APPPAH Live: Exploring Birth Psychology- Holistic Approach to Economic Mobility Coaching with Stephanie Brueck-Cassoli, MSW, LICSW
Bringing a Holistic Approach to Supporting Families through Economic Mobility Coaching EMPath is best known for its Mobility Mentoring®️ model, a research-backed coaching method for helping people in poverty climb the economic ladder. Since its launch over a decade ago, the model has helped families with low incomes to double and even triple their […]
APPPAH Live: Black Heartbeat Series 2022: What Supporting Black Birthworkers Looks Like with Ashlee Johnson
What Supporting Black Birthworkers Looks Like With a great need for representation and equity in birth work there needs to be a conversation around how to support Black birth workers effectively. Effective support goes beyond good intentions. I will share tangible ways and examples Black birth workers can be supported. Ashlee Johnson Ashlee Jaye Johnson […]
APPPAH Live: Black Heartbeat Series 2022:Black Women in STEM with Angelica Knight, MS, ACSM EP-C, CD (BAI) Birth and Education
Black Women in STEM: Building Bridges Between Birth and Education Education is a large foundational piece to society and how it functions; it's no surprise how birth is no exception. Angelica's higher education experience prepped and guided her into being a doula. Birth leaves a lot of room for anxiety and infinite possibilities, but she […]
APPPAH Connect: Miscarriage
APPPAH Connect Facilitator Ellynne Skove, MA, LCAT, BC-DMT, NCC FOR APPPAH MEMBERS This month APPPAH Connect, our new members monthly meeting, to discuss, listen, and share amidst PPN professionals, is going to focus on the topic of Miscarriage.
APPPAH Live: Black Heartbeat Series 2022: Black Doulas: Heal the Black Maternal Health Crisis with Angie West-Robinson, CBE, CD
Black Doulas: A Holistic Approach to Heal the Black Maternal Health Crisis “Black women are three times more likely to die from a pregnancy-related cause than White women.” ~Centers for Disease Control and Prevention This horrific statistic released in April 2022, has unfortunately been the reality for women of color for decades. What factors contribute […]
APPPAH Live: Black Heartbeat Series 2022: Improving Perinatal Health Outcomes Through Core and Pelvic Floor Health with La’Shandra “Elle” Russell, MSOT, OTR/L, CEIM
Improving Perinatal Health Outcomes for Black and Brown Birthing Persons Through Core and Pelvic Floor Health Presentation on the perinatal core and pelvic floor, including implications of pregnancy and postpartum changes in occupational performance patterns as risk factors for pelvic floor dysfunction, diastasis recti, and decreased maternal mental health; as well as a the role of […]
Live workshop: Initiations of the Sacred Feminine with Dr. Isa Gucciardi
Join Isa Gucciardi, Ph.D., author of Return to the Great Mother and Coming to Peace, for this workshop that helps women understand the initiatory processes that naturally occur throughout their lives. Students will gain a new appreciation for the significant stages in their lives marked by puberty, birth, menopause and even death. They will engage […]
APPPAH Live: Written on Your Face: the story of your emergence into this world with Karlton Terry Co-Founder IPPE
Written on Your Face: the story of your emergence into this world A “birth mask” is what we see in the face of a baby, especially a newborn, or in the features formed by birth that are still apparent in an adult face. It is always called a birth mask, no matter what the age, […]
APPPAH Live: Helping Parents, Children, and Adults Heal from Birth Trauma with Annie Brook, PhD, LPC
Helping Parents, Children, and Adults Heal from Birth Trauma Hear the true-life stories of the impacts of birth trauma healing on children and adults. See why going back to pre-cognitive memory can shift behavior and make birth not a "trauma" but simply an experience. Learn how the nervous system regulates and shapes identity beliefs, and […]
APPPAH Live: Beyond Bonding: The Science of Babywearing with Joanna McNeilly, CBE, CLC, CKCP
Beyond Bonding: The Science of Babywearing You know the impact babywearing makes on bonding for the dyad. However, there is so much more to this ancestral and active practice that makes it worth exploring. Muscle engagement, hip development, social awareness, digestion, sleep management, crying mitigation... just a few things that we will cover during this […]
Nurture Science and Birth Psychology Forum
Exploring Effective Ways to Share Birth Psychology with Medical Professionals You are invited to join our live, virtual forum where we will share with each other what we have found to be effective ways to introduce prenatal and perinatal psychology concepts to our medical colleagues in hospital and clinic settings. As we well know, knowledge […]
APPPAH Live: Promoting Safety and Security in Unsettling Times at Birth with Marilyn R Sanders, MD
Promoting safety and security in unsettling times While most babies transition uneventfully from womb to breast, about one in eight babies in the United States requires some specialized care after birth. For these infants and their parents, the social engagement that begins with the newborn on mother's chest is interrupted. Given the biological expectancy of […]