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The Home Birth of Bodhi Rain
A full photo gallery can be found at the end of the post. Listen to my birth playlist while reading for an even fuller experience: In...
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Stop Telling Pregnant Women That They're "Just Hormonal"
We as a society continuously invalidate pregnant women. When they feel emotional, we simply chock it up to hormones. When they feel anxiety
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I'm Not Apologizing for Me or My Children Anymore
As soon as I became a mom, I noticed that old "people pleasing" compulsion coming back. I felt like I needed to explain all my cho
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Parenting On My Own Terms (and how to feel confident that you're not screwing up your kids)
Children are OUR teachers; not only do they teach us joy and unconditional love (if we let them), but they mirror the unhealed traumas, fear
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Mindfulness in Pregnancy
What is mindfulness for pregnancy? The meaning of “Mindfulness” can have many different interpretations. For me, it is simply paying...
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Perfect Lemon Chia Seed Scones
Believe it or not, I had never had the pleasure of enjoying a scone until about a month ago. The absurdity of that statement still gets...