However you define it, it's a shocking proposition, being thrust into the world.
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Whenever I'm working with a client, we eventually come to birth trauma.
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I'm referring here to trauma incurred during one's own birth. There is almost always trauma, because birth in our culture is treated as unnatural.
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Clearing personal birth trauma almost always threads into memories of birthing children, or just ideas of birthing, or somaitc residue from miscarriages, etc.
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With female clients, these sessions are some of my most memorable. Clients often remember being born, and remember birthing, and the memory moves across time and space to mothers, grandmother's, children, grandchildren. Pieces fall into place across time. Tears are shed for distant or deceased relatives.
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I initiate this by touching the belly, and sometimes rotating the thighs, or positioning the legs, and supporting the her in catching what arises. Sometimes this touch in association with the phrase 'I take my body back' brings up a host of memories and whole body releases.
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Birth trauma, like any trauma, dims human light. Until it is healed... THEN it amplifies the light.
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The world might would be much 'better' if people were born peacefully, because peace would be their primary paradigm. Born into water is usally the most fluid transition.
For that to happen, we'd have to reinvent the birth process for women, rather than for doctors and institutions. Some organizations and individuals are doing this, always, and others are working on bringing this awareness to the wider world.
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Let's heal together.
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