The Body Keeps the Birth: An Ecological Understanding of Birth Trauma and Healing

The Body Keeps the Birth: An Ecological Understanding of Birth Trauma and Healing

Reading time: 17 minutes What if birth trauma is about what was left unfinished? In this article Kai Njeri writes about how the body finds its way back to recovery through a womb ecology lens. There is a particular kind of silence that can follow birth, a silence that...
Trauma-Informed Healing: Reclaiming the Inner Child and Self-Worth

Trauma-Informed Healing: Reclaiming the Inner Child and Self-Worth

Reading time: 6 minutes Trauma-informed healing is not about fixing what is broken. It is about understanding what happened, not only to you as an individual but also to the world you were born into. A trauma informed perspective looks at the full picture: the family...
Why Is It So Hard to Lose Weight? A Nervous System Perspective

Why Is It So Hard to Lose Weight? A Nervous System Perspective

Reading time: 9 minutes There is a special group of people in the world who probably believe they were born under an unlucky star. A group that believes their body is somehow defective, doomed to excess weight, a ring around the waist, or fat on the thighs or arms. A...