Book Review: Moon Time: a guide to celebrating your menstrual cycle by Lucy H. Pearce Paperback, 145 pages, 2012 ISBN13 9781468056716 http://thehappywomb.com/ Reviewed by Molly Remer, Talk Birth When I wrote my blog post about moontime’s return in April, I was delighted to get a comment from writer and womancraft wisewoman, Lucy Pearce the author [...]
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Book Review: Moon Time
Posted in Birth Thoughts, ceremony, moontime, mothers, Neat stuff, postpartum, self-care, women, women's circle on May 21, 2012 | 1 Comment »
Virtual Mother Blessing, Part 2
Posted in birth, ceremony, friends, mother blessing, mothers, pregnancy, women, women's circle on April 18, 2012 | 3 Comments »
Last week I posted about a virtual mother blessing for Molly Westerman of the blog First the Egg. Tuesday, I emailed her a “blessingway in your inbox” containing the words of birth energy, thoughts, and encouragement emailed by her friends and family as well as a recording of the blessingway chant, “Woman Am I,” that [...]
Honoring Miscarriage
Posted in Activism, babies, birth, birth experiences, blog carnivals, ceremony, friends, giveaways, miscarriage, mothers, personal, pregnancy loss, Resources, tagged miscarriage, pregnancy loss, stillbirthday on February 22, 2012 | 11 Comments »
When I had my first miscarriage, I vowed several things in the immediate aftermath. One was that I was going to write a book about it so that other women would not have to experience the same total dearth of resources about the physical process of coping with home miscarriage. While I did publish my [...]
Midwife’s Invocation
Posted in ceremony, midwifery, mother blessing, mothers on December 5, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
I’m currently taking a class based on Karen Armstrong’s book Twelve Steps to a Compassionate Life. One assignment was to find a reading articulating a spiritual perspective/teaching on compassion. I turned to one of my new books, Sisters Singing, in which I had immediately marked a prayer called A Midwife’s Invocation. As a birth educator [...]
Blessingway Poem: A Prayer for One Who Comes to Choose This Life
Posted in babies, birth, Birth Thoughts, ceremony, friends, mother blessing, poems, readings, women's circle on November 26, 2011 | 2 Comments »
A Prayer for One Who Comes to Choose This Life By Danelia Wild May she know the welcome of open arms and hearts May she know she is loved by many and by one May she know the circle of friendship that gives and receives love in all its forms May she know and be [...]
Full Moon Calendar Mandala
Posted in birth art, ceremony, family, Neat stuff, personal, spirituality on November 15, 2011 | 1 Comment »
I drew this full moon calendar mandala as part of an assignment for one of the classes I’m taking (we are working on our “wheel of the year” and holidays, etc.). While it was not specifically part of the assignment to do so, I found that drawing this mandala image helped me to explore and [...]
More Readings for Women’s Programs
Posted in ceremony, mother blessing, quotes, readings, Resources, spirituality, women, women's circle on October 26, 2011 | 2 Comments »
I absolutely love collecting these kinds of things (almost as much as I love collecting quotes) and I figure that as long as I’ve bothered retyping or saving them, I might as well share them via my blog—that way more people can possibly benefit from or enjoy them! Invocation: Mother of the Medicine Wheel (from [...]
Moon Salutation Yoga Series for Blessingway or Women’s Gathering
Posted in ceremony, mother blessing, Neat stuff, pregnancy, prenatal yoga, women on October 25, 2011 | 2 Comments »
At my blessingway with my second son, my mom led us through a moon salutation together outside and then we all entered the blessingway space via a “birth arch” made with the women’s arms (think London Bridge only all in a row making a channel of arms to pass through). This weekend, we had a [...]
The Blessingway Connection
Posted in babies, birth, ceremony, mother blessing, mothers, pregnancy, pregnancy loss, women on July 15, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Last weekend, I attended a mother blessing/blessingway* ceremony for a dear friend. I have mentioned her here before, because she is on a pregnancy-after-loss (PAL) journey after having given birth to a tiny boy after 16 weeks of pregnancy last July (my own Noah was born at 15 weeks in Nov., 2009). My friend’s baby [...]
Poem: Woman & Nature
Posted in ceremony, friends, mother blessing, mothers, poems on June 26, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Woman and Nature By Susan Griffin The earth is my sister; I love her daily grace, her silent daring, and how loved I am how we admire this strength in each other, all that we have lost all that we have lived all that we know: we are stunned by this beauty, and I do [...]
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