10/24/2025
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Yes, glowing. AND ⤵️
The mind nearly had me convinced the last 2 weeks that our baby was dead.
You see, the mind is pervasive. And we can find ourselves in spirals. Upwards, or downwards.
I teach this stuff, and I was in the downhill spiral. Does that mean I need to throw in the towel? No, it means I'm walking the human experience reality with you.
🔴 WHY would I think such a thing?
👉🏼 I had not felt movement yet, or a deep connection to my baby. And although I KNEW that movement may not be felt til like 24+ weeks, the mind was questioning "why don't you feel it? I thought you were in tune with your body?" *Cue self sabotage
👉🏼 Everything is heightened during pregnancy with hormones, emotions, etc. I'm witnessing old patterns rise back to the surface to be looked at in deeper ways, frequently. Here was another 🙃 (overthinking & worry & doubt)
👉🏼 I was physically feeling SO. GOOD. Like a million bucks. Part of me was like wow YESSS let's embrace this! And another part was like hmmm... Why do you feel so good? What's the problem? You didn't feel this good before... And knowing that nausea is a HEALTHY sign of pregnancy, due to increase of progesterone, the mind said, so now no more progesterone? Which is "pro-gestation" meaning helping the baby grow.
🟢 So what do I do in these downward spirals?
👉🏼 Find the facts so the mind can see and consider a DIFFERENT alternative. Ie Journalling: What are 10 signs/possibilities that my baby is healthy and alive? (Researching that 23+ weeks without detectable movement can be totally okay, listening to the heartbeat from the last Doppler check, researching and talking with trusted friends that ALSO had a liminal period where they questioned the baby's health and indeed, now have perfect babies, etc)
👉🏼 Recall that the mind thinks 70,000+ thoughts per day, and 70-80% of them are negative, self-sabotaging, disempowering, or limiting. For all of us humans. We carry a negativity bias. I recognized I was in the negativity bias. There was nothing wrong with me. But the mind was in the driver's seat.
Here is the ULTIMATE GAME CHANGER:
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