Honoring Birth Story

Did you give birth in the water?

Did you know this element facilitates emotional HEALING?

Did you labour by yourself? 

Did you know this is a tradition for several indigenous people (like the Cherokee, the Nepalese, some African tribes...)?

Did you gather your tribe to experience birth with you?

Did you know elephants join in community to help labouring females?

Did you cut the umbilical cord?

Do you know there is a Chinese tradition of cord burning that helps the Chi ENERGY flow to the baby?

Did you feel animals came to help you (maybe your pets, maybe birds gathered outside your window, maybe your SPIRIT animal)?

Did you know dolphins are natural midwives and will intuitively come closer and help a laboring woman?

Did you play music during labour?

Did to know women from Cape Vert, from Bali, from some tribes of Namibia, SING, when the baby is coming?

Was your baby born "in the caul" (inside the intact amniotic sac)?

Did you know this is considered a special BLESSING?

For me one of the first, and most sacred, most delicate steps of the postpartum period is telling your birth story. 

There is such sacredness, so much honoring, such rawness and such magic in this. 

Simply this: telling your story, it is so incredibly healing.

Did you get to tell your story? Where you honored with that?

Today hold space for a sister to share her birth story and remember we are not all lucky to have someone willing to listen, to smile (or to cry) and to appreciate our ability to share. [Remember this sister can even be your own mother (or your grandmother, or your neighbor)... did she, get to honor her story?]

Today I hold space for you... I would love to know all about your Sacred Births:

If you could, define it in one line, how would that sound?;

If you could (maybe you have) share it in one frame, what would that look like?

With much love.

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