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What happens when motherhood brings unresolved trauma to the surface?

In this powerful episode of Mom’s Brain Is a Coffee Stain, Kayla sits down with Emily Cleghorn, trauma-informed trigger recovery coach and host of Mamahood After Trauma: Tools for Triggered Mamas, to talk about healing childhood trauma while raising children.

Emily shares her deeply personal story of growing up with abandonment and abuse, and how becoming a mother forced her to confront trauma she had spent years avoiding. When her daughter was born, the coping strategies she had relied on no longer worked — and she realized she had two choices: run from the pain or face it and heal.

That journey led Emily to create the Mended Mama Method, a step-by-step framework designed to help mothers understand their triggers, regulate their nervous systems, and parent from a place of awareness instead of survival mode.

Together, Kayla and Emily explore the reality many mothers face: parenting while carrying the invisible weight of trauma.

In This Episode We Discuss

• How unresolved trauma affects motherhood and parenting triggers
• Recognizing when you're triggered vs. dealing with a difficult parenting moment
• Why trauma lives in the nervous system and affects the body
• Building a trigger toolkit for emotional regulation
• Breaking the mom guilt cycle
• Teaching kids emotional intelligence while healing yourself
• Why moms don’t have to be fully healed to be good parents

This conversation is a compassionate reminder that healing and parenting can happen at the same time—and that moms deserve support too.

Guest Information

Emily Cleghorn
Trauma-Informed Trigger Recovery Coach

Website:
🌐 https://mamahoodaftertrauma.ca

Facebook: Mamahood After Trauma
Instagram: @emily.mamahoodaftertrauma

Podcast:
🎙️ Mamahood After Trauma: Tools for Triggered Mamas

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