LOL! I wouldn't let any crystal healer near my hoo-ha either. I'm not offended by the idea of being instructed, I love to learn new things and there's nothing cooler to me than a really skilled teacher, but I don't experience therapy that way.

The essential part of the analogy for me was that in each case unnecessary interference is kept to a minimum. A good midwife has all the skills to recognize and manage an emergency, can give you a ton of information and tell you what you can likely expect. But she's not there to show off her skills, she talks more about "attending a birth" than "delivering the baby."

The trick is that she actually does have all kinds of hard technical skills too, she's not relying on crystal woo when you're bleeding out.