Remembering Home: Healing Hurts & Receiving Gifts from Conception to Birth

This book is such a hidden gem. It is quite unpretentious, but fulfills a need that many therapists don't even perceive or know how to address. So many of my clients struggle with lack of attuned early parenting. For many, their parents still have difficulty being supportive. This slender volume provides a way to help clients understand that they have "archetypal parents"--ones that don't fail them the way their human ones do. It can be such a support to feel the love of an archetypal parent--and so necessary. Don't let the Christican symbols used in the book turn you away; all spiritual traditions have these same figures--just with different names and stories. Everyone who enters therapy would be well served to read this book--and get their therapists to read it as well. It is also a great book for conscientious parents to read. It is one of the most cohesive approaches to healing parental wounds available in book form that I have ever seen--one that addresses all three levels of existence: personal, cultural, and archetypal. Plus it is so wise about issues concerning pre- and perinatal psychology as well. Even after having read it several times, I am still informed and inspired by this little book.

I purchase this book ten copies at a time and give them away.I recently expressed to one of the authors, William Emerson, that if I could, I would get a megaphone and announce it from the rooftops. Remembering Our Home is a most gently written, beautifully illustrated book that invites the reader to reflect on the earliest and most impressionable moments of being human--in the womb. If at first this strikes you as improbable to do, consider the countless life dreams and aspirations you, or people you know have had, and somehow, someway fulfillment seems to be just out of reach. Remembering Our Home can help build bridges across the gaps to fulfillment by revealing potential blocks, that can form in our first experiences of feeling physically and emotionally. Some examples of causes of these blocks discussed in the book are being born early, or late, toxins like niccotine or drugs, and parents in a stressful environment. Throughout the book there are suggested processes and tools for accessing our earliest potentials. I was born with a disability, and working with this, and the ample additional referals in the book is transforming the quality of my daily life. I am learning from it to benefit myself and all the babies and children in my world.