In this episode, Dr. Annie Brook is going to explore psychological imprints from conception through the birth process and how those imprints impact your behavior in life. She’s going to discuss interventions that can take place as early as infancy, as well as during adulthood. This conversation will challenge everything you believe about your history and when your mind truly started to form.

Developmental psychology usually looks into pattern development from ages 3 and up with some patterns developing during infancy. But what if it’s possible that many of these patterns both unhealthy and healthy started at birth or even prenatally?

Prenatal psychology examines human behavior in a very different light than how most people frame their history and how it impacts who they are. From a prenatal psychology perspective, the development in the womb and the birth process can have a huge impact on who we are as adults and the behaviors that we default to.

In this conversation, we will explore the cues to look out for when there is shock present in the nervous system of a young child that occurred during a very early developmental process, how to recognize compensations in adults for challenges that happened during prenatal development, birth trauma and how to work with it, a case example of a child who worked through a disruptive birth experience, and why pre and perinatal psychology is essential to understand as a clinician.

Our guest today, Dr. Annie Brook, has worked as a psychotherapist for over thirty years working with children, adults, couples and training other professionals. Dr. Brook received her Ph.D. in Perinatal and Somatic Psychology, an MA in Family Systems Theory and a BA in Somatic Psychology. She has six certifications in body-based modalities and is a published author, speaker, and a highly influential voice in the field of Somatic Psychology and Pre and Perinatal Development.

In this episode you’ll learn:

• The cues that there is shock in the nervous system
  
• Premature imprints in the body and compensation later in life
  
• Preverbal signals that a child has pre-natal or birth trauma
  
• A case example of a child who worked through a disruptive birth imprint
  
• Why prenatal psychology is essential to understand as a clinician

Visit www.higherpractice.com/podcast to get the show notes for this episode and to learn more about Dr. Brook’s full course in the Higher Practice Institute.