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Healing Birth is a birth trauma support organisation based in Tauranga, NZ. Carla offers personal and group support options, and online courses.

14/11/2025

🌿 New podcast episode out now 🌿

In this podcast episode I speak with Emma Perks , a pelvic health physiotherapist. Emma is not only incredibly talented in her work, she has a heart of gold and a trauma informed approach, vital pieces of the puzzle when it comes to birth trauma prevention and healing.

In talking with Emma, I learnt that our pelvic floor is basically the bottom of our nervous system. In other words, what is going on with our pelvic floor will pretty much tell us how safe we are on the planet. Through this lens she explains why those who have a history of period problems, or PCOS, or endometriosis, or painful s*x, or recurrent UTIs, anything related to the pelvic region, would do well to work with a pelvic health physio before giving birth.

So much of what Emma and I discuss highlights the powerful mind-body connection, and how key a subjective experience of safety is in preventing needless birth trauma and pelvic floor damage. Among much else, we talk about perineal massage, prenatal movement, pelvic girdle pain, reducing the likelihood of bad tears in birth, and what postpartum physio support entails.

I hope you find this podcast episode as informative, enlightening and encouraging as I did.

✨Listen now: https://open.spotify.com/episode/5Ob7Ch2w15cyC5zncxSUKL?si=1rGkzZZvShukcxojj7NVBA
✨Or watch on the Healing Birth YouTube channel

04/11/2025

Can you imagine how it would feel to be able to confidently guide someone through healing from their traumatic birth experience?

My Healing Birth Practitioner Training (HBPT) programme is designed to set my graduates up with ALL the skills, tools and knowledge to be able to offer the same support to others that I have been offering for 11 years now.

Learn the art and science of holistic birth trauma support. Join my next round of HBPT - starts 23 February 2026

Head here for more info and to apply: https://www.healingbirth.co.nz/hb-practitioner-training. Or send me a DM 👏🏽

Feeling the pull? Get in touch! I have offered this training for 5 years, teaching over 140 passionate women… Join us ✨💜✨

29/09/2025

My next cohort of Healing Birth Practitioner trainees are nearing the end of their training with me. As their final assessment task, they are required to hold an Unravelling Your Trauma session with someone, and to gain feedback from the person they worked with.

If you are interested in having a session with one of my fabulous team of trainees, this is a really wonderful win-win opportunity. The session would take place via Zoom (so it doesn’t matter where in the world you live), and is likely to last around 2 hours. The Healing Birth trainee will support you to talk through your story, help you unravel it so that you can gain a clearer understanding of why you have been left feeling the ways you do about your birth, and offer you some tools for ongoing processing and healing. They will also send you a follow-up email which covers any suggested tools, resources, instructions etc that were discussed.

In exchange, you are asked to fill out a feedback survey for them, and give them a small koha/donation.

Please DM me with your email address if you are interested in taking advantage of this offer. I will then put you in touch with one of my trainees and the two of you can arrange a time for the session that suits you both.

If you are someone who is potentially keen to do my Healing Birth Practitioner Training yourself, and you have your own story of birth trauma, putting your hand up for one of these sessions can be a really helpful way to gain deeper insight into the training before making a call about it (it’s also really good to have had an opportunity to work through your birth trauma before commencing the training).

My next Healing Birth Practitioner Training programme is likely to run in February or March 2026, and may potentially have a different format. Subscribe to keep updated. To find out more about this training, head here: https://www.healingbirth.co.nz/hb-practitioner-training 💜 You can also DM me to enquire about training with me and to be added to my mailing list 😊

25/08/2025

✨New Episode Out Now✨

This isn’t Chloe’s first podcast episode with me. I interviewed her back in May 2024 after learning about her traumatic first birth when she requested a debriefing session with one of the trainees from my Healing Birth Practitioner Training course. At that stage, Chloe hadn’t yet become pregnant again, so she didn’t have a story to share of a healing birth experience. Instead, she talked about Olivia’s difficult birth, and the journey she had travelled over the time since, including the healing work she’d done, and readying herself for the conscious conception of her next baby.

Today’s interview is all about that ‘next baby’ of Chloe’s - her pregnancy with him, his birth, and their early postpartum weeks. The two birth and new motherhood experiences Chloe has had couldn’t be more contrasting. Throughout Ruben’s pregnancy and birth Chloe chose to have no medical or midwifery input, not even a pregnancy test to confirm that the signs her body was giving were indeed due to a little bub growing in her womb. She so generously shares her powerful story of tuning in, trusting, asking for what’s needed, and surrender.

I highly recommend having a listen to Chloe’s first interview with me before diving into this one, if you haven’t already done so. Links to watch or listen are found below.

Also discussed in this episode:
* partner’s hesitations with unassisted birth
* Mother Blessing
* reconciling a positive birth and postpartum after a traumatic first
* postpartum preparation
* community postpartum support
* naturally healing a tear

You can listen to Chloe’s first podcast episode here: https://open.spotify.com/episode/6CzZtHBlPdK16JZnSf86xM?si=yWJbkROyTgubA8kIHf_3MQ

And you can listen to this latest one here: https://open.spotify.com/episode/5MAxklJGAj6D2AbVF1hL3c?si=j8hgjiQMRyaTRN5e2KLj1Q

And you can watch both on the Healing Birth YouTube channel

06/08/2025

🌺 New Podcast Episode Out Now 🌺

Georgia’s first baby was 5.1kg (that is, 11lb, 5oz), something that curtailed her initial home birth plans and saw her birthing in the hospital. This, along with feeding into a narrative which convinced Georgia that she shouldn’t feel pain in her birth, led to a less than ideal experience and a second degree tear. As well, Georgia and her man were sent spiralling down a postpartum anxiety hole, in part because of poor preparation, unhelpful expectations and a lack of support. This was all exacerbated by the Covid lockdown restrictions at the time.

Hear about how Georgia and her man navigated their relationship as struggling new parents, and how they set themselves up for an incredibly healing, beautiful and empowering home birth with their second, along with a peaceful and joy-filled postpartum.

(By the way, Georgia’s second baby was 4.6kg (10lb, 2oz), and was born after just 2.5 hours of labour, something she forgot to share during our interview)

Also discussed in this episode:
* Stretch and sweep
* Irregular contractions
* Artificial rupture of membranes
* Maternal and paternal postnatal depression and anxiety, including panic attacks
* Intrusive thoughts
* Counselling
* Postpartum preparation
* Birth planning process - birth mapping
* Home birth with sibling present
* Fast labour
* Birth photos

✨ Follow Georgia on Instagram and check out her website www.alightbeheld.com ✨

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