The Fourth Trimester: A Postpartum Guide to Healing Your Body, Balancing Your Emotions, and Restoring Your Vitality

A holistic, practical guide to help support women through post-partum healing on the physical, emotional, relational, and spiritual levels. A guide to help support women through post-partum healing on the physical, emotional, relational, and spiritual levels. This holistic guide offers practical advice to support women through postpartum healing on the physical, emotional, relational, and spiritual levels-and provides women with a roadmap to this very important transition that can last from a few months to a few years. Kimberly Ann Johnson draws from her vast professional experience as a doula, postpartum consultant, yoga teacher, body worker, and women’s health care advocate, and from the healing traditions of Ayurveda, traditional Chinese medicine, and herbalism-as well as her own personal experience-to cover .how you can prepare your body for birth; .how you can organize yourself and your household for the best possible transition to motherhood; .simple practices and home remedies to facilitate healing and restore energy; .how to strengthen relationships and aid the return to sex; .learning to exercise safely postpartum; .carrying your baby with comfort; .exploring the complex and often conflicting emotions that arise postpartum; .and much more. —- ISBN: 9781611804003 | ISBN10: 1611804000 | ISBN-13: 978-1611804003