10/14/2026
When you’re getting tested or raising a symptom to your OB, fear can lock your body into a freeze response. If you’re a BIPOC mama, that stress is amplified.
You have tools to help drop your nervous system out of fight-or-flight so you can demand the care you deserve. Sometimes, your body remembers everything your mind tries to push past.
High anxiety at the prenatal checkup? Try a 3-second somatic shift. 🫁⚡
For many BIPOC women, a doctor’s visit isn’t just an appointment. It’s an encounter with historical systemic neglect.
Breast Cancer Awareness Month is about more than just physical health, but also am important reminder of regulating your nervous system so you can speak up for your body alongside your mental well-being.
BIPOC mothers are routinely dismissed when raising medical concerns. When you notice a change and get told it is just pregnancy hormones, finding true accessible care and getting tested can save your life. Breast cancer during pregnancy is rare, but delays in diagnosis are deadly. Here is what you need to look out for. Trust your body, mama.
As a somatic therapist, I know that pregnancy is not just a cognitive shift—it is a profound neurobiological and somatic restructuring that can trigger deep-seated trauma, anxiety, and intergenerational stress, particularly for BIPOC women.
Through perinatal mental health and somatic practices, I teach pregnant mamas that your nervous system knows before your mind does. When you’re sitting in that doctor’s chair, getting tested can trigger deep medical trauma.
When you are healing generational medical trauma while carrying the next generation, sometimes tracking your body’s signals to advocate for your health can be life saving. ✨🤰🏾
