Today I wanted to offer you a behind the scenes look at why I wrote the forthcoming book Birth Your Story: Why Writing About Your Birth Matters, and what the process of writing this book was like for me. 

Here are five of my favorite birth books with soul. Some of these cover the material-physical facts of birth (which is such important context for birthing families), but most tend toward the deeper emotional-cognitive-spiritual layers of the birthing journey. Because the latter is kind of my jam. 

Writing prompts can be a wonderful way to give direction to your writing but they don’t always resonate with where we are in the moment. Today I am going to offer another kind of prompting activity. To me, this one feels like collaborating with the divine to direct the course of my writing. If divine sounds too out there for you, let’s call it collaborating with our intuition or our subconscious.