Wholeness & Visibility After Abortion
Danielle Cohen helps visionaries, creatives, entrepreneurs, artists, coaches, healers, mothers, and activists, create businesses and brands that tell the truth about who they are and what they’re up to. She is known for her keen insights, potent intuition, truth telling, and her powerful approach to photography and life.
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Show Notes:
2:31 Danielle’s introduction...
5:47 “...we don’t have to work so hard, we don’t have it all right”
6:22 “we’re a vessel for ‘the work’… and a guardian… it’s pretty essential that we take really good care of ourselves because the work is no joke”
7:50 … more intro
Understanding yourself through your abortions
Taking up space, being visible, wholeness
13:22 “We as women are well practiced at amputating parts of ourselves”
Hiding parts of our story
14:50 “small subversive ways that we are conditioned to hide things, shove them into the shadows”
15:50 “It’s about making the invisible visible”
I can own it and not share it
Share with a “Holy witness”
18:44 “I have within me the internalized cultural shame that says “shhh”... and I have the part of me that…”
19:28 “This process of making these invisible stories… giving space to these conversations is such important work”
Moving us in the direction of a safer more well world
21:00 “First and foremost, can you see you”
Acknowledge the fear and see that it’s not all yours to take on
25:23 “How much safety and security have you landed in your body… the answer isn’t to hide”
The answer may be “to pause, to rest”… but to hide “takes energy”
27:10 “we’re mostly injured in relationship, and we mostly heal in relationship; we’re not meant to be islands”
27:43 “I can see myself in how you see me, and that’s one of the most healing experiences”
I was the vessel for something that had to be created… let our stories be the vessel for something
30:57 “Yes with motherhood we birth a child but we also die… who we were no longer is”
Tenderness, respect, and care for your experience
33:17 “I wish that the celebration was about the telling of the stories, more than what the story was about”
Abortion is amazing vs I’m amazing and I had an abortion.
37:35 “Make room for all of the human”
I had to follow my truth in a way I’d never had to follow my truth
Doing something that’s so right and so hard all at the same time
That’s what my story looked like at that time
41:52 “That’s where we have to call ourselves back from exile, we did what we did as best as we could… create more wholeness”
Wholeness, including the broken bits
44:45 “There is room for your story regardless”
45:39 “When it feels really sticky and hard… asked to be shown the larger narrative”
You’re so much bigger that your isolated abortion story/ies
47:28 “When we take up space we starve out the predator”
48:14 “If you don’t THEY are”
50:01 “Yes it’s changing things for you, but also that have a ripple effect… we’re no longer just about self-help”
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