The parallels between making love and giving birth are clear, not only in terms of passion and love, but also because we need essentially the same conditions for both experiences: privacy and safety.
Women's bodies have their own wisdom, and a system of birth refined over 100,000 generations is not so easily overpowered.
Experience of the phenomenal capacity of our birthing body can give us an enduring sense of our own power as women. Birth is the beginning of life; the beginning of mothering, and of fathering. We all deserve a good beginning.
We cannot birth our babies through sheer force of will. We need to learn the more subtle, the equally powerful, path of surrender.
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