From Anxiety to Safety: The Couple as Sanctuary for Childbirth and Beyond
This interactive, intimate talk will present information about how safety gets programmed into the body, and how the couple can work to reprogram their joined nervous system as they get ready for childbirth and parenting. Lasts 1.5 hours. Topics include:
This interactive, intimate talk will present information about how safety gets programmed into the body, and how the couple can work to reprogram their joined nervous system as they get ready for childbirth and parenting. Lasts 1.5 hours. Topics include:
- The ‘felt sense’ of safety and why that is important for health, and most especially childbirth
- Science behind anxiety and happiness
- Information about how to settle an anxious nervous system
- Patterns of behavior if fear and vigilance are unconscious and embedded in the nervous system, and what to do about it as a couple
- Affirmations and relaxation as practice for childbirth and beyond
