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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

He's like a slow mover, a slow thinker, sometimes very frustratingly.

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

I'm like, how does your brain work at this like slow frequency?

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

And I'm so fast.

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

And sometimes I'm like, well, maybe you're just not as clever as me.

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

He won't mind me saying that.

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

But equally, I'm like, but you are, you're like the, it's like the tortoise and the hare.

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

And actually, you're still getting to places.

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

Like, you're still moving.

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

He's decided this year to go, he's doing like an Ironman in Hawaii.

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

He doesn't care if like, he doesn't achieve anything except for like that one big thing.

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

Yeah.

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

And I'm like, that's actually great.

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

In my mind, I'm thinking, and I know people like this, you know, a lot of people in this same industry as well, who...

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

Don't take holidays.

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

You know, my brother's a culprit.

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

He's like, I couldn't possibly take a holiday unless it's tied in with something to do with work.

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

And I'm like, you have to because as someone who has spent time, you know, waking up from like an awful kind of like life-changing, life-threatening surgery, in those moments, you do really think...

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

okay, this is all a game.

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

Let's just make sure to definitely carve out the time to hang out with some cool people and just be silly.

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

And I do have a lot of respect for people that kind of just move.