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I am in a good position to offer specialist information, help and support to womb twin survivors. Not only am I a womb twin survivor myself, but I have worked with many hundreds of womb twin survivors since the Womb Twin project began in 2003.

The womb twin work is adapted for each individual, and can take place by email, Skype chat, Skype video or telephone. There is a fee payable in advance by PayPal for Skype or telephone contact, and an appointment must be made in advance. (One 30-minute trial call is available per applicant, free of charge.) E-mail contact is free of charge.

This style of working is helpful and therapeutic but is not psychotherapy or counselling in the usual sense of the word. I am a qualified counsellor and use my counselling skills to work to the high professional and ethical standards that I was trained to follow, including respect and carefully-maintained boundaries. All personal details, contact details and email addresses are held in strictest confidence.

The work consists of a two- way conversation. I will listen to your story carefully while intervening with any information about the prenatal state, the normal psychological reactiions of womb twin survivors as far as present reserach results seem to show. I may suggest practical exercises to be carried out in the session or at a later time. There will be plenty of smiles and laughter, as well as empathy for your state of mind and distress, should you be stuck in your Black Hole or " beta" space. ....

In a Black Hole today?

You may be firmly and deliberately  entrenched in your Beta Space. We make our own lives, and you have made yours, exactly as it is, with great care and a lot of love.  Womb twin survivors spend their lives re-enacting the life and death of their womb twin, nothing - not happiness or even even life itself - is more important than that. This is why you don't want anything to change and you don't want to grow up.  In fact you are putting a great deal of effort in making sure that you never change, never grow, never develop fully as a person.  This is absolutely true to your true and secret vocation and absolute aim in life as a womb twin survivor, which is to keep your little beta twin alive - someone who never grew, never matured as a person, but of course you did, and that's the problem.

The Beta Space is the re-enactment of your personal Black hole - a real memory of the time when your womb twin was failing to survive. You are so closely bonded to and identified with your twin that you have modelled your own long life on his or her little life.

The result is a limited and dead space to live in, a kind of zombie existence which is imbued with terrible meaning. It's a love story. You are prepared to sacrifice your life to keep your twin alive in this half-life that you have chosen so carefully to live in his or her honour. You have annihilated your true self for the sake of your lost twin.  Nature may have annihilated your twin, but has no intention of annihilating you, not for a long while anyhow. You seem to be anxious to hurry the process, just fade away  into nothing or stay dead, just like your vanished twin. ( More on the wombtwinsurvivors web site)

I can help. There is hope and healing. I know it. I've done it. Contact me today and let's get you started on the healing path.

Althea