The C-Section Healing Space

Do hospitals, doctors, consultants or medical appointments make you feel anxious after your C-section? Do you avoid appointments, feel nervous when you receive a hospital letter or even struggle to drive past the hospital where you gave birth? If so, you’re not alone. Many women who have experienced a difficult, challenging or traumatic birth find that hospitals, doctors and medical environments b...

Do you regret your C-section? Do you replay your birth and wonder if you should have done something differently? If so, I want you to know you’re not alone. One of the most common things I hear from C-section mums is, “I should have done this differently,” or “If only I had known.” In this video, we’re talking about birth regret, guilt, shame and self-blame after a C-section. Because while your fe...

Do you feel anxious, emotional, low, or unsettled around your child’s birthday? You’re not alone. Many C-section mums notice that the days or weeks leading up to their child’s birthday can bring back memories of birth trauma, anxiety, flashbacks or difficult emotions they thought they’d already moved past. In this video, I explore why your body remembers traumatic birth experiences, how the nervou...

Do you still cry when you think about your C-section, even years later? You’re not broken, weak or “stuck in the past.” I’ve worked with women who are 5, 10, 20, and even 30 years post C-section who still become emotional when talking about their birth experience. In this video, we explore why difficult, challenging, and traumatic birth experiences can continue to affect you long after the birth i...

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✨I’ve created a free scar connection guide below and if you want to continue with a gentle daily practice, you’ll also find my Reconnection Oil linked there: https://www.divinajohnson.com/scarguide C-section recovery feels harder than you expected because nobody truly prepared you for it. Nobody talks about the emotional, energetic and spiritual impact of birth trauma, only the physical recovery....

✨ Purchase Your Reconnection Ritual Oil Today Hating your C-section scar does NOT make you a bad mother. Two things can be true at the same time: You can be grateful your baby is here… and still struggle with your scar, your body and what happened to you. In this deeply honest episode of The C-Section Healing Space, I share my own experience after 3 traumatic C-sections, severe keloid scarring, i...

✨ Purchase Your Reconnection Ritual Oil Today Do you feel exhausted after your C-section… but still unable to truly rest? Maybe your body feels restless, your mind won’t switch off, you replay the birth when trying to sleep or you constantly feel the need to stay busy. In this episode of The C-Section Healing Space, I talk about: • Why your nervous system stays in high alert after birth • Hypervi...

✨ Purchase Your Reconnection Ritual Oil Today https://www.divinajohnson.com/product-page/reconnection-body-oil Did you freeze during your labour or C-section and later wonder: “Why didn’t I say no?” “Why didn’t I advocate for myself?” “Why did I just go along with it?” In this episode of The C-Section Healing Space, I talk about freeze and fawn trauma responses during birth and how your nervous s...

✨ Purchase Your Reconnection Ritual Oil Today https://www.divinajohnson.com/product-page/reconnection-body-oil “Was my C-section traumatic?” This is one of the most common questions women ask after birth, especially when they feel like they “should be fine” because somebody else had it worse. In this episode of The C-Section Healing Space, I talk about: • How trauma is defined by the individual •...

✨ Purchase Your Reconnection Ritual Oil Today https://www.divinajohnson.com/product-page/reconnection-body-oil Do you keep replaying your birth over and over in your mind after a C-section? Flashbacks, intrusive memories and constantly replaying traumatic birth experiences are incredibly common after difficult births, especially after emergency or traumatic C-sections. In this episode of The C-Se...

✨ Purchase Your Reconnection Ritual Oil Today https://www.divinajohnson.com/product-page/reconnection-body-oil Feeling angry after a C-section is far more common than many women realise but most women never feel safe enough to talk about it. In this episode of The C-Section Healing Space, I talk about the emotional, energetic and physical reasons so many women carry anger after traumatic birth ex...

✨ Purchase Your Reconnection Ritual Oil Today https://www.divinajohnson.com/product-page/reconnection-body-oil Feeling guilty after a C-section is incredibly common but that doesn’t mean the guilt belongs to you. In this episode of The C-Section Healing Space, I talk honestly about the shame, blame and guilt so many women carry after having a C-section, especially when society glorifies vaginal b...

✨ Purchase Your Reconnection Ritual Oil Today https://www.divinajohnson.com/product-page/reconnection-body-oil Not bonding with your baby straight away after a C-section is far more common than many women realise but almost nobody talks about it. In this deeply honest episode of The C-Section Healing Space, I share my own experience after having 3 C-sections, including not feeling that instant “r...

✨ Purchase your Reconnection Ritual Oil Today https://www.divinajohnson.com/product-page/reconnection-body-oil In this episode of The C-Section Healing Space, I talk about the emotional, energetic and spiritual side of C-section recovery that many women are never told about. After having 3 C-sections in 5 years, including an unplanned C-section, a planned C-section and a VBAC attempt ending in su...

✨ Purchase your Reconnection Ritual Oil Today https://www.divinajohnson.com/product-page/reconnection-body-oil Many women believe numbness after a C-section is “just normal”, even years later. But while C-section scar numbness is very common, it doesn’t mean you have to stay disconnected from your body forever. In this episode of The C-Section Healing Space, I talk about: • Why C-section scar num...

Why do so many women feel disconnected from themselves after a traumatic C-section? In this episode of The C-Section Healing Space, I explore the deeper emotional and energetic side of C-section recovery, the part that is rarely spoken about. We talk about: - nervous system shutdown after birth - emotional numbness after C-section - epidurals and the “spinal block” - trauma responses in the body -...

If you froze, went quiet or agreed to things during birth that you didn’t really want, this episode is for you. In this episode, I talk about freeze and fawn trauma responses during birth and why so many women struggle to advocate for themselves during labour, interventions or a traumatic C-section. You’ll learn why your nervous system may have gone into survival mode, why it wasn’t your fault and...

If it’s been months or even years after your C-section and you still don’t feel like yourself… you’re not alone. In this episode, we explore why so many women experience anxiety, emotional disconnection and nervous system dysregulation after a traumatic or unexpected birth and why it’s completely normal. ✨ Understand postpartum emotional changes ✨ Learn how trauma is stored in the body ✨ Begin...

You are magic. Not in a fluffy, surface level way… but in the real, embodied, undeniable way. Women sustain life. We grow life. We create life… without even having to think about it. Your body knows how to do things your mind could never even comprehend. And yet… so many women move through life feeling disconnected from that. Feeling small. Feeling tired. Forgetting who they really are. This episo...

If you’ve had a C section and something about it still doesn’t sit right… this episode is for you to share. And if you’re the partner listening, this is for you. Because healing after a C section isn’t just physical. There’s an emotional and nervous system layer that often gets missed… and that’s usually where women feel the most alone. In this episode, I’m speaking directly to partners, to help y...

What actually happens in your body when you decide to raise your “frequency”… and then everything seems to wobble? In this episode, we explore the nervous system reality behind personal shifts, why your body can feel unsettled when you start making new decisions, choosing differently, or stepping into a higher way of living. This isn’t about being lazy or unmotivated. Your body is simply trying to...

A raw unedited moment I shared on social media last week. I wanted to share it here too. Sharing the grief of realisations that the world you thought you knew, you actually did not. My heart aches for the collective, I share so you know you are not alone.  I created the space to heal The C-Section Healing Space School  If something in this episode landed in your body, you’re welcome to share a ref...

Numbness After C-Section - What Your Body Is Protecting You From If you’ve felt emotionally flat, disconnected, or like something in you has gone quiet after your C-section… you are not broken. In this episode, we gently explore why numbness is one of the most common and least talked about nervous system responses after birth trauma. You’ll learn: • Why numbness is protection, not absence • How th...

This Is What Trauma Actually Looks Like After a C-Section When people hear the word trauma, they often imagine extremes. Flashbacks. Chaos. Falling apart. But birth trauma doesn’t usually look like that. More often, it looks quiet. It hides inside functioning, coping, and “being fine.” In this episode, we explore what trauma actually looks like after a C-section, especially when you don’t feel lik...