Resilience Isn’t a Destination: Birth Trauma, Fertility Journeys & Rebuilding After Loss

Send us Fan Mail Birth. Loss. Fertility. Trauma. These experiences are more common than we speak about — and resilience isn’t the absence of them, but how we move through them. In this episode of The Natural Narrative, Leone sits down with counsellor and perinatal mental health midwife Astrid Tiefholz to explore the often unspoken realities of birth trauma, reproductive trauma, fertility journeys, and perinatal loss.Together, they unpack the emotional and psychological layers that can follow experiences in the perinatal space — from feeling unheard or out of control during birth, to the repeated cycles of hope and grief that can accompany fertility challenges, and the quiet, often unseen weight of loss.Astrid shares a powerful perspective that resilience is not a fixed trait or a place we arrive at, but a dynamic, lifelong process — one that shifts and evolves as we move through different seasons of life.The conversation also draws on the concept of Kintsugi — the Japanese art of repairing broken pottery with gold — as a metaphor for healing. Rather than hiding what has been fractured, Kintsugi honours it, suggesting that there can be beauty in the rebuilding.This episode offers a gentle, trauma-informed space to better understand these experiences — not to minimise them, but to give them language, context, and compassion.Whether your story includes birth, fertility challenges, loss, or something that doesn’t quite fit into a category — this conversation is a reminder that your experience matters, and that healing is not about returning to who you were, but allowing yourself to become something new.If this episode resonates, you’re invited to share it with someone who may need to hear it — or simply sit with what came up for you. These are the conversations that remind us we’re not alone.You can book Medicare Rebated Pregnancy Counselling with Astridhttps://HARVESTINGHEALTHBOOKINGS.as.me/?appointmentType=77039996You can find us at -https://harvestinghealth.com.au/facebook - https://www.facebook.com/LeoneDeborahWilsonNaturopathInstagram - https://www.instagram.com/harvesting_health_hub/