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Markael Luterra's avatar

Of all of the aspects of our lives that have been medicalized and mentalized and materialized and trivialized, pregnancy and dying have to be the worst. Sacred soul transitions and tectonic shifts of physiology that are overrun with experts and expectations and at the same time reduced to statistics and biochemistry.

Thank you for honoring and sharing your own journey. I agree that feminism has largely failed at a deeper purpose, which ultimately fails not just women but all of us. There is a place for activism that pursues equality across identities. But there is also a real need to bring a masculine-dominated paradigm back into balance. So that we value community and relationship more than productivity, being more than doing, intuition more than logic, immersion more than observation, wildness more than civilization.

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Rachel Crimmins's avatar

Thank you for such a tender piece. I see your becoming. Matrescence was a real unraveling for me as well. I left a lot behind, in order to gain so much more at such a soul level. It is the journey of a lifetime, woven through with so much mystery, of course the overculture treats it as mundane. Savor this mystery. It is your greatest teacher. Blessings on you and babe.

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Anja Smoliak's avatar

Sister, I resonate with so much of what you’ve shared — it’s as though you’ve plucked Words from my own HeART and woven them with yours 🤍🤍🤍 ThIS feral and Faithful Path of pregnancy has felt like a Soul-quakINg pilgrimage for me too. No-thINg looks radically different from the outside — just a BEAUTIFUL BLOOMING BELLY — but INside, the landscapes have split wide open. Craters, Rivers of tears, roarINg Fires. A Holy undoINg.

I’ve felt that same ache for BEINg seen IN the stretchINg and the sheddINg. For touch, for reverence, for Service. The need for the Village, for the Women of my Blood to lay their Hands on my Womb, for CommUNITY and connection. And I’ve felt the distance grow with those still orbitINg the old paradigms of hustle, INdependence, and the myth of Woman as MACHINE.

My feral and Faithful journey has taken me to places I never expected — toward Spiritual wildernesses I never thought I’d walk, and INto the marrow of my FemININe design and DESTINY.

The desire to cocoon IS real. So IS the tenderness and grief of feelINg that our deepest transformations are happenINg IN a culture that has forgotten / doesn’t Know how to witness them.

God has used thIS journey to call me back to what IS True. To strip me of illusions, burn aWay idols, and brINg me face to face with the Mystery and Miracle of Creation itself. I AM not self-made. I AM God-made, Womb-commissioned, Heaven-partnered.

I AM with you, IN the Mystery and Miracle 🤍🌱🐛🦋🌹

May God hold you IN the unseen places. May His Spirit mINister to your stretched and gloriously remade HeART.

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Michele Mayama's avatar

There is another Being in this soul deepening pregnancy….the soul embodying within you. This unique Being is also creating your/their experience. Being far away from family and friends while immersed within your core Love(s) is your baby’s soul need at this time of gestation.

Very sensitive souls need quiet, innate connection with nature, an attuned womb, gentle womb-otions, and the evolution of their particular choice of mother and father. Their choice and your agreement influences the inner healing and transformations that both of you are catalyzed to undertake during this sacred time. Trust all three of you knowing that this cocooning time is exactly what your very clear conscious embodying soul is creating for you all. On behalf of the Great Mother of us all, thank you for listening and responding to this new presence as they join Earth through you and your husband.🥰

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