EMDR is a powerful tool throughout the lifespan and can be particularly useful during a person's reproductive years. The act of becoming, maintaining, and completing a pregnancy can be fraught with challenges and trauma, oftentimes allowing past…
The reproductive period is one fraught with psychosocial and sociological meaning. Understanding perinatal trauma and postpartum loss require knowledge and sensitivity across the range of cultural constructs framing it. While the birth giver most…
BackgroundMore than 30% of women describe their labor and delivery experience as traumatizing. This figure does not include trauma that occurs in the effort to become pregnant, during the course of pregnancy itself, or complications in the newborn…
The transpersonal nature of pre/perinatal life enhances healing of trauma from this early time with the use of Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR). EMDR has been acclaimed as being an extremely effective therapeutic method for…
