Compassionate Child is Suzanne's mission to provide an online resource for information and opportunities to all those seeking to exercise efforts in helping the world thrive through nurturing the inherent love and compassion our children are born to share. When we really think about and experience what this is and what it can mean, we may discover a change in the way we look at babies and come to recognize how much they have to offer in our own evolution as human beings.

Baby Massage is the popular term used for healthy attachment and bonding through nurturing and compassionate touch. The benefits reach far and wide: Brain development, sensory and motor development, social relationship, biochemical balance and a myriad of development within these categories. It is these benefits that yield the common successes of baby massage that are more widely known: deeper sleep, relief of gastrointestinal distress, weight gain in preterm infants and helping the parent/caregiver through the effects of postpartum/post adoption distress, anxieties and depression. Without the first list of benefits, the second and more popular list would not exist. This is far more than Baby Massage. This is the development of self -- inside and out, and families have the tools right in their own hands and through their own hearts to help their children thrive on so many levels.

Why ‘Compassionate Child?’ Compassionate Child identifies a key benefit of baby massage. How a child is cared for directly influences the child’s ability to care for herself and others. It also influences the quality of care she will provide for herself and for others. Compassionate qualities are trust, reliability, predictability, respect, recognition, understanding, validation and admiration. Conveniently, these are also key elements of the bonding process. Compassionate care results in compassionate beings. Compassion is the deep awareness of another’s distress -- and the wish to relieve it.

It is so important for the baby to know there is someone there who will listen, attempt to relieve the distress – and wants to. It is through this care, the child learns to reach out to others in the same way, without anger or aggression; instead, with an approach that is purely human and humane. We, as human beings, are born for compassion. Our brains are geared to nurture this aspect of human nature. This site, the trainings and presentations I offer exist in an effort to facilitate a deeper experience into the compassion we are all born to offer every living being.

So many people don’t believe they are truly loved. So many people aren’t even certain, beyond the shadow of a doubt, that they were truly wanted when they were born. Being loved and wanted is every child’s right. Being heard, acknowledged and validated is our active responsibility to nurture the potential for compassion in every living being. We can make a difference, and it’s happening now.