Guided Meditation for Expanding Awareness

Guided Meditation for Expanding Awareness

Staying connected to our inner experience or our outer experience is difficult at the best of times, but when we get into social situations or in a chaotic environment, it can be even more difficult to connect with what's happening for us (how we feel, what we need, what we want to say etc.) and what's happening around us.

This meditation is a practise that helps to strengthen the ability to have awareness of what's happening in yourself and your environment.

I HAVE MY REASONS S02 EP03 with Lee Janzen

Season Two, Episode Three

In this episode of I Have My Reasons, Deandra Dey sits down with midwife Lee Janzen. Lee is a midwife with Sage Hill Community Midwives in Kamloops, British Columbia.  Deandra had the experience of working with Lee in her first pregnancy and it was in her care that Deandra learned what it was like to be supported through pregnancy and birth from a model that values relationship, education, and empowerment.  

In this episode you will hear about:

Lee’s personal journey into midwifery
The midwifery care model, history and stigma
Homebirth and hospital birth with a midwife 
Birth Trauma and the importance of support in labor 
Challenges that midwifery is currently facing

And more! 

I HAVE MY REASONS S02 EP04 with Julie McCoppen

Season Two, Episode Four

The new episode of I Have My Reasons is with entrepreneur, photographer, birth educator, mother, doula (and honestly so much more) , Julie McCoppen.

Julie is an advocate and absolute powerhouse when it comes to supporting women and birth. Her company, Moga Moms, trains yoga instructors in pre and post natal yoga making yoga more accessible to the mothering community.  

This is Julie’s second time on I Have My Reasons but his time she is accompanying Deandra in sharing her two birth stories, both of which Julie attended as a Doula. In addition to sharing the birth stories this episode covers:

The transition into second time motherhood
Motherhood
Homebirth 
Hypnobirthing 
Doulas and more   

Resources:
Moga Moms @mogayogatrainings

I HAVE MY REASONS S02 EP05 with Cecile Tucker

Season Two, Episode Five

Deandra Dey sits down with Clinical Counsellor, Cecile Tucker. Deandra and Cecile worked together at a practise in Kamloops BC. Both Deandra and Cecile are passionate about trauma therapy and this episode covers all things trauma therapy.

More specifically they discuss:

Trauma
Complex Post Traumatic Stress Versus Post Traumatic Stress
The impacts of trauma on identity and personality
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing Therapy (EMDR)
and more!

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