The Birth Freedom Project

I’m more and more convinced that as we raise our children, the single most important thing we can offer them after love and nourishing food, is deep connection to nature.

I believe it will sustain them as they grow older and meet the challenges of adulthood and the society we live in.

I believe it will mean they never lose sight of the true connectedness of all things, of all beings.

I believe it will make them happier, more content, less materialistic.

I believe it will give them a safe haven and a reset, whenever they seek it.

It will offer them peace when they are experiencing conflict. Solace when they are hurting. A challenge and a wake up call when they forget how powerful yet fallible they are.

I believe that the denial of our wild nature leads to anxiety and dis-ease. The epidemics of modern life.
The inner pain, the wanting more, the-rat-race, slave-to-my-pointless-iob hamsters…

I believe that they will be better people, take better care of our planet and their fellow humans. I believe it will make them more humane.

The wilderness seekers are not the war-mongers, the bullet firers, waste-into-river putters, plastic-into-sea dumpers, forest-tearer-downers… those are the guns& tech-answers-everything people- to whom money is God and everything has a price.

Our essential nature IS nature itself. So shouldn’t that be the baseline for every single day? In every school, nursery, and home…

I’m sure it’s a privilege, it’s certainly a choice.

It has truly been an honour to follow my calling and to meet my soul sisters along the way!

Spending the day in the presence of this wise woman, sister , dear friend.
Thank you for all you do and bringing us together in one place.
There are so many of us birthing in power and freedom because you lit the fire !

She’s here!

Just like that, she decided yesterday was her day.

Her name is Artemis Violet (Artie)

Goddess of childbirth, of nature, plants, wild animals and the hunt.
A moon goddess, one of the twelve Olympians.
She is a protector of children, young women and midwives.

Violet is in honour of my maternal grandmother, whose warrior spirit lives on down our lineage.
Artie is the little girl I promised her as she passed away, no doubt her gift to us 🙌

I climbed my own Mount Olympus yesterday to bring her back.
Supported and held so strongly by my love.

She is our phoenix baby, exploding earthside in what has already been an ecstatic week of good news and new beginnings.

She lies on me now, sleeping soundly, holding on to her cord. The room is filled with peace and the fragrant herbs that surround her placenta. Our first full lotus birth.

I can’t believe she chose us.
She’s pure heaven.

P.S. Artie’s brothers have rejected her name and insist we call her Rainbow Beauty🤷‍♀️ 🙈