In the body everything has it's place and function - by perfect design

In less than two weeks most of you will be opening lots of gifts from friends and loved ones. Some of those things will come packed neatly and perfectly by a factory conveyer belt system and most will come with cardboard and styrofoam to support the object.

Some of these things you will decide you don't want, it doesn't work right, you want a different color. For whatever reason, you will attempt to put it back in the box to take it back to the store. We've all done this and never are we able to put the object back in it's orginal condition with all of it's specific packing support in the right place. EVEN when I take a lot of time to try to get it to look nice, the box bulges, the top won't close, the thing never looks nice and perfect through the plastic window.

After Christmas, or next time you have the opportunity try it, think about this. I want you to imagine the object is a uterus removed from the woman's body after the baby is removed. I do a trauma healing modality that includes CranioSacral Therapy and somatic/emotional release and healing. Not only with women who have experienced cesarean section, but I have worked with post-surgical patients with abdominal surgeries as well. One woman had a cyst on the anterior (inside) side of her kidney. This meant going through her abdomen to remove it. Her bowels were lifted out and moved to the other side to access the cyst.

When I work with these women to heal the physical aspects of their surgery (whatever it was) it is always about allowing the processing of the emotions around the surgery. Fear, grief, invasion, "my body is dysfunctional". The body tissues hold the memory whether one is sedated or not. Our body is now known to be the emotional part of our selves, where emotions are stored, in particular, in the organs. When a surgeon does anything to an organ (or any part) of another's body, that organ experiences, remembers, and feels it. A woman's uterus is a big part of her womanhood Self. Whether she has bore children or not, her uterus is strongly connected to her heart. Every day, but more so in birth and after, a woman creates and lives life through her feminine heart and uterus. Her connection with her baby during pregnancy is extraordinally powerfully with her heart and her uterus, and this never ends.

Who in the medical field is looking at the long term consequences to the physical and emotional lives of women who give birth by cesarean? Is there a higher rate of heart attacks? Bowel obstructions in later years due to scare tissue? Hormonal differences between women who give birth vaginally or by cesarean? Where is the damn research to show it is "safe" for her lifetime?

What ALWAYS happens when I am working with post-surgerical patient, csection or otherwise, is that the body feels like it never got put back the way it was, the way it was done perfectly when it was built. I know from my obstetric spouse the thrill of watching the best surgeon get the csection done in twelve minutes. I have watched surgeons since. There is no time to go slowly, because the need is for this woman's insides to not be exposed to air and germs. The organs, a woman's uterus or the other woman's bowels are quickly moved back into the body cavity. No care is taken to make sure it is as perfect as possible, like when I try to repack a box to take to returns. They are concerned about getting it in the box, not about whether it is in the very same untouched position. And, what I know, is that it is impossible.

What I know is that for the woman with kidney surgery whose bowels constantly felt terrible from then on, her entire organ system was affected in the following seven years. Many ailments began to happen after that. Heart, digestion, elimination -- all had a drug to cover the symptoms. It was not until she had the integrated body work and the opportunity to process the emotions before surgery, during surgery, and post-surgery (HELD IN THE BODY) and for the deep human touch that supported her bowels to reorganize,** that her body started to work normally. As normally as possible for a seventy-seven year old woman, seven years post-surgery.

** Physicians will gauf at this only because they don't know it, weren't taught it, and therefore fear it and consequently banish it.

The same compelling reason for the medical establishment to continue what they are doing to women in birth with surgery (it supports the future needs of the industry with patients) is the very reason to stop the unnecessary use of drugs and interventions known to lead to csection and to stop the planned, medically unnecessary cesarean births.

Yes, some interventions and surgeries are necessary. A surgeon can become more compassionate about this -- the total affect to the whole woman, including her psyche. She or he can be AWARE of the need of the body to come back to it's original, optimal condition. Surgery done consciously, knowing the total impact, can mediate a lot. PROTOCOLS can be established where every woman who has a cesarean birth is also afforded the appropriate after-care, such as the integrated body-mind work that I do. Unfortunately, at this time, medicine pooh-poohs us and denies the science to support the decades old antecdotal stories.

For women reading who have had cesearan surgery, I know this will activate you. The woundss -- buttons- -- are always right there. Please know this is meant to let you know the good news that there is hope and there are modalities out there to support your healing. Your disapointment, fear, shame, guilt, angry is all valid and recognized, and I leave you with the truth that there is hope for healing it.

Some people never do try to put the object back in the same condition, I know. The lid is hanging open, the cord sticking out, cardboard support is missing, the object just stuffed in the box. My ex, the obstetrician, was one of those. Who has time for that?