As an embryo, you faced many challenges. You survived each one, or you wouldn’t be here now reading this! How easy or difficult it was to meet each challenge depended on the context you found yourself in, as is also true now. Little ones in the womb are completely dependent on their mother for their […]
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Still Coming into Form
As a little embryo or fetus in the womb, you faced many challenges. As you met them, your form changed accordingly. I have learned from spiritual embryologist Jaap van der Wal that we are functional human beings perfectly adapted to our environment from the very beginning. As our conditions change, we also change our form. […]
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Uncertainty, Trauma and Pre- and Perinatal Experiences
Whatever your beliefs or attitudes, it is hard to deny that we are living in uncertain times. Life is always uncertain, but these days we are faced with how to live within a worldwide pandemic, which some say is over or never existed but continues to profoundly affect our lives and often our health. On […]
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PERHAPS YOU ARE LIKE ME: WHEN TRAUMA NEEDS TO BE MET
Perhaps you are like me. These days I cry reading the news. Too many (what wouldn’t be too many?) people dying from COVID. People dying from unheard of high temperatures. Buildings falling down in the middle of the night due to lack of care. People being murdered, raped, and otherwise abused, often by those who […]
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Cellular Consciousness at Conception and Beyond: Do We Know What We Know?
In the beginning, two cells come together from two parents to form a unicellular organism known as a zygote. It seems that a third element, call it spirit, soul, being or something else, also arrives at this time. This is the beginning of embodiment. This is the beginning of a new life. From here, a […]
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