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Redemption Through Motherhood: My Fight With Addiction and the Systems Supposed to Help
Charlotte Henderson is a perinatal safeguarding advocate, birth doula and trainer with lived experience of addiction, recovery and the systems that claim to protect women and families...
In this talk, Charlotte shares her personal story navigating the maternity and recovery systems during her first pregnancy with little support and significant multi-agency collusion working against
her. And then, three years into her recovery, being reported by the NHS during her second pregnancy for exercising her legal right not to engage them
while her daughter lay critically ill in intensive care as a result of their negligence.
She now uses that experience alongside her professional expertise to help other women and families navigate the medical and safeguarding systems where either "too much, too soon" or "too little, too late" seems to be the norm.
This is an honest account of fighting for your autonomy, your children and your dignity inside systems that are supposed to protect you but often don't
and coming out the other side with all three intact.
Attendees will leave with a deeper understanding of their rights, practical tools for self-advocacy, and the knowledge that whatever their circumstances, they deserve to be treated with humanity.
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