The Roots of Love & Violence: Birth & the Primal Period Symposium II, Part 2

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This is the 2nd in the 5-film series “The Roots of Love & Violence: Birth & the Primal Period”, created from Birthing The Future’s 2nd International Symposium

This film includes: 1) a cranial-sacral therapist who works with birth trauma; 2) a corporate management consultant-turned medical sociologist conducting research on birth and midwifery; and 3) a psychiatrist who also does shamanic work

Hosted by Suzanne Arms

Contents Include:

– the pre-birth (in womb) memory of a toddler
– a mother’s experience of connecting with her baby in the womb to turn a breech
– what is psychological trauma
– how somatic (body-centered) therapy can help a young child discharge trauma from birth
– the results of a study on planned, midwife-attended home birth in the state of California
– how a mother’s psychological state and attachment impacts her child
– postpartum depression: under-diagnosed and over-treated with pharmaceutical drugs
– the value of pregnancy and postpartum mothers groups
– creating community for mothers