How Our Prebirth and Birth Experiences Shape Our World
MIA KALEF is the founder of Emerging Families, a program of therapy, education, and research for the pre- and perinatal period. She works with families throughout the childbearing years to resolve the effects of pre- and perinatal challenges, and with adults retrospectively. She is a lifetime member of the Association of Prenatal and Perinatal Psychology and Health and is in private practice in Vancouver, Canada. The author lives in Vancouver, Canada.
“A gifted healer and passionate writer, Mia Kalef combines
scientific findings, personal intuition, and therapeutic insights
for a fascinating view of prenatal experience and its lifetime
consequences, the multigenerational and social influences that
shape it, and the healing of its potentially traumatic
imprints.”
—Gabor Maté, MD, author of In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close
Encounters with Addiction
“Dr. Kalef's book is a work of art. It is full of tales that ring
true, that make sense, that are full of heart, that smack of
authenticity. Kalef masterfully mixes personal and clinical
experience with current literature throughout, saturating the
reader with a sense of the continuity of our lives and the
meaningfulness of our adult behavior.”
—Michael Trout, director, Infant-Parent Institute
“At a time when our cultural lack of understanding of the birth
process has reached an extreme degree, the world needs
practitioners such as Mia Kalef.”
—Michel Odent, MD, author of Childbirth and the Future of Homo
Sapiens
“Mia Kalef provides major evidence for the existence of sentience
and experience in the womb. She defends with good arguments that
our collective denial of this truth impacts negatively how we deal
with pregnancy and prenatal mother-child interaction, which itself
leads to severe disturbances in our relationships with ourselves,
each other, and the global community of life. She provides clear
and efficient procedures to help us recognize and overcome early
traumatic imprints so that we may be in harmony with the stream of
life. This book is a firm and reliable plea to reevaluate the
secret life of babies and see how they are emissaries of a lost
wisdom that has the power to set us on a more wholesome and
balanced course.”
—Jaap Van Der Wal, PhD, author of The Embryo in Us, and former
professor of anatomy and embryology, University of Maastricht,
Holland
“Mia Kalef has written a book that brings science to a level from
which everyone can understand and benefit. She cites interesting
studies from around the world…animals, the human species, history,
and various cultures. With vivid and yet simple depictions of
how prenatal and birth experiences can support a person's/family's
quest for change and health, her words remind us that it is never
too late to heal.”
—Judyth O. Weaver, PhD, somatic and perinatal therapist, and
co-founder and professor, Santa Barbara Graduate Institute
“It’s a pleasure to read Dr. Kalef’s comprehensive and empathetic
book, in which she describes the deep influences human early life
have on later physical, emotional, and social conditions. She
describes the social and historical backgrounds for why we don’t
know this and invites us to her Intuitive Recovery Project for
finding a new, more sustainable personal connection to these
concepts. This great book helps us understand the very real social
implications of the prenatal time and to deepen our understanding
of ourselves within in it.”
—Rupert Linder, MD, past president, International Society of
Prenatal and Perinatal Psychology and Medicine, and specialist for
gynecology, obstetrics, psychosomatics, and psychotherapy
“Dr. Mia Kalef's The Secret Life of Babies is an illuminating read,
and a revelation. Not only a book for new and expecting parents,
Kalef's book will make readers think about the circumstances
surrounding their own birth and how this could be the basis of some
of the traumas and inhibitions, and even addictions they experience
as adults. Incorporating both detailed case studies and broader
overviews of history and culture, the book is a wake-up call for
people to pay more attention to prenatal and perinatal conditions
and take a hard look at the way that society treats women and
mothers, and ask themselves if it's time for a change.”
—Jenny Uechi, managing editor, The Vancouver Observer
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