Post-Partem Transformation

After having a baby, it’s a very raw, potent, vulnerable time. Your entire life dramatically shifts from external to internal, from doing to caring, from socializing to being, from activity to stillness. Many factors come together to create a mixing bowl potent with the ingredients for transformation and growth. Life is growth, as humans, we are meant to evolve and grow, but we can become stagnate, especially in our minds and fixed beliefs. Post-partem can and will break through all of this. It’s a natural letting in and being present with oneself more so than at other times in our modern lives. Which in turn creates a catalyst and time for the opportunity to grow and learn. Transformation is the calling of our souls, of our true selves. Of the being behind the ego and the thinking mind. It wants you to flourish and align with your calling and give you the empowerment to thrive.

But sometimes before we can heed the call of our souls and grow, we have to fall apart. We have to fall out from our fear-based thinking and from our limiting beliefs. We have to shed and dissolve old parts of us that no longer serve our new path. And the post-partem period creates the perfect setting for this to happen. Our modern healthcare system calls it post-partem depression and anxiety. I call it post-partem transformation. Because within any deep, deep transformation it is messy and dark and calls us to go within and be really honest with ourselves and see through the misbeliefs that are holding us back. It is a calling back to ourselves, to union with who we really are. It creates the perfect atmosphere for us to go within. And this road of going within is hard. It’s messy. It’s filled with intense emotions, and facing ones depths and darkness with open eyes. It’s letting go and releasing so that the new us can shine through.

The depths of transformation and growth can be extremely challenging. It can be filled with doubt, despair, fear, hopelessness. When you are going within it takes courage, and it takes honesty and it takes the willingness to just take one tiny step forward at a time.

But it is such a gift. It is a gift that is calling us back to our womanhood. To our fierce empowerment, to our female ways that are not encumbered by what society says or expects. It has a deep, deep strength to it that has nothing to do with the ‘typical’ societal picture of a mother. It has nothing to do with being complacent, or people pleasing, or giving yourself fully to your family with nothing left for you. No, no, the soul calling within all women is strength and empowerment to honor and live your own truth. No matter what that looks like. And the modern post-partum period is a calling back to this core of who we are. Yes it can be very messy, and very hard and full of suffering. But it is a gift. It is a gift and a calling.

Heed the call, go within the darkness, and come out the ignited fire of empowered female-hood. Come back to your own inner truth. The calling is there, it’s up to you to take the leap of faith.