
Getting Your Head In The Game For A COVID-19 Birth [mindset shifts to walk you through]
You, beautiful mama, are navigating some pretty uncharted territory by approaching birth in these times.
You, beautiful mama, are navigating some pretty uncharted territory by approaching birth in these times.
One of the biggest challenges unfolding for women birthing in these turbulent times are the restrictions on the number of people you can hav
The lead up to childbirth is such a huge time. You're about to meet this tiny precious babe. The owner of the kicks. To look into their...
We don't really prepare for this part. This motherhood part. We might prepare to optimise the conception. To optimise the pregnancy. We...
The Second Arrow is a Buddhist teaching. I'll briefly outline my understanding of it here, but mostly I want to get to the juicy work of...
As a personal project, diving into what I did and didn't want from my birth experience helped me to strengthen my ability to listen to my...
Embryo Transfer Day. This is such a big day. I get tingles just thinking about the courage I see in women on this day. All the...
We are always apologising for ourselves. For our human-ness. I see it in the clinic every day and I've done it myself too. But I have...
How do you feel about the word Wellness? Honestly. How does Wellness make you feel? The word 'wellness' for me brings an instant recoil....
As a society, when a woman speaks her needs, we just don't listen. Instead we encourage her to push through. To stick to deadlines and...
I read something this morning that completely and wholly articulated a feeling I had been unable to name for a long time. It was a breath...
In my early years of practicing Chinese Medicine I treated many women for Acupuncture in the hope of establishing labour naturally to...
Image of me - my first babe tucked inside, almost halfway through our pregnancy. *** We transition from maiden to mother via the...
Living in line with the seasons is an approach that flies under the radar when it comes to caring for our health. But it is too important...
I grapple with anxiety. It is a foe and a friend. Sometimes it stops me from being in the present moment. Other times it is the very...
I am bathed in vulnerability to share this. And I do so because we women need to give voice to the moments when we unveil the power that...
I penned an Ode to International Womens Day recently. It haunts me in the best kind of way. So I want to share it with you here. Try...
Sometimes it's not about lightening the load. Sometimes it's about repacking it. Moving the heavy stuff around. Turning things over....
The nausea dissolves within hours of birthing my precious babe. The relief of many lifetimes. I assume HG has left. And indeed, the...
'Amy feeling a bit emotional. Feels she has been pregnant forever. Just wants it over. She is sick of feeling sick. Reassured her it will...