Birth Spiral Chakra Blessing
Let the sparkles of these chakra colors remind you to bring your whole self to your labor. To walk the spiral path, to dive in, to embrace, to unfold, and to become: Mother.
View ArticleInternational Women’s Day: Body Prayer
My body is my altar / my body is my temple / my living presence on this earth / my prayer.
View ArticleSpell for Family Balance
Each person, including both parents, has needs and our family unit is responsible for working together to help each other and to contribute our best to a healthy, well-functioning, happy, harmonious...
View ArticleBreastfeeding as a (s)hero’s journey?
In what ways has breastfeeding been a hero's journey for you? How were you tested, how were you challenged, how did you rise, or make peace, or triumph, or cry, or scream, or dig so deeply into...
View ArticleCesarean Courage
“Her courage is written on her body.” –Molly (Talk Birth) Last year I made several cesarean birth art sculptures by request. It felt like a “risk” of sorts to make them, like I was trying to interpret...
View ArticleBook Review (OT): Goddess Calling
“Any woman who has birthed or raised a child, had a book published, started an organization, manifested a temple – they all know the strength, courage and determination women possess…” –Karen Tate,...
View ArticleWhat makes a family? Opening up…
We've never experienced an unexpected pregnancy before. After my initial feelings of surprise and some degree of distress and even sadness, I was really amazed to see how very soon I started to feel...
View ArticleFlash Points: Birthing the Mother-Writer
After my first son was born in 2003, I felt silenced. Stifled. Shut down. Squelched. Denied. Invisible. Dissolved. Muted. I felt suffocated, chewed up and my bones spit out, erased, deconstructed,...
View ArticleWild Raspberry Cobbler
…The spirit of adventure runs through my veins with the rich color of crushed raspberry May it always run so free may it be blessed and may I be reminded of the courage and love shown in small, wild...
View ArticleThe Revolving Wheel
"With a new awareness, both painful and humorous, I begin to understand why the saints were rarely married women. I am convinced it has nothing inherently to do, as I once supposed, with chastity or...
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