I have a very interesting event taking place in central London next week.
FREE INFORMATION SESSION about a new project: wombtwin.com. Central London. 12-2pm September 13th plus lunch.
Given by myself, Althea Hayton and Nick Owen, directors of wombtwin.com, an organisation offering information, help and support to wombtwin survivors and their families.
One in eight people is a wombtwin survivor - that is, the sole survivor of a twin or multiple pregnancy. Many of these people may appear in therapy rooms and treatments room asking for help.
New research has shown that even when a twin is lost many months before birth, there is a body memory of the lost twin and a psychological effect on the survivor.
Pre and perinatal psychotherapists already maintain that experiences in the womb and around birth leave some kind of impression in the mind of the fetus that remains throughout life.
This deep impression can be disturbing and hard for the individual to understand until it is explained as prebirth experience and then it all make sense.
This is particularly hard for therapists of all kinds. If a wombtwin survivor comes to therapy for help there are few therapists who know how to work with them.
If the therapist is not aware that the loss of a twin before birth can leave an impression, both physically or mentally, then appropriate help cannot be offered.
If a wombtwin survivor is not aware that the loss of a twin may underlie their physical problems and psychological difficulties, they will not seek out the right help unless they know the signs.
I am an UnLtd award winner (National lottery millenium awards, see http://www.UnLtd.org.uk) and they are funding my first public event, among other things.
Visitors to this free event may include wombtwin survivors, parents who have lost a twin before birth psychotherapists and counsellors, psychologists, kinaesiologists, chirporactors - in fact anyone who is interested.
They can:
Watch an illustrated presentation, which will explain in detail the biology of early twin loss and how it can be proved
Listen to case studies of how wombtwin survivors have suffered and have been helped and healed
Learn about this condition, which is very common but rarely discussed in public.
Meet each other and swap stories
Buy my new book : "Untwinned: perspectives on the death of a twin before birth" at a reduced price
Join Wombtwin.com as a member
[PS And of course enjoy a free lunch ]
Entry by ticket only: Vsit the website for tickets [www.wombtwin.com]
When a twin dies before birth, the sole survivor needs help and understanding. Womb twin survivors are the sole survivors of a twin or multiple pregnancy. This group, 1 in 10 of the population, includes survivors of a stillbirth, miscarriage, abortion and a "vanishing twin" pregnancy. It is a story of a twin bond broken by death, leaving a lonely survivor.
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