Babies are truly miraculous. They are absolutely pure. I believe they are the closest thing that we have to God on this earth. They come to us perfect; no preconceived notions, no judgements, no hate, no anger, no jealousy, just pure love and undeniable trust.

Kids are so absolutely wonderful. They are our best teachers. They know which buttons to push and how to send us into a frenzy. They know how to move us away from our center and from our peace. They let us know when we have more work to do on ourselves to eventually become masters of our domain.

.personal experience
In June of 2002, my oldest daughter was turning 2 years old. I remember hearing about the terrible two's from all the more experienced parents. They would say, "Wait until she turns two, it's horrible." At the time I was finishing up my Bachelor's degree in Psyhology and prided myself on my foundational knowledge of the stages of development, personality, and conditioning. I knew that with my formal training my kids would be well-behaved, well-mannered, respectful, and very pleasant. So far everything went as planned. Then she turned two. It was as if a switch was flipped. A night and day difference. She became difficult: throwing tantrums, not listening, being disrespectful, and generally unpleasant. In fact even her Aunt's said after bringing her home from one of their outings, "What happened to her?" and no longer wanted to take her anywhere anymore. She had become a handful. I was dumfounded and began to believe that maybe the terrible two's really did exist. Around this same time she was also learning to fly. She would run down the hall, into her room and jump (superman-style) landing on her bed. She was getting pretty good when she overshot her bed and smashed into the wall with her forehead. Her mother and I, sitting in the living room, looked at each other and not knowing what to do waited a moment for some response from our daughter. Ofcourse she began to scream in pain and we ran to her room to evaluate the damage. Sure enough she developed a goose egg on her forehead accompanied by a small cut and some blood underneath the skin. After consolling her, we rationalized that all kids get bumps and bruises and that she'd be fine. After a few weeks of her unacceptable two-year-old behavior I was getting fed up when I had a reoccuring thought that maybe something had really happened to her when she smashed her forehead. Maybe something had physiologically or structurally shifted that was causing her to act the way she was acting. I had been teaching Craniosacral Therapy for about two years when this all happened and figured that I could do some of this work on her to not only see what was happening within her craniosacral system but to release any restrictions, compressions, and restore mobility and optimal functioning. Much to my amazement her frontal bone (forehead bone) was jammed and pushed back into her sphenoid (behind the eyes bone) and temporal bones (ear bones) creating dysfunction in all three areas. Interestingly, the frontal lobe of the brain (which sits right behind the forehead bone) deals with personality issues. While she took a nap, I released these compressed bones and reset her system. When she woke up, she was a little groggy and disoriented. After about an hour she perked right up and miraculously returned to her beautifully loving self just like she was before she turned two and before her accident. It was absolutely amazing. What's more is that other people noticed the change immediately also. Needless to say, her Aunt's are once again taking her everywhere with them.

I never would have thought that something so simple could create such dramatic results. The accident, which was but a split second in time, could have created a lot of drama in our lives and affected my daughter's ability to effectively learn and develop. The treatment literally only took about 30 minutes and it reversed her condition completely. Unbelievable!

Children are growing and developing at an extraordinary rate, faster than at any other time in their life. I have theorized that because of this extreme rate of growth, children from the ages of 0-16 need some extra assistance for optimal functioning. See, similar to the rest of their growing bodies, their brain is also growing very quickly. Sometimes, it seems, their brain is growing at a faster rate than the bones of their head (cranium) and the surrounding membranes (meningeal). When this occurs, those structures (cranium, membranes) create enough pressure on the brain to create physical and mental stress within the child's system causing them to act and behave in 'unpreferable' ways. Sure, kids will 'grow out' of their various phases but we're talking specifically about optimal functioning and giving our children the best possible chances to develop as completely as possible and maximize their skills, talents, and abilities. Not to mention trying to relieve all the stress that the parents feel as a result of the child's actions, behaviors, and idiosyncracies.

I don't always know when, where, or how they get bumped, bruised, hurt, or stressed (yes, kids experience stress too) but I do know one thing; when they start to act up, act out, become disrespectful, throwing tantrums and attitudes, and generally unpleasant I know that it's time for a craniosacral treatment. And it works every time!

Absolutely essential for growing
bodies and brains!