From The Surprising Power of the Postpartum Journey: Kate West – Into Healing S3, Ep.10

“Kate: Postpartum is this time out of time. It’s a season where you get to be without a clock, to follow your own natural rhythms instead of the rhythms of the world. You tune into your body, you (hopefully) sleep when your baby sleeps, and in that rest there’s so much restoration—and so much dreaming.

Over the years I’ve learned that we have around five to seven dreams every single night, and I’ve been really moved by a book I’m reading right now by a woman I’ve studied with, Toko-pa Turner, called The Dreaming Way. Her mission is to return dreaming to the people—to take it out of the hands of analysts and interpreters and give it back to the dreamer. Instead of going to a dream bible or someone else to tell you what your dreams mean, she invites you to remember that only you really know what a turtle means to you. Those symbols carry something personal and alive, and postpartum can be such a powerful time to listen.”

From The Surprising Power of the Postpartum Journey: Kate West – Into Healing S3, Ep.10

From The Surprising Power of the Postpartum Journey: Kate West – Into Healing S3, Ep.10

“Kate: “One of the tools I use a lot in my life is song. It touches the subtle levels, the parts that are not seen, and when I shift from that place, life starts to shift around me. When a mother is struggling and feeling challenged and stretched in all the ways, so many healing modalities are not accessible—but song is right there. Song became that for me. These songs are friends that help me remember who I am.”