In Awe—Sacred Transformation
Pregnancy changes more than a body.
Pregnancy changes your identity, your relationships, your sense of yourself, and your place in the world. Those changes deserve companionship too.
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Pregnancy can awaken questions that don't have appointments.
- Who am I becoming?
- What changes in my partnership—and how do I hold that?
- What if joy and fear live here together?
- What if this pregnancy came after loss, infertility, waiting, or uncertainty?
These questions don't have appointments. They live in the hours between them. If you've felt their weight, you're not imagining it. And you're not alone in it.
What is In Awe?
A companion through your sacred transformation
Not medical care. Not therapy. Not a birth plan or a symptom tracker. In Awe inhabits the space those things don't reach—the identity shifts, the relational changes, the old stories surfacing, and the meaning only you can make of what you're living.
Reflective guidance and journal prompts
Dedicated companion pathways for partners
Because partners are becoming, too
Advocacy scripts for care, workplace, and family
Community and family journals
Grounding practices and threshold rituals
Optional live Threshold Gatherings with the author
Every tier is the complete experience. There's no light version.
A taste · From the opening chapter
Arriving at the Bridge
This is a moment of arrival. You stand at the edge of something vast. However your path has unfolded—whether through years of longing or sudden surprise, through ease or heartbreak, through fertility treatments, or the quiet decision to try just once more—you are here now.
And here you aren't empty-handed. You carry memories and questions, faith and doubt, laughter and loss. You carry the wisdom of your years and the tender unknowing of what's still to come. All of it has led you to this threshold. This transformation belongs to you.
However you arrive—in triumph or trembling, with laughter or with tears—you belong. You're already held.
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Place your feet firmly on the ground. Let your shoulders soften. Inhale slowly, exhale longer. Say: I have already begun.
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Read a substantial excerpt from the first chapter—including two full essays, reflective exercises, advocacy scripts, the closing blessing, and a glimpse into the emotional architecture of the full experience.
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Curious about the companion journals?
When reading isn’t enough, the companion journals create space to witness, shape, and remember your own becoming.
Download the free Thresholds Preview—the complete Orientation, the full table of contents, and two complete Thresholds from the companion journal.
Also inside In Awe
Loving Legacies
Loving Legacies is included in full for every In Awe family—the same structural depth, same journals, continuing through grief for the bereaved person, their partner, their children, and their community.
For families who encounter pregnancy loss outside In Awe, Loving Legacies is also available independently—because emotional support shouldn’t disappear when outcomes change.
The Work Behind This Work
Before creating In Awe, I spent almost a decade teaching in higher education, much of that time working with students whose lives were far more complex than any syllabus could hold. I quickly learned that teaching was only the part of the work I got paid for. The real work meant helping people navigate uncertainty, grief, bureaucracy, pregnancy, poverty, violence, hope, and change—whatever life had brought through the door that day.
Over time, one lesson kept returning. Information is rarely enough. More resources are rarely enough. People also need someone willing to stay.
Throughout my career, I've found myself returning to the place where learning, language, and care meet. Along the way, that has taken the form of teaching, writing, editing, and curriculum design. In Awe is where those threads finally came together.
My own pregnancy didn't start this work. It showed me where it needed to go.
The work has changed. The question hasn't.
How do we help people move through life's biggest thresholds with clarity, dignity, and care?
— Maggie Krug
Founder, Sacred Transformation