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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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 »
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 [...]
If birth were a temple
Posted in birth, giving birth, mother blessing, Neat stuff, poems, quotes, readings, spirituality, women, women's circle on April 8, 2012 | 1 Comment »
If birth were a temple If birth were a temple my body is religion, and this small form twisting out of me, is prayer my cries reach birth’s vaulted ceilings, arching like my back over holy waters, crystal clear salt of amniotic my womb–a blessing bowl releases her treasure. –Nane Ariadne Jordan I came across [...]
A Blessing…and more…
Posted in birth, Birth Thoughts, giving birth, maternity care, mothers, spirituality, women on March 30, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
A Blessing… May Women all be treated as rare and holy flowers Petals strong and fragile rise up sacred powers Giving Giving Life its very breath. –Sarah Blogg I read this poem in an anthology of women’s prayers, blessings, and readings and it spoke to my heart and to the heart of birthwork, of women’s [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Guardian of the Womb
Posted in birth art, miscarriage, personal, pregnancy loss, spirituality on February 7, 2012 | 7 Comments »
While I experienced my first miscarriage-birth as a powerfully transformative experience, my second miscarriage in 2010 was a terrible blow that brought me into a very dark and distressed place. I still have never managed to write much about this, even in my miscarriage blog/book. Following the second loss, I started reading a really wonderful [...]
Be the change
Posted in personal, poems, readings, spirituality on February 6, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Spirit of my longing heart, help me to become a force of history. Like a drop of water let me merge and mingle in the currents of my particular time and situation and not hold back, but join what nurtures the earth and soaks the seeds of justice and peace. Let me be the flash [...]
Time for a retreat!
Posted in childbirth educators, family, miscarriage, mothers, off topic, personal, pregnancy loss, self-care, spirituality, women on February 1, 2012 | 2 Comments »
It is only when we silence the blaring sounds of our daily existence that we can finally hear the whispers of the truth that life reveals to us, as it stands knocking on the doorsteps of our hearts. ~ K.T. Jong (via Kingfish Komment) Some time around November each year for the last three years, [...]
Elemental Polymer Clay Goddesses
Posted in birth art, off topic, self-care, spirituality on January 30, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Several months ago when I was experimenting with polymer clay goddess pendants, I also made four sculptures symbolizing earth, air, water, and fire. I used gemstones for the belly of each figure. (I’ve not used stones in any sculptures after these, because I don’t know that the mixed media quite works in the manner in [...]
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