giving birth

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“Because I promise you this: if it doesn’t hurt at least a little, you will never birth your best writing.” - Sandra A. Miller

Giving birth is the most miraculous form of beginning. We are wired to create and give birth to the ideas that come from our truths that come from our souls. In Big Magic by Elizabeth Gilbert, she says, “Ideas are driven by a single impulse: to be made manifest.” We are driven by this mysterious connection where, in service of evolution and self-actualization, we give birth to ideas and impulses and turn them into the stuff of our lives.