the body knows
personal reflections

Finding Empowerment Through Autonomy So far during my 21 weeks of pregnancy, I've felt extremely empowered and connected to my inner fire like never before. Well, except for the times when I'm so physically exhausted from making a human that my brain doesn't work and all I can do is rest with my eyes closed or half-pay attention to something on Netflix. I am human after all. But today, during my second trimester anatomy scan, I was left in tears, feeling robbed of my autonomy

As of today I am officially 5 months pregnant. My experience these past five months has been a total and complete rollercoaster, both internally and externally. Something that I wasn't expecting about being pregnant was the amount of unsolicited advice that I have received. The number of times I've heard 'you can't...' or 'just wait until....' is truly mind-blowing. I've even been told that what I have felt/am feeling probably isn't real or just my imagination, because 'it's