A very typical Tuesday afternoon brought Grace, a long-time client of mine, in for a standard healing session. As we moved through our check in and began to settle in for the work Grace threw a last-minute aside my way: she was trying to get pregnant, and struggling. They were feeling impatient, and wondering if they should consider IVF. She offered it up to me as a question to bring into the session, purely from a physical perspective, to see if her body had anything to tell me.
None of this was out of range for me. I'd worked with women around fertility issues in the past, and am used to bringing questions to the body.
What would unfold WAS entirely new, though.
Within moments of starting the session, a child came to me.
Clearly, confidently, and with some messages to share. Yes- she had every intention of coming down and every intention of choosing Grace as her mother. No-there was nothing wrong physically and they by no-means should pursue IVF. Yes- she had some requests for Grace & Dad in order to create the right space for her to feel comfortable and safe finally coming down.
I was stunned. Moved & amazed. And deeply confused about how I would translate these messages to Grace without telling her what I'd experienced. I couldn't POSSIBLY tell her the truth- it felt insane, impossible, and mildly irresponsible to convey such a vision.
Luckily, I didn't have to decide because as soon as the session ended Grace shot up from the table with tears running down her face and gasped "I saw her! Did you see her? I saw her! She's coming."
There began a nine month (yep!) journey of working with Grace and Baby before she ever entered the womb. The work opened up tremendous questions and opportunities for healing within Grace, her partnership, and her identity as both individual and mother. The energy was creative, expansive, and humbling.
In June of 2019 Grace became pregnant. In February of 2020 baby arrived, with every step of the labor and delivery as extraordinary and healing as the entire process of conception was.
I did not study this "work", nor do I have a precisely engineered 12-step plan for spiritual conception that I can take you through. What I do have is a growing number of experiences of babies coming to me as a communication bridge, and a curiosity to explore the bounds of what is possible in our relationship to the spiritual realm during pre-conception, pregnancy, and postpartum care.
*How can we create more sustainable and healing family dynamics? *How can this creative, life-giving energy be cultivated across all areas of life? *What new possibilities open up to us when we bridge the realms of the mundane and the spiritual? *How can we connect to pregnancy and labor in an aligned way that allows for a sacred, holy experience, even within the traditional medical system?
These are the questions I'm asking, and hoping to explore with you.
If you are interested in this work, reach out. We'll have a conversation, connect, and discuss what we can create together.