Week Two- Paradigm Shifting Pregnancy

A paradigm is the beliefs, practices, structures, attitudes and outcomes of a given topic within culture or group.

Take a moment to consider what are the current paradigms of pregnancy?

What are the current paradigms of giving birth?

Where do these messages come from?

What do you believe about pregnancy, birth & postpartum and what do you wish to see?

In the modern and medicalized models, we see women being separated from their bodies, separated from their heart and intuition, which has caused separation from their babies, separation from their own powers and abilities, and deepening voids of trauma that have begun back many generations. 

Separation is an illusion. When we begin to believe that an expert outside of ourselves has more access to knowing what is happening within our bodies, we are at a loss. 

Just as we have been separated from our bodies, we have been fed the myth that we are separate from nature, separate from the magic that keeps all of the universe together. This again, is an illusion. 

Pregnancy is the potent time to remember our connection to the divine, to nature, to the great design. 

The new paradigms are that of possibility, of YES to ourselves, yes to knowing what we want, yes to feeling all of the things and to healing all of the wounds with our presence. YES to women and freedom, of embodiment and sovereignty. 

In the first trimester, we invoke the element of fire. Fire ignites, it gives life via the sun to all of life forms. Fire Transforms. In order for a new paradigm to emerge, we must illuminate and transform the existing one with trust, grace, courage, just as the life growing inside of you now asks.