Society Has a Plan for You the Moment You Become a Mother. You Didn’t Agree to It.
Your fear about what motherhood will cost you isn't irrational – it's an accurate read of a system that was never built for you. Here's what to do…
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Your Mother’s Birth Is Already in Your Leadership – Here’s How to Find It
The birth stories you absorbed before you could talk are already shaping how you lead, negotiate and respond to pressure. Here's how to trace them.
The Working Woman’s Birth Fear Isn’t What You Think It Is
Birth content talks to the mother-in-waiting. This is for the woman who's a leader first. Why her fear isn't irrational – and what it's actually about.
16.5% of Women Fear Birth Enough for It to Shape Their Lives: The Numbers
By Alexia Leachman, founder of Fear Free Childbirth. Alexia healed her own tokophobia and developed the method she used to do it – and has helped women clear…
When Fear Takes Over: The Abortions We Don’t Talk About
The Thing I Wish More People Knew Some of the most heartbreaking stories I hear don’t come from women who didn’t want children – but from those who…
Tokophobia and Relationships
By Alexia Leachman, founder of Fear Free Childbirth. Alexia healed her own tokophobia and developed the method she used to do it – and has helped women clear theirs…
I Thought I Was Just Anxious — Until I Learned What Tokophobia Was
By Alexia Leachman, founder of Fear Free Childbirth. Alexia healed her own tokophobia and developed the method she used to do it – and has helped women clear theirs…
I Thought I Could Ignore My Tokophobia… Until I Had to Make a Choice
By Alexia Leachman, founder of Fear Free Childbirth. Alexia healed her own tokophobia and developed the method she used to do it – and has helped women clear theirs…
What if your fear doesn’t have a name? The power of finally putting words to what you feel
I spent years struggling with a fear that nobody seemed to talk about. You know the kind – the thing you barely dare to admit, even to yourself,…
I Never Had the Right Words for My Fear… Until Now
For as long as I can remember, I’ve lived with a gnawing, wordless sense of dread around anything to do with pregnancy, birth, or even just the idea…