“When something goes 'wrong,' it is not the outer event that ought to be changed, but our inner state which responds to it. If we can build inner balance, we will no longer be blown over by the slightest gust, whether 'good' or 'bad'.”
Source: Natural Birth: A Holistic Guide to Pregnancy, Childbirth and Breastfeeding
“In sharing his vision of the ‘black light’ – significantly, Brady wanted the phrase to be the title of his autobiography – he was again calling attention to the genesis of his sociopathy.”
Source: Apple: Sex, Drugs, Motherhood and the Recovery of the Feminine
“These associations, between childbirth and feminine effacement, and between feminine silencing and violence, would, for the first time, become imprinted on the subconscious in relation to birth, creating, in place of passionate and proud attachment, a terror-based antipathy between mother and child, and between the feminine and its biology.”
Source: Apple: Sex, Drugs, Motherhood and the Recovery of the Feminine
“Nothing can die that was robbed of the opportunity to be born. Yet is that not a death in and of itself?”
“It was here that I learned just how intertwined joy and sorrow are; how life after loss is full of experiences that hold seemingly opposing feelings in a single moment.
- Emma Hansen”
Source: Arrival Stories: Women Share Their Experiences of Becoming Mothers
“Grief doesn't ever really leave. It becomes a part of your story, but it doesn't have to define it.”
“Between birth and death, this life is nothing but a long dream.”
Source: Ganesha: An Afro-Asian story
“When one doubts accomplishment is impossible then death occurs before birth.”
“Neither birth nor deah, is the beginning or end; it’s the cycle of life.”
Source: Krishna Crux
“If you had a natural, drug-free, unmedicated, vaginal, out-your-vagina birth, make sure you tell the world. You should never talk about birth, but you should always talk about it if it was straightforward or without drugs.”
Source: Needs Adult Supervision