Caring for the Future

THE ROOTS OF LOVE

The foundation of peace and sustainability is the capacity to love ourselves, each other and the world. To transform the culture of fear and violence, we need to nourish the roots of love from the very beginning of life.

image of hands holding the earth By offering babies the support they need to resolve early difficulties and to complete or repattern their birth, we give them the opportunity to heal and to reach their full potential.

By letting babies know they are welcomed and accepted just as they are, with all of their feelings, we help them to be loving and true to themselves as they grow and relate in the world.

By honouring the natural processes of conception, gestation and birth, and nurturing the bond between mother and baby, we support the first relationship as a basis for all future relationships.

By acknowledging and owning our own feelings and transforming restrictive life patterns we can change how we relate to ourselves, to the world and to our children.

By watching, listening and learning from babies, we can rediscover who we really are, and remember our connectedness to all that is.

	A SENSE OF WONDER
	who am I when no-one is looking sometimes an intrepid explorer sometimes a passionate campaigner sometimes a howling infant longing to be heard I look at life and I see beauty I look at nature, I feel acceptance and trust I look at the universe and feel connected, supported, nurtured a sense of wonder then I look at people and ask why? why when we are provided with so much do we fight and fear and hate why do we hurt each other blame and shame and wage war always I come back to the beginning of life to the pain of generations of babies whose cries were never really heard whose protests were not believed babies neglected, tortured, and abandoned because we did not believe their truth blinded by science and deafened by myths myths about birth myths about babies myths about who we really are always I come back to generations of babies generations of suffering generations of people in pain I come back to myself and listen sometimes an intrepid explorer sometimes a passionate campaigner sometimes a howling infant longing to be heard welcome whatever is there, just as it is trust it, be with it, honour it the world is within me in the stillness, a sense of wonder
	Lesley Downie

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Crying to be Heard
Helping Babies to Heal
Bonding and Emotional Health
A Bigger Picture
Peace, Sustainability and Human Rights
Bonding with the Earth
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Caring for the Future

THE ROOTS OF LOVE

A SENSE OF WONDER