The seed I want to tend and grow this spring is a healthier menstrual culture for us all. Through winter rest, I clarified my vision for a world where working menstruators are rewarded for their super productivity through their fertile phase by getting paid time off while they bleed. I want to work big on […]
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There is a particular birth story medicine available to us around our child’s birthday ~ a medicine we can retrieve for ourselves, for them and for our parent-child relationship. We’re about to celebrate our daughter’s birthday and with it 3 years of breastfeeding also! As I approach the sacred window of 3 years since giving
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Amidst the new year and its call for resolutions, it is still midwinter. And you are still enough. The land is still silent. Seeds still sit dormant. Bumblebees still sleep in the earth And all of winter’s pause is still paused. Being with the sleeping mid winter herb garden this morning made me curious about
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Nothing completely prepares us for what we feel and experience during birth and beyond. Whatever our experience, one thing is true for us all: we enter the birth space one version of ourselves and emerge changed. A child has been born but the birth of a mother lingers on for some ambiguous length of time.
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The September new moon passed with the making of our annual autumn polypharmacy oxymel. I love the polypharmacy approach of blending multiple medicines together into one remedy. This jar captures a unique medicinal moment in time on the land & so many herbal actions including nervines, circulatories, anti-microbials, hepatics, anti-inflammatories & more to be taken
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Dear mothers, My offering this as an invitation, a wish and a longing that we actively cultivate a fierce connection to our heart and soul throughout our mothering journey. I offer us this ritual as a moment we can take for ourselves to intentionally, lovingly tend to our hearts and tune into what will truly feed
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I’ve been quiet this last while; doing the bare minimum between surrendering into and emerging steadily from a covid underworld. I’ve been present with the rich, in-between space of illness, recovery and all it brings; sometimes peaceful, sometimes with pain, sometimes unable to meet the demands of motherhood, sometimes exhausted and sometimes deeply nourished by
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Today and all days may the loving care you bring be seen. Today and all days may you be mothered and supported through your mothering. Today and all days may your mothering flow from a place of wellness and resource. Today and all days may the power of your mothering be felt by those who need it ~
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As guardians of children (watching over, protecting and taking responsibility for ~ which, by the way in a functioning society is all of us), we have so much more influence than we think. Stephen Jenkinson’s words ‘the children are watching’ come to mind. Children watch, absorb and inherit the world around them; the words and
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Having slow, unstructured, quiet time on the land is one of my favourite ways to spend time with my daughter. In fact I am very purposeful about making space for it in our week. Unstructured land time is a powerful, instant antidote for anyone experiencing symptoms related to the crazy pace of life this culture