

• Yourwildbirth

Books

• Ina May "Guide to Childbirth"

• Alexia Leachman "Fearless Birthing

Podcasts

• Fear free childbirth

• Birthful

• Happy homebirth

• Built to birth

• Evidence based birth (good website too)

• Taking back birth

• Doing it at Home

• The Birth Hour

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