by Catherine | Nov 17, 2025 | Active baby in birth, Babies, Birth, Newborn, Prenatal, Services, Somatic mamas
Innate resources from the beginning While in utero your baby is developing many capacities that she will bring to the birth as resources. Her abilities to move and to sense started from the earliest days. Among the very first experiences that your baby perceives is...
by Catherine | Aug 26, 2017 | Awakening mind, Mindfulness in motion
Noticing again how often SHOULD is running behind my thoughts and everyday functioning. All the things I SHOULD do are worthwhile. But Should Do carries such a weight of judgment when I don’t manage to pull it all off. Of course, since it is the endless To Do...
by Catherine | Jul 4, 2016 | Child development, Mindfulness in motion
As a toddler, Gavin has an initial healthy hesitation in allowing me, as a practitioner, to touch him. With play and slow approach, Gavin gradually settles in to feel safe in the room and with me. He can play with shape sorting puzzles while I give him gentle, light...
by Catherine | Apr 9, 2016 | Birth
During pregnancy women voraciously read books and blogs. You’re talking to anyone and everyone in your circle of friends and family who has had a baby. Probably selectively, since Aunt Agnes just tells horror stories. The women in your world help you define what is...
by Catherine | Jan 31, 2014 | Mindfulness in motion
When we are in a happy place with the vagus nerve, the world is good. But when the vagus is unhappy, we are in tears and tantrums. So what and where is vagus? Not far away, I assure you. The vagus nerve runs the show on the most basic states of the nervous system. We...
