PHILOSOPHY  >  THE PRIMARY QUESTION

The Primary Period is the time beginning pre- conception and lasting through the end of the first year of life. It is during this sensitive time that the basis for our nervous systems, immune systems and emotional coping stategies are developed.

 

Science is beginning to understand how babies communicate with us even when they do not have all the words. We are looking at how babies grow, the way they move and the signs they give us, even from inside the womb, to show us their feelings and needs.

 

It's an exciting time in history where we are learning more than we've ever known about what babies experience, respond to and remember, even from inside the womb.

 

We are challenged as individuals and as cultures if we consider the implications when we know this. How can we provide the most emotionally and physically nutritious environment for children to be conceived and reared in? And how can we remain compassionate with ourselves if we unknowingly have missed opportunities as parents and community members to do this?

 

It is encouraging to learn that it is never too late to begin the repair process with even the most unwanted and difficult experiences from the perinatal period and childhood.

 

We already know that if families can receive the proper support through rest, time together, naturally grown food and the emotional support of their community, they are already making their journey easier and more enjoyable.

 

Emerging Families adds the Family Field healing model which offers the ability to differentiate unmet needs we may have had as prenates (babies in the womb), and as young babies. Experiences from these times have affected us in ways that are so subtle and ingrained that we sometimes do not have words for them. We often unknowingly pass these needs on to relationships, jobs, our students and to our children and in the style with which we birth. Very few therapies access this layer of awareness because it is often preverbal.

 

Emerging Families' programs aim to do this gently and compassionately.

 

We hope by resolving the impact difficult experiences have had on us from the Primary Period and early life that we effectively free ourselves from reactivity in our nervous systems, immune systems, and emotions, so our lives become more fluid and authentic.