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Birth as Sheer Pleasure
Inevitably, in discussions about unassisted or natural birth, the topic of pain-free birth rolls around. When it does, I wonder if striving for a “pain-free birth” doesn’t inadvertently miss the potential beauty of natural birth itself. I don’t believe birth is meant to be pain-free-in fact, I believe it’s far more than that! I believe, and have experienced, birth to be downright ecstatically, blissfully, orgasmically pleasurable.
Healing Birth Trauma
Women who experience birth trauma often feel isolated and misunderstood. Even other mothers—central to a woman’s support network—sometimes can’t really understand, unless they also have experienced firsthand the impact of a traumatic birth.
As I Began to Love Myself by Charlie Chaplin
As I began to love myself … I found that anguish and emotional suffering are only warning signs that I was living against my own truth. Today, I know, this is “AUTHENTICITY”.
Musings – On Purpose
The question of purpose has always been relevant to me. Is purpose really one thing or is it all? Can I rest comfortably in my fragmented belief of what purpose is and what it is not? Is my purpose to be there and not here? Is my purpose to do that and not this?
An Open Heart
When I write about the heart and opening the heart, I am not referring to the physical heart, but instead the emotional heart, the deep inner heart. It’s the region of the body where many emotions are concentrated, and are often felt deeply. Some refer to it as the door to the subconscious, and some might even refer to it as the soul.
Ruminations: Love, Gratitude & Presence
It really is quite simple, it always is when we open our eyes and see the beauty ever present around us, the everyday mundane affairs become fuel for inspiration, the ordinary becomes food for the inner fire, little drops rippling into moments of bliss in the flesh.
Sacred Conception: Celebrating the Union of Divine Feminine & Masculine
Our children are our future—and the quality of this future depends upon choices we make now. This is the immense power and responsibility of co-creation!
Learning how to bring mindfulness and conscious intention to conception, gestation, and the birthing process is a beautiful way to bring positive change to our shared world.
Love: A Doula’s Perspective
When her journey is honored, and her body and spirit revered. When her life is held sacred and her body witnessed as a vessel for the infinite.
When she moans expressing her will and might, when she trembles in anticipation of new life. When she reaches down to hold the soft, amniotic scented body of her…
Preparing for Motherhood
The Yin and Yang of Birth & Motherhood. The womb is a place of creative potency; it is, after all, the origin of life. But, it is also steeped in something enigmatic and unknowable. For many women, this dual nature of the womb – both life-giving and deeply mysterious – mirrors their experiences with birth and motherhood.
First moments of being a first-time father
My heart cracked open. It’s an indescribable feeling. One moment we were two, the next we were three. How does something like that happen? Sure, you find someone, make love, she gets pregnant, her stomach swells, and one day the baby is born. But there’s a definitive moment when it culminates. And nothing prepares you for it.
Healing and Transformation: Parenting Your Inner Child
Our deepest desire—and our birthright—is to be happy: to be in touch with an inner peace, joy, and contentment that remains unaffected by the ups-and-downs of daily life. Yet so often the recipes for happiness handed down to us from our parents or given to us by teachers and through cultural media, are faulty.
Sacrifice: The Heart of Wisdom
The archetype of the mother who sacrifices all for her children is a beautiful one—yet often misunderstood. When it comes to nourishing and protecting our children, what kind of sacrifice is truly beneficial? When is sacrifice noble and wise; and when is it unhealthy? To begin this exploration, let’s take a journey into the realm of etymology…
Celebrating my twins. A birth story by Ben A. Wise
Rose is 34 weeks pregnant with twins – a boy and a girl. At 4 AM, she wakes up. She usually wakes up early in the morning and goes back to sleep soon after. This time, though, is different. She has a vision. Not a dream, a vision. In it, she sees a tall, well-‐built man, lying down on what seems like a hospital bed in a well-‐lit room with white walls. He has curly hair and piercing blue eyes. He is gazing at her, softly, intently.
Presence
Not holding on to things, in full release and acceptance, forgiven and forgiving, acknowledging the grand grace of love everywhere, in communion with the mystery that is a part of every passing inhale and the experience of completion that is at the root of every exhale. How would life be different? What would you do differently if you understood that perhaps right now is your only opportunity for a fulfilled life?
The Empty or perhaps The Sacred
How often do we feel as if drama is a normal part of existence? How often, in our boredom, do we give ourselves to the chaotic currents of our collective, knowing deep inside that it is not wholesome, or true for us? How often do we betray ourselves for the allure of one moment of excitement? One moment that takes us high, yet leaves us so empty, troubled and deprived of real nourishment?