Lauren Lund: Healing from birth trauma

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Lauren Lund is a wife, a mother of 6 (3 regular kids and 3 fur
babies), a teacher, and a writer. She is a self-proclaimed nerd
who spends most of her free time reading and writing or walking
outdoors where she can reflect on the aforementioned. She is
currently working on her first non-fiction book and is back in
school for pastoral counseling. 

Lauren and I have both had a "Plan B" birth experience, where the
birth in your head is not the birth you experience.  She
shares with raw authenticity about her traumatic birth with her
oldest child and how that experience has colored her journey as a
mother and woman. 

This is an episode about pain, healing, growth, moving forward,
and story-telling. I hope you enjoy listening as much as I
enjoyed having this conversation. 

 Quotable Quotes: 
Lauren: It’s weird how something as small as the fact that I
didn’t get to hold her after having her can affect me 9 years
later, but it does. It comes up in weird ways.


 Lauren: I want there to be this movement where we start
acknowledging more loudly that having a baby and becoming a
mother is a process that’s full of trauma and crisis a lot of the
time. And that’s OKAY. It doesn’t mean that you’re not a good mom
or you don’t love your kids, but its life changing. 


 Brittany: Sometimes, we have a really hard time telling our
painful stories and they get locked inside of us in a way that
alters the beginning of our motherhood in such a way that we live
in pain instead of living in healing.

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Check out her book Reflections on Genesis: Poems of lament 


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