A gentle offering… There is something about this kind of loss that most of us haven’t been shown how to be with. When a baby dies, it often doesn’t sit anywhere familiar in our culture. There isn’t a shared way of knowing how to respond, and so often what happens is a kind of uncertainty. […]
Conceiving After Loss.
Through walking alongside women and through my own experience of loss and conceiving after loss, I hold a lived experience of the journey and what it asks of us. From the moment of conception our bodies and our hearts reorganise and we are changed forever, our bodies hold the cells and DNA of our babies, […]
The Golden Month: Honouring the Rite of Passage of Motherhood
The postpartum period is a time of significant transition and transformation for new mothers, and the Golden Month is a traditional practice that emphasises the importance of postpartum recovery and mothering the mother. The Golden Month is based on five pillars, including extended rest, nutrition, support from wise women and community, connection to nature, and […]