Healing Through Science and Spirituality
This week’s guest is Laura Grace Weldon. She is an author, farm wench, and relentless optimist living in Ohio. I found Laura’s writing in my doula days and have since shared her work countless times as a source of healing for those experiencing loss.
Visit her website at: https://lauragraceweldon.com
Show Notes:
5:39 This week’s Bonus Podcast-
6:36 Laura’s Introduction
8:45 There are cells from each of our pregnancies taking up residence in our bodies
9:27 “I feel so connected and yet some of the people I feel connected to aren't alive, and some of the people I’m connected aren’t close enough for me to hug”
9:57 “When you encounter a real truth is interconnects with all these other truths for you”
11:37 This could be very healing for some, or uncomfortable for others
13:10 “The push back I have mostly gotten is that the father’s cells are also a part of those cells”
13:45 “There’s no way we aren’t connected with everybody any way”
13:54 “If you’ve a child from a very difficult circumstance, you can cherish the child and not the circumstance it came through”
14:59 “One of the reasons it feels powerful is that it confirms something we already feel”
15:17 Abortion invites us to empowering inner work
16:31 “If you’re having a difficult relationship with a child… no matter where that child is walking in the world, that child’s cells are with you”
18:11 Deciding to love all the parts of you
19:33 “In our culture we’re very much about the brain… we’re untaught from early childhood to listen to our whole selves”
20:40 “It’s so much more helpful to us to pull out of the thinking… and root ourselves back in our bodies and see what our bodies have to say”
22:25 “We fight our bodies all the time” It’s so much more powerful to connect with them
23:21 Embodied wisdom: “We know that the posture of hunching over your screen is the posture of depression”... Your body wants to be recognized
26:23 Lean into the feeling- Continuum Movement
27:34 Flap your wings! And dancing in parking lots.
28:41 Uninhibited release of movement in birth and in death- mind body connection
Freedom and acceptance after birth- connecting with your infant
31:35 “I saw us as completely equal. His soul is just as large as mine.”
32:39 Body changes after abortion- get back into your body
33:19 Give yourself permission to just BE
Laura’s ectopic pregnancy story, a beautiful spiritual story
37:07 “The world is awesome and complicated in mysterious in ways we can never understand”
38:01 “I still feel like she’s out there and she hasn’t been born yet”
38:50 Medium reading
40:12 Accepting your intuition
41:31 www.lauragraceweldon.com
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