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"Following her breakthrough book, The Secret Life of Babies, Dr Mia Kalef now deepens her exploration of human sentience before conception and during birth. This groundbreaking guide has been described as, ""...required reading for all health professionals, especially those involved in childbirth and mental health."" Whether you aim to understand your baby's messages, are wishing to detect and heal your experiences from your time in the womb and at birth, are a health professional, or in a position of care for another, this book offers a courageous and clear guide for decoding and healing some of society's hardest to reach issues: Depression, anxiety, violence, addiction, suicide, as well as other subtler and more pervasive adult challenges like low self-esteem, feelings of exclusion, and fears of intimacy. It's Never Too Late also addressees common challenges parents and their babies encounter. Rarely discussed issues like how to heal after challenging births, hospital interventions, and what to do when babies are inconsolable, experiencing movement or postural challenges, or having trouble making eye contact, are just some of the issues this book explores. With a detailed and fascinating journey through conception, the early stages of embryonic growth, birth, and the myriad of ways human love and development get interrupted at these sensitive times, you will find gentle and effective ways to address the roots of personal and societal challenges. With an accessible and and easy to implement approach, this book challenges our long-held assumptions that prebirth and birth are forgotten, and offers a compassionate path back to experiencing the richness of our human lives. ""This is is a must read for any one who was born. We do remember birth, and these memories have long term consequences for who we become. I highly recommend It's Never Too Late to anyone working with families before stepping into the energy field of another, especially a pregnant, birthing, postpartum mother who is so vulnerable to the energetics around her."" -- Barbara Essman, MA, Director/Owner of The Sacred Birthing School on Kauai ""At last, clinicians and parents have a book of authoritative knowledge that provides a solid foundation for working with the effects of prenatal imprinting. Mia Kalef brings together a clear understanding and set of skills for anyone working in this field and concerned about the lifelong mental and physical health of their smallest and biggest clients. We must all be concerned! Her case studies especially ground the material in the living reality of the treatment room and the heart. This book is an outstanding bridge to help heal all of us with our own early narrative and that of others."" -- Michael Shea, PhD, author of Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy Volumes 1-5"

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In It's Never Too Late: Healing Prebirth and Birth At Any Age, Mia Kalef clearly explains the scientific connections between the intrauterine experience and unexplained physical, mental and emotional symptoms. This seminal work should be required reading for all health professionals, especially those in childbirth and mental health. Whether you need to overcome a difficult birth (as a baby, mother or father), or want to help others prevent, or heal from, them, It's Never Too Late is the perfect resource. Reading it will leave you inspired and dedicated to share this profoundly important information with the world. -- Joel M. Evans, M.D., Board Certified OB/GYN, Author, The Whole Pregnancy Handbook, Medical Director, Association of Pre and Perinatal Psychology and Health, Senior Faculty, Institute for Functional Medicine It's Never Too Late: Healing Prebirth and Birth At Any Age by Mia Kalef is a gentle and profound explanation of early patterns that inform who we are, starting preconception. The text includes science, clinical experience, and healing practices for practitioners, mothers, families, adults and babies. Kalef's voice is expert, kind, and present throughout the book as she addresses the multiple prenatal and perinatal patterns that influence human development. Her consistent message in each chapter is that it is never to late to heal early overwhelming experiences and is a must read for the passionate student in prenatal and perinatal health, or anyone seeking healing and peace. -- Kate White, MA, LMT, RCST(R), CEIM, SEP, Director, Center for Prenatal and Perinatal Programs, Director of Education, Association for Prenatal and Perinatal Psychology and Health It was around 1974 that I immersed myself for the first time in Pre-, and Peri-Natal Psychology. R. D. Laing, my mentor, was reading Francis J. Mott, who pointed us to Otto Rank, Nandor Fodor, and Stan Grof. Dreams, hypnosis, LSD, Elizabeth Feher's re-birthing body-work, Michel Odent's and Fr d rick Leboyer's pioneering work -- all seemed to point to the importance of early experience in later character formation. To avoid the disbelief and annihilating critique of the establishment, we talked of our discoveries as metaphors, healing stories, helpful myths. In Mia Kalef's book you'll find solid reasons to learn about the actual reality, validity of early learning and patterning for later life. Experience cannot be ignored, even if physics lacks the understanding of the forces which underlie and explain phenomena that influence the quality of our lives. Mia's book is a worthy milestone in this lineage of courageous exploration. -- Andrew Feldm r, psychologist, psychotherapist Our pre-birth and birth experiences create imprints--living memories that have physiological, emotional and spiritual consequences that influence how we relate to the world and to ourselves. Thankfully, if we have challenging early experiences they don't have to define our entire life, if we know what to look for and how to heal these early traumas. Dr. Mia Kalef teaches readers how to discover events that challenged their trust, safety and security within each developmental stage from the point of view of the inner child (starting with conception, then implantation, gestation, birthing and after birth) and how to work with these internalized imprints stuck in the past in now maladaptive contexts so that they can heal. -- Nancy Eichhorn, PhD, Editor of Somatic Psychotherapy Today

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