Sep 29, 2026 · 24 min · 9 segments
In this episode I explore the medical model and how understanding my own values helped me understand my struggles within the system. I also talk about although my work is centred on physiological…
This week I'm going to just explore the medical model, talking about dogma and where a philosophy or values sits and helps me, it's helped me to understand who I am and where I fit in this world and hopefully might help you as well as I reflect on it.
So this week we've been exploring the medical model within the birth keeper course that I have.
And we had a brilliant Zoom call.
It's usually about an hour and a half to two hours of exploring philosophy of the medical model, how it actually works in practice, my own experiences.
And what's amazing is actually the people that are on the course, I've got a very small cohort at the moment.
Several of them have had quite in-depth experiences with the medical system through their family, through their own fertility journey, through their children.
needing operations and investigations.
And it's been really interesting to explore this in a way that is balanced and reflective.
And I'd say intelligent, you know.
This week I'm going to just explore the medical model, talking about dogma and where a philosophy or values sits and helps me, it's helped me to understand who I am and where I fit in this world and hopefully might help you as well as I reflect on it.
So this week we've been exploring the medical model within the birth keeper course that I have.
And we had a brilliant Zoom call.
It's usually about an hour and a half to two hours of exploring philosophy of the medical model, how it actually works in practice, my own experiences.
And what's amazing is actually the people that are on the course, I've got a very small cohort at the moment.
Several of them have had quite in-depth experiences with the medical system through their family, through their own fertility journey, through their children.
needing operations and investigations.
And it's been really interesting to explore this in a way that is balanced and reflective.
And I'd say intelligent, you know.
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