BirthTouch
A gentle, evidence-informed mind-body approach for pregnancy, birth, and early parenting.
Practical, body-based tools to support nervous system regulation, emotional resilience, and whole-person healing.
BirthTouch® offers gentle, evidence-informed mind–body support for pregnancy, birth, and the postpartum period. Rooted in touch therapy, mindfulness, and aromatherapy.
BirthTouch reflects an integrative mental health approach, supporting perinatal emotional wellbeing through gentle nervous system-based practices.
BirthTouch helps parents feel more grounded, connected, and confident in their changing bodies.
These practices are designed to support the nervous system, reduce stress, and nurture emotional wellbeing throughout the childbearing year—honoring both the physical experience of pregnancy and the inner journey of becoming a parent.
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DBT Check the Facts: Separating What Happened From What We Assume
The Check the Facts exercise forces you to slow down and consider other interpretations of a situation that is causing you distress. You take a step back before reacting, then review your own thougths and feelings about the situation, consider other interpretations about the situation, and then consider more useful and skillful thoughts and feelings about the situation.
Meet Your Future Self Through Expressive Arts: A Somatic Exercise for Healing and Self-Trust
Connecting with your future self can be accessed via your lived experience in your body. This expressive arts somatic exercise invites you to meet your future self through gentle movement, creative expression, and embodied awareness. By engaging sensation, imagination, and art-making together, this practice supports nervous system regulation, self-trust, and emotional integration in a way that feels grounded, accessible, and trauma-informed.
DBT Interpersonal Effectiveness Skills: Communicating Needs While Maintaining Self-Respect
Learning to communicate needs clearly while maintaining self-respect in relationships. Relationships are one of the most common sources of emotional distress. Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) Interpersonal Effectiveness skills help people communicate more clearly, set boundaries, and navigate conflict while emphasizing that you maintain your self-respect and attempt to maintain connection. These skills are especially helpful when emotions are strong and relationships feel strained. What Are...
DARVO and Smear Campaigns: "They're Burning All the Witches, Even if You Aren't One"
Sexual assault survivors face a second wave of trauma when they become targets of online smear campaigns and smear books. Smear campaigns and smear books aim to discredit survivors, distort the truth, and influence public perception. The smears shame and silence victims and protect perpetrators. In order to get the truth out, Chanel Miller and Christine Blasey Ford wrote their own books about the personal impact of sexual assault and also the devastating effects of the traumatic aftermath
Talking to your child about infant loss
Infant Loss is a Family Event The death of a baby is a deep loss. Parents who have lost a baby to miscarriage or stillbirth are struggling to cope with their grief. And often these parents have young children who were looking forward to having a little brother or little sister. Infant loss is not only a parental loss. It's a family event. Even in their time of pain, parents are called to to help their surviivng children process at he level they can understand and to feel safe. Parents...
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