Today I'm talking to trauma specialist Christine Forner who specializes in dissociation, mindfulness and trauma healing. This conversation was absolutely mind-blowing to me and Christine shares some groundbreaking ideas that I believe are crucial for our continued survival as a species. 🌸

We talk about infants and babies and what happens when they don't get their needs met during the first years of life. We talk about meditation, neurobiology and the possibility of living in an enlightened - not dissociated - state. We're trying to find words for the naturalness, the nurturing and human awareness that exists when all concepts are taken away. We also talk about how we can heal from childhood and intergenerational trauma to live fulfilling lives.

We talk about parenting and the human species as an alloparenting species, meaning not everyone should have children, and how ignoring our nature is wreaking havoc on society and people's mental health. We even touch on psychopathy and how it has shaped our modern world.

But best of all, Christine shares how healing is possible and the world she can imagine where we've healed from trauma.

We touch on a lot of topics in this conversation and I have added time stamps for you to be able to clearly see what's going on! A big part of this conversation was about parenting and understanding the infant's experience. Understanding that infants feel pain and what happens when infants are neglected or hurt. Especially the dissociation that happens when we're not meeting the needs of infants and toddlers.

We also talk about how we can heal this neglect many of us experienced during childhood, and doing this though meditation. Christine also differentiates between a common misconception: that mindfulness or meditation is dissociation.

Finding the Missing Link Between Trauma, Dissociation, Nurturing and Mindfulness | With Christine Forner

Thank you so much for watching 🌺

Resources:
Christine's website https://www.christineforner.com/
Christine's book "Dissociation, Mindfulness, and Creative Meditations: Trauma-Informed Practices to Facilitate Growth" https://t.ly/WEdJL
Upcoming course June 14th "DISSOCIATION AND MINDFULNESS" https://www.christineforner.com/courses

Books mentioned:
"The Development of the Unconscious Mind (Norton Series on Interpersonal Neurobiology)" - Allan N. Shore Ph.D.

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00:00 intro
01:27 trauma in children
02:07 the human species is misunderstood
04:35 babies can feel
07:33 babies and pain
08:18 when infants feel alone
11:18 parents who feel triggered
13:59 primal isolation anguish
17:30 autistic and upset infants
21:00 dissociation shut down
27:03 alloparenting species
29:34 toddlers need their needs met
31:10 children shouldn’t cry
35:20 overpopulation - not everyone should have children
38:03 disconnection
44:00 what works in our bodies, biology, evidence based
49:33 healing ourselves
01:00:32 mindfulness as nurturing
01:06:02 healing through meditation
1:09:58 disassociated meditation
1:12:13 psychopathy and patriarchy
01:20:48 healing society