Is your Vision Clear for your Confident Birth?
Yesterday I tried to offer the cashier in Tesco swimming goggles instead of the club card.
Twice.
In ten minutes.
Maybe she understood what it can be like shopping with a toddler and very full pockets of everything that I may need or definitely don't need but have been given for the last month. I have big pockets.
But it got me thinking about lenses and the work I do. I was thinking about how we all want to see clearly. That sometimes our vision of the world is impaired by the goggles we have on that we have had on so long we forget we even have them on. Perhaps they are a bit cracked or like my children's goggles scratched, leak a bit with a tendency to steam up easily.
You definitely can't see properly looking through goggles like that. But it's better than the chlorine in the water hurting my eyes. At least while I am in the swimming pool.
But do I need them in the supermarket? And to pay for my groceries?
Obviously not. The analogy for me is how we see life. It's probably obvious before I even explain.
But here goes anyway. If we have a childhood event, long ago that was particularly strong. It affects us strongly. We start to believe something about the world. It has changed how we see, show up and act in the world. We get creative, make strategies to cope and deal with the new information and life goes on. Over time we forget.
But the once clean lens that we came in with to see the world has got a smudge on it. Enough times of coming up against it in life and it gets scratched even broken.
We begin to believe the world is unfriendly. That we are no good and that maybe it is us who are broken.
We shut down, pull away from the world, stop dreaming.
Has this happened to you? Are you playing smaller than you could? Where in life do you do that?
Sometimes these memories are so ancient that we don't have any conscious memory at all. Our own birth into the world is the big hidden one that is often activated when you start something new, like moving to a new place or starting a new job an of course having a baby yourself.
Our huge first life transition that has impacted each and every one of us profoundly even though few of us remember consciously.
For many of us in the West this would have been a tough, challenging time. Today about 30% of women report some trauma in the birth of their children. If you as a mother are experiencing it so is your child.
This is at the core of the work I do at BirthEssence.
Right now I am focusing a lot of energy on my Birth Blueprint Healing sessions. In these sessions we work together to examine what your own birth reveals about your soul's journey and work to re-imprint any unhelpful patterns that were laid down in your own birth experience. This helps you show up fully , firing on all cylinders no longer holding back on your dreams in life, This work is for everyone as we have all been born and it is vitally important to do if you are or plan on being a mother.
If you are interested to learn more, check out my events page to see when my next workshop is.
