Sara Hopkins is a naturopathic doctor and licensed acupuncturist, she specializes in serving patients with eating disorders and other mental health challenges. She is also cofounder of The Ren Clinic, an integrative medicine clinic with an emphasis on providing trauma-informed care that helps patients reclaim their sense of wholeness and connection to the world around them. In this episode, podcast hosts talks to Sara about:
- How the urge to create can be felt in our bodies
- How she and her husband decided that having children was not for them
- How she revisits her choice not to have children in conversations with her husband
- Feeling disconnected from close friends who have children because she can’t share the experience
- How ambivalence about having children can be a spiritual journey