There are 2 more days you can get your free gifts with purchase of our book!

Here are the details.

3 bonus gifts

When you buy a copy of The Gift of Giving Life during the tour you get these bonus gifts.

1. The Top Three Tips to Enjoy Your Birth e-book2. Children’s Affirmations 3. Know Your Options Online Childbirth Class

How to get Bonus Gifts

In order to qualify to earn the 3 gifts you have to purchase The Gift of Giving Life from The Gift of Giving Life Amazon Store. If you purchase from another seller on Amazon you will not be eligible for the 3 bonus gifts!

We will send out all the bonus gifts by May 22nd. We hope to send them out every week, but guarantee it by the 21st.

After you buy your copy of The Gift of Giving Life from our Amazon Store enter your order number and e-mail here to get your bonus gifts (guaranteed by May 21st)

Virtual Book Tour Stops

1. Mother At Heart
2. I Love Junk Mail
3. Better Birth Doula
4. Cherishing Hopes and Dreams
5. Mamas and Babies
6. Bri’s Thoughts
7. Modern Pioneer Mom
8. Fife Photography
9. C. Jane Kendrick
10. Still Parenting
11. Real Intent
12. Training Doulas
13. Keen Doula
14. Me and My Insanity
15. Chocolate on My Cranium
16. Bellies and Babies
17. Monson Madness

I love her insights into birth.  She was in a unique situation where after 4 traditionally medicated birth, she was living in an area where natural birth was the only option.  I love how she moved from fear to faith and our book was a help in her progression!

While pregnancy and birth are physical processes, they can also be deeply spiritual. As I read and studied about the faith of women in the scriptures, I felt empowered. I knew that God would fortify me with the strength and courage to do this divine thing. He designed my body to be able to do this.

As I read, it wasn’t like I learned anything new, it’s almost like I was being reminded of what I’d always known, but had forgotten.

I loved her whole post.  Click over to Monson Madness read the whole thing!

No matter what your religious beliefs are, your birth practices are, or what stage of motherhood you are in, this book is written for you.

Women are encouraged to delve further into their immortal, and mortal, lineage. A powerful source of encouragement and strength, women are also encouraged to apply it to their pregnancy, birthing, and parenting. . . .

This book is for all women; women of faith, whether it is faith in her body, her God, or her experience. I am excited to have “The Gift of Giving Life” on my shelf – as it truly is a gift, a gift to be connected with the Divine and the Eternal. And my hope is that others will come to this truth as well!

Thanks for your review, Nicole! You can read the rest of her post HERE.

Thank you Cocoa for participating in our Virtual Book Tour once again!  Here is a little bit of what she had to say:

As you read the experiences of the women in this book you will see how the Lord was there for each of them. In the joys and triumphs, the disappointments and sorrows, He is made manifest. His is the work of creation after all. The sacredness of birth is shared on every page of this book.

To read her full review you can go here.

The next stop on our Virtual Book Tour is with Kendra at meandmyinsanity.com.  If you have not visited her blog before, you should.  She has some fantastic ideas for just about anything a momma could want.  I personally want to snag her ideas for Teacher Appreciation.  Fun stuff!  Thank you Kendra for your review!  Here is just a taste of what she had to say:

The authors made a great decision to allow each woman to share her own story in her own voice. This accomplishes several things. It provides perspective that no one author could ever give. Also, it give each essay the authenticity you want to find when talking about important topics. Rather than relying on case studies and statistics, it is just women sharing their souls with each other. It allows readers the opportunity to find someone who they can relate to and who may really know what they are going through, since so many different experiences are represented. And what I love the most is that it shows how–although every birth of every baby is a completely unique experience–there is divinity in every experience if we are prepared to see it.

You can read the rest of her review here.

Yogi Bhajan said that when you start to practice Kundalini Yoga Meditation, 3 things happen to people.

• They begin to dress differently.
• They begin to act differently.
• Their family changes.

Here is visual proof of how a family starts to change, from several moms who have taken my Christ-centered Kundalini Yoga Meditation webinar.

Here are some of their testimonials about the other changes:

“My experience with this meditation challenge has been life changing. I feel like I want to shout it from the roof tops, “People! World! You’re lives are out of control and this will change everything!” I was starting from a very dark place in my life. My soul was spiraling downward and I had lost all desire to live. I wasn’t suicidal, but I was done trying and would have rather laid in bed. I knew this was wrong, and crazy and I also knew that medications were not going to solve my problems. I was very skeptic during the first meeting when I heard that this meditation can actually change your character, but I’m living proof that this is true. I feel happy. I feel in control of my thoughts and myself. I feel God with me and showing me He loves all day long. I feel a greater capacity to love others. The neuro-pathways in my brain have been rebuilt and I no longer consider myself a pessimistic person. I have loved this life altering experience and I am so enthralled that I am looking forward to studying more and learning more. I don’t ever see a reason for not meditating every day. I would be afraid not to!”

- Chublis Adams

 “I started this meditation seminar a bit hesitant cause meditation is so foreign to me. I really know very little of any eastern practices but felt super compelled to learn more and begin meditating. So I did! The first week I felt a bit silly just cause meditation is not something I grew up with. But once I started seeing its fruits I am definitely an avid meditation practicer!! My husband told me that whatever I had been doing he has noticed a large increase in my testimony and presence when he comes home. I most surely have noticed it. I feel peaceful, centered, and an endless supply of energy each day to accomplish what is most important. I have eliminated addictive thought patterns and behaviors and will continue my meditation practice the rest if my life because of how it has transformed me inside and out. I am happier and my heart is more open to love and gods will. It is absolutely beautiful. I just love this path I have got started on with the help of the tools and insights that Felice taught in her seminars. My next step is getting my husband to meditate with me! With the growth we have seen in my life, what would our life and marriage look like if we both were practicing together! So exciting! I can’t wait to see what else heals and transforms in me through the rest of my life as I feel God and my true self through the practice of meditation.”- Kylie Power, Utah“Before doing this mediation webinar I had trouble with sexual intimacy in my marriage. It was hard for me to be that vulnerable, even with my husband. At first I didn’t even notice that I was changing, it was gradual but it happened and it is wonderful. I didn’t to anything extra outside of the mediation, I simply mediated. As I got closer to our Savior through this mediation I also became closer to my husband. I was able to be more open with him and honest. My communication skills in our marriage have miraculously changed for the better and I am so thankful!”- Name Withheld 

I just wanted to share that I definitely have noticed a difference after doing kirtan kirya. I am 38 weeks pregnant as of tomorrow… and I have actually had energy and when people ask how I am feeling I can honestly say, “I don’t have any complaints.” Of course, when I put off the meditation until the end of the day I feel less good then when I start my day with meditation.

- Tanya Maeser, Austrailia

My favorite thing so far about meditation is the way it affects my prayers. I pray aloud after I meditate and I’ve noticed that the tone of my voice has changed to something stronger. Also, I feel like I am given what I should pray for. Twice this week I have prayed for things I’ve never thought to pray about before. I’m still trying to wrap my mind around the possibility that something so subtle can make such a drastic change but I’m loving it so far!

- Janae Hutchison, Utah

During this morning’s meditation (at 3am, after a bad dream) I had a small glimpse of the Lord’s plan … I can’t really put it into words, but I’m really grateful I took the time to meditate after that dream.

- Sarah Cooksley, England, UK

This spring Felice and I completed a 60ish day meditation that was epic and changed my life. I am a complete believer in the power and clarity that comes from daily Kundalini practice. I LOVE it.

- Emily Stevens, Utah

Short progress report: I have been healing my asthma with my meditation. I have been practicing breathing deeper and breathing with my nose and not my mouth and as long as I do it consistently I haven’t had any symptoms and haven’t had to take my daily medicine either. Also I have been way less negative.

- Sierra Orr

Meditating has helped me feel balance and joy in my life. I feel extremely close to Heavenly Father when I take time to meditate. I was asked once if the meditating made the difference, with the mantras and mudras or if it was something else. I don’t know, but I do know that chanting the mantras and doing the mudras helps me be still. I always have to be moving something in my body and doing repetitive movements, and chanting praises to God help me focus and be still. I then have the ability to listen to what Heavenly Father wants me to hear, and feel what He wants me to feel.

Another thing that I have noticed is that I am in control a lot more of my emotions. I am not as likely to loose my temper. I was getting sick the other day and I could tell that something was really wrong in my body because I could tell that my temper and my emotions were not responding the way they normally do and I couldn’t control everything but I didn’t feel guilt or frustration when things weren’t going my way.
I strongly recommend meditating in any form to take time to listen to God and to feel His Love. I really love meditating with Kirtan Kirya and would recommend it to anyone.

- Beth Hughes, Indianna

The next 6-week webinar begins next week! May 13, 2013.  You can participate at any time from anywhere! Learn more at www.progressiveprophetess.blogspot.com. Or Register today to reserve your space. Bring friends along for the ride!

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A big thank you to Kristi who blogs at keendoula.blogspot.com for participating in our virtual book tour.  I love that in her review she shared her thoughts chapter by chapter.

“I feel like reading this book gave me some of the companionship that I have been craving. There are other women out there who get what I am going through when I thought no one else would or could. There are others who have been where I am now and who, through this book, have given me the strength to carry on. They have buoyed me up.”

“I think this is my favorite book about birth ever! Believe me, this is a big deal, because I have read some truly amazing books. However, the authors ‘have written the book unabashedly for a Latter-day Saint audience’ (xvii), and I can’t help but feel a deep, heartfelt connection with a book that is written about two of my most favorite topics in the world: my faith and birth.”

You can read the rest of her review here.

“A few years ago, I recieved a question from one of my readers asking any advice in navagating the Mormon Mommy Culture when your plan is outside the mainstream, and how she could find common ground.  I answered with some of the above thoughts of prayer or blessings, but this book answers this question far better than I could.  It discusses common doctrine believed among the LDS faith that may unite them, as well as interesting intellectual discussions on the meaning of life, birth, death, and motherhood.  With stories and essays, it provides an insiders look into some of the dilemmas and questions inherent in following a faith and working to find meaning in our birth experiences that is common to all women.”

You can read her full review here.

• The physical body
• The electromagnetic body
• The mental body
• The intuitive body
• The spiritual body

The idea of having multiple bodies should not be new to Latter-day Saints, and there is a lot good to say about his model, but I’ll save it for another post. Here is what here is what is relevant about chain breaking.

“The fourth level [intuitive body]…is the dimension where people are deeply affected by something that isn’t of themselves, that is of somebody else.” This can include generational issues as well as curses, possession, etc.

Many people with chronic illness or dis-ease have a problem on this level. And of course, if it goes on long enough will affect all the other levels.

“Rather than a genetic inheritance of a physical weakness, it is an energetic legacy of an injustice which the family never dealt….The range of issues that can be the source of the energetic legacy is vast, but it usually involves a family member who was excluded in a previous generation. When the other family members don’t go through the deep process of grieving the excluded one, whether the exclusion results from separation, death, alienation or ostracism, the psychic interference of that exclusion is passed on.”

Here is a condensed example: A woman has asthma since she was 2 years old. Dr. K discovers it is a problem on the intuitive level. They find out that the woman’s mother lost a sibling at age 2. The baby died and was buried behind the house in an unmarked grave and never discussed again in the family. The next baby was given the same name, as if the first had never existed, or worse, been replaced. This kind of exclusion violates a basic principle and that is that everyone in a family has a right to belong.

When the woman discovers this, they do some therapy (basically a hypnotic journey where the woman speaks to her dead mother’s sibling and acknowledges her, tells her she loves her and brings her back into the family and into her heart.) The woman’s asthma is 60% better after this intervention. A few months later, she completes the process by putting a grave stone at the property the family still owned. Her asthma then was completely gone and it has been more than eight years.

There are all kinds of other examples—a man whose father was ostracized from the family because he was bisexual, a child whose parents divorced and the mother never allowed him to see their father again. These are all exclusions that were never dealt with.

Dr. Klinghardt also identified that “another common systemic factor involves identification with victims of a forebear.”

Whether the crime is known or not, someone down the line will attempt to atone for the sins for an injustice. For example, a woman murders her husband, is never found out, remarries and has a long happy life and children with second husband. Several generations later her great grand child begins to self-sacrifice herself by getting brain cancer, being abused or murdered, or starts taking drugs and begins a slow suicide. It is clear form the outside that some form of self punishment is going on, but no one understands why. She had a good family, good life, etc. This kind of thing is common with the survivors of Nazi ancestors. They will begin to act like holocaust victims in their own ways.

Healing in this case can also be very fast and effective when the cause is identified and the right healing steps taken.

In the case of bipolar disorder, schizophrenia and related disorders, there is often more than one of intuitive issues in the same person. Dr. Klinghardt says that bipolar shows up on this level more than any of the other levels (but it is often only treated only on the physical level and mental level.) When healing on the cause level is applied, the other levels correct very quickly. In all these case histories, he shows that healing is very possible and doesn’t take long. Amazing. I think this is why it is so important to involve personal revelation in every healing process. God knows where the cause is! I will speak more about this in my mental health post.

When one thinks about this idea of exclusion and sin being the cause of much of our discomfort it clarifies some of my thoughts from my last post about why family history and temple work for your own ancestors is so important.

My dear friend Heather Farrell told me a story a few months ago about how she found a sibling of someone in her family tree who had never had her temple work done. So she did the work. She did not know at the time that there was a reason other family members hadn’t done it—some sort of exclusion or ostracism. She said she couldn’t explain all the healing that came from doing just one name, of someone she didn’t even know. When she told me this story I didn’t understand it. What kind of healing? She could explain what it felt like. But now I get it.

While reading Dr. K’s case histories a lot of neurons started firing in my brain. For a long time, I have been trying to break the chains of anger/defensiveness that I feel have come through my father’s line. (I wrote a 4 part post called my anger journey on my other blog.) I only recently figured out it was ancestral, but I never thought of it as an intuitive problem (I am a highly intuitive empath and have had to learn to shield myself so I don’t take on other people’s pain).

I have worked on this particular chain of anger through many avenues. Kundalini Yoga Meditation has been most effective (and I believe has led me to these answers). However, until a few days ago I still struggled with what some would call “an edge.” I couldn’t miss a day of my anger meditation or I’d become irritable and negative. But it never felt like my anger alone, which only frustrated me more! In a moment I realized what was going on.

It’s a wild story. I will give an abridged version. I’ll publish the rest in a future blog post. Here it is:

On my mother’s death bed, she told all the family secrets. For some reason, she felt she needed to tell them to me.

One of those secrets was that my grandfather was not my real grandfather. My grandmother left her first husband when my dad was only 2 years old. My dad knew about it, but it was never really talked about in his family. He was told that the man was “not a good guy.”

I was 11 years old when my mother told me this. 11 years later I decided to find out about him. The only information my grandmother would give me was that she heard he was murdered near Las Vegas. She told me he was most likely running with the mafia (as if to validate his not being a good guy). She also told me his birthday and his birth place. She told me he was Scotch-Irish.

This was enough information to help me locate him in the 1910 census. I also got his death certificate from Nevada. I stopped there for a few more years. When I finally resumed my search I learned some surprising facts. His death certificate had listed his race as white, but the 1910 census listed him and the whole family as Negro.

I’ll tell the rest of that story in another post, but the important point is that I have slave ancestors and many mixed race ancestors. My people were literally in chains, and then treated as less than, for another century or more. Hence, some of the defensiveness and feelings of “it’s not fair” that I have had since birth. This also explained some of my issues (and my father’s) about working for “the man.” (My father has never had a great track record with supporting the family—and I have always thrived best when working for myself.)

While I have told my I’m Black story many times, and I have made contact with living relatives in Detroit and even taken my grandfather’s name to the temple, I realized that I hadn’t actually included my grandfather in my life.

At the speed of inspiration, I knew what I had left to do to break the chains.

First, I communicated with my grandfather in a hypnosis/trance state and told him that I loved and accepted him and his line of ancestors. I also agreed to figure out some sort of grave marker for him (his body was found in the desert outside Vegas. He was cremated and I’m not sure where the ashes were dumped.) I have decided to make a special rock and put it in my garden.

Then, I went to the temple. For years, I had been waiting for official documents on his parents—my great grandmother and great-grandfather. Those docs came at the end of last year, but I was too busy then. Since January, however, Mary and James had been nagging me. On Friday I finally took their names to the temple.

I can not express how amazing this was. It is ineffable! As I came out of the water after being baptized for Mary, I felt the chains melt away. I felt like giving the ordinance worker a high-five and shouting Wahe Guru! (Praise be to God!)

I then did all Mary’s other work with the same feeling. It was awesome! I will never again not take a family name to the temple. There is nothing like it. As I drove away from the temple down Santa Monica Blvd, I had the awareness that dozens of angels were trailing my car.

There are a few other things I did, and still a few things I need to do, including a very specific kundalini yoga kriya for 40 days that will clear any remaining blocks/trauma from my temple body. But for all intents and purposes, it is done. The chains have been broken.

I couldn’t stop smiling all over my face or praising God. The chains have been broken! I don’t feel the legacy of anger or defensiveness any more. Like the legend of the African-American hero John Henry, I have taken the chains and had them made into a hammer, with which I can build the future for my posterity.

Our next stop on our virtual book tour is by Bonnie with Real Intent.  Here are a few great quotes from her review:

“My sister, who serves underserved mothers in the L.A. area as a doula and childbirth educator, calls it The Book.”

“When the book arrived, I devoured it. It was even better than I could have expected or even hoped.”

“Never in my years of LDS study have I found such a wide-ranging survey of wisdom and personal experience in relation to birth as this 521-page treasure comprises. Nowhere else will you find the tenets of LDS faith employed with greater grace and wisdom to empower a birthing mother, and by extension, her entire family.”

You can read the entire book review here.