Today I am excited to introduce Bonnie Blythe as our next stop on our virtual book tour. Bonnie has been a great help and one of our biggest cheerleaders as we’ve birthed this book. I really appreciated her thoughts about how this book helped her reflect on her own births and those of other women in her family and how to heal those experiences. She shared:
For millennia the danger and lack of choice that has surrounded childbirth has been the single most destructive force undermining women’s power. What a sad state, when giving birth and nurturing powerful children is one of the most empowering, godlike opportunities offered to womankind. Traumatic experiences associated with birth poison the power these mothers have with their children born, their children unborn, and society at large. Like any good social scientist having found a profound primary cause of suffering, the key is to change that experience and watch the family and society change in response. That is the power of this book in the hands of women who know what they’re doing.
I’ve already written about the incredible breadth of resources and perspective found in this collection, so today I’d like to share some personal generational experience to explain my commitment to the writers’ mission…
My grandmother was born into a family of violence and in her teens was motherless at the hand of her father, raising younger siblings and trying to train as a nurse and finish high school. She was married a few months before my mother was born and carried the stigma of her parents’ and personal failures in her heart like a stone. My mother was her first child, the apple of her father’s eye and the envy of her mother’s. You can imagine that had an impact on both of them.
Read the rest of her beautiful post here.
Thanks Bonnie!
