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Louise Thompson

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
390 total appearances

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Happy Place
Louise Thompson: Maternity care is bleak! Mental and physical scars of my traumatic birth

It got me through a lot of, actually, I thought times were hard back then.

Happy Place
Louise Thompson: Maternity care is bleak! Mental and physical scars of my traumatic birth

They were not.

Happy Place
Louise Thompson: Maternity care is bleak! Mental and physical scars of my traumatic birth

They were kind of a doddle.

Happy Place
Louise Thompson: Maternity care is bleak! Mental and physical scars of my traumatic birth

But he did this sort of whole episode.

Happy Place
Louise Thompson: Maternity care is bleak! Mental and physical scars of my traumatic birth

I think it was just him.

Happy Place
Louise Thompson: Maternity care is bleak! Mental and physical scars of my traumatic birth

Where he basically said every day, just have a little thought about one thing that you want to do that day.

Happy Place
Louise Thompson: Maternity care is bleak! Mental and physical scars of my traumatic birth

And I was like, that's really nice.

Happy Place
Louise Thompson: Maternity care is bleak! Mental and physical scars of my traumatic birth

Like, let's just reduce this full 24 hours to like one thing that could maybe even take like a couple of minutes.

Happy Place
Louise Thompson: Maternity care is bleak! Mental and physical scars of my traumatic birth

That takes the pressure off.

Happy Place
Louise Thompson: Maternity care is bleak! Mental and physical scars of my traumatic birth

And that day when I kind of had that revelation, I thought, you know what?

Happy Place
Louise Thompson: Maternity care is bleak! Mental and physical scars of my traumatic birth

I'm going to think outside the box a little bit.

Happy Place
Louise Thompson: Maternity care is bleak! Mental and physical scars of my traumatic birth

I'm going to make today about...

Happy Place
Louise Thompson: Maternity care is bleak! Mental and physical scars of my traumatic birth

Ryan, because I really haven't spent any time thinking about him in a very long time.

Happy Place
Louise Thompson: Maternity care is bleak! Mental and physical scars of my traumatic birth

You know, and we was kind of just like in that phase where we're coasting and we're getting through and we're just sort of doing our own thing.

Happy Place
Louise Thompson: Maternity care is bleak! Mental and physical scars of my traumatic birth

But I was like, today, maybe I'll make that my one thing.

Happy Place
Louise Thompson: Maternity care is bleak! Mental and physical scars of my traumatic birth

And that felt quite like enlightening as well, because I just also it kind of forced me just to like take a gear change.

Happy Place
Louise Thompson: Maternity care is bleak! Mental and physical scars of my traumatic birth

I don't need to keep on this motor, this hamster wheel.

Happy Place
Louise Thompson: Maternity care is bleak! Mental and physical scars of my traumatic birth

I'll just stop, pause, try and answer that one question and try and do something, make it something really different every day.

Happy Place
Louise Thompson: Maternity care is bleak! Mental and physical scars of my traumatic birth

And that feels nice.

Happy Place
Louise Thompson: Maternity care is bleak! Mental and physical scars of my traumatic birth

I think another thing that I like to do, which is quite personal to me, is I love doing puzzles.