
Ashley Makan
Executive Director of APPPAH (Association for Prenatal & Perinatal Psychology & Health), prenatal and perinatal educator, full-spectrum doula, and host of Demystifying Birth Psychology.
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Sep 28, 2026
How Early Imprinting Shapes Our Nervous Systems and Parenting feat. APPPAH | #71
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Ashley MakanGUEST
Yeah, I mean, to expand on what Wendy was saying, we're talking about essentially early human and nervous system development.

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So what our mothers experience while we're in the womb, they are our first environment.

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And when they're feeling happy and loved and all of those lovely oxytocin hormones, those are what's imprinting onto us that the world around us is safe.

Ashley MakanGUEST
And when they're feeling anxiety and fear, those are also imprints that are telling us what's going on in the world around us that we can't see quite yet.

Ashley MakanGUEST
So it's really interesting when you look into the actual framework of birth psychology, which is essentially four different pillars that we're pulling from.

Ashley MakanGUEST
This is a multidisciplinary science or a science that pulls from different arenas.
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Peace On Earth Begins At Birth - The Global Contributes Of Birth Psychology
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Ashley MakanGUEST
Prenatal and perinatal psychology is essentially a multidisciplinary study of the earliest human experience.

Ashley MakanGUEST
So from preconception through the first few years of life, and we're studying, um, attachment, epigenetics, uh, affect regulation and neuroscience all combined to see how we develop as humans.

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And ultimately this like shows us how we will perceive life moving forward physically and emotionally, how we perceive the world around us and how we respond physically within our bodies.

Ashley MakanGUEST
Um, even down to our, uh, long-term illnesses as we get older, you know? So, um, It's something that really, truly applies to anyone who's ever been born, and it's why it's become my favorite subject.
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