Let’s dive into how we view, experience, and communicate intimately through reproductive transitions. We had a chat with Christine Devlin Eck, Director + Instructor of the Center for Sacred Window Studies about intimacy after birth.
Have a listen to Episode 8 of The Sensory Playspace Podcast to explore (and expand) how we view intimacy in parenthood and throughout postpartum.
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SHOW NOTES:
In this episode we talked about:
• Intro: Meet Christine
• The evolution from birth photography into somatic + sexual healing work and the influence from Sacred Window Studies
• Sex, pregnancy, postpartum, and how the body changes after birth
• Our sexuality and intimacy in postpartum is a highly individualized experience
• Doing the inner work to create what we want to feel
• The letdown of expectations not being matched to what others project the journey would be
• Creating conscious care for transitions
• Being well, healthy balance, and well cared for creates vitality and sexuality
• Choosing to parent and transitioning your identity and being of service
• Presence in your body and the how we experience and try new things
• Finding new ways to connect and be intimate
• The hardships faced in postpartum while healing
• Lacking trust in the body and the inability to open intimately with your partner
• Choosing the journey, connection, and exploration and sharing our bodies and the ways this evolves with the traumas of the body experienced through pregnancy
• Allowing yourself be with whatever is present, even the hard things
• Communicating about your experience with your partner
• Honoring one another’s needs without words
• Dropping into presence with another, figuring out what they need, and mirroring it back to them to create a sense of safety and vulnerability
• The dance of verbal and non-verbal communication
• Navigating the changes and taking charge of your body in postpartum
• Entering into new phases and the exploration as a sexual person over time and phases of life
• Meeting your partner and supporting their navigation of the postpartum journey to create feelings of intimacy
• Collaboratively meeting needs and holding our own space
• Severing of what was established and inability to create something meaningful after birth in relationship
• The sacred window and intentionality after birth to expand into bringing new opportunities in
• Curiosity of elevating the spiritual aspect of intimacy with a partner
About Christine:
Christine’s passion is in elevating care of self in order to amplify care for others. She is a busy mother to 4 boys and practices her skills daily in support of the divine feminine. Christine is an Ayurvedic Health Consultant, a Birth and Postpartum Doula and the Founder of the Center for Sacred Window Studies, an education platform for Conscious Postpartum Care inspired by Ayurveda and other universal traditions found around the world. She established the Universal Mother Principles as a way of accessing the foundational qualities of giving and receiving effective care for self and others. The Center for Sacred Window Studies certifies caregivers from around the world in the Conscious Postpartum Caregiver Online Certification Program and the Sacred Window Postpartum Training + Embodiment Retreats.
Christine hosts the Sacred Window Podcast and builds awareness and support for postpartum and transitional feminine care via monthly events and continuing education for people passionate about the postpartum window and sustainable caregiving. Christine is featured on many podcasts, publications and summits including USA Today, Orgasmic Birth and Birthing from Within.
Find + connect with Christine online at:
Instagram Instagram.com/sacredwindowstudies
Facebook facebook.com/sacredwindowstudies
Access a Free Class: A Sacred Journey into Accessing True Postpartum Care
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