Until You Walk The Path, You Won’t Know Where it Goes will be chatting with midwife, author, and healer, Patricia Harman on April 3 at 1 pm eastern as she talks about her amazing healing journey and the books that sprouted from it.
Patricia
Harman has spent over thirty years caring for women as a midwife,
first as a lay-midwife, delivering babies in cabins and on communal
farms in West Virginia, and later as a nurse-midwife in teaching
hospitals and in a community hospital birthing center.
She
spent over a decade in the sixties and seventies in her wild youth
living in rural communes in Washington (Tolstoy Farm), Connecticut
(The Committee for Non-Violent Action) and Minnesota (Free Folk).
During the Vietnam years, she and her husband, Tom Harman, traveled
the country, often hitch-hiking, as they looked for a place to
settle. In 1974 they purchased a farm with a group of like-minded
friends on top of a ridge in Roane County, West Virginia. Here on the
commune, they built log houses, dug a pond, grew and preserved their
own food and started the Growing Tree Natural Foods Cooperative.
It
was during this time that Patsy attended her first home birth, more
or less by accident. "Some people are destined," she has
written. "I was staying at a woman friend's commune when she
went into labor and I ended up delivering my first baby." Soon
after, Harman traveled to Austin, Texas to train with a collective of
home-birth midwives. When she returned, she became one of the
founding members of The West Virginia Cooperative of Midwives. Her
passion for caring for women and babies led her to become an RN as
the first step in getting licensed as certified nurse midwife. In
1985, with her children, a yowling cat and her husband she traveled
north, pulling a broken down trailer to begin her training at the
University of Minnesota where she received her MSN in
Nurse-Midwifery.
For
the past twenty years, Ms. Harman has been a nurse-midwife on the
faculty of The Ohio State University, Case Western Reserve University
and most recently West Virginia University. In 1998 she went into
private practice with her husband, Tom, an OB/Gyn, in Morgantown,
West Virginia. Here they devoted their lives to caring for women and
bringing babies into the world in a gentle way.
When,
in 2003, the cost of liability insurance for Obstetrics sky-rocketed
from $70,000 a year to $110,000, the Harman's decided to give up
deliveries. Though many loyal patients grieved the loss of their
favorite mid-wife/physician team, the change in life style gave the
author time to begin writing her first book, The Blue Cotton Gown: A
Midwife's Memoir.
Patricia
Harman still lives and works with her husband, Ob/Gyn Thomas Harman,
in Morgantown, West Virginia at their clinic, Partners in Women's
Health Care. Though she no longer attends births, she provides care
for women in early pregnancy and through-out the life span. She
brings to this work the same dedication and compassion she brought to
obstetrics.
The
USA Today bestselling author of The Midwife of Hope River returns
with a heartfelt sequel, a novel teeming with life and full of humor
and warmth, one that celebrates the human spirit.
The
Great Depression has hit West Virginia hard. Men are out of work;
women struggle to feed hungry children. Luckily, Nurse Becky Myers
has returned to care for them. While she can handle most situations,
Becky is still uneasy helping women deliver their babies. For these
mothers-to-be, she relies on an experienced midwife, her dear friend
Patience Murphy.
Though
she is happy to be back in Hope River, time and experience have
tempered Becky’s cheerfulness-as tragedy has destroyed the vibrant
spirit of her former employer Dr Isaac Blum, who has accompanied her.
Patience too has changed. Married and expecting a baby herself, she
is relying on Becky to keep the mothers of Hope River safe.
But
becoming a midwife and ushering precious new life into the world is
not Becky’s only challenge. Her skills and courage will be tested
when a calamitous forest fire blazes through a Civilian Conservation
Corps camp. And she must find a way to bring Isaac back to life and
rediscover the hope they both need to go on.
Full
of humor and compassion, The Reluctant Midwife is a moving tribute to
the power of optimism and love to overcome the most trying
circumstances and times, and is sure to please fans of the poignant
Call the Midwife series.
Harman's
websites:
Amazon
The interview will be available in the archives at http://www.blogtalkradio.com/theresachaze/2015/04/03/until-you-walk-the-path-you-wont-know-where-it-goes
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