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Welcome
Welcome friends. Please make yourselves at home! One of my most beloved sources of inspiration is Mary Oliver. I draw upon her words as I welcome you: Said the river: imagine everything you can imagine, then keep on going. Part of my vision is to help cultivate a space for the motherhood journey- a place…
Read More5 Ways of Communicating with Your Unborn Baby
Until the 1960s, we believed that the expecting mother’s placenta prohibited emotions, experiences, and situations from passing onto the baby. We have debunked this notion, and we now encourage mothers to practice special ways of communicating with their babies throughout pregnancy. Mommas—your womb is a baby’s first nursery. You are the physical, psychological, and biological…
Read MoreEmbody Your Life
Hi, Dear Friends, I can’t believe we are in the final days of 2021. As I pause and lean back into this past year, I feel a new sense of courage that has developed from these ever-changing times. I can’t help but think of a quote from Brené Brown, “Courage the original definition of courage,…
Read MoreA New Paradigm of Communication
Sweet friends, I’m so glad you’re here! I invite you to lean into a new paradigm of communicating with your unborn baby that I share with clients in my work as a pre and perinatal birth educator. Until the 1960s, we believed that the mother’s placenta prohibited emotions, experiences, and situations from passing onto the…
Read MoreBack to school…as both teacher and student
Dear Friends, As children head back to school, I am transported back to room 106 and the kindest and most influential teacher I ever experienced. It was the late 80s when a handwritten postcard came addressed to me. It was from my third-grade teacher, Mrs. Bauman. Her cursive writing was impeccable, and her invitation to…
Read MoreThe Time is Now
I was thinking of my grandfather, Ed the other day, and I couldn’t help but chuckle as I remembered him at a family Thanksgiving gathering. It was the year that our family invested in a camcorder. Not the neat and tidy handheld ones of 2021, but rather the 1990s model that sat upon your shoulder…
Read MoreInsights from Our Ancestors
Over the past year, I have been curiously deep diving into my ancestry. My paternal grandfather, Ed, would be in awe of the technology now available at our fingertips. Back in the day, he corresponded through letters with genealogical societies all over the country in search of our relations. He created priceless ancestry books for…
Read MoreHOLDING on TOUR
HOLDING: The Conscious Art of Embracing is going on tour! From June 21-25, RABT Book Tours will feature Holding on a virtual weekly blitz tour. Visit the tour homepage here, and please visit the daily hosts.We’re looking forward to seeing HOLDING take flight on virtual wings. We’re grateful for the readers, bloggers, and Bookstagramers who will encounter HOLDING during…
Read MoreMy Vision
Hi Dear Friends. As I touch my vision for this site, I begin to imagine a future that is full of deeply nourished and supported women along the continuum of human growth and development. Women who are deeply aligned with their hearts and minds. Women who are accessing their potency. Women who are in touch…
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