Stress to Success: Weeks  7 & 8 - Brain Game


Start Getting "Safety" Running Through & Through: 


Brainy Facts 
  • learned more in the past ten years than we had learned in the previous 200 
  • Thinking brain v. Emotional brain
  • Words and ideas v. pictures, feelings, and music 
  • The subconscious brain defaults to the emotional brain - so if there is an underlying message running through your body that you're not safe, or getting pregnant isn't safe, the emotional brain will default to that  
  • Inflammation & mental health



Your Birth & Your Brain
Your Birth Story Impacts
  • Your sex life & body image
  • Money & creative energy in your life
  • The foundation for pain, pleasure, and/or stress in your body
  • How conception/pregnancy/birth goes for you when you’re ready to have kids 
  • How conception/pregnancy/birth goes for your kids when the time comes for them.


Birth Trauma
  • Generational considerations
  • Your Mom's pregnancies
  • Your experience in utero
  • Cultural birth narrative


Homework: What is your birth story? Personal, ancestral & collective? 
Discuss with your partner all the associations you have about "birth" - the good, bad & ugly



Prenatal Psychology & the importance of healthy, peaceful experiences in utero
(Discussed further in below audio)
  1. I'm okay/lovable. 
  2. I'm wanted. 
  3. It's safe to be here.


Motherhood “s#^!”  
  • Related Blog Post
  • Pregnancy and birth beliefs - how they connect with our associations with "mother" 
  • Motherhood - What are your associations with “divine mother” 
  • Meditation to support new pictures of "motherhood"



New Neurology - Healing Homework Options
  1. Pay attention to the automatic pictures that run through your head... and install positive pictures ("up and to the right")
  2. Using theta
  3. Using tapping
  4. Using pledge spot or ear rub



"Birth Trauma" Audio 
Check out the panel of birth pros at www.auparent.com - free downloads for pregnant women 
(definitely sign up for the audios on this website once you're pregnant - but many of them will be interesting if you listen to them now)
  • Attributes of an ideal birth
  • Various ways we think of "birth trauma" 
  • Transforming family patterns - "non-local" DNA
  • Fertility, birth, money - all the second chakra "creations"
  • The work of being born - teamwork? Or disconnection?
  • Birth trauma's role in "infertility"