free LIVE talk

Surgical Mesh Repairs Following Childbirth

Emotional, Psychological and Physical Consequences

with Clea Stanley
Monday, 8 June 2026 at 19h UK time
For thousands of women, what was promised as a routine surgical solution became the beginning of a devastating ordeal. Transvaginal mesh, implanted to treat pelvic organ prolapse and urinary incontinence, has left countless women living with chronic pain, mobility problems, damaged relationships, and profound psychological trauma. Many feel dismissed, disbelieved, and abandoned by the very medical system that harmed them.

In this deeply personal conversation, the psychotherapist Clea Stanley shares her own journey through an unsuccessful mesh implant operation, the years of suffering that followed, and the difficult decision to travel to the United States to fund her own mesh removal surgery privately; a path that many women in the UK and beyond have been forced to take simply to reclaim their lives.

Clea speaks candidly about the physical and emotional toll this experience has taken not only on her, but on her family, and what she believes women deserve to know before consenting to this procedure.

The conversation will cover medical accountability, informed consent, the strength it takes to be heard, and the quiet resilience of women who have refused to be silenced.
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