A More Beautiful Life with Kate White

Ilja van de Griend is a Dutch-Portuguese transpersonal psychotherapist, Certified Compassionate Inquiry Practitioner, trainer, and co-founder of AlmaSoma Transpersonal Training Institute. She is also a mother of three daughters. With more than 20 years of clinical and educational experience, she specializes in Pre- and Perinatal Therapy for both adults and babies. She is certified by EUROTAS and i...

Frank Carbone offers support and guidance in experiential and creative ways to explore movement, sensation, and deep healing through an embryonic journey from within. Through Continuum practices, participants track and reflect on the sensations of being held in a womb-like field of co-creative bio-resonant expression—exploring the restorative capacity of fluid to dissolve, reorganize, and return t...

This is a very special interview with therapist and author, Jasmin Lee Cori. Her book, The Emotionally Absent Mother: How to Recognize and Heal the Invisible Effect of Childhood Emotional Neglect was pivotal for me when exploring mothering and my history as a daughter. I found reading her book very healing, and I have adopted her affirmations as those I use when helping others, especially adults w...

Klaus Käppeli, MSc, is a psychologist and psychotherapist of the Federation of the Swiss Psychologists (FSP). After his studies in curative education and psychology, he worked as a school psychologist in St. Gallen, Switzerland. Since 1988 he has a private practice in somatic psychotherapy with a focus on pre- and perinatal psychology. He works with adults, families, couples, young adults, childre...

Eileen is a Pre-and Peri-Natal Somatic Educator and Practitioner, Registered Craniosacral Therapist (RCST®), Certified Massage Therapist (CMT,) a Castellino School Approved Womb Surround Facilitator and Breema® Instructor and Practitioner. Eileen works with adults, individually and in groups and families with babies, children and teens to help understand how early traumatic events show up in the p...

As a Creative Healing Consultant and Artist, Tara Evonne Trudell, (Santee Sioux/Rarámuri/Xicana) weaves multiple mixed media of handmade paper beads, poetry, photography, film, and audio components into her work to express her creative visions that address the many social issues she sees as a continuance of generational trauma on women and children.  Tara makes beads from the many reports, researc...

Margaretta is an intuitive healer and clairvoyant who assists clients in connecting with all aspects of their multidimensional selves so that life can be lived and experienced from a larger perspective and a higher frequency. She has learned how to access wisdom directly from the higher planes. Her approach to transformational healing combines her formal training at the Barbara Brennan School of H...

 Dr. Stephanie House is a board-certified physical therapist and vestibular specialist. She works with people suffering from dizziness and chronic pain at her practice, House of Balance Integrative Health and PT. Dr. House has a passion for whole-body healing. She holds certifications in vestibular therapy, yoga therapy, lifestyle medicine, and dry needling. Her methods help those struggling with...

Shatia Owsley is a holistic psychosocial and trauma practitioner who has worked in the maternal health and social services field for over 18 years. Her professional journey has allowed her to work closely with teen moms, infants and children with complex medical conditions, as well as women and families with varying life transformations. In 2010, Shatia began shifting her approach to incorporate m...

Rachel Smith (they/she) is a Licensed Massage Therapist and Integrated Prenatal and Perinatal Practitioner. They grew up on unceded Monacan territory known as Charlottesville, VA and have always felt deeply rooted in the community and in the land itself, particularly the Blue Ridge mountains. Smith attended the Virginia School of Massage and completed studies there in 2002. They went on to graduat...

Dr. Gauri Lowe, a medical doctor and natural birth specialist, draws on over two decades of experience supporting women. After her own homebirth during studies, she became an advocate for physiological birth, later apprenticing with a homebirth midwife to learn how to support homebirths. Since her second son's birth (in water, at home), Dr. Gauri divides her time between South Africa and rura...

Marinah identifies as an indigiqueer chicana daughter of a spiritual, artistic mother from Chihuahua, Mexico who taught her traditional medicine, a Chicano musician and Engineer father from the borderlands, and mother to indigenous mixed-race children and grandchildren. Marinah is the owner of Phoenix Midwife and the founder of Indigenous Birth, an umbrella organization for diverse advocacy and he...

Ashley Brichter is a life-long educator, birth worker, consultant, and entrepreneur. In addition to improving maternal health, she is a champion for systemic reforms to improve the lives of families by rebalancing the division of labor at home and funding parental leave, universal health care, and progressive early childhood education. Despite her experience with hundreds of families as a doula, l...

After spending her early career in the corporate world Lynn transitioned into the field of Prenatal and Perinatal Psychology after becoming a parent. She currently supports adults and families with early attachment trauma histories and is serving as the Vice President on the Board of Directors at APPPAH. She is a graduate of the Castellino Foundations training as well as a Prenatal and Perinatal E...

Margery Segal LPC, RSMT, IDME, PPN is the founder of the Whole Movement Center PLLC located in Austin, Texas. She has spent the last 20 years teaching her embodied approach to pre/perinatal psychology and somatic attachment and bonding in Brasil, Australia, Canada and Texas. She works with individuals, families, couples, infants, children, and people of all ages on early developmental attachment t...

Episode 64: Klaus Evertz, Art, Body, Psychotherapist and Writer in Prenatal and Perinatal Psychology Klaus Evertz, lecturer, works as psycho-, art- and body therapist in own office and Center for Palliative Medicine, University Hospital Cologne. Painter and cultural psychologist. Research in Images as Forms of Consciousness. Lectureships at the Universities Cologne and Dresden, the University for...

This interview is part of the preparation for the series: Supporting Families to Integrate their Birth and Early Experiences , that is a fundraiser for the clinic that is run by Tara and Mary, the Building and Enhancing Bonding and Attachment Clinic.   Tara Blasco has a Ph. D in prenatal and perinatal psychology from the Santa Barbara Graduate Institute, and has worked at the BEBA clinic since 200...

Freddy is an inspirational and transformational speaker, mentor, personal trainer, educator, author, and founder of The Love No Ego Foundation ,lnc. rginia.   Freddy's  Love...No Ego philosophy serves as the foundation for pushing the human spirit into greatness. He helps clients to remove biases, fear, and judgement, while simultaneously igniting their intuition to produce monumental results...

Olga is a prenatal psychologist, researcher, author of books, editor of collective authorship projects, Editor of the academic journal, designer of educational programmes in Prenatal Sciences, Professional Education Trainer of many successful educational courses in the field of prenatal psychology internationally. Olga created the Programme Health Promotion "WELCOME" for pregnant couples...

Mara Tesler Stein, Psy. D., PMH-C is a clinical psychologist and EMDR consultant and trainer in Chicago and Jerusalem. She is the founder and director of The Touchstone Institute for Perinatal Training where she offers advanced EMDR trainings which take deep dives into the intersections and applications of EMDR and perinatal mental health. As Senior Faculty with the Institute for Creative Mindfuln...

Frank Carbone Is a Singer/Songwriter,and DJ from Queens, New York. He  has been performing since 15 years old and is a dedicated practitioner and  teacher in the field of somatic health and well-being for over 25  years. He has extensive training with Emilie Conrad and Susan Harper and  is a 1st generation Continuum Teacher,and is a certified practitioner in Prenatal and Perinatal Somatic psycholo...

Jo Lloyd is the founder of mumabuba and has spent the last 20 years supporting women and babies through conception, pregnancy, birth, postnatally and breastfeeding. Her unique approach to support uses a combination of multiple therapies, including reflexology, bodywork, Cranial Sacral Therapy, Shiatsu and pre & perinatal somatic psychology, as well as her deep knowledge of lactation and breast...

Jerusha is a doula, and birth photographer & videographer based in Sydney. She trained as a doula in 2006 through Childbirth International, and has since worked extensively as a birth and postnatal doula in both London and Sydney. Jerusha found the beauty of birth so captivating that she soon trained in photography so she could capture the magic of what she was seeing with her doula clients, t...

I asked Nir Esterman to return for us to have a conversation about his shadow work. Our last conversation had several short explorations of several topics, so in this podcast, we had a longer conversation about how we can be better leaders, teachers and therapists. After 30 minutes, Nir asks a set of hard questions that are simple indicators that your shadow is in operation. They include: What is...

This episode features a conversation with two practitioners: Elisheva Rose Khalfin Elbaz, MSc, BCST, PLC, PPNE, PPNP (they/them):   "My personal experience with pregnancy loss in my early twenties and my family lineages of healing practice inspired me to do this work. I started my practice in 2011, and I am a somatics practitioner, craniosacral therapist, full-spectrum doula, and facilitator....