Ann-Preston Bosher on Pediatric Physical Therapy & Trauma Care
Dr. Gertrude welcomes Ann-Preston Bosher to share her unique perspective on mothering and motherhood as a pediatric physical therapist working with families navigating very early childhood trauma.
Dr. Gertrude welcomes Ann-Preston Bosher to share her unique perspective on mothering and motherhood as a pediatric physical therapist working with families navigating very early childhood trauma.
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Episode Outline:
05:13 From physical therapist to opening Hyphenate Coaching
15:33 Family systems and medical trauma
21:52 Shapes of motherhood and mothering
25:49 Coming out as a mother without children
39:36 There can be trauma in healing too
46:07 What rewriting the mother code means to Ann-Preston
47:15 Dr. Gertrude wraps up
The work of Ann-Preston Bosher is three-fold: she’s a pediatric physical therapist, medical advocate, and an emergence coach. On top of her practice as a physical therapist, Ann-Preston is uniquely skilled in helping families identity and process trauma. She also strives to transform the medical profession from the inside by advocating for emotional intelligence in the profession and coaches individual clients in her business, Hyphenate Coaching.
In this episode, Ann-Preston shares her journey from working as a pediatric physical therapist inside family’s homes to realizing that in order to gain a deeper ability to help her patients, she needed additional training in emotional responses to trauma. Her work aims to help patients recognize and identify trauma so they can engage with the healing process.
Dr. Gertrude and Ann-Preston explore some of the unexpected places trauma can manifest in young families and how to address it. From these tender experiences, Ann-Preston shares the many ways she sees mothering and motherhood unfold and her own story of being a mother without children. The depth of Ann-Preston’s work reminds us how important it is to disrupt and expand the limiting narratives of mothering.
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Resources Referenced:
Women of Tomorrow podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/women-of-tomorrow-with-laura-bell-bundy/id1530834145
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About Dr. Gertrude Lyons:
Through her career as a professional life coach, Dr. Gertrude Lyons has become a national mothering revolutionary. Join Gertrude as she confronts the myths surrounding mothering, and challenges the very notion of what it means to be a mother. Expect conversations that question your preconceived beliefs, and ask you to lean into topics that will tap into the powerful femininity within you. Be prepared to show up, hold space, and be mothered in a way you’ve never been before, but have always needed.