Demystifying Birth Psychology
Demystifying Birth Psychology is a public education channel for the birth psychology movement, created by APPPAH — the Association for Prenatal and Perinatal Psychology and Health. Hosted by Ashley Makan and Wendy Bruns, this podcast explores how our earliest experiences — from preconception, pregnancy, birth, and infancy — shape the foundations of human life. Grounded in APPPAH’s more than 40 years of research, education, and advocacy, each episode brings forward conversations at the intersection of science, lived experience, somatics, consciousness, and the human condition. Together, we explore how life before and around birth influences our nervous systems, identities, relationships, and capacity for connection — making prenatal and perinatal psychology more accessible for families, professionals, and communities.
Episodes
In this episode of Demystifying Birth Psychology, hosts Ashley Makan and Wendy Bruns welcome Dr. Bruce Lipton, pioneering cell biologist and bestselling author of The Biology of Belief and his newest book, Beyond Darwin. Together, they explore how our earliest environments shape subconscious beliefs, behavior, relationships, and the way we experience the world.
Drawing connections between epigenetics, prenatal and perinatal psychol...
What if birth isn’t simply an event to prepare for, but a rite of passage that fundamentally changes who we are? Hosts Ashley Makan and Wendy Bruns welcome Dr. Britta Bushnell, mythologist, childbirth educator, relationship and parenthood specialist, and author of Transformed by Birth, for a conversation about the profound transformation that unfolds through pregnancy, birth, and early parenthood. Britta explores birth throug...
Breaking the Pattern: Epigenetics, Early Adversity, and the Possibility of Change with Dr. Bonnie Goff
Hosts Ashley Makan and Wendy Bruns welcome developmental psychologist and UCLA lecturer Dr. Bonnie Goff for a conversation about how our earliest experiences shape the brain, nervous system, relationships, and sense of self. Dr. Goff reframes many responses to early adversity not as damage, but as intelligent adaptations designed f...
Hosts Ashley Makan and Wendy Bruns welcome global midwife Kristine Lauria, whose decades of experience span home birth, humanitarian settings, breech birth, multiples, and more than 5,000 births across 25+ countries. Lauria reflects on her roots in traditional midwifery and explores how fear, over-medicalization, and loss of embodied skill have reshaped modern birth care. The conversation examines autonomy, physiological birth, bre...
Ashley Makan and Wendy Bruns introduce APPPAH's new podcast, Demystifying Birth Psychology.
Learn more about the Association for Prenatal and Perinatal Psychology and Health (APPPAH): www.birthpsychology.com
In the first episode of the APPPAH Podcast: Demystifying Birth Psychology, hosts Ashley Makan and Wendy Bruns explore a simple but far-reaching idea: our stories begin long before we have words for them.
They introduce birth psychology and the work of APPPAH, exploring how our experiences during pregnancy, birth, and early life shape the nervous system, relationships, and the ways we move through the world. Wendy shares the origins ...
Hosts Ashley Makan and Wendy Bruns welcome midwife, mother, and Innate Postpartum Care creator Rachelle Seliga for a wide-ranging conversation about what becomes possible when we understand human development through the lens of relationship, physiology, and early experience.
Rachelle shares how her work evolved from a deep attunement to babies into a broader understanding of maternal wellness, describing mothers as the soil from whi...
Popular Podcasts
If you've ever wanted to know about champagne, satanism, the Stonewall Uprising, chaos theory, LSD, El Nino, true crime and Rosa Parks, then look no further. Josh and Chuck have you covered.
Current and classic episodes, featuring compelling true-crime mysteries, powerful documentaries and in-depth investigations. Follow now to get the latest episodes of Dateline NBC completely free, or subscribe to Dateline Premium for ad-free listening and exclusive bonus content: DatelinePremium.com
Listen to 'The Bobby Bones Show' by downloading the daily full replay.
Does hearing about a true crime case always leave you scouring the internet for the truth behind the story? Dive into your next mystery with Crime Junkie. Every Monday, join your host Ashley Flowers as she unravels all the details of infamous and underreported true crime cases with her best friend Brit Prawat. From cold cases to missing persons and heroes in our community who seek justice, Crime Junkie is your destination for theories and stories you won’t hear anywhere else. Whether you're a seasoned true crime enthusiast or new to the genre, you'll find yourself on the edge of your seat awaiting a new episode every Monday. If you can never get enough true crime... Congratulations, you’ve found your people. Follow to join a community of Crime Junkies! Crime Junkie is presented by Audiochuck Media Company.
The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show. Clay Travis and Buck Sexton tackle the biggest stories in news, politics and current events with intelligence and humor. From the border crisis, to the madness of cancel culture and far-left missteps, Clay and Buck guide listeners through the latest headlines and hot topics with fun and entertaining conversations and opinions.