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💖Mother’s blessing 💖 On Wednesday I had th

💖Mother’s blessing 💖
On Wednesday I had the honour of facilitating a sweet and heartfelt ceremony with the wonderful @eva_greenslade for our dear client as she entered her 37th week. It was so incredibly touching to see her trusted web of womanly support arrive over zoom, smiling face after smiling face joining us with love and intention.
We have few opportunities in life in which we feel truly honoured. A mother’s blessing, inspired by one of the the Native American Dine’ blessingway brings us together for just that beautiful reason, to honour the mother and to mark the precious rite of passage with her.
As always I made a cake and a flower crown in our blessings!
💖 Imagine a woman 💖
Imagine a woman who
Believes it is right and good that she is a woman. A woman who honours her experience and tells her stories. Who refuses to carry the sins of others in her body and life.
Imagine a woman who
Believes she is good. A woman who trusts and respects herself. Who listens to her needs and desires and meets them with tenderness and grace.
Imagine a woman who
Has acknowledged the pasts influence on the present. A woman who has walked through her past. Who has healed into the present.
Imagine a woman who
Authors her own life. A woman who exerts, initiates, initiates and moves on her own behalf. Who refuses to surrender except to her truest self and to her wisest voice.
Imagine a woman who
Names her own gods. A woman who imagines the divine in her image and likeness. Who designs her own spirituality and allows it to inform her daily life.
Imagine a woman who
Is in love with her own body. Who believes she is enough, just as she is. Who celebrates her body, it’s rhythms and cycles as an exquisite resource.
Imagine a woman who honours the face of the goddess in her changing face. Who celebrates the accumulation of her years and wisdom, who refuses to use precious energy disguising the changes of her body.
Imagine a woman who values the women in her life. A woman who sits in a circle of women l. Who is reminded of the truth about herself when she forgets.
Imagine yourself as this woman.
#mothersblessing #riteofpassage #sacredpregnancy #circleofwomen #doula

Honouring my 🩸🌕 I’m quite solitary and pri

Honouring my 🩸🌕
I’m quite solitary and private in my rituals and and practice though I am quite happy to share that my periods have once more synced with the full moon! I’m not sure about you cycling ones but since corona-coaster my cycle tried to tell me of the stress I held and avoided.
🌕As the cosmic creatrix we experience death and rebirth each month with the tides of the moon. We are really quite remarkable and magical beings, something I lost touch of in myself a little. Nuisance or sacred? I have re connected to my cycle over the past year and have made a conscious effort to at least try to live according to my inner seasons in whatever simple ways feel right or possible. Right now as I nurture my inner winter I build on my few little rituals.
1. A few days before I yoni steam
2. Rest, release & reflect. Just a little time for solitude
3. 1st day of 🩸 I retreat if possible, open my period self care box and make a warming mug of rose & lavender infused cacao. Of an evening as the moon comes out I free bleed and offer my blood to the pear tree where we took the rite of the womb some years back.
When we offer our blood to the earth with intention it feels as though we are communicating our thanks to the mother, seeding our intentions into the earth & connecting. We do not live in nature, we are nature, I lay on earth especially in these warm months. “From my womb to the earth may all be rebirthed in love”
4. Self love. Hold my womb space and give myself a gentle massage with rose oil
then take a flower bath. Release emotion, journal if I feel inspired to do so, I find that my dreams are more vivid during my period. I am a private person and during my period even more so, for me this is not a time I wish to gather with others or connect in circle. Something I used to resist but now accept, I choose to simply be as I am. Again and again I choose to be enough. What a challenge that can so often feel.
What a radical feminine act it is to choose to be enough 💖
What period rituals do you have? Do you feel inspired to start your own?
#sacredfeminine #moontime #fullmoonritual #wisewomanwithin #wombwellness #yonisteam #cacao #honouryourcycle

❤️On feeding with love and serving others. “

❤️On feeding with love and serving others.
“There’s romance, there’s magic, there’s love. The ability to touch a complete stranger with a plate of food, to feed them and awaken their senses while filling them up with joy - it’s an intimacy that you can’t help craving. It’s an intimacy that can only be made with food.”
Finding freedom in the lost kitchen, Erin French
#lovetofeed #foodoflove #livetoserve #whofeedsyou #foodie #foodisart #postnataldoula #nourish #thefourthtrimester #findingfreedominthelostkitchen #nurtureandnourish #fooddoula

❤️ Rose water essence As the sun entered Leo I

❤️ Rose water essence
As the sun entered Leo I felt inspired to prepare the newest of my flower essences. I now have a subtle yet powerful mother essence of rose in Leo stored. I firmly believe in the divine nature of the lessons held in the plants around us. If we are open to their wisdom it’s right there for the taking. The rose holds maybe the most powerful symbolism of all, so feminine and sacred, I remember in the past feeling conflicted about my undeniable attraction to the rose, almost that it was too obvious somehow! But deep in my heart this flower is held, subtle, feminine, profound and heart opening. Continually showing up in my dreams. For me rose essence from the roses I tend open my heart and gently connect me to my divine feminine energy,
they help me to open to authentic joy and movement . I use the rose so much, in my baths, my teas, essences, oils and remedies, even in my smudge sticks. I embrace her with the goddesses I feel she brings me closer to such as mother Mary and Aphrodite. For you, the rose may draw you closer to another goddess and that ok. The rose is loving and true.
This time of the year always connects me to the rose more than any other bloom, though this year I have tried to admire her for longer without harvesting her blooms. the rose is so closely linked to spirituality, More so than any other bloom, it has the highest of vibrations and in Buddhism is depicted as the highest expression of spiritual joy. In Islam and Catholicism alike the scent of the rose is often referred to as the aroma of sanctity. The presence of spiritual holiness. For me the rose first served as a symbol of the Virgin Mary, the mystic rose. So private, feminine and sacred. My rose is pink, for gratitude and peace. I am always drawn to the pink rose first. What does the rose mean to you? What is your colour? How might you embrace and learn from her in your practice?
#sacredrose #sacredfeminine #giftsfrommotherearth #thebirthoftherose #divinefeminine #thedivinemother #sacredrose #mothermary #sacredbirth #flowerpower #roseessence #suninleo #sacredrose #rosewisdom #sacredfeminine #flowerpower

Posted @withregram • @bareasifa Home Labour.
🌸What a joy it was to see this shared this evening! This pregnancy and birth journey sure has been a ride and I have been truly honoured to have been invited to be a part of it all so far. Sometimes it can feel like we might be pregnant forever as we stomp up and down hills, hand express colostrum and stuff endless pineapple in our faces, then one day in their own sweet time our babes start their own unique little birth dance with us, just like this baby girl 😆
I can’t wait to feel her vibe earth side, she’s going to be one interesting little being I bet! One wish I remember from the start of our doula relationship was that this mother really desired to connect with this pregnancy on a deeper level and to find joy in it. As always my wish was to support these parents in meeting their baby in the most loving way possible but in THEIR own authentic way.
Love and joy is certainly what I witnessed in their connection together in the birth room. What a wonderful birth partner he was, always responding to just what she needed with gentle strength and reassurance. Being, not doing as I did all I could to make sure that they felt safe and supported. Plan A isn’t always possible but what matters is how you feel 💖
Birth story from the amazing mother below😍
This picture was taken by our wonderful doula @doulagemma . We didn't get many pictures of the actual birth as due to COVID rules Gemma couldn't join us at the hospital but I will treasure this one so much.
31 hours in labour, 23 at home supported by Josh, Gemma and the birth pool (who knew water could provide such pain relief). In the end we had to transfer to the hospital instead of birth at home as planned because the homebirth team were overwhelmed that night. But it meant that my midwife Amelie, from the MAST team who supported me through the pregnancy, got to deliver my baby. That was pretty special 🥰
Welcome Esme. You took your sweet time! Guess you'll be one who marches to your own tune rather than going along with what others want from you 🤣

#birth #homebirth #birthwithoutfear #positivebirth #birthdoula #labourathome #brightonhomebirth

❤️Miracle of life suited to any setting. Never $❤️Miracle of life suited to any setting. Never stop talking about birth, death, our bodies, minds and souls and all that make life, life at the dinner table! 🌸So many rarely learn firsthand about childbirth before they start entering their own birth journeys. Our menfolk less so. Is it fear, embarrassment, or birth being seen as unimportant, something to simply ‘get through?’ When did mothers or grandmothers stop talking about it? Was it when birth was mostly moved away from our homes? When communities fractured and expanded? How did we get here?? 🌸As a society we would once have learned about birth, life and death within our families, from our elders and wise ones, with shared stories and wisdom. We are now so often growing up feeling detached from our bodies and from the experience of birth. This lack of knowledge and exposure has definitely resulted in a rise in fear around birth. This of course benefits no one, not the birthing person, not the partner and not the care provider. We must normalise sharing our stories and getting real about birth and motherhood. 🌸My children will always grow up knowing that they can freely ask about and talk about birth and parenthood, all that real stuff. I hope that my sons may have the chance to inspire their friends to be confident and not fearful or embarrassed. I hope that my nieces may grow up confident in their bodies to birth if they choose. I know that my son wishes to be an informed and empathetic birth partner if he gets the chance to become a father which he so wants, this is of course testament to normalising birth talk in the home and makes me so happy, add to that that he dreams of me being the doula, let’s hope I’ve still got what it takes! 🌸Let’s keep talking about all that makes life, life with each other. With our mothers, daughters, sisters, loves and sons. The bliss and the pain, by sharing your truth you are not creating or spreading fear, this is how we may change the culture of fear around birth. Truth, knowledge and real stories. 🎬Hysteria #birthmatters #shareyourstory #birtheducation #stopcensoringmotherhood #birthwithoutfear #birthstoriesmatter #antenataleducation #hysteria$

Motherhood is hard and feeling overwhelmed at time

Motherhood is hard and feeling overwhelmed at times doesn’t mean that you’re failing or ungrateful. Mothers need other mothers. We need the birth keepers and mother lovers, we need the village to hold us in those hard days, to lift us up and to listen without judgement. To normalise it all and to agree that no, it’s not bliss and joy at all times, to tell you to ditch the bounce back expectations and other societal pressures put on our new born mothers! It can be joy of course, bliss & such pride, it’s a gift and an honour but it’s also messy and exhausting!
❤️As a new mother almost 17 years ago now I remember a constant feeling of failure. I felt that my struggling with this new intense way of being was due to the fact that I was young and I just couldn’t face admitting that I found it all so hard. I felt that if I reached out for support then I’d somehow failed at what almost every other mother I saw around me seemed to find so easy. Did they struggle with being needed so relentlessly, did they feel like a stranger to themselves, did they feel as inadequate as me? I was really not kind to myself! Over time I grew to learn and re learn constantly (as is the spiralled path of motherhood) that every mother struggles at some point, it’s not age or any other unkind thing you tell your wonderful self, it’s matrescence! The transition is hard, relentless and all consuming. It’s also sacred and not a journey we are supposed to take alone. We lose ourselves, find ourselves, come apart and back together again. We should be held, heard, loved and seen.
❤️If you are really not feeling your best motherly self for whatever reason right now know that you are not alone in this vast messy magical motherhood land. There are many around you that want to celebrate you, love you and remind you that you can do hard things, you may not feel it but you. Are. Amazing muma!
Be kind to yourself and don’t feel that you have to censor your experience 💖
#motherhood #motherhoodunplugged #stopcensoringmotherhood #sacredmotherhood #the4thtrimester #thefourthtrimester #postpartum #motherhoodtribe #thevillage #mothersneedeachother

Yes, this! Matriarchies are not patriarchies suppl

Yes, this! Matriarchies are not patriarchies supplanted with women in positions of authority.
Posted @withregram • @stopcensoringmotherhood Posted @withregram • @birthofamama BIRTH OF A MATRIARCHY ~

By @innatetraditions
Matriarchies are not patriarchies - with women supplanted into positions of authority.

Matriarchies are mother-centered societies, created from a deep understanding and honoring of the physiologic design of MOTHERS.

The physiologic design of Mothers (via our hormonal systems, nervous systems and anatomy) is: Caretaking and Nurturance. MOTHERS are wired to be attuned to the needs of our babies - as means of assuring their surviving and thriving. This 'attunement' means that Mothers physiologic design KNOWS what is required to raise the next generation in health and wellness.

Centering Mothers as a WAY OF LIFE - cares for everybody - because everybody benefits from caretaking and nurturance.

Tending to the physiological design of human life (versus forcing our physiological design into societal frameworks) is one of the best ways to assure thriving life for humanity.
( words and vision by @innatetraditions ~ connect with her ) #4thtrimester #fourthtrimester #postpartum #thisispostpartum #breastfeeding #birth #bodypositivity #stopcensoringmotherhood #bodyliberation #bodypositive #4thtribodies #pregnancy #feminism #bodylove #postpartumbody #blackmomsmatter #blackmothers #postpartumcare (Post by Admin Christie)

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