Soul Of Abortion -the book
Tziporah Kingsbury – a Somatic Intimacy Mentor, Relationship Educator, and Breathwork Trainer, has traveled the globe specializing in helping high achieving adults to feel safe, seen and confident to experience emotional connectivity and intimacy that uplevels both your personal and professional relationships.
Tziporah has been a consultant on ABC’s the Bachelor and helped thousands discover new paths of fulfillment. Part of that path is honoring your grief and transition cycles of life as part of emotional intelligence development. Her work has allowed many to embrace their uniqueness while developing a safe inner dialogue to learn, listen, and evolve at one's own pace.
Tziporah is passionate about helping others return home to their true north, to feel safe in their body and to be still enough to listen to what it needs.
Tziporah is a contributing author for both #1 International Bestseller, My Journey, My Journal! and Women of Spirit Anthology published in 2014 by Matrika Press along with her own books "Intimate Insights”, "Revolutionizing Intimacy, Navigating Connection in a Disconnected World." and Soul of Abortion, A Compassionate Guide to Emotion Discovery, Healing and Peace.
Tziporah’s website:
https://www.tziporahintimacy.com/
Show Notes:
Purchase Tziporah’s book Soul of Abortion
1:52 Tziporah’s intro
2:26 “...how important it is to acknowledge the grief cycle in order to feel safe with emotional and sexual intimacy”
4:17 “Let’s be pregnant for two weeks”
6:45 “The title of the book came to me while I was still pregnant” Soul of Abortion
10:19 The book has three intentions: 1) pre & post abortion- how to stay in their body rather than diassiciate 2) tool for couples 3) for building community and social structures
11:16 “This is a rite of passage… women’s bodies are never going to be energetically, physically, psychologically, emotionally the same after an abortion… how do you bring a woman back into circle post abortion”
11:57 “Mother-gene… I had the abortion and afterwards I felt like a mom; I had no one to explain that too”
12:37 Laura Grace Sheldon episode
14:59 “When we are impregnated, we’re being given information through that pregnancy… there’s a being in my body, what is it telling me?”
16:37 The world is always giving me information to be curious about
17:33 “When I feel the discomfort… leave me alone and let me sit in it… that is the only way to the other side”
18:08 “If you say I want to get rid of it, you’re judging it... it needs your presence, it needs your love”
Create relationships with the feelings in your body
19:41 Get still - Direct your breath to your lower belly - Use your attention to scan your body - Hold the sensations - Have a dialog with what you are feeling - Get curious
22:21 Breath therapy- activate your nervous system
24:40 “How to return back to your sex and sexuality after abortion”
28:06 Tziporah’s six week program
29:31 Anything you’re not processing does not get left behind
31:36 You can learn so much about yourself everytime you tell your story, and you can keep changing the way you tell it
33:11 “The fear is- can other people handle it… who can talk to me about it?”
33:33 How will I feel when someone else has a reaction to my story?
34:50 “Know that you can tell the other person what you’re wanting”
35:22 “How can I be in power to direct what I need?”
36:14 Developing an awareness to know what you need and what you want
38:17 “We will never know why (completely) someone has an abortion”
38:41 “No one chooses to have an abortion for the same reason”
39:44 Intimacy Hub Facebook Group
40:27 Kassi’s episode
