How Conscious Are Babies In The Womb?
An interview with embryologist, Stephanie Mines, PhD
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How much are we aware of while in our Mother’s wombs? In this conversation with Stephanie Mines we discuss the in-utero period of our lives and how pre-birth experiences can deeply shape our perspectives of the world and our expectations of life.
About the Secret of Resilience & Stephanie’s Work
When neuroscientist Stephanie Mines started practicing the hands-on healing Art of Compassion, she began to unravel the mystery of trauma and the secret to resilience. As a survivor of early childhood abuse, police brutality as a social justice activist, and a series of dysfunctional and abusive relationships, Mines was profoundly curious about how the human nervous system finds resilience despite the cumulative burden of chronic stress and traumatic life events. While earning her doctorate in neuropsychology, she met Mary Iino Burmeister, master of the Art of Compassion, or Jin Shin Jyutsu. Art of Compassion consists of non-invasive touch, using the fingertips, on sites of the body that are similar to acupuncture points.
After the Art of Compassion helped Mines resolve her own trauma and awaken her innate resilience, she began to incorporate it into her clinical research. She discovered that the map of the body she learned from Burmeister sites correlated with the Chinese Extraordinary Meridians or Rivers of Splendor, which develop prenatally. She then began investigating our earliest neurodevelopmental processes and was able to correlate the Extraordinary Meridians with specific embryological events. She found that subtle touch on these sites in combination with trauma resolution amplifies neuroresilience, enhances creativity, restores motivation, and heals the fragmentation and disconnection associated with trauma and shock.
Sharing her personal journey as a Wounded Healer, Mines reveals not only how to unlock the secrets of resilience for individual healing but also how embodied resilience will help us heal our wounded planet.
Personal, lyrical, poetic and steeped in the science of embryogenesis, The Secret to Resilience guides you in reclaiming who you truly are, no matter what overwhelming experience appears to have distracted you from the truth. As we inhabit a world that tests our endurance, resilience, adaptability and alignment, The Secret to Resilience shows us in profoundly personal ways how we have never lost any one of those attributes.