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Motherhood Empowerment

Self-Awareness as Foundation for a Happy Life (& what that means for you!)

Self-awareness is the foundation for creating a safe, cozy home within ourselves and, consequently, outside of ourselves. Some of us did not grow up with someone modeling for us how to honor our emotions, our behavior, without being shamed or scolded, punished, or, alternately, suppressing. Consequently, we did not grow up being very self-aware.  Trauma, …

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“These are A Few of My Favorite (Online, Free) Things”…

We have all heard those words: “Self-care”. And, truth is, sometimes those can be so broad, and, often, we fail to recognize those tiny things that can seriously lift our spirits and have us step into our best selves. I wanted to take a moment to both, give gratitude to some of my favorite (online) …

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Safety in the Body as Privilege

Feeling safety in one’s body is sadly not a privilege that every woman partakes in. We could speak this problem as one belonging to  “third-world” countries, “underdeveloped” countries, countries with religions that consider women less than men, etc. But, sadly, this is an illusion. The fact is that on average, almost 500 women are raped …

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Identifying Wounds: How the mothering YOU received affects your mothering now

One of the biggest things that we don’t talk about as a society, and that I cannot even emphasize how important it is, is: how your own mothering (how you were mothered by your own mother, or lack of mother or whatever that situation was) affects your own mothering now. Now, this topic is relevant …

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How the Mothering We Received Affects Our Mothering (of our own Children)

  Have you thought about how the mothering you received affects your own mothering? If so, who have you been able to talk to about it? Have you been able to process some of that material in community? If not, why or why not? Is it just too painful, frightening, overwhelming, to think about?   …

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