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Embodiment is about being fully present; fully here in the moment and able to think/feel and act from our soul. from our true self. From our open heart.

The reason why Soul Embodiment work such as Somatic Healing is necessary currently is because we all carry so much wounding and trauma which has created a disconnect between our soul and the body. This means that we are unable to actualise our full potential, purpose, love or joy and we will experience challenges either mentally, emotionally, within our relationships, career or health.

Embodiment requires us to have foundational experiences of felt safety.

Our experience of safety or a lack of it begins from conception. Our soul is fully conscious and the nervous system is being shaped by the Mother’s experience and her nervous system. So our first foundational conditioning is the energy in which we were conceived, then the energy of our prenatal experience during those 9 months and then how we were birthed. 

 In a perfect world, our parents would have wanted us, been consciously aware that we were being conceived, they would be communicating with our soul throughout the entire pregnancy and aware of our needs and how to meet them.

We would then be born into the world in a way where we feel fully safe, welcomed, honoured and loved.

Those kind of early beginnings allow the soul to land in their body very gently and supports their embodiment and thus their thriving.

However that kind of reality unfortunately rarely happens.

What often arises in my Somatic Healing sessions with clients is their prenatal and birth traumas.

I will speak about prenatal trauma in another video, and in this video I am going to speak about Birth Trauma and Birth Imprints and the lifelong implications of our birth.

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Due to the intensity of the physiological, emotional, spiritual event that birth is, the imprint from our birth is deeply embedded into our nervous system, psyche and body.

This imprint has lifelong ramifications until we do the work to heal our birth and transform that original imprint. 

Birth Trauma can include:

• Cesarian section
• Forceps or suction delivery
• Breech birth
• Posterior birth
• And a birth with one or more interventions.
• Separation between Mother and baby after birth

 These situations don’t guarantee a traumatic birth for the baby, as trauma is a subjective and personal experience and each person perceives their life experiences differently, however what we do know thanks to many decades of the study of pre and perinatal psychology, is that even if there was no trauma experienced in our birth, the imprint from our birth creates a pattern which continues throughout our life.

Babies who experienced a Natural birth, where the Mother felt safe, supported and empowered during her birth, where she was consciously aware of her baby and her body working together and really trusting that process, where she was able to birth her baby without fear and peacefully into the world, can create the most positive imprints such as: 

• A belief in the baby that the world is safe
• A feeling in the baby of, “I did it – I can do it” – a sense of achievement and empowerment. These babies tend to be able to flow through life and achieve their dreams with relative ease.

These births are much more rare however this is the ideal kind of birth which really creates the most positive imprints in the baby and really sets them up for life with very loving foundations.

I had a home birth in the water and the environment was very safe, very peaceful and very loving. However, my son got stuck due for a few hours due to my cervical lip. Something he would often do as a toddler is replay that moment where he was stuck in an attempt to heal and re-create the experience. In order to transform the imprint, he needed to have the physical experience of getting through with ease, recreating his belief that life can flow and be easy vs stuckness.  

So what he would do is he would play a game where he would bring my legs together and he would have to crawl through them but he would get stuck and it would be an effort to get through. Having trained in prenatal psychology I knew what he was doing; He was healing this stressful and traumatic moment by re-creating the situation. So as we would play this game or just afterwards, I would talk him about his birth and share about what happened when he got stuck, in order to give words to the feelings that he remembered in his body. What this does is it validates their feelings, and they also feel seen. Because they remember this in their body; so to have someone else understand and see them and hold that loving space for them in that moment of overwhelm, helps them to heal and digest any repressed emotional stress which is stored in their system and transform any limiting imprints.

Another birth story I would like to share is about a client who was born via induction. He was overdue (and I don’t often like to use that word as i trust that these babies come when they are ready and in mother nature’s time) however when this client felt into his birth, he could feel that he wasn’t ready to come; there was a lot of fear and resistance. His Mother was induced and this forced the labour to begin and his birth to happen.

This pattern of needing to be moved by someone or something external continued into his adult life. He needed others to push him to achieve his goals. Inside, he didn’t feel capable of moving forward by himself. And so always needed something to kick him up the bum, so to speak, to get him moving. What helped him heal this was him learning to support his own inner child and to empower that part of him so he felt capable of achieving his goals.

I had a client this morning and it was her birth trauma that came up for healing. She was born into chaos and being a sensitive soul, it was too much for her. She did not feel safe or feel a sense of security. Because her need for security and safety were not met, it forced her to leave her body and shut down yet while absorbing the energy of chaos.

This pattern has repeated through life ever since. her experience of life, including her own family life, has been one of overwhelm while simultaneously taking on the energy in her environment. This has led to her being stuck in her own life and not being able to move forward. Its caused her to take on other’s energies including her clients, and it had caused her to hold onto people, energies and situations far beyond the expiration date.

What we worked on today was her helping her baby self, the inner child to feel safe and secure and part of creating that safety was giving her the tools to create energetic boundaries so she doesn’t absorb the energies around her and can just be in her own energy and be centred in that even in the midst of chaos.

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Once her Inner Child feels safe and secure, she will be able to let go of things that no longer serve her and actually move forward with her life.

So you can see her current relationship, career, and relationship with her child all somehow reflect and are impacted by her birth trauma. The impact is huge.

So birth trauma and our imprints from birth set up life long patterns. We don’t remember our birth consciously, but it’s embedded into the deepest part of our nervous system, psyche and body and will play out in our feelings, thoughts, beliefs, behaviours, relationships and how we experience and live our life.

Breath-work can be wonderful for accessing birth memories as it bypasses the conscious mind, but birth trauma and birth imprints come up all the time in my somatic healing sessions because with somatic healing we are working with the body which is where it is all stored

In my next video, Part 2, I will be interviewing my client Le who recently cleared her own birth trauma in a somatic healing session with me. to hear the lifelong impact of her birth is quite profound and I look forward to having her share her story with you in Part 2.