Midwifery For The Soul
Book Trailer and Reviews
Midwifery for The Soul Book Trailer
Today, I decided to check the reviews for Midwifery For The Soul on Amazon. To my surprise, the book has received a 5-star rating. Granted, there are only a handful of votes, but they’re from people I don’t know—which delighted me.
Here are a few:
First, I love the compactness of this in my hand. The image on the cover so evocative and intense. I love it and as I open to leaf through it's pages, it beguiles me.
Not because I am a man ~ perhaps the expectation is that I might not get into it or it would not speak to me ~ but because it crosses all sorts of genres and lines...
There are brief poems. And longer stories. Many sorrows and joys, wisdom and innocent discoveries I found in these pages.
I resisted passing it on to a female friend ~ could think of a douzen who may love reading this and for whom it may rest on their bedside table as a faithful friend and warm solace through life's indescribable moments and long days ~ but as a man who is moved by it and wanting to read more, I decided to hold on to it longer...
Then, my wife stole it, starting reading passages to her friends at work. It's been glanced at and grabbed by many guests recently visiting us: plucked from a wall full of books, apparently calling them.
I had to tell them to buy their own copy - good friends who love books but forget to return them!
Thank you Jennifer for writing it...
A very powerful read. I could not put it down as soon as I started reading. I will probably read it again....and again...
I just ordered your new book and could no put it down. I’m half way through! It’s crazy how we somehow feel so isolated, yet as I read your words, it’s as though you were in my head,
Spoke to my soul. It will shift you.
As a writer, you take huge risks when you bare your soul through words. My writing mentor, Derrick Jensen, author of many profound books including A Language Older Than Words, inspires me to continue to write authentically raw and unfiltered. To say what the heart and soul wants to express without worrying about whether or not the reader will ‘like’ it. The goal is not to be liked through the written form but rather, to take the reader on a journey that has a coherent beginning, middle, and end in which they don’t have to work hard to make sense out of your point of view and that you have covered all the ground so that you always remain one step ahead of your reader-to answer questions that they might have before the question arises.
I was moved to write two books in a short time span. They came through me, in a way that channelers talk about being a conduit for something else to come through them. When I published them, I was flooded with anxiety and I avoided returning to them. I was afraid of the critique and to be exposed. I never considered myself to be a writer; not until Derrick Jensen acknowledged me as such during a writing class. This vote of confidence marked me. I was no longer a ‘want to be writer’, I was now, a writer.
If this reflection resonates with you, I invite you to check out the two books that emerged from this season of my life: Midwifery For The Soul and Healing After Birth. Both were written from a place of deep truth and are meant to support those walking the path of healing.
You can find them on Amazon. I’d be honoured if you gave them a read—and if they speak to you, feel free to leave a review or share them with someone who might need them.
Congratulations, Jennifer! 🎊