BIRTH DIFFERENCES

Reclaim your sacred vitality & resource your greatest potential

Develop a deep respect for yourself as a human being by honouring your earliest self 

Explore your earliest imprints and let go of what no longer serves you

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Remember who you really are so that your heart can open to love and be loved

We are all born with birth differences

Although I focus on supporting individuals and families who were born with birth 'defects', helping them to truly understand the meaning behind their situation, I work with women who feel called to explore birth themes, masculine and feminine energy, sacred vitality and spirituality with me.  I have worked with clients with a variety of differences which were likely formed before birth, but only unfolded as children, teenagers or adults. I often get people who say, "I was never diagnosed with ....but I've always felt like this." 

Birth Differences offers private, online sessions, self-paced learning, and group sessions to help you more deeply understand and connect with yourself, so that your true magnificence begins to shine through. The main focus on this site is the Wisdom of Birth Differences, a new paradigm for viewing and working with birth defects developed by myself.

What does Birth Differences offer?

  • Guidance and psychospiritual exploration of birth defects, for adults or in a family context with babies
  • Private 1-1 coaching, trauma resolution, existential / spiritual crisis guidance, birth trauma support for couples, prenatal & perinatal adult education 
  • Small online groups for Healing Birth Trauma (related to Birth Defects), Unfolding Us: The Sacred Parenting Process  
  • Sacred baby bonding birthing group for pregnant women
  • Birth Story Listening groups for understanding the sacred, mythical journey of your transition to motherhood
  • Womb Awakening Private sessions and circles, for healing from miscarriages or sexual trauma
  • A variety of self-paced online courses with optional 1-1 guidance to help you resource your wholeness & restore vitality
  • Sacred Vitality™ reports for insight into your own early imprints and core energy patterns
  • 2 Year Professional education for coaches: Sacred Vitality™ Coaching Certification with CCE's through ICF
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Guiding Principles

These principles offer you a glimpse into how I view the world, the framework from which my courses are designed and the type of guidance you can expect from me

We are conscious sentient beings from the moment of conception

We are wired for connection from the beginning of life

How we are welcomed into the world has far-reaching effects

Reality itself is much more than we can see with the naked eye 

The clues to our life purpose are all around us, all the time

Our lives are each designed to help our souls learn and grow

Our own sacredness is accessible and powerful beyond measure

We can move beyond our suffering once we're truly heard

We are being guided towards wholeness in each moment, and nothing is a coincidence

We are, no matter what, capable of growth & change

Our inner light is always there waiting for us to begin our journey

About Me

 I was born with a rare congenital birth defect called Bladder Exstrophy Epispadias Complex in a time before trauma-informed care existed, and the awareness that babies really do experience pain. My  preconception imprints of my mother's horrific experiences planted a seed for unfolding my soul's journey.  This seed would ultimately lead me to uncover the psychospiritual roots of my birth defect, but also provided me with insight to support others to explore theirs.  Paradoxically, being born with my birth defect, attracted and perpetuated the same violations and threats to the body mind.  

In this process, I have had to heal myself from a significant amount of trauma, which was imparted upon me from layers and layers of trans-generational suffering. Not only the trauma of my parents but also trauma from my parents, the ancestral lineages, and, other karmic residue. 

Through my own research I have come to understand the imperative for us to take a variety of perspectives when attempting to understand illness, disease, and health.  It is science's overemphasis on empiricism which has blinded us from seeing the multifaceted, and sacred aspects of ourselves. 

Here are my key credentials and training.

Psychology/Psychotherapy

  • BA Psychology
  • MSc. (Existential) Psychology & Psychotherapy
  • Core Energetics Practitioner (4-year program)
  • Postgraduate Year Core Energetics
  • Bodynamic Shock & PTSD Practitioner
  • Emotion-Focused Therapy (Greenberg) Levels 1 & 2 (Apanta Academy)
  • Certified Clinical Trauma Training Levels 1 & 2, Janina Fisher
  • Trauma Treatment with EMDR, CBT, & Somatic Interventions, PESI
  • Trauma, The Body Keeps Score, Van der Kolk, PESI
  • Healing Developmental & Shock Trauma, Peter Levine & Diane Poole Heller
  • Advanced Sexuality & Sexual Trauma
  • Tao of Trauma with Alaine Duncan 
  • Formative Embodiment, Dr Jim Feil 
  • NeuroAffective Touch Certification
  • Imago Professional Training


Prenatal & Perinatal Psychology 
  • Integrative Baby Therapy Practitioner (2 year), Matthew Appleton, in progress
  • Birth Mask Reveal, Karlton Terry
  • Pre and Perinatal training, Myrna Martin
  • Building somatic skills, Castellino Training
  • Birth imprints and birth workshops (variety)
  • Embryo in Us, Jaap van der Wal
  • Ongoing mentor group with Karlton Terry
  • APPPAH Prenatal & Perinatal Educator Certificate, in progress
  • Soul Loss, a prenatal perspective


Childbirth / conscious parenting
  • Mindful Hypnobirthing, Sophie Fletcher
  • Dancing for Birth Levels 1 & 2
  • Childbirth educator and Doula training, Childbirth International


Coaching

  • Certified Co-Active Coach (Coaches Training Institute)
  • ICF Credential Coach (PCC Level) (2009)
  • EQi Certified
  • Enneagram Certified


Additional degrees

  • MA Health Research, Lancaster University
  • MSc Education, Capella University
  • Phd Family Business (Leadership and Identity) incomplete


Additional coursework

  • Biodynamic Breathwork
  • Ancestral Medicine, Daniel Foor
  • I AM Yoga Nidra Practitioner Training, Kamini Desai
  • Conscious Breathwork
  • iRest Certification, Level 1
  • YogaBody Breath Coaching
  • Somatic Stress Release
  • Tension Release Exercises Training (TRE)
  • Conscious Manifestation, Eckart Tolle
  • Womb Awakening Practitioner Training, Diana Beaulieu (in process)
  • Sound Healing, John Beaulieu


Publications

(2019) The future of leadership: The courage to be both leader and follower, R van Loon, & A Buster, Journal of Leadership Studies 13 (1), 73-746

(2019) Dialogical leadership: Leading yourself across boundaries of self and culture, (book chapter) R van Loon, AS Buster, Moral and Spiritual Leadership in an Age of Plural Moralities, 107-127

(2020) EMBODIED DIALOGUE, (book chapter) AS Buster, The Dialogical Challenge of Leadership Development

My main areas of focus for individual guidance

Sacred 'Soul' Contracts

Discover your sacred soul contract, based on your full birth name and receive spiritual guidance  

Sacred, Conscious Parenting 

Learn vital skills & ways of being in relationship to yourself and others pre-conception to postpartum

Sacred Womb Healing

Awaken the sacred healing capacities of the womb to regain your feminine power & infinite vitality

Sacred Conception

Prepare for childbirth, understand birth from a sacred perspective, deal effectively with the transition to motherhood 

Sacred Vitality Coaching 

Unleash your vital inner resources so that they you live a life of purpose and meaning

Sacred Life Transitions

From becoming a parent, transitioning to menopause, choosing a new life direction, to losing a loved one or making sense of illness

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