The Parenting Journey
Fertility & Conception
- The Mind-Body Connection in Fertility & Pregnancy
- Conscious Conception ~ Parenting Right from the Start
- Concepción Consciente – Padres Desde el Inicio
Pregnancy, Birth & Postpartum
- Inviting Fathers In: The Tender Beginnings of Attachment in Men
- What Do We Really Need? Beyond the Store Purchases
- Raising Generation PAX: Peace Begins With How We Parent, from the Very Beginning
- Teach Me Your World, Mommy - Meaningful Early Education
- Lifelong Lessons From The Womb
- Moms & Dads, Who is the Boss of You? - The Force of Culture Upon Birth & Parenting Choices
- Honoring the New Mother - Telling Our Stories, Tending Our Souls
- Mother and Child Communion: A Collective Challenge for Our Future
- What Is The Primal Wound? Understanding mother-newborn separation
- When the Joy of the Mother is Missing - An Organic Perspective on Postpartum Depression
- Keeping Our Children Whole - Preventive Parenting in a Noisy World
- Of Love & Milk: Facing our Breastfeeding Ambivalence
- Holiday Invitation for the New Mother Or, How to Keep the Thanks in Thanksgiving
From Infancy Onward
- From Presence to Simplicity: Cliff Notes for P-A-R-E-N-T-S
- The Present Parent: A Different Take on Attention Deficit
- Childhood Builds a Healthy Brain - The Importance of Playing, Puttering, and Pretending
- Just Say NO to Baby Einstein - by Michael Mendizza
- To Praise or Not To Praise - What Children Need to Hear and Not Hear from Parents and Teachers
- Wolf-Wise Parenting - Fairy Tale Wisdom for A Modern Dilemma
- A Mother’s Call to Healing - Originally published in Whole Life Times, July 1995
- In The Flow: The Intimate Ecology of Womanpower
For All of Those Interested in Adoption
I am delighted and honored that legendary Mothering magazine editor Peggy O'Mara has invited me to join Mothering.com as their expert on adoption (as well as prenatal parenting and parenting for peace), providing answers to questions submitted by readers. I invite you to explore some lesser-discussed dimensions of adoption by reading past questions and answers at the Mothering.com's Expert Forum... and you can also submit your own question!
For many years I have also been the editor of the adoption column for the Association for Prenatal & Perinatal Psychology and Health (APPPAH), entitled Newborn Adoption: The Lifelong Psychological Matrix. These articles speak to the understanding that we are powerfully affected by events very early in our lives... including conception, our time in our mother’s womb, our birth, and infancy. There are few areas of human experience in which the principles of prenatal and perinatal psychology and health are so vividly illustrated as in adoption!
For Birth Parents
- Saying Hello Before Good-bye - Keeping a Birth Mother’s Journal
- The Profound Importance of a Mother’s “Hello” - More On Keeping a Birth Mother’s Journal
For Adoptive Parents
- Authentic Beginnings, Real Bonds: Honest Talk About Adoption
- Painful Lessons - What We Must Learn About Open Adoption
- Affirming the Adoptee’s Reality: A Way to Intimacy
For Adoptive Parents & Birth Parents
- A Different Kind of Relationship: Thoughts on Adoption - An Interview with Nancy Verrier
- Between Adoptive Parents and Birth Mothers - More Thoughts on “A Different Kind of Relationship”
For Adoptees & Birth Parents
- The Second Rejection - The Pain After Reunion
For Adoptees & Adoptive Parents
- What Is The Primal Wound? - Understanding The Trauma of Infant-Maternal Separation
- In Appreciation of The Primal Wound