Episode 11: Loving Boundaries in Pregnancy. Protecting Your Energy When Others Project Their Fear

Pregnancy can feel like an open invitation for opinions, advice, and unfiltered fear. From hands on bellies without consent, to well-meaning loved ones projecting their own trauma, worry, or beliefs, many pregnant mummas find themselves carrying far more than their own experience.

In this episode, I speak into the importance of creating loving, conscious boundaries during pregnancy. We explore how to recognise projection, how to protect your nervous system, and how to practise assertiveness without hardening your heart.

Drawing on my own journey into motherhood and decades of walking alongside women through pregnancy and birth, I share practical ways to respond to unsolicited advice, fear based commentary, and the pressure that often intensifies as the due time approaches. We also talk about the impact of constant checking in, timeline anxiety, and how this disrupts the oxytocin flow needed for labour to unfold naturally.

This episode is an invitation to come back into your body, trust your inner knowing, and remember that pregnancy and birth are sacred transitions, not public events. You are allowed to choose what you share, who you engage with, and what energy you carry.

If you are feeling the weight of other people’s opinions, fear, or urgency, this conversation is here to remind you that your peace matters.

Your timing matters.

And your knowing matters!

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