by admin | Sep 11, 2020 | Birth trauma healing, Birthing From Within, Childbirth preparation, doula, Holistic birth preparation
It’s Birth Trauma Awareness Week (2020) and there are so many things I could say about birth trauma it’s hard to know where to start. Do you start at the systemic level, where we have a culture of ‘care providers’ with so much unhealed vicarious trauma and...
by admin | Jul 1, 2020 | Birth trauma healing, Birthing From Within, Childbirth preparation, Holistic birth preparation, Shamanic womancraft, soulcraft
“By courageously diving into your wounds, patiently allowing the suffering to do its work, neither indulging nor repressing the pain, you reach the deeper levels of the psyche where you encounter your larger (soul) story.” – Soulcraft: Crossing into...
by Anne Castles | Jan 8, 2019 | Ancestral Reverance, Birthing From Within, DIY Potions, doula, fertility, Placenta love, Soulful living, Womancraft, Womb Healing
Much attention has been given lately to placenta encapsulation and consuming placentas through smoothies. These practices have been said to help with the postnatal transition. When I was planning for my son’s birth I didn’t feel interested in encapsulation. I knew I...
by admin | Nov 15, 2014 | Birthing From Within, Childbirth preparation, doula, Pain Coping for Birth
In my work with pregnant women one of the most common things I hear is that women are afraid. Afraid of pain. Afraid of not knowing what will happen. Afraid of birth. There is lot to talk about with this and why this might be the case socially and culturally, but...
by Anne Castles | Nov 21, 2013 | Birthing From Within, Childbirth preparation, doula, Pain Coping for Birth
“The Labyrinth is an ancient, universal symbol representing our journey through life ordeals and initiations… The journey into the labyrinth’s center is symbolic of death (psychic and physical), and the journey out of the labyrinth represents birth or rebirth.”...
by Anne Castles | Oct 21, 2013 | Birthing From Within, Childbirth preparation, doula, Pain Coping for Birth
What does it mean to prepare for birth in a holistic way? “Ho·lis·tic adj. relating to or concerned with wholes or with complete systems… to treat both the mind and the body.” In a culture that mostly confines childbirth to the medical realm, many women...
