Birth Asked Me To Surrender What My Lineage Kept Safe

In this episode of The Place of Permission, Liz Chandler shares an intimate exploration of how birth became a threshold that asked her to surrender not only to the process, but to the deeper layers of protection shaped across generations.Through her journey of fertility challenges, pregnancy, childbirth, and postpartum, Liz explores how the opening of life force in the body can bring both power and fear to the surface at the same time. As her daughter entered the world, so did the parts of her shaped by shame, control, and the need to stay safe.She speaks candidly about the intensity of birth, the emotional complexity of family dynamics, and the often-unspoken realities of early motherhood; including, intrusive thoughts, isolation, and the pressure to hold it all together. But alongside this unraveling, something else opened.As her body moved through birth and into postpartum, Liz experienced a deep reawakening of sensory awareness as an embodied connection to intuition and psychism that had once been natural to her in childhood, then disconnected, and now returned with intensity. This opening was not separate from the fear or the overwhelm, but intertwined with it, asking for deeper surrender and trust in self. Rather than framing these experiences as something to overcome, Liz explores how they became an invitation to lay down inherited patterns of protection and meet herself and her intuitive knowing in a new way.This episode is a reflection on surrender as a powerful, embodied process of allowing what has been held for generations to finally move.Thank you for spending this time with me, friend. Your presence here matters more than you know.You can find more on social media at @withlizchandler and at withlizchandler.com for sessions, offerings, and ways to walk this work together.Deep gratitude to my producer Dennis Hull for his wizardry in sound engineering, organizational magic, and steady emotional support and a massive thank you to my admin team at Do What You Love for helping bring this dream to life with patience, encouragement, and steadfast dedication.And to my closest loved ones- thank you for believing in me, standing with me, and encouraging me to radiate fully and unapologetically as myself. This podcast is woven with your love.