Pregnancy is a period of great changes for many if not most women. This is the case, physically emotionnally as well as spiritually.

How are women really prepared for such great shifts?

How many women are truly told about their power of child bearing, their intuitive intelligence and wisdom to achieve childbirth with great empowerment ?

It is with great sadness and rebellion that I have witnessed so many women going through difficult pregnancies and childbirth experiences due to the lack of information and access to empowerment they were provided with.

In France, to this day, over 95% of women give birth with the epidural which means that only 5% give birth naturally and get to reconnect with their intrinsic power, the wild woman within, the wise priestess, the connection to their ancestors…

How many women truly celebrate this period of their lives and are honored for doing so? NOT ENOUGH in my opinion. We are still living in a patriarchal era where medical assistance and care are provided based on what suits our male counterparts best, not what is best for people (hence women and future moms)’s physical, mental and spiritual well being.

Women have been giving birth on their backs for the past 200 years after a king decided he wanted  to be present during the birth of his child, the law has remained in place since then. 

 

What does matrescence mean? How do we address it? 

Matrescence is the Developmental transition a woman goes through when a woman becomes a mother. It sounds similar to adolescence, because as children become adults through adolescence, women become mothers through matrescence. Women are transformed physically, psychologically and spiritually in the process.  

It was coined in the mid 1970s by an anthropoligist by Dana Raphael.

She said we needed a term for this transition. 

 

 

 

As our good old friend Bob Marley would say, if there isn’t any solution, there’s no problem.. I believe every challenge in life makes space for a new opportunity for renewal, the creation of a new paradigm, a new reality.. Now more than ever, I believe the time has come for women, individually as well as collectively to reconnect with their deep power in order to live life in harmony and lead from a place of wisdom and unity.

 

Pregnancy is a precious chance to look deep within, into places that perhaps weren’t accessible  for many outside of  this luminal space. Indeed, American psychologist Winnicott dubbed this period as « psychic transparency » , period during which veils are lifted in our psyche and allows us to go and look deeply at our childhood wounds and transgenerational memories/ subconscious patterns that have been driving our behaviors and choices in life. This work enables us to clear mental and heartspace in order to make  room for the new life growing within our womb. Isn’t Mother Earth purely magical? And we are extensions of Her… let’s re-member… 

 

 

Is this transformation the opportunity for rebirth?

Savage daughter song 

The experience of childbirth takes us back to the very core and mystery of life on Earth. Through blood and through pain, our body, mind, spirit take us back to the very power and wisdom (the intelligence beyond the intellect to surrender and trust our connection to the grand power of the Great Mystery we all come from). The intensity and power made available to us at this time, feels like a passage and great forces can be connected with.. It is a sacred time to RECLAIM YOUR POWER.