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 | Aug 15, 2018 | After Birth, Articles
During a home visit to help a newborn I witnessed a beautiful experience of supported embodiment. I see people primarily as souls who are here to have an embodied experience. My work with babies is a combination of cranial sacral therapy and somatic pre and perinatal...
by Karen Melton | Nov 16, 2017 | After Birth, Attachment, Childbirth, Early Consciousness, Other, Pregnancy
Published in the Journal of Prenatal and Perinatal Psychology and Health 35(2), Summer 2021 Abstract: Isolation experienced during the foundational period from preconception through early infancy affects core imprinting. Attachment and embodiment issues are central to...
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 3, 2015 | Articles, Other
An activation is when a person, or situation, in the present triggers you into a memory from your past. This activation is happening at the instinctual reptilian brain level, and it is out of your conscious awareness. A smell, taste, touch, felt-sense, emotion,...
