This blog post contains excerpts from my new book, Own Your Self, now available for pre-order.
“How much longer?” I pleaded in the direction of the long space-time tunnel that separated me from my midwife.
My mind had leapt back on stage and grabbed the mic. You can’t do this, it said. You’re going to die. This is literally going to kill you. Who do you think you are trying to do something like this. You don’t have what it takes.
The relentless stream of negativity made everything worse.
I thought, as so many birthing women do, that I would be annihilated in that moment.
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