Preparing the MindBody for Birth:
A Depth Psychology Approach.

This course is designed to help you prepare emotionally and psychically for labor and birth. Welcome to the meeting place of ancient wisdom and current mind/body neuroscience. 

Allowing the pain of labor to move through you is one of the keys to a labor that progresses without impedance. But how does one do that?

In this workshop we'll explore the role of unconscious and body-held beliefs and emotions on labor, work on discharging and/or honoring them, and develop skills for validating, discharging, and moving through pain before and during labor and birth. And, we'll explore the unconscious through dreams and synchronicities.

Partners and support persons will learn how to recognize and meet the laboring woman's spoken and unspoken emotions (without annoying her), a very important and little-addressed aspect of labor support.

---

Illustrator: Kay Nielsen

I also offer a professional course in this subject matter for Midwives, physicians, doulas, nurses, mental health professionals
Three-hour, one-time workshop. Continuing education credits may be available. Contact me for pricing and to arrange a date.

Please contact Margaret to for date and time, and to enroll.

• Creating a peaceful mind during labor
  
• Releasing negative thoughts during labor
  
• Cultural origins of illusions of inadequacy of the birthing woman's body
  
• Acknowledging & accepting sadness, grief, or fear during labor
  
• How to move past the fear of communicating emotions to others during labor and to see the need as strength
  
• How the body remembers events and emotions
  
• Discovering where your body holds events & emotions
  
• Discharging sex trauma to prepare for labor
  
• Dream work to unblock the unconscious
  
• The importance of a labor visualization
  
• The importance of a labor mantra
  
• Archetypes and the Birthing Woman
  
• The Emotional Intelligence of Labor
  
• The Pregnancy Dream Journal
  
• Experiencing labor as darkness and light