Episode 145 - Ending the Breastfeeding Journey with Carly Facius
Aware Parenting Stories with Joss GouldenShow Notes
To celebrate World Breastfeeding Week, I am so happy to share this episode in conversation with Carly Facius about ending the breast feeding journey. Carly is mother to three beautiful children, She is a Registered Midwife, International Board Certified Lactation Consultant (IBCLC), Aware Parenting Instructor and hold a Master of Primary Maternity Care.
In this episode, we talk about the pressures and challenges that women can face in the breastfeeding journey. We share some of what we have found supportive to get clarity and to feel empowered in ending our breast-feeding journeys. We talk about coming back to connection, self-compassion, listening to feelings and attachment play. We share how essential it is for us to be getting listening and holding, and meeting our own needs in order to support our unique weaning processes. We talk about the role of partners in the journey and all the feelings that can come up for us all in relation to them offering more presence and listening. We share some ideas for rituals to incorporate with our children when ending breastfeeding.
To learn more about Carly or to find her course on Ending your Breastfeeding Journey, please follow her on instagram at seed_pod_ and visit her website here. If you are in Perth next weekend, she is running a live workshop on this topic on Saturday 15th August.
For support with this or any other aspect of Aware Parenting, I invite you to email me [email protected]
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