Postpartum Emotional Healing: Traditional Homeopathic Supports
You finally have your precious baby, yet you feel more emotional than even during pregnancy…
While we as a collective of motherhood are getting better at sharing our emotional experiences, there is still a massive lack of support for new moms.
The thing is, most postpartum moms have no real idea how to address it or even understand why it can be happening.
Here are the homeopathic remedies traditionally associated with Postpartum emotional Healing:
Safety Note: While we explore traditional support for postpartum emotional healing, if an individual is feeling persistence hopelessness, inability to function, thoughts of self-harm, or thoughts of harming the baby, this requires immediate intervention from a mental health professional.
1. Aconite:
For postpartum depression or anxiety caused by a state of shock. Can help to restore emotional balance from a traumatic or fear-based delivery. Useful if you are having high anxiety with panic attacks, or palpitations. May be experiencing flashbacks of the birth.
2. Sepia:
For trouble bonding with the baby postpartum. May feel disconnected from baby, and even from partner. Lack of interest or even indifference towards any aspect of intimacy. May be experiencing feelings of rage.
3. Pulsatilla:
For postpartum depression or sadness in which you just can’t stop crying. Overemotional responses, fear of being abandoned by partner with lots of overwhelm. Can have a very big fear of SIDS.
4. Nat Mur:
For postpartum depression in which you feel like you have to cry, but can’t – or only can when you are alone. Feelings of isolation and only want to see immediate loved ones or inner circle.
5. Ignatia:
For profound grief in trying to cope following miscarriage or infant loss, will help to bring balance back to the emotional world. Physically can appear as sighing frequently, or the sensation of a lump in the throat. Or grieving the birth you “should have had”.
6. Ars Album:
For postpartum obsessive thoughts. Fear-based emotional responses and trying to exert some sort of control from overwhelm. May also feel as if everything needs to be sanitized or that you need to keep the baby safe from germs.
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