Emotional Healing After Cesarean Birth

Transcend

Take back your peace and your power in this 4-month trauma-informed journey, designed exclusively for Cesarean mothers.

Did your cesarean birth leave you feeling emotionally overwhelmed?

  • Were you afraid for your safety or your baby's safety? Do you continue to worry?

  • Have you struggled to make sense of what happened? Do you play the events over and over in your mind?

  • Were there times you felt ignored, objectified, mistreated, or silenced?

  • Does your birth feel incomplete? Like you didn’t birth your baby?

  • Have you struggled with bonding or breastfeeding?

  • Have you felt isolated in your experience, like people don't understand?

Transcend is the world’s only group coaching program designed to help cesarean mothers heal from the emotional pain associated with c-section birth.

Whatever the circumstances of your birth (and regardless of how long ago you birthed) this powerful, innovative program will help you transcend your pain, create meaning, and gain confidence.

❤️‍🩹 Understand why you’re suffering, and learn techniques to alleviate your emotional pain.

❤️‍🩹 Develop empathy for yourself; know in your bones that your birth was not your fault.

❤️‍🩹 Find healthy, safe, and productive ways to feel and express big emotions like grief and rage.

❤️‍🩹 Stop looking for support and validation in the wrong places; rest in our community, feeling deeply seen and met in your experience.

❤️‍🩹 Learn to feel and assert your boundaries so you can take back your power.

The Transcend Group Coaching Program follows my proprietary model for emotional healing after cesarean birth.

“The Cesarean Resiliency Framework”™

1. Ground in Connection

Healing from adversity begins with creating safe spaces in our bodies and relationships.

2. Learn your Triggers

Develop somatic awareness so that you can identify when and why you are feeling activated by your birth. Learn tools for regulation and self-soothing.

3. Illuminate your Story

Now that you’ve established some relational and internal safety, explore your birth story, understanding what happened and how it impacted you.

4. Take Back Your Power

Deepen empathy, set boundaries, identify injustices, and relieve yourself of guilt and shame by learning how to safely feel and express your biggest emotions.

5. Repair to Alchemize

Implement powerful practices and rituals for repairing with your baby, your partner, and your community.

6. Be the Change

Now that your integration and transformation have begun to take root, you can begin making meaning from your pain.

What’s included in Transcend?

✔ Two live group coaching calls per month for 4 months (90 minutes each / 10 calls total)

Live calls follow “The Cesarean Resiliency Framework” curriculum and include instruction, practice, group activities, writing, and time for reflection, sharing, and being witnessed. Calls will also included dedicated time for live Q&A and individualized group coaching with Allison.

✔ Community Feedback and Support

A private online group to ask questions, share what’s coming up, be witnessed in your process, and receive reflections from a like-hearted group of cesarean mothers who are also on the healing path. This community is about more than connection — being with others who can relate helps our nervous system settle and helps us know we are not alone. Here we build safety and belonging.

✔ All Calls Recorded

Because motherhood is full and it’s important to honor the pace of your unique healing and integration process, all calls will be recorded and added to your learning library within 72 hours.

✔ BONUS! Live Birth Story Processing Workshop

With your Transcend enrollment, you’ll receive a code to register for my highly-rated live online workshop, Making Sense of Your Birth Story. This workshop is offered every 3 months, so you will have multiple opportunities to join if the first date does not align with your availability.

Our first call is scheduled for Thursday, June 5, 2025.

$499 USD Early Bird

(Compare to $699 USD Regular Pricing)

Transcend is designed from best practices in emotional healing.

  • TRAUMA-INFORMED - We begin with and prioritize safety and stability, striving to avoid getting “flooded” by trauma memories. Our pacing and timing are gentle, attuned, and adaptable.

  • EVIDENCE-BASED - Most of the teachings, insights, and practices are borrowed from or informed by the work of researchers whose work has been peer-reviewed and published in reputable medical and psychology journals.

  • SOMATICS - The field of somatics has been identified as one of the most impactful in trauma recovery. You’ll learn somatic practices that will support your immediate healing and aid you for the rest of your life.

  • CESAREAN-SPECIFIC - Physical and emotional healing and wholeness are interconnected. You’ll be introduced to a variety of modalities designed to tend to the physical, emotional, and energetic wounds of your incision site, scar, pelvic floor, womb, and sex organs.

  • COMMUNITY - Community and co-regulation are essential, ancient aspects of human healing. Being present with other cesarean mothers will transform how you see and empathize with your own pain.

I’m Allison, The Cesarean Doula

I help mothers heal from the emotional pain of cesarean birth.

My own traumatic c-section caused so much grief, anger, and confusion. I felt misunderstood and mistreated, and it was difficult to find the right kind of support. In reading other mothers’ stories, I discovered I was one of millions of women struggling emotionally after c-section.

I combined my personal experience with hundreds of hours in training and evidence-based insights to develop Transcend, a world-class, one-of-a-kind group coaching program to help mothers heal emotionally and find belonging and safety after cesarean birth.

I am a certified postpartum doula, certified VBAC doula, and I hold a certification in Integrative Somatic Trauma Therapy and a Master’s Degree from University of California, San Diego.

FAQs

When will the live calls take place?

From June to October, 2025, we will have 10 calls, held on Thursdays 9-10:30am Pacific Time: June 5, June 12, July 3, July 17, July 31, Aug 14, Aug 28, Sept 11, Sept 25, Oct 9.

Will the calls be recorded?

Yes, all live calls with be recorded and posted to the course library within 72 hours.

Are scholarships available?

Yes, I will offer a certain number of 50% and 100% scholarships based on the number of regular priced enrollments. Please apply for a scholarship here and I will be in touch with more information soon.

Are there payment plans?

For regular pricing a payment plan is available. You will see the option at checkout.

Can I begin this program after the start date?

Yes, you will have access to the online learning library and can watch the call recordings on your own schedule, attending the live calls if and when you are able.

Is this program a replacement for individual therapy?

While this program utilizes many therapeutic practices and some psycho-educational instructional content, it is not a replacement for individual therapy. This program is for general informational and educational purposes only and does not constitute medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. It is not a substitute for professional medical advice, and you should always seek the advice of a qualified healthcare provider for any questions you may have regarding your health or medical condition. Never disregard professional medical advice or delay in seeking it because of something you have learned in this program.

Are there any cesarean mothers who should not enroll in Transcend?

If you are having thoughts of harming yourself or others or if you are suffering from extreme depression or Postpartum Psychosis, please get help right now, or call 911.

These conditions are serious and outside of the scope of my work. I encourage you to get specialized support from trained crisis counselors and therapists who specialize in perinatal mental health support.

Additionally, this program is designed for women and birthing people whose cesarean culminated with the birth of a living child. If you lost your baby during or as a result of your cesarean birth, my heart breaks for you. And I want to make sure you get the specialized, deep, individualized care and support you need and deserve. Postpartum Support International offers free online support groups for bereaved parents, and Dancy Perinatal offers fee-based support groups (on their website you can also view a directory of individual therapists throughout the U.S. specializing in the postpartum period).

What if I have more questions about the Transcend program?

If you are curious about the program but not sure it is a good fit, I hope you will contact me. You may direct message me on Facebook or Instagram, or complete this contact form and I will reply by email.