Common Questions

Most pregnancy resources teach what to expect during pregnancy or how to prepare for birth: milestones, symptoms, logistics, or birth techniques.

In Awe includes all of that and more. It offers practical guidance for every dimension of your pregnancy and beyond—from financial planning and supporting older siblings to baby safety, parenting, identity, relationships, and more—while centering you as a whole person moving through profound change.

It’s not a checklist for a single outcome but a guided passage through transformation itself. You’ll learn how to prepare and also how to integrate—emotionally, spiritually, and socially—the person you’re becoming as this moment opens the world in a unique way: your past, your future, your relationships, who you are becoming, the world you shape. You’re invited to explore identity, legacy, and belonging as central to the journey you’re on.

Rather than teaching one right way, In Awe offers frameworks, reflections, and rituals that help you discern your own. It honors every path and every outcome, weaving together research, cultural wisdom, and your lived experience to restore what pregnancy has always been: a sacred, world-changing transformation.

In Awe is spiritual in essence but not tied to any religion. It honors the sacred nature of transformation—the wonder of creation, the mystery of life and loss—without prescribing belief or doctrine.

You’ll find reflections, rituals, and blessings that invite connection to something larger than yourself: lineage, earth, love, continuity. However you name that, spirit, nature, ancestors, God, or simply wonder, this space is made to hold it. Every tradition and no tradition are welcome here.

No. In Awe is educational and reflective, not a substitute for medical care.

The course helps integrate body, heart, and culture so your choices can rest within your own clarity and values.

Absolutely. In Awe is about sacred transformation, not only about pregnancy itself. You can join or return after earlier births, miscarriages, or years of reflection to walk this path again with new awareness. You’ll find guidance for healing, integration, and legacy—no matter when your pregnancy or loss occurred. If you’ve ever carried life, cared for life, or held space for its memory, you belong here.

Absolutely. There are many wonderful and helpful resources to help you through pregnancy, and you’re encouraged to use them. Layer them with In Awe for the fullest support.

While your birth plan, doula, online resources, or prenatal class helps you care for your body and baby, In Awe helps you care for your becoming—the deeper transformation taking place within and around you.

Where other courses may end at birth, In Awe continues through identity, partnership, loss, and renewal. You’ll find language for what is changing, rituals to mark it, and reflections to anchor it, so the practical knowledge you already have can root itself in meaning and presence.

This first edition of In Awe was written especially for older parents, attuned to maturity, timing, and legacy. It remains adaptable and deeply helpful for others who feel drawn to In Awe’s unique approach. Parents who don’t identify as “older” still find it grounding and transformative. Future editions will speak directly to other communities and contexts.

Yes. Every course is trauma-informed, outcome-inclusive, and gender-aware. All parents, all paths to family, all identities are honored. Partners are included but not assumed. Future editions will speak directly to specific communities; you are fully welcome in this circle now.

Yes. In Awe was designed for partners to be part of the journey from the start. Every chapter includes guidance, scripts, and reflections that help partners understand what’s unfolding—physically, emotionally, and relationally—so you can walk through change together instead of apart.

Each section includes at least one chapter just for your partner and their own transformation: what it means to witness, to protect space, to support recovery, and to grow into themselves through parenthood or grief in their own way. In Awe also includes partner Bridges, dedicated reflections that mirror each module’s threshold from the partner’s perspective, helping both of you build language, presence, and shared legacy through this experience.

You can complete the course side by side or at your own pace, weaving what you learn into the rhythms of your real life.

Loving Legacies is included with In Awe so that the guide walks with you no matter where your journey leads. If you’re discovering this while loss is unfolding, join the Loving Legacies circle. It is offered separately so care is never withheld from families who need it now.

If you’re pregnant again after an earlier loss, In Awe will hold you. You’ll find language for the complexity of hope and grief existing together, practices to help you feel safe in your body again, and reflections that honor both the baby you carry in your belly now and the one you still carry in your heart. You can move gently between In Awe and Loving Legacies as needed. Both circles are yours to belong to.

In Awe was created to walk with you through every possible outcome, not only the smooth or expected ones. If your birth unfolds differently than you hoped, you’ll find detailed guidance for healing from physical or emotional trauma, navigating medical complications, and caring for yourself and your baby through birth injuries, NICU stays, or new diagnoses. These experiences are fully acknowledged and supported in Part I.

If your path includes pregnancy or baby loss, Part II: Loving Legacies, is ready to receive you. It offers clear, compassionate guidance for what follows: honoring your baby through memorial options or rituals, caring for your body, including birth injuries and managing lactation, and rejoining the world when you’re ready.

Through it all, In Awe remains centered on your transformation—your becoming. Even in loss, your story continues to unfold with meaning, love, and legacy. You are never left without language, support, or a way forward.

In Awe holds Part I: Living Transformations, composed of 30 chapters, and Part II: Living Legacies, composed of 16 chapters. (The standalone offering of Loving Legacies has 16 chapters.)

You receive the complete experience, organized as it is inside the course:

• Around-the-World features & Cultural Lenses: context that widens perspective and names systems

• Essays that walk with you through thresholds: deep, steady guidance chapter by chapter

• Pauses & Reflection Prompts: integrate learning in real time

• Bridges (for you and your partner): threshold reflections and rituals that help you name what to leave behind, what to carry forward, and how to move from vision to commitment to legacy

• Affirmations: nine per chapter for you and nine per chapter for your partner

• Scripts & advocacy tools: clear words for conversations and care settings

• Feedback opportunities: you may choose to contribute to anonymized institutional feedback through the course

• Resource library: curated readings, links, and supports

• Guidance for the whole family: for you, your partner, older children, kin, and community pathways

• Companion children’s book: to help you narrate belonging and legacy

• Journals & printables: to keep practices close at hand

• Private Circle access: connection, Q&A, and community

• Lifetime access to the course and updates for your edition

After checkout, you’ll get an email with a direct link to your Circle account. Log in anytime from any device, online or on the app. Forgot your password? Click “Forgot password?” on the Circle login page to receive an automatic reset link.

Loving Legacies is offered freely so no family facing loss is ever turned away. In Awe builds on that same principle of access and care, offering the complete course through different ways to join.

Pricing is equity-based, and everyone receives the same complete course—there are no light or limited versions. There are four ways to join, each designed to reflect different levels of access and support:

• Scholarship – $50: if you need community support now

• Sustainer – $3,000: covers your seat at the equitable cost

• Supporter – $6,000: covers your seat and supports community access through scholarships

• Steward – $9,000: covers your seat and supports both community scholarships and future editions

Families self-select with honesty and trust so the circle remains open to all.

This is a trust-based model. If you experience a genuine hardship or technical barrier, reach out through the Contact page (or email hello [at] sacredtransformation [dot] org) within 14 days of purchase—situations are reviewed with compassion.