In Part 1 of this post, we looked at how our trauma may echo throughout our lives, affecting how we meet stressful or threatening conditions arising later in life. A common effect of unresolved trauma is to harden ourselves against feeling pain again. This can lessen our compassion for suffering others, perpetuating a cycle of […]

It is over three weeks since the news of the mass shooting at a Florida high school shocked the world once again. I still feel the reverberations within me. My clients, students and supervisees often resonate with these feelings. Sadness at the immensity of life lost. Anger at the perpetuation of gun laws but even […]

Students of Craniosacral Biodynamics often ask the question in various ways: How do I know what to do next? Or where to go? Or which inertial fulcrum to address? One of challenges of learning and practicing Craniosacral Biodynamics is that it is not about me as practitioner making these decisions. And we aren’t focused on […]

You have probably heard the quote, “Those who do not remember the past are bound to repeat it.” Alternatively, and perhaps more accurately, Mark Twain is reported to have declared, “History doesn’t repeat itself but it rhymes.” Why is this relevant to the subject of life after birth? In my experience, those discovering that we […]