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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What Have We Wrought in Our Oceans?
I recently read an article in the September 2010 issue of O, The Oprah Magazine , written by editor-in-chief Susan Casey, about the devastation caused by the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. The scale of the disaster feels almost impossible to comprehend — more like a super-gush than a leak, something too large for the mind to fully grasp. A seaplane pilot, who wished to remain anonymous, gave Casey an aerial tour of the affected area. He had been warned not to bring journalists over the...
Greetings and welcome to being a mom?
Welcome to my blog, Musings about Moms, Marriage, and Mental Health! As a result of my own life experiences, I hope to reach out to people transitioning to parenthood feel that there are many safe and valid ways to parent. Becoming a mother was at time of great maturation for me; a time of extreme emotionality, postpartum depression, loneliness and joy mixed together. With great pain came fertile ground for long-term personal growth, and this can be the case for others as well. It is the...
DARVO, Sexual Abuse, and Gaslighting: How Power Silences Survivors
DARVO is a common response used by perpetrators when abuse is named. The term stands for Deny, Attack, and Reverse Victim and Offender, and it describes a pattern that shifts attention away from harm and back onto the person who was harmed.
Women and Depression: Not Just An Hormonal Event
It is encouraging that women’s reproductive mental health — including postpartum depression — is now studied with greater biological precision. Hormonal fluctuation clearly plays a role in mood vulnerability across the reproductive life cycle. But focusing on hormones alone risks oversimplifying women’s lived experience. Depression in women unfolds within a social, relational, and cultural context. As psychologist Janet M. Stoppard, PhD, describes in Understanding Depression , women move...
Book Review: Thru-Hike the Appalachian Trail
The first book I read was Walking With Spring, by Earl V. Shaffer. In 1948, he was the first person to complete a thru-hike of the AT. He published his account in 1983, years after his historic hike. He shares that he was a World War II veteran and needed “..to walk the war out of him…”
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