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My 'wild pregnancy' - a practice of patience, love and joy, the question of deservingness and finding nourishing support.
themes: making space, slowing, patience, internal knowing. choosing love over fear, and opening to joy and pleasure. For me, the sweetest gift of pregnancy is leaning deeply into faith, developing intuition and to be with the mystery of life. The first weeks were a mix of deep internal knowing that I was pregnant interspersed with flecks of doubt. It was a precious invitation to live day by day - ."Today, my bleed hasn't come - Let's see what tomorrow brings". in the Vippasa
Oct 185 min read
Equanimity in pregnancy and birth
I signed up to a virpasana - a 10 day silent meditation retreat in January 2022. Little did I know that when I arrived, sat in a hall full of silent meditators, I would receive the first hint that I might in fact be pregnant. When my bleed didn't come the first day, I started to suspect I might be pregnant. My cycles were very regular and predictable and so it was unusual for it to be late. I watched this thought come by through my mind, and let it pass, noting that all there
Oct 112 min read
Sitting at the feet of Mothers
Honour those mothers around you For she is the source from which all life is contained and emerges She is the Well, the holder,...
Mar 12, 20251 min read
Emerging from the dark, still conifers - lessons and reflections of 2024 - gestating offerings and birthing new creations
It always feels good to practice some discipline with AI and technology which is designed to feed off your attention, so for this reason...
Jan 15, 20254 min read
Trading Responsibility for Power
Whether we realise it or not, we all make choices about who we invite to our births. When we invite a licenced midwife to a birth,...
Jul 22, 20243 min read
The intervention of the pregnancy test, et al
After 13 years of devoting my life and work to women and babies, I have come to realise that even the most subtle of acts are an...
Jun 30, 20242 min read
Luck has no place here
I have encountered a couple of people in the last week, and many more in the last few years, who after hearing me recount a story about a...
Apr 15, 20243 min read
Stories - the guiding star
It seems to be an ever increasing and problematic habit that we often out-source birth, health, our bodies and lives in general to the...
Mar 11, 20243 min read
Postpartum - the most sacred time of your life. Unless you have syntocinon?
Postpartum can be the most sacred time of your life. Syntocinon likely hampers this possibility. The time following the birth of your...
Jan 29, 20244 min read
A brief note on "not wanting to talk about it" as well as less brief notes on Birth, pain and musings on the possibility that birth can be pain-free.
I do not wish to talk about how messed up the system is. Instead, I wish to maximise what precious time I have on this earth, telling the...
Jan 8, 20243 min read
Most women don't know what powers they can glean from birth
Pregnant women in their innocent maiden states bursting with beauty and divine porosity, search for guidance, love & support. They search...
Mar 20, 20233 min read
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