Week 35 Visualization of your Highest Truth

Placeholder for guided visualization & embodiment practice (sense the energy in your mind, where does it sit? is it in the center, forehead, temples? bring your attention back an inch and up an inch. This it your higher self presence of mind. Notice how does it feel? What is different? Now, we will work to visualize different pathways toward birth. If you have fears, its ok to sense into them, it is truly better than avoiding them. Now visualize your ideal scenarios unfolding, what do you see? what do you feel? what do you hear and smell? Now illuminate this pathway, send energy from your heart down this pathway. Trust what arises for you, trust any intuitive nudges, and notice the difference between fear or intuition, Intution should feel calm and true, any charge or excitement is an emotional response. Now Breathe light down the path. Now we will visualize postpartum

Learn: 'The Things you didnt know you needed postpartum:

The first 12 weeks postpartum, the 4th trimester, is a magically unique threshold of learning, growth, healing, and so much more. Energetically, during this time a woman leaves the collective timeline and is in a different time-space portal. An hour can feel like days, weeks can feel like a blink, and in this newborn bubble, baby and the new parents come to a complete focus to ensure the thriving, healing, adjusting life emergence is taking its right path.

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Anywhere you look online, in stores, baby shower celebrations, up down left and right, we are inundated with things, stuff, products to optimize the emergence into parenthood.

Here are wise women words of wisdom for what you need postpartum:

• A good Cry: whether it's pure joy, hormone fluctuations, overwhelm (or all 3 at once) letting out the tears is a soothing balm to the soul. Research has even found that when a man smells a woman's tears, his heart softens and he is able to listen and put down defenses (i.e. put down his 'problem solving') let us remember the miraculous design of our bodies and welcome the wisdom of tears flowing when it feels ripe. Holding back our emotions now can lead to depression or anxiety in the future.

• Protected Rest: '1 week in your bed, 1 week near your bed, 1 week in your house and 1 week near your house.' The first 40 days postpartum are a sacred moment where your body intuitively wants to heal, restore, and assess what is needed for the parenting journey ahead. Bounce back culture should be burned at the stake. Taking this amount of rest early on is the best gift you can give to yourself and your baby for the long run. This period of rest may feel challenging in many ways, as it can be disruptive to your normal flows, you may have other children who need you, or a messy house and unclean dishes may feel new after your maiden self devoted daily time to cleansing her space. Even if you are 'feeling better' it can be a bit of an illusion, as the magic of hormones in this time can give you superpowers to be able to heal without much sleep, weather months and months ahead of exhaustion and, have high spirits and overflowing love to nurture your babe. Forgoing this time of rest early on can also risk developing deeper exhaustion, disrupt pelvic floor healing, disturb the ability to breastfeed on demand, and many more impacts to this unique moment.

• Breastfeeding Support: Breastfeeding is a journey that is long and enduring and often tricky in the beginning. Let us remember, the birthing body is made to breastfeed. Check now to ensure that any medications you are taking, supplements you have or anything in your medical history could interfere with milk production.

  • Partner Support: breastfeeding is never a solo journey. When baby hits the boob, mama needs water, smoothie, snack, pillows to support her back (do this early or feel the pain later). While baby nurses, often mothers need a back rub, supportive encouraging words, and overall to not feel alone. A successful breastfeeding relationship requires the partner to be fully on board and willing to support any challenges that come up.

  • Professional Support: Get support early and often! Ask the stupid tiny questions about the sensations, the leaking, the latch, the engorgement or the softness of your breasts. Waiting until later can often cause disruption in the flow of breastfeeding and require other interventions such as formula or engineered milk. International Board Certified Lactation Consultants (IBCLCs) are the best avenue for breastfeeding support. Lactation counselors and educators are wonderful resources. Look now to see who is in your insurance, who is in your area offering breastfeeding groups or which online breastfeeding groups you can access and have the notes ready. Hospitals often have 24 hour support. Check to see if your pediatrician is an IBCLC, because sometimes peds don't have the robust knowledge about breastfeeding and will push formula too early.

• Hands On Healing: A 10 month gestation requires extensive and direct healing support for the body. Wise Woman recommends a combination of the following:

  • pelvic floor physical therapy

  • Mayan Abdominal Massage

  • Ayurvedic Hot Oil massage

  • Gentle breathwork

  • Epsom Salt Bath or Foot Soak

  • Being seen and witnessed by a therapist, midwife, trusted friend or family

• Boundaries and Communication: Asking for what you need (and don't need) is an art. It requires practice, it may feel uncomfortable at first. In our journal this week we will practice identifying for yourself what you need, putting it into words and making it happen. (babe, I need you to tell me I'm a good mom, Mom, I need you to clean our house instead of asking to hold the baby, Bestie, I need you to come over and not care if my house is a mess and see me at my most vulnerable, Neighbor, I need you to take our dog for a walk.)
  

Journal Guidance: How do you identify what you need? What do you struggle with in asking for what you need? How have people responded to you before when you ask for something? How have people responded to you when you set a limit or boundary? List the needs you are currently aware of now:

Mantra: I am worthy to ask for what I need and to create space for my needs to be met.

Divine Mother: Tarot/Oracle spread for this liminal space