BY Franklyn Sills The Fulcrum, Issue 96 Summer 2025 Having discussed babies’ neurology as present time social beings in the previous article, part 3 addresses the role of the stress response and autonomic strategies for survival. STRESS RESPONSE BASICS The autonomic nervous system is part of our repertoire of survival mechanisms, constantly operating beneath our … Continue reading On Meeting Infants – part 3
BY Franklyn Sills The Fulcrum, Issue 95 May 2025 The second article in the series explores infant neurology and the roles that mirror neurons and polyvagal theory play in shaping a baby’s relational responses to others and the world around them. Babies’ Ability to Attune and Respond to Caregivers Babies directly attune to the caregiver’s … Continue reading On Meeting Infants – part 2
BY Franklyn Sills The Fulcrum, Issue 94 January 2025 Birth is one of our most formative experiences, a universal rite of passage that can have significant, lifelong physical and emotional consequences. My own prenatal and birth experiences were intense. As my mother had lost a son before me, she was constantly anxious and fearful of … Continue reading On Meeting Infants – part 1
BY Miki Ettore & Kate Stuart The Fulcrum, Issue 91 January 2024 NEURODIVERSITY is a term used to describe naturally occurring variations in the human brain. Neurotypical is defined as ‘normal’ and neurodiverse is a spectrum that varies from person to person and affects how they experience and react to the world around them. It … Continue reading The Challenges & Rewards of Working with Neurodiversity
By Richard Kramer Having worked with babies for many years I am interested to learn more about how a breech birth can affect a baby’s development. Born with their buttocks, feet, or knees emerging first, breech babies are relatively rare, comprising one in 200 births in the UK.¹ Although breech presentation is common in early … Continue reading Breech Births
by Miki Ettore The Fulcrum, Issue 75 September 2018 My 12-year-old son, Finley, who has Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), was the inspiration behind my decision to learn Craniosacral Therapy (CST). I never imagined that one day I would be working as a full-time therapist. I have now helped over 100 families with children on the … Continue reading Touching Lives: How CST Can Help Autism
BY Ralph Wade The Fulcrum, Issue 34 Winter 2004 I didn’t want to be there when my son was born. Blood all over the place, people wearing masks, the person I love the most in the world screaming in pain and ending with an event resembling that scene in Alien. I get nervous at the … Continue reading Being There
by Denise McCann The Fulcrum, Issue 25 Winter 2002 It’s hard to know where to start talking about Liam. I suppose I should describe the community I live in first and my own situation when I first met him. I live in South Galway, near the Clare border in Ireland. It’s a rural area with … Continue reading Mission Impossible? A Journey Out of Autism
