Postpartum

We can’t talk about maternal mental health without also talking about the way our culture devalues mothering

The health of our mind (mental health), is not separate from the health of any other part of our body or being. It’s also not separate from the health of our relationships, community, the land or the cultural systems we live in.  Public mental health work in the UK seeks to assess and label individual […]

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Cyclical wisdom; our antidote to burning out in patriarchy

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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Birth story work is powerful around our child’s birthday

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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Tending the menstrual path ~ a practice to initiate Virgin and Crone

At menstruation, during, pregnancy, through womb loss, in the birth space and during postpartum, I have found ways to honour and tend to my body and self. I do it because I have to ~ because having a female reproductive system in a patriarchal culture means I will not automatically be seen, respected and honoured

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in between ~ notes on menstruation in early motherhood

After a decade of reliable full/new moon bleeds, my bleed post-birth has settled its rhythm in between ~ with the waning half moon. This is my 4th cycle as a mother & I’m starting to understand what menstrual wellbeing looks like whilst caring for my baby. I know now what support I need to feel

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