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Guest Post: Don’t Touch Me… Don’t Even Look At Me
This guest post is the first in my blog break festival. The festival continues through December, so please check it out and consider submitting a post! Also, don’t forget to enter my birth jewelry...
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Guest Post: Motherful at Midlife
This guest post is part of my blog break festival. The festival continues through December, so please check it out and consider submitting a post! Also, don’t forget to enter my birth jewelry giveaway....
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Guest Post: The Women’s Lounge
This guest post is part of my blog break festival. The festival continues through December, so please check it out and consider submitting a post! Also, don’t forget to enter my birth jewelry giveaway....
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1000 Words
We got new family pictures taken yesterday in the woods behind our house. While I love words very much–very, very much–sometimes there’s nothing like a picture to say what you really feel… “For months...
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Taking it to the body… Part 2: Embodied mindfulness, introversion, and two...
“Trust yourself. Take it to the body. She always knows.” For my meditation practice for my compassion class, I’ve been working with several things, starting with the above quote. As I explained in part...
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What to tell a mother-to-be about the realities of mothering…
I see new friends starting out on the road to motherhood with mixed feelings. Immense joy at the ecstasy of love they are about to experience, great protectiveness, wishing to shield them from the...
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International Women’s Day: Prayer for Mothers
This week marked my eighth anniversary as a breastfeeding counselor. When I began, I didn’t how long I’d keep doing it and I’ve had a lot of discouraging rough patches with dwindling group membership...
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Non-Advice Books for Mothers
Mothering can involve a complicated and multileveled emotional terrain. What often speaks most clearly and helpfully to mothers is often other women’s stories and experiences, NOT “advice,”...
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The Revolving Wheel (Gift from the Sea)
“With a new awareness, both painful and humorous, I begin to understand why the saints were rarely married women. I am convinced it has nothing inherently to do, as I once supposed, with chastity or...
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Happy Mother’s Day!
“Blessed be all the mothers of mothers. Blessed be all the daughters of daughters. Blessed be all the daughters of mothers. Blessed be all the mothers of daughters. Now and forever, wherever we are.”...
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Tuesday Tidbits: Wild Woman
Women are the most beautiful embodiment of empowered awakening. We breathe life into the world with the heave of our body, sing the sacred into song with our soul, and heal the deepest of wounds with...
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Wednesday Tidbits: World Breastfeeding Week!
Today is the last day of World Breastfeeding Week and I fully intended to create a link-full Tuesday Tidbits post about this yesterday. However, I was busy helping actual breastfeeding mothers at my...
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Brought to our knees
“Rigid plans work best if you’re building a skyscraper; with something as mysteriously human as giving birth, it’s best, both literally and figuratively, to keep your knees bent.” –Mark Sloan, MD...
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Chain of Mothers
“I know myself linked by chains of fires, to every woman who has kept a hearth. In the resinous smoke I smell hut, castle, cave, mansion and hovel, See in the shifting flame my mother and grandmothers...
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Releasing Our Butterflies
Welcome to Week One of the month-long Carnival of Creative Mothers to celebrate the launch of The Rainbow Way: Cultivating Creativity in the Midst of Motherhood by Lucy H. Pearce. Today’s topic is...
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Onemonthababy!
Unbelievably, Tanner is one month old already! He has already changed so much. Version 3WO included these upgrades: …now with limited smiling action, wakey-eyes action, head control action, and...
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Cousin Power!
“A woman is the full circle. Within her is the power to create, nurture and transform.” –Diane Mariechild One of the fun and unexpected benefits of adding Tanner to our family is that he actually gets...
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Chain of Mothers
“I know myself linked by chains of fires, to every woman who has kept a hearth. In the resinous smoke I smell hut, castle, cave, mansion and hovel, See in the shifting flame my mother and grandmothers...
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Eighteenmonthababy!
The serious little face. The fishing pole. The lactivist-baby t. The tiny Crocs. The blond hair. This is what an eighteenmonthababy looks like. I feel inspired to share a quick update post about our...
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Happy Mother’s Day!
…See your worth hear your value sing your body’s power and potency dance your dreams recognize within yourself that which you do so well so invisibly and with such love… (via: A Prayer for Mothers) As...
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