Reflections on birth, matrescence and the profound transformation of becoming a mother. Written from the threshold, as a doula, a practitioner and a woman navigating this journey herself.
Books have always been part of how I work. Not as a substitute for presence or conversation, but as something that can reach a woman in the quiet moments, the 3am feeds, the long afternoons of pregnancy when the body is moving faster than the mind can follow. A book that names something a woman has been carrying without language for it is not a small thing. It is sometimes the thing that changes how she moves through the rest of the journey. I started collecting books for La
