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 | Sep 6, 2020 | Articles
In the field of Somatic Pre & Perinatal Psychology we know that attachment begins much earlier than birth, potentially even before conception. Preconception through early infancy is our foundational period of development. Wisdom gathered from within the pre- and...
by Karen Melton | Mar 7, 2019 | Articles, Attachment, Children, Other
Alphas are those children who are “in charge” in some way in the family. They tend to be demanding, bossy, want everything their way, are controlling, and often won’t listen to direction, boundaries or authority. Underneath all of this rather difficult and stressful...
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,...
