Choosing Human

Choosing Human

A Letter from the Enemy on Motherhood

A sneak peak inside my new book, The Bellbind Letters

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Samantha N Stephenson
Oct 27, 2025
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So many of you have reached out to let me know how excited you are for The Bellbind Letters, and I am so grateful for your support! Now, you don’t have to wait. I’m sharing one of these letters early, exclusively for paid subscribers. It’s a small taste of what’s to come, but one that carries the heart of the whole book.

If you’ve been curious about what I’ve been working on, or if you’ve been waiting for a reason to upgrade, this is your invitation to step inside.

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My Dear Bellbind,

I hear your distress that your patient’s motherhood is continually causing her to run to the Enemy for assistance. You have my sympathies. It is an unfortunate feature of the Enemy’s design that this particular state in life both forces them to their limits and enchants them with the Enemy’s architecture, sending them running to their Maker with pleas for help and pitiful praise. Neither condition provides easy fodder for our purposes.

But do not fret.

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