SpiritBirthing: Bring Your Best Light Forward

What I've learned about birth, I've applied to life: every moment is a chance to be renewed and reborn, if we experience everyday moments as sacred. You don't need nine months to be a SpiritBirther--just a few moments of following your bliss. There are only two rules: stay conscious, and bring your best light forward. Keep breathing, and midwife your life! Thank you for joining me--Katrina Gray, a mother and Birthing From Within mentor and doula in Nashville, Tennessee--as I take my journey.

Songs That Wink At My Spirit

Looking Back Over My Shoulder - Mike + The Mechanics
Whole Lotta Love - Led Zeppelin
Gatekeeper - Feist
Immigrant Song - Led Zeppelin
Talk It Over - Grayson Hugh
The Ocean - Led Zeppelin
Make Love Stay - Dan Fogelberg
Long, Cool Woman In A Black Dress - The Hollies
Wild Horses - Rolling Stones
Limit To Your Love - Feist
A Thousand Kisses Deep - Leonard Cohen
Hard To Say - Dan Fogelberg
All I Need - Jack Wagner
Running In the Family - Level 42
Not Enough Love In the World - Don Henley
Halleluja - Leonard Cohen
You Are the Sunshine of My Life - Stevie Wonder
The Shape Of My Heart - Sting
And So It Goes - Billy Joel
I Saw Her Again - The Mamas & The Papas
Please Come To Boston - Dave Loggins
The Air That I Breathe - The Hollies
Never My Love - The Association
I'm Not Gonna Let It Bother Me Tonight - Atlanta Rhythm Section
Too Much Heaven - Bee Gees
Landed - Ben Folds
Flowers - Billy Yates
Open Up My Window - Christopher Cross
Think Of Laura - Christopher Cross
Got a Hold On Me - Christine McVie
Wysteria - Dan Fogelberg
Drops Of Jupiter - Train
Always On My Mind - Willie Nelson
Lowdown - Chicago
Silent Running - Mike + The Mechanics
What Is And What Should Never Be - Led Zeppelin
Just the Way You Are -Billy Joel
Lovely Day - Bill Withers
Two Of Us - The Beatles
I'm Gonna Love You Just a Little More Baby - Barry White
God Only Knows - The Beach Boys
Take Me Down - Alabama
Making Love Out Of Nothing At All - Air Supply
Moonlighting (Theme) - Al Jarreau
Solsbury Hill - Peter Gabriel
Overjoyed - Stevie Wonder
Second Avenue - Tim Moore
Can We Still Be Friends - Todd Rundgren
The Waiting - Tom Petty
If I Needed You - Emmylou Harris and Don Williams
Pancho and Lefty - Townes Van Zandt
Into the Mystic - Van Morrison
Let's Stay Together - Al Green
Mercy Mercy Me (The Ecology) - Marvin Gaye
Close To You - Maxi Priest
Just When I Needed You Most - Randy VanWarmer
It's Always Somethin' - Joe Diffie
Held - Natalie Grant
Smile - Lily Allen
Reminiscing - Little River Band
I Need You - George Harrison
Maybe I'm Amazed - The Beatles
Something - The Beatles
Cream - Prince
Nobody Wins - Radney Foster
It Was Almost Like a Song - Ronnie Milsap
Past the Point of Rescue - Hal Ketchum
What Do I Know - Ricochet
Party To Damascus - Wyclef Jean and Missy Elliot
We May Never Pass This Way (Again) - Seals and Crofts
1979 - Smashing Pumpkins
Leave Him Out of This - Steve Wariner
For the Good Times - Ray Price
Without Love - Johnny Mathis and Deniece Williams
Smooth Sailin' - T.G. Sheppard
The Logical Song - Supertramp
Burning Heart - Survivor
It's Sad To Belong - England Dan & John Ford Coley
The Grand Tour - George Jones
Things Can Only Get Better - Howard Jones
All I Need Is a Miracle - Mike + The Mechanics
Bron Yr Awr Stomp - Led Zeppelin
Norwegian Wood - The Beatles
Try And Love Again - The Eagles
Sister Golden Hair - America
Taken In - Mike + The Mechanics
You're the Only Woman - Ambrosia
Ready Or Not - After 7
Lost In Love - Air Supply
(Our Love) Don't Throw It All Away - Andy Gibb
Undercover Angel - Alan O'Day
Lonely Boy - Andrew Gold
Don't Let It Bring Down - Neil Young
Day After Day - Badfinger
New Morning - Bob Dylan
Honey - Bobby Goldsboro
Miss Sun - Boz Scaggs
Strawberry Letter 23 - Brothers Johnson
Every Little Kiss - Bruce Hornsby
Love of My Life - Carley Simon
We Just Disagree - Dave Mason
Crush - Dave Matthews Band
Meet In the Middle - Dimond Rio
You're Gone - Diamond Rio
Islands In the Stream - Dolly Parton and Kenny Rogers
Damn It, Rose - Don Henley
Not Enough Love In the World - Don Henley
We've Got a Good Fire Goin' - Don Williams
What a Fool Believes - The Doobie Brothers
Strange Way - Firefall
Crazy Over You - Foster and Lloyd
Alone Again (Naturally) - Gilbert O'Sullivan
Moody Girl - Frank Stallone
Shannon - Henry Gross
Busted - Ron Isley
Contagious - The Isley Brothers
Amos Moses - Jerry Reed
He'll Have To Go - Jim Reeves
I Wish Lunch Could Last Forever - Jimmy Buffett
Annie's Song - John Denver
Prisoner of Hope - Johnny Lee
Summer Rain - Johnny Rivers
This Woman's Work - Kate Bush
I'm Easy - Keith Carradine
What Are We Doin' In Love - Kenny Rogers and Dottie West
Dancing In the Moonlight - King Harvest
Probably Wouldn't Be This Way - LeAnn Rimes
You Make Me Feel Like Dancing - Leo Sayer
Me and You and a Dog Named Boo - Lobo
Stealing Kisses - Lori McKenna
You'll Never Find Another Love Like Mine - Lou Rawls
Some People's Lives - Michael Johnson
Give Me Wings - Michael Johnson
I Will Whisper Your Name - Michael Johnson
I'm Gonna Miss You, Girl - Michael Martin Murphy
No Myth - Michael Penn
Hush - Deep Purple
Early to Bed - Morphine
All the Young Dudes - Mott the Hoople
I Am...I Said - Neil Diamond
Sweet Life - Paul Davis
One Good Woman - Peter Cetera
Crazy Love - Poco
Poetry Man - Phoebe Snow
After All This Time - Rodney Crowell
The Seed - The Roots
Sweet Thing - Chaka Khan
Bible Song - Sara Evans
Coal Mine - Sara Evans
All These Years - Sawyer Brown
True - Spandau Ballet
The One Who Loves You - Glenn Frey
One Friend Left - Dan Seals
Sail Away - Oak Ridge Boys
I'll Go To My Grave Loving You - Statler Brothers
On and On - Stephen Bishop
Romeo's Tune - Steve Forbert
Foolish Heart - Steve Perry
The Weekend - Steve Wariner
Sir Duke - Stevie Wonder
It's Raining Again - Supertramp
Finally - T.G. Sheppard
Woke Up This Morning - A3
In My Life - The Beatles
Can't Be really Gone - Tim McGraw
Please Remember Me - Rodney Crowell
Perfect Day - Lou Reed
What Mattered Most - Ty Herndon
Crazy Love - Van Morrison
Red-Eyed and Blue - Wilco
Mayor of Simpleton - XTC
Her Town Too - James Taylor
Fishin' In the Dark - Nitty Gritty Dirt Band
Old Tennessee - Dan Fogelberg
A Very Special Love Song - Charlie Rich
In My Secret Life - Leonard Cohen
Tonight Will Be Fine - Teddy Thompson's version
Hey There Delilah - Plain White T's
The Last Nail - Dan Fogelberg
Everybody Likes Something Good - Ify Jerry Crusade
Mona Lisas and Mad Hatters - Elton John
Two - Ryan Adams
I Feel It All - Feist
Shambala - Three Dog Night
Lullaby - Dixie Chicks
Let's Get Lost - Chet Baker
Naked As We Came - Iron & WIne
Year of the Cat - Al Stewart
April Fools - Rufus Wainwright
14th Street - Rufus Wainwright
Mushaboom - Feist
Beautiful Child - Rufus Wainwright
Lost In the Paradise - Caetano Veloso
Strange Magic - Electric Light Orchestra
She's the One - World Party
Any Major Dude - Steely Dan
Flowers In the Window - Travis
Best I Ever Had (Grey Sky Morning) - The Verve Pipe
Tupelo Honey - Van Morrison
Party To Damascus - Wyclef Jean
Can We Still Be Friends - Todd Rundgren
I Saw the Light - Todd Rundgren
Moonlight Feels Right - Starbuck
Possession - Sarah McLachlan
Earthbound - Rodney Crowell
Steal Away - Robbie Dupree
I'm In - Radney Foster
Old Man - Neil Young
The Lady Wants to Know - Michael Franks
Baby Don't Get Hooked On Me - Mac Davis
How Sweet - Leona Naess
Fallin' - LeBlanc & Carr
Hey Hey What Can I Do - Led Zeppelin
Bedshaped - Keane
Everybody Here Wants You - Jeff Buckley
Miracles - Jefferson Starship
All I Need - Jack Wagner
Talk It Over - Grayson Hugh
You've Got Me Runnin' - Gene Cotton
Hypnotized - Fleetwood Mac
Oh Well - Fleetwood Mac
Can't Get It Out Of My Head - Electric Light Orchestra
Paul Bowles - db leonard
Don't Give Up On Us - David Soul
Couldn't Get It Right - Climax Blues Band
Dreaming - Cliff Richard
Fool (If You Think It's Over) - Chris Rea
Beginnings - Chicago
I Don't Mind At All - Bourgeois Tagg
Heart Of Mine - Boz Scaggs
Use Me - Bill Withers
Nights On Broadway - Bee Gees
Isn't It Time - The Babys
You Can Do Magic - America
Eye In the Sky - The Alan Parsons Project
Little Green Apples - Roger Miller
Chet Baker's Unsung Swan Song - David Wilcox
On Discovering a Missing Person - Danny O'Keefe
MacArthur Park - Glen Campbell's version
Waiting On Your Love - Toto