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EcoBirth-Women for Earth and Birth

Uniting the earth and birth movements for the well-being of our world

My Personal Environmental Stories-Join Us!

You will be able to create your own Personal Environmental Story online by reading the below summary and going to My Personal Environmental Story website to participate.

1- Listen to my 30 minute full presentation from EcoBirth's website. You will be able to see my 3 minute digital story too, as a sample of what we can create together.

Consider the below questions in pulling together your photos, locations and story:

What is your maternal grandmother's name, where and when was she born and what is her birth story?
 Do you have a photo of her as a baby? And any old photos of her birthplace?
 Can you find a current photo of her birthplace? Try googling her address.
Where did your maternal grandmother get her name?
What was happening during your grandmother's time- during her gestation and lifetime?
What environment did she grow up in? Physical and psychological?

What is your mother's name, where and when was she born and what is her birth story?
 Do you have a photo of her as a baby? And any old photos of her birthplace?
 Can you find a current photo of her birthplace? Try googling her address
Where did your mother get her name?
What was happening during your mother's time- during her gestation and lifetime?
What environment did she grow up in? Physical and psychological?

2-Find an icon, photo or symbol that is multi-generational to represent a part of your story graphically. Photograph it or scan it so we can use it in the digital story.


3-Create a Historypin My Personal Environmental Story account and upload the photos of your mother and maternal grandmother, yourself and your children and grandchildren and your icon. I will put them into our Collection, after I favorite your photos, be sure and tell me when you upload them to this great site. You can locate your photos on a timeline and on maps too. We will be able to use these photos in your digital story.
4-Research  History of  It where I have listed some interesting genealogy sites and historical environmental health info.
5-Research The Psychology of It which contains informative and clear videos on the possible psychological effects that prenatal, perinatal and birth periods may have had on generations in your family.

6-Explore The Map of It to see what info there is concerning possible environmental hazards for the locations your mother and grandmother lived, and where you live now.

7- Create a Cowbird account and write your 350 word story, upload the most evocative of your photos. Do an audio version of your story. Name your account My Personal Environmental Story-your name. Tell me when this is done and I will copy the script and use the audio for your digital story.

8- I will make a draft of your digital story in PlaceStories, using your photos, audio and script. We can consult on the drafts together! And come up with what you like best.
9-See if there are any organizations to whom you would give your digital story, I have listed some wonderful organizations The Acting on It.

10- Become a Beloved Ancestor.

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Molly Arthur's Maternal Lines digital story from molly arthur on Vimeo.

We women can face the pain and grief we have for our suffering Mother Earth and reclaim our story of creation and redemption with the power and beauty intimately held in our body’s cells from our maternal lines since the beginning of the cosmos. Our existential and communal grief heals within the loving gathering of our feminine compassion, connecting us to the truth and strength of our Mother Earth and all our kin. We start with Molly’s Personal Environmental Story-to explore the birth stories and places and times of ourselves, our mothers and grandmothers.Using the stories of our own maternal lines, with sharing, active listening and intention, we call on our ancestors, our inner wisdom and the shared circle to witness our story with compassion. Using ritual, song, movement, and sharing of our truths, in community and powerful circle as well as spending time on the land - we can acknowledge the oppression in our lives, feeling it in our bodies, grieving it, transforming it and ourselves in a safe, loving space. Our healing path connects our sacred lineage from the womb of our Mother Earth to integrate our inner and outer lives and discover our place in the connected caring cosmos. We are a part of a continuum of sacredness, lifeforce, divine energy including our Ancestors back to the stuff of the stars. We can reclaim our cells, our lineage and our legacy to the future generations. Like in birth labor, we must yield to our bodies innate knowing, to progress, to open, to birth our love. With our active surrender to fierce compassion we can restore our connection to the natural world and our own inner wisdom. We can drop our obsessive addictions to control and return to our healing, caring, befriending tendencies- innate for us nurturers. And then we can repair, regenerate, and renew our culture for tenderness and kindness, naturally embodied by us. We will be able to guard and protect ours and all descendents - becoming their Beloved Ancestors- by asking - What is possible now to transform our world for Future Generations?

Molly Arthur of EcoBirth- My Personal Environmental Story November 2012 from molly arthur on Vimeo.

Why EcoBirth’s My Personal Environmental Story
EcoBirth’s My Personal Environmental Story will help women tell their life story by considering the two primary environments- place and birth- for themselves, their mothers and their maternal grandmothers. Through this process each participant will come to realize the hazards in their environmental genealogy and realize the healing in telling their own story. And they will be empowered to affect the changes that are necessary for our Mother Earth and our children and grandchildren to thrive.
Imagine looking back to your grandmother's and mother's birth time to figure out what environmental influences you might have inherited? And have passed onto your children and grandchildren? Would you wonder what was in the air, water and food in their lives- and look twice at what diseases, birth defects, addictions there are in your family?