Selected podcasts from the More Beautiful Life patreon series.
As a Creative Healing Consultant and Artist, Tara Evonne Trudell, (Santee Sioux/Rarámuri/Xicana) weaves multiple mixed media of handmade paper beads, poetry, photography, film, and audio components into her work to express her creative visions that address the many social issues she sees as a continuance of generational trauma on women and children. Tara makes beads from the many reports, research, data, and survivor stories to amplify their voices and resources that need to be shared in all communities.Tara offers her personal experience of being a grandmother, granddaughter, daughter, mother, sister, and one day a future ancestor as an opening to bear witness to others who are struggling with their own intergenerational abuse and trauma. Tara shares her own healing journey for others to relate and join her in the navigation of changing this painful and harmful narrative. It is through this guidance of spirit reclamation and empowering personal energy that can come from our own making prayer beads that address the many colonial and oppressive narratives in a manner that dates back to 100,000 BC when beads were first discovered. It is from our own history, words, images, and worlds can we reshape and reclaim our connection to spirit. With one bead at a time, we can reclaim a time and place before harm entered our ways of life. This becomes the stepping off point for the return of our personal power.Incorporating these hand made beads as her own personal regalia, Tara is on a lifelong journey in the reclamation of her identity to earth and spirit by remembering her indigenous connection and ceremonies. An artist that she hopes represents and advocates for earth and humanity to stimulate action and a sense of community care that needs to be shared between all nations. Tara has done extensive prayer bead workshops with women survivors of sexual assault, human trafficking, domestic violence, community and youth groups, & immigrants/refugees. e. taraevonnetrudell@gmail.comYou can see the many things we talked about in this podcast on her website: https://www.taraevonnetrudell.com/Join her patreon page at: https://www.patreon.com/c/KarmaStarBead/posts
Margaretta is an intuitive healer and clairvoyant who assists clients in connecting with all aspects of their multidimensional selves so that life can be lived and experienced from a larger perspective and a higher frequency. She has learned how to access wisdom directly from the higher planes.Her approach to transformational healing combines her formal training at the Barbara Brennan School of Healing, The Virginia School of Massage, studies in acupressure, Shiatsu, guided imagery, numerous Buddhist retreats, and all levels of Reiki training with her own unique experiences of self-healing and self-transcendence. She is also certified to teach Integral Hatha Yoga.Her love and appreciation of nature inspired her to create Bridge Between The Worlds, a retreat center with a mission to assist others to connect with the essence of spirit and intelligence in nature and to recognize the healing power of the elements in the natural world.Margaretta has studied different healing modalities for over twenty years including:Guidelight FacilitatorKinergeticsBarbara Brennan School of HealingReiki Master TeacherCertified Hatha Yoga TeacherVirginia School of Massage 500 hour ProgramStudy at the Monroe InstituteProcess Acupressure at Esalen InstituteWorkshops with sound healer, Tom KenyonNumerous Buddhist retreatsMargaretta's approach to transformational healing combines her formal training coupled with discoveries based on her own experiences of self-healing and self-transcendence. Her work takes her to California, New Mexico, Colorado, Maryland, and Tokyo, Japan.Margaretta directs Bridge Between The Worlds, for the study of subtle Energy Medicine and for studying and connecting with the essence of spirit in Nature.
Dr. Stephanie House is a board-certified physical therapist and vestibular specialist. She works with people suffering from dizziness and chronic pain at her practice, House of Balance Integrative Health and PT. Dr. House has a passion for whole-body healing. She holds certifications in vestibular therapy, yoga therapy, lifestyle medicine, and dry needling. Her methods help those struggling with chronic symptoms achieve real and lasting improvements through the use of mind-body and traditional physical therapy techniques. https://www.houseofbalancept.com/
Shatia Owsley is a holistic psychosocial and trauma practitioner who has worked in the maternal health and social services field for over 18 years. Her professional journey has allowed her to work closely with teen moms, infants and children with complex medical conditions, as well as women and families with varying life transformations. In 2010, Shatia began shifting her approach to incorporate more eastern and holistic health practices to empower her clients. She earned a masters in Health Education and Promotion, focusing her studies on educating BIPOC women on the benefits of a healthy mind, body and spirit connection during pregnancy. Shatia has continued to advance her studies by pursuing various trainings and certifications in the following areas: maternal social justice, pre and perinatal psychology, birth trauma processing, trauma informed yoga, breathwork, Calm Birth Meditation, Neuro-linguistic Programming (NLP), indigenous postpartum care practices, ecological breastfeeding, infant massage, and various forms of energy healing (reiki, quantum healing, sound bath therapy, etc.).Shatia's goal when working with families is to listen, empower, coach and support them as they re-discover that they are the experts of their lives. She serves as a supportive presence as they face the many adventures of life on their own terms. Shatia is a part of a growing community of holistic and spiritual healers, as well as medical and mental health professionals dedicated to the connection of the mind, body and spirit. www.indigowomb.com Info@indigowomb.com
Rachel Smith (they/she) is a Licensed Massage Therapist and Integrated Prenatal and Perinatal Practitioner. They grew up on unceded Monacan territory known as Charlottesville, VA and have always felt deeply rooted in the community and in the land itself, particularly the Blue Ridge mountains. Smith attended the Virginia School of Massage and completed studies there in 2002. They went on to graduate from the University of Virginia with a degree in Studies in Women and Gender. Since their late teens, Smith has been involved in anti-violence work; they helped to found the Virginia Anti-Violence Project - an organization that addresses sexual violence, intimate partner violence and hate violence in the LGBTQ community. They also served on the state board of the Virginia Sexual and Domestic Violence Action Alliance for 6 years.After having 2 (of their 3) children, Smith shifted the focus of their commitment to helping people in a more direct, hands-on way. Their own experience of birth helped change their relationship with their body; they knew after giving birth to their first child that the experience of being able to feel and trust into their body was transformative and life-changing. Given how challenging the prenatal and perinatal time can be, particularly for Black and Brown folx, LGBTQIA2S+ folx, neurodivergent folx and folx with disabilities, Smith knew they wanted to help other birthing parents feel supported and resourced around this tender time. They have been studying Prenatal and Perinatal Dynamics with Kate White since 2017 and have assisted in workshops and trainings she has held for participants coming from all over the world including Australia, Lebanon, Serbia, and California. Smith offers in-person and zoom sessions that take a holistic, somatic, and trauma-informed approach to helping people address trauma and challenges in pursuit of living and loving their best lives.Website: mindfulmassagecville.comProlyfyck Run Crew: https://prolyfyck.com/
Dr. Gauri Lowe, a medical doctor and natural birth specialist, draws on over two decades of experience supporting women. After her own homebirth during studies, she became an advocate for physiological birth, later apprenticing with a homebirth midwife to learn how to support homebirths.Since her second son's birth (in water, at home), Dr. Gauri divides her time between South Africa and rural India, passionately supporting homebirths, teaching midwifery, and consulting in integrative women's health. Now based in South Africa with her family, she offers transformative courses, focusing on postpartum care, the Sacred Model of Birth, and reframing women's healthcare.Dr. Lowe emphasizes holistic approaches, weaving in natural remedies and ancient healing traditions with a sound clinical background too. With 12+ years as a birth advocate, she creates safe spaces for women during childbirth.https://www.drgaurilowe.com/
Marinah identifies as an indigiqueer chicana daughter of a spiritual, artistic mother from Chihuahua, Mexico who taught her traditional medicine, a Chicano musician and Engineer father from the borderlands, and mother to indigenous mixed-race children and grandchildren.Marinah is the owner of Phoenix Midwife and the founder of Indigenous Birth, an umbrella organization for diverse advocacy and health justice projects which affirms the importance of traditional and indigenous midwives and assembles initiatives and coalitions nationally and internationally. She is also a sometime podcaster, public speaker and writer.Marinah has served as consultant, facilitator, board member, Executive Director, and midwife for health justice projects in the U.S, North America, Central America, and Uganda, facilitating policy initiatives on public health responses, indigenous/immigrant reproductive and primary healthcare access, education programs, birth center development, and workforce development.Marinah is a founding member of Phoenix Allies for Community Health, a free clinic primarily serving immigrant families, a direct result of her active street medic work. Marinah is the past president of the Midwives Alliance of North America, and worked in a dedicated coalition with national midwifery groups for United States Midwifery, Education, Regulation, and Association (USMERA).Marinah is a Culture of Health Leader, advisory board member for Birth Detroit, Team Leader for an all POC midwifery learning collaborative in Arizona through a project initiated by the Institute of Medicaid Innovation, working alongside native and indigenous immigrant communities on reclamation of birth sovereignty, and planning essential convenings for midwives and healers.Marinah is a practitioner in Somatic Experiencing, with advancing certification in the prenatal and perinatal period, as part of her dedication to traditional medicine and healing.Marinah is the past Director of Organizational Wellness with Birth Center Equity, and is currently under Fellowship.Marinah's current roles, besides the multiple projects of Indigenous Birth, focus primarily in facilitation with Breath of My Heart Birthplace, the only Native-led nonprofit free standing birth center in the United States, Center for Indigenous Midwifery, learning indigenous data collection in partnership with The Firelight Group, and working with her traditional teachers in Mexico learning traditional medicine, and creating artistic and medicinal resources.Website: https://www.indigenousbirth.org/Contact: info@indigenousbirth.org
Ashley Brichter is a life-long educator, birth worker, consultant, and entrepreneur. In addition to improving maternal health, she is a champion for systemic reforms to improve the lives of families by rebalancing the division of labor at home and funding parental leave, universal health care, and progressive early childhood education. Despite her experience with hundreds of families as a doula, lactation counselor, and birth educator – like so many, her first birth did not “go as planned.” Better for it, she founded Birthsmarter in 2019, which provides unbiased, inclusive, and award-winning practical wisdom and guidance to the next generation of families. Ashley was born and raised in New York City, is a proud Bi-Co graduate, and currently lives in Salt Lake City where she has learned to love camping with her husband and two amazing kids. She is a Certified Fair Play Facilitator, a Tory Burch Fellow, and she sits on the board of ProNatal Fitness.https://birthsmarter.com/
After spending her early career in the corporate world Lynn transitioned into the field of Prenatal and Perinatal Psychology after becoming a parent. She currently supports adults and families with early attachment trauma histories and is serving as the Vice President on the Board of Directors at APPPAH.She is a graduate of the Castellino Foundations training as well as a Prenatal and Perinatal Educator from the Association of Prenatal and Perinatal Psychology and Health (APPPAH).She has also completed the Castellino Family Practitioner Training and is on staff of the Building & Enhancing Bonding and Attachment Clinic (BEBA). She is working towards becoming a certified Womb Surround Process Facilitator.She is a certified practitioner of NARM (Nuero Affective Relational Model) which helps integrate early childhood survival strategies. She holds a certificate in Trauma Informed Somatic Therapy and is a facilitator of the Circle of Security Parenting Program.Her greatest joy is spending time with her family. She is the proud mom of three grown children and lives with her husband in Boulder Colorado.
Margery Segal LPC, RSMT, IDME, PPN is the founder of the Whole Movement Center PLLC located in Austin, Texas. She has spent the last 20 years teaching her embodied approach to pre/perinatal psychology and somatic attachment and bonding in Brasil, Australia, Canada and Texas. She works with individuals, families, couples, infants, children, and people of all ages on early developmental attachment trauma and the art of creating fulfilling relationships. She integrates Dance & Theater, Body-Mind Centering®, Somatic Experiencing, Developmental Movement, and Prenatal Birth Attachment Therapy into experiential sessions and workshops. Her workshops provide a fun therapeutic experiential approach to a depth of neurobiological and body-mind concepts that help students transform and grow. She currently is enrolling women in Her year-long Whole Movement Embodiment Body Recovery Program. This is an online group program (with an in-person intensive) for women who are seeking to recover from a major transition such as caretaking, illness, aging or loss, or any major life change that has affected their relationship with their body. I invite participants who want to commit to learning a somatic movement and therapeutic approach to recovering a new sense of self, while becoming re-embodied and personally empowered as they move forward in their lives.Email: explore@wholemovementcenter.comWebsite: www.wholemovementcenter.com
Episode 64: Klaus Evertz, Art, Body, Psychotherapist and Writer in Prenatal and Perinatal PsychologyKlaus Evertz, lecturer, works as psycho-, art- and body therapist in own office and Center for Palliative Medicine, University Hospital Cologne. Painter and cultural psychologist. Research in Images as Forms of Consciousness. Lectureships at the Universities Cologne and Dresden, the University for Environment and Economy (Depart. Art Therapy) Nuertingen and the Dr.Mildred-Scheel-Academy, Cologne. His main work is a design of a Prenatal Aesthetic in Kunstanalyse (Art Analysis) (2002). Editor of „Lehrbuch fuer Praenatale Psychologie (Textbook for Prenatal Psychology)“, Mattes, Heidelberg (2014) and "Handbook of Prenatal Psychology", Springer, New York (2020). Coauthor of „Lehrbuch für Palliativmedizin (Textbook for Palliative Medicine“, Schattauer, Stuttgart (1997, 2007, 2011). His pioneering re-search on pre- and perinatal trauma and transgenerational trauma has potential applications for psycho-, art- and bodytherapists helping to identify the effects of these traumata on mental health and behaviour. Since 1997 Member of the Advisory Board of „International Journal of Peri- and Prenatal Psychology and Medicine“, since 2007 Member of the Board of Associate Editors. He is Past-vice-president of the International Society for Prenatal and Perinatal Psychology and Medicine (ISPPM).Institut for Arttherapy and Artanalysis CologneNeusser Str. 56950737 Köln/CologneGermanyTel./Fax 0049 – 221 5509156E-mail: klausevertz@t-online.deklausevertz.de
This interview is part of the preparation for the series: Supporting Families to Integrate their Birth and Early Experiences, that is a fundraiser for the clinic that is run by Tara and Mary, the Building and Enhancing Bonding and Attachment Clinic. Tara Blasco has a Ph.D in prenatal and perinatal psychology from the Santa Barbara Graduate Institute, and has worked at the BEBA clinic since 2001. Currently she is the Director of the BEBA clinic and works as a facilitator . She is a certified craniosacral therapist. She is a psychologist in her country of origin, Spain. She is a Certified Womb Surround Process Workshop facilitator through Castellino training. She co-teaches Dr. Castellino's Foundation Training in Spain and in the US together with Ray Castellino and Mary Jackson.With her husband Lyn, she co-directs the non-profit organization Global Resource Alliance dedicated to the alleviation of poverty and disease by supporting communities in the Mara region of Tanzania.Mary Jackson, RN, LM, RCST has been a home birth midwife since 1975. She was one of the women who brought midwifery back to life in California in the '70's. Her work encompasses prenatal care, home birth, postpartum care and birth trauma resolution. She incorporates Craniosacral Therapy, Somatic Experiencing, Circle of Security and Castellino PPN training into her work as a midwife. She is one of the co-teachers of the Castellino Foundation Training and is a Certified Womb Surround Process Workshop Facilitator. Mary was an adjunct faculty member for eight years at the Santa Barbara Graduate Institute and has been the President of the BEBA clinic since 2003. Her focus is on assisting babies and parents to integrate the birth experience in order to strengthen their relationships. A national and international speaker, Mary strives to educate people around the world about birth and how it can impact their lives forever.Read the research project published by the Castellino Group, Supporting Families to Integrate Their Birth Experiences. See more about their practitioner training at Castellino Training. They have new trainings forming for this year and in 2025.
Freddy is an inspirational and transformational speaker, mentor, personal trainer, educator, author, and founder of The Love No Ego Foundation,lnc. rginia. Freddy's Love...No Ego philosophy serves as the foundation for pushing the human spirit into greatness. He helps clients to remove biases, fear, and judgement, while simultaneously igniting their intuition to produce monumental results! Approaching a decade of experience, Freddy has delivered powerful, engaging, and relevant presentations, mentored, consulted, and conducted workshops for individuals, teams, and organizations nationally and internationally. Freddy utilizes and demonstrates his pillars and principles to enable participants to grow and perform better than their everyday pressures and gain optimal performance, personally as well as professionally. His approach improves their overall awareness and sustainability, promotes self and team development, helps them to notice the ego and where the limitations are, and gets committed to living a life of resilency!Freddy currently lives in Charlottesville, Virginia with his wife of three years, Emily. He loves being a dedicated husband and bonus Dad to his step-son, Jaxson! EM: freddy@lovenoego.orgO: (434) 262-0442Watch this video:LOVE NO EGO: BE HUMAN!www.LoveNoEgo.org/donateLoveNoEgo | United States | The Love No Ego Foundation | Charlottesville, VirginiaSocial Media Links:LNE Facebook: LNE Instagram:Mr. Love...No Ego Mr. Love...No Ego (Instagram)LINKEDIN: LNE and MR. LNE
Olga is a prenatal psychologist, researcher, author of books, editor of collective authorship projects, Editor of the academic journal, designer of educational programmes in Prenatal Sciences, Professional Education Trainer of many successful educational courses in the field of prenatal psychology internationally. Olga created the Programme Health Promotion "WELCOME" for pregnant couples with a focus on the (unborn) baby. Her vision/ mission is to synthesize and organize the acquired knowledge in the field of Prenatal Sciences and bridge the Academia with the professionals in the field of Prenatal Psychology.She has done tremendous things in the world, including organizing the Prenatal Sciences Partnership International Congress and various research projects you can see at https://www.prenatalsciencespartnership.org/.She also is the mastermind and educator behind online education in prenatal and perinatal psychology at prenatalsciences.orgShe has edited books and articles, and is a joy to work with. See more at her websites.
Mara Tesler Stein, Psy.D., PMH-C is a clinical psychologist and EMDR consultant and trainer in Chicago and Jerusalem. She is the founder and director of The Touchstone Institute for Perinatal Training where she offers advanced EMDR trainings which take deep dives into the intersections and applications of EMDR and perinatal mental health. As Senior Faculty with the Institute for Creative Mindfulness, she also offers foundational EMDR trainings for perinatal specialists.Dr. Stein is a staunch advocate for trauma-focused care and is trained and certified in a range of integrative trauma therapies. Dr. Stein is also certified in Emotion-Focused Family and Couple Therapy, Brainspotting, and is a Gottman Certified Therapist, and continues to deepen her training in Clinical Hypnosis, Yoga-Informed treatment, Advanced applications of EMDR, and Ego-State therapies.She is the co-author (with Deborah Davis, Ph.D.) of Parenting Your Premature Baby and Child: The Emotional Journey (Fulcrum, 2004) and Intensive Parenting: Surviving the Journey Through the NICU (Fulcrum, 2013).Her trauma work is grounded in her personal perinatal journey, which began 27 years ago taking her through infertility, twin pregnancy, prolonged hospital bedrest, the NICU, and years of raising NICU graduates.You can find her at touchstoneinstitute.org and at mara@touchstoneinstitute.orgEMDR and Weaving Video:https://youtu.be/n85qHC_9XLA
Frank Carbone Is a Singer/Songwriter,and DJ from Queens, New York. He has been performing since 15 years old and is a dedicated practitioner and teacher in the field of somatic health and well-being for over 25 years. He has extensive training with Emilie Conrad and Susan Harper and is a 1st generation Continuum Teacher,and is a certified practitioner in Prenatal and Perinatal Somatic psychology and health (PPN). Frank has extensive training,and experience with Dr. Ray Castellino, a pioneer in the field of prenatal and birth trauma healing, and the developer of The Womb Surround Process Workshop. Frank lived almost a decade in Ojai California working at Ray's BEBA Clinic (Building and Enhancing Bonding and Attachment) as a Facilitator of families. Frank has assisted other leaders in the field, including Mary Jackson and Tara Blasco. He is currently assisting Anna and Elizabeth Chitty's Biodynamic Craniosacral Training in Boulder, Colorado.As a Continuum Teacher, and Gyrotonic instructor, Frank draws on the principles of fluidity, movement, breath, sound and tracking pleasurable sensations to facilitate healing and transformation in his own life as well as his students, and clients. He has a deep understanding of the connection between the body, mind, and spirit and believes in the power of somatic practices to promote greater awareness, vitality, and well-being.Frank is currently working and teaching in Queens NY at # Elements Healing Arts Center on Bayside NY.He is the lead singer and songwriter of WOOFWOOF and NY GrooveFrank is the creator of WombContinuum, a unique blend of Continuum movement therapy and womb surround work developed by Ray Castellino. In his small group workshops, Frank creates a safe and welcoming environment for participants to explore early imprinting, heal from prenatal and birth trauma, and discover more creative and pleasurable ways to play in "The Umbilical Field."Through his work, Frank is committed to helping individuals tap into their innate potential for healing and transformation. He believes that by reconnecting with our bodies and the wisdom of our earliest experiences, we can discover greater ease, joy, and meaning in our lives.
Jo Lloyd is the founder of mumabuba and has spent the last 20 years supporting women and babies through conception, pregnancy, birth, postnatally and breastfeeding. Her unique approach to support uses a combination of multiple therapies, including reflexology, bodywork, Cranial Sacral Therapy, Shiatsu and pre & perinatal somatic psychology, as well as her deep knowledge of lactation and breastfeeding, drawing on these different modalities to tailor the support to what the mother and baby needs.Jo is also the co-founder (with her husband) of the recently launched echos of birth community, a digital online community that brings together parents, birthing professionals and other pre and perinatal professionals around the common mission of transforming the way we support and experience birth in Australia and New Zealand through understanding implicit birth memories.The community is a fantastic blend of curated educational resources, mentoring and support to integrate new knowledge and skills into practice, on-line community meet-ups, knowledge sharing, regular articles and discussion topics and access to some of the leading experts from across the world.Jo is originally from the UK, she moved to Australia in 2009 and is now based in North Queensland. She is a mother to 3 children (aged 19, 15 and 6). She is an International Board Certified Lactation Consultant (IBCLC), and has held the roles of counsellor, community educator, trainer, assessor and assistant branch training manager for the Australian Breastfeeding Association. She has supported the Australian College of Midwives as a committee member and consumer reviewer of the Midwifery Practice Review and through the development of several online training courses as a member of the Professional Development Committee. She is a Certified Educator and Trainer with Childbirth And Parenting Educators of Australia (CAPEA) and has presented at numerous conferences.You can learn more about the echos of birth community here.https://echosofbirth.com/
Jerusha is a doula, and birth photographer & videographer based in Sydney. She trained as a doula in 2006 through Childbirth International, and has since worked extensively as a birth and postnatal doula in both London and Sydney.Jerusha found the beauty of birth so captivating that she soon trained in photography so she could capture the magic of what she was seeing with her doula clients, to provide lifelong visual memories of their birthing experience. She soon also moved in to videography, creating birth films for the women she supported. She photographs pregnancy, birth and families on a regular basis.Jerusha won the 2019 Postpartum category in the International Association of Professional Birth Photographers Competition, and was finalist in the 2019 Australian College of Midwives Birth Photography Competition.Her portraits of birthing women were exhibited in the Motherlove exhibition, both at the Creative Space Gallery in Curl Curl, and later the Royal Hospital for Women in 2019.Capturing and supporting births is her deep passion and hence the seed of creating a documentary for, and about birthing women was planted long ago.Jerusha is a proud volunteer member of Heartfelt, an organisation that gives the gift of photographic memories to families experiencing stillbirth, with premature babies or critically ill children.Jerusha also has a background in acting, gaining an Advanced Diploma in Stage and Screen Acting at ACTT in 2001. Since then she has worked as an actor, in casting and in film production. This experience both in front of, and behind the camera fed in to the creation of Birth Time: the documentary.Jerusha is a mother to a five year old fire cracker and a gorgeous baby girl.https://www.birthtime.world/https://jerusha.com.au/
I asked Nir Esterman to return for us to have a conversation about his shadow work. Our last conversation had several short explorations of several topics, so in this podcast, we had a longer conversation about how we can be better leaders, teachers and therapists.After 30 minutes, Nir asks a set of hard questions that are simple indicators that your shadow is in operation. They include:What is going on? Am I really myself now?Am I representing something for someone?Am I caught up in a dynamic?Am I becoming judgmental towards someone?Am I becoming superior?Do I feel repulsed by someone?Do I act differently toward this client and student than with other ones?Am I attracted to the student?Is there something in someone I like and I like in myself?I am asking these questionsNir Esterman (M.Sc), A teacher of Family Constellations and Embodied Shadow Work. The developer of the Shadow Constellations approach. A body psychotherapist (Grinberg method).Nir is a staff member in the Constellation Path school, the Systemic Trauma online University and Embodiment facilitator course Russia. Nir's teaching is focused on helping professionals to become deeper, safer and more successful. He works mainly with therapists, facilitators, coaches, practitioners and teachers.https://www.niresterman.com/Our previous discussion: https://www.patreon.com/posts/episode-53-nir-75605495
This episode features a conversation with two practitioners:Elisheva Rose Khalfin Elbaz, MSc, BCST, PLC, PPNE, PPNP (they/them): "My personal experience with pregnancy loss in my early twenties and my family lineages of healing practice inspired me to do this work. I started my practice in 2011, and I am a somatics practitioner, craniosacral therapist, full-spectrum doula, and facilitator. I am also a student of traditional Yehudi/Ivri healing practices. I work with parents, babies, and adults, healing trauma related to the perinatal period (preconception through postpartum) and childhood, intergenerational patterns, and supporting teens and adults in exploring gender and sexual identity. My academic background is in Narrative Medicine, and I used to teach clinical relational skills to medical students. I am Yehudi/Ivri and white European, with a mixed class background. I'm trans, queer, and neurodivergent. Witnessing the grave lack of embodied anti-racist education in perinatal psychology trainings, inspired me to co-create this project. I currently live on Lenni-Lenape land, in West Philadelphia, and grew up on Duwamish land, in Seattle, WA." See more about them at: elishevaelbaz.com Shanna M. Williams, LCSW, MEd, PMH-C (she/her) "My personal and professional experiences as an African American woman dealing with motherhood, mental health, trauma and resilience led me to develop my own business, S.W. Doula, in 2017. As the owner and lead practitioner, I provide integrative Perinatal wellness services, Lactation care, Clinical counseling and Professional consultation services to those at increased risk of negative emotional & physical health outcomes during pregnancy and the postpartum period. I also serve as an Adjunct Professor of Social work at Widener University, where I teach classes in Generalist Social Work Practice, Trauma Therapy and Family Therapy. Over the last 20 years or so, I have developed my experience in the fields of birthwork, sexuality education and counseling, diversity education, case management and psychotherapy. I am also a PhD Candidate at Widener University's Center for Social Work Education, where my research focuses on Black women, Maternal-infant health outcomes, pregnancy after loss and the impact of historical trauma. I serve as a member of several Perinatal focused community organizations, including Pettaway Pursuit Foundation and the Delaware County Breastfeeding Coalition. I currently reside in Delaware County, PA, but was born and raised in Wilmington, DE." myswdoula.comWe are talking about their new course: Birthing Wisdom: Caring for families and ourselves in the perinatal period.
Nir Esterman (M.Sc), A teacher of Family Constellations and Embodied Shadow Work. The developer of the Shadow Constellations approach. A body psychotherapist (Grinberg method). Nir is a staff member in the Constellation Path school, the Systemic Trauma online University and Embodiment facilitator course Russia. Nir's teaching is focused on helping professionals to become deeper, safer and more successful. He works mainly with therapists, facilitators, coaches, practitioners and teachers. Nir is doing a workshop on the Vanishing Twin, applying his unique approach to working with family constellations and the shadow material. I am in support of his approach, as there are not many places where you can go to work on that. The dates is December 10, 2022 and I hope there will be more. Here is the link to see: https://ourbirthjourney.com/page/the-vanishing-twin-workshop/ Everyone that will attend our experiential VANISHING TWIN WORKSHOP this Saturday 10th December with Nir Esterman , will receive a continued 50% discount on Kate White online course: Twin Dynamics and The Baby's Experience A Prenatal and Perinatal Somatic Approach - 6 Recordings with Experts in Twin Loss Dynamics from a Prenatal and Perinatal Somatic Perspective - All Presentations 75-90 Minutes - Panel Discussion at the End We feel like that twin loss is a dynamic that affects many more people than is currently understood, with wider affects that are in current awareness, and we really want to support the exploration and healing of this early trauma.
Adrienne Griffen is the Executive Director of the Maternal Mental Health Leadership Alliance and she is an advocate and subject-matter expert in maternal mental health. Prior to joining MMHLA, Adrienne founded Postpartum Support Virginia and served as executive director for 10 years, establishing a statewide network of peer-led support groups, creating educational programs for mental health providers and maternal-child healthcare professionals, and helping pass legislation requiring information about postpartum depression and anxiety be provided to new mothers. Adrienne graduated from the United States Naval Academy and has a master's in Public Policy from Harvard's Kennedy School of Government. Adrienne and her family live in Arlington VA.Website: http://www.mmhla.orgEmail Adrienne at agriffen@mmhla.org.Listen to this riveting interview about maternal mental health in our country.
Carey Benenson Taussig is teaching a NEW course in our online school: Releasing the Shock to the Waters: A Biodynamic Visceral Course for Long Haul Syndromes.A 50 hour online seminar, 4 three-day modulesTimes: 7 am PST, 10 am EST, 3 pm UK, 4 pm European time zoneAll Courses 15 hours over 3 days, 5 Hours min each day, every 5/6 weeks online onlyFebruary 3, 4, 5, 2023March 17, 18, 19, 2023April 28, 29, 30, 2023June 2, 3, 4, 2023https://prenatal-and-perinatal-healin...About the Course: Dr. Andrew Taylor Still, the founder of Osteopathy in 1905 wrote about how diseases such as Diphtheria acted as a sort of shock to the waters in the body which disrupted nerve conduction therefore "tapping off the lymph" and creating fermentation and heat in the system around the organs. Carey Benenson Taussig D.O.(M.P.) a traditionally trained manual Osteopath teaches about how to guide relief to the system as she teaches how to apply biodynamic visceral manipulation techniques and meditative palpation acknowledging the "in-between" spaces between the organs where this bubbling fermentation may be calling for attention. This heat may trigger a continuous over-reactivity of the immune system and slug momentum to the lymphatic system which ultimately disrupts the endocrine system creating often an inflammatory spin.In her teachings, Carey connects with the potency of nature and often refers to the lymphatic system of the forest and the frequency of the bees. As outlined in her article from Massage Magazine, she also teaches students within their scope of practice on how to work with clients both online and in-person as sometimes clients may be in isolation for medical reasons. Offering technique videos and recorded meditations that also help the practitioner support their clientele, this is a four course program that also taps into her work that she did in her specialized studies on Lyme disease that she completed in 2014 which has then grown with her own clinical and meditative work that she has done over the past 8 years.Four Phases will be discussed and outlined in the four courses:The Recognition and Unwinding of the PredispositionThe Moment of Impact and the Reactivity of the MechanismThe Dehydration and Call for Restoration Phase of DiseaseThe Rebuild and Pathway of Care According to the Individual Hive Mind PhilosophyThe Fee is $495 per class, paid for over 4 months. We have a coupon for $50 off the first course for you: https://prenatal-and-perinatal-healin...The Coupon is SALE50 if you find yourself in the online school. Just click the link above for more information too. And here is a short interview with Carey: https://youtu.be/0CgjJJKNBbU
Today on the show I have Dr. Jennifer Franklin. We met several years ago as we were studying the stress and threat responses of the nervous system. Please listen to this fascinating conversation about the psycho-physiology of digestive disorders, especially how we need to cultivate more parasympathetic experiences for ourselves in our lives. We NEED this!One of the first “gastropsychologists” in the US, Dr. Franklin is an experiential, somatically-oriented, mindfulness-based psychologist, specializing in the treatment of Psychophysiologic Disorders (PPD), especially digestive PPD. Dr. Franklin began her career on the heels of having suffered greatly herself from digestive PPD. A year of psychotherapy as a teenager kick-started her healing process and made her acutely aware of the powerful relationship between mind and body, and then over the course of graduate school, she recovered completely. For over two decades, Dr. Franklin has been providing psychotherapy, teletherapy, and consultation to individuals, couples, and families. She has taught Vipassana and mindfulness meditation, served as an associate editor for the Journal of Humanistic Psychology, given talks on the brain-gut connection and healing the gut, and started a website and YouTube channel to offer patients and health-care providers valuable information about how to promote healing. To learn more, visit donthateyourguts.com.
This is a deeper dive in to the dynamics around preventing and healing birth trauma with Kate White and Abi Blakeslee. They are teaching together in November, 2022https://prenatal-and-perinatal-healing-online-learning.teachable.com/p/advanced-somatic-resolution-skills-for-perinatal-traumaYou will hear:4:40 KateWhat is the role of the autonomous nervous system and the physiology of stress and threat response before, during and after birth?Layers of experience: trauma before birth, how they are with themselves and familiesFear of hospitals & doctors, idea of how the birth “should” go, after birth - feeling safe in the body after, to “open”Abi: Help providers catch cues to help them recognize what mother/family is going through.How the birth does not necessarily follow even the best “birth plan”Teaching to check inside, feelings, physical feelings. Notice temp. Flow, vibration - the language of the ANS. 9:1012:00 Kate: Dream of supporting families with this model of care: 12:00Training to support. Caregivers developing relationship w/ ANS help them feel the rhythms in the babies and people they care for.15:25Kate start this relationship w/ baby in pregnancy17:15Abi - Name the states we feel 19:50 Abi - understanding the baby's experienceWays baby respond to your rhythms - movement - getting to know each other21:35Kate Impact of Birth Trauma28:00Kate - Acknowledgement of experienceAffirm experience, how the nervous system protects us, repair laterAbi - Checking in with body when being acknowledged, or when feeling remnants of birth experience so we can leave it in the past13:50Kate - empower practitioner to understand so they can affirm the experience 33:52 Ending and final wordsDr. Abi Blakeslee, SEP, CMT, MFT, Ph.D., integrates Somatic Experiencing with clinical research, the psychobiological principles of attachment, psychodynamic therapy, and somatic bodywork in her practice and teaching. She has conducted original research on the role of implicit memory in Somatic Experiencing with a committee that included Dr. Daniel Siegel.Dr. Blakeslee holds a Masters of Arts in Counseling and Depth Psychology, and a Ph.D. in Clinical and Somatic Psychology. She is interested in the intersection between neuroscience, current trauma research, and the psychobiological principles of Somatic Experiencing.She works with individuals, couples, children, and families and treats a broad base of issues.Dr. Blakeslee currently resides in Bozeman, MT with her husband, two young boys, and a young daughter. She focuses on providing faculty-level individual and group consultations to all levels of Somatic Experiencing students, teaching SE trainings and somatic workshops, and presenting at professional conferences.If you would like to be informed about Dr. Blakeslee's upcoming professional workshops, Somatic Experiencing Trainings, conference presentations, or webinars, please fill in your contact information below.Abi's Websites:https://www.abiblakeslee.com/https://traumahealing.org/https://www.somaticexperiencing.com/
Amber Price DNP CNM. CEO and President, Sentara Williamsburg Regional Medical Center Dr. Price received a Bachelor in Behavioral Science from the University of Maryland, followed by a Bachelor of Science in Nursing from Old Dominion University. She completed her graduate degree at the University of Cincinnati, graduating with a Master of Nursing in Midwifery, and a post-Masters certificate in Global Women's Health. She received her Executive Doctorate in Nursing from The Johns Hopkins University, with a research focus on Change Leadership. Dr. Price served as President of the American College of Nurse-Midwives in Virginia, and serves as a board member for the March of Dimes and Ronald McDonald House, as well as on state maternal mortality and perinatal quality boards. She was nominated for Birth Advocate of the Year in 2015 and for Global Women's Health leader in 2018. In 2017, she won the prestigious Monarch Award for Innovation in Nursing. Originally from Holland, Dr. Price trained in New Zealand, and has worked in women's and children's health clinically and as an administrator for more than 30 years. Dr. Price currently serves as the Chief Executive Officer and President, Sentara Williamsburg Regional Medical Center. In 2020, she was named a ‘Woman to Watch' by Nashville Medical News. Dr. Price is a regular speaker on respectful maternity care, and has published numerous articles, as well as a recent book chapter on Women's Voice in maternal health. Her passion and expertise surrounding consent, and her unique perspective as a Nurse-Midwife and hospital administrator make her an expert on the patient experience for women of childbearing age. Dr. Price works within her corporation and with other organizations on a state and national level to improve outcomes for women and children, and to increase access to respectful woman-centered care. Books Dr. Price is an accomplished speaker and has a chapter on "Finding Your Voice" in the new book "Nobody Told Me About That". For more information and to purchase a copy go to: http://nobodytoldmeaboutthat.com She is presenting in Birth Trauma and the Professional: Care for the Staff on September 21, 2022 at noon Eastern time on The Impact of Secondary and Personal Trauma on Respectful Maternity Care. You can see more about this series at:https://prenatal-and-perinatal-healing-online-learning.teachable.com/p/birth-trauma-and-the-professional-care-for-the-staff
Dr. Abi Blakeslee, SEP, CMT, MFT, Ph.D., integrates Somatic Experiencing with clinical research, the psychobiological principles of attachment, psychodynamic therapy, and somatic bodywork in her practice and teaching. She has conducted original research on the role of implicit memory in Somatic Experiencing with a committee that included Dr. Daniel Siegel.Dr. Blakeslee holds a Masters of Arts in Counseling and Depth Psychology, and a Ph.D. in Clinical and Somatic Psychology. She is interested in the intersection between neuroscience, current trauma research, and the psychobiological principles of Somatic Experiencing.She works with individuals, couples, children, and families and treats a broad base of issues.Dr. Blakeslee currently resides in Bozeman, MT with her husband, two young boys, and a young daughter. She focuses on providing faculty-level individual and group consultations to all levels of Somatic Experiencing students, teaching SE trainings and somatic workshops, and presenting at professional conferences.If you would like to be informed about Dr. Blakeslee's upcoming professional workshops, Somatic Experiencing Trainings, conference presentations, or webinars, please fill in your contact information below.Abi's Websites:https://www.abiblakeslee.com/https://traumahealing.org/https://www.somaticexperiencing.com/We are teaching together in November, 2022https://prenatal-and-perinatal-healing-online-learning.teachable.com/p/advanced-somatic-resolution-skills-for-perinatal-trauma
In this podcast, Krysta and I talk shop. We talk about working with birthing parents, families and professionals, and the need to provide trauma-informed care. This approach will help prevent and treat birth trauma on every level, from hospital management to helping families thrive.Krysta is a holistic licensed trauma therapist with almost 20 years of experience in the fields of psychology, trauma and birth. She is the founder and CEO of Dancy Perinatal Counseling - a nation-wide mental health support system for pregnancy and postpartum. From her lens as both a birth and mental health professional, Krysta holds great optimism and warmth for each person in the birth room. Her work and passion is to see trauma-informed medical care become the norm, and to see providers and patients thrive in clinical care. In her office she treats both patients and professionals for a variety of birth and trauma related concerns. (CA MFT #48506)Find more CEU workshop information www.bit.ly/krystasclassFor her online counseling agency www.DancyPerinatal.comFor classes for familiesFor online support groupsSocial LinksDancy Perinatal IGDancy Perinatal FacebookKrysta IGKrysta FacebookFacebook support group for birth trauma: “Birth Trauma Support Group”Facebook support group for birth and mental health professionals: “Birth and trauma professional support”
Jenni Alpert (Cami) - Singer, songwriter, guitarist, and pianist Jenni Alpert (Birth name: Cameron, Cami) was born in Los Angeles, CA and adopted out of the foster care system at the age of four. She started to sing and play piano while staying in various foster homes. With the encouragement and support of her adoptive family, she learned to play the guitar as well and began writing and record songs early. With her honest rich songwriting and soothing musical melodies, songstress Jenni Alpert's haunting, powerful, and sultry voice has gained the respect of fans and music tastemakers worldwide. Her emotionally driven songs weave a unique web of eclectic Soul-Americana Pop. As familiar with jazz and Americana as she is pop, Alpert graduated from UCLA in the Ethnomusicology Department after completing a four-year jazz program headed by Kenny Burrell. No stranger to the recording studio, Alpert has released 8 albums and has independently toured over 14 countries with regularity. Upon reuniting with her biological father who was homeless, addicted, and running from the law at the time, yet a musician just like her, a film team decided to make a short documentary entitled Homeless: the Soundtrack directed by Oscar-nominated, Peabody and Emmy Award winning documentary film director Irene Taylor Brodsky, produced by Steve and Paula Mae Schwartz about the early stages that unfold the journey of their biological reunion capturing the unique bond they share. The two performed to share their biological reunion adventures and on creative approaches towards transformation in story and song together alongside supporting the film as a duo under the name Cami and Don,The Biological Duo until his passing. Currently Jenni Alpert (Cami) continues to join a range of non profits and organizations that focus on adoption, foster care, the Adoption Constellation, and homelessness as keynote speaker and performer in support of education and healing.Don's Take: who we are, our reunion story, and my birth father Don's Take on adoption and biological reunions, and homelessness.https://youtu.be/OhIXUk5BaFoMemoir on Amazon: Home is Where the Heart is An Adoption and Biological Reunion Story - Home is Where the Heart is, An Adoption and Biological Reunion Story: A MemoirRelinquishment, Separation, Adoption and the Baby's Experiencehttps://prenatal-and-perinatal-healing-online-learning.teachable.com/p/adoption-and-the-baby-s-experience
Karen Fraser-Morris is a writer and teacher. She has her Master's in Fine Arts in creative writing and publications include a young adult book titled Girls Who Write. She has spent most of her career teaching at a Waldorf school in her hometown, Charlottesville, Virginia where she lives with her husband, daughter, and step-son.This podcast is about Karen's remarkable book, The Year of Cosette. It is the story of the premature birth of her daughter, the time she spent in the NICU, how she transitioned home, and more. The book is available as a pdf here. Please download, read and share. Recording of Karen Fraser-Morris reading from her book is also attached. Please go to the patreon page for a pdf form of the book and to listen to Karen reading from her book. https://www.patreon.com/posts/60910549
Teaching parents to massage their babies is incredibly important. Meet Linda Storm. Linda Storm has dedicated her career to supporting parents and infants. In search for the answer of why children have behavior problems Linda found infant massage and became a Certified Educator of Infant Massage (CEIM). She quickly saw that more CEIMs were needed in the country to support parents. In 2002, she became a trainer with the International Association of Infant Massage (IAIM) and is now a Trainer Consultant to support the education of new Trainers. In 2005, she helped form Infant Massage USA and was the Executive Director for 8 years. Linda is still very active with the IMUSA Board and other project. She co-authored the Sensational Baby program provided through IMUSA. To promote the many benefits of infant massage Linda has spoken at numerous state and national conferences and written articles for magazines and professional journals.To learn more see: https://www.infantmassageusa.org/
Becky Zal-Sanchez, LCSW is a clinical therapist and passionate advocate for children's mental health. She has over a decade's worth of experience supporting youth within the systems of child welfare, foster care, juvenile justice, schools, community mental health, and developmental disabilities. Becky has successfully collaborated with the National Association of Social Workers (NASW) and the Colorado Legislature to write and pass several laws regarding the emotional wellbeing of children. Becky may be reached at www.intamentalhealth.com.
About Michael TroutMichael Trout graduated from Alma College (B.A., cum laude, honors in Philosophy) and Central Michigan University (M.A., Psychology), and did his specialized training in infant psychiatry at the Child Development Project, University of Michigan Department of Psychiatry, under Prof. Selma Fraiberg.In the mental health field since 1968 and in private practice since 1979, Mr. Trout has, since 1986 directed The Infant-Parent Institute, which engaged in research, clinical practice and clinical training related to problems of attachment.He was the founding president of both the Michigan and the International Associations for Infant Mental Health; was on the charter Editorial Board of the Infant Mental Health Journal; served as regional vice-president for the United States for the World Association for Infant Mental Health; and served on the board of directors (and as editor of the newsletter) for APPPAH — the Association for Pre- & Perinatal Psychology and Health. In 1984 he won the Selma Fraiberg Award for “ . . . significant contributions to the needs of infants and their families.” For more information see his website: https://www.infant-parent.com/About Rebecca Molitor, LCPC, Prenatal Bonding (BA) FacilitatorRebecca Molitor considers herself fortunate to do what she is most passionate about…partnering with individuals and families. Her career started with family preservation programs before starting Compassionate Growth Counseling in 2000. With over 25 years of experience as a counselor in infant mental health, attachment, trauma, and mindfulness, Rebecca frequently provides training and consultative services within Illinois, nationally and internationally. More recently, Rebecca is a certified Prenatal Bonding (BA) Facilitator and U.S. trainer-in-training, as well as exploring the world of writing haiku.Rebecca's website: https://www.compassionategrowth.net/Their presentation on February 1, 2022Supporting Connection Between First Mothers and Their Unborns as an Antidote to DissociationHow does a first mother prepare to release her soon-to-be-adopted baby into the arms of another? Has it been naïve (or even co-conspiratorial) of us to imagine that she has no mental life of consequence, or that her mental life is of no relevance to the developing child within? Based on a growing literature linking trauma and dissociation, this workshop will consider the possibility that dissociation is sometimes used by first mothers as a defense against impending separation and loss. Further, we will consider whether such dissociation is perceived by the baby both prenatally and at the time of birth. Finally, we will propose that the baby may mimic his first mother's emotional withdrawal, with implications not only for the attachment with adoptive parent(s), but also for the baby's optimal development. Could a strategy for enhancing connection between mother and prenate reduce dissociation in both parties, and set the stage for more affective vibrancy in the newborn, who is then perceived as more accessible by the adoptive parent(s)?https://prenatal-and-perinatal-healing-online-learning.teachable.com/p/adoption-and-the-baby-s-experiencePrenatal Bonding (BA) and the work of Gerhard Schroth: https://www.schroth-apv.com/PrenatalBondingBA.htmlAnother Podcast with Gerhard SchrothBook by Michael Trout: Audio Book through the Michigan Infant Mental Health AssociationHardcover
Karen Doyle Buckwalter is one of The Knowledge Center's most requested speakers. She is known for captivating audiences with her passion and energy. Some of her most popular workshops are Engaging Parents in Child Therapy, Clinical Application of the Adult Attachment Interview and Working with Adoption Issues in Therapy. Karen is also a Theraplay® Trainer and Supervisor as well as a Registered Play Therapy Supervisor. She provides consultation to both individual and organizations both nationally and internationally related to attachment and trauma issues in clinical work.Karen hosts the Attachment Theory in Action podcast, which has had over 400,000, downloads. She has interviewed many well-known researchers and clinicians in the field of attachment including Daniel Siegel, Bob Marvin, Howard and Miriam Steele and Stan Tatkin. She also hosts the Attachment-Based Therapist Facebook group comprised of over 10,000 members from 100 countries. Karen is a published author having most recently co-authored Raising the Challenging Child. She's written for specialty magazines such as Adoption Today as well as contributed to peer-reviewed journals. She's been interviewed by numerous radio stations, newspapers and podcasts. Outside of work you will find her hiking in the Blue Ridge Mountains.Attachment Theory in Action Podcast Raising the Challenging Child Chaddock In this podcast we explore attachment and Theraplay, the Adult Attachment Interview, working as a therapist with Theraplay and so much more. Enjoy!What She Shares:Stories of working with adoption issues using different therapeutic modelsClinical applications of the Adult Attachment InterviewThe evolution of Attachment TheoryThe difference between child-centered, non-directive therapy models and attachment-based, directive therapy modelsWho influenced her along the way: Michael Trout, Phyllis Booth, Sandra Lindaman, Miriam SteeleParenting insights you can gain from her most recent books
Kimberly is a Sexological Bodyworker, Somatic Experiencing trauma resolution practitioner, yoga teacher, postpartum advocate, birth doula, and single mom. She is the author of Call of the Wild: How We Heal Trauma, Awaken Our Own Power and Use It for Good as well as the early mothering classic, The Fourth Trimester: A Postpartum Guide to Healing Your Body, Balancing Your Emotions and Restoring Your Vitality, The Fourth Trimester Cards, and The Fourth Trimester Journal. For a decade, she has been helping women heal from birth injuries, gynecological challenges and sexual boundary ruptures. She is the creator of Activate Your Inner Jaguar, an online course ushering thousands of women into their full voices and sexual expression and the host of the Sex Birth Trauma podcast.See more about Kimberly at: www.kimberlyannjohnson.comShe did a podcast with me last year that really helped many people understand the impact of difficult births and how to heal them. She works hard to help women through her podcast and online courses, and her Book Call of The Wild (my review) is a game changer for women to understand their nervous system responses. She is joining me at the upcoming Birth in Pieces event.
Molly Caro May is an author, teacher, and writing coach. For over 12 years, she has facilitated personal story workshops for hundreds of women across the country and, recently, online. Her focus is voice and where language meets the animal body. Her memoir, Body Full of Stars: Female Rage and My Passage Into Motherhood, was named a “searingly eloquent memoir” and led to her TEDx talk about modern female rage. She has coached postpartum storytellers for the stage and is at the end of her third and final year of Somatic Experiencing trauma resolution training. Her mission is to democratize expression, work with story as a healing tool and explore the powerful intersection of narrative and nervous system. After a childhood spent in five countries, she now lives in Montana with her husband and their two children. You can read more about her work at mollycaromay.com
Kristin Sipley is a somatic wellness consultant, facilitator, educator, and mentor who assists individuals, couples, families, groups, and other professionals across the globe to connect with the wisdom and health within themselves and the field around us. Her integrative, holistic approach recognizes the inherent intelligence and health that supports each of us and combines aspects from her training in pre- and perinatal (PPN) somatic health, parent-infant mental health, lifespan development, trauma integration, Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy, Polarity Therapy, Reiki, and adult education. Kristin is an approved Castellino Womb Surround Process Workshop Facilitator and Supervisor, as well as contributes to various PPN and bodywork trainings throughout the US and Canada.Eileen's work is based in the recognition that our body is more than muscles, connective tissue, bones and organs. We exist in many layers of physical anatomy, mind, emotions, subtle energy; even further, in connection to living family, our deceased ancestors, local community and nation; and, finally, in relationship with nature, the planet, as a drop in the ocean of totality of existence, in whichever way each of us connects with essence, spirit or intelligence of life.She recognizes that each individual has an inner guidance system to their own optimal health; so in a very practical, commonsense way she supports each client by listening receptively to what is needed in each individual session. Through a wide variety of training and practical experience working with clients she continues to gain deeper understanding of the balance needed between stability/strength, fluidity/flexibility and clarity/understanding to support a direction toward health.She has worked for 26 years as a practitioner and teacher in the holistic health field with bodywork, yoga, Breema® Bodywork and Self-Breema; She is now focusing on Pre-and Peri-Natal Education and Health, Craniosacral Therapy and am a Certified Womb Surround Process Workshop Leader. For 30 years She has been a leader in many communities -- facilitating communication and transformation toward health within the organizations. The direction of my work is connecting, in health, families with each other and the larger community.In my practice she works with adults, individually and in groups and families with babies, children and teens. To support connected families she offers classes for parents and professionals (teachers and in the health field) in person and on-line. The intention of the work is to restore connection to individual health as well as the thriving of the family system. Her work is very attuned to the wants and needs of each particular individual and family. She endeavors to create a safe non-judgmental space where adults and children can feel the “welcome” we all want and deserve from the start. Together we help transform challenges to more resilience, connection and mutual support and cooperation.https://www.eileensendrey.com/
Nancy Greenfield, Ph.D., has been passionately and successfully helping children, families, individuals and couples, since 1998, uncover and transform the deep, invisible core patterns that cause their struggles and pains.She has both a Masters and Ph.D. in clinical psychology, with specialties in Pre and Perinatal Somatic Psychology and Trauma. She is an educator, a certified facilitator of Identity Development; a Vanishing Twin expert; a Family Constellation facilitator with special training in couples work and systemic medicine; a past adjunct professor teaching therapeutic skills at the graduate level; a training supervisor; and a registered Biodynamic Craniosacral therapist.She presents a case study in our online program: Twin Dynamics and The Baby's Experience in the online school: Prenatal and Perinatal Healing Online. Of this case, she says:In 2000, I worked with a 3-year-old little boy who was suffering from a series of restrictive behaviors and who was diagnosed by his chiropractor as suffering from a Vanishing Twin loss. We did 19 therapy sessions together that were all videotaped; and during that process he told the story of his twin loss and freed himself from the pain that he was carrying. My talk will be about those sessions and his courageous journey. His story became the subject of my Ph.D. dissertation in 2007.Her dissertation is a description of her work and this case study. We have attached it for you if you wish to see it.
Dr. Emerson is a pre- and peri-natal psychologist, a renowned workshop leader, writer, lecturer, and pioneer in the field of pre and perinatal psychology. He is Emeritus President of APPPAH, the US educational corporation representing professionals, para-professionals, and consumers in birth psychology. Dr. Emerson is a world pioneer in developing and implementing treatment methods for infants and children, and a renowned expert in treatment for adults. He is the author of five self-published books, 15 published chapters and 20 video training programs, only available to trainees. He holds graduate degrees from Vanderbilt and San Jose State Universities, graduating with honors. He has held university appointments as Honorary Faculty, Director of Clinical Training, International Lecturer, and Assistant Professor of Psychology. As an acknowledgment of his contributions to psychology, he received an honorary fellowship from the US National Science Foundation. Dr. Emerson practiced psychotherapy for 25 years, specializing in regression therapy, and lectured domestically and internationally on these topics. Dr. Emerson is is currently conducting training seminars, personal workshops, and finishing a book on trauma caused by the maternity care system as well as conducting training programs in the U.S., and Europe.In terms of treatment protocols, he is widely known for his innovative and pioneering treatment of trauma in unborn and newly born babies, and in children. He first published articles on infant and child treatment in the APPPAH journal in 1989, volume 3, issue 3, and in the IPA primal therapy journal (Aesthema) in 1987, issue 7. After researching infant treatment methods for decades, he subsequently researched applications to the adult trauma population, and discovered increased efficiency and success with adult patients. He found that adult patients who completed birth trauma protocols once a week for six months, reduced their psychotherapy completion rate by 3.2 years. In other words, resolving pre and perinatal trauma greatly reduced the need for psychotherapy, and also improved its efficacy when patients engaged in psychotherapy.Our twin dynamics series is in October. You can see more here: https://prenatal-and-perinatal-healing-online-learning.teachable.com/p/twin-dynamics-and-the-baby-s-experience/?preview=logged_out
Olga Waters is the Facebook administrator for the Womb Twin organization, and hosts Womb Twin Chat. She has been a member of Womb Twin since 2009, and has facilitated the Healing Path Ritual at the annual Womb Twin conference in London in 2011 at the request of Althea Hayton. She founded the Womb Twin Dublin Survivors Facebook page in 2013. In 2014 Olga became the Ireland representative, additionally offering free professional development for therapists new to this field. In that same year and in 2015 she organised the Womb Twin conference in Dublin, the proceeds of which went to the Womb Twin organization.Olga facilitates Womb Twin workshops and is a life and soul coach. She also facilitates family constellations using dolls which is a very powerful way of working with womb twin survivors. Olga's interests are theatre, music, and travel. Olga is also a womb twin one of three (triplets) a co – joined sister (Amy) & brother (Rory) a pair and a spare. Olga's son is a womb twin.Please listen to our conversation about our mutual passion, Womb Twin Dynamics. Not many people seek our Womb Twin healing at first. They often come to the dynamic after listening to what people who study early dynamics might say about their dynamics and patterns. Olga has years of experience.
Renee is a world citizen with Scandinavian ancestry, she grew up in a remote village in the highlands of Papua New Guinea and now lives in the Unceeded St'at'mic Territory in British Columbia. Renee has a life-long passion of exploring the food preparation rituals of everyone she meets and began her ‘official' studies into human physiology and culture 30 years ago, studying the craniums of our ancient hominid ancestors. Renee has a BA in Physical and Social Anthropology, is a classically trained Chef, Biodynamic Craniosacral therapist, Nutritionist and is also trained in Pre and Perinatal Psychology. More recently Renee studied Indigenous Tools for Living (ITFL) with Shirley Turcotte, founder of Aboriginal Focusing-Oriented Therapy. Renee's current passion is decolonizing the fields of PPN and BCST by exploring languaging and through land-based Womb Surrounds and individual sessions. More info: www.lumennatura.comWe both studied with Myrna Martin Prenatal and Perinatal Educator Program
Darcia Narvaez, Professor Emerita of Psychology, University of Notre Dame, researches moral development and human flourishing from an interdisciplinary perspective, integrating anthropology, neuroscience, clinical, developmental and educational sciences. Her earlier careers include professional musician, business owner, classroom music teacher, classroom Spanish teacher and seminarian, among other things. She grew up as a bilingual/bicultural Puerto Rican but calls the earth her home. Dr. Narvaez's current research explores how early life experience influences wellbeing and moral character in children and adults. She is a fellow of the American Psychological Association and the American Educational Research Association and former editor of the Journal of Moral Education. She is on the advisory boards of Attachment Parenting International, Kindred, Your Whole Baby, and the Self Reg Institute. She has numerous publications, including more than 20 books such as Indigenous Sustainable Wisdom: First Nation Know-how for Global Flourishing; Basic Needs, Wellbeing and Morality: Fulfilling Human Potential and Embodied Morality: Protectionism, Engagement and Imagination. A recent book, Neurobiology and the Development of Human Morality: Evolution, Culture and Wisdom won the 2015 William James Book Award from the American Psychological Association and the 2017 Expanded Reason Award. She blogs for Psychology Today (“Moral Landscapes”) and hosts the webpage EvolvedNest.org.See Also Kindred World at https://kindredworld.org/Her new short movie: Break the CycleMoral Landscapes Blog
Veronique was an Assistant Professor of Family Medicine and Obstetrics at the New Hampshire-Dartmouth Family Practice Residency program before changing careers to retrain as a Somatic Therapist at Naropa University. She integrates findings from diverse fields of research into a new paradigm for making sense of chronic illness. This paradigm is informed by training in pre and perinatal psychology with Myrna Martin, training as a Somatic Experiencing Practitioner (SEP), exploration through personal, developmental, relational and other trauma work to understand her asthma and disabling chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS), and testing the possibilities for healing and recovery from this new lens. Veronique is a speaker, teacher and writer who shares the science on her blog Chronic Illness Trauma Studies.com to support the need for trauma-informed care in medicine and beyond.ResourcesMore information on topics presented is available in a detailed and shorter summary of ABEs with access to free downloadables: ABEs fact sheet, ABEs Guide, journal article and a references. Blog posts offer more depth on asthma, chronic fatigue syndrome and type 2 diabetes. Support for working with chronic illness from trauma and nervous system perspectives can be found with my favorite 11 tools, as well as my list of books and therapies.
Christina is a Somatic Practitioner, Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapist, Birth Doula and Graduate of Ray Castellino's Foundation Training. She is the Creator of the Birth and Early imprint Healing Oracle. Christina's life calling is to support pathways of embodiment and healing. She loves using art & movement as a medium for healing trauma and connecting more deeply with the mystery of life. Over the last 15 years she has been supporting individuals, mothers, babies, and families in private practice as a Bodyworker, Birth Doula and Somatic Practitioner in California, Christina currently supports clients with remotes somatic healing sessions. To learn more about her work visit. Christina-Earthwater.comElan's life is dedicated to freeing himself and helping others free themselves from the unintended burden of familial, cultural, and ancestral trauma imprints. He believes it is your conception right to experience being in your body as an easeful, pleasurable and joyous experience. He has over a thousand hours of training in Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy and Polarity Therapy and has completed the Castellino Perinatal and Birth Therapy training twice. He is a Registered Somatic Movement Educator and an Authorized Continuum Movement Teacher. To learn more about his work visit: https://elanfreydenson.comThey are offering a course together in Prenatal and Perinatal Healing Online called Birth & Early Imprint Healing Oracle Series. This online workshop is inspired by the work of Ray Castellino and is themed around the Oracle Deck that Christina made, that is simply beautiful.This is going to be a beautiful experience, to be with these two as they help participants learn about the work of healing birth and early imprints, and about themselves.Register for their workshop here: https://prenatal-and-perinatal-healing-online-learning.teachable.com/p/birth-early-imprint-healing-oracle-series/?preview=logged_out
Jonathan graduated from the British College of Osteopathy and Naturopathy with a 1st Class honours in Osteopathic Medicine and a Diploma in Naturopathy. Since then he has practised as an osteopath in New Zealand and Australia working in both rural and metropolitan clinics.His teaching experience began in New Zealand both through mentoring associates and through teaching on the osteopath program at UNITEC in Auckland during 2005 and 2006.Then In 2008 he was invited to join the Faculty of the SCTF of Australia and New Zealand, and he has taught on several of their courses, and in 2016 he was elected and served on the board of the SCTF.In 2009 he moved to Australia and spent 4 years as a lead clinic supervisor on the Osteopathy Masters program at SCU.Also in 2009 he opened his own clinic ION Osteopaths and at that clinic he has mentored 7 osteopaths from their fledging 1st steps from graduation through to successful thriving patient lists.In 2015 he opened Academy of Master Mechanics in order to teach his own syllabus of attendance courses, and the success of those teaching led to the foundation of Kindred Academy in 2016 in order to make those teachings available worldwide.See his online teachings at kindredbe.com
Carey Benenson Taussig D.O. (IT) is an Osteopathic practitioner, professor, and certified graduate of Boston University and the College d'Etudes Osteopathique (CAN.) Teaching and working both in Italy and in the U.S., she is also an affiliate of the of the national Italian society ROI (Registro degli Osteopati d'Italia.) She first made her mark as an educator when her biodynamic visceral manipulation program was featured by Bastyr University in 2016. At that time, she was also published in the National Publication, Massage Magazine, and was recognized for creating a synergetic fusion between the biodynamics and the traditional philosophies originally established by the late 19th century bone setters and grandfathers of Osteopathy and visceral manipulation including the Founder, Dr. Andrew Taylor Still as well as Dr. Barber and more.In her teachings she brings in the component of asking the viscera which body the strain is imprinted upon within the three bodies. This three-body concept was originally recognized in traditional Osteopathic teachings where it is taught that we have three bodies: the structural body, fluidic body, and electromagnetic body. She teaches also about the space inbetween the bodies where we can journey beyond the matter to invite or be invited to dialogue with matter in different phases of life and development. This often allows opportunity to shed the ancestral strains that can be translated through the generations through the ground matter and through the grid of the DNA.Having also a science background, Carey helps the student keep their feet rooted in the anatomy offering the possibility to experience the liquid state of the continuum and the constant of energy in her teachings. With this, she stays footed in the anatomy and in her classes, she outlines the influence of the artery, capsule, tissue, scar tissue, vessels and nerves that can have a primary influence on the functionality of the organ (dense) or viscera (hollow organ.) The matter and the position of the structures count in their functionality potential.At the same time, Carey refers often to the poetry in nature as a way to mirror in a true reference point to maintain the fulcrum without exhaust. She acknowledges the power of the visceral spine being more influential at times then the vertebral spine and lectures on the resonance potential of certain key point structures to maintain the tidal patterns of homeostasis.Carey is highly intuitive, studied also with grand master physicians and practitioners worldwide and has studied extensively with the Native American Church. She is known for her extensive work with some of the most complicated cases involving the brain and nervous system, the heart, autoimmune disorders, chronic and acute pain as well as her extensive understanding and experience in.She is teaching in the online classroom:Asking the Viscera: An Introduction to Biodynamic Visceral Manipulation The Three Bodies: The Full Spectrum of Visceral Manipulation She owns Osteo in Florence, a private practice in Florence, Italy
Dr. Adré J. du Plessis, M.B.Ch.B., is a full-time attending in prenatal neurology, as well as the Director of the Prenatal Pediatrics Institute, Division Chief of Prenatal and Transitional Pediatrics, and Director of the Prenatal Brain Program at Children's National Hospital. In addition, Dr. du Plessis is a Professor of Pediatrics and Neurology at George Washington University School of Medicine.He is a leading international expert in the normal and abnormal development of the brain, as well as the mechanisms of injury to the immature brain. Under his leadership, the Prenatal Pediatrics Institute provides individualized and specialized care to patients during and after the baby's birth.Dr. du Plessis specializes in prenatal neurology, particularly fetal brain developmental anomalies and the advanced fetal imaging that is used to diagnose these conditions in early pregnancy. His career-long research focus has been on the nervous system of the fetus and newborn, the hazards and mechanisms of injury, and the potential prevention of insult to the brain.Fetal Brain Symposium: http://www.fetalbrainsymposium.com/Children's Hospital: https://childrensnational.org/visit/find-a-provider/adre-du-plessis
Dr. Marilyn R Sanders is a board-certified pediatrician and neonatologist who cares for critically ill babies, infants, and their families at the Connecticut Children's Medical Center Newborn Intensive Care Unit in Hartford, CT. Dr. Sanders did her pediatric residency at the University of Connecticut School of Medicine and her fellowship in Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine at Johns-Hopkins School of Medicine. She is a Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Connecticut School of Medicine. She also provides neurodevelopmental follow-up for babies and infants up to 3 years old. Her scholarly interest is providing trauma-informed care to hospitalized newborns, infants, young children, and their families. Her focus is the impact of the autonomic nervous system's sense of safety, danger, or life threat on our emotions and behavior. She lectures throughout the United States and Europe. She has authored papers and book chapters on trauma-informed care for young infants, children, and their families in the hospital setting. Dr Sanders is currently under book contract with WW Norton and Company. Her book, The Polyvagal Theory and the Developing Child, to be published in July 2021, discusses implications of the Polyvagal Theory, for the well-being and development of infants, children, and adolescents.
Dr. Price received a Bachelor in Behavioral Science from the University of Maryland, followed by a Bachelor of Science in Nursing from Old Dominion University. She completed her graduate degree at the University of Cincinnati, graduating with a Master of Nursing in Midwifery, and a post-Masters certificate in Global Women's Health. She received her Executive Doctorate in Nursing from The Johns Hopkins University, with a research focus on Change Leadership. Dr. Price served as President of the American College of Nurse-Midwives in Virginia, and serves as a board member for the March of Dimes and Ronald McDonald House, as well as on state maternal mortality and perinatal quality boards. She was nominated for Birth Advocate of the Year in 2015 and for Global Women's Health leader in 2018. In 2017, she won the prestigious Monarch Award for Innovation in Nursing.Originally from Holland, Dr. Price trained in New Zealand, and has worked in women's and children's health clinically and as an administrator for more than 30 years. Dr. Price currently serves as the Chief Operating Officer for the TriStar Centennial Women's Hospital, and for the Children's Hospital at TriStar Centennial in Nashville. This year, she was named a ‘2020 Woman to Watch' by Nashville Medical News.Dr. Price is a regular speaker on respectful maternity care, and has published numerous articles, as well as a recent book chapter on Women's Voice in maternal health. Her passion and expertise surrounding consent, and her unique perspective as a Nurse-Midwife and hospital administrator make her an expert on the patient experience for women of childbearing age. Dr. Price works within her corporation and with other organizations on a state and national level to improve outcomes for women and children, and to increase access to respectful woman-centered care.In this podcast, we discuss Dr. Price's weight loss journey. She has been able to go from a size 22 to a size 8, and has a goal of a BMI below 25. Once nearly 300 pounds, she has documented her weight loss journey on social media. She encourages people to reach out to her there, and to document their hikes to lose weight with #hikeitoff.
In 1990, Bob Lehnberg received his certification as Practitioner of Body-Mind Centering® (BMCsm) and in 2002 Teacher of Body-Mind Centering. Since then Bob has received teacher certifications for BMC Yoga, Integral Yoga and Supreme Science of Qigong. He has been teaching in schools of massage therapy and programs of somatic training since 1990 and has had the good fortune to teach BMC and somatic practices throughout the US and internationally in Europe, Canada, China, and Taiwan.Bob is a co-founder of Kinesthetic Learning Center in Durham, NC and has been on faculty teaching and coordinating the BMC Somatic Movement Educator (SME) and Practitioner certification programs since 2007. He is coordinator of SME courses for Esprit en Mouvement in Montreal, Canada and is Co-director of the SME program in Taitung, Taiwan.He is offering courses that bring together qigong and embryology, a time in healing earliest experiences that can be very fruitful. I wrote about this saying, Sometimes You Gotta Go Back To Go Forward, a saying that Bob shared with me from his teacher, Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen. The embryological movement sequences he teaches allow us to go back before the trauma and fully embody our whole selves. His healing work that combines energy, movement, ancient tradition and embryology is a wonderful mix that is healing and stimulating.
This podcast is an interview with therapists Paula Scatoloni and Rachel Lewis-Marlow and their specialty of working with eating disorders and trauma healing.Paula Scatoloni is a somatic-based psychotherapist, Certified Eating Disorders Specialist, and Somatic Experiencing™ practitioner in Chapel Hill, NC. She has worked in the field of eating disorders for over two decades. Paula served as the Eating Disorder Coordinator at Duke University CAPS for nine years and has taught extensively on the etiology and treatment of eating disorders through workshops, professional trainings, and conferences. She co-developed the first intensive outpatient program for eating disorders in the U.S with Dr. Anita Johnston. Paula is passionate about increasing awareness of the effectiveness of somatic modalities in the treatment of disordered eating and hopes to pursue research on the effectiveness of somatic therapy within the eating disorders population in the near future.Rachel Lewis-Marlow is a somatically integrative psychotherapist, dually licensed in counseling and therapeutic massage and bodywork. She is a Certified Advanced Practitioner in Sensorimotor Psychotherapy and has advanced training and 25 + years experience in diverse somatic therapies including Craniosacral Therapy, Energetic Osteopathy, Oncology massage and Aromatherapy. Rachel is a private consultant to eating disorder treatment facilities. She provides ongoing training and supervision to clinical and support staff in the programmatic implementation of the EMBODIED RECOVERY model. In her private practice in Chapel Hill, NC, Rachel works with trauma, eating disorders, and dissociative disorders.Links:Website www.embodiedrecovery.orgBook Chapters: https://www.amazon.com/Trauma-Informed-Approaches-Eating-Disorders-Seubert/dp/0826172644
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