Healing Birth Trauma with Annie Brook

HEALING Birth Trauma- resolve the trauma from when you were born

What other therapies miss!

Live with Annie

beginning April 2, 2024 until July 30, 2024

18 weeks: 9 live classes, 9 live Q&A sessions

Tuesday Class: 2xmonth: 10am-12:30 PM MT.

Tues Demo/Q& A session: 2x/month 10:30-11:30

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Experiences from Infancy are hard to access, but they really shape the brain

c-section, forceps, vacuum suction delivery, prematurity, overly long labor, induction, infant surgeries, mom having anesthesia at birth

Overwhelm during infancy creates protective response habits that last a lifetime unless treated. Don't ruin your life from out-dated habits!
Attachment Issues can start with a difficult birth or post-birth, and trouble you in adult relationships

You could have struggled as an infant...with feeding issues, weight gain, fussy baby, restless inability to settle, or zoned out as the overly contented baby. Get to the root cause of behavior progblems for yourself or your child.
Specific Healing Tools Developed by Annie Brook guide you to Release those Hidden Early Bodymind Stories

Annie Brook has spent decades helping others figure this out. She uses Neuroscience, unique geeky movement science, attachment regulation, helps people understand and resolve "shame issues and "need shock," "double bind thinking," and "self-attack/blame thinking." Annie draws from over 4 decades of dedicated clinical research with real people to find what works and she knows how to help you!

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Be are beginning Tuesday April 2nd 1-2:30 PM MT; 3-4:30pm ET

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These meetings are recorded and will be available on the class website.

Testimonial from Larisa, Psychotherapist and student from the Spring 2023 cohort, translated to English

For 4 months, in a commonwealth of people from different countries, I studied with Annie Brook in her course "Healing Birth trauma. Through her experience of living through a period of life when there are no words and our first glimpse of the world and ourselves is recorded in our bodily memory.

I was doubly lucky, a demo session with my birth experience happened on the final day of the course. Thank you Annie, thank you to everyone who shared the encounter with the beginning of my life.

Someday I will write the story of my Beginning. In the meantime, breathing and holding my baby girl. Hello, I am.

I am.

I'm finally "full" in every sense. It's quiet inside, warm and filled with joy.

In my treasury of professional tools, next to art therapy, gestalt, somatics, there is a new tool "working with perinatal trauma".

I want to share and move further into somatic psychology, and favorite developmental patterns (they sound very different to me now)

Translated with DeepL

Birth Trauma is real

Be guided towards wholeness, ease, comfort; be supported to release outdated identity beliefs, thought patterns that don't help you; bring relief to emotional brain states and drama.

Imagine that much ease in your day to day life; especially in your relationship with yourself!

It underlies anxiety, depression, control issues, panic attacks, and emotional reactions.

We know how to help!

• You or you child could have left over birth trauma...sensory issues, struggles with transitions, power struggles and melt-downs

•Adult procrastinate, blame, self-attack, nameless anxiety or depression

Don't suffer forever

Or spend lots of money

and countless hours in therapy.

Join Healing Birth Trauma

Live with Annie Brook

Few therapists know how to access cellular memory from Birth Trauma

in adults and children.

We do! We help you heal early impressions

so they don't drive behavior unconsciously!

Impressions Store in the Brain.

Don't suffer anymore!

Learn the professional skills to help others, yourself, or your own children!

Learn how to access

cellular imprint memory

Find the way out of this nagging experience/consequence that drives behavior.

What you will get:

HEAL BIRTH TRAUMA

9 live calls, 1.5 hours each, 2x/month

+ weekly movement/support check in group

+ Live Q&A time between main classes, 9 times, 1.5 hours each, 2x/month

Guidance to walk through Birth's Hidden Legacy texts!

High Quality portal access! scroll down for details.

Annie Brook's over 45 years experience helping people succeed

You can choose to be a hot seat demo...

Ask supervision questions to help you help others

Content Videos, writing, and 3 ebooks

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Access to high quality content portal!

Excellent Professional Training Resources

•guided somatic practices

•9 videos of module content

•10 videos about case studies

•guided homework/writing

•3 ebooks Birth's Hidden Legacy, Vol 1&2, and From Conception to Crawling.

(paperback option: English only, order separately)

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Bonuses for anyone who joins the Live Course!

Ebooks

Weekly Movement support online

Q &A with Annie

Birth trauma, psychologists, complex trauma, ptsd, infant birth trauma

Process double bind thinking
Use Developmental Movement to reinform the brain, and repattern the bodymind
Identify and release shock patterns
Replace non-supportive attachment style with secure adult/child attachment
Stay grounded and regulated under stress
Understand and dismantle the roots of self-attack thinking, obsessive thought, and nameless anxiety.
Find a grounded, differentiated orientation to life that includes a compassionate approach to self-care. This helps every relationship you are in; work, parenting, and intimate partnership.

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Praise for Annie's Work

Annie Brook gives a very clear picture of how to work with and treat earliest origins of shock. Attachment treatment issues are clearly defined with treatment layout for any birth practitioner. This work is easily integrated into ones practice and is easy to follow. Annie Brook spoke at the recent conference of pre and perinatal psychology and health (APPPAH) and her information was well received. Her book is a continuation of her lectures and a great resource for this work. Sandra Bardsley, APPPAH president.

The power of the Brook method are the embodiment practices and therapeutic tools. When these tools are practised they give support for encountering and integrating the perinatal trauma patterns.
Encountering this material helped me meet, and recover from, my deepest wounding, my hope is that it does this for you as well.
-Damian

As a Somatic Movement Educator (a student of Body-Mind Centering for over 25 years), and someone who has their MSW, Annie's work helped not only bridge my mental health training with all the somatic work I have done, it opened up new worlds in my own healing process via the realms of Perinatal Psychology (grounded in embodiment). I feel like I am just beginning- I feel greatly resourced from her Healing Birth Trauma course and sessions, I am feeling pretty excited and fearless, and yet wiser and more relational, about doing more of this work in the future!
-Anonymous

Thorough summary of the complexities of optimum birthing. Many sources discuss the problems, but Dr. Brook describes both problems and solutions. Echoes of birth experience show up later in life, often in surprising ways, and these books give real therapeutic strategies based on body-centered psychotherapy principles.
-JohnC

I am so grateful for your teachings and have learned a great deal in these couple of classes. Thank you for everything!
Alison, 2023

There are few books that discuss how to do psychotherapy around perinatal issues, and even fewer that are good at it. These two books are that, and I recommend it to any therapist that would like to learn how to support their clients around that time period (which is most clients).
-Pete

It’s very reassuring to me that you have also been through a shock of being in an incubator after birth, and have healed from that experience. I feel like I am already starting to shift that pattern in myself!
Amazing that I’ve been with your course for less than a week, yet with all of your resources, I am feeling so much stronger and more powerful.
Thank you thank you for bringing me back to my body and all the resources I have.
I can’t wait to see what else unfolds in this journey with you.
Sending great love and appreciation to you,
Susan

Reviews

"there is not a day that goes by that I am not grateful for Annie and her body of work. The birth patterns that were held in the cells of my body affected all of my relationships ~ I feel blessed to now have a large toolbox of resources and the somatic re-learning of memories my body knew but my mind and heart couldn't remember ~ all of my relationships transformed and I have a language and deep understanding with which to work with them from!" JR

"In Birth's Hidden legacy, Annie lovingly takes us through early imprints that underlie our adult connections, then provides practices for inner work on the path to deepening intimacy. Annie’s view into adult relationship is from the inside out and this book is a gem for all of us."

Anna Penenberg M.A., healer and author of Dancing In The Narrows

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Frequently Asked Questions

For both Content and Structure of Online Course. See below...

Q: Why do you work with early experiences when we are adults?

A: The body records events and protective responses that get into the primitive brain. These protective responses show up in adult life and create havoc until integrated and understood. It is the default behavior under stress, and is from infancy or childhood.

Q: What if I don't remember anything from my childhood?

A: Totally OK, because your bodymind remembers. The work is to access this consciously. That is some of the unique methods of this course.

Q: You talk a lot about being responsible for yourself. What if it really is the other person's bad behavior?

A: Working consciously with your own imprints gives you the ground to be able to set boundaries, know what is yours and not yours, and give grounded feedback. You then have choice about whether a relationship is sustainable. You can't know that when your own shock imprints are active.

Q: What do you mean about shock imprints and why does it matter?

A: Shock indicates a time when you were overwhelmed and out of control, maybe even "left your body," or left your ability to think clearly and take action. It indicates an internal freeze response and a kind of dissociation.

Q: Time zones and Course sessions...I live in UK. Are live course times flexible? Can I watch later?

A: I offer 12or1 PM MST time classes because people sign up from all over the world. Europeans are attending later at night while Australians and New Zealanders are coming on very early. Classes are recorded so you can always watch later. You have access to a portal that holds many resources, including videos of previous classes, reflection exercises, meditations, and the course content videos.

Q: So I learn all these tools. How do they make a difference?

A: It's not just the understanding. It's the felt sense you will get once you start working with your own imprints. This is the experiential embodiment piece, and that's when lasting change can happen.

Q: If I do all this work myself, how do I know I am ready for relationship?

A: Unwrapping shock patterns allows natural life force to flow through. Healthy connection is a human need. You will start to feel differently once you have reframed your fear and protective patterned behaviors into something functional for your well being.

Q: What if I am triggered by this deeper work?

A: The good news is you are into the work. There are many body resources built into the course that bring relief to triggers. In addition, you can reach out. I can help you get your own therapist on board. I also can direct you to great support because I have people who know my work and can offer services.

Q: How long can I access this material for study?

A: You have a full year so you can revisit the material as much as you need to. It might take awhile to get inside your own patterns to find the relief. It is so worth the journey!

Q: I am studying counseling. Will there be handouts/ worksheets , study aids etc ?

A: You will get access to a portal which has reflective questions, reading assignments, videos, and movement explorations.

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