Every woman sheds a part of herself as she goes through the rites of passage - Menarche, Birth, and Menopause - the life-altering experiences that hold huge significance. We all arrive in pregnancy with something we have learned from our life experiences, which helps us visualize our birth in a certain way. Some of us desire it to be a breeze, some of us desire it to be painless, some of us desire it to be with friends and family, some of us want to avoid surgery at all costs even if we do not know what birth can look like, some of us consider it our identity linked to birthing naturally as women.
Sanjana's journey has been the same, very much like many of us. She is self-aware, reflective, and growth-oriented: inward in her journey of pregnancy and birth. Her transitioning definitions about herself contributed to the decision of prioritizing her ideas about birth over the little juggles of life.
Listen to the journey of transformation for a woman through pregnancy and birth as we re-discuss them as the rightful dimensions of growth a woman is gifted with, which she has all the right to experience guided by herself rather than any authority or outward force.
About Guest: Sanjana is a Political Scientist by profession focused on urban-rural linkages, urban studies, and inequalities in India. She is the co-founder of the Beejvan Biodiversity and Collaborative Research Foundation. A winner of the Erasmus scholarship, the German Chancellors’ Fellowship, and a Visiting Fellow at the University of Cambridge. Her project, Beejvan, won the Lush Spring Prize 2023 in the UK.
Sanjana is also a home-birthing mother of two daughters and very passionate about immunology, and enjoys learning about various indigenous healing modalities. Her quest for truth, led by her intuition, beyond what science and religion have attempted to understand and preach, is what led her to birth her daughters and raise them on her own terms. The journey of healing is non-linear and ongoing, and she trusts it is a beautiful one, even on the worst days.
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