Musings from a Feminist Mother
The Motherhood Body Chronicles
Episode 2: Pregnancy After an Eating Disorder, Epidurals as an Expression of Body Kindness, and Rejecting the Term "Natural Birth" -Allyson Inez Ford
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Episode 2: Pregnancy After an Eating Disorder, Epidurals as an Expression of Body Kindness, and Rejecting the Term "Natural Birth" -Allyson Inez Ford

Therapist and mother Allyson Inez Ford shares about the triggering and empowering parts of pregnancy after having gone through an eating disorder. She also talks about epidurals as being an extension of her recovery and expression of body kindness, why she rejects the term "natural birth" and more!

Allyson Inez Ford, MA, LPCC is a multiracial, queer, neurodivergent therapist specializing in Eating Disorders and OCD through a social justice lens. Allyson is also a new mother, which has fueled her passion for working with new and expecting parents in ED recovery. Allyson has lived experience recovering from an Eating Disorder, and owns a group private practice in California. Allyson is rooted firmly in a relational, feminist and liberation psychology framework. In addition to therapy, she provides supervision, consultation and speaking engagements. You can connect with her via her website: www.eatingdisorderocdtherapy.com and IG: @bodyjustice.therapist

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