Articles by Marcy Axness
For All Parents
Mother and Child Communion: A Collective Challenge for Our Future - Wet Set Gazette Summer 2008 Column- From Presence to Simplicity: Cliff Notes for P-A-R-E-N-T-S - Wet Set Gazette Jan/Feb 2008
- Holiday Invitation for the New Mother Or, How to Keep the Thanks in Thanksgiving - Wet Set Gazette Nov/Dec 2007
- Inviting Fathers In: The Tender Beginnings of Attachment in Men - Wet Set Gazette Sept/Oct 2007
- Raising Generation PAX: Peace Begins With How We Parent, from the Very Beginning - Wet Set Gazette Summer 2007 column
- Moms & Dads, Who is the Boss of You? - The Force of Culture Upon Birth & Parenting Choices - Wet Set Gazette Mar/Apr 2007 column
- When the Joy of the Mother is Missing - An Organic Perspective on Postpartum Depression - Wet Set Gazette Jan/Feb 2007 column
- What Is The Primal Wound? Understanding mother-newborn separation - Wet Set Gazette Nov/Dec 2006 column
- The Present Parent: A Different Take on Attention Deficit - Wet Set Gazette Sep/Oct 2006 column
- Of Love & Milk: Facing our Breastfeeding Ambivalence - Wet Set Gazette Jul/Aug 2006 column
- In The Flow: The Intimate Ecology of Womanpower - Wet Set Gazette Mar/Apr 2006 column
- Keeping Our Children Whole - Preventive Parenting in a Noisy World - Wet Set Gazette Jan/Feb 2006 column
- Honoring the New Mother - Telling Our Stories, Tending Our Souls - Wet Set Gazette Nov/Dec 2005 column
- Teach Me Your World, Mommy - Meaningful Early Education - Wet Set Gazette Sep/Oct 2005 column
- What Do We Really Need? Beyond the Store Purchases - Wet Set Gazette Jul/Aug 2005 column
- Childhood Builds a Healthy Brain - The Importance of Playing, Puttering, and Pretending
- Just Say NO to Baby Einstein - by Michael Mendizza
- To Praise or Not To Praise - What Children Need to Hear and Not Hear from Parents and Teachers
- Wolf-Wise Parenting - Fairy Tale Wisdom for A Modern Dilemma
- A Mother’s Call to Healing - Originally published in Whole Life Times, July 1995
- Lifelong Lessons From The Womb
For All of Those Interested in Adoption
I’m delighted to announce that I have joined ClubMom.com as their adoption expert. I am featured on their site along with 25 of my articles on adoption. Many of them are brand new, others are newly-revised and updated versions of “old favorites,” some of which are listed below. I invite you to drop by my ClubMom adoption pages.
For many years I have also been the editor of the adoption column for the Association for Prenatal & Perinatal Psychology and Health (APPPAH), entitled Newborn Adoption: The Lifelong Psychological Matrix. These articles speak to the understanding that we are powerfully affected by events very early in our lives... including conception, our time in our mother’s womb, our birth, and infancy. There are few areas of human experience in which the principles of prenatal and perinatal psychology and health are so vividly illustrated as in adoption!
For Adoptive Parents
- Authentic Beginnings, Real Bonds: Honest Talk About Adoption
- Painful Lessons - What We Must Learn About Open Adoption
- Affirming the Adoptee’s Reality: A Way to Intimacy
For Birth Parents
- Saying Hello Before Good-bye - Keeping a Birth Mother’s Journal
- The Profound Importance of a Mother’s “Hello” - More On Keeping a Birth Mother’s Journal
For Adoptive Parents & Birth Parents
- A Different Kind of Relationship: Thoughts on Adoption - An Interview with Nancy Verrier
- Between Adoptive Parents and Birth Mothers - More Thoughts on “A Different Kind of Relationship”
For Adoptees & Birth Parents
- The Second Rejection - The Pain After Reunion
For Adoptees & Adoptive Parents
- What Is The Primal Wound? - Understanding The Trauma of Infant-Maternal Separation
- In Appreciation of The Primal Wound