There’s a reason birth leaves a mark on every woman.
It’s not just the physical toll, the hormonal shift, or the sleep deprivation. It’s something far deeper, far more spiritual something the modern world has forgotten: Birth is holy.
I recently had the honor of speaking with traditional birth companion Billie Harrigan on my podcast, and our conversation affirmed what I’ve seen again and again in my work with women: when you strip birth down to just a medical procedure, you rob women of something divine.
Motherhood begins with the mystery of life entering the world through you. In that moment, a woman is forever changed. But in a culture that fears pain, devalues motherhood, and idolizes control, birth has been reduced to something to “get through” instead of something to meet God in.
There’s a sacredness in that labor room. And when a woman is supported, emotionally, physically, spiritually, she doesn’t just bring forth a baby. She is reborn herself.
But, how often are women told that?
How often are they rushed, silenced, sedated, or dismissed in the name of efficiency or “safety”?
When we forget the holiness of birth, we forget the holiness of motherhood.
Billie and I talked about how the undermining of birth and the undermining of mothers go hand in hand. When you tell a woman she can’t birth without someone managing her, you’re also telling her she can’t mother without someone managing her. That lie - that a mother can’t be trusted - is one of the deepest wounds we carry as a society.
There is hope. There is healing.
It begins when we start to see birth not as an inconvenience or a liability, but as a spiritual event, a rite of passage, and a mirror of our relationship with the divine.
It begins when we tell the truth: Motherhood is a high calling, and birth is holy ground.
Whether you had a medicated birth, a free birth, a traumatic one, or an empowered one, there is always a way back to the sacred.
It’s never too late to heal. It’s never too late to reclaim what was taken. And it’s never too late to invite God back into the conversation.
Let’s start talking about it. Let’s start remembering.
When we restore the sacredness of birth... we begin restoring the mother.
And when the mother is restored, so is the world.
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