The Prenatal Shadow
Healing the Traumas Experienced before and at Birth
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Product details:
- Publisher Park Street Press
- Date of Publication 22 May 2025
- Number of Volumes Trade Paperback
- ISBN 9798888501146
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages240 pages
- Size 228x152x20 mm
- Language English
- Illustrations 12 b&w illustrations 700
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Short description:
Explores the lifelong effects of prenatal and birth experiences
MoreLong description:
Explores the lifelong effects of prenatal and birth experiences
• Explains how babies remember their experiences from the womb and birth as implicit memory, impressions that are held in emotions, images, and the body
• Examines scientific evidence of how preverbal memory works and how prenates are highly responsive to their mother’s perceptions
• Looks at how to become aware of and acknowledge implicit memory from the womb as well as how to heal and prevent birth trauma
In a world where it is believed that babies lack awareness, somatic pre- and perinatal therapist Cherionna Menzam-Sills, Ph.D., reveals that babies do perceive negative prenatal and birth experiences, which can easily become unconscious shadow, infiltrating the psyche and affecting personality, relationships, behavior, and perceptions throughout life.
Drawing on scientific evidence of how preverbal memory works, the author shows how babies, even before birth, are exquisitely sensitive with remarkable potential. She explains how babies remember the intensely formative experiences from this primal period as implicit memory, and she looks at how prenates are deeply influenced by their mother’s perception of safety or threat, including during labor and birth, which affects their developing nervous systems.
Examining the healing and integration of the prenatal shadow, the author presents body awareness exercises, reflection questions, and meditative practices for sensing the little one within and offering them what they need. She also shares stories about how clients were able to express their prenatal emotions, changing their lives with these techniques. By integrating the prenatal and perinatal shadow hidden just beyond conscious awareness, we can heal our relationships with ourselves and our loved ones as well as reconnect with our original potential.
“Cherionna Menzam-Sills’s well-researched and thought-provoking book tells the story of prenatal and perinatal development from the perspective of how each event may contribute to shadow material and how the reader can benefit from shining light into these unlit places and move toward wholeness in mind and body.”
Table of Contents:
Foreword by Antonella Sansone
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Emerging from the Shadow
1 What Is Prenatal and Birth Shadow
and Why Does It Matter?
Trauma and Separation from Feminine Wisdom
2 Exploring Early Consciousness
The Path to Embodiment
Exploration: Implantation
3 Orienting to Our Original Embryological Potential
Return to Stillness, Fluidity, and Inherent Health
through Somatic Inquiry
Exploration: Locating the Continuum
4 The Experience of Being Born in Modern Society
Hospitals, Doctors, Midwives, and Prenatal Echoes
Exploration: Layers of Support
5 Maternal Influences
Effects on the Prenate and Newborn
Exploration: Working with Umbilical Affect
Exploration: Newborn Bonding (Postpartum)
6 Shining the Light on Prevention and Healing
Healing the Collective
Notes
Bibliography
Index
