Rights of Passage
over the next several days, we'll be sharing pieces of a recent article written for dear friend, client, and local inspiration @emma__peugh and her lifestyle blog. follow along over the next several days as we share this latest piece of informational yet tender collection of words that we hope will inspire individuals and families to seek out holistic and vitalistic chiropractic care all over this planet.
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(1/8) "while the season of life that is adulthood is solidified by rites of passage such as landing the dream job, moving to a new city (or back to the comfort of an old one), getting a pet who requires just shy of full-time attention (good practice, right?) and perhaps even meeting a person who shows up for you as a companion, a mirror, a life partner, and a permanent pal who accepts you for all that we are and are not, nothing puts the hammer to the nail like realizing that it is time to do something completely and utterly irreversible and binding, like bringing a child into this world.
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in today’s fast-paced world with readily available information about quite literally anything at our finger tips, it can be overwhelming to try to understand where exactly to start when it comes to the light topic of pregnancy, birth, and, well, how to do it.
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so we want to make it easy. well, easier.
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"back in the day, men and women and children lived in tribes. it was not the sole responsibility of two parents to raise a child, let alone a flock of them. there was support from aunties, uncles, cousins, mothers, brothers, sisters, elders, fathers, and maybe even some trusted animal support along the way.
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no one did this alone. no one kept quiet the secrets of how men and women alike (yep, men, you, too!) prepared their bodies in the best way possible in order to set themselves up for maximal success in bringing a healthy human into the world.
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in the far more common than we discuss chance of miscarriage, there were ceremonies and rituals set in place in order to properly grieve, to recognize, and then to continue on living, which is a huge contrast to today’s world in which miscarriage is not discussed as openly as perhaps it could or even should be."
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"aunties and the elders of the tribe were there to support women throughout their pregnancies and their labors—not treating their pregnancies as a pathology, but as an immense show of the force of nature and godliness that lives within each and every one of us.
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as chiropractors, we refer to that as innate intelligence. this innate intelligence refers to the body’s capacity to heal, to work always 100% for us, and never anything less. and there is no better show of this than during pregnancy and birth.
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have you thought about that recently?
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the fact that you started as two very tiny, minuscule, cells, and have, by some miracle, grown into the beautiful, radiant, impactful and contributing human that you are today? take that in for a moment.
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jaw-dropping."
