Postpartum Healing

If you let it the healing that can happen during those early postpartum days can pave the way for a vibrant life.

I sat in the office with my midwife and said “I just don’t want to have to willingly walk into the fire of transformation again”. We were talking about birth, specifically the birth of my second child. She nodded and shared that she once spoke similar words. I have written about the unraveling of motherhood that starts in pregnancy and continues through the journey to motherhood. I have lived it. I have walked the road across the threshold into motherhood, during a pandemic and here I sat a few weeks out from doing it again.

My midwife held the space as I recalled the feelings of slowly being pulled apart by uncertainty. The feeling of both an expansion and a force slow down. I spoke of the power in letting go in birth and beyond and how at times the need to let go actually annoys me…EVERYTHING about my Virgo, Enneagram 1, holder of family emotions loves control. However, life has taught me to know better about the power of surrender and radical acceptance. There is power in meeting yourself where you are at. It is during the postpartum or 4th trimester or sacred window or whatever you choose to call it It is here that we benefit from receiving. It is here that we find ourselves after we walk through the fire of transformation. It is here in the postpartum that we heal.