Category: birth

• Warning label

  

  Stuck feelings get trapped in my chest and I feel like I’m suffocating. I try to process and it turns into avoidance. Leaning into discomfort my first instinct is to run because it resembles fight or flight and I keep telling myself that I’m sick of fighting. There are dueling voices playing in my mind…

  Sami Zabner

  August 7, 2022

  2022, birth, mental health, motherhood

  2022, anxiety, birth, blogging, depression, emotional, emotions, fire, mama, mental health, motherhood, movement, postpartum, rebirth, relatable, release, story, twloha, woman, woman poetry, womanhood

• Stagnation

  

  Depression can linger behind a soft gaze, a sweet smile, a roaring laugh, and a gentle kiss. Depression can disguise itself as short breaths, nervous laughter, denial, and belly pains. Depression isn’t just sadness all the time or crying for no reason. We have taught ourselves (and been taught) so many different ways to ignore…

  Sami Zabner

  August 7, 2022

  2022, birth, mental health, motherhood, woman

  2019, 2020, 2022, anxiety, birth, blogging, depression, emotional, emotions, fire, iamwoman, labor, mama, mental health, motherhood, movement, postpartum, pregnancy, rebirth, relatable, release, story, twloha, woman, woman poetry, womanhood, yoga

• The story of Liana

  

  I had to travel to Portland, Oregon to receive my daughter.  I know that sounds weird but here’s the back story.  Ever since high school, I wanted to move to Portland. I didn’t know much about the city and had never traveled to Oregon yet somehow I just knew I needed to get there. I…

  Sami Zabner

  August 7, 2022

  2019, birth, motherhood

  2019, birth, motherhood, rebirth, story, travel