To fear birth is to fear death.

Mere survival of the birth process is the expectation and where the bar is set. Survival is a dismally low threshold in birth.

The Radical Birth Keeper School with the Free Birth Society has exceeded my expectations. This is so much more than just a birth keeper training. The conscious leadership/self mastery tools are absolutely expanding for any woman and add so much depth to being a radical and integral birth keeper/ birth worker, and woman!

When you choose to honour this transformative event as the initiation it truly is, and make conscious choices about what you actually want, you reclaim your body, your power and begin to remember the magnificence of the divine feminine.

The divine feminine is the energy of birth. It is life force energy. It is energy we can’t control. It is your innate body wisdom that knows birth. It is becoming birth.

Is not linear. Is a spiral, layered, multidimensional, takes time, may never be “complete”.

Is unique and complex.

Be patient and kind to yourself.

This “Sacred Window” – the immediate month or so after childbirth is foundational for a woman’s health beyond the childbearing years.

Why is this immediate period after birth so fundamental? The first 40 days is said to lay the foundations for a mother’s health for the next 40 years! If the first 40 days are spent in rest, receiving nourishing foods, support from loving people and genuine spiritual and emotional tending, then her health will reflect that nurturance for the next 40 years.

Remember that birth is a peak performance event. The muscles of your uterus, and entire body, are doing intensely challenging work for a purpose.

To birth your baby.

This is a good thing!