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Louise Thompson

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
741 total appearances

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

want to do something with that.

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

And I think it's because when you've suffered so much, you feel the pain so intensely, like you've experienced that more than anything, any other like human lived experience, you become obsessed with it, you research it.

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

And I'd say it's probably why a lot of like therapists as well

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

end up, a lot of therapists are people that have been through something really traumatic and have had to work through their own stuff.

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

They've worked with therapists.

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

They realize that they're an expert in that, in understanding and in connecting with other people that have been through something really deep.

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

And they then go, yeah, I can recognize that in other people and I really want to help.

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

And I guess that's kind of, I'm not saying, I definitely don't have the time to train to be a therapist and I'd be terrible.

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

I'm terrible at listening.

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

But, Ryan will tell you that.

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

But I do... Yeah, I don't know.

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

I feel like this is the beginning.

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

We've got six months to see what we can do.

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

I mean, we could get millions of signatures.

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

One of the next exciting things that we'd really like to do would be to get a lot of women together to do a huge photo call on College Green, which is opposite Parliament, to create some more noise.

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

And then really it's kind of...

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

conjuring up this marketing campaign just so that everybody knows and it's the education piece and I feel supported because there are some brilliant charities out there like the Birth Trauma Association who I work really closely with, the CEO Dr. Kim Thomas has been heavily involved in this space for so long and I guess they're right at the kind of like grassroots level

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

They're the people that have to really pick up the pieces when people's worlds fall apart.

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

They're the ones offering out the resources.

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

They're the ones with the peer-to-peer support, picking up the phone, trying to make sure that people stay alive.