This phrase helped me to digest and accept my  birth story and parts of my post partum journey and now I consider it for all aspects where there may be a sense of regret or lack.

So often in life we wonder “what if” or ask “why didn’t that go how I wanted it to” “why didn’t I get what I wanted”..

The truth is, we don’t know what we are being saved from. We don’t know if xyz DID actually happen that it would’ve been for our highest good, that it would’ve had a happy ending.

So if you’re asking yourself “why not” maybe it could feel more spacious to consider that, sometimes, we are being saved from a less than desirable outcome.

Noah’s birth was tough, but it’s my story, it happened how it did, I don’t know the opposite of that experience and I never will

And maybe we were saved in that moment…

So I am grateful,
for my beautiful boy earth side and healthy with all of his smiles and deliciousness and for this scar that is a reminder of my resilience and his arrival into my life ❤

Maybe you aren’t meant to know the opposite…maybe you were being saved too

(Definitely aware this is not a one size fits all statement, it just helped me in my particular situation ✌)