#86 The Brilliant Work of For Baby's Sake Trust; An Interview with Lauren Seager-Smith

Lauren Seager-Smith became Chief Executive of The For Baby’s Sake Trust in May 2023, bringing expertise and experience in leading charities through growth and development, along with a track-record as a leading advocate for children’s rights and trauma-informed, whole-family approaches.Lauren’s record of representing sensitive and complex needs of children and families to a public audience includes extensive media experience, including press, television and radio.TRIGGER WARNING: At 4 minutes to 5 minutes Lauren speaks about the murder of baby Peter Connelly.In this episode we speak about:Lauren's role and the work they do at FBSa bit about the founder, Stelio Stefanou and the why behind FBSbreaking cycles of abuse by working with mums and dadshow so much of real life can be covered up, to the detriment of so manysome of the statistics: 1/5 children are impacted by domestic abuse and 30% of abuse cases begin in pregnancy, 1/5 couples break up by the baby's 1st birthdaythe parental relationship abuse spectrum (link to PDF below)Lauren's previous career experience and what's led her to this rolethe myth of the 'perfect Mum' and how damaging it isparenting and raising a mixed race familyparadox, conflict and polarity on small and big scalesThemes: therapy, healing, abuse, childhood trauma, systemic inequality, mothering, parentingAt the end, I share a poem by Nikita Gill.You can find out more about For Baby's Sake here on their website.We mention Make Birth Better, Dr Chatterjee, Dr Gabor Maté, the UN and the parental relationship abuse spectrum.Did you enjoy this episode? If so, I would really appreciate it if you could please leave a review on the platform that you listen. For more insights and to contact me you can find me on Instagram, and at www.lucywyldecoaching.com.