Product Description

Different in essence from a baby shower, a blessingway honors a mother-to-be and creates a circle of support that will cradle her as she prepares to give birth to her child. Surrounded by the most important women in her life, a mom-to-be can explore the challenges and joys that lie before her, thereby gaining a sense of power, confidence, and support that will help her rise to motherhood. By creating blessingway rituals for each other, we can reach outside of ourselves and weave a web of community: a living breathing web of women who are blessing, teaching, and supporting one another– and as a result, helping give birth to each other's children.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1553001 in Books
• Published on: 2004-10-31
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 360 pages

Pam England, midwife and author of Birthing from Within
"I love this book! Absolutely brilliant and original...[Mother Rising] is a treasure chest, an cyclopedic cookbook for Blessingways..."

Suzanne Arms, internationally acclaimed author, founder and director of Birthing the Future®
"I have long awaited a book that can guide any woman into the sweet depths of sacred ceremony..."

Jennifer Louden, author of The Pregnant Woman's Comfort Book and creator of www.comfortqueen.com
"Mother Rising is exactly the step-by-step gorgeous, loving resource mothers-to-be and those who love them are hungry for...Highly recommended."

Customer Reviews

Full of ideas!
I created a unique and beautiful blessingway for my dear friend with this book. It lists several ideas for different stages and types of blessingways. It gives a little history as well. What I liked best about the book is that it left the blessingway up to me to plan, there was no rigged 'this is the way it must be done'. It also was written for any religious belief system to create a blessingway, honoring your guest of honors' beliefs is easy with this book!