Rooted in Safety: Trauma-Informed Perinatal Care
Divya Deswal
11 modules
English
Lifetime access
Honouring the mother–baby story through trauma-informed care.
Overview
Every birth story begins with safety. Yet for many women and families, hidden layers of stress, overwhelm, or past trauma quietly shape the journey into parenthood. As care providers, we may see only fragments — a contraction, a lactation challenge, a postnatal recovery plan — but the mother and baby experience it as one continuous story.
Rooted in Safety: Trauma-Informed Perinatal Care is a self-study course designed to help you see the whole picture. Through engaging facilitator videos, real-life examples, and reflective exercises, you’ll explore what trauma truly is, how it lives in the body, and how it impacts mothers, babies, families, and even care providers themselves.
This course is built for all perinatal professionals — obstetricians, midwives, doulas, lactation consultants, physiotherapists, nutritionists, childbirth educators, prenatal yoga and fitness teachers, and anyone walking alongside families in the perinatal period.
Whether you work in a hospital, a clinic, or a community setting, you’ll come away with a deeper understanding of trauma, practical skills to bring safety into your interactions, and a renewed sense of purpose in your work.
Rooted in Safety invites you not just to learn new information, but to reflect, reframe, and gently transform the way you see and support mothers and babies — honouring their story, every step of the way.
Modules
The Lens of Trauma-Informed Care
10 attachments • 21.46 mins
Learning Objectives
Trauma Informed Care - A Perspective Shift
Sit Back and Listen
2 pages
The Four R’s of Trauma-Informed Care
What might be a trigger
2 pages
Changing the Lens in Practice
Tiny Shifts, Big Difference
The paradox of trauma-informed care | Vicky Kelly
Seeing the Lens in Ourselves
Workbook Module 1
Behaviour Is Not Character
8 attachments • 12.72 mins
Learning Objectives
Behaviour Isn’t Who We Are
Meet Your Autonomic Nervous System
The Two Faces of Each State
The ANS in safety and threat
Dancing with Yin Yang Chapter 6 - The Polyvagal Theory
34 pages
Responding with Safety
Workbook Module 2
Redefining Trauma – The Body Remembers
9 attachments • 17.68 mins
Learning Objectives
What Is Trauma, Really?
The Power of An Unspoken Voice - Peter Levine
7 pages
The Biology of Stuck: When Protection Can’t Complete
Dr. Gabor Mate- The 7 Impacts Of Trauma
Trauma in the Perinatal Field
The Pathway to Healing: Safety and Completion
From Stuck to Flow: The Resilience in the System
Workbook Module 4
Turning the Lens Inward
8 attachments • 9.7 mins
Awareness Without Judgement
Reflection - Awareness without judgment
Meeting My Patterns with Curiosity
Reflection - Meeting My Patterns with Curiosity
My Safety Signals
My Safety Signals
The Practice of Self-Regulation
From Awareness to Integration
Rooted in Safety vs Rooted in Threat
10 attachments • 9.89 mins
Two Root Systems - Safety and Threat
Activity - Two Root Systems - Safety and Threat
The Science of Safety in Relationships
Activity - The Science of Safety in Relationships
The Environment as a Nervous System
Activity - The Environment as a Nervous System
Shifting from Threat to Safety
Activity - Shifting from Threat to Safety
The Collective Field
Activity - The Collective Field
The Perinatal Cycle of Resilience
16 attachments • 46.58 mins
The Mother–Baby Dyad
Life in the Womb - Chapter 1
34 pages
Epigenetics - The Biology That Listens
Behavioral Epigenetics: How Nurture Shapes Nature - Tabitha M Powledge
5 pages
Building the Brain
The Fetal Senses - David Chamberlain
5 pages
Organ Development & The Biology of Stress
What is Health?
4 pages
Attachment Begins Before Birth
Early and Very Early Parenting: New territories - David Chamberlain
6 pages
When the Mother Feels Threatened
Building the Baby’s Resilience
Human Neurobiology and Emotional Intelligence: The Five Rights Of Passage To Developing Core Beliefs
The Circle of Care
Understanding the significance of Perinatal Period - Quiz
Activities for Expectant Parents
Are You a Safe Person?
Strengthening the Vagal Connection
Language as Medicine
Integration
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About the creator
Divya Deswal
Divya has worked with expectant families since 2001 as a Childbirth educator, HypnoBirthing practitioner and Doula. She is a Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapist and Somatic Experience Practitioner and is currently teaches and mentors doulas in India. She is also a mentor with Association of Pre and Perinatal Psychology and Health USA
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