So much time to rest and to reflect. I don't know if I would have come to these conclusions half as quickly if it hadn't been for this enforced time of learning and growth.
My purpose is to inspire women to set themselves free. But I was going about it the wrong way. Railing against institutions, men, everything that I perceived to be holding women back. Making us small and weak.
How many doulas are stuck in the rescuer mindset where they believe their role is to protect women from birth trauma? I don't think it's any coincidence that so many doulas have their own birth trauma that led them down the path of birth work.
That exhaustion, depletion, self-fulfilling prophecy.
I realised I want to reveal the mental limitations that make these stories inevitable. I want to start before pregnancy even begins, so we can realise we are the writers of our story, the queens of our lives. I want to reclaim our rites of passage and see our sexuality, bodies and blood as sacred.
I want to soften and open our hearts to each other and to the men in our lives because a life of hate and blame is too great a burden to bear.
I want to dance with the cycles of the moon and earth and honour all aspects of ourselves and each other.
To live as embodied, sensual, creative women, as we were born to be.
The sheer pleasure of being in a woman's body.
As well as reminding yourself you're exactly where you're supposed to be on your path right now, what is your purpose? What is your message to the world?
