Empowered Birth:Raising the Next Generation of Peacemakers




Progressive Parenting show

Summary:   Tomorrow’s parents are faced with a daunting world, and a feeling that maybe they can’t really make a difference—but they can, through empowered birth & parenting for peace! The structure & circuitry of our brains is wired in direct response to our relational experiences, beginning in the womb and significantly during birth—a brief window of time when critical systems in the brain and body of both mother and baby organize in ways that will affect them lifelong My guest will be Marcy Axness, Ph.D., is an early development specialist who writes and speaks internationally on parenting, society, and the needs of children. She is an authority in such wide-ranging fields as neurobiology (brain development), prenatal and developmental psychology, attachment theory, and consciousness research. Marcy’s particular specialization is in very early development— beginning even before conception—and she is one of the world’s few experts in prenatal /neonatal issues in adoption.