Today marks the spring equinox: that rare, fleeting moment where light and darkness meet in perfect shadow and flame. It is a point of balance. A passage. Let us support you in listening to what is seeking to be born within you!
In ancient mythology, this is the time of Inanna’s return. After her descent, after the stripping away of her layers, after traversing everything that could no longer remain… she rises. She returns changed. More true. More whole.
Perhaps you, too, have traversed your own winter.
As doulas and birth workers, we spend so much time holding space for others, for the deep, quiet, and sometimes difficult transformations. Perhaps your own inner winter felt slow or stagnant. You may have doubted, or simply waited. But beneath the surface, something has been reorganizing. You were maturing.
As young mothers, we can sometimes feel like postpartum will never end. But today, nature reminds us that balance is always restored. Even when the world feels stagnant, something is maturing beneath the surface. Light is returning. Sunnier days are coming. You are not stuck. You are in a cycle of deep renewal.
We’ve prepared a meditative writing ritual to help you navigate this threshold.
Now, when life begins to push through the soil again, it is time to listen to what is seeking to be born.
This isn’t a demand for high-performance or a frantic rush to be productive. It is an emergence. Slow. Conscious. Honored.
Practice:
Light a candle to mark the passage, find a quiet corner, and let the pen move.
Take your time to reflect on these questions:
- What was sown in the silence of your winter that is now seeking the light?
- What is softening within you? Which fear or old protection is finally starting to give way?
- Which part of you (not the doula, not the professional, but the person) is asking for more space this spring?
- Toward what is your energy naturally turning? What is calling to you without you having to force it?
Write what comes. You don’t need to understand it all yet. You don’t need to be ready to honour a threshold; you only need to be present.
