• is an emerging form of therapy from the field of pre- and perinatal psychology.
• can be applied to all ages.
• acknowledges the influence of the formative time before and around birth.
• trusts your psyche – you who is beyond arbitrary control.
• let's your body memory speak.
• realizes that birth is a formative basic experience that will influence how you react in times of stress and transitions later on in life.
• includes baby body language (BBL) meaning unconcious body posture and gestures that point to earliest experiences.
• works permission based.
• was developed by Matthew Appleton who also trained in pre- and perinatal psychology and body psychotherapy.
• looks at the first nine months after birth as the extended womb period.
• acknowledges the imprints our early experiences have on how our nervous system operates.
• believes that the alchemy of healing can occur through sharing and acknowledging personal experiences.
• at its core gives space for the babies to tell their story through e.g. BBL, reactions, looks, crying without their closest caregivers falling into feelings of guilt oder blame.
• aims at completing processes to move through certain experiences that got previously interrupted (this is comparable to the approach of Somatic Experiencing).
• looks at birth in four stages based on the baby's perspective.
• takes into account that we were all born.
• works in the relational field of the baby because this is where it learns how to regulates its nervous system in the face of challenges of life.
• works with the so-calles triune brain that lets us react differently to stress (social engagement, movement, immobilisation).
• acknowledges the is-state.

... simply makes sense to me.