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 »
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 [...]
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 [...]
A Virtual Mother Blessing for Molly Westerman!
Posted in birth, birth art, Birth Thoughts, friends, giving birth, homebirth, mother blessing, mothers, pregnancy, women, women's circle on April 10, 2012 | 7 Comments »
In 2007, I started blogging for Citizens for Midwifery and one of my favorite blogs was a little gem then called Feminist Childbirth Studies. The blog’s author, Molly Westerman, later became more public with her blogging identity and began writing her current blog, First the Egg, a feminist resource on pregnancy, birth, and parenting. I [...]
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 [...]
Circles Writing
Posted in birth, mother blessing, self-care, women, women's circle, writing on January 13, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
each time we pose pen or pencil to paper we connect with who we are who we were who we want to be we are circles of women writing together apart in dialogue alone we write: wherever we are when we’re overwhelmed to clear our minds to express our anger, to clarify our thoughts when [...]
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 [...]
Spirit Doll
Posted in birth art, Neat stuff, off topic, personal, spirituality, women, women's circle on October 29, 2011 | 2 Comments »
In the summer we started working on spirit dolls at our women’s retreat. I have always wanted to make one in the style of an Akuaba—an African fertility goddess-type figure—however, I felt like it would be quicker to make a different style and so that was the one I began working on in the summer. [...]
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 [...]
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