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Author: Lois Halzel Freedman
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 146
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis unique book focuses on the healing potential of pregnancy, childbirth, and postpartum rather than on the medical aspects. In Birth as a Healing Experience: The Emotional Journey of Pregnancy Through Postpartum, you will find childbirth preparation discussed as a means to empower women and their partners in the childbirth experience.
Author: Benig Mauger
Publisher: Inner Traditions / Bear & Co
Published: 2000-03
Total Pages: 222
ISBN-13: 9780892818969
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA therapist and childbirth educator shows expectant mothers how to reconnect with the natural and spiritual worlds to make the birth experience unique and to build a spiritual connection with their children.
Author: Maureen Campion
Publisher: CreateSpace
Published: 2015-06-25
Total Pages: 258
ISBN-13: 9781511910354
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPsychologist and birth trauma expert Maureen Campion shares her lessons for releasing the unexpected wounds that come from having a rough birth experience. Birth can be beautiful and spiritual and joyous but there are also terrifying, emotionally raw, painful moments that can be difficult to move past. This book offers you a chance to experience the healing power of working through your birth story, while learning about trauma and developing coping skills for all those complicated feelings. Maureen Campion shares her personal experience with birth trauma and the work she has been doing working with mothers through workshops and counseling to address resolving unexpected birth outcomes. Heal Your Birth Story offers new understanding to the impact of birth on mothers and their partners. Journaling exercises are offered to lead the reader through multiple layers of understanding and healing.
Author: Melissa J Bruijn
Publisher: Birthtalk.Org
Published: 2016-06-17
Total Pages: 560
ISBN-13: 9780992351601
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"How to Heal a Bad Birth" is for women (and their partners) who have experienced a challenging birth, and want to gain understanding and clarity about 'what happened', and why they feel so bad...and move on. Written by the co-founders of Birthtalk.org(tm), this book is a straightforward guide to make sense, make peace and move on... whether to a much better birth, or just back to your family, feeling more complete and at peace.
Author: Benig Mauger
Publisher:
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781898256540
DOWNLOAD EBOOKJust as Women Who Run with the Wolves helped women to reassert themselves, Benig Mauger shows that it is necessary for women to assert themselves and their genuine needs which are repressed by the technology surrounding the birth process. In a groundbreaking and highly readable book, Mauger places birth and life in the womb as a formative soul experience creating patterns we carry with us into later life. She argues that there is a "loss of soul" encountered by many due to our modern medicalized way of birth which strips nature of its spiritual dimension. Drawing on her work as a Jungian psychotherapist, she takes the reader into the therapy room to witness the healing of birth wounds. Based on her experiences as a birth teacher, therapist, and mother, the author writes about the joys and pains of giving birth and being born through real life/birth stories. The technology of medicine and its patriarchal establishment imbues women with a sanitized, pain-free birthing philosophy. Here are stories of joyful anticipation in pregnancy. The Wounded Mother is an archetypal energy in us, and this book suggests that we may need to question certain aspects of modern birth practices, to strive for a more holistic approach to pregnancy and birth so as to heal soul wounds that have become so prevalent today.
Author: Cheryl Tatano Beck
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-07-18
Total Pages: 289
ISBN-13: 1135021139
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPostpartum depression has become a more recognized mental illness over the past decade as a result of education and increased awareness. Traumatic childbirth, however, is still often overlooked, resulting in a scarcity of information for health professionals. This is in spite of up to 34% of new mothers reporting experiencing a traumatic childbirth and prevalence rates rising for high risk mothers, such as those who experience stillbirth or who had very low birth weight infants. This ground-breaking book brings together an academic, a clinician and a birth trauma activist. Each chapter discusses current research, women’s stories, the common themes in the stories and the implications of these for practice, clinical case studies and a clinician’s insights and recommendations for care. Topics covered include: mothers’ perspectives, fathers’ perspectives, the impact on breastfeeding, the impact on subsequent births, PTSD after childbirth and EMDR treatment for PTSD. This book is a valuable resource for health professionals who come into contact with new mothers, providing the most current and accurate information on traumatic childbirth. It also presents mothers’ experiences in a manner that is accessible to women, their partners, and families.
Author: Patrisia Gonzales
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
Published: 2012-11-01
Total Pages: 314
ISBN-13: 0816599718
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPatrisia Gonzales addresses "Red Medicine" as a system of healing that includes birthing practices, dreaming, and purification rites to re-establish personal and social equilibrium. The book explores Indigenous medicine across North America, with a special emphasis on how Indigenous knowledge has endured and persisted among peoples with a legacy to Mexico. Gonzales combines her lived experience in Red Medicine as an herbalist and traditional birth attendant with in-depth research into oral traditions, storytelling, and the meanings of symbols to uncover how Indigenous knowledge endures over time. And she shows how this knowledge is now being reclaimed by Chicanos, Mexican Americans and Mexican Indigenous peoples. For Gonzales, a central guiding force in Red Medicine is the principal of regeneration as it is manifested in Spiderwoman. Dating to Pre-Columbian times, the Mesoamerican Weaver/Spiderwoman—the guardian of birth, medicine, and purification rites such as the Nahua sweat bath—exemplifies the interconnected process of rebalancing that transpires throughout life in mental, spiritual and physical manifestations. Gonzales also explains how dreaming is a form of diagnosing in traditional Indigenous medicine and how Indigenous concepts of the body provide insight into healing various kinds of trauma. Gonzales links pre-Columbian thought to contemporary healing practices by examining ancient symbols and their relation to current curative knowledges among Indigenous peoples. Red Medicine suggests that Indigenous healing systems can usefully point contemporary people back to ancestral teachings and help them reconnect to the dynamics of the natural world.
Author: Jennifer Summerfeldt
Publisher: Js Coaching
Published: 2018-10-08
Total Pages: 198
ISBN-13: 9781999497200
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis guidebook will help mothers make sense of their unexpected birthing experiences. It will help them understand why they are struggling in the postpartum-no matter how many days, months, or years it has been. And, it will lead them through simple yet effective reflective exercises that they can do at home to help them feel better.
Author: Sarah Buckley
Publisher: Celestial Arts
Published: 2013-02-20
Total Pages: 354
ISBN-13: 0307832031
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn authoritative guide to natural childbirth and postpartum parenting options from an MD who home-birthed her own four children. Sarah Buckley might be called a third-wave natural birth advocate. A doctor and a mother, she approaches the question of how a woman and baby might have the most fulfilling birth experience with respect for the wisdom of both medical science and the human body. Using current medical and epidemiological research plus women's experiences (including her own), she demonstrates that what she calls "undisturbed birth" is almost always healthier and safer than high-technology approaches to birth. Her wise counsel on issues like breastfeeding and sleeping during postpartum helps extend the gentle birth experience into a gentle parenting relationship.
Author: Elizabeth Davis
Publisher: Rodale Books
Published: 2010-06-08
Total Pages: 290
ISBN-13: 1605290971
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBased on the hit documentary that inspired a vibrant online community, this innovative approach to birthing shows women how to maximize childbirth's emotional and physical rewards. With more than 4 million babies born in the United States each year, too many women experience birth as nothing more than a routine or painful event. In her much-praised film Orgasmic Birth, acclaimed filmmaker Debra Pascali-Bonaro showed that in fact childbirth is a natural process to be enjoyed and cherished. Now she joins forces with renowned author and activist Elizabeth Davis to offer an enlightening program to help women attain the most empowering and satisfying birth experience possible. While an orgasmic birth can, for some, induce feelings of intense, ecstatic pleasure, it is ultimately about taking control of one's own body and making the most informed decisions to have a safe, memorable, and joyful birth day. Whether women choose to give birth at home, in a hospital, or in a birthing center, Orgasmic Birth provides all the necessary tools and guidance to design the birth plan that's best for them. Featuring inspiring stories from mothers and their partners and filled with practical advice and solutions, this one-of-a-kind resource is the next frontier of natural, intimate childbirth.
