09/07/2021
These words resonate with me so deeply as I navigate the decision of who will attend my upcoming birth.
I have come to realize that I don't NEED anyone there. My body was made to create and birth my baby and I can feel that intuition so deeply within myself.
I may, however, WANT someone to be there to support me. I will, of course, have my loving, strong, caring, and capable husband with me, but what about a wise woman? A sister? A woman who has experienced or witnessed wild birth and knows that I do not NEED her presence, her experience, nor her hands in order to birth, but I may desire her sisterhood during this transformative time.
This is the essence of radical birth keeping.
◈ A Medicine Woman's Prayer ◈
I will not rescue you,
For you are not powerless.
I will not fix you,
For you are not broken.
I will not heal you,
For I see you, in your wholeness.
I will walk with you through the darkness,
As you remember your light.
Written by Sheree Bliss Tilsley
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