In this conversation, I welcomes back Cherionna Menzam-Sills to discuss her latest book, The Prenatal Shadow. While many people focus on childhood or adult trauma, Cherionna highlights the profound, sentient experiences we have before birth. This episode explores the Prenatal Shadow—the unconscious memories and survival templates formed in the womb—and how they influence our personality, health, and how we meet the world today. We also explore the deep somatic intelligence of our earliest days. We discuss how cells shut down when they can’t fight or flee, the power of a practitioner’s presence, and the Womb Surround process—a gentle, group-supported method for re-patterning our birth stories.

Cherionna started as an Occupational Therapist and her work spans pre and perinatal psychology, embryology, and biodynamic craniosacral therapy. She has been a therapist for 45 years and has a wealth of knowledge.

🕒 Episode Timestamps

00:00 | Introduction

09:20 | Prenatal explained by Cherionna in the context of psychology

18:36 | What you can experience with working with the shadow

27:09 | In utero, the mother and baby are a dyad

39:33 | I reflect on a journey I had with a family and experienced perinatal memory

45:34 | How to work with Cherionna and her advice for practitioners

54:30 | The most helpful way to further understand and integrate Cherionna's work

59:59 | Cherionna's personal legend and how she knows she is on the right path

1:02:48 | What happens in a Womb Surround

🔗 Connect with Cherionna

1. Website: www.birthingyourlife.org
2. Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/birthingyourlife
3. Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@CherionnaMenzamSills
4. The Prenatal Shadow: Healing the Traumas Experienced Before and After Birth: https://www.birthingyourlife.org/the-prenatal-shadow/#
5. Karuna Dartmoor: https://www.karunadartmoor.co.uk/

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What if you could see the geometry of your own voice? John Stuart Reid joins me to discuss the Cymascope, a revolutionary instrument that transforms sound into 3D visible structures in water. John shares his story in Egypt, his research into how sound heals the human body through piezoelectricity, and his findings on how dolphins communicate sonopictorially.

The conversation then shifts to a life-altering discovery found within the music of Danish musicians Anders Holte & Cacina Meadu, website: https://www.anders-holte.com/. John explains how certain musical arrangements create sub-audible frequencies (5–12 Hz) that directly stimulate the Vagus Nerve through the ears, offering a potential non-invasive cure for chronic inflammation.

Whether you are a musician, a scientist, or a seeker of holistic healing, this episode reveals that the universe isn't just made of matter—it's made of organized, beautiful sound.

Acoustics pioneer, professor John Stuart Reid, is a man on a mission to educate and inspire the world in the field of cymatics, the study of visible sound. His CymaScope invention has changed our perception of sound forever: seeing sound allows us to understand this omnipresent aspect of our world and universe fuller and deeper. His cymatics research is helping to elevate this important new field in the scientific arena, including a study on how dolphins see with sound, published in the Journal of Marine Biology. His two recent studies are focused on differentiating between the sounds emitted by healthy cells and cancer cells, a scientific paper published in the Water Journal, and the effects of music on the longevity of red blood cells, to be published in 2026.

00:00 | Introduction

06:21 | John's 2 min version of who he is.

10:23 | The Cymascope App uses a fast Fourier transform analyzer to visualize the fundamental frequency of any sound.

15:04 | The difference between the Cymascope App and the Cymascope Instrument.

26:46 | John recalls his 20 min healing experience in Egypt.

38:11 | How John invented the portable Cymascope and the The Maui Water Memory Experiment.

50:40 | Aquaphotomics: A new science

1:00:07 | The audio heterodyne effect

1:10:40 | John's personal legend of a Teacher.

1:17:23 | How cymaglyphs have facilitated John's health.

1:24:39 | How John uses his curiosity and students feedback to know he is on the right path to his personal legend.

1:31:28 | How John is influenced by his sound knowledge: When you speak, a bubble of energy forms and expands at 760 mph, pulsating with the frequencies of your vocal folds.

1:35:36 | The DNA Voice Signature: https://soundmadevisible.com/?v=7885444af42e

1:40:30 | John shares the miraculous story of his wife, Annaliese, who reversed late-stage Scleroderma by shifting her consciousness and reprogramming her biological scripts.

1. John's present Shift Network course: https://shiftnetwork.isrefer.com/go/hpfmJSR/a20075/

Welcome back to the Compromised to Alchemized podcast! In this episode, we talk about the world of movement, hope, and the innate intelligence of the human body. Tim Anderson, founder of Original Strength, shares his journey from a statistician and fragile over-trainer to discovering the resets that help the body return to its factory settings. We explore the connection between how we move and how we feel, and why you were designed to move as gracefully as any creature in the wild. Tim reflects on his transition into his 50s, the leap of faith required when your children leave the nest, and why the most profound reset isn't just physical—it's learning how to love others through the gift of restoration.

Tim has been a personal trainer and movement coach for nearly 30 years. He is an accomplished author and speaker and is known for streamlining complex ideas into simple and applicable information. He is passionate about helping people realize they were created to be strong and healthy.

Tim has written and co-written many books including A Simple Book of Strength, Discovering You, The Becoming Bulletproof Project, Habitual Strength, Pressing RESET, and Original Strength Performance. Throughout all of his books and speaking engagements, Tim presents one constant thread of truth: It feels good to feel good. And we were designed to feel good and retain our strength throughout life.

00:00 | Introduction

12:03 | Tim’s Superman Moment: Feeling fragile and seeking a way to become bulletproof.

19:36 | The 5 Main Resets: Tapping into the movements you were born with.

29:54 | Tim's new book Self Preservation: Choosing to Thrive.

35:45 | The Grace of Movement: Why animals should stop and watch humans move.

40:30 | The road signs along Tim's journey that helped foster his love for fitness.

45:25 | The Alchemist: Defining Tim’s Personal Legend at age 50 and how he knows he is staying on track.

50:30 | Letters to the Past: Tim speaks to his 18-year-old and 30-year-old selves.

1:01:53 | Time Dilation: Realizing the preciousness and finite nature of life.

1. Smart Moves: Why Learning Is Not All In Your Head by Carla Hannaford
2. The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho

1. Tim's new book, Self-Preservation: Choosing to Thrive: https://amzn.to/3Z70Hvx
2. The book to learn about how to press reset on your body: https://youtu.be/nRGaItUR7cU?si=DYDo-vBeuVO2Yh6X
3. Tim's website where you can learn more about Original Strength Workshops: https://originalstrength.net/courses/
4. Tim's YouTube channel: https://youtube.com/@originalstrengthsystem?si=NEVlmVZVl_FmRW8f