The Conscious Clinician Podcast
Health & Fitness:Medicine
Episode 32: Empowering Folks During Pregnancy, Birth, & Beyond with Dr. Tasha Darden, DPT, Doula
In this episode, we examine pregnancy, birth, race, and consent through Dr. Tasha Darden’s unique lens of pelvic physical therapist and doula. During her pregnancy, she realized “that it was really hard to find a doula that looked like me” and since has become the provider she needed. She shares all you need to know about doulas and how they support people in birth. But we can’t talk about improving birth outcomes without talking about consent and obstetric violence. Tasha shares the Planned Parenthood model of consent: FRIES along with tips for discussing birth trauma postpartum. Finally, we dive deep into the effects of misogyny, patriarchy, and racism on pregnancy and postpartum experiences. This is a MUST listen-to episode for anyone working with pregnancy/postpartum folks!
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Dr. Tasha Darden PT, DPT is a Pelvic Physical Therapist and Full Spectrum Doula. She is the owner of Physiodoula, which has a mission to help women shift from surviving to thriving in all phases of their lives. She is passionate about being an advocate in the birth room and in the greater Los Angeles community and has created a program called Reclaim Postpartum. It aims to support Black women and families in postpartum with supplies for parents and babies, meals, hands-on support, and access to free resources such as lactation consultants, physical and occupational therapists, mental health services, etc.
Dr. Tasha feels that there is a lack of accessibility to basic pelvic and sexual health, especially in black and brown communities. She is active on Instagram sharing knowledge about all aspects of women’s health including self-care, holistic approaches to healing, optimizing pelvic floor function, body literacy, labor preparation, postpartum recovery, the impact of racism on health, and debunking pelvic health myths.
Highlights from our conversation in Episode 32
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