Crowning Glory Hypnobirthing

This is a wonderful conversation about HypnoBirthing! Highly recommend listening with your partner and friends. Lots to discuss!!

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Calm, Confident, and In Control: on Hypnobirthing and Self-Advocacy with Hypnotist Maria Lernerman and Executive Coach Jamie Lee - Risky Conversations with Jamie Lee Everything worthwhile is on the other side of a risky conversation—especially when it comes to women’s health, birth, and career. In this episode, I sit down with professional investor–turned–hypnobirthing educator Maria Lernerman to talk about ho...

So beautifully said.

“All the eggs a woman will ever carry form in her ovaries while she is a four-month-old fetus in the womb of her mother.

This means our cellular life as an egg begins in the womb of our grandmother.

Each of us spent five months in our grandmother's womb, and she in turn formed in the womb of her grandmother.

We vibrate to the rhythm of our mother's blood before she herself is born, and this pulse is the thread of blood that runs all the way back through the grandmothers to the first mother.

~ Layne Redmond, When the Drummers Were Women
https://layneredmond.com/Home.html

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Yes!

And don't come at me with you can't afford it. Maybe take some classes instead of buying that fancy stroller or diaper bag or _______. Out of hospital childbirth classes are that important.

Celebrating the beginning of a person's fertility cycle is so important.

“Today, a woman’s first menstruation often passes unmarked, although most other cultures have recognized the depth of this change in a women’s life. The sacredness of menstrual blood was recognized by most traditional societies; women during their moontime were believed to have great power. And nothing was so powerful as a woman’s first blood flow. What once was cause for celebration — that a new woman could now bring life to her people — is today something hidden, perhaps even shameful.

Finding a way to reclaim me**es from the negativity shrouding it is a difficult and challenging task. But as long as women shrink from reclaiming the power that participation in the great universal cycles once brought us, we will not be fully empowered as women within our families and our society.

~ Patricia Monaghan, The Goddess Companion, May 22

“She should realize that the change which has taken place in her is sacred, for now she will be as Mother Earth . . . She should know that each month when her blood arrives she bears influence.”

~ Lakota holy man Black Elk, on women’s initiation rites

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Individual online classes are available on an ongoing basis all summer.
Classes are 3 hours, over 5 weeks.
If you have internet access at the cottage, trailer, or mountain top, you can be well prepared for a fear-free pregnancy and birth.
HypnoBirthing classes are best started after 16 weeks, up to 32 weeks.
If pregnancy brings you the uncomfortable feeling of dread, please reach out.
Gift certificates are available for early baby showers.
It's a gift that keeps on giving!

Art by Nicole Revy, "From tiny seeds grow mighty trees."

“How do we love all the children?”
Not just our children, not just the ones who look like us or who have resources, not just the human children but the young of birds and salmon and redwood trees.

When we love all the children, when that love is truly sacred to us in the sense of being most important, then we have to take action in the world to enact that love. We are called to make the earth a place where all the children can thrive.

~ Starhawk, from The Spiral Dance: A Rebirth of the Ancient Religions of the Great Goddess
(Question in quotes from Amory Lovins)

Art: Nicole Revy, “From Little Seeds
Grow Mighty Trees”

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We pass powerful stories to our daughters.
We can choose to relay better ones. We can create new ones if we've chosen to be cycle breakers.
Parents who take a HypnoBirthing course become positive birth storytellers.
It's where it all begins.

“If all girls were taught
that they are born wild and free.
That their mind, body and soul
is in their own keep.

That they have just one life
and they must make it their own.
That they need to walk their own path
and don’t need to be shown.

That a cage isn’t for them.
They should be free like a bird.
That they have a voice
and a right to be heard.

That other women aren’t their enemy
we’re all in this together.
That the walls that divide us
will not last forever.

That their one purpose in life
is to grow wilder and bloom.
That living a passionate life
is the only way to defeat the doom and gloom.

We would have an army of women,
powerful and strong.
An army of women
to defeat all wrong.

Let’s teach our girls
that they were born wild and free.
Let’s teach our girls
the power of she.

Women try to tame themselves
as they get older
but the women who feel and look the best
are the ones who grow wilder.”

~ Samantha Wilson
https://www.samantha-wilson.com/growingwilder/

Art: Lucy Campbell
Lucy Campbell