This guided journal helps expectant mothers explore--in their own personalized and creative way--the thoughts, feelings, and discoveries of their unique experience of pregnancy. With contributions from expectant mothers, and exercises to inspire readers, this book is a keepsake that will forever hold the memories of an extraordinary and precious time.
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"This guided journal helps expectant mothers explore - in their own creative way - the thoughts feelings, and discoveries of their unique pregnancy. With exercises, quotes, and contributions from other mothers, this book is a keepsake that will hold the memories of this precious time."Mothering"a great achievement...you will learn more about yourself, define your priorities more clearly, and find deeper satisfaction in your experience of pregnancy and birth"Sheila Kitzinger, author of the bestselling The Complete Book of Pregnancy and Childbirth"...Campbell uses thoughtful techniques: writing letters to your unborn/newborn, looking back to your ancestral roots, reaquainting yourself with your mother and your own birth, imagining, dreamwork, free writing, and many, many more.I recommend this book not only to pregnant owmen and birth practitioners, but also to counselors and writing teachers. What a beautiful work of art Leslie Kirk Campbell has created!" -- Midwifery Today
...A great achievement...you will learn more about yourself, define your priorities more clearly, and find deeper satisfaction in your experience of pregnancy and birth. -- Sheila Kitzinger, author of The Complete Book of Pregnancy and Childbirth and Ourselves as Mothers: The Universal Experience of Motherhood
Leslie Kirk Campbell's new book, Journey Into Motherhood: Writing Your Way to Self-Discovery, provides a valuable reflective experience for pregnant women and new mothers at a time when it is all too easy for women to miss out on this experience due to their stressful and hectic life styles. Journey Into Motherhood is a powerful example of the potential of women's spirituality. In my 20 years working with pregnant women and new parents, I have spoken to, provided resources for, and worked with hundreds of women. The vast majority of these women lose the opportunity to really pay attention to and fully participate in the deeper levels of their pregnancy and childbirth experience. There is very little available to women that taps the spiritual and emotional aspects of pregnancy which, when brought to comsciousness, have a profound effect on how a pregnant woman feels about herself, her experience of labor and childbirth, and her parenting. This book affirms the importance of reflecvtion at the same time it influences the development of women's self-esteem and spirituality, both areas I find our society too often overlooks. -- Gloria Thornton, Director, Great Expectations: Programs for Parents, University of California, San Francisco
Leslie Kirk Campbell's original new book, Journey Into Motherhood, is simultaneously a profound and moving narrative about one person's experience and a much needed guidebook for the journey of others. The writing exercises are designed to evoke profound truths about the personal growth and transformation that occur during the childbearing year. Although a woman actually becomes a mother the moment her baby is born, she may not really feel like a mother until much later. This valuable book could be called "exercises for developing a healthy maternal identity". Too often women reach post-partum unprepared for the reality of life with a new baby and find themselves saying, "why didn't anyone tell me it would be like this?" Journey Into Motherhood leads a woman deeply into the emotional and spiritual experience of her own life where she can explore the issues of dependency and responsibility that will prepare her for the challenges of motherhood. -- Libby Lee Colman, PhD, author of Pregnancy: The Psychological Exprience
This guided journal helps expectant mothers explore - in their own creative way - the thoughts, feelings, and discoveries of their unique pregnancy. With exercises, quotes, and contributions from other mothers, this book is a keepsake that will hold the memories of this special time. -- Mothering, August 1998
...A great achievement...you will learn more about yourself, define your priorities more clearly, and find deeper satisfaction in your experience of pregnancy and birth. -- Sheila Kitzinger, author of The Complete Book of Pregnancy and Childbirth and Ourselves as Mothers: The Universal Experience of Motherhood
Leslie Kirk Campbell's new book, Journey Into Motherhood: Writing Your Way to Self-Discovery, provides a valuable reflective experience for pregnant women and new mothers at a time when it is all too easy for women to miss out on this experience due to their stressful and hectic life styles. Journey Into Motherhood is a powerful example of the potential of women's spirituality. In my 20 years working with pregnant women and new parents, I have spoken to, provided resources for, and worked with hundreds of women. The vast majority of these women lose the opportunity to really pay attention to and fully participate in the deeper levels of their pregnancy and childbirth experience. There is very little available to women that taps the spiritual and emotional aspects of pregnancy which, when brought to comsciousness, have a profound effect on how a pregnant woman feels about herself, her experience of labor and childbirth, and her parenting. This book affirms the importance of reflecvtion at the same time it influences the development of women's self-esteem and spirituality, both areas I find our society too often overlooks. -- Gloria Thornton, Director, Great Expectations: Programs for Parents, University of California, San Francisco
Leslie Kirk Campbell's original new book, Journey Into Motherhood, is simultaneously a profound and moving narrative about one person's experience and a much needed guidebook for the journey of others. The writing exercises are designed to evoke profound truths about the personal growth and transformation that occur during the childbearing year. Although a woman actually becomes a mother the moment her baby is born, she may not really feel like a mother until much later. This valuable book could be called "exercises for developing a healthy maternal identity". Too often women reach post-partum unprepared for the reality of life with a new baby and find themselves saying, "why didn't anyone tell me it would be like this?" Journey Into Motherhood leads a woman deeply into the emotional and spiritual experience of her own life where she can explore the issues of dependency and responsibility that will prepare her for the challenges of motherhood. -- Libby Lee Colman, PhD, author of Pregnancy: The Psychological Exprience
This guided journal helps expectant mothers explore - in their own creative way - the thoughts, feelings, and discoveries of their unique pregnancy. With exercises, quotes, and contributions from other mothers, this book is a keepsake that will hold the memories of this special time. -- Mothering, August 1998
From the Back Cover
"Right now, quietly, invisibly within you, you are creating. It is time for you to begin the birth of your book,
To begin to express the complexity of your own experience
in your own words, in your own way.
This is the book that you are writing for yourself and for your child."
from Journey Into Motherhood
To begin to express the complexity of your own experience
in your own words, in your own way.
This is the book that you are writing for yourself and for your child."
from Journey Into Motherhood
Whether you are contemplating becoming pregnant, or are already expecting your first (or second, or third) child, this guided journal will help you explore - in a personalized, creative way - your own unique experience of the journey into motherhood. With thoughts from expectant mothers all over the United States, and key questions to help you trace your own physical, emotional, and spiritual development, this book provides the opportunity to create a journal of self-discovery - and a keepsake that will forever hold the memories of this extraordinary and precious time.
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This is my soul companion, the best gift I've ever received,
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Journey Into Motherhood is my soul companion, spiritual midwife, and dream catcher. Each time I open its pages, I am stimulated, comforted, and gently nudged into focusing upon the miracle of generation and birth, to laugh at and feel fellowship about my fears, large and small, and most importantly, to re-enter into the pure power and majesty of motherhood. Leslie Kirk Campbell challenges and heartens us, sharing an oracle of wisdom both ancient and contemporary, heartrending and inspiring, practical and poetic: her own unique, wholly embraceable, extremely empowering vision of motherhood. Her book accompanies me to every baby shower...it is one of the most useful gifts I have ever received, and I am definitely passing it on. Thank you, Leslie Kirk Campbell, for giving so generously of your special brand of lucid, humorous honesty and of your very sage, very fine, very full mother's spirit!
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A beautiful book that will help you explore and discover your own feelings while you are pregnant and after your baby arrives. It's an amazingly positive experience just to pick it up and read it. The book has suggested guided writing exercises, but even if you choose not to do them, it is still inspirational. A great gift for mamas-to-be and a great tool for creating meaningful attachment to your growing belly.
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This is my soul companion, the best gift I've ever received,
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This review is from: Journey into Motherhood (Paperback)
Journey Into Motherhood is my soul companion, spiritual midwife, and dream catcher. Each time I open its pages, I am stimulated, comforted, and gently nudged into focusing upon the miracle of generation and birth, to laugh at and feel fellowship about my fears, large and small, and most importantly, to re-enter into the pure power and majesty of motherhood. Leslie Kirk Campbell challenges and heartens us, sharing an oracle of wisdom both ancient and contemporary, heartrending and inspiring, practical and poetic: her own unique, wholly embraceable, extremely empowering vision of motherhood. Her book accompanies me to every baby shower...it is one of the most useful gifts I have ever received, and I am definitely passing it on. Thank you, Leslie Kirk Campbell, for giving so generously of your special brand of lucid, humorous honesty and of your very sage, very fine, very full mother's spirit!
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