EP54: Heng Ou, author of the First Forty, on Slowing Down and Embracing Discomfort to Find Growth.

Dec 26, 2018

What She Shares:

•      Her varied birth and postpartum experiences
•      Learning about nourishing food from her family
•      Becoming a single mom of three and reweaving herself

What You’ll Hear:

•      The importance of practicing receiving and recognizing when we’re depleted
•      Ways to slow down and reflect on your feelings so they don’t accumulate and overwhelm
•      Approaching life from a point of maintaining vitality and attending to yourself
•      Embracing the simplicity of care
•      Respecting the true pace of the body and nervous system to truly be resourced
•      How different postpartum experiences affect your health
•      Caring for yourself during your menstrual cycle can help fortify your health
•      Finding her medicine and following it
•      Reconfiguring the meaning of ‘family’
•      Embracing passions outside of our jobs to bring fulfillment
•      Recognizing that we cannot attend to every need or desire
•      Allowing space and flow in postpartum, and knowing that re-opening takes time and patience
•      All our stories are unique, but many of the feelings are similar