“BIRTH IS THE EPITOME OF BEING HUMAN”-Shannon Mitchell
We are All Activists
What kind of activist are you? Some of us are born mothers. We activate others to make better mothering choices simply by our being good mothers and an example. Others are born to write about activism and educate the masses or the minor support groups of a particular need Both are important. Some of us are […]
Commitment
“Liz, having a baby is like getting a tattoo in the face. You kinda want to be fully committed” – Eat, Pray, Love (movie) character – Delia Shiraz
Einstein
“Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom.” — Albert Einstein
Contraction
Life is a contraction. Ups, downs, holding patterns. Every birth is life, coming to fruition. Expect expansion of your experience level and contractions of your world, making it infinitely smaller and larger at once, focused on the ultimate in experience. -Shannon Mitchell
Processing
It’s Monday and I’m putting myself back together. It’s 1 pm and I’m finally beginning to come out of the birth fog. I got good sleep but it takes a bit to process out. I write a short thing every time about what I could have learned. It is always humbling but there is always […]
Inherent Safety
“I talked particularly about my feeling that birth is not the dangerous thing that it is set out to be. That, in fact, it is inherently safe and I believe biology tells us this. One woman, one baby, that the baby can’t survive without the woman. It takes a long time to grow a human […]
Formational ecosystems
It is all the things we do to first time moms that traumatize them for the rest of their births. We have a fragile, formational ecosystem that we treat with impunity, then are surprised when they no longer trust or engage. -Shannon Mitchell
How?
You know, by this time two weeks from now you’ll be holding a brand new baby. I know you say you’re tired of the stress. What I’m going to ask you is: How did you want that baby to get here? What made it worth it to you to make the decisions that you made […]
Catharsis
Catharsis is good for the soul. It is confessions of fear, emotion, it is pouring out the pain of something that affects us. It needs to happen so that others are aware of problems. It is not activism, though it can sometimes drive it. Activism is being in motion, creating a working plan, figuring out […]