In striving for excellence in being and doing our vocation, as Birth Story Mentors, we are: Changing the stories of birth in our culture by preventing, minimizing, and resolving emotional birth trauma Experience the Benefits of a Birth Story Medicine Session The peace of mind that follows a profound change of heart and mind and the gratifying sense of fulfillment that will come from finishing your heroic journey and coming “home” to yourself. Envision The Satisfaction You’ll

Birth Story Medicine® is finally going to have its own home website. The “Open House” will be in early July. We are putting the final touches in all the “rooms.” For the past eight years or so, Birth Story classes have previously been promoted or offered on birthingfromwithin.com and sevengatesmedia.com. Birth Story Medicine® refers to the process or “map” that has been ever so gradually developed over some 30 years by synthesizing the experience, knowledge, and genius of man

Your Healthy Pregnancy with Thyroid Disease by Dana Trentini and Mary Shoman (2016, Da Capo Life Long publisher) The niece of my friend John had a miscarriage, and John wondered if it had anything to do with hypothyroidism/Hashimoto’s, so he ordered this book—and shared it with me. “During pregnancy, the thyroid gland expands its function to meet the needs of mother and baby. Thyroid hormone is an essential part of the neurological and brain development of the fetus, most sig

This painting hangs in my bedroom, where lying in bed I travel it in meditation daily. The sacred chakana is the “stepped cross” from the Andes; it represents Mother Earth and the Southern Cross, a constellation in the night sky which ancient people believed to be the Center of the Universe. The Inca cross, like a compass, points in four directions. The shaman following the steps can move between the underworld and upper world. The hole in the center is the portal by which th