I see you Aleksandra. Mothering seems to come with all the celebrations, and yet no one is talking about all the deaths that will happen, including the graveyard of the womb. It becomes a tomb, and the rituals have been lost to post colonization societies. There is more than one thing happening here that involves our psyche, body and hormones. Being in a portal speaks to thresholds and unfamiliar landscapes. I did not mother well in my time, my nervous system was a constant wreck. I also have made peace with what i did not know then nor had the tools. My breath has been an incredible source of coming home. I hold an embodied practice every morning and have invited a few friends to join me, just so we can care for our nervous systems despite all the poly crisis that are swirling around us. I wrote a letter to my younger self recently, and it was the balm i needed. Sending you love dear one, thank you for letting us be on this journey with you.
YES, it reopens absolutely. My son is now 16 months and for several weeks around his first birthday I was thrown back into the birth portal in such an intense way. It even felt like my brain reverted to early-postpartum brain, including the brain fog and all the raw emotion and the awe and even the numbness. It was very powerful, and it helped clarify for me just how indescribably transformative giving birth truly is. Very potent indeed 🤍
Thank you for this share Kat!! I have been navigating these shifts too ! No matter jow mich you know the strength of these portals, there is more and more that will continue to show you.
Not a mama (yet) but a birth worker who has supported mothers - I’ve spoken to so many women about the birth portal reopening once a year around the time their baby/ies were born! This has been true even 7 or 10 years on. I’ve experienced early births and those portals open for me once a year too — such a beautiful reflection.
Mm thank you so much For this Carly! Now that i think of it i know many Women have told me that this happens in its own way for them too. Wow what an absolute gift it is to be a woman and to birth. As i have written about before - we have built in ceremonies that take us to the underworld, supstances not needed.
I feel a full Circle moment definitely around some of the particular points of healing that were opened For me and i feel resolution coming. Thank you For this comment !
I see you Aleksandra. Mothering seems to come with all the celebrations, and yet no one is talking about all the deaths that will happen, including the graveyard of the womb. It becomes a tomb, and the rituals have been lost to post colonization societies. There is more than one thing happening here that involves our psyche, body and hormones. Being in a portal speaks to thresholds and unfamiliar landscapes. I did not mother well in my time, my nervous system was a constant wreck. I also have made peace with what i did not know then nor had the tools. My breath has been an incredible source of coming home. I hold an embodied practice every morning and have invited a few friends to join me, just so we can care for our nervous systems despite all the poly crisis that are swirling around us. I wrote a letter to my younger self recently, and it was the balm i needed. Sending you love dear one, thank you for letting us be on this journey with you.
YES, it reopens absolutely. My son is now 16 months and for several weeks around his first birthday I was thrown back into the birth portal in such an intense way. It even felt like my brain reverted to early-postpartum brain, including the brain fog and all the raw emotion and the awe and even the numbness. It was very powerful, and it helped clarify for me just how indescribably transformative giving birth truly is. Very potent indeed 🤍
Thank you for this share Kat!! I have been navigating these shifts too ! No matter jow mich you know the strength of these portals, there is more and more that will continue to show you.
Not a mama (yet) but a birth worker who has supported mothers - I’ve spoken to so many women about the birth portal reopening once a year around the time their baby/ies were born! This has been true even 7 or 10 years on. I’ve experienced early births and those portals open for me once a year too — such a beautiful reflection.
Mm thank you so much For this Carly! Now that i think of it i know many Women have told me that this happens in its own way for them too. Wow what an absolute gift it is to be a woman and to birth. As i have written about before - we have built in ceremonies that take us to the underworld, supstances not needed.
I feel a full Circle moment definitely around some of the particular points of healing that were opened For me and i feel resolution coming. Thank you For this comment !