"I honestly do not understand why this isn't a thing that people like all practitioners are doing. It just completely is mind-blowing to me.

And I will say, just for fun, I looked and researched, tummy time and neurodevelopment, there's not one piece of information on Google... no one's talking about this. So the cool thing is that we are all and Dr. Aimie is the leader of all of this, that we are on the forefront of changing the world."

- Cat Dillon, RHN

I'm a mom of four young children, and I can definitely now see when things happen in my children, I'm like, “Oh, I can see what's happening here,” and bring in support. So there was always such a safe container. In my personal life with my children and myself, I saw that there were some attachment pieces that showed up in situations.

The awareness was still in that safe container. I was able to lean into that, listen, and go “Okay, how can I support this? What is this actually saying?” I can lean in and and help.

-Christina Wiseman

Audra Snyder, an adoptive mother will join us to discuss her personal experiences adopting her son from the foster care system when he was 3 1/2 years old, discovering his attachment disorder and the journey that her and her husband David went on to support their son, Austin.

She is going to share how she was able to learn the methods of rewiring his brain to help heal his trauma and how to best support herself, her husband and Austin.

Darcia Narvaez, is a Professor of Psychology Emerita at the University of Notre Dame. She is the founder of the public and professional educational outreach project The Evolved Nest Initiative whose nonprofit mission is to share her science research into developing appropriate baselines for lifelong human wellness by meeting the biological needs of infants.

This well-being baseline is imperative at this time as the United States ranks 41st out of 41 developed countries in public policies that support families.

Bette Lamont is a lead Neurodevelopmental Movement Practitioner. Her focus is on restoring the functions of the Central Nervous System's sensory and motor foundations, that provide the platform for the cognitive, creative, social and emotive cortex, with an emphasis on balanced, non-traumatizing parenting. The tools she uses come from long research and deep understanding of the Developmental Sequence, those movements, reflexes and sensory experiences that mature the brain.

Your Biology of Trauma®
Instructor, Dr. Aimie Apigian

Dr. Aimie is a double Board-Certified medical physician who specializes in trauma, attachment, addictions and addressing trauma on a cellular level. She earned her medical degree at Loma Linda University and has a Masters in Biochemistry as well as a Masters in Public Health. She trained for three years as a general surgeon before changing her career path.

In addition to her medical studies, Dr. Aimie has studied with and participated in Dr. Allan Schore’s Attachment Regulation Theory Study Group. She is a highly-trained somatic experiencing practitioner, trained in NeuroAffective Touch™, Internal Family Systems (Parts Work) and the Instinctual Trauma Response Model™. She continues to attend advanced trainings in Somatic Experiencing™ with Dr. Peter Levine and acts as an editor for Somatic Experiencing International.

She is not one to sit back and talk about problems.  She is a solution-focused action taker- always looking for ways to improve our current method and accelerate the healing journey back to our best health and our best selves.

The 6 Biology of Trauma® Modules