How Fathering a Newborn Changes a Man’s Brain
by Pam England Human fathers are among less than six percent of mammals who play a significant role in rearing offspring, along with pygmy marmosets, bat-eared foxes, silverback mountain gorillas, …
by Pam England Human fathers are among less than six percent of mammals who play a significant role in rearing offspring, along with pygmy marmosets, bat-eared foxes, silverback mountain gorillas, …
by Pam England For centuries Catholic countries have celebrated fathers on St. Joseph’s Day (on March 19): building an altar, wearing red, and preparing special foods. In over a hundred …
by Pam England When I transferred from home birth to the hospital and my first child was born by cesarean, I was in birth shock. A friend brought the perfect …
by Pam England “All that we are is story. From the moment we are born to the time we continue on our spirit journey, we are involved in the creation …
by Pam England When immersed by waves of uncertainty and the unexpected (both synonymous with childbirth, especially the first time), there is little mind or time to tell ourselves a …
Matryoshkas are nested wooden “mother dolls,” a folk-art toy that first appeared in Russia in 1890. Hollowed out from linden wood, matryoshkas consist of five to 12 (up to 60) …
Matryoshkas and the Birth Story Medicine Process Read More »
While painting the mythopoetic images coming through me over the past four months, I journaled associations that came through me: We are born of the earth, from the earth, through …
Story of Pam England’s Untitled Mythopoetic Painting Read More »
Pam England, notes from “Catching a Child” by Zoia Vylka Ravna (2019) Rituals of Matrescence prepare and honor the “birth of the mother.” The term matrescence was coined in 1973 by medical anthropologist …
Rituals of Matrescence among the Tundra Nenet People Read More »
Before a seismic traumatic event, we put confidence (if not conviction) behind the grand, complex framework of contradictory beliefs we built to sustain us and to keep uncertainty at bay. …
Invitation to share Posttraumatic Growth stories Read More »
“We must never forget that we may also find meaning in life even when confronted with a hopeless situation, when facing a fate that cannot be changed. For what then matters …
Transformation after “Seismic Trauma” in Childbirth Read More »