by Karen Melton | Aug 6, 2024 | After Birth, Articles, Childbirth, Conscious Early Parenting, Embodiment, Pregnancy, Uncategorized
We are deeply welcomed when a significant other, such as a parent or partner, shares with us their heart-felt happiness that we are here – that we exist – and are wanted. A welcome can impart love, a sense of belonging and a heart-felt welcome from a friend, or...
by Karen Melton | Aug 1, 2024 | Articles, Attachment, Conscious Early Parenting, Early Consciousness, Embodiment
You do not have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees for a hundred miles through desert repenting. You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves …. Extract from poem Wild Geese by Mary Oliver Practicing body-centred healing for many...
by Karen Melton | Oct 2, 2018 | Conscious Early Parenting, Early Consciousness, Other, Pregnancy
The photograph above was taken in my office after a Prenatal & Birth Play session with three-year-old Lily and her parents. The blue and green hanging pouch/seat in the picture represents the womb and the cuddly toy, chosen and placed into the pouch by Lily,...
by Karen Melton | Feb 20, 2016 | Conception, Conscious Early Parenting, Early Consciousness, Other, Pregnancy
I frequently observe pre-pregnant, pregnant, and birthing women re-living their own journey into life – their experiences, memories, and imprints from their own conception to newborn period. Re-living and remembering our own early imprints can begin before we...
by Karen Melton | Dec 2, 2015 | Articles, Attachment, Conception, Conscious Early Parenting, Early Consciousness, Pregnancy
It’s now acknowledged within mainstream psychology that attachment begins at birth. The cutting edge field of Somatic Prenatal & Perinatal Psychology (SPPP) finds that attachment begins way before birth, a wisdom that is not yet in the mainstream thinking and...
by Karen Melton | Dec 2, 2015 | Articles, Childbirth, Conscious Early Parenting, Pregnancy
About Womb Trauma Please don’t feel bad if you read the list below and see some experiences that happened to you during your pregnancy. There are many mitigating factors when it comes to assessing the extent to which stress, trauma, or an event has affected you and...
