Trauma, Brain & Relationship: Helping Children Heal
It is us. When the parents are healed from their trauma children can resonate with that and heal. We need to have self-understanding.
It is us. When the parents are healed from their trauma children can resonate with that and heal. We need to have self-understanding.
Moms and caregivers need to be encouraged to make themselves a priority. Babies will entrain off of what a mom is feeling. If she is exhausted, anxious, depressed or nutritionally drained, her baby will feel it. There is truth to the saying “If mama’s not happy, no one’s happy.”
Anna Verwaal gives us an overview of Pre and Perinatal Psychology and how our time in the womb influences the rest of our lives.
Fellow PPNP student found us this video: Ted Talk of Alexander Tsiaras which shows conception to birth in ten minutes or so. Amazing.
Babies are well protected and nourished while still in the mother’s womb, but what happens after they are born when they are suddenly exposed to a challenging environment full of new and invasive bugs? The mother steps in again by providing breast milk.
Excerpts from The Second Brain by Michael D. Gershon, M.D. outline in detail how the vagal nerve cells in the gut migrate from the neural crest during fetal development.
This amazing image of premature twins resonating together made the medical world understand the powerful healing that comes from touch. This video shows the twins years later in High School.
Fascinating look into pre and perinatal psychology with Myrna Martin. Discussion of twins and early trauma in the womb or in the early days.
“Given that the vast majority of women give birth to at least one child, it’s surprising to me that we don’t know more about the maternal brain,” says Laura M. Glynn, a professor of psychology at Chapman University.
What science can now validate, tribal peoples have rituals to facilitate.