In Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) it’s believed that women have 3 golden opportunities that will inform our later health through our lives and postpartum is one of them. What does that mean? Basically put, the way we tend to ourselves in the postpartum period has the capacity to bring our bodies a total rejuvenation or a massive depletion.

Who midwives the mother?

The basis of my work is the response to this very question. There is no reason that women should be experiencing the rates of postnatal depression that we are, but there is a huge reason (or a number of reasons). One of them is support, we do not have the support systems in place that families need, in fact modern life is very much anti-motherhood – let’s chat about that another time. There is an urgent need for deep-rooted care, attention, and intention when it comes to women in and through the childbearing continuum.

In a world that has forgotten about the mother, I am a servant to the mother and to all that is embroiled in mother. Mother in all her facets, in all that she holds within, without, above, and below.

The gestation of this experience has been long and slow, and I feel deeply to my core it will continue gestating and growing even past its birth. I have wondered and wandered about my role and purpose here on our beautiful earth.

Pleasure, Pain & P***y Power - The Preliminary Round