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Adjusting to Motherhood After Birth Trauma

Those first few months after becoming a new Mom can be beautiful, challenging and anxiety-inducing in equal measures.

We discuss:

• The Breastfeeding Journey
• Being left alone with baby after major surgery
• Fear and Anxiety about going home
• Health Anxiety
• Self Doubt
• Honouring your trauma and experience
• The importance of listening
• Journaling for trauma

Links

Black and Asian Therapist Network

https://www.baatn.org.uk/find-a-therapist/

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I share my experience of my first year of motherhood.  Women, we are humans, not superhumans contrary to popular beliefs, so we need to respect our balance. Hence, it's important to establish boundaries and enlist support to stop us from burning out, because when we are burnout we have nothing to give to ourselves or anyone else for that matter.

We discuss:

• Mingling with random Moms
• Not all brown folk are the same
• Sleeping when the baby sleeps
• Weaning worries
• Negative Strangers
• Trying to be supermom
• Why Hermes ruined Christmas
• A panic attack in Santas Grotto

 

Links

Adjusting to Motherhood After Birth Trauma
https://thecurlsquad.com/adjusting-to-motherhood-after-birth-trauma/

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My experience of 5 years of infertility, two failed rounds of IVF, and finally a pregnancy.

We talk discuss:

• Starting the journey to be a Momma
• Medical investigations
• Smiling through the pain
• Low ovarian reserve
• Perimenopausal
• Everyone is pregnant but you
• Health and Fitness Regimen
• IVF 
• Two lines on a pregnancy test

Links

Book Now 1:1 Free Discovery Call with Zoe to see how we can work together to level up your life with deeper purpose, self-connection, and joy. Email today to book a 45 Minute complimentary problem-solving slot.

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My experience of growing a 9lb 7 baby after 5 years of infertility, two failed rounds of IVF.  The convo gets a little heavy, pregnancy and labour it's not all sunshine and rainbows.  We owe it to women to hear their real experiences but if you're pregnant right now and anxious perhaps skip episode.  

We talk discuss:

• The wait for the first midwife appointment
• Morning sickness is a lie
• Boy or Girl
• Pelvic Pain
• Sickle Cell Testing
• Death in childbirth
• Black Maternal Mortality Rates
• Sepsis in labour
• Emergency C Section
• Haemorrhage 

 

Links

Black and Asian Therapist Network

https://www.baatn.org.uk/find-a-therapist/

Is childbirth more dangerous for Black women in the UK?

https://www.openaccessgovernment.org/childbirth-black-women-uk/117437/

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I talk about my experience of a spiritual awakening after finding true love, getting married on our terms and resisting the financial pressures that can stack up when you're getting married and coming up against factors that you can't control.

 

We talk about:

• Spiritual Awakening
• Keeping up with the Jones
• Starting married life in debt?
• Finding the best wedding package
• Self conscious bride
• Wedding day price tags
• Rain on your wedding day
• Secret to a long and happy marriage

Links

Episode: Learning to Trust Again

https://thecurlsquad.com/reclaim-your-personal-power-my-ehttps://thecurlsquad.com/learning-to-trust-again-after-a-broken-relationship/motionally-abusive-relationship/

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Andrews Catering

http://www.andrewscatering.co.uk/

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In this episode, I talk about tuning in to my intuition to help me to learn to trust in love again after being burnt by wastemen in the past. 

We talk about:

• Living with Generalised Anxiety Disorder
• Jumping into new relationships.
• The Power of a Saltfish Fritter
• Connecting with intuition
• Building trust after a broken relationship
• Cutting energetic ties
• Finding true and lasting love love

Links

Episode: Gratitude, Spinal Cord Injury, Cauda Equina Syndrome

https://thecurlsquad.com/gratitude-spinal-cord-injury-cauda-equina-syndrome/

Episode: College Dropout

https://thecurlsquad.com/college-dropout-in-search-of-purpose/

Episode: Reclaim Your Personal Power

https://thecurlsquad.com/reclaim-your-personal-power-my-emotionally-abusive-relationship/

Episode: My Boyfriend Died Suddenly and it Shattered My World

https://thecurlsquad.com/my-boyfriend-died-suddenly-and-it-shattered-my-world/

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Reclaim Your Personal Power. My Emotionally Abusive Relationship  

In this episode, I talk about regaining my personal power after a financially and emotionally abusive relationship

We talk about:

• External sources draining your power
• The Concept of Heaven and Hell
• My experience of an emotionally and financially abusive relationship
• Regaining Control

Links

Episode: My Mom the Windrush Generations Immigrant

https://thecurlsquad.com/my-mom-the-windrush-generation-immigrant/

Episode: My Boyfriend Died Suddenly and it Shattered My World

https://thecurlsquad.com/my-boyfriend-died-suddenly-and-it-shattered-my-world/

Episode: Music Mental Health and Me

https://thecurlsquad.com/music-mental-health-and-me-life-after-loss/

GUAP Magazine

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Woman to Woman

https://www.instagram.com/womantowomanx/

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In this episode, I talk about putting ego aside, making sacrifices and doing what's necessary to create an authentic, happy life.

We talk about:

• Molly Mae and Kim K Triggering Women
• Pursuing an Authentic Happy Life
• Privilege and Access
• It's ok to not be the end product
• Working on a tight budget
• Learning From Others
• Where there's a will there's a way

Links

Episode: College Drop Out | In Search of Purpose

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In this episode, I talk about the challenge of showing up when you're not in the mood and I share my strategy for making progress when you're lacking motivation.

We talk about:

• Chronic Fatigue & Commitments
• Keeping Going Despite the Circumstances
• Disabled Parking Bay Wars
• Finding your Boundaries
• Progress Making Strategy
• Using Your Voice to be the Representation
• The Treasure Tress TT Awards
• Surprise News
• Be the change

Links

 

Watch the TT Awards Film

https://youtu.be/5JkT_5tyr9M

Episode: Jamelia Donaldson Founder and CEO of Treasure Tress

https://thecurlsquad.com/jamelia-donaldson-shes-obsessed-with-creating-the-things-she-wishes-existed/

TreasureTress Instagram

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The Teen Experience

https://www.instagram.com/TheTeenExperience

Domestic abuse services for African heritage women and girls.

https://www.sistahspace.org/

Nina on Instagram

https://www.instagram.com/FRODAYSS/

Black Women Rising cancer support project

https://www.blackwomenrisinguk.org/

Join the Largest Community of Muslim Business Women in the UK

https://www.sistersinbusiness.co.uk/

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This is a potentially triggering conversation that covers loss, death and I am a bit of a sensitive soul so there is a little emotion in there too. In this episode of the Curl Squad's Curl Power Podcast, we talk about:

• The sudden loss of two UK music greats Jamal Edwards and MC Skibadee
• Coping with sudden death
• Planning for the inevitable end
• Having Uncomfortable Conversations
• No Regrets
• Comprehending the finality of death
• Lasting Legacy
• What Happens at the end

You can read the full transcript on the curlsquad.com

If you were impacted by the content in this episode please consider contacting the counselling organisations below for support.

Grief Counselling - Cruise Bereavement

https://www.cruse.org.uk/

Black and Asian Therapist Network

https://www.baatn.org.uk/

Links

Grill Shack and Tiki Bar Acton, London

Grill Shack and Tiki Bar, Acton, London

College Drop Out In Search of Purpose

https://thecurlsquad.com/college-dropout-in-search-of-purpose/

 

My Boyfriend Died

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