PAIN, Silence, and Stillness: Reflections on Pain and Birth from my silent meditation retreat

The other night I sat with a beautiful couple as they awaited their cesarean birth.

One of my favorite things about my work is getting to work with couples who are at the threshold. I watch them in their excitement, joy, fear, falling, freaking out…their dreams coming true in real time…on no sleep…with one another.

I want to know myself as the rain knows to fall to the good Earth.

I want to be drawn, taken, stripped down to breath and bone

and nothing.