[fusion_builder_container hundred_percent=”no” hundred_percent_height=”no” hundred_percent_height_scroll=”no” hundred_percent_height_center_content=”yes” equal_height_columns=”no” menu_anchor=”” hide_on_mobile=”small-visibility,medium-visibility,large-visibility” status=”published” publish_date=”” class=”” id=”” border_size=”” border_color=”” border_style=”solid” margin_top=”” margin_bottom=”” padding_top=”” padding_right=”” padding_bottom=”” padding_left=”” gradient_start_color=”” gradient_end_color=”” gradient_start_position=”0″ gradient_end_position=”100″ gradient_type=”linear” radial_direction=”center” linear_angle=”180″ background_color=”” background_image=”” background_position=”center center” background_repeat=”no-repeat” fade=”no” background_parallax=”none” enable_mobile=”no” parallax_speed=”0.3″ background_blend_mode=”none” video_mp4=”” video_webm=”” video_ogv=”” video_url=”” video_aspect_ratio=”16:9″ video_loop=”yes” video_mute=”yes” video_preview_image=”” filter_hue=”0″ filter_saturation=”100″ filter_brightness=”100″ filter_contrast=”100″ filter_invert=”0″ filter_sepia=”0″ filter_opacity=”100″ filter_blur=”0″ filter_hue_hover=”0″ filter_saturation_hover=”100″ filter_brightness_hover=”100″ filter_contrast_hover=”100″ filter_invert_hover=”0″ filter_sepia_hover=”0″ filter_opacity_hover=”100″ filter_blur_hover=”0″][fusion_builder_row][fusion_builder_column type=”1_1″ layout=”2_3″ spacing=”” center_content=”no” link=”” target=”_self” min_height=”” hide_on_mobile=”small-visibility,medium-visibility,large-visibility” class=”” id=”” hover_type=”none” border_size=”0″ border_color=”” border_style=”solid” border_position=”all” border_radius=”” box_shadow=”no” dimension_box_shadow=”” box_shadow_blur=”0″ box_shadow_spread=”0″ box_shadow_color=”” box_shadow_style=”” padding_top=”” padding_right=”” padding_bottom=”” padding_left=”” margin_top=”” margin_bottom=”” background_type=”single” gradient_start_color=”” gradient_end_color=”” gradient_start_position=”0″ gradient_end_position=”100″ gradient_type=”linear” radial_direction=”center” linear_angle=”180″ background_color=”” background_image=”” background_image_id=”” background_position=”left top” background_repeat=”no-repeat” background_blend_mode=”none” animation_type=”” animation_direction=”left” animation_speed=”0.3″ animation_offset=”” filter_type=”regular” filter_hue=”0″ filter_saturation=”100″ filter_brightness=”100″ filter_contrast=”100″ filter_invert=”0″ filter_sepia=”0″ filter_opacity=”100″ filter_blur=”0″ filter_hue_hover=”0″ filter_saturation_hover=”100″ filter_brightness_hover=”100″ filter_contrast_hover=”100″ filter_invert_hover=”0″ filter_sepia_hover=”0″ filter_opacity_hover=”100″ filter_blur_hover=”0″ last=”no”][fusion_text columns=”” column_min_width=”” column_spacing=”” rule_style=”default” rule_size=”” rule_color=”” hide_on_mobile=”small-visibility,medium-visibility,large-visibility” class=”” id=”” animation_type=”” animation_direction=”left” animation_speed=”0.3″ animation_offset=””] The explicit distinguishing of social memory or oral memory traditions of the South Slavs are actualized in a multiplicity (plastic property) of social collective communal events not separated from their love of the Moist Mother Earth. Their female bodies represented in the archeological zoomorphic Bird, Snake and Bear Goddesses attest to a dialogue with death- an existential reflection on what their life served or will serve. With the South Slavic constitution as being illuminating, related to the cosmos, biological and deep past, the archaeologies’ of Mythic Balkan Memory Narratives includes every single thing and life forms. Storied Instructions What traumatic war memories he experiences repeatedly, has the father of two’s war memories in the aftermath of a cataclysmic war more so violent steeped in PTSD behaviors. The Bosnian father related the politics of his life before the war as if it really never did happen. One elderly Bosnian grandmother’s husband died of diabetes’ complications after the Balkan war ended up as a super hero of a good man in her mythic narrative even though he was known to be a ruthless business man and abusive towards her and the children. The Bosnian young woman observing hatreds born again after another war to the Bosnian father erasure of his personal memories, all move towards considering trauma as an intensified learning experience. Intensified learning is a portal for reconsolidating memory and the traumatic event into a mythic narrative to hand down through the generations. All three South Slavs at separate occasions would inquire not on what to say to their children but the absence of their mythic narratives now skewed into PTSD illusions. This brings us to consider the political perspectives carried out into policies and rule of law that are exactingly processed without any cultural memory or geographical narratives. Without the mythic narrative Slavs are indigenous to PTSD behaviors spill intergenerationally into the future lives of their children perpetuating the androcratic judicial system. Working on the issue of trauma for the past decade provided my observance of recapitulated features when recalling memories as an expert witness in evidentiary hearings and Psycho-social Gender Victims expert with the International Criminal Court. Recapitulations are summaries into a succinct restatement or themes needing a repeating recall which over time adds and layers significant information and symbolism. Recapitulation features are about reconsolidating each memory from its original format whenever recalled. Once recalled or recollected, the memory is continually revamped or organized to awaken a story about the event. The outcome of reconsolidation of memory is what I term as narrative memory in which all possible cosmic and microcosmic world views are included. However, as noted with the Bosnian young woman observance of hatreds to the father of two having his pre-war memories erased and replaced with PTSD, the reconsolidation of memory becomes another violent projectile. The reconsolidation processes of memory features are functional and more advantageous to update our stored wisdom from all life experiences. Such conspired recollections are a remarkably malleable potential to heal local communities since the South Slavic mythic narratives and respective mythological practices are devoid of boundaries. [/fusion_text][/fusion_builder_column][/fusion_builder_row][/fusion_builder_container][fusion_builder_container hundred_percent=”no” hundred_percent_height=”no” hundred_percent_height_scroll=”no” hundred_percent_height_center_content=”yes” equal_height_columns=”no” menu_anchor=”” hide_on_mobile=”small-visibility,medium-visibility,large-visibility” status=”published” publish_date=”” class=”” id=”” border_size=”3″ border_color=”#af312f” border_style=”solid” margin_top=”30px” margin_bottom=”” padding_top=”” padding_right=”30px” padding_bottom=”50px” padding_left=”50px” gradient_start_color=”” gradient_end_color=”” gradient_start_position=”0″ gradient_end_position=”100″ gradient_type=”linear” radial_direction=”center” linear_angle=”180″ background_color=”rgba(43,43,43,0.21)” background_image=”” background_position=”center center” background_repeat=”no-repeat” fade=”no” background_parallax=”none” enable_mobile=”no” parallax_speed=”0.3″ background_blend_mode=”none” video_mp4=”” video_webm=”” video_ogv=”” video_url=”” video_aspect_ratio=”16:9″ video_loop=”yes” video_mute=”yes” video_preview_image=”” filter_hue=”0″ filter_saturation=”100″ filter_brightness=”100″ filter_contrast=”100″ filter_invert=”0″ filter_sepia=”0″ filter_opacity=”100″ filter_blur=”0″ filter_hue_hover=”0″ filter_saturation_hover=”100″ filter_brightness_hover=”100″ filter_contrast_hover=”100″ filter_invert_hover=”0″ filter_sepia_hover=”0″ filter_opacity_hover=”100″ filter_blur_hover=”0″][fusion_builder_row][fusion_builder_column type=”1_1″ layout=”1_1″ spacing=”” center_content=”no” link=”” target=”_self” min_height=”” hide_on_mobile=”small-visibility,medium-visibility,large-visibility” class=”” id=”” hover_type=”none” border_size=”0″ border_color=”” border_style=”solid” border_position=”all” border_radius=”” box_shadow=”no” dimension_box_shadow=”” box_shadow_blur=”0″ box_shadow_spread=”0″ box_shadow_color=”” box_shadow_style=”” padding_top=”” padding_right=”” padding_bottom=”” padding_left=”” margin_top=”” margin_bottom=”” background_type=”single” gradient_start_color=”” gradient_end_color=”” gradient_start_position=”0″ gradient_end_position=”100″ gradient_type=”linear” radial_direction=”center” linear_angle=”180″ background_color=”” background_image=”” background_image_id=”” background_position=”left top” background_repeat=”no-repeat” background_blend_mode=”none” animation_type=”” animation_direction=”left” animation_speed=”0.3″ animation_offset=”” filter_type=”regular” filter_hue=”0″ filter_saturation=”100″ filter_brightness=”100″ filter_contrast=”100″ filter_invert=”0″ filter_sepia=”0″ filter_opacity=”100″ filter_blur=”0″ filter_hue_hover=”0″ filter_saturation_hover=”100″ filter_brightness_hover=”100″ filter_contrast_hover=”100″ filter_invert_hover=”0″ filter_sepia_hover=”0″ filter_opacity_hover=”100″ filter_blur_hover=”0″ last=”no”][fusion_text columns=”” column_min_width=”” column_spacing=”” rule_style=”default” rule_size=”” rule_color=”” hide_on_mobile=”small-visibility,medium-visibility,large-visibility” class=”” id=”” animation_type=”” animation_direction=”left” animation_speed=”0.3″ animation_offset=””] Dr. Danica Anderson Social Scientist, Trauma Expert The Kolo: Women’s Cross-Cultural Collaboration [/fusion_text][/fusion_builder_column][/fusion_builder_row][/fusion_builder_container]
Maternal Fright
[fusion_builder_container hundred_percent=”no” hundred_percent_height=”no” hundred_percent_height_scroll=”no” hundred_percent_height_center_content=”yes” equal_height_columns=”no” menu_anchor=”” hide_on_mobile=”small-visibility,medium-visibility,large-visibility” status=”published” publish_date=”” class=”” id=”” border_size=”” border_color=”” border_style=”solid” margin_top=”” margin_bottom=”” padding_top=”” padding_right=”” padding_bottom=”” padding_left=”” gradient_start_color=”” gradient_end_color=”” gradient_start_position=”0″ gradient_end_position=”100″ gradient_type=”linear” radial_direction=”center” linear_angle=”180″ background_color=”” background_image=”” background_position=”center center” background_repeat=”no-repeat” fade=”no” background_parallax=”none” enable_mobile=”no” parallax_speed=”0.3″ background_blend_mode=”none” video_mp4=”” video_webm=”” video_ogv=”” video_url=”” video_aspect_ratio=”16:9″ video_loop=”yes” video_mute=”yes” video_preview_image=”” filter_hue=”0″ filter_saturation=”100″ filter_brightness=”100″ filter_contrast=”100″ filter_invert=”0″ filter_sepia=”0″ filter_opacity=”100″ filter_blur=”0″ filter_hue_hover=”0″ filter_saturation_hover=”100″ filter_brightness_hover=”100″ filter_contrast_hover=”100″ filter_invert_hover=”0″ filter_sepia_hover=”0″ filter_opacity_hover=”100″ filter_blur_hover=”0″][fusion_builder_row][fusion_builder_column type=”1_1″ layout=”2_3″ spacing=”” center_content=”no” link=”” target=”_self” min_height=”” hide_on_mobile=”small-visibility,medium-visibility,large-visibility” class=”” id=”” hover_type=”none” border_size=”0″ border_color=”” border_style=”solid” border_position=”all” border_radius=”” box_shadow=”no” dimension_box_shadow=”” box_shadow_blur=”0″ box_shadow_spread=”0″ box_shadow_color=”” box_shadow_style=”” padding_top=”” padding_right=”” padding_bottom=”” padding_left=”” margin_top=”” margin_bottom=”” background_type=”single” gradient_start_color=”” gradient_end_color=”” gradient_start_position=”0″ gradient_end_position=”100″ gradient_type=”linear” radial_direction=”center” linear_angle=”180″ background_color=”” background_image=”” background_image_id=”” background_position=”left top” background_repeat=”no-repeat” background_blend_mode=”none” animation_type=”” animation_direction=”left” animation_speed=”0.3″ animation_offset=”” filter_type=”regular” filter_hue=”0″ filter_saturation=”100″ filter_brightness=”100″ filter_contrast=”100″ filter_invert=”0″ filter_sepia=”0″ filter_opacity=”100″ filter_blur=”0″ filter_hue_hover=”0″ filter_saturation_hover=”100″ filter_brightness_hover=”100″ filter_contrast_hover=”100″ filter_invert_hover=”0″ filter_sepia_hover=”0″ filter_opacity_hover=”100″ filter_blur_hover=”0″ last=”no”][fusion_text columns=”” column_min_width=”” column_spacing=”” rule_style=”default” rule_size=”” rule_color=”” hide_on_mobile=”small-visibility,medium-visibility,large-visibility” class=”” id=”” animation_type=”” animation_direction=”left” animation_speed=”0.3″ animation_offset=””] Look at the faces of mothers- you will see Maternal Fright. Balkan War 1991-94 Maternal Fright and the epigenetics: how we live through the choices we make and daily life is influenced by the catastrophic violence women continue to face. My work with South Slavic women over a ten-year period investigated the devastating impacts of war on women contributed to what I term “maternal fright.” In my words, “The Slavic term ‘maternal fright’ is carved from chronic wars and violence towards women and is a form of transgenerational trauma.” One more piece of the puzzle of how life experiences shape individuals, and are passed from one generation to the next. A 2018 article – study is inclusive of female biology but still had a male divorced language of her uteri systems biology. Should we be ok that? Are we to settle for the ‘at least’ the male science model study is researching the placenta? When I review my field work and research (for the Kolo Self Trauma Care) the maternal fright is palatable and metabolized. Having returned from Afghanistan for the second time, I witnessed how Afghan woman are removed from society and face violence daily. However, this removal and appalling absence of scientific studies inclusive of her womb and her mothering language is observed as violence against women. The same is true on women’s daily life- it is the same track of violence. Women’s soma- living body- listens, adapts to what is found in daily life. When I review the Kolo Self Trauma Care fieldwork and research findings, the maternal fright is palatable and metabolized. This is where we realize how our genome and epigenetic properties are influenced. At a detailed level – the women’s soma metabolized via the communication systems in our bodies between mind and body (messenger molecule receptor dynamics CNS, ANDS, neuropeptide and immune system) are the psychosomatic network that is coordinated by and actually serve the adaptive relationships for stress and healing. In 2018, research finally attempts to study the placenta and how the bodywhich is the woman’s soma and prenatal development communicate and influence our genome. “In contrast to prior studies that focused on how genes related to behavioral disorders directly alter prenatal brain development, this novel research found that many genes associated with risk for schizophrenia appear to alter early brain development indirectly, by influencing the health of the placenta. The research showed that these genes are “turned on” in the placenta during complicated pregnancies and signal a placenta under duress. Maternal Fright was not known in the ancient past. Artifacts show evidence of reverence and full knowledge of her capacity to bleed without dying and to birth new life. This is not so in today’s world. Venus of La Poire 25000 BC Brassempouy France This is a reconstruction of the fairly fractured original. Discovered in 1892 it is carved from mammoth ivory.If you note the word ‘culture’ the true definition of culture is that woman’s soma- living body and her biological life giving process is the creator of culture. We can see how the word culture is hijacked into male dominate violence societies- it is not culture. What has occurred is culture is hijacked into patriarchal domain and purposes. The real judge and jury in the end is woman’s soma and the epigenetic and genetic alterations on the fetus, on the infant and the child. It is the place where we do not solve the catastrophic violence but evolve into peace and reverence for woman’s soma, her spirit, her soul and mind/body rich relationships. While the subject of myth and ritual in many cultures, the placenta remains a scientifically neglected human organ, despite its essential role for supplying nutrients and chemicals critical for normal prenatal development. Indeed, the placenta is the only organ removed from a human body that is not routinely sent to the laboratory for examination.” For instance, woman’s soma expresses her beauty in all of life but it is where we find the patriarchal attacks at the local level and daily life such as the ideal body Maternal fright is a sophisticated violence campaign that is thousands of years of old. But, the artifacts show that woman’s soma is thousands of generations old surpassing the some 5,000 years of patriarchal dominance that is killing all of life on the planet. 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Maternal Fright and South Slavic Oral Memory Traditions: Biosemiotics, Epigenetics, and Somatic Psychobiology Healing Practices
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rule_size=”” rule_color=”” hide_on_mobile=”small-visibility,medium-visibility,large-visibility” class=”” id=”” animation_type=”” animation_direction=”left” animation_speed=”0.3″ animation_offset=””] Abstract: The Slavic term “maternal fright” is carved from chronic wars and violence towards women and is a form of transgenerational trauma. The forgotten conflict, the Balkan War of 1991-95 in the former Yugoslav region, resulted in South Slavic female survivors in the aftermath of war utilizing extensive cultural practices including oral memory traditions to ameliorate their experiences of trauma with greater focus on eradicating maternal fright. This review of interdisciplinary fields from biosemiotics, epigenetics, perinatal psychology, oral memory theories, and neuroscience is used to frame the survivors’ trauma as intensified learning and a space and place for healing. The tacit female knowledge embedded in South Slavic oral memory traditions connects to complex biologically aligned practices. For example, the body clock, or circadian rhythms, are regulated with oral memory practices to maintain and heal trauma. 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The gorilla beating on our chests is finally visible: The discovery of Epigenetic Gene in Trauma impacting our immune system
My Kolo Informed Trauma Care has observed and understood the epigenetic influences for transgenerational trauma and body impacts. This is especially observed with my trauma work on Bosnian Muslim women war crimes and war survivors. My own lineage follows along Photographer Salgado saw the gorilla beating on his chest- Balkan War, Bosnia 1999 with these Bosnian women whose ancestors recorded a century of wars. I know why I saw the gorilla beating on our chests. My field work in trauma, crisis response and in the conflict zones across the world noted the suffering immune system in all. I understand how we live life, the decisions we make are the epigenetic prevention for our health and sound mind. I did this by focusing on their felt states, the women’s tacit knowledge and intuition. Dr. Anderson’s book Blood & Honey: the secret herstory of women https://www.amazon.com/Blood-Honey-Secret-Herstory-Survivors/ Dr. According to scientist Daniel M. Davis, research “emphasise an important truth: we see with our brains rather than our eyes…senses focused [to] become more open to the new”. Given that epigenetics is the environment shaping us and ourselves shaping the environment, senses such as feelings and the traumatic fright/flight, these pattern recognitions lends itself to transgenerational trauma and body impacts such as diseases. However, Davis cited how scientific discovery is slow to realize what is being observed in research. In an experiment by two Harvard psychologists, Christopher Chabris and Daniel Simons, where a video of passing basketballs between them had a female in a gorilla costume facing the camera beating her chest. None of the study participants saw the gorilla. Invisible Gorilla experiment images The perceptual blindness and what the late Dr. Lynn Margulis cites as ‘trained incapacities” was no longer an obstacle. Scientists were able to see the gorilla beating our chests. Perceptual blindness and trained incapacities is revealing discoveries In the Journal of Brain, Behavior, and Immunity shows the relationship with our bodies’ immune system and trauma to stress with the epigenetic AIM2 gene. “ In a study from January 2018, Dr. Miller and his team were able to pinpoint how traumatic stress influences one important gene associated with inflammation, the AIM2 gene. The protein CRP, C-reactive protein, as a major player in our response to inflammation. CRP can act like an internal firefighter – it puts out the blaze of inflammation in the central and peripheral nervous system. And the gene most responsible for producing CRP is AIM2.” While the mostly male scientists laud each other, I laud the women I have worked with in the killing fields. The women already knew the epigenetic gene and how transgenerational trauma is inherited. Even though the women could not name the epigenetic gene AIM2 gene or CRP C-reactive protein responsible for immune system impacts, they knew the body is connected with everything and even to future generations. The women and the children are not invisible to me. Bosnian Kolo Sumejja women war crimes and war survivors give donated food stuff to refugees in Travnik, Bosnia 2002 Author: Dr. Danica Anderson Social Scientist- Trauma Expert