Elena experiences overwhelming sensations in her present life. In a past-life regression, she discovers she could literally shrink her body, which she used to help deliver a baby with a tangled umbilical cord without being seen. The session reveals how she learned to make herself invisible to survive.
Elena came in medicated, and she'd been that way for a long time. Not because something was broken, because what she could feel and sense and do was so overwhelming that the medication was the only way she knew how to function in a world that wasn't built for someone like her. First session took her to another lifetime. A woman, a time and a place where her abilities weren't curiosity, they were a threat. She had the ability to make herself physically smaller, not metaphorically, physically. She'd been doing it so long in that lifetime, it was just reflex. Make yourself small, make yourself less and quieter, give people less to be afraid of. A man came to her in secret one night. His wife was in labor. Something was wrong. He led her through the back door of his house. His wife was already afraid of her before she crossed the threshold, angry that he brought her there at all. The baby was coming feet first, cord wrapped around his waist. Elena untangled it, guided the delivery, cut the cord, wrapped the mother, and left fast because being seen was dangerous.
