Cosmic Birth

Julia Sahalie
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This podcast explores our earliest beginning —known as Early Primal Experience, - from preconception, the womb, through birth and early childhood This is a space for anyone who’s ever felt that something early — before words, before memory — shaped how safe, connected, or worthy they feel today. We explore how our earliest beginnings, from the womb through birth and early attachment, leave imprints that still live in the body… and how understanding them can change everything. You are invited into a mystical realm of remembering how you were shaped, and to allow your authentic self to emerge.

  1. Sep 22

    The first relational dance from womb to birth and the way we meet life.

    Have you ever wondered why you respond to change the way you do? When life gets difficult, do you push harder? Fight? Freeze? Feel trapped and desperately look for a way out? Or can you somehow feel your way through and respond to what is actually happening? What if some of these patterns began much earlier than we realize? In this episode of Cosmic Birth, we explore birth as one of our first experiences of change, pressure, movement, relationship, and emergence. Drawing from Stanislav Grof’s Basic Perinatal Matrices, the physiology of labor, maternal-baby communication, and stories of birth and primal experience, we explore a fascinating question: What if birth was one of the first times we ever practiced meeting life? From the womb to the birth canal and finally into the world, a baby is not simply a passenger. There is movement, pressure, resistance, timing, support, and an ongoing dance between baby, mother, body, and environment. And perhaps the way we learned to move through that first great transition can offer clues about how we meet challenges today. Do you tend to push when you're under pressure?Do you feel trapped when there doesn't seem to be a way out?Do you create another crisis just when things begin to go well?Do you struggle to receive help or soften into support? These patterns don't necessarily mean something is wrong with you. They may be familiar ways your system learned to meet difficulty. And the beautiful possibility is that familiar patterns can be met with new experiences. You can learn that pressure doesn't always mean danger.That being stuck doesn't mean there is no way through.That you don't have to do everything alone.And that you can stay connected to yourself while moving through change. Perhaps the question isn't simply, “What happened to me?” Perhaps it is: “How did I learn to dance with life and what new dance is possible now?” This episode explores the Basic Perinatal Matrices as a therapeutic and experiential framework, not as established evidence that birth determines adult personality or behavior. Interview with Sarito about Primal Therapy on You-Tube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kAJp7M0wggo Visit my Website https://cosmicbirth.com/ Take the Early Primal Core Needs Quiz  https://cosmicbirth.com/gpt/primalneedsquiz-gpt Take the Core Fear Quiz: http://cosmicbirth.com/core-fear-quiz Follow me on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/juliasahalie Follow me on Substack https://substack.com/@juliasahaliecosmicbirth

  2. Sep 10

    The First Conversation: How We Learn to Make Contact Before We Have Words

    What if your first experience of relationship began long before you were born? We tend to think of communication as something we do with words, talking, explaining, asking for what we need, solving problems. But communication is much older than language. Before we could speak, we were already moving toward and away from contact. We were responding to our environment. We were sensing, moving, receiving, reaching, and adapting. In this episode, we travel all the way back to what Ray Castellino called “first touch”, the moment of implantation, when the developing blastocyst first makes physical contact with the lining of the mother’s uterus. Castellino’s work explores pre- and perinatal experience through somatic and relational approaches. And fascinatingly, the biology of implantation really does involve communication: the developing embryo and uterine lining exchange molecular signals in a complex, reciprocal process. In other words, before mother and baby ever look at one another, there is already an extraordinary biological conversation taking place. From there, we explore the developing mother-baby relationship as a kind of dance of contact. And eventually, this becomes the beginning of a lifelong human question: What happens in me when I reach toward someone and what happens when someone reaches toward me? We look at how our earliest experiences of contact may offer a new way of understanding the relationship patterns we carry today: pursuing, withdrawing, freezing, bracing, pleasing, reaching, retreating, or losing ourselves in the other person. Because sometimes what we call a “communication problem” may actually be a connection problem. Why communication begins long before wordsRay Castellino's concept of “first touch”The remarkable biological conversation involved in implantationThe developing relationship between mother and babyWhy the baby may be better understood as a participant rather than simply a passengerThe idea of the mother and baby as a dynamic relational unitHow contact, safety, belonging, attunement, and trust may enter our experience incredibly earlyWhy our earliest experiences may become orientations toward life rather than conscious storiesThe “dance of contact” we continue to participate in throughout our adult relationshipsA simple somatic practice for exploring your own relationship with reaching and contactJoin the Inner Infant Sanctuary https://cosmicbirth.com/page/iis-registration Visit my Website https://cosmicbirth.com/ Take the Early Primal Core Needs Quiz  https://cosmicbirth.com/gpt/primalneedsquiz-gpt Take the Core Fear Quiz: http://cosmicbirth.com/core-fear-quiz Follow me on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/juliasahalie Follow me on Substack https://substack.com/@juliasahaliecosmicbirth

  3. Sep 2

    Early Primal Alcemy: Transmuting 7 Core fears From the Earliest Beginnings into 7 Core Strengths

    This episode comes from the archives an interview with Darius Barazendeh on the You Wealth on June 6, 2023 Have you ever felt ike there was another part ofyou responding to a situation out of fear andyou just didn't know why? Maybe you reacted impulsively out of anger, or you found yourself shutting down and freezing or maybe you tried to get what you wanted by being indirect rather than just being open and honest. It's most likely because you were afraid you weren't' going to get your needs met and so you did wha tyou've probalby awlays done since you came into this world. this part of you that is behaving this way is the little infant within you who didn't get he/her needs met back then and so you continued to do what you learned to do to surviev, control or protect. On this call Julia shares: What the 7 core fears are and their shadow and light side and archetypes. When these fears began during the 5 phases of your Early Primal Experience. How to decode these early primal fears in your life and how they affect you today. What are some of the earliest imprints you have that shape the rest of your life. the gift that comes from moving through each of the fears and how to meet what was unment from the earliest beginnins. How your life between lives (pre-conception) prepared you for this lifetime. An activation to connect with the divine spark of your life mission. The Birth Rescripting special offer to align your soul's blueprint by transmuting your early primal fears into your life's mission. Join the Inner Infant Sanctuary https://cosmicbirth.com/page/iis-registration Visit my Website https://cosmicbirth.com/ Take the Early Primal Core Needs Quiz  https://cosmicbirth.com/gpt/primalneedsquiz-gpt Take the Core Fear Quiz: http://cosmicbirth.com/core-fear-quiz Follow me on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/juliasahalie Follow me on Substack https://substack.com/@juliasahaliecosmicbirth

  4. Aug 19

    Before We Had Words: What Does a Baby Remember? What if the story of your life began long before you could tell it?

    What if the story of your life began long before you could tell it? A newborn can't say, “I was frightened.”They can't say, “I felt safe when someone held me.”They can't tell us what it was like to leave the womb and enter the world. But does the absence of language mean the absence of experience? In this episode of the Cosmic Birth Podcast, we explore prenatal awareness and birth memory. David Chamberlain's work challenged conventional ideas about what babies are capable of experiencing and remembering. His research and collection of birth-memory accounts included children who described sensations and events surrounding their own births. We also explore the work of Thomas Verny and the development of prenatal and perinatal psychology, along with what developmental science tells us about the remarkable sensory and learning capacities of babies before and around birth. An incredible story is shared of a grown man who still recalls his own birth experience. Then we take a step further. What if our earliest experiences aren't remembered as stories? What if they become orientations toward life? Before we have words, might we already be learning: Is the world safe?Will someone come when I need them?Am I welcome?Can I trust?Do I belong?Is it safe to have needs?Can I reach for someone?And then we enter even more mysterious territory: the reports collected by Elizabeth and Neil Carman in Cosmic Cradle, including accounts from adults and children who describe experiences of consciousness before birth, choosing parents, previewing a life, and entering the womb. The Carmans describe more than 100 such stories and cross-cultural accounts from 108 cultures and traditions. Perhaps the most interesting question isn't simply: “Does a baby remember?” Perhaps it's: “What is the baby experiencing?” And perhaps an even deeper question is waiting underneath: What if the beginning of our story is not the beginning of our consciousness? In this episode, we explore the space between science, developmental psychology, birth experience, memory, consciousness and mystery. Because maybe your earliest story didn't begin when you learned to speak. Maybe it began before you had words. Prenatal awareness and early sensory developmentDavid Chamberlain and reported birth memoriesThomas Verny and prenatal psychologyThe difference between autobiographical memory and early learningBirth as a profound transition for the developing babyHow early experiences might become patterns or orientations rather than conscious memoriesThe primal questions that may exist before languageReports of pre-birth consciousness and soul memoryCosmic Cradle by Elizabeth and Neil CarmanThe question of whether consciousness can exist independently of the brainWhat we know, what people report, and what remains a mysteryWhy healing doesn't necessarily require recovering a literal memoryAnd ultimately: What does your life seem to remember even if you don't? Join the Inner Infant Sanctuary https://cosmicbirth.com/page/iis-registration Visit my Website https://cosmicbirth.com/ Take the Early Primal Core Needs Quiz  https://cosmicbirth.com/gpt/primalneedsquiz-gpt Take the Core Fear Quiz: http://cosmicbirth.com/core-fear-quiz Follow me on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/juliasahalie Follow me on Substack https://substack.com/@juliasahaliecosmicbirth

  5. Aug 11

    When the Past Is Still Happening: The Two Circles of Trauma

    Have you ever had a reaction that seemed much bigger than the moment? Someone becomes quiet and suddenly you feel anxious. Someone is disappointed in you and you feel as though you've done something terribly wrong. Someone pulls away and your whole body begins preparing for abandonment, even though you know, logically, that you're safe. Why does this happen? In this episode of the Cosmic Birth Podcast, Julia Sahalie explores two ways of understanding what may be happening when we become triggered: the unfinished response and the anticipated threat. Drawing from Peter Levine's work with trauma and unfinished defensive responses, along with the emerging understanding of predictive processing, Julia explores a fascinating possibility: sometimes the body may be responding to something that was never fully resolved, while at other times it may be anticipating something it learned to expect from the past. And sometimes, these two processes may overlap. We explore: • What happens when a defensive response can't be completed• How the nervous system learns to anticipate what might happen next• Why a present-day situation can evoke such a powerful response• The difference between what is actually happening and what our system expects will happen• How early relational experiences can shape patterns of protection and adaptation• Why some behaviors we think of as "personality" may have once been intelligent survival strategies• The connection between unfinished responses, anticipation, and adaptation• How these patterns may begin before we have words to describe them• What happens when we become curious about our body's responses rather than judging them• Four questions you can ask yourself the next time something triggers you Most importantly, this episode isn't about finding something wrong with yourself or digging endlessly for a traumatic memory. It's about becoming curious. What is happening right now?What is my body doing?What does it expect will happen next?And is there something in me that is still trying to do, say, protect, or complete something? Because sometimes the body isn't telling you exactly what happened. Sometimes it's telling you what it learned. The Cosmic Birth Podcast explores the psychological, spiritual, and mystical dimensions of our earliest experiences—from before conception, through the womb and birth, and into early childhood—and how these beginnings may shape the people we are becoming today. Join the Inner Infant Sanctuary https://cosmicbirth.com/page/iis-registration Visit my Website https://cosmicbirth.com/ Take the Early Primal Core Needs Quiz  https://cosmicbirth.com/gpt/primalneedsquiz-gpt Take the Core Fear Quiz: http://cosmicbirth.com/core-fear-quiz Follow me on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/juliasahalie Follow me on Substack https://substack.com/@juliasahaliecosmicbirth Keywords: trauma and memory, nervous system, body memory, implicit memory, predictive processing, trauma responses, triggers, Peter Levine, somatic experiencing, attachment, early developmental experience, birth imprints, nervous system regulation, healing trauma

  6. Jul 28

    When Something in You Reacts Why Does My Body Know Something My Mind Doesn't?

    When Something in You Reacts: Why Does My Body Know Something My Mind Doesn't? Have you ever had a reaction that seemed bigger than the moment? You know you're safe, but your body doesn't seem to know it. Someone gets quiet, and you feel anxious. Someone is disappointed in you, and suddenly you feel like you've done something terribly wrong. Someone pulls away, and your body begins preparing for abandonment, even though your mind knows this person loves you. You may find yourself wondering: Why am I reacting this way? What is wrong with me? What am I not remembering? In this episode, we explore the fascinating relationship between memory, the body, the nervous system, and our earliest experiences. We often hear the phrase, "The body remembers what the mind forgets." But what if the truth is a little more nuanced? What if the body isn't storing a hidden recording of the past? What if it is expressing what our experiences have taught us to expect? Perhaps our bodies don't simply remember the past. Perhaps they predict the future based on what they've learned from the past. We explore implicit memory, somatic patterns, breath, posture, sensation, emotion, and the ways experiences can become embodied even when we have no conscious story about them. We consider the possibility that some of the things we call personality: people-pleasing, perfectionism, hypervigilance, caretaking, or even difficulty receiving love, may have once been intelligent adaptations. And if our bodies learned through experience, what might they need to experience now in order to learn something new? This episode invites you to move away from the question, "What's wrong with me?" and toward curiosity: What did my system learn to expect? What is my body trying to protect me from? And what might I need to experience now to feel something different? Perhaps healing isn't always about finding the missing memory. Perhaps sometimes, healing is about creating a new experience. Join me as we explore the living past within us and the possibility that our bodies are not broken, but communicating a story that is ready to be understood. The Cosmic Birth Podcast explores the psychological, spiritual, and mystical dimensions of our earliest experiences—from before conception, through the womb and birth, and into early childhood—and how these beginnings may shape the people we are becoming today. Join the Inner Infant Sanctuary https://cosmicbirth.com/page/iis-registration Visit my Website https://cosmicbirth.com/ Take the Early Primal Core Needs Quiz https://juliasahalie.outgrow.us/PrimalCoreNeeds Take the Core Fear Quiz: http://cosmicbirth.com/core-fear-quiz Follow me on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/juliasahalie Follow me on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/juliasahalie Follow me on Substack https://substack.com/@juliasahaliecosmicbirth

  7. Jul 22

    Pre-Birth Memories: What does the baby remember?

    What Does the Baby Remember? What if your story began before your first conscious memory? We often think of memory as something that begins when we are old enough to talk, to remember people, places, and events. But what if memory is more than what we can consciously recall? What if our earliest experiences are held in the body, the nervous system, our emotional patterns or even in some deeper layer of consciousness? In this episode of the Cosmic Birth Podcast, Julia explores one of the most fascinating questions in prenatal and perinatal psychology: If babies are conscious before birth, what might they be experiencing? We'll explore the pioneering work of David Chamberlain and Thomas Verny, along with ideas from prenatal psychology, birth psychology, developmental neuroscience, trauma research, and the growing conversation around consciousness and memory. Together, we'll wonder about: • What babies may perceive and experience in the womb• Whether prenatal experiences can influence us later in life• The possibility of birth memory and implicit body memory• How the emotional environment surrounding pregnancy may affect the developing baby• What a baby might experience during birth and the transition into the world• The difference between conscious memory and implicit, emotional, and bodily memory• Whether our earliest experiences shape our expectations about safety, connection, trust, and belonging• What it might mean to consider birth as our first major relational experience This is an invitation to become curious about the possibility that our story began much earlier than we have been taught to believe. Perhaps our first memories aren't stored as pictures or words. Perhaps they are held as sensations. As expectations. As a felt sense of whether the world is safe, whether someone will come when we call, whether we belong, and whether we are welcomed here. And perhaps the question isn't only: What does the baby remember? But also: What has the baby never forgotten? Join me as we move closer to the beginning of the human story and explore what your earliest experiences might have to say about the person you are becoming today. Join the Inner Infant Sanctuary https://cosmicbirth.com/page/iis-registration Visit my Website https://cosmicbirth.com/ Take the Early Primal Core Needs Quiz https://juliasahalie.outgrow.us/PrimalCoreNeeds Take the Core Fear Quiz: http://cosmicbirth.com/core-fear-quiz Follow me on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/juliasahalie Follow me on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/juliasahalie ABOUT THE PODCAST:The Cosmic Birth Podcast explores birth imprints, prenatal psychology, attachment wounds, primal needs, nervous system healing, spirituality, soul remembrance, relational trauma, authentic embodiment, and the journey back to wholeness. Hosted by Julia Sahalie — Story Birth Midwife, guide, and creator of the Inner Infant Sanctuary. #attachmenttrauma #birthimprints #belongingwound #authenticity #nervoussystemhealing #developmentaltrauma #reparenting #highlysensitiveperson #shadowwork #healingjourney #somatichealing #selfabandonment #innerinfantsanctuary #cosmicbirthpodcast

  8. Jul 7

    The Disappointed Dreamer: Why Hope Begins to Feel Dangerous (and How to Trust Life Again)

    What if the opposite of hope isn't despair... but self-protection? Have you ever caught yourself saying: "What's the point?""It probably won't work anyway.""I don't want to get my hopes up."We often call this pessimism. But what if it's something much more tender? In this episode of the Cosmic Birth Podcast, Julia Sahalie explores The Disappointed Dreamer—the part of us that quietly stopped dreaming after experiencing too many disappointments. Together, we'll uncover how early experiences in the womb, birth, childhood, and our closest relationships can shape a nervous system that learns to protect itself from hope. You'll discover: • Why hope can begin to feel emotionally unsafe• The developmental origins of expecting disappointment• How repeated unmet hopes create protective patterns• The hidden gifts of the Disappointed Dreamer• The beliefs that quietly shape our relationships, careers, and dreams• Why healing isn't about "thinking positive"• How safety, support, and nervous system capacity allow hope to return naturally Julia also shares a gentle fireside story about an old apple tree that had forgotten how to bloom—and the patient gardener who reminded it that healing begins at the roots. If you've ever felt afraid to dream again, this episode is an invitation to discover that perhaps nothing is wrong with your heart. Maybe your heart has simply been waiting for the right conditions to bloom again. "Hope deferred makes the heart sick, but a longing fulfilled is a tree of life." — Proverbs 13:12 Healing isn't learning to hope harder. It's creating the inner conditions where hope can quietly return. Join the Inner Infant Sanctuary https://cosmicbirth.com/page/iis-registration Visit my Website https://cosmicbirth.com/ Take the Early Primal Core Needs Quiz https://juliasahalie.outgrow.us/PrimalCoreNeeds Take the Core Fear Quiz: http://cosmicbirth.com/core-fear-quiz Follow me on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/juliasahalie Follow me on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/juliasahalie ABOUT THE PODCAST:The Cosmic Birth Podcast explores birth imprints, prenatal psychology, attachment wounds, primal needs, nervous system healing, spirituality, soul remembrance, relational trauma, authentic embodiment, and the journey back to wholeness. Hosted by Julia Sahalie — Story Birth Midwife, guide, and creator of the Inner Infant Sanctuary. #attachmenttrauma #birthimprints #belongingwound #authenticity #nervoussystemhealing #developmentaltrauma #reparenting #highlysensitiveperson #shadowwork #healingjourney #somatichealing #selfabandonment #innerinfantsanctuary #cosmicbirthpodcast

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This podcast explores our earliest beginning —known as Early Primal Experience, - from preconception, the womb, through birth and early childhood This is a space for anyone who’s ever felt that something early — before words, before memory — shaped how safe, connected, or worthy they feel today. We explore how our earliest beginnings, from the womb through birth and early attachment, leave imprints that still live in the body… and how understanding them can change everything. You are invited into a mystical realm of remembering how you were shaped, and to allow your authentic self to emerge.

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  • Creator
    Julia Sahalie
  • Years Active
    2022 - 2026
  • Episodes
    60
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © Julia Sahalie
  • Show Website
    Cosmic Birth