In this episode, guest Dr. Annie Brook, shares her personal journey of healing from early trauma and how it eventually led her to a career in somatic psychology and therapy. She recounts a series of life-changing events, including a near-death experience, moving to Berkeley to study meditation and somatic practices, and her eventual deep dive into birth trauma research. Through a blend of personal anecdotes, professional experiences, and scientific insights, she highlights the profound impact of early trauma on the mind and body, the importance of healing from such experiences, and the tools and methodologies that can facilitate this healing process. The episode also touches on themes such as the body’s emotional memory, the significance of early life experiences, and the interconnectedness of body, mind, and spirit in achieving holistic health

This week on Your Pleasure is special guest Annie Brook to talk about how your history affects your sexual appetite. New Book! How Birth Influences Behavior. Annie is a seasoned somatic psychotherapist who blends movement, neuroscience, and early attachment work into a cohesive program that produces lasting change and health. Annie founded BodyMind Somanautics Training, and the Applied Neuroplasticity Method that goes to pre-cognitive story held in the survival brain. Working at this level releases patterns that govern behavior under stress. Annie co-owns Colorado Therapies and sees infants to adults in her clinical work and trains interns. She helps parents unravel a difficult birth and children and adults release patterns that get in the way of thriving. Annie is an author, international speaker, and certified BodyMind psychotherapist, Bio-Dynamic Cranial practitioner, and a certified Body-Mind CenteringSM teacher. She is a developmental movement specialist, a registered movement educator (ISMETA) and a state-licensed psychotherapist. As a therapist, Annie has worked with numerous infants, children and adults. She helps people to unravel the 'pre-cognitive stories' of their lives. These stories are held in the tissues and the emotions of the body and form the first imprints of the nervous system. Such stories come to consciousness and resolve through participative empathy, skilled reflection, tracking and regulation of shock, educative touch, and movement repatterning.

Susan Chandler talks with Dr. Annie Brook, somatic psychotherapist, educator and author, about her new book "Birth's Hidden Legacy."

Highly experienced somatic psychologist Annie Brook joins the show to discuss a new death experience, developmental somatics, “compensations”, Body-Mind Centering, self-awareness and response, cellular learning, Sufi mindfulness, the “risk of life”, the history of embodiment and development of the “somatic baby”, play and contact improv, trauma, charisma, digesting experience, what’s the best trauma therapy, immersion, consumer embodiment, embodied parenthood, yielding, working with Trump, self care practice, fascial dancing and wall pushing and sensitivity. We end with a bunch of tips and resources. A far reaching one with depth and breadth.

Years ago, I watched a woman re-pattern a baby's movements after a tough Caesarean birth. It was so powerful. It all happened in a few minutes. She was a baby whisperer.

Turns out this woman is quite the healer. From tantra facilitator to couples therapist, Annie Brooke has some serious skills.

I've had sessions with her, and my son did a water session with her when he was six months old.

I think you'll like this interview I recently did with her. We covered a ton of ground. Conflict, attachment, and the satisfaction cycle.

Shownotes: (3:50) Introduction Annie Brook (15:20) About attachment and the Mother-Children relationship 23:50) The importance of movement in self-awareness practices (27:50) About the satisfaction cycle on adult partnerships dynamics (34:30 How attachment cycles of our childhood affect our present (36:00) Spaces in couples during conflict or disagreements (40:20) Recreating relationships over time (42:45) About open marriage and polyamorous relationships (50:25) About co-regulation (1:02:30) Action Step

Have you ever wondered about how a child's birth story (or your own birth story) might relate to later experiences in life and behaviors?  In today's episode, I talk with the wonderful Annie Brook (author and therapist) on what she calls "Birth's Hidden Legacy". 

Annie is a therapist who works with families and children (and people of all ages) to repair some of the earliest imprints of trauma they experienced, often at the time of birth. 

She also touches on some of the important developmental experiences infants need at the beginning of life that shape subsequent experience and behavior. 

This episode will be interesting for anyone curious about their children's behavior (w/things like power struggles or high sensitivity) and what it might be pointing back to. 

Annie offers a tremendous wealth of resources and experience and most of all HOPE that repair is always - even at an older age - possible. Take heart and have a listen!

Learn more about Annie and access further resources in the show notes for the episode.  You'll also find time stamps for our chat together.  

Annie is a Somatic Author, educator, and therapist. She has over 35 years of professional experience helping infants through adults resolve trauma. She teaches courses online, the difference between shock and trauma, and she’s launching a 10-week Healing Complex Trauma course April 7th. Annie has worked at Children’s Hospital in the child trauma centers, in public schools with gang youth, with sexually abused foster children, and has seen families and adults in private practice since 1978. She was director of Somatic Psychology for Naropa University Somatic Masters Program, and also runs her own clinic, Colorado Therapies, since 2006

How can you access your hearts healing through early foundational awareness?  What does it mean to heal inside the trauma for release and self discovery?  Are you open to explore and create tools of change?  What ways can healing support conception into pregnancy?

Special Guest Episode: Annie Brook, Ph.D., LPC, is a world-class healer for birth trauma and babies. Her books help train therapists, as well as educate parents on how to help their children and how to recover post-birth. Annie knows this work from the inside out, was born premature, and dedicated her life to helping people resolve infant trauma. She has worked in hospitals, trauma centers, public schools, mental health clinics and has run her own practice for over 35 years, where she helps infants to adults and families. Her passion is sharing body tools that heal. And she knows how to access pre-cognitive memory, those times of infancy, to help children through adults regroup after a difficult birth. Connect: anniebrook.com

Healing Trauma is something you have to feel to heal. If your trauma was really complex, and sexual abuse is complex, the brain wants to figure it out. You want your mind and body to integrate and heal and to be able to put the heaviness down and reconnect to present. It's really about your heart and your emotions and your thinking. Being be able to tune your dial so that you can really orient to a life that's of joy and well-being, not suffering. Annie Brook shares practical tools and resources so that you can allow traumatic events to metabolize out of your system and heal your trauma

Annie is a PHD, LPC, RSME (ISMETA), Body-Mind Centering teacher, a therapist in high regard in the Somatic community. Annie and Alex discuss Applied Neuroplasticity, implicit and explicit memories and how the precognitive brain experiences stimuli both good and bad, which have long-lasting effects.

Today is all about Somatic Therapy and I am interviewing Annie Brook, founder of the Brook Institute. Annie Brook, Ph.D., is a somatic psychologist and treats infants through adults. She has worked in trauma centers at Children's Hospital, as a therapist in public schools, as director of the MA in Somatic Psychology at Naropa University, and developed her own work that is body-based deep relational healing. Annie is an author of Birth's Hidden Legacy, which also has an online course, and promotes self-help learning for parents, as well as teaching therapists how to treat the earliest stories. She has an ebook on attachment and has helped hundreds of families recover from a difficult birth. Babies release trauma and bond with their parents. Adults suffering from trauma actually go back to precognitive memory and release the early impressions as well. Annie says of her clients, "their life gets better!"

In this episode, Annie Brook and I explore ways to support secure attachment between parents and infants. Annie helps parents, children, and families connect through her work as a therapist and educator. She understands early precognitive memory, like birth or attachment trauma, and how to help it heal.

Annie’s methods integrate body awareness, emotions, thoughts, and behaviors to create lasting change with behavior difficulties, so she’s got interesting stories to share. She helps new parents and newborns recover from birth trauma, and trains therapists to do the same.

Annie Brook joins Jaxon Talks Everybody this week. Annie Brook, Ph.D. is a master therapist and educator who has helped individuals, couples, families, and children for over 35 years. Annie believes in "change the brain to change the pain" and her method, Applied Neuroplasticity does just that. Annie and Jaxon discuss tools, actions and ideas on how to live an embodied life.

How do we come back from the dark places? What if we can't even consciously remember it?
Trauma can be described as a strong and lasting experience of dysregulation in a person's nervous system.
For some of us, before we could think or speak, there may have been an intense interruption to our natural developmental process.
The Path of Self-Regulation is a journey to an experience of a whole, complete and contained self. A self that is free to engage in the world and respond to life as it occurs with balance and sophistication.
It's a lifelong practice that Somatic Therapist Annie Brook has been cultivating and sharing for over 40 years.
Join as we explore pre-cognitive trauma, birth trauma, the impact of adoption and the powerful ways to transform your life by meeting the darkness with guides, tools and experiential knowledge that healing is truly possible.

If you haven't heard of Annie Brook before, you should have. She has a Ph.D. in perinatal psychology and is a seasoned somatic psychotherapist who works with birth trauma and developmental trauma. Her work is key to discovering why you repeat the same behaviors, resulting in the same disappointing outcomes over and over again. If you are curious about why you keep repeating the same patterns, and want to change but don’t know how--this is the episode for you.

Annie explains the different courses she offers so anyone can become ready for the relationship they’ve always wanted or heal their birth trauma. Additionally, she's trained therapists for decades in how to work with complex trauma in a sustainable and effective way. Plus, how to facilitate the unwinding and repatterning of patients on a cellular level.

We talk about all the ways birth trauma can imprint and show up in adults, how to detect it, and integrate it to fully heal, something most of us want, even if we can't admit it to ourselves. We also, both share our in-utero and birth experiences and Annie provides some case studies from her over 4 decades of experience.

Join me with Dr. Annie Brook, a world-class somatic and prenatal and perinatal psychotherapist for 45 years, as we look at three of the current themes she works with in pregnant, birthing, and postpartum parents and their babies. From stress, to birth interventions, to the transition of becoming a parent, Annie shares ideas to find and use support in order to ease this huge rite of passage.

Annie Brook,  Ph.D in Perinatal and Somatic Psychology, LPC, RSME, Body-Mind Centering teacher, is a therapist in high regard in the Somatic community. Today we spoke about healing from birth imprints and IVF by slowing down the nervous system. 

Annie blends psychotherapy, sensory-motor neuroscience/cognition, play therapy, early bonding attachment, Body-Mind Centering, cranial sacral, touch/movement education, and perinatal therapy to offer lasting results.