Here, a psychotherapist and movement instructor shares how she found healing through movement after experiencing a traumatic loss.
a platform to share their personal experiences. Our hope is their stories will shed light on these conditions and offer solidarity to others facing similar situations.In 2003, after a long fertility journey with a few, I finally was pregnant with a baby girl. However, just one day after I felt her first kick in my belly, I found out that something had gone wrong. The doctors informed me that she had died inside of me, and I would have to give birth to her body.
There are many traumatic things that happened in my life prior to the stillbirth of my daughter. I was sexually abused as a child and raped in college. However, the experience of my pregnancy loss really disconnected me from my body in a way I had never experienced before. I cut myself off from the world and dissociated. I completely shut down. While I was going through this traumatic, difficult time, a dear friend of mine showed up to see me on a regular basis for three months.
Honestly, I didn't love my first class. I completely froze—just like in the face of trauma, I froze, because I didn't actually want to feel my own feelings or be transported back to what happened. But in that class, the instructor guided me through gentle movements, focusing on comfort, and I remember hearing the words"safe in your body," which actually resonated with me.
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