Tenet 5: Myth is Medicine, the Storyteller is the Courier
A week after the storytelling, a father phoned me with a mythic birth announcement! It was the first time I’d ever heard birth story in mythic terms instead of medical jargon.
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Tenet 4: Why We Search for Meaning
by Pam England 4. Life events and outcomes have no inherent meaning. Instead, how we define an experience determines its meaning, thus meaning can be changed as the storyteller and story evolve. …
Tenet 3: On Creating a Temenos
by Pam England 3. The aesthetic of a dedicated space for birth story listening creates the temenos (a sacred enclosure) for inner work by turning the attention of storytellers and …
On Feeling Abandoned in Childbirth
by Pam England Abandonment is frequently described in birth story sessions. When examining its causes and consequences, we discover an intricate web of influences and meanings. Whether it is an …
Percival, The Creator
by Nicole Green, Birth Story Listener During The Birth Story School’s Summer Semester, “The Language of Healing: Symbols, Images, Myths, and Metaphors,” I had the privilege of taking a deeper …
The Weight of Regret and Self Blame
by Pam England “It may be that what you could be haunts you. It is a weight you … carry around. Each failure to become, to be, is a weight. …
When a Birth Story Cactus Flowers
by Pam England When I transferred from home birth to the hospital and my first child was born by cesarean, I was in birth shock. A friend brought the perfect …
Matryoshkas and the Birth Story Medicine Process
Matryoshkas are nested wooden “mother dolls,” a folk-art toy that first appeared in Russia in 1890. Hollowed out from linden wood, matryoshkas consist of five to 12 (up to 60) …
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Story of Pam England’s Mythopoetic Painting
While painting the mythopoetic images coming through me over the past four months, I journaled associations that came through me: We are born of the earth, from the earth, through …
A Mother’s Magical Power: Growing a Healthy Placenta & Baby
Pam England “Nourishing the Life Within” Oil painting by Pam England copyright 2016 Alora called me for a consultation because she was concerned that, due to nausea in the first …
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