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 | 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 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, Early Consciousness
An imprint is a memory, or recording, of an event, experience, or environment, which is stored in both your physical and energy body’s – your body-system. Your physical and energy bodies are integral. Imprints are your way of storing experiences, some of...
