Otherwise known as Nonviolent Communication (NVC) A quality of heart connection. Would you love to know how to most effectively be with a mother in labour who says “I can’t do this anymore” or a partner who says “there must be something that can be done to help her with the pain” or the doctor who […]
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Our chance to change the world…….One sufferer at a time.This final blog in the series will conclude with an outline of the recommended treatment protocol described by The National Institute Of Clinical Excellence (NICE). It will then compare the NICE guidance with the steps of the MAM 3 Process. Concluding with an explanation of why […]
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This blog comes from Ellie Cook, she’s one of our wonderful students and shares her experience of the MAM 3 Step Rewind Process Training given by Mia Scotland. I approached the idea of learning the 3 Step Rewind Process with a considerable amount of caution. Trauma, after all is not to be taken lightly. My […]
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I was lucky enough to meet Professor Amy Brown of Swansea University recently. She has been looking at women’s traumatic experiences of breastfeeding. I’m sharing some of her findings here, because like her, I want to highlight that this is quite a big issue that needs raising. As part of her research, she spoke to […]
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loading… A life well lived If you have been following this series of blogs exploring the history of and research supporting the MAM 3 step rewind process, you will know that last time I promised you a few things I would cover in this, the last blog in the series. Here is what I promised […]
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When I started out as a hypnobirthing instructor, there was some discontent with the fact that I was being trained to teach people self-hypnosis. I was not a hypnotherapist, so why was it okay for me to teach pregnant people how to do self-hypnosis? That was 14 years ago, and its great that this is […]
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IntroductionMediation is about finding a way to positive communication. Reaching an agreement is secondary to building positive communication. Language is the key. The mediator’s body language and verbal languageneed to be honest authentic and empathetic. This is achieved not byfaking it until we make it, (although that might be a way of beginning), but by self […]
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I was sat with a client a while back, and I was trying to find a metaphor to explain that just because you’ve got a healthy baby, that doesn’t mean that you can’t be upset about your birth. I usually use the example “if you had been mugged and punched to the ground, but they […]
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I heard an obstetrician say that she is struggling to “debrief” all the women on postnatal ward whose care she was involved in, but she is trying her hardest. Not all wards have an obstetrician who will give over her time to sit with each and every woman on that ward to talk through her […]
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I had been invited to attend a meeting of academics at Nottingham University. I do not to consider myself an academic, but because the subject of the meeting was going to include a discussion about including men in the their partners pregnancy I chose to attend. The gathering was very engaging indeed and I was enjoying […]
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