A friend asked me recently what it feels like to be pregnant and without hesitation I replied “it feels like magic”. My body has grown an entire new being from two cells and That process alone makes me feel otherworldly. It’s almost like I’m not completely tethered to this universe but instead have One foot in the realm of the living and the other in another dimension. Being pregnant means passing through the most heightened forms of the human experience- of love and hope, as well as doubt, fear and sometimes loss and grief to an almost unbearable degree. My hypnobirthing instructor today told me that birth will be the most open I will ever be in my life and she didn’t just mean physically. She told me that I am the portal from which new life emerges and I know that birth brings me face to face with my maker but what other experience in life other than death can you cross that threshold into that other world...wherever that is. So yeah...pregnancy feels like magic, in every damn sense of the word.