Thank you, Sarah, for your beautiful work, and thank you, Dawn, for being so vulnerable and sharing your story. I felt deeply connected to what you shared because parts of your story reflected my own beginning. When my mother was pregnant with me, she felt very alone, unsupported, and uncertain about whether my father would stay. She was afraid of raising another child without enough support, and for much of the pregnancy she was not sure she could continue. I understand that she was frightened and doing the best she could with what she had at that time. She later became a loving and devoted mother, and my parents created a caring family for me. Still, hearing your story brought back something very deep. I remember that as a child, I always wanted to leave this life and be born somewhere else. And the strangest part is that, even though my parents were loving and are close and supportive now, I had this early sense of not belonging. Your talk made me wonder about my birth, and the fact that I was taken away from my mother for the first three days of my life. As I listened, I wondered if that separation and my mother’s own fear and uncertainty during pregnancy might have anything to do with that feeling I carried. Birth has followed me as a theme. I fainted watching a C-section as a teen, then later had a very medicalized, traumatic birth with my first son and my daughter that left me feeling like I never got the experience I had dreamed of. Even now, although my life is beautiful and meaningful and I love my family deeply, I still sometimes feel a quiet loneliness and a longing for a deeper connection that I cannot fully explain. I watched the session in a recording but felt it deeply; it reminded me that we can acknowledge the circumstances of our beginnings without blaming anyone, while still giving ourselves permission to process, heal, and grow beyond them. Thank you, Pavel, for bringing Sarah’s work into our community. I feel very grateful for this opportunity and genuinely excited to dive deeper.