About
KRISTINA TURNER
A Unique Perspective on Birth and Healing
With over twenty years’ experience as a writer and educator specialising in women’s health and birth culture, I bring a rare combination of insight into the sensitive physiological and hormonal design of birth, alongside a clear understanding of the contemporary maternity systems that so often interfere with it.
I am the author of Natural Birth and Revolution i BB-fabriken (Revolution in the Maternity Factory), and regularly contribute to media and podcasts on birth and maternity care. My work bridges the spiritual initiation of becoming a mother with trauma-aware therapeutic practices.
My training includes The Portal: Perinatal Training through Compassionate Inquiry, a psychotherapeutic approach that informs how I listen, how I work with the body, and how meaning is allowed to emerge rather than be imposed.
I support women in integrating the emotional, physiological, and existential impact of birth through compassionate dialogue and gentle somatic work.
Ceremony and ritual are woven in to honour birth as a profound, transformative, and inherently sacred process — regardless of how it unfolded.
Lineage & Inspiration
Honouring the Teachers Who Have Shaped My Path
My work stands on the shoulders of many remarkable birth advocates, teachers, and thinkers whose courage and insight continue to transform how we understand birth, trauma, and healing.
I’ve had the privilege of learning from:
Gabor Maté, Ina May Gaskin, Michel Odent, Neel Shah, Hannah Dahlen, Jane Hardwicke Collings, Stuart Fischbein, Debra Pascali-Bonaro, Kemi Johnson, Diane Garland, Milli Hill, and many others.
I also wish to acknowledge the wisdom and dedication of Swedish midwives and birth educators such as Gudrun Abascal, Cayenne Ekjordh, and Agneta Bergenheim, whose work have shaped the landscape of woman-centered birth in Scandinavia. And my own homebirth midwife, guardian of transformation, Åse Berglund.
