Why are we not allowed to accept pain in our lives? Hurt from another person, a headache, the pain of childbirth – if you want to accept grief from a broken relationship, try natural cures to your headache and especially if you want to work through labor pains on your own, you’re often considered by some to be a bit odd.
We need other words for pain. Pain is used to describe a hang nail and a broken neck, yet those are two totally different types of pain. Where are our 50 words for pain? There is certainly enough of it to warrant a richer language.
In a previous post about the differences between the midwifery model of care and the medical model: (http://fullmoonsdaughter.com/blog/2009/03/the-differences-between-technocratic-and-holistic-models-of-care) Robbie Davis-Floyd mentioned that in midwifery care pain is acceptable. Pain is not acceptable in the medical model.
It’s okay to be in pain. We learn a lot from our darkest hours. And birth is a time when a woman becomes a mother and learns that she could do anything. She learns to get out of her own way, speak her truth, open up and surrender to her own power. She feels her strength and is in awe of her will.
Labor is hard work and most women interpret the sensations of labor as pain. It is a joining force between women around the world to connect together and hold the power of creation and the Universe in their bodies.
