From Fear to Sovereignty: Reclaiming the Truth of the Body
We have a long road ahead of us.
That is the reality I have had to look dead in the face lately, and it’s not an easy one to accept. Accepting it means recognizing that this road will not be easy, but then again, anything meaningful never is. The path of truth is meant to challenge us, to shake us, to bring us to our knees and force us to see what we could not see before. It has to, because change cannot come without deep confrontation. We have to walk through the mud, through the heaviness, through the discomfort. There is only one way through it, and that is to keep walking.
When we started The Reclaiming Birth Conference, we had a vision - to bring women, families, and caregivers together in one space to share truth. To talk honestly about birth, to educate, to connect, to begin a movement rooted in awareness and empowerment. We wanted to make a change. But as time goes on, I see that what we are doing is much bigger than birth. This work is about life itself.
As we step into the planning of our fourth conference(wow!!), and as I continue to sit with women who are crossing the threshold and bringing their babies into the world, I am struck by the depth of this truth… we have such a long way to go. We cannot simply tell women to trust their bodies, to own their stories, to let go of fear. If only it were that simple!! We are emerging from generations of conditioning, coercion, and fear. We are carrying experiences that sit heavy in our bones, the echoes of moments when we were told not to trust ourselves. How can we expect women to just flip a switch and suddenly believe in a process they have never seen unfold in its full power? How can we expect them to trust their bodies when their entire lives they have been taught that those bodies are flawed, fragile, and in need of management?
We can’t think our way into trust. It has to be lived. It has to be experienced. It must be proven to us through our own moments of surrender and witnessing. Trust cannot exist as an idea, it has to move through us until it becomes part of our being. It’s a beautiful concept, to “trust your body” and “surrender to it,” but the truth is, you can’t trust what you’ve never seen. You can’t surrender to something you’ve never felt safe with.
So the question becomes: how do we get there? How do we arrive at that place where we no longer doubt our body’s ability, where we no longer seek reassurance from outside authority, where we can meet uncertainty and not waver? It begins with choice. We have to choose it, again and again. We have to choose to see our bodies differently, to learn how they truly work (Germanic Healing Knowledge!) to live as though they are trustworthy until we feel it as truth. We have to allow our experiences to show us what is possible. If you can’t trust your body to heal, how can you trust it to grow your baby and bring that baby into the world?
The medical system would have us believe it is here to save us, but I have yet to see this to be true. The truth is that they do not understand the body. They do not understand biology. They are disconnected from the intelligence that animates life, and in their attempts to control it, they cause more harm than good. Medicine should exist for true emergencies, but even that word “emergency” has been distorted. We’ve been programmed to believe that everything is an emergency, that our bodies are constantly malfunctioning, that we are fragile, that we cannot be trusted and therefore we must be SAVED. And it is this belief that keeps us dependent and fearful.
At some point, we have to decide which world we want to live in. We cannot straddle the line between them - we can’t live half in trust and half in fear, half in sovereignty and half in dependency. You are either dependent on a system that sees you as broken, or you are a sovereign human being who understands that your body holds the wisdom and intelligence to heal and create life. There is no in-between. I know this is a hard truth to accept. I know how deeply it can shake everything you thought was safe. But even when you enter that system believing you are getting help, you are being harmed. That is a hard pill to swallow, but it is the truth.
This is why learning matters. Learning how your body truly works through the lens of GHK and the Five Biological Laws of Nature, is where liberation begins! When you start to understand the brilliance of the body, its precision, its purpose, and its design, everything changes. You realize that healing is not random, that symptoms are not mistakes, and that your body is never working against you. You realize that you do not need anyone to save you. Curiosity becomes the doorway back to trust. Get curious. Learn. Observe. Let your own body become your teacher, and you will see that it has always known the way.
As Dr. Ryke Geerd Hamer wrote, “There is nothing malicious in nature. Nothing is meaningless or random. Every so-called disease has a special biological meaning. Each process in the body follows a precise program of nature, created to assist the individual during unexpected distress. When we understand this, fear disappears, and what we once called disease becomes something entirely different — a meaningful part of our survival.”
Our bodies are not broken! They are intelligent beyond measure. They are adaptive, resilient, and divinely designed. But to return to that knowledge requires unlearning everything we have been told...and I mean everything! It takes courage to walk away from a system we’ve been inside our entire lives, the one we’ve been taught to turn to for reassurance, for answers, for safety. It takes courage to question what we’ve always believed would protect us, to see that what we thought was care has often been control. It takes deep awareness and presence to live differently, to choose differently, to keep remembering what is true when the world tells you otherwise. But it is possible!
We have a long way to go, yes, but we are walking it. Step by step, birth by birth, story by story. This is the work. This is the movement. And though the road is long, it is leading us home, back to trust, back to the body, back to truth.
With love,
Christina Rigutto
Co-founder Reclaiming Birth Conference
Traditional Birth Companion, @wild.spirit.birth