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
Early on I was so ashamed of being seen that I would shake and go into a laughter reaction that wasn't really laughter. I was scared that talking to me would damage you. That I was too much to survive. You never flinched. You labeled and narrated what was happening in me that no one could stay present with with total detachment. Once, I started falling apart at the end. But you saw this and you just...hung up on me. This is when you became my hero. I knew then that you were strong enough to protect yourself from me and not die by hanging up, almost like you didn't even care at all. The next week, you went on as if it didn't impact you at all, and as if nothing had happened, no follow up or review, nothing. But it didn't matter to me, because I was so relieved you weren't dead. You told me you didn't think I had what it takes to heal. You said it again over and over and every time it reminded me how far I still had to go and how honest you were willing to be when no one else would. All I ever needed was someone who wouldn't be destroyed by me. This is why I've been able to go to places with you I've never gone with anyone else. -Anonymous

