Therapeutic Portrait Process
Intensive Process
Option 1:
9 week Post-partum Support
The Moment of Awe is a 9 week postpartum live and on-demand postpartum and therapeutic support process where the father, mother process their experiences and learn how to hear their baby’s story.
Option 2:
The Parenting Manual
9 week immersion in the integration of the primal period of your baby’s life.
We work together to create a series of Soul Portraits for your baby that I turn into your own person deck of cards, a tool for parenting through the tough times or to enhance the good times.
Option 3:
Intensive Adult Process
9 week immersion in the integration of the primal period.
We work together to create a series of Soul Portraits that I turn into your own person deck of cards.
This is a great preparation for women and men planning to conceive.
Option 2 and 3 are basically same process. Option 2 is for mother-father to create a parenting manual for their baby. Option 3 is for adults to do the same for themselves.
We work together to create a series of Soul Portraits that I turn into your own person deck of cards, either for yourself - Option 2 - as an adult or for your baby - Option 3. I call it the parenting manual that they say we don’t have when we have babies.
The cards will be a series of portraits that cover your/your baby’s preconception through birth story and infancy period of development. You do not need to know, nor will you tell me your story. I first intuit it, transcribe it, and then we process it. It is painless, panic-free work on your end.
Option 3 is for those is especially beneficial for those who have been in a spiritual, emotional, psychological healing journey and really want to integrate it all. Having your own divining cards specifically for your early emotional brain is also the self-parenting manual you need know to support you through life now as an adult. In the process you will learn how to use the cards to find the answers you need yourself.
Maybe it sounds scary, going back there!?!
“When something great calls to us to do, and we become scared, immobilized, or in pain (PTSD), it’s always our wounding seeking to be loved. We find our gifts in the shadow of our wounds. Those gifts are in our earliest, preverbal, primal self.
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Remember, you are the adult now. Your early self who experienced it did go through it and you survived. You are here. You have many life lessons and gifts as a result of your early experiences. The harder and more fearful and painful, the greater the gifts of integration and recovery.
Now, you have the capacity to be there for, see, hold, and acknowledge your embryonic, gestating, laboring and birthing, and infant self - the baby. Your baby. S/he has been there all the time, your Limbic system, your emotional brain.
Imagine the crying infant who needs something but is not being heard or seen by the adults. Imagine someone picking her/him up and supporting them. Maybe baby calms or gets more insistent with their story, their pain, their need.
What is scary is that no one will meet your baby needs that have gone unmet for so long. People are in their own wounds and don’t know how to. But you the adult self - you - can do it. Pick up your baby and give him/her what s/he needed. It’s really that easy.
After years of supporting people to do this work, my soul portraits emerged out of the “how to make this easier?” without all of the mental obstacles, without the time and expense. I’ve spent two years in craniosacral training and two specializing in the birth trauma training. I bring those together with my years of creating art.
The transcribing of your higher self’s, your soul’s, your early brain/baby’s story into symbols that they all know, is the thing that makes this process truly “easy, peaceful, and gentle.”
”Easy, peaceful and gentle”
”Easy, peaceful and gentle” is the mantra my baby/soul self gave to me in the process of healing my hard-as-hell, disrupted, and violent birth. I was born by forceps and my clavicle was broken - unacknowledged. Babies born by forceps, by vacuum extraction. and by cesarean, we have brains that look for the hardest places, people, and situations. We know how to get things done and will be the last to stop trying with the impossible. But, we do not have to live that way. Whatever our birth experience - wired into our emotional brain, the limbic system - we can integrate it. We can enjoy the gift of our trauma in what I just described and we can rewire our brain to work more efficiently, and to stop “attracting” the hardest person, job, or situation.
This process is big time for those ready to be done with the pain and with the roller coaster of things showing up again after you think you’ve done that work.
We will work together in a “gentle, easy, peaceful” process to integrate all that you’ve done and become. It will involve modalities of healing that I have personally done that employ breathing, movement, and tapping to become fully embodied. To know how to get back into the body, the self, how to be and live“calm in the chaos.”
As you complete the time, you will have your personal, personally divined - through your Higher Self, you, and my pen and paint - deck of oracle cards that will support you for the rest of your life.
You will be held safely and gently through the process and experience how to do that for yourself, for your early self.
I am in development stage of this process, defining the art process, and if you are interested now, can’t wait until I am fully ready, and want to be a beta for me, let me know.
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