The missing village: Why it’s not your job to go through pregnancy alone and how you finally feel supported.

The reality:

Modern motherhood often feels like a one-woman show.

Maybe your partner is working a lot to support the family, your blood family is far away or not available to support and your friends do their best but also live their own lifes..

That can feel isolating and overwhelming - weather you are currently experiencing it or are imagining your future pregnancy.

Furthermore

• we live iseperated from each other

• juggling between work and responsibilities

• the system doesn’t provide the greatest pregnancy and postpartum care - it often feels clinical, not communal..

You are left with helplessness, loneliness and overwhelm...

Maybe you ask yourself:

“Does it really have to be this way?”

Look, what we lost is huge:

For generations women had a village, family, a tribe around them:

• elders to pass down the wisdom/knowledge

• sisters, mothers, friends to share the burdens/ experiences with

• communities that welcomed new mothers and babies plus held the responsibility with them

• a space that honored birth and there was no societal pressure to work, make money or function in society for women

Imagine:

It used to be normal to see how other women breast feed from a young age.

Imagine it used to be normal to see how other mothers transition from pregnancy into motherhood.

Imagine it used to be normal to see how everyone supports, honors and cares for mother and new born.

This is how we were learning and growing into it.

Nowadays everything is different.

How can you get back to this village

in our modern society?

Your health matters.

Your emotional physical health reduces stress, anxiety and depression. A supported mother is thriving and so is her (your) baby!

You deserve this care.

Do you deep down believe that you deserve it?

> 1. Do you ask for support?

> 2. Do you seek support else where,

when its not available around you?

>3. Do you take care of yourself with clear boundaries?

> 4. Can you feel and communicate your needs clearly?

And love, with that I am not saying that you have to do all the work and it is your own responibility.

No, I strongly believe that:

The world needs a new system where it is normal for pregnant people, families and women in postpartum to receive SO much more support & care from the state and from their surrounding. But as we all know, unfortunately it will take time since women, children and mental health comes last...

So in the meantime I would love to invite you to create your own village internally to also receive it externally.

> What does an inner village look like for you?

> What would happen if you let yourself actually receive the support you deserve & crave for?

> Where am I rejecting the support of others / myself?

> How can you trust yourself more again?

> What kind of woman do you want to be?

Cause the shift for all women starts within you, within the single woman, within us. We need:

Important questions to ask yourself could be:

The world needs women connected to their bodies.

Women trusting in their wisdom, their truth and their instincts.

Women knowing what they want and expressing it.

IT IS TIME

to come back to the ability to take your own decisions again.

Coming back to trusting them and at some point embodying that kind of woman.

Besides creating an easier, more peaceful and nourishing life for yourself, family & others around you...

You become that woman who shows the world.

You become that woman who shows their kids.

You become part of incorporating the old tribal laws back into modern life.

You become the sister, the friend, the elder.

You trust yourself and carry that wisdom.

By “simply” living it you pass it on.

Of course, that does not happen over night and takes embodiment, courage & vulnerability.

But love, what would the world look like if:

If all women on this planet would trust themselves, their bodies & the earth...

this planet would look/feel/be so ____________.

I wish that these slides gave you some insights and made it clear that there is opportunities to change and do things differently.

> You have choices and you can ask questions.

> You have the choice to deeply connect to your body and being.Whatever that may look like.

> You have the choice to receive support from the earth and make yourself home again on this planet - within your own body temple & on by making companionship with mother earth.

What did you fill in?

Ready to transform, heart warrior?