Day 7 "Light on the side"

A song written for ME when i was on the precipice of becoming a mother....

ahhhh we’ve made it to day 7

WHAT A JOURNEY WE HAVE EMBARKED ON!!!!!

Light on the side is a song i wrote at the tail end of a veryyyyy tough pregnancy. If you know me at all you’ll already have heard this BUT for the newbies….basically i pregnant for 42 weeks and i was sickkkkkk the entire time… Hyperemesis gravidarum BECAME ME. By week 39 i was well and truly DONE being ‘With child” however my beautiful son had other plans and wanted to bake in the womb for the MAXIMUM acceptable time (love that for me)

At around 34 weeks pregnant i felt the NEED to write myself my own lullaby of sorts to support me through the last few weeks of pregnancy… “Light on the other side” was that song.

it became my anchor leading up to my labour..

I love this piece because it was last song i wrote and recorded while pregnant and unknowingly the last piece i would write for almost 2years…. as i waded through the gnarly postpartum trenches that was our reality.

I listen to this song now and i can viscerally remember how my body felt, how my soul was coping and how this song was the warm motherly hug i so desperately needed.

One of my favourite things about music is its ability to be able to transport you back to such a specific time in one’s life. ALL of my music is so reflective of where i was in my life at that point and i LOVE that so much. I often daydream about one day showing my son all the music that was inspired by his entrance into our lives. Makes me low key emotional thinking about it.

When i was 36 weeks pregnant the hemp temple ladies (aka; Issy, brit and Anna) - the women who inspired day 1’s song “Temple of the sisters” offered to create a music video for this song as a reminder of this time in my life - i loveeee looking back at it. In amongst such a TOUGH pregnancy this piece of art was something BEAUTIFUL to hold onto, it was able to capture me at my BEST while pregnant and i realllly value having that to reflect on.

ANDDD in SAYING that i’m sooo happy to share it here with you today…..