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DVD Review: Expecting More

Posted in active birth, Maternal health, mothers, Neat stuff, pregnancy, prenatal fitness, Resources, reviews, self-care on May 25, 2012 | Leave a Comment »

DVD Review: Expecting More Prenatal exercise program Two disc set, 230 minutes $39.95 Daily Sweat, 2011 http://sarahaley.com/about/expecting-more/ Reviewed by Molly Remer, Talk Birth Fun, energetic, and challenging, Expecting More is a prenatal exercise program developed and hosted by prenatal fitness expert, Sara Haley. Developed and filmed during her own pregnancy, Sara created Expecting More out of [...]

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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 »

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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Changing Visions

Posted in birth education, childbirth educators, mothers, parenting, personal, self-care, spirituality, thealogy, women, women's circle, writing on May 18, 2012 | 7 Comments »

I’ve been moving in this direction for quite some time— really probably since my miscarriage-birth experience in late 2009—but I’ve decided that it is officially time for me to take a break from actively teaching birth classes. When I first started teaching in 2005, I envisioned having classes with 5-6 couples at a time. I [...]

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Book Review & Giveaway: The Wisdom of the Healing Wound

Posted in Books, giveaways, Resources, reviews, self-care on May 15, 2012 | 10 Comments »

The Wisdom of the Healing Wound: A New View on Why We Hurt & How We Can Cure Even the Deepest Physical and Emotional Wounds by David Knighton M.D. Paperback:216 pages Publisher: HCI; 1 edition (June 1, 2011) ISBN-13:978-0757315619 www.wisdomofthehealingwound.com Reviewed by Molly Remer, Talk Birth Written by a vascular surgeon who specializes in working [...]

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3-D Journaling

Posted in birth art, friends, self-care, spirituality, women on April 14, 2012 | 1 Comment »

After writing my recent post about the resuming of my cycle post-baby, I felt the urge to add a new figure to my ongoing birth art series of polymer clay goddess sculptures. I am the only person I know of who has done a series of sculptures like this and it feels like it is [...]

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Moontime’s Return…

Posted in moontime, mothers, personal, self-care, women on April 11, 2012 | 5 Comments »

With all of my babies, I’ve followed Sheila Kippley’s Seven Standards for Ecological Breastfeeding. Kippley reports that mothers who follow ecological breastfeeding will experience an average of 14 months of amenorrhea (and associated infertility). Sure enough, with my first baby, right at 14 months postpartum my fertility returned. With my second baby, I said I [...]

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300 Things

Posted in babies, family, mothers, off topic, parenting, personal, pictures, self-care, spirituality on March 23, 2012 | 4 Comments »

Step out onto the Planet Draw a circle a hundred feet round Inside the circle are 300 things nobody understands, and, maybe nobody’s ever really seen. How many can you find? –Lew Welch I’ve almost finished reading the book Earth Prayers and the above is one of my favorites from the book. It was actually the [...]

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Mothering as a Spiritual Practice

Posted in babies, breastfeeding, family, mothers, self-care, spirituality on March 7, 2012 | 6 Comments »

Why is it that to rise gladly at 4:00 am to meditate and meet one’s God is considered a religious experience, and yet to rise at 4:00 am to serve the needs of one’s helpless child is considered the ultimate in deprivation? Mothering a child is the greatest act of service one can do. It [...]

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Introversion

Posted in family, homeschooling, off topic, personal, self-care, sons on February 23, 2012 | Leave a Comment »

Ring the bells that still can ring Forget your perfect offering There is a crack in everything That’s how the light gets in. –Leonard Cohen, from “Anthem” via A Meditation for the Weekend: How the Light Gets In – By Susan Cain. Accidentally came across this quote via Facebook today and just loved it. It [...]

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Postpartum Thoughts/Feelings, Part 2

Posted in babies, mothers, personal, postpartum, self-care, women, writing on February 14, 2012 | 1 Comment »

“The time of danger, what needs to be survived, comes at different times for mothers. For me, it came early — during my [child]‘s infancy.” –From Sleeping Beauty & The Fairy Prince: A Modern Retelling By Cassie Premo Steele After posting my “playing my music” essay containing an exploration of my postpartum feelings after the [...]

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