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Ericka Hart, M.Ed.
@ihartericka

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Two truths and a lie: 1. I went back to my full time job two weeks after my double mastectomy 2. I was doing work the day after I had an emergency C section 3. I’m in the beehive What’s the lie? So I’m hard headed. I can say that, you can’t lol. My rushing back to work is part me and a bigger part capitalism/misogynoir/ableism. What is rarely talked about when it comes to healing from anything traumatic is what it requires to have time to process/rest/maintain general wellness. It’s not just a really great leave package from your job after having a baby, it’s also the people in your life loving you back to life. Post partum is not quite like anything I have ever experienced. When it comes to a chronic illness, people will generally speaking treat you like you should be bedridden and not seen by the world again until you have returned to being abled bodied. But with pregnancy, everyone wants to see the baby, who cares about the person that made it possible for the baby to be earthside. The emotions that you are sorting through after giving birth are so deeply overwhelming, it’s easier to fall back into old habits and routines to feel a sense of stability than to sit still and consider all that you just experienced. This includes what you held emotionally pre pregnancy ain’t what you can hold post. Your relationships begin to shift as a result. As I shift, I’m going to be checking the ways of being that bring me comfort, see people pleasing tik tok. Going to be gentle with myself through the shifts and honor what I have experienced, the reality, no one is going to do that for me but me. Be gentle with folks who are post partum, it lasts forever. #postpartum