64. Laurie Anne Briere: Pre-natal Consciousness (It starts before you're born!‪)‬ Spiraling Higher

For the very first time on the Spiraling Higher Pod, we invited a guest to come back for round 2! Laurie Anne Briere, a practitioner, Transforming Touch therapist and breathwork facilitator who specializes in early trauma resolution returned to the pod to share her expertise on Neo-natal psychology and discuss the impact of early childhood experiences on our sense of safety and well-being as adults. We had a fascinating conversation around consciousness beginning before birth and how babies create memories, even if they are implicit and non-narrative.

This heart-led conversation explores the importance of feeling safe in our bodies and how early trauma can disrupt the ability to find that felt sense of okay-ness. Together we expressed a deep compassion for how tough simple daily living can be for someone in a body that experienced early traumatic memories or experiences for which they will never have words or narratives for given that they occurred before our mental capacities developed.

Whether you are aware of such possible early childhood or pre-natal experiences, Laurie Anne offers us hope that we can, at any time, learn how to become a secure base for our own selves and others and create a sense of safety again, no matter how unsafe or confusing we have felt in the past.

After listening to this conversation, you will feel an unexpectedly enormous well of compassion for why you and others may react and cope in the often hurtful ways we do. And although there may have been early experiences out of our control that negatively impacted us, the power is in our hands to expand the capacity for discomfort and create a safe world within ourselves.

Timestamps:

03:33 Consciousness and Early Memories
05:29 The Impact of Early Experiences on Safety
21:58 Becoming a Secure Base
22:26 The Need for Validation and Mirroring
23:19 The Impact of Early Life Experiences on the Nervous System
24:14 The Healing Power of Touch
29:43 The Impact of Proprioception on Sense of Self
33:00 The Transition from Living in the Mind to Living in the Heart
34:07 The Difficulty of Daily Living with a Hijacked Nervous System
36:09 The Impact of Early Attachment and the Role of Caregivers
40:41 Processing Traumatic Birth Experiences
45:18 Connecting with the Child Before Conception and During Pregnancy
47:12 The Primal Fear of Not Being Liked
51:10 Learning to Expand Capacity for Uncomfortable Sensations
56:43 Navigating the Tension Between Doing and Being

Also, if you haven’t already…make sure to listen to Laurie Anne on Episode 28: Finding Our True Selves By Healing Through The Nervous System.
In that episode, we discussed:

-Somatic Work
-Understanding trauma responses and coping mechanisms
-How to process emotions through the body (not the mind!)
-Emotional regulation
-Burnout!
-Shifting from the sympathetic nervous system to a parasympathetic (rest & digest) state

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