Winter(ing) Stillness. Quiet. Dormancy. Energy below ground. Nourishment from the roots. Darkness of the womb. Origin. Creativity. Cocoon. Rest. Replenish. Sleep. Dream What …
Autumn is a time of adjustment and transition for our entire body and being. As we enter autumn, the first signs of …
One of the ways that Natural family planning is remarkable is how it accumulates a menstrual cycle history for us that gets …
1 ~ NFP deepens your relationship with your partner With so many other methods of contraception, we organise and action it alone …
I am writing this after watching Davina Mcall’s channel 4 documentary about the pill which was very damning of fertility awareness apps …
The health of our mind (mental health), is not separate from the health of any other part of our body or being. …
Understanding how to observe, chart and interpret our shifting signs of fertility is a foundational skill for feeling more at home in …
Natural family planning (NFP) is a method of contraception where we monitor and record our different fertility signs throughout our menstrual cycle …
These are not times of peace. These are times when veils are being lifted on governance, power, inequality and colonisation. It’s a …
Maternal mental health matters more than we think. It’s one of the key social markers for how well we’re doing as a …
This week marks the anniversary of the 1st lockdown announcement. What was happening in your life 3 years ago? I’d just come …
The seed I want to tend and grow this spring is a healthier menstrual culture for us all. Through winter rest, I …
There is a particular birth story medicine available to us around our child’s birthday ~ a medicine we can retrieve for ourselves, …
Amidst the new year and its call for resolutions, it is still midwinter. And you are still enough. The land is still …
Nothing completely prepares us for what we feel and experience during birth and beyond. Whatever our experience, one thing is true for …
The September new moon passed with the making of our annual autumn polypharmacy oxymel. I love the polypharmacy approach of blending multiple …
Dear mothers, My offering this as an invitation, a wish and a longing that we actively cultivate a fierce connection to our heart …
I’ve been quiet this last while; doing the bare minimum between surrendering into and emerging steadily from a covid underworld. I’ve been …
Today and all days may the loving care you bring be seen. Today and all days may you be mothered and supported through …
As guardians of children (watching over, protecting and taking responsibility for ~ which, by the way in a functioning society is all …
These images give you a sense of the beautiful earthen work of processing root medicine from the herb garden. Dandelion root always reminds …
There are times when wild ones arrive to the herbal apiary garden as if out of nowhere. It moves something in me …
My favourite photo from my pregnancy. My name comes from the Old English for a clearing in a hay meadow. When I …
Human body ~ soil body ~ Yarrow is calling us back. Everything at the herbal apiary garden is looking lush after the …
At menstruation, during, pregnancy, through womb loss, in the birth space and during postpartum, I have found ways to honour and tend …
Day 26.Inner autumn.When the season outside marries perfectly with my inner hormonal world, I feel at peace. Nothing to reconcile ~ a …
After a decade of reliable full/new moon bleeds, my bleed post-birth has settled its rhythm in between ~ with the waning half …
Each day a mother-centered matriarchy unfurls from within me. My daughter’s watchful gaze guarantees my commitment to slowness ~ to presence with my …
I move through these days with an awareness that something is making its mark on us. We are called upon to be …
I’ve spent these past days gathering in and processing seeds from the herbal apiary. Saving seed has become a vital part of …
This year I’m honoured to be making these smoke sticks* for our local Mankind Project group. It’s a wonderful feeling to know …
In you is an infinite web of mythical people and hidden places waiting to be awoken; kingdoms and queendoms, the webbed realms …
Each month I bleed with the full moon so right now, I’m patiently awaiting my flow. The days leading up to this …
As women living in a patriarchal culture, we’re likely to find ourselves in environments where consistent, linear ways of being are valued …