🌸 How Societal Expectations & Cultural Pressures Can Shape Our Experience of Pregnancy - with Counsellor Marie Vaile #preganancy
This video explores how societal ideals and cultural expectations can influence how individuals connect or struggle to connect with the happiness typically associated with pregnancy. It sheds light on the unspoken emotional realities that many parents face, offering space for compassion, understanding, and healing.
👩🏼⚕️ Marie Vaile is a qualified and BACP-registered counsellor offering a warm, compassionate space to explore life’s emotional challenges. With a background in social care and years of experience working across mental health charities in Cardiff and the Vale, Marie brings deep insight into a wide range of emotional struggles, from anxiety and stress to complex trauma and addiction.
She has specialist training in maternal mental health, birth trauma, and baby loss, and is passionate about supporting parents and couples during the perinatal period. Drawing from her own lived experience, Marie offers a calm, non-judgemental space to process pain, rebuild self-compassion, and move toward emotional well-being. 🌿
💫 This video can help you understand why pregnancy doesn’t always feel as joyful as expected and how awareness, empathy, and support can make all the difference.
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