TRAUMA INTEGRATION
IN THE
NEONATAL INTENSIVE
CARE UNIT

A Forthcoming Book

by Zephyr

Trauma Integration in the Neonatal Intensive Care

Unit promotes collaboration between practitioners of

allopathic medicine and energetic healing arts. This requires

practitioners to understand the limits of their paradigm

and to respect the Other. Trauma Integration in the Neonatal

Intensive Care Unit provides language and context for

transparadigm care that is essential to supporting the

optimal health of babies in the NICU and across the full

span of their lifetime.

The heart of this book is a compendium of vignettes of

my sessions with neonates and infants in the NICU.

May they inspire caregivers to envision a new NICU, one

in which the Cartesian mind works hand-in-hand with the

posture of openness toward the unknown. These case studies

provide a reference for practitioners. Toward that end, to many

vignettes, additional commentary has been appended. This may

include reflections on what happened in the session, consideration

of alternative approaches, and related insights of expert practitioners.

Parents and laypersons may wish to focus on the core of the vignette

and to be selective as to the appended material, enjoying what

they find accessible and skipping the more technical.

Stories from Zephyr's personal experience are juxtaposed with

the babies’ stories. The depth of Zephyr's experience as the

client on the table receiving a craniosacral session illuminates

the value such therapy has for neonates and infants. Zephyr's

journey to integrate their own prenatal and perinatal trauma

illustrates that the experiences, feelings, and expressions of

the adult are the same as those of the neonate and infant,

and that baby and adult have the same

need to be seen and heard.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Coregulation

Introduction

Trauma Integration in the NICU