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I gently live and practice on the land where the Bow and Elbow Rivers meet, Mohkinstsis. Traditional territories of the Niitsitapi (Blackfoot) and the people of Treaty 7 which includes the Siksika, the Piikani, the Kainai, the Tsuut'ina, the Îyârhe Nakoda, and Métis Nation. My practice is an all-inclusive practice supporting and honouring the identities of all.

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When mother calls, you listen #immersed

When mother calls, you listen #immersed

I am seeing more severe cases of Asherman’s Synd

I am seeing more severe cases of Asherman’s Syndrome in my practice lately.
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Adhesion and scarring inside the uterus and/or cervix caused by trauma to the endometrial lining and an over growth of scar tissue during the wound healing process.
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In many cases the front and back walls of the uterus adhere together. Scar tissue can form over the cervix orifice completely closing it.
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Many womxn with this scar tissue formation experience increased pain at menstruation but no blood. Recurrent miscarriages, infertility, and hormonal imbalance can also be experienced with this scar tissue present inside the uterus and cervix.
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Most commonly, intrauterine adhesions occur after a dilation and curettage (D&C) that was performed because of a missed or incomplete miscarriage, retained placenta with or without hemorrhage after a delivery, or elective abortion. Pregnancy-related D&Cs have been shown to account for 90% of Asherman's Syndrome cases. Sometimes adhesions also occur following other pelvic surgeries such as Cesarean section, surgery to remove fibroids or polyps.
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If you have had a D&C and are experiencing symptoms post surgery please advocate for yourself. The cause of this scar tissue is mainly because of rough blind procedures. All D&C’s should be done guided by ultrasound but they mostly are not. This scar tissue is avoidable. All my clients that have been diagnosed had to fight for this diagnoses because doctors do not want to be held accountable for causing this harm from a rough and blind procedure.
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On August 29 join @lalupavia and I for a full day of healing our wombs after abortion and D&C procedures. For more info on our retreat DM me 💜

Just 3 powerfully sweet bitches. Welcome to wolf p

Just 3 powerfully sweet bitches. Welcome to wolf pack pussy revolution Cedar 🌱🌿🌈💕🐺

How I got into doing hands on hands in womxn’s w

How I got into doing hands on hands in womxn’s work. Part 2
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When I was 20 I got pregnant for the first time. I had just come off the pill that summer and was horrified I was pregnant. I was in the deepest period of my drug addiction and becoming a mom was not an option. Mom took me to the Saskatoon sexual health centre to talk to a counsellor about my options. The counsellor recommended this one doctor for me to go to for the abortion. He was an old school white man and had been a doctor forever. He was extremely kind, compassionate, and nonjudgmental.
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My experience of going through my first abortion with this man had a huge impact on my whole experience and life really. His kindness and care is something I think back to often. His care is the kind of care I wish all doctors exemplified.
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When I was 24 years old I witnessed a young woman about 18-20 who tried to give herself an abortion with a broomstick. I had no idea who she was, walked up on her laying on the ground, she looked like she was dying and bleeding out. I helped her get to the hospital. She said she didn’t want the embarrassment of her family finding out she was pregnant so tried to end it herself. That experience rocked my foundation and woke a part of me up that had been dormant for what feels like lifetimes.
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Especially after my abortion experience I couldn’t imagine being in a position where I felt that doing that to myself was my only option. I didn’t sleep for 3 days after that. There was a fire burning deep inside me and that is when I started my deep dive research into midwifery/doula work, women’s health rights and activism.
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Jump ahead to 2014 27 years old. I was just finishing my Structural Integration/Rolfing training and I got pregnant again with an IUD. I was clean from drugs 6 years at this point and sober from alcohol 2 years. I felt so betrayed by my body. I was doing all the right things. I was a good girl. I had my IUD for 2 years and it worked perfectly this whole time. I couldn’t believe I was pregnant again.....the story continues......
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📷 @monique_pantel of me teaching womb care at @theprairiecollective_

How I got into doing hands on hands in womxn’s w

How I got into doing hands on hands in womxn’s work. Part 1
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Growing up on the farm I loved being there when all the baby calves were born. From a young age, like 8, my dad would wake me up in the middle of the night to help if a mama cow was struggling to give birth. Or if a baby was born outside in the freezing cold he would put me and the frozen baby in a little heated shed and tell me to rub and massage the baby. I would massage the frozen baby calf back to life, trying to save its ears and tail from frost bite and getting the baby dry. I loved every second of it and have seen 100’s of calves born throughout my childhood.
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When I was 16 my mom and I started receiving massage and doing yoga which started to change my body in substantial ways. And when I was 17 my mom and I started doing multiple different energy work trainings.
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As soon as I graduated high school I moved to Vancouver to start my training in bodywork/massage therapy. I trained at the Vancouver School of Bodywork and Massage in 2005. That training blew me open and started me on the path to doing the work I do today.
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We had a whole blend of teachers at VSBM, some of the most gifted bodyworkers I’ve ever worked with. They gave me a non-traditional massage therapy foundation that did not stem solely from western medicine philosophy. My RMT training, which all RMT training is a branch off of western medicine, was hands down the worst training I have ever done. Training at VSBM got me into my body and laid down a radical groundwork for me in cultivating my craft of bodywork.
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Training at VSBM also gave me a massive hunger for continuing education outside of the massage therapy field and a desire to train with the best people in my world. Not having that traditional RMT training right off the start was the best decision I made and is what has kept me going in this work for so long.
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I honestly have very little respect for the RMT trainings out there. FYI my opinion on this is not up for debate so don’t waste your time commenting on it. I’ve been in this world long enough to discern high quality training from not.
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My commitment to my craft and continually training with the best....

The path of coming back home to myself has been a

The path of coming back home to myself has been a deep and committed process of decolonizing my relationship to my heart and soul, the stories I believe about life, and my relationship to my body.
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Michelle Nahanee of @decolonizefirst says “Storying is the work of imagining our futures. Storiers are the visionary’s whose creativity helps us open our possibilities. Re-storying reframes our pasts. Reclaiming our heritages outside of colonial impacts & dominant narratives.”
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A story I am rewriting right now is the story that I am inherently worthy as a single childless 33 year old womxn that has had 3 abortions. Deconstructing the long held narrative that because I am single and childless means there is something wrong/unworthy about me. And that womxn who choose to have abortions are unworthy, selfish, demonic humxns.
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In Happy Abortions, Erica Millar writes “The emotional world of pregnant women is heavily circumscribed. It is widely supposed that women’s lives are geared towards motherhood, and motherhood brings with it the only true promise of happiness for women, and for pregnant women most especially. Within this normative schema, happiness is generally reserved for motherhood alone, and abortion can only be imagined in negative terms. This is why we see abortion continually related through emotions that portray the experience as difficult, unpleasant, and damaging. The awfulisation of abortion and abortion stigma present motherhood as the only unproblematic outcome of pregnancy, constructing abortion anew as a deviant and harmful choice for women.”
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Remembering our old ways when womxn used to care for one another. When traditional wise womxn were the healers and midwives, is rewriting stories of self disgust and hatred that has been held in my body for too too long.
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My love @lalupavia and I will be offering a full day of rewriting our stories, reclaiming ourselves from colonialistic narratives, and healing our bodies at the end of August.

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